Early Korea Project Events

Spring 2008

These lectures are sponsored by the Early Korea Project at the Korea Institute, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Anthropology Department, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. Funding for this forum is provided by a grant from the Academy of Korean Studies (Korea). Series-specific schedules are available for the East Asian Archaeology Seminar, Lectures on Korean Archaeology and the Special Lectures on Early Korea

  • February 27

    Evgeniya Gelman (Associate Professor, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of Peoples of the Far East, Russian Academy of Sciences, Far Eastern Branch, Vladivostok, Russia)
    “Russian-Korean Cooperation and Bohai (Parhae) Archaeology”
    Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., 3 p.m.
    Special Lectures on Early Korea

  • February 28

    Evgeniya Gelman (Associate Professor, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of Peoples of the Far East, Russian Academy of Sciences, Far Eastern Branch, Vladivostok, Russia)
    “Archaeological Investigations of the Bohai (Parhae) State in Russia”
    Putnam Lab, Room 59D, Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Avenue, 12 p.m.
    East Asian Archaeology Seminar, Korean Archaeology Lecture

  • March 21

    Lee Sung-Joo (Associate Professor, Department of History, Kangnung National University)
    “The Formation of the Early State in Korea: Archaeological Approaches to the Political and Ideological Dynamics of the Early Silla Kingdom”
    Room 59D, Putnam Lab, Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Ave., 12 p.m.
    East Asian Archaeology Seminar, Korean Archaeology Lecture

  • April 15

    Jangsuk Kim (Assistant Professor, Department of History, Kyung Hee University, Korea)
    “Elite Strategy and the Spread of Technological Innovation: The Spread of Iron in the Bronze Age Societies of Denmark and Southern Korea”
    Room 14a, Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Ave., 12 p.m.
    East Asian Archaeology Seminar, Korean Archaeology Lecture

  • May 14

    Chang Insung (Professor, Department of History, Chungnam National University, Korea)
    “Daoism of Paekche Immigrants in Early Japan”
    Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., 4 p.m.
    Special Lectures on Early Korea

  • May 15

    Yeo HoKyu (Associate Professor, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea; Visiting Scholar, Korea Institute, Harvard University)
    “Changing Perceptions of Ancient Korean History in Western Academia”
    Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., 4 p.m.
    Special Lectures on Early Korea