Stanford University

Understanding the Upcoming Presidential Election in Korea

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Dr. Jin Hyun Kim is the former chairman of Munwha Ilbo, one of Korea's major daily newspapers, and former Minister of Science and Technology in South Korea. A longtime journalist, Dr. Kim currently serves as senior research advisor to the Korea International Trade Association (KITA).

Philippines Conference Room

Dr. Jin Hyun Kim Senior Research Advisor Speaker Korea International Trade Association
Seminars

Modernization in His Own Words: The Personal Diary of Park Hung Chee

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Carter J. Eckert is Professor of Korean History and Director of the Korea Institute at Harvard University. Since 1985, he has been teaching Korean history at Harvard and working to build up the Harvard Korean studies program there. He is the author of a number of books and articles, including Offspring of Empire: The Colonial Origins of Korean Capitalism, which received the John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History from the American Historical Association, as well as the John Whitney Hall Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies. Currently he is engaged in several projects relating to modern Korean history, including the Cambridge History of Korea, and a study of the late president of South Korea, Park Chung Hee, and the role of the military in South Korea's national development.

Encina Hall, East Wing, Third Floor, Okimoto Conference Room

Seminars

Crowding the Rim

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Students benefit from using HazPac, an interactive online map database, to explore natural hazard risks and from collaborating with classmates to develop possible social, structural, environmental, economic, and geological methods to reduce vulnerabilties.

Peter Vitousek

Y2E2 Room 375
473 Via Ortega
Stanford, CA 94305-4205

(650) 725-1866 (650) 725-1856
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Clifford G. Morrison Professor in Population and Resource Studies, Department of Biological Sciences
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Peter Vitousek has been on the faculty at Stanford University since 1984. His research interests include: evaluating the global cycles of nitrogen and phosphorus, and how they are altered by human activity; understanding how the interaction of land and culture contributed to the sustainability of Hawaiian agriculture and society before European contact; and working to make fertilizer applications more efficient and less environmentally damaging (especially in rapidly growing economies). He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was awarded the 2010 Japan Prize. He is director of the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources and co-director of the First Nations Futures Institute. 

FSI Senior Fellow, by courtesy, FSE Affiliated Faculty

New Shanghai: The Rocky Rebirth of China's Legendary City

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Pamela Yatsko the former Shanghai correspondent for the Far Eastern Review will discuss her new book, New Shanghai: The Rocky Rebirth of China's Legendary City.

Building 50, Room 51P

Pamela Yatsko Far Eastern Review
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