KOREA INSTITUTE HARVARD UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2014 – 2015 CONTENTS DIRECTOR’S LETTER It was a great honor and pleasure to return as director (interim) this past year while Professor Sun Joo Kim took a well-deserved sabbatical year’s leave. It was, as always, a year of many events and activities, enriched by the presence of numerous visitors, including two new postdoctoral fellows Seong-Uk Kim and Dennis Lee, both of whom received their PhDs from UCLA. Our Kim Koo Visiting Professor this year, Professor Hyangjin Lee from Rikkyo University in Tokyo, shared with us and our students her extensive knowledge of Korean film, teaching a conference course (for undergraduates and graduates) on “Korean Cinema and Transnationality.” She also participated in my introductory historiography course on modern Korean history, and took an Director’s Letter 3 active role in our colloquia. Professor Lee’s presence was of course a sign of the burgeoning interest in Korean film studies at Harvard more generally, and of our continuing efforts as an Institute, together with the Harvard Film Archive and CJ Entertainment in Seoul, to introduce About the Korea Institute 4 Korean film and film directors to the Harvard community, and to collect and preserve original Korean films for future research. Korean Studies Faculty & Courses 5 One of the most enlivening and gratifying aspects of the year for me personally was to work closely with our three newer faculty: Professor Nicholas Harkness in Anthropology, whose recent book, Songs of Seoul: An Ethnography of Voice and Voicing in Christian South Korea was awarded the 2014 Edward Sapir Prize in linguistic anthropology; Professor Paul Chang, a former Special Conferences 6 student, who went on to receive his PhD at Stanford and returned to Harvard as assistant professor in Sociology last year, and who just published a study of state repression and the democracy movement in South Korea in the 1970s: Protest Dialectics, while also garnering a prize in his department for outstanding undergraduate teaching; and Professor Si Nae Park, who just joined us this Seminars & Lecture Series 8 academic year in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, where she is teaching pre-modern Korean literature and working on a book on Chosŏn vernacular literature. The fresh perspectives, critical insights on problems, enthusiasm, and good humor that these three younger colleagues brought to the Institute’s executive committee were as refreshing as they were Publications 12 crucial to the overall success of our endeavors this past year. Here, in a very real sense, lies the Institute’s future, and that future looks bright indeed. Programs for Undergraduate Students 14 Of course the strength of the Institute also lies in its ability to continue to support our basic programs while also developing new academic initiatives. Interest in Korean studies at Harvard is definitely growing, indicated by increasing class Programs for Graduate Students 16 enrollments in both language and content courses. In that regard, I want to thank Dr. Sang-suk Oh for his years of service as director of the Korean Language Program, and welcome his successor Dr. Hi-Sun Kim from the University of Chicago as the new director, who will join us next academic year. But the growth of the Korean studies program, and the addition of three new People at the Korea Institute 18 faculty, each with his/her developing constituency of students, have put enormous strains on our financial resources, particularly our bedrock student fellowships and grants for the regular academic year and for summer research and study. The number of outstanding student applications (both undergraduate and graduate) for these scholarships is expanding exponentially, and it is Donors 20 essential that we find a way to support as many of them as possible. One of our primary goals in the immediate years therefore will be to seek sources of such support. This is frankly our most pressing need at the moment, and we will be calling on you, our friends around the world, to do whatever you can to help us meet this challenge. Finally, I would indeed be remiss if I did not thank our superb administrative staff, not least of all Susan Laurence, Catherine Glover and Jina Kim, who have made my year as director so smooth and enjoyable. And like everyone at the Institute, I look forward to welcoming back a revivified Professor Sun Joo Kim as director, effective July 1! Carter J. Eckert Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History Front & Back Cover Photo Credit: John Chung Photo Credit: Martha Stewart Director, Korea Institute Annual Report 2014-2015 3 ABOUT THE KOREA INSTITUTE KOREAN STUDIES FACULTY & COURSES MISSION AND HISTORY FACULTY COURSES The Korea Institute was established in 1981 under the aegis of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, and in Carter J. Eckert Fall 2014 1993 it became an autonomous institution directly responsible to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. It