# SBS Seminar ## expand\_more The SBS Seminar features speakers on issues of significance in the social sciences. ## Upcoming Events [### SBS Seminar with Soo Yeon Kim ](/event/sbs-seminar-soo-yeon-kim?occ_id=0)October 8, 2026 | 4:30PM - 6:00PM EDT | (In-Person) Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 event [### SBS Seminar with Uk Heo ](/event/sbs-seminar-uk-heo?occ_id=0)February 18, 2027 | 4:30PM - 6:00PM EST | (In-Person) Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 event ## Past Events [### Ji Yeon Hong | Colonization, Mass Independence Movement, and Korean Bureaucrats ](/event/ji-yeon-hong-colonization-mass-independence-movement-and-korean-bureaucrats?occ_id=0)March 5, 2026 | 4:30PM - 6:00PM EST | (In-Person) Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 ![SBS](/sites/g/files/omnuum10896/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-01/KI_KC_Colonization.jpg?itok=0n-Xaau7) [### Soosun You | How Women’s Political Visibility in South Korea Shapes Legislators’ Behavior and Public Attitudes ](/event/soosun-you-how-womens-political-visibility-south-korea-shapes-legislators-behavior-and-public?occ_id=0)October 9, 2025 | 4:30PM - 6:00PM EDT | (In-Person) Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 ![SBS Seminar with Soosun You](/sites/g/files/omnuum10896/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-07/SBS_Womens_protest_oct9_RD3.jpg?h=4b630d73&itok=OIhAqJw5) [### The Birth of a (Korean) Nation (in Mexico): Cacophonous Intimacies and Transpacific Entanglements in Kim Young-ha’s Black Flower ](/event/birth-korean-nation-mexico-cacophonous-intimacies-and-transpacific?occ_id=0)April 3, 2025 | 4:30PM - 6:30PM EDT | Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 ![ki_april3_sbs_final.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum10896/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/koreainstitute/files/ki_april3_sbs_final.jpg?h=ba24d1e0&itok=rIm9-jY7) [### Cold War’s Nature: The Korean Demilitarized Zone and Mid-Century American Science ](/coldwarsnature?occ_id=0)February 10, 2022 | 4:30PM - 6:00PM EST | Online (Zoom) ![event poster](/sites/g/files/omnuum10896/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/koreainstitute/files/ki_coldwar_dmz.jpeg?itok=a-LhVygY) [### Base En/Closures: Development, Dispossession, and US Military Real Estate in Contemporary South Korea ](/event/baseenclosures?occ_id=0)December 2, 2021 | 4:30PM - 6:00PM EST | Online (Zoom) ![event poster](/sites/g/files/omnuum10896/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/koreainstitute/files/bridget_martin_poster.jpg?itok=IYVKEQsa) [### There Are No Shortcuts: The Korean War and the African American Struggle for Civil Rights ](/There%20Are%20No%20Shortcuts?occ_id=0)April 1, 2021 | 6:00PM - 7:00PM EDT | Online Event (Zoom) ![4.1_sbs_poster](/sites/g/files/omnuum10896/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-05/4.1_sbs_poster.png?h=0c53543e&itok=lzMD-5tT) [### What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID-19 ](/event/what-south-korea-teaches-world-about-fighting-covid-19?occ_id=0)October 15, 2020 | 6:00PM - 7:00PM EDT | Online Event (Zoom) ![10.15_sbs_covid_poster_adjusted.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum10896/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/koreainst/files/10.15_sbs_covid_poster_adjusted.png?h=6f7522ac&itok=tQMoOGL2) [### Korean Families: Yesterday and Today ](/event/Korean%2520Families?occ_id=0)October 1, 2020 | 6:00PM - 7:30PM EDT | Online Event (Zoom) ![10.1_rt_poster_adjusted.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum10896/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/koreainst/files/10.1_rt_poster_adjusted.png?itok=yDscX02P) [### \[CANCELED\] - Cold War’s Nature: The Korean Demilitarized Zone and Mid-Century American Science ](/event/talk-title-tba-6?occ_id=0)April 9, 2020 | 4:30PM - 6:30PM EDT | Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, MA 02138 ![4.9_sbs_digital_file](/sites/g/files/omnuum10896/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-05/poster2.png?itok=b_T6Q0tz) - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")