People Involved:
Suh-Yong Chung, Associate Professor of Law and International Relations, Division of International Studies, Korea University

Co-Sponsored by: Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic, Harvard Law School, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, Korea Institute, Harvard University... Read more about Addressing Climate Change: Korea's Green-Growth Policy

Harvard-Yenching Institute Weekly Talk Series - Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

People Involved:
Jee Hyun An, Professor of Literature, Seoul University
Karen Thornber, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Contact Person: Elaine Witham... Read more about A Strange Encounter: 'Blackness' and Postcoloniality in Korean Literature

Harvard-Yenching Institute Weekly Talk Series - Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

People Involved:
Kihong Eom, Professor, Department of Political Science, Kyungpook National University
James Alt, Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government Methods and Formal Theory, Harvard University
Contact Person: Elaine Witham... Read more about Campaign Finance Regulations, Their Role in Consolidating a Representative Democacy: Evidences from the American States

People Involved:
Authors: Haïlji & Ch'ŏn Un-yŏng
Translator: Bruce Fulton

Additional Sponsors:  Sunshik Min Endowment for the Advancement of Korean Literature

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations - Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute and the Hauser Center for Non-Profit Organizations

People Involved:
Celeste Arrington, Advanced Research Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
Contact Person: William Nehring

Award Ceremony and Reception, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Special event at the Harvard Graduate School of Design honoring the Cheonggyecheon River Project in Seoul and the exhibition, which will be on view in the Gund Hall Gallery until October 17.
Restoring Seoul's Cheonggyecheon River
The 10th Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design Award Ceremony and Reception
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 6:30 PM Harvard Graduate School of Design Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street Free and open to the public!
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JungBong Choi, Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts

Harvard Social Anthropology Program Seminar Series

David Kim (Department of Anthropology, Columbia University and SUNY Purchase)

The Harvard University Lecture Series on Contemporary Korea Presents:”Uncanny Insurances: Consumption, Control, and Divination in South Korea”David Kim (Department of Anthropology, Columbia University and SUNY Purchase)CGIS South Rm S020 (Belfer Case Study Room), 1730 Cambridge Street at 4:30 p.m.Sponsored by the Korea Institute and the Department of Anthropology.

Nicholas Harkness, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago

The Harvard University Lecture Series on Contemporary Korea Presents:“Hearing Cleanliness: Christianity, Temporality, and the Voice in Contemporary South Korea”Nicholas Harkness (Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago)CGIS South S050, 1730 Cambridge Street at 5:00 p.m.Sponsored by the Korea Institute and the Department of Anthropology

Harvard-Yenching Institute Talk Series – Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

People Involved:
Kim Sung Ho, Professor, Department of Political Science, Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea)
Discussants: Profs. Carter Eckert and Andrew Gordon
Additional Sponsors: Min Young-Chul Memorial Fund... Read more about How the East was Won: ‘Imposed Constitutionalism’ in Japan and South Korea (1945-1948)

Harvard-Yenching Institute Talk - Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

People Involved:
Itagaki Ryuta, Harvard-Yenching Visiting Scholar, Doshisha University (Japan)
Discussant: Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University
Additional Sponsors: Min Young-Chul Memorial Fund

Talk Abstract
Home-brewing was not generally illegal in the era of the Chosǒn Dynasty. However, home-brewing had been prohibited after the enactment of alcohol beverage tax...

East Asian Legal Studies Program Talk – Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

People Involved:
Ilhyung Lee, Edward W. Hinton Professor of Law, Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution, University of Missouri
Chaired by William Alford, Henry...

Korea GSD - Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute, Harvard University, and Dep't of History of Art and Architecture

People Involved:
Sim Woo-kyung, Chair of Landscape Architecture Program, Korea University (Seoul, ROK)
Contact Person: Okhyun Kim...

Harvard-Yenching Institute Talk - Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute

People Involved:
Joon Han, Associate Professor of Sociology at the College of Social Sciences, Yonsei University, Korea
Discussant: Professor Frank Dobbin, Department of Sociology, Harvard University

Additional Sponsors: Min Young-Chul Memorial Fund

Special Event- A Reading by Korean Authors

Cho Kyông-nan, Author
P'yôn Hye-yông, Author
Bruce Fulton, Translator, University of British Columbia
Cindy Chen,...