is the only Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, EALC Korean Romance Before the Twentieth Century, Si Nae Park organization devoted solely to the support and development of Korean Studies at Harvard, as the central hub for Harvard faculty, students, leading scholars in the field, and visitors to join together as a community for the study of Korea. Sun Joo Kim Modern Korean History: Proseminar, Carter J. Eckert The Korea Institute is an integral and dynamic part of the intellectual life at Harvard. In addition to the Korea Colloquium, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History, EALC the Institute also supports lectures, workshops, conferences, and other scholarly exchanges throughout the year. The Institute (on leave AY 2014-2015) Social Change in Modern Korea, Paul Y. Chang hosts visiting scholars, fellows and associates through an affiliated scholars program. Other activities include faculty research projects, undergraduate and graduate student support, teaching, study and work in Korea programs, publications, Korean film David R. McCann Korean Cinema and Transnationality: Conference Course, screenings, and some cultural events. Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature, Emeritus, Hyangjin Lee The Institute has also established a network of relationships with other centers and departments throughout the University and EALC with colleagues and institutions throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Nicholas Harkness Spring 2015 Assistant Professor of Anthropology Sensory Korea, Nicholas Harkness Paul Y. Chang Writing Asian Poetry, David R. McCann KOREA INSTITUTE DIRECTORS Assistant Professor of Sociology Sages, Saints, and Shamans: An Introduction to Korean Si Nae Park Religions, Seong-Uk Kim Edward W. Wagner Carter J. Eckert Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civiliations Democracy and Social Movements in East Asia, Paul Y. Chang First Director of Yoon Se Young Professor Hyangjin Lee the Korea Institute of Korean History Kim Koo Visiting Professor, EALC North Korea as History and Crisis, Carter J. Eckert Professor, Department of Far Eastern Languages 1993-2004 Seong-Uk Kim Modern Korean History: Special Seminar, Carter J. Eckert 2014-2015 Soon Young Kim Postdoctoral Fellow, Korea Institute; 1981-1993 Lecturer, EALC Korea through Ideologies of Languages and Writing: Seminar, Si Nae Park Photo Credit: Harvard Gazette Photo Credit: Martha Stewart KOREAN LANGUAGE PROGRAM Korean Literature: Texts and Contexts, 9th Century through the Sang-suk Oh Early 20th Century, Si Nae Park Senior Preceptor in Korean; Director of the Korean Language Program Summer School 2015 Cinema Korea - Documenting Korean Society Through Film David R. McCann Eunkyoung Jeong Drill Instructor in Korean Y. David Chung, Paul Y. Chang, Sang-suk Oh and Korean language instructors Korea Foundation Sun Joo Kim Hee-Jeong Jeong Professor of Korean Preceptor in Korean Literature, Emeritus Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean Heeyeong Jung 2004-2011 History Preceptor in Korean 2011-2014 Photo Credit: Martha Stewart 4 Korea Institute, Harvard University Annual Report 2014-2015 5 CHAIR mpimmg NICHOLAS HARKNESS SPECIAL CONFERENCE HARVARD UNIVERSITY WELCOMING REMARKS CARTER ECKERT HARVARD UNIVERSITY ARTHUR KLEINMAN HARVARD UNIVERSITY AJANTHA SUBRAMANIAN URBAN FUTURES IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY KEYNOTE LECTURE PETER VAN DER VEER MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE DISCUSSANTS KENNETH DEAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE “URBAN FUTURES IN ASIA: ASPIRATION, SPECULATION, CONTENTION” JUDITH FARQUHAR UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MICHAEL HERZFELD ASPIRATION, SPECULATION, CONTENTION HARVARD UNIVERSITY ASIA LAUREL KENDALL COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY/ AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY LI ZHANG Dates: April 24 – 25, 2015 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS PANELISTS Venue: Belfer Case Stuy Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street APRIL 24-25, 2015 JONATHAN BACH THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH PATRICK EISENLOHR Belfer Case Study Room (S020) UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN FLORENCE GALMICHE CGIS South Building PARIS DIDEROT UNIVERSITY DANIEL GOH Organized by the Korea Institute and Max Planck Institute for the study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (MPI-MMG) 1730 Cambridge Street NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE JU HUI JUDY HAN Cambridge, MA UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ERIK HARMS Co-sponsored by the Asia Center, Department of Anthropology, Harvard-Yenching Institute, and Max Planck Institute for the YALE UNIVERSITY ANGIE HEO MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE ORGANIZED BY HARVARD UNIVERSITY KOREA INSTITUTE Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (MPI-MMG) MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE