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The Expected and the Unexpected: U.S. Grand Strategy and Asia

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Special Series on International Relations of East Asia Victor Cha D.S. Song KF Endowed Chair in Government and Asian Studies and Director of Asia Studies, Georgetown University; Senior Advisor and Korea Chair, Center for Strategic and International...

SBS Korean Studies Postdoctoral Fellow in the Social Sciences at the Korea Institute, Fall 2022, Dr. Bridget Martin

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Bridget Martin is an urban geographer and political geographer researching the US-Korea alliance through the lenses of land, territory, terrain, and sovereignty. Her research traces the logics, techniques, laws, and ambiguities that made widespread...

Announcing the Spring 2023 Kim Koo Visiting Professor, Katharine Moon

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The Korea Institute is pleased to announce the Spring 2023 Kim Koo Visiting Professor at Harvard University. Katharine H.S. Moon, Kim Koo Visiting Professor in the Department of Government, Spring 2023 Headshot image of Dr. Katharine Moon Katharine (Kathy...

Receptions, Transformations and Innovations: Transcultural Discourses in Korean Art

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Korean Art History Workshop 2016, co-sponsored by the Asia Center, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, and Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University and the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies Organized...

Japanese Diplomacy Today: Challenges and Opportunities

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Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar "Institutional Change and Japanese Politics" Tomohito Shinoda, Professor, International University of Japan Professor Shinoda is a leading scholar of Japanese politics, Japanese foreign and national security...

Songs for the ‘Great Leaders’: Ideology and Political Agitation in the Music of North Korea

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Korea Colloquium Keith Howard Professor Emeritus, SOAS, University of London, and Fellow, National Humanities Center, North Carolina Professor Keith Howard is the Kent R. Mullikin Fellow at the National Humanities Center, North Carolina, where he is...

Citizenship and Belonging: How do North Korean Defectors 'become' South Korean?

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Korea Colloquium (This event is part of the Race and Racism in Asia and Beyond Series, co-sponsored by the Harvard Asia Center, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Program on US-Japan Relations, Reischauer...

Rethinking World Literature through the Relations between Russian and East Asian Literatures

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Korea Colloquium; co-sponsored by Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Heekyoung Cho Associate Professor, Department of Asian Languages & Literature, University of Washington Heekyoung Cho is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian...

Reading the Commercial Tea Leaves: New Insights into Regime Dynamics in Pyongyang

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Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs John S. Park, Stanton Foundation Junior Faculty Fellow, Security Studies Program, MIT (starting in August 2012); Associate, Belfer Center, Harvard University (starting in September 2012) Dr. John S. Park is the...

Harvard Summer School Program in Seoul

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Harvard Summer School in Seoul, Korea Program 2026 Date of Deadline: Thursday, January 29, 2026 online on the HSS website Program for Undergraduate students Please Note: All programs and opportunities are subject to change and/or cancellation. All support...

Korea Institute Graduate Conference Grants

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Korea Institute Graduate Conference Attendance Grants AY25-26 The Korea Institute will provide small grants (up to $1000) for Harvard graduate students in any field of Korean studies in the humanities or social sciences to help defray the costs of...

Early Korea Project

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From 2006 to 2018, the Early Korea Project at the Korea Institute, Harvard University was dedicated to the development of academic study of early Korean history and archaeology, focusing on the periods prior to the tenth century C.E. Primarily through...