Korea Institute Events
Fall 2006
Friday, September 22 - Special Lecture - Co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute
Kenneth Ruoff
Associate Professor of History, and Director, Center for Japanese Studies, Portland State University
"Narratives of Empire II: Japanese Tourism to Korea, Circa 1940"
CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S050, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Monday, October 2 - Special Lecture - Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Design
Minsuk Cho
Architect
"Contemporary Architecture in Korea"
Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, Graduate School of Design, 6-8 p.m.
Wednesday, October 4 - Lunch Time Talk - Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center
Yung Sik Kim
Professor, Program in History and Philosophy of Science, Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, Seoul National University
"The Question of China in the Study of the History of Korean Science: Korean Science, Chinese Science, and East Asian Science"
CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Seminar Room S153 (first floor), 12 noon. Sandwich lunch provided.
Thursday, October 5 - Special Event
Ko Un
Poet
"The Meeting of Two Literatures, South and North"
CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Tsai Auditorium (Concourse Level), 4 pm
Tuesday, October 31 - Kim Koo Forum
Fred Cobb
Colonel, U.S. Army, Retired
"My Experiences as a Teacher to Prisoners on Koje-do during the Korean War"
CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Seminar Room S153, 12 noon, Sandwich lunch provided
Tuesday, October 31 - Kim Koo Forum - Co-sponsored by the Korea Economic Institute and the Kennedy School Korea Caucus and Belfer Center
Young Jin Choi [bio]
Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations
"Northeast Asia in the 21st Century"
5 p.m., at the Kennedy School, Littauer Building Fourth Floor, Malkin Penthouse
Wednesday, November 1 - Kim Koo Forum - Co-sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum at the Korea Institute, the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, East Asian Legal Studies, and International Legal Studies
Hyo-Je Cho
Visiting Fellow, Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, and Associate Professor of Human Rights and Civil Society Studies, SungKongHoe University in Seoul, Korea
"North Korea, Nuclear Bombs, and Tension in the Korean Peninsula: Implications for the Human Rights Movement in South Korea"
12:30-1:30 p.m., Pound Hall 419, Harvard Law School
Tuesday, November 7 - Kim Koo Forum
Ken Quinones
Professor of Korean Studies at Akita International University, Japan
"The Six Party Talks – Has Diplomacy Failed? The Role of an Unofficial Back Channel Between Pyongyang and Washington, D.C."
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Seminar Room S153, 12 noon, Sandwich lunch provided.
Friday, November 10 - Special Event - Co-sponsored by KoreaGSD, AsiaGSD, and the Korea Institute, Harvard University
Do Ho Suh [bio]
Architect
"Installation Art and More"
Graduate School of Design (GSD), Stubbins 111, 12 noon
Tuesday, November 14 - Kim Koo Forum Special Series on International Relations of East Asia - Co-sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum at the Korea Institute, the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, and the WCFIA U.S. Foreign Policy Seminar
Charles L. Pritchard
President, Korea Economic Institute, and Ambassador and former Special Envoy for Negotiations to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Akitaka Saiki
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Japan, Washington, D.C.
"North Korea's Nuclear Gamble"
Thursday, November 16 - Korea Colloquium
Charles Armstrong
Associate Professor of History and Director, Center for Korean Research, Columbia University
"Juche in Africa: North Korea, the Third World, and the Cold Wars"
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Seminar Room S250, 4 pm
Thursday, December 7 - Korea Colloquium
Allan R. Millett
Director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies and Professor of History, University of New Orleans; and the Raymond E. Mason, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Military History, The Ohio State University
"How I Found the Korean War, Lost, Strayed, or Stolen"
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Seminar Room S250, 4 pm
Spring 2007
Thursday, February 1 - Korea Colloquium - Co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
Todd A. Henry
Assistant Professor of Modern East Asian History, Colorado State University
"Investments in 'Cultural Rule': The Politics of Japanese Assimilation at the 1929 Korea Exposition"
Monday, February 12 - J.F. Kennedy Jr. Forum - Sponsored by the Institute of Politics (IOP) at the Kennedy School, the Kim Koo Forum at the Korea Institute, and the Harvard Asia Center
Mme. Park Geun Hye
Member of National Assembly, Former Chairperson of the Grand National Party, Rep. of Korea
"Korea in the 21st Century: Challenges and Prospects"
