Fall 2005

The Korea Colloquium is held on Thursdays at 4:00pm in Room S250 (CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street) unless otherwise indicated. Please note that the Korea Colloquium is no longer located at Vanserg Hall.

The Kim Koo Forum on U.S.-Korea Relations is held on Tuesdays from 12:30pm-2pm in Room S153 (CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street) unless otherwise indicated.

October 13 - Colloquium (Co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies)
H. Mack Horton
Professor and Chair, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley
Distant Envoys of Our Great Sovereign: An Eighth-Century Japanese Poetic Journey to Silla

October 20-21 - Conference
The Northern Region, Identity, and Culture in Korea
koreaconference.org

October 25 - Kim Koo Forum on U.S.-Korea Relations
NOTE: Tuesday, October 25, 4:30-6 in Room S250 (CGIS South Building).
Stephen W. Bosworth
Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
The U.S. and South Korea: Where We May Be Going

October 31 - Film Screening and Lecture (Sponsored by the Dept. of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES), Harvard University; the Harvard University Korea Institute; and the Korea Foundation
NOTE: Monday, 4-6 p.m. at the Carpenter Center.
Kim So-young
Professor and Documentary Film Director, Department of Cinema Studies, Korean National University of the Arts
Film Screening "I'll Be Seeing You" and Lecture

November 8 - Colloquium (Co-sponsored by the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies)
NOTE: Tuesday, November 8, 12:30 p.m. at the Bowie-Vernon Conference Room, Sidney R. Knafel Building, 2nd floor (Room N262), 1737 Cambridge Street.
Alexis Dudden
Sue and Eugene Mercy Associate Professor of History, Connecticut College, and Advanced Research Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
The Apology Knot: Japan, Korea, and the United States

November 9 - The Kennedy School Korea Caucus and the Kim Koo Forum on U.S.-Korea Relations, Korea Institute (co-sponsored by Medecins Sans Frontieres Group, Harvard)
NOTE: Wednesday, November 9, 6:00-7:30 pm, at Starr Auditorium, The Kennedy School.
Ashton B. Carter and Michael Ignatieff, The Kennedy School, and Sung-Yoon Lee, Korea Institute
The North Korea Dilemma: Nuclear Diplomacy or Human Rights Engagement?

November 10 - Colloquium
Jongsoo James Lee
Assistant Professor, Department of History and Political Science, Manchester College; Associate in Research at the Korea Institute
Korean Division & Reunification After World War II: New Perspectives

November 29 - Kim Koo Forum on U.S.-Korea Relations
Dr. Nicholas Eberstadt [homepage]
Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Economic Implications of 'A Bold Switchover' in DPRK Security Policy

December 1 - Colloquium
Seung-Hee Jeon
Post-doctoral Fellow, Korea Institute, Harvard University
Writing War: Trauma and Truth in Pak Wanso's Korean War Narratives

December 6 - Kim Koo Forum on U.S.-Korea Relations
Dr. John Park [homepage]
Research Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, The Kennedy School, Harvard University
China's North Korea Policy: Implications for U.S.-ROK Relations

December 8 - Colloquium
Chisato Hotta
Visiting Scholar at the African American Studies Program at Boston University
Rethinking the Minority Experience: A Cross Cultural Study of Koreans in Osaka and African Americans in Chicago, 1920-1945

December 13 - Colloquium (Co-sponsored by the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies)
NOTE: Tuesday, December 13, 12:30 p.m. at the Bowie-Vernon Conference Room, Sidney R. Knafel Building, 2nd floor (Room N262), 1737 Cambridge Street.
Erin Chung
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
How Citizenship Policies Impact Noncitizen Political Participation: Japan's Korean Community in Comparative Perspective