ASIAN INSTITUTEDR. DAVID CHU COMMUNITY NETWORK
Calendar of Events
DATE AND TIME EVENT LOCATION
September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2012
OISE, 252 Bloor St W, Room 7-162 (7th Floor)
Colonialism and Underdevelopment: The Great Divergence
Between Europe and Afrasia
Speaker: Professor Amiya K Bagchi (Director, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata;Chancellor, Tripura University, India)
Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Toronto, Historical Materialism Group, Toronto, Asian Institute
Co-Sponsored by:
Adult Education Radical Reading Group (OISE|UT)
Sponsored by:
Wednesday, Sep. 07
7:00 PM-9:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Globalization or Internationalization: Challenges for Asia Pacific
Universities in the 21st Century
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10875
Speaker: Professor Da Hsuan Feng (Senior Vice President - University Relations, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Chair: Janice Stein (Director, Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto)
Munk School of Global AffairsCo-Sponsored by:
East Asia Seminar Series
Thursday, Sep. 08
3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
China Awash in Debt: State Liabilities and Monetary and Welfare
Implications
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10881
Speaker: Victor Shih (Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University)
Munk School of Global AffairsCo-Sponsored by:
East Asia Seminar Series
Monday, Sep. 12
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Friday: University of Toronto, Jackman Humanities Building, Room 318, 170 St. George Street; Saturday: University of Toronto Mississauga, Instructional Centre, Rooms 250 & 245
Conference on South Asian Religions - Crossing Boundaries:
Texts, Traditions, Temporalities
http://www.religion.utoronto.ca/crossing-boundaries-texts-traditions-temporalities
Department of Historical Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga, Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto, Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Toronto, Asian Institute
Friday, Sep. 23
8:30 AM-7:00 PM
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DATE AND TIME EVENT LOCATION
September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2012
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 108N
Kings and the Rebellious Monks: Buddhism and Political Conflict
in Cambodia
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10625
Speaker: Ian Harris (Tun Lin Kok Yuen Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies, Department of Humanities, University of Toronto)
Asian InstituteSponsored by:
Southeast Asia Seminar Series
Friday, Sep. 23
12:00 PM-2:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 108N
Markets and Bodies: Women, Service Work, and the Making of
Inequality in China
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10507
Speaker: Eileen Otis (Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Oregon)
Dr. David Chu Community Network in Asia Pacific Studies
Co-Sponsored by:
East Asia Seminar Series
Friday, Sep. 23
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Friday: University of Toronto, Jackman Humanities Building, Room 318, 170 St. George Street; Saturday: University of Toronto Mississauga, Instructional Centre, Rooms 250 & 245
Conference on South Asian Religions - Crossing Boundaries:
Texts, Traditions, Temporalities
http://www.religion.utoronto.ca/crossing-boundaries-texts-traditions-temporalities
Department of Historical Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga, Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto, Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Toronto, Asian Institute
Saturday, Sep. 24
10:30 AM-5:00 PM
Instructional Centre, IB 245, University of Toronto Mississauga
Is Every Sanskritist a Nationalist?
