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Korea Institute Events, Spring 2008

Thursday, January 31 - Kim Koo Forum
Myung-Lim Park
Assistant Professor, Department of Regional Studies, Graduate School, Yonsei University
"A Turning Point in US-Korea Relations?: History, Trajectory, and Prospects for the Future"
Chaired by Carter J. Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, Harvard University
Room S050, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., 4 p.m.

Wednesday, February 6 - Special Lecture
Kim Yongdeok
President of the Northeast Asian History Foundation
"Perceptions of Japan in Korean History: Moving Toward an Understanding"
Room S050, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., 4:30 p.m.

Thursday, February 14 - Kim Koo Forum
Victor D. Cha
Professor, Director of Asian Studies, and D.S. Song Chair, Georgetown University
"China, Korea, and the International Politics of the Olympics"
Chaired by Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Research Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University
Tsai Auditorium (Room S010), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., 4:15 p.m.

Thursday, February 21 - Co-sponsored by the Korea Colloquium, the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, and the Chosŏn History and Culture Series
Rachel Chung
Adjunct Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages & Cultures; and Deputy Director of Committee for Asia and the Middle East, Columbia University
"Sông Hyôn’s Model for Study of Music: Neo-Confucian Philosophy of Music in 15th Century Chosôn Korea"
Chaired by Sun Joo Kim, Associate Professor of Korean History, Harvard University
Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., 4 p.m.

Wednesday, February 27 - Early Korea Project Special Lecture
Evgeniya Gelman
Associate Professor, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of Peoples of the Far East, Russian Academy of Sciences, Far Eastern Branch, Vladivostok, Russia
"Russian-Korean Cooperation and Bohai (Parhae) Archaeology"
Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., 3 p.m.

Thursday, February 28 - Early Korea Project - Co-sponsored with the East Asian Archaeology Seminar
Evgeniya Gelman
Associate Professor, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of Peoples of the Far East, Russian Academy of Sciences, Far Eastern Branch, Vladivostok, Russia
"Archaeological Investigations of the Bohai (Parhae) State in Russia"
Putnam Lab, Room 59D, Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Avenue, 12 p.m.

Thursday, February 28 - Chosŏn History and Culture Series
Isabelle Sancho
Post-doctoral Fellow, Korea Institute, Harvard University
"Confucian Identity, Political Ideals, and Philosophical Exegesis: The Reception and Reappraisal of Neo-Confucianism in the Beginning of Chosŏn Korea"
Chaired by Sun Joo Kim, Associate Professor of Korean History, Harvard University
Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., 4 p.m.

Friday, March 7 - Reischauer Institute Japan Forum presentation - Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute
Hwansoo Kim
Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow
"The Buddhist Invasion of Korea?: The Encounter Between Japanese and Korean Buddhism, 1877-1912"
Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St., 4 p.m.

Thursday, March 13 - Kim Koo Forum
Gregg Brazinsky
Assistant Professor of History and International Affairs at The George Washington University
"Nation Building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans and the Making of a Democracy"
Chaired by Carter J. Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, Harvard University
Discussant: Tae Gyun Park, Assistant Professor, Korean Studies Program, Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University; Researcher, Harvard-Yenching Institute, 2007-2008
Room S050, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., 4 p.m.

Wednesday, March 19 - Kim Koo Forum
Katharine H.S. Moon
Professor, Department of Political Science, Wellesley College and Associate Fellow, Asia Society
"U.S. Policy toward North Korean Human Rights"
Chaired by Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University
Room S050, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., 4:15 p.m.

Thursday, March 20 - Chosŏn History and Culture Series
Youngsook Pak
Korea Foundation Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of History of Art, Yale University
"Impact of Neo-Confucianism on Chosŏn Culture: Sŏwŏn, Uigwe and Paekcha"
Chaired by Sun Joo Kim, Associate Professor of Korean History, Harvard University
Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., 4 p.m.

Friday, March 21 - Early Korea Project - Co-sponsored with the East Asian Archaeology Seminar
Lee Sung-Joo
Associate Professor, Department of History, Kangnung National University
"The Formation of the Early State in Korea: Archaeological Approaches to the Political and Ideological Dynamics of the Early Silla Kingdom"
Room 59D, Putnam Lab, Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Ave., 12 p.m.

