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Korean History 111. Traditional Korea

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Prof. Sun Joo Kim Survey of the history of Korea, from earliest times to the 19th century. Examines various interpretive approaches and issues in the political, social, economic, intellectual, cultural, and diplomatic history of premodern Korea. Course...

Tansaekhwa and the Case for Abstraction in Postwar Korea

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Joan Kee, Assistant Professor of History of Art, University of Michigan Sponsored by the Rockefeller Fund in the Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University. Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute, Harvard University. The Korea...

Korean History Symposium: Toward a Postnationalist History of Korea

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Date: Friday, September 13, 2024, 9:00am to 5:30pm Location: Reading Room, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Workshops and Conferences Co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Organizers: Yumi Moon...

Korean Literature 211. Ideologies of Language in Modern and Contemporary Korea

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Prof. Si Nae Park Descriptions and prescriptions about how we (should) speak and write are fundamentally, if at times covertly, related to larger questions pertaining to cultural identity, history, power, gender, and contents and contours of literature...

Korean Literature 211. Ideologies of Language in Modern and Contemporary Korea

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Descriptions and prescriptions about how we (should) speak and write are fundamentally, if at times covertly, related to larger questions pertaining to cultural identity, history, power, gender, and contents and contours of literature. How are ideas about...

Korean Literature 110. Literature and Literary Culture of Premodern/Traditional Korea

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Prof. Si Nae Park This undergraduate lecture course examines the literature and literary culture of pre-20th-century Korea. The course materials consist of a wide range of literary artifacts, some of the key scholarship for contextualization, and first...

Korean History 119. Governing Bodies in Twentieth-Century Korea

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Dr. Youngeun Koo T his course aims to examine the history of modern Korea through the lens of families, women, and children, highlighting how their bodies constituted crucial sites of politics across the colonial, postcolonial, and neo - liberal eras...

Korean Literature 213. The Book in Korea Before the 20th Century

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Prof. Si Nae Park This course is for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students interested in the book from pre-20th-century Korea. With a focus on the “vernacular book” (i.e., books within which the Korean language is inscribed and books of...

Korean History 115. Korean History through Film

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This course is to examine history of premodern Korea through select Korea's contemporary feature films. Films and dramas with historical themes and personages have been very popular in Korea. We will examine the content of the films, and investigate how `...

Announcing the 2017-18 Kim Koo Visiting Professor, Tae Gyun Park

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The Korea Institute is pleased to announce the 2017-18 Kim Koo Visiting Professor at Harvard University, Seoul National University Professor Tae Gyun Park. Park was a Visiting Fellow and Special Student at the Harvard-Yenching Institute from 1997 to 1999...

Carter Eckert (1945-2024)

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Carter J. Eckert was born in Chicago and trained in European ancient and medieval history at Lawrence College in Wisconsin, and also at Harvard. He subsequently developed a strong interest in Korea and East Asia as a result of his experience as a Peace...

Yu Xie

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Yu Xie studies the legal history of pre-modern Korea. She received her B.A. in Korean Language and Literature from Peking University and her M.A. in Korean History from Seoul National University. Her master’s thesis focused on death penalty cases...