http://www.religion.utoronto.ca/crossing-boundaries-texts-traditions-temporalities
Speaker: Dr. Laurie L. Patton (Dean of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Religion, Duke University)
Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Toronto, Department of Historical Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga, Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto, Asian Institute
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Saturday, Sep. 24
5:30 PM-7:00 PM
Munk Centre For International Studies1 Devonshire Place
South House - The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility 154S
Reassessing the Politics of Man-Made Catastrophe: China's
Great Leap Forward
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10832
Speaker: Frank Dikötter (Professor of Modern Chinese History, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)
Discussant: Kimberley Manning (Professor of Political Science, Concordia University)
Discussant: Yiching Wu (Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto)
Chair: William Hurst (Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto)
Canada Centre for Global Security Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs, Office of the Dean, University of Toronto Scarborough
Co-Sponsored by:
East Asia Seminar Series
Monday, Sep. 26
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
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DATE AND TIME EVENT LOCATION
September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2012
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 108N
Maternalist Internationalism: China's Original Soft Power
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10760
Speaker: Kim Manning (Associate Professor of Political Science, Concordia University)
Canada Centre for Global Security StudiesCo-Sponsored by:
East Asia Seminar Series
Tuesday, Sep. 27
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Dana: The Perils of the Gift
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10576
Speaker: Smita Kothari (PhD Candidate, Department for the Study of Religion, Centre for South Asian Studies, and the Centre for the Environment)
Discussant: Christoph Emmrich (Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Toronto)
Asian Institute PhD Seminar Series
Thursday, Sep. 29
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Combination Room, Trinity College, University of Toronto
My Life in Theatre and Cinema
http://www.fsala11.com/index.html
Speaker: Mahesh Dattani (Internationally acclaimed playwright and author)
Asian Institute, Centre for South Asian Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs
Toronto South Asian ReviewSponsored by:
Friday, Sep. 30
4:00 PM-5:30 PM
Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place; Trinity College, 6 Hoskin Avenue
Festival of South Asian Literature and the Arts 2011
Registration: http://www.fsala11.com/index.html
http://www.fsala11.com/index.html
Centre for South Asian Studies, Asian InstituteCo-Sponsored by:
Toronto South Asian ReviewSponsored by:
Saturday, Oct. 01
10:00 AM-9:30 PM
Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place; Trinity College, 6 Hoskin Avenue
Festival of South Asian Literature and the Arts 2011
Registration: http://www.fsala11.com/index.html
http://www.fsala11.com/index.html
Centre for South Asian Studies, Asian InstituteCo-Sponsored by:
Toronto South Asian ReviewSponsored by:
Sunday, Oct. 02
12:00 PM-5:00 PM
Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, 8th floor, 130 St. George St., University of Toronto
Post-World War II Hong Kong Women: From Challenges to
Fulfillment
Main Sponsor: Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library
http://hongkong.library.utoronto.ca/pdf/FlyerOct7-2011.pdf
Asian InstituteCo-Sponsored by:
Symposium
Friday, Oct. 07
10:00 AM-1:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
China, Japan and Cooperation in East Asia’s Maritime Order
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10145
Speaker: James Manicom (Asian Institute Affiliate; SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow; Balsillie School of International Affairs)
East Asia Seminar Series
Friday, Oct. 07
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
George Ignatieff Theatre, Trinity College, University of Toronto, 15 Devonshire Place
Anihan: Cultures in the Diaspora: A Filipino Arts and Academic
Showcase
Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Toronto, Kritikal Kolektibo – Critical Filipina/o Studies, Kapisanan – Philippine Centre for Arts and Culture, Asian Institute
Thursday, Oct. 13
6:00 PM-8:00 PM
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DATE AND TIME EVENT LOCATION
September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2012
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
South House - The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility 154S
Bi-annual Meeting of the Canadian Council for Southeast Asian
Studies
Friday, Oct. 14
9:00 AM-7:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Bi-annual Meeting of the Canadian Council for Southeast Asian
Studies
Saturday, Oct. 15
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Transforming Southeast Asia: Dissertation Workshop
Canada Research Chairs Program, Asian Institute
Co-Sponsored by:
Monday, Oct. 17
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Transforming Southeast Asia: Dissertation Workshop
Canada Research Chairs Program, Asian Institute
Co-Sponsored by:
Tuesday, Oct. 18
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, 8th floor, 130 St. George St., University of Toronto
The China Challenge: Sino-Canadian Relations in the 21st Century
Main Sponsor: Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library
Asian Institute, University of Toronto Libraries, York Centre for Asian Research
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Book Launch
Tuesday, Oct. 18
10:00 AM-1:00 PM
Munk Centre For International Studies1 Devonshire Place
South House - The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility 154S
From Impunity to Accountability? The Khmer Rouge Tribunal
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10201
Speaker: Robert Petit (Former International Co-Prosecutor for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia)
Speaker: Kunthear Thorng (Survivor of the Khmer Rouge period)
Speaker: Kate Robertson (JD Candidate, Faculty of Law Student, University of Toronto)
Moderator: Andrea Russell (Lecturer, International Criminal Law, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto)
Dr. David Chu Community Network in Asia Pacific Studies, Canada Centre for Global Security Studies, International Human Rights Program, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Munk School of Global Affairs, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Institute for Contemporary Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum, The Documentation Centre of Cambodia, Museum Studies Program, Faculty of Information, Department of Geography
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An Exhibition and Symposium
Tuesday, Oct. 18
11:30 AM-2:30 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Documenting China: Being a Professional Photographer in the
Middle Kingdom
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10746
Speaker: Ryan Pyle (Award winning documentary photographer)
East Asia Seminar Series
Wednesday, Oct. 19
4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 108N
Global Ideas Institute: Health Innovations in the Global South |
Orientation
Canada Centre for Global Security StudiesCo-Sponsored by:
Thursday, Oct. 20
3:30 PM-6:30 PM
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DATE AND TIME EVENT LOCATION
September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2012
Munk Centre For International Studies1 Devonshire Place
South House - The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility 154S
Elections and the Ethnic Vote: Numbers Lottery or Political
Representation?
