Asia Institute Seminar
Professor Marc Shell
Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature
Harvard University
“The Past, Present and Future of Money”
Date: Friday, April 27, 2012
Time: 6:30-7:30
Place: The Asia Institute
GCS International Building
Moderator:
Emanuel Pastreich
Director
The Asia Institute
(Professor, Humanitas College, Kyung Hee University)
Here is the talk that President Obama delivered at the Hanguk University of Foreign Studies on Monday. Much speculation in Korea as to why he picked this university, as opposed to Korea University. Well you could say that many of the rank and file of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are from Hanguk University of Foreign Studies, as opposed to the political appointees from Korea University. But honestly, we do not know.
The speech is quite interesting because of the specificity about Korean culture and society that it brings up. A serious effort to engage in Korea.
In this interview with Richard Bush, director of the Center for Northeast Asia Policy Studies at Brookings Institution in Washington D.C., we discuss recent developments in China and the important role of Korea in Northeast Asia and around the world.
Stephane Mot published this article about the lively discussion at the Asia Institute seminar on North Korea’s nuclear program held on Thursday.
Dr. Kim Myungja
President Green 21
(former minister of the environment; author of “The
Nuclear Dilemma”)
Dr. Sok Chul Kim
Senior Researcher
Korea Institute for Nuclear Safety
Ms. Sharon Squassoni
Director
Proliferation Prevention Program
CSIS
Mr. Scott Snyder
Senior Fellow for Korea Studies
Director of the Program on U.S.-Korea Policy
Council on Foreign Relations
North Korea and Nukes: Back to the Stone Age?
As expected, North Korea set the agenda ahead of the 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit (see focus on Seoul Village), this time by announcing for April a ‘satellite’ launch in the general direction of (Japan, thank Kim The Third for small mercies) the East China Sea.
Here are two lectures of mine in English that were broadcast by EBS. The first lecture is on the novels of Park Jiwon and the second is about issues in Education in Korea and around the world.
EBS Lectures “The Novels of Park Jiwon” and “Life is a Matter of Direction, Not Speed”
This article in the Segye Ilbo Newspaper discusses my ideas about the importance of the humanities and the Korean tradition of the scholar “Seonbi”
March 19, 2012
Emanuel Pastreich interview in Segye Ilbo Newspaper
This seminar at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation argues that the current situation is far worse than the great depression for America in terms of loss of manufacturing. The argument should be taken seriously.
Asia Institute Seminar
On the occasion of Seoul Nuclear Summit
“Revisiting Nuclear Safety and Nuclear Security in North Korea”
Date: Thursday, March 22, 2012
Asia Institute Seminar
Nayan Chanda
Author and Journalist
(Editor of YaleGlobal Online Magazine at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization)
Emanuel Pastreich
Director
The Asia Institute
(Professor, Kyung Hee University)
“Korea and Globalization”
February 3, 2012