J.F. Kennedy Forum, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK Street, 6 p.m. [Press Release]
Friday, February 16 - Special Event - Co-sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum, the Reischauer Institute, and the KSG International Negotiation Club
"Hallyu (Korean Wave) in Asia: A Dialogue"
Jung-Sook Park
Media Professional, Actress, Visiting Fellow, Columbia University
Jin-Young Park
Music and Film Manager and Producer
Moderator: Carter J. Eckert. Panelists: David Leheny, Eileen Chow, Ian Condry, David R. McCann
[more]
Thursday, March 1 - Korea Colloquium
Joy Kim
Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies, Princeton University
"Dictating Dress, Prescribing Posture: Sumptuary Codes and Slavery in Late Choson Korea"
Thursday, March 8 - Early Korea Project Lectures on Korean Archaeology
Kang Bong Won
Director, Gyeongju University Museum
"Mortuary Practices of the Silla Kingdom in Ancient Korea"
Thursday, March 15 - Early Korea Project Lectures on Korean Archaeology
Choi Jongtaik
Assistant Professor, Department of Archaeology and Art History, Korea University
"The Development of Ceramic Technologies on the Korean Peninsula and its Relationships with Adjacent Regions"
Thursday, March 15 - Kim Koo Forum - Co-sponsored with the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
Keiji Nakatsuji
Professor of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, and
Visiting Scholar, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University
"Prime Minister in Command: Koizumi and the North Korean Abduction Question"
CGIS Knafel Building, Bowie-Vernon Room (N262), 1737 Cambridge Street, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Monday, April 2 - Kim Koo Forum - Co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center
Liselotte Odgaard
Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center; Aarhus University, Denmark
"Chinese Foreign Policy in Northeast Asia: Japan, Korea and Taiwan"
Discussant: Robert Ross, Boston College
CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Seminar Room S153, 12:15 p.m.
Thursday, April 5 - Korea Colloquium
Munyol Yi
Novelist; Writer-in-Residence, Korea Institute
"Haunted by Nightmare: Enlightenment Paranoia in Korean Literature"
Thursday, April 19 - Early Korea Project Lectures on Korean Archaeology
Pak Yangjin
Professor, Department of Archaeology, and Dean, International Studies & Programs, Chungnam National University
"Korean Bronze Metallurgy and Rice Cultivation: Multiple Paths and Diverse Sources"
Thursday, April 19 - Special Event - Sponsored by the Grolier Poetry Book Shop
Robert Pinsky and Frank Bidart
Poetry Reading
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street, 4 p.m.
Tuesday, April 24 - Kim Koo Forum
Kathleen Stephens
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and the Pacific
"U.S.-Korea Relations: The 2007 Agenda"
CGIS South, Belfer Case Study Room (S020), 1730 Cambridge Street, 4:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 26 - Comparative Economics Seminar - Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, the Korea Institute, and the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Akio Kawato
Chief Economist, Research Institute of Capital Formation, Development Bank of Japan; former Ambassador of Japan to Uzbekistan
"Japan: Between Russia, China, Korea, the US and the Deep Blue Sea"
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050, 2:30–4:00 p.m.
Thursday, April 26 - Early Korea Project Lectures on Korean Archaeology
Kim Gyongtaek
Professor, Department of Archaeology, Korean National University of Cultural Heritage
"Approaches to Complex Society in Ancient Korea: A Critical Review of Discussions on the Complex Society in Korea"
Friday, April 27 - Workshop - Co-sponsored with the Reischauer Institute
"Workshop on National Language and Colonial Modernity in Japan and Korea"
Organized by Christopher Hanscom, Korea Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University and Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College, and Seth Jacobowitz, Reischauer Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University and Assistant Professor, San Francisco State University
CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Porte Seminar Room S250, 9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
[schedule]
Friday, April 27 - Special Event
"Korea DMZ Workshop Public Event"
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Gund Hall, Room 109, 48 Quincy Street, 5:00 p.m.
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Wednesday, May 2 - Korea Colloquium, co-sponsored with the Harvard Film Archive
Film Screening: "Never Forever"
Note: The film's director, Gina Kim, and the producer, Andrew Fierberg, will introduce the screening and answer questions after the film.
Harvard Film Archive, 7 p.m.
[link to Harvard Film Archive]
Wednesday, May 16 - Kim Koo Forum
"The Six-Party Talks on North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Programs: Problems and Prospects"
Evans Revere
President, Korea Society
CGIS South, Porte Seminar Room (S250), 2nd floor, 1730 Cambridge Street, 4 p.m.
