Fall 2006

The Korea Colloquium is held on Thursdays at 4:00pm in Room S250 (CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street) unless otherwise indicated.

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.

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.
Note: More information about "Narratives of Empire I" (9/20/06) is [here].

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"
NOTE: Location changed to CGIS South Building, Belfer Case Study Room, S020, Concourse level, 1730 Cambridge Street, 12:30-2:00 p.m.

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