Fall 2002

The Korea Colloquium is held on Thursdays at 4:00pm in the Harvard-Yenching Lounge, Vanserg Hall 2nd floor unless otherwise indicated. Please note that the Korea Colloquium is no longer located at Coolidge Hall.

October 17 - Colloquium
JaHyun Kim Haboush
King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies, Columbia University
Dead Bodies in the Postwar Discourse of Identity in Seventeenth-Century Korea: Subversion and Literary Production in the Private Sector

October 31 - Colloquium
Alain Delissen
Professor of History, Centre Corea, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Seoul, Summer 1925: The Social Space and "Natural" Event

November 14 - Colloquium
Jae-Yeol Yee
Professor of Sociology, Seoul National University
Trust and Social Capital in Korea

November 21 - Colloquium
Seungsook Moon
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Vassar College; Visiting Scholar, Korea Institute, Harvard University
Imagining a Nation through Differences: Reading the Controversy Concerning the Military Service Extra Points System in South Korea

December 5 - Colloquium
Mark Caprio
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Korea Institute, Harvard University
Korea's Place in the "Age of Empire": Peripheral Colonial Activity and Japanese Assimilation Policies

December 12 - Colloquium
Young Min Kim
Professor of Korean Literature, Yonsei University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University
The Development of the Early Modern Korean Narratives