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Main Sponsor: Centre for South Asian Studies
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11115
Asian Institute, Journalism Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, South Asian Journalists' Association, Toronto Chapter
Co-Sponsored by:
Thursday, Oct. 20
6:00 PM-8:00 PM
Sidney Smith Hall, University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street, SS2125
The Unequal Geographies of Time: Enduring Poverty amidst
Rapid Change
Speaker: Uma Kothari (Manchester University)
Asian Institute, Centre for South Asian StudiesCo-Sponsored by:
Department of GeographySponsored by:
Friday, Oct. 21
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Open Labor Markets vs. Workplace Participation: Lessons of
Market Reform in China
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10731
Speaker: Joel Andreas (Associate Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University)
Critical China Studies GroupCo-Sponsored by:
East Asia Seminar Series
Friday, Oct. 21
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 108N
Bhakti: A Phenomenological Analysis of Aesthetic Experience in
Jainism
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Main Sponsor: Centre for South Asian Studies
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10711
Speaker: Kamini Gogri (Coordinator of Jainology courses at Mumbai University)
Chair: Chelva Kanaganayakam (Professor, Department of English, University of Toronto)
Asian InstituteCo-Sponsored by:
2011/2012 Shri Roop Lal Jain Lecture
Friday, Oct. 21
4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place, Room 208N & Town Hall, Innis College at the University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Avenue (south of Bloor at St. George)
FILM WEEKEND PROGRAM | Taiwanese Cuisine: Intimate
Politics in Film
Registration: E-REGISTRATIONS ARE A MUST FOR LECTURE, GALA, FILMS & PANEL; PLEASE ARRIVE EARLY FOR SEATING
Friday, Oct. 21
5:00 PM-5:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
FILM WEEKEND CONFERENCE KEYNOTE LECTURE | Cuisine,
Commerce and Cultural Poetics: Night Markets in Taiwan
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10526
Speaker: Scott Simon (Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Ottawa)
Cinema Studies Institute, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, Toronto, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, Pan-Asia Student Society (PASS), CINSSU
Friday, Oct. 21
5:00 PM-7:00 PM
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DATE AND TIME EVENT LOCATION
September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2012
Innis Town Hall, Innis College at the University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Avenue (south of Bloor at St. George)
Opening Gala | NIGHT MARKET HERO | Taiwanese Cuisine:
Intimate Politics in Film
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10766
Cinema Studies Institute, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, Toronto, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, Pan-Asia Student Society (PASS), CINSSU
Co-Sponsored by:
Friday, Oct. 21
8:00 PM-12:00 AM
Innis Town Hall, Innis College at the University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Avenue (south of Bloor at St. George)
EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN | Taiwanese Cuisine: Intimate Politics
in Film
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10767
Cinema Studies Institute, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, Toronto, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, Pan-Asia Student Society (PASS)
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Saturday, Oct. 22
2:30 PM-4:45 PM
Innis Cafe, Innis College at the University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Avenue (south of Bloor at St. George)
FILM PANEL | Family Melodrama and Food Metaphors in Three
Moments of Taiwanese Cinema
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10768
Moderator: Bart Testa (Professor of Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto)
Panelist: James Udden (Professor of Film Studies, Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania)
Panelist: Jing Jing Chang (Professor of Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University)
Cinema Studies Institute, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, Toronto, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, Pan Asia Student Society (PASS)
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Saturday, Oct. 22
5:00 PM-7:00 PM
Innis Town Hall, Innis College at the University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Avenue (south of Bloor at St. George)
KUEI-MEI, A WOMAN | Taiwanese Cuisine: Intimate Politics in
Film
