Spring 2006

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.

February 2 - Summer Travel Grant Research Colloquium

• Hoi-Eun Kim (History)
  "Erwin Baelz's 'Anthropological' Expeditions to Korea and his Theory of the Racial Similarity of the Japanese and Koreans"
• Tae Yang Kwak (EALC)
  "War and National Construction: Korean Participation in the Vietnam War, 1965-1975"
• Edward Y. Lee (Harvard College '08)
  "Human Rights Conditions of North Korean Refugees in Jilin, China"
• Jungmin Yoo (EALC)
  "Crafted Desire: Travel Lyrics of Yi Jehyun, A 14th Century Koryo Poet"

February 14 - Kim Koo Forum on U.S.-Korea Relations
Jia Hong
Assistant Professor of Journalism and Communications, Kyung Hee University
A Documentary Film on Korean Adoptees in America

February 15 - Peabody Museum Exhibit Opening
Reconfiguring Korea: Roger Marshutz's Photographs of Pusan, 1952-1954
Gallery Talk, 5:30 PM, by Chong Bum Kim (Assistant Professor, Central Missouri State University) and Ilisa Barbash (Associate Curator, Peabody Museum). Free and open to the public. (Exhibit on view through August 2006.)
[link to exhibit website]
NOTE: 5:00 - 7:00 PM, The Peabody Museum, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue

February 28 - Kim Koo Forum on U.S.-Korea Relations
Young Kwan Yoon
Professor of International Politics, Seoul National University, and former ROK Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade
The North Korea Problem and the South Korea-U.S. Alliance
NOTE: Location: Room S020, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street

March 2 - Korea Colloquium (Co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies)
Setsuko Miyata
Research Fellow, Toyobunka Kenkyujo, Gakushuin University; Editorial Supervisor for "Oral Interview Collection of Chosen Sotokufu (Government-General of Korea) Officials", a project of the journal Toyobunka Kenkyu, Gakushuin University
The Historiography of Korean Studies in Japan from the mid-1950s to 1970

March 17 - Film screening
Spring in My Hometown
[link to New York Times review]
7 p.m., Harvard Film Archive [link]

March 21 - Poetry reading (Co-sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum at the Korea Institute, the Asia Center, and the Korea Policy Review)
Kim Chi-Ha, Poet
My Poetry, Visions from the Darkness of the 1970s
NOTE: 4:00-5:30 p.m., Wiener Auditorium, Taubmann Building, Kennedy School of Government. Reception to follow.

April 13 - SBS Distinguished Lecture in the Social Sciences
Eun Mee Kim
Dean and Professor of the Graduate School of International Studies, Ewha Womens University
South Korean Culture Goes Global: K-Pop and the Korean Wave
NOTE: Location: Room S020 (Case Study Room, Concourse Level), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street

April 18 - Kim Koo Forum on U.S.-Korea Relations
Jae Ku
Director, Human Rights in North Korea Project, Freedom House
The Human Rights Crisis in North Korea: Now is the Time to Act

April 18 - Korean Literature Event
Korean Poetry in Translation: Kim Kwang-Kyu and Brother Anthony of Taize
NOTE: 4-5:30 p.m., Room S050 (Concourse Level), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street

April 25 - Korea Colloquium (co-sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum on U.S.-Korea Relations)
David Kang
Associate Professor, Government Department, Dartmouth College
South Korea between the U.S. and China: Foreign policy in a changing Northeast Asia
NOTE: Tuesday, April 25, 12:30 pm Lunchtime Talk, Location: Room S153, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street

April 29 - Harvard Korean Studies Graduate Student Conference
Saturday, April 29, 9 am-5 pm. Room S020, Case Study Room, Concourse Level, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
[link to conference website]

May 5 - Post Doctoral Workshop
The Politics of Memory in Modern Korea
Friday, May 5, 9 am-5 pm, Room S153, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
[link to conference schedule]

May 16 - Kim Koo Forum on U.S.-Korea Relations (co-sponsored with Korea Economic Institute)
Special Conference: U.S.-Korea Relations in Historical Perspective
Tuesday, May 16, 1-5 pm, Location: Room S020, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
NOTE: Conference proceedings are OFF THE RECORD

1:00-1:15	Welcoming remarks David McCann, Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature and Director, Korea Institute
1:15-2:45	Political and Cultural Dimensions: Security, Democracy, Mutual Images Moderator: Sung Yoon Lee, Harvard University David Steinberg, Georgetown University Mark Mohr, Wilson Center Katherine S. Moon, Wellesley College
2:45-3:00	Break
3:00-4:30	The U.S. Influence on South Korea and North Korea Moderator: Carter Eckert, Harvard University Ted Osius, Department of State Scott Rembrandt, KEI Balbina Hwang, Heritage Foundation
4:30-5:00	Wrap-up

May 18 - Korea Colloquium (Co-sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies)
Alfredo Romero Castilla
Professor, Centro de Relaciones Internacionales Facultad de Ciencias Politicas y Sociales Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
From Indentured Laborers to Small Entrepreneurs: 100 Years of Korean Immigrants in Mexico
NOTE: Location: Room S153, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street