Upcoming Events
Clark W. Sorensen | Reflexivity in Long Term Fieldwork: Centering on Western Kangwŏn Province, South Korea
October 1, 2026
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4:30PM - 6:00PM EDT
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Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jaran Shin | The Economics of Bloodline: Language, Social Class, and the Racialization of Damunhwa Youth in South Korea
October 5, 2026
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11:30AM - 1:00PM EDT
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(In-Person) Common Room (#136), 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Theodore Hughes | Death Without End: Korea and the Thanatographics of War
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
Na Sil Heo | Raising Korea’s Children: Cold War Liberalism and Decolonization in Postwar South Korea
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
Kang Woojin | Nostalgia without Memory: Park Chung-hee Nostalgia and Its Political Consequences among Young Koreans
October 28, 2026
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11:30AM - 1:00PM EDT
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(In-Person) Common Room (#136), 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Soo Yeon Kim | Trading State, Network Periphery: Korea in Asia’s Evolving Geoeconomic Order
October 29, 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
John S. Lee | Sources of Korean Environmental History
November 5, 2026
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4:30PM - 5:30PM EST
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Online (Zoom)
Russell Burge | The Promised Republic Developmental Society and the Making of Modern Seoul, 1961–1979
November 18, 2026
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12:00PM - 1:15PM EST
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Online (Zoom)
Lee Kyung Ah | The Journey of the Western-Style House, Yangok(洋屋): Importation and Translation, Ideal and Reality
December 3, 2026
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11:30AM - 1:00PM EST
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(In-Person) Common Room (#136), 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138