Monday, March 31 - Harvard Buddhist Studies Forum presentation - Co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute
Nam-Lin Hur
Associate Professor of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia
"Invitation to the Secret Buddha: Kaichō and Religious Culture in Early Modern Japan"
Room 113, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., 4:15 p.m.

Friday, April 11 - Film Screening - Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute and the Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies
"Koryo Saram": A film co-directed by Y. David Chung and Matt Dibble
Y. David Chung, Film Co-director, in person
Tsai Auditorium (Room S010), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., 6:30 p.m. Free and open to the public.
Note: For more information on "Koryo Saram" click [here].

Tuesday, April 15 - Early Korea Project - Co-sponsored with the East Asian Archaeology Seminar
Jangsuk Kim
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Kyung Hee University, Korea
"Elite Strategy and the Spread of Technological Innovation: The Spread of Iron in the Bronze Age Societies of Denmark and Southern Korea"
Room 14a, Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Ave., 12 p.m.

Friday, April 18 - Chosŏn History and Culture Series - Mini-workshop
Martina Deuchler, Professor Emeritus, SOAS, University of London
"Some Reflections on the Meaning of Descent Groups in Korean History"
John Duncan, Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California-Los Angeles
"Some Thoughts on Questions of Ethnic/National Identity in Pre-modern Korea"
Room S153, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., 1-4 p.m.

Tuesday, April 22 - John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, co-sponsored with the Kim Koo Forum
Kim Dae-Jung
Former President of the Republic of Korea and Nobel Peace Prize Recipient
"The Sunshine Policy, the Road to Success"
The Forum, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, 6 p.m.

Thursday, April 24 - Chosŏn History and Culture Series
Jungwon Kim
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
"Darling Daughters and Marginalized Widows: Affinal Relations and Women's Lives in Late Chosŏn Korea"
Chaired by Sun Joo Kim, Associate Professor of Korean History, Harvard University
Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., 4 p.m.

Friday-Sunday, May 2-4 - Korean Film Series - Co-sponsored by the Harvard Film Archive, the Korea Institute, and the Asia Center, Harvard University
Lee Chang-dong
Film director (in-person)

Secret Sunshine - Friday, May 2, 7 p.m.

Peppermint Candy - Saturday, May 3, 7 p.m., followed by a reception

Green Fish - Sunday, May 4, 3 p.m.

Oasis - Sunday, May 4, 7 p.m.

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Monday, May 5 - Special Event
Kim Young-ha
Novelist
Talk: "What Made Me a Writer", Reception, and Award Ceremony for the Korea Literature Translation Institute (KLTI) Essay Competition
Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., 5 p.m.

Thursday, May 8 - Chosŏn History and Culture Series
Chan E. Park
Associate Professor, Ohio State University
"Traditional Korean Music and Storytelling Today: P’ansori Lecture & Demonstration"
Chaired by Sun Joo Kim, Associate Professor of Korean History, Harvard University
Note: Harvard Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Ave., 7-9 p.m.

Wednesday, May 14 - Early Korea Project
Chang Insung
Professor, Department of History, Chungnam National University, Korea
"Daoism of Paekche Immigrants in Early Japan"
Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., 4 p.m.

Thursday, May 15 - Early Korea Project
Yeo HoKyu
Associate Professor, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea; Visiting Scholar, Korea Institute, Harvard University
"Changing Perceptions of Ancient Korean History in Western Academia"
Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., 4 p.m.

The Korea Institute acknowledges the generous support of the Korea Colloquium by the Korea Foundation and the Min Young-Chul Memorial Fund.

The Korea Institute acknowledges the generous support of the Kim Koo Forum on U.S.-Korea Relations by the Kim Koo Foundation.

The Korea Institute acknowledges the generous support of the History and Culture of Chosŏn Korea Lecture and Performance Series by the Academy of Korean Studies (Korea) and the Provostial Fund in Arts and Humanities of Harvard University.