Asia Institute Seminar: Professor Marc Shell of Harvard University: “The Past, Present and Future of Money” (April 27, 6:30 PM)


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)

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Barak Obama’s talk at Hanguk University of Foreign Studies (March 26, 2012)

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.

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Joong Ang Monthly Asia Institute Interview with Richard Bush (In Korean 월간중앙) April 2012

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.

 

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Report on the Asia Institute Seminar on Nuclear power in North Korea (March 22, 2012)

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.

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