#  Korea Colloquium 

 



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The Korea Colloquium is the KI’s flagship seminar series on Korea-related topics.



 

##  Upcoming Events 

 



  [### Korea Colloquium with Theodore Hughes

 ](/event/korea-colloquium-theodore-hughes?occ_id=0)October 15, 2026

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 4:30PM - 6:00PM EDT 

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 (In-Person) Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 

 

 

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   [### Korea Colloquium with Na Sil Heo

 ](/event/korea-colloquium-na-sil-heo?occ_id=0)October 22, 2026

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 4:30PM - 6:00PM EDT 

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 (In-Person) Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 

 

 

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   [### Korea Colloquium with Areum Jeong

 ](/event/korea-colloquium-areum-jeong?occ_id=0)February 25, 2027

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 4:30PM - 6:00PM EST 

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 (In-Person) Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 

 

 

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##  Past Events 

 



  [### Artificial Intelligence in South Korea: An Interdisciplinary Study

 ](/event/artificial-intelligence-south-korea-interdisciplinary-study?occ_id=0)April 16, 2026

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 4:30PM - 6:00PM EDT 

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 (In-Person) Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 

 

 

   ![ai](/sites/g/files/omnuum10896/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/KI_KC_April16_FINAL_0.jpg?itok=SR3_pNyh) 

 



 

 

   [### Adam Bohnet | Evaluating Fragments: Reconstructing the Lives of Ming Migrants

 ](/event/adam-bohnet-evaluating-fragments-reconstructing-lives-ming-migrants?occ_id=0)April 9, 2026

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 4:30PM - 5:30PM EDT 

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 Online (Zoom) 

 

 

   ![1](/sites/g/files/omnuum10896/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/1.jpg?itok=e2KOWRYF) 

 



 

 

   [### Chaeyoung Lee | The Politics of Yesultan: An Entangled Performance Network and the Cultural Labor of North Korean Defector Musicians in South Korea

 ](/event/chaeyoung-lee-politics-yesultan-entangled-performance-network-and-cultural-labor-north-korean?occ_id=0)April 2, 2026

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 4:30PM - 6:00PM EDT 

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 (In-Person) Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 

 

 

   ![Chaeyoung Lee](/sites/g/files/omnuum10896/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-12/KI_April2_RD2.jpg?h=53aca32d&itok=Yk5zYA3l) 

 



 

 

   [### Dahye Kim | Pok Kŏ-il: The Cybernetic Typewriter and the Failing Korean Writing System

 ](/event/dahye-kim-pok-ko-il-cybernetic-typewriter-and-failing-korean-writing-system?occ_id=0)February 26, 2026

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 4:30PM - 6:00PM EST 

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 (In-Person) Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 

 

 

   ![KC with Dahye Kim](/sites/g/files/omnuum10896/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-12/KI_Feb6_typewriter_RD2.jpg?h=feccb17d&itok=Ie7ZXnrr) 

 



 

 

   [### Ethan Waddell | Between Phonography and Ethnography: The Traditional Singing Voice in South Korean Literature of the 1960s

 ](/event/ethan-waddell-between-phonography-and-ethnography-traditional-singing-voice-south-korean?occ_id=0)February 12, 2026

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 4:30PM - 6:00PM EST 

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 (In-Person) Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 

 

 

   ![Ethan Waddell](/sites/g/files/omnuum10896/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-12/KI_Feb12_FINAL.jpg?h=089f6351&itok=UC-p8-0E) 

 



 

 

   [### Christopher P. Hanscom | Impossible Speech: The Politics of Representation in Contemporary Korean Literature and Film

 ](/event/christopher-p-hanscom-impossible-speech-politics-representation-contemporary-korean?occ_id=0)October 16, 2025

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 4:30PM - 6:00PM EDT 

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 (In-Person) Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 

 

 

   ![KC with Chris Hanscom](/sites/g/files/omnuum10896/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/KC_Oct16_FINAL.jpg?h=9c16d1a2&itok=bnb-5n_W) 

 



 

 

   [### Encountering Law: Legal Knowledge and Practice in Chosŏn Korea

 ](/event/encountering-law-legal-knowledge-and-practice-chos%C5%8Fn-korea?occ_id=0)April 24, 2025

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 4:30PM - 6:00PM EDT 

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 (In-Person) Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 

 

 

   ![TEST](/sites/g/files/omnuum10896/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-05/KI_April24_FINAL_update_3.jpg?h=793903a9&itok=OLXqOSbF) 

 



 

 

   [### Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria

 ](/event/border-water-and-ice-yalu-river-and-japans-empire-korea-and-manchuria?occ_id=0)March 6, 2025

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 4:30PM - 6:00PM EST 

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 Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 

 

 

   ![ki_kc_mar6_seeley_rd2.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum10896/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/koreainstitute/files/ki_kc_mar6_seeley_rd2.jpg?h=626e48c5&itok=9M8SJEvM) 

 



 

 

   [### Christianity, Rituals, and the Problem of Religious Difference in Colonial Korea

 ](/event/christianity-rituals-and-problem-religious-difference-colonial-korea?occ_id=0)December 5, 2024

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 4:30PM - 6:00PM EST 

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 Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 

 

 

   ![KC with Hajin Jun](/sites/g/files/omnuum10896/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/koreainstitute/files/ki_kc_religious_difference.jpg?h=870ee435&itok=hAb6ShjQ) 

 



 

 

  

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