Fall 2007

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

The Kim Koo Forum on U.S.-Korea Relations is held on Thursdays at 4:00 p.m. in Room S050, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, unless otherwise indicated.

Tuesday, September 25 - U.S. Japan Forum - Co-sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum
David C. Kang
Professor of Government, and Adjunct Professor of Business Administration, Dartmouth College
Narushige Michishita
Assistant Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), and Visiting Scholar (Abe Fellow), Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University
"China, Japan, and East Asia's Security Order"
Note: Bowie-Vernon Conference Room (N262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, 12:30-2:00 p.m.

Thursday, October 4 - Early Korea Project
Yongwook Yoo
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Korean Studies, UCLA
"Pleistocene Hominid Occupation History in the Korean Peninsula and its Archaeological Evidence"
Note: Peabody Museum Room 14A, 11 Divinity Avenue, 4:30 to 6:00 pm

Wednesday, October 10 - SBS Distinguished Lecture
Bae Yong Lee
President, Ewha Womans University
"Past, Present, and Future of Korean Women in Leadership and Education"
Note: Tsai Auditorium (S010), CGIS South Building, Concourse Level, 1730 Cambridge St., 4:30-6 p.m.

Wednesday, October 17 - Special Event - Co-sponsored with the Korea Foundation, the National Culture and Arts Foundation, and Harvard University's Asia Center, Fairbank Center, and Reischauer Institute
"IIIZ+": An Asian Zither Ensemble
An evening performance featuring a unique combination of the three bridged east Asian zithers: Korean kayagûm, Japanese koto, and Chinese zheng—and Korean percussion.
Note: CGIS South Building, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge St., 7:00 p.m. Free and open to the public. For more information on IIIZ+, click [here]

Thursday, October 18 - Kim Koo Forum
Tae Gyun Park
Assistant Professor, Korean Studies Program, Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University; Researcher, Harvard-Yenching Institute, 2007-2008
"Beyond the Myth: Focusing on the 1968 Crisis"

Wednesday, October 24 - Kim Koo Forum - Co-sponsored with the Belfer Center and the KSG Korea Caucus
Chung-in Moon
Ambassador for International Security Affairs, Republic of Korea
"Three Days on the Other Side: A First Hand Account of the 2nd Inter-Korean Summit"
Graham Allison, Chair
Professor of Government and Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Note: Belfer Center Library, John F. Kennedy School of Government, 4:00-6:00 p.m.

Thursday, October 25 - Korea Colloquium
Vipan Chandra
Professor of History, Wheaton College
"Were Sô Chae-p'il and Yun Ch'i-ho Oriental Orientalists? New Reflections on the Korean Enlightenment"

Friday, October 26 - Early Korea Project
Jindal Bae
Professor, Yong In University
"Seokguram Grotto: Interpretation on Hwaeum Thought and its Visualization in Silla"
With discussion by Jonathan Best, Professor, Wesleyan University
Note: Room S250, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, 2:00-4:00 p.m.

Tuesday, October 30 - U.S. Japan Forum - Co-sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum
Kent E. Calder
Professor and Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University
"Embattled Garrisons: Comparative Base Politics and American Globalism"
Note: Bowie-Vernon Conference Room (N262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, 12:30-2:00 p.m.

Wednesday, November 7 - Kim Koo Forum
Byung-Kook Kim
Professor, Department of Political Science, Korea University and President, East Asia Institute
“Caught Between Rising China, Hegemonic America, and Rogue North Korea: The Search for a Grand Strategy"
Chaired by Susan J. Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Dept. of Government and Director, Reischauer Institute and Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Harvard University
Note: Case Study Room S020, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, 4:15 p.m.

Thursday, November 8 - Korea Colloquium
Hyaeweol Choi
Associate Professor of Korean Studies, Arizona State University
"Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea: New Women, Old Ways"

Friday, November 16 - Korea Colloquium
Michael Kim
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University
"The Aesthetics of Total Mobilization in Late Colonial Korea: The Technology of Empire and the Logic of Collaboration"
Note: Room S354, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., 12 p.m.

Thursday, November 29 - Summer Internship and Travel Grant Colloquium

• Kate Nyhan (Harvard College, History, '06)
  "Protecting Korean Cultural Properties and Promoting Korean Culture Abroad: Conflicting Goals?"
• Charles Joseph Wells (Harvard College, Social Studies, '10)
  "Closer to Home"
• Diane J. Choi (Harvard College, History and Literature, '10)
  "An Internship with the Chosun Ilbo"
• SangJoon Lee (Harvard College, Social Studies, '08)
  "Experience at the National Assembly & Summer Research"
• Jeffrey Kwong (Harvard College, Government, '08-'09)
  "China's Koreans: Ethnic Minority Policy in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Region"
• Abe Riesman (Harvard College, Social Studies/East Asian Studies, '08)
  "Nationalism and Internationalism at the Korean Minjok Leadership Academy"
• Youn-mi Kim (Ph.D. Candidate, Chinese Art, History of Art and Architecture Department)
  "Comparative Research on the Tradition of Enshrining Dharma Relics Inside Chinese and Korean Pagodas"
• Note: Room S050, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., 4:00 p.m.
  

Tuesday, December 4 - Kim Koo Forum - Co-sponsored with the Korean Consulate in Boston and the KSG Korea Caucus
Tae Sik Lee
Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to the United States
"Korea-U.S. FTA and the Korea-U.S. Alliance"
Note: Room S050, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., 1:30 p.m.

Thursday, December 6 - Kim Koo Forum
Won-ho Park
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Florida
"Partisans without Parties: Ten Things to Watch for in the South Korean Presidential Election"

Friday, December 7 - Korea Colloquium - Co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
Samuel Perry
Postdoctoral Fellow, Korea Institute and Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University
"Revolutionizing Fiction in Japan and Colonial Korea: Communism, Narrative Form and the Ideology of Autonomous Art"