Upcoming Events
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Bowie-Vernon Room Conference Room (K262)
CGIS Knafel Building, 2nd Floor, 1737 Cambridge Street
Dominion from Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendency and American Power
Bruce Cumings, Gustav F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in History and the College, University of Chicago
Professor Cumings' research and teaching focus on modern Korean history, 20th century international history, U.S.-East Asian relations, East Asian political economy, and American foreign relations. His first book, The Origins of the Korean War, won the John King Fairbank Book Award of the American Historical Association, and the second volume of this study won the Quincy Wright Book Award of the International Studies Association. His other books include War and Television (Verso, 1993); Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History (Norton, 1997); Parallax Visions: Making Sense of American-East Asian Relations (Duke, 1999); North Korea: Another Country (The New Press, 2004); and Inventing the Axis of Evil (co-author, The New Press, 2005). He is also the editor of the modern volume of the Cambridge History of Korea (forthcoming). He was also the principal historical consultant for the Thames Television/PBS six-hour documentary, Korea: The Unknown War. In 2003 he won the University's award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, and in 2007 he won the Kim Dae Jung Prize for Scholarly Contributions to Democracy, Human Rights and Peace. His book, Dominion From Sea to Sea, was recently published by Yale University Press. He is currently working on a synoptic single-volume study of the origins of the Korean War, and a book on the Northeast Asian political economy. For more information on Professor Cumings, please visit his website:
http://history.uchicago.edu/faculty/cumings.shtml.
Co-sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum on U.S.-Korea Relations, the Korea Institute
Special Series on International Relations of East Asia
Lunch will be available for purchase in the CGIS Knafel Building, Fisher Family Commons (1st floor).
For further information on upcoming seminars, please visit our
Seminar Schedule page.
About the Program
The Program was founded in 1980 based on the belief that the United States and Japan have become so interdependent that the problems they face require cooperation. Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, the Program enables scholars and outstanding professionals from government, business, finance, journalism, NGOs, and other fields to come together at Harvard. Over the academic year, they conduct independent research and participate in an ongoing dialogue with Harvard faculty and students, and with others from the greater Cambridge-Boston community. The Advanced Research Fellowship Program enables several outstanding postdoctoral fellows from such fields as anthropology, economics, history, political science, and sociology, to join the Program each year.
The Program's intellectual mandate includes a wide range of issues and problems in U.S.-Japan relations; contemporary Japanese culture, economy, politics, and society as viewed from a comparative perspective; common problems of advanced industrial democracies; international relations of Asia and Asian regionalism; the globalization of Japanese popular culture; the rise of civil society in Asia; and global governance of issues such as energy, environment, and public health.
To insure a broad scope in its endeavors, many of the Program's seminars are co-sponsored with other centers, departments, and schools at Harvard. The Program advances the educational mission of the University in a variety of ways, including the fostering of gresearch pairsh between the Program's Associates and Harvard's graduate students and working with the Reischauer Institute to provide opportunities for Harvard undergraduates to hold summer internships in Japan.