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10769
Cinema Studies Institute, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Toronto, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, Pan Asia Student Society (PASS)
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Saturday, Oct. 22
8:00 PM-10:30 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 108N
Global Public Health Challenges: The Health of Humankind - 2050
Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto Schools, Canada Centre for Global Security Studies
Co-Sponsored by:
Global Ideas Institute Speaker Series
Tuesday, Oct. 25
4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
'Debate Which Destroys the Crazy Elephant': Mongolian
Scholastic Encounters with Inner Asian Modernities at the turn of
the Twentieth Century
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10952
Speaker: Matthew King (PhD Candidate, Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto)
Discussant: Amanda Goodman (Assistant Professor, Department for the Study of Religion)
Asian Institute PhD Seminar Series
Thursday, Oct. 27
12:00 PM-2:00 PM
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DATE AND TIME EVENT LOCATION
September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2012
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Writing Empire's Garden: Assam and the Making of India
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Main Sponsor: Centre for South Asian Studies
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10601
Speaker: Jayeeta Sharma (Assistant Professor of History, University of Toronto)
Chair: Ritu Birla (Department of History and Director, CSAS, University of Toronto)
Asian InstituteCo-Sponsored by:
Friday, Oct. 28
12:00 PM-2:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Writing into the Unknown
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Main Sponsor: Centre for South Asian Studies
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10977
Speaker: Rana Dasgupta (Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize)
Chair: Nais Dave (Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto)
Asian InstituteCo-Sponsored by:
Friday, Oct. 28
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Self-Reliance, Courtesy of Beijing: Sino-Democratic Kampuchean
Relations and the Politics of Mutual Resistance
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10146
Speaker: Andrew Mertha (Associate Professor of Government, Cornell University)
East Asia Seminar Series and Southeast Asia Seminar Series
Friday, Nov. 04
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
From Male Renunciates to Nationalist Asceticism: Masculinity
and the Imagining of India
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Main Sponsor: Centre for South Asian Studies
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10527
Speaker: Chandrima Chakraborty (Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University)
Chair: Chelva Kanaganayakam (Professor, Department of English, University of Toronto)
Asian InstituteCo-Sponsored by:
Friday, Nov. 04
4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Trading Equality for Talent: The Troubled Turn in Korean K-12
Education
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Main Sponsor: Centre for the Study of Korea
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10962
Speaker: Hyunjoon Park (Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Sociology and Education, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania)
Chair: Ito Peng (Professor, Department of Sociology; Associate Dean, Interdisciplinary & International Affairs, Faculty of Arts and Science; Interim Director, Centre for the Study of Korea)
Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Asian Institute
Tuesday, Nov. 08
12:00 PM-2:00 PM
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DATE AND TIME EVENT LOCATION
September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2012
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Not All Candy: Complicated and Determined Youth in 2 Recent
Taiwan Independent Films
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10589
Speaker: Lin Yu-hsien (Director, Jump Ashin!)
Commentator: Bart Testa (Professor of Cinema Studies, University of Toronto)
Commentator: Alice Shih (Film Critic)
Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Toronto, Pan-Asia Student Society (PASS)
Co-Sponsored by:
Friday, Nov. 11
4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, 8th floor, 130 St. George St., University of Toronto
Hong Kongers Living on the Mainland: A Force for Integration?
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Main Sponsor: Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11123
Speaker: David Zweig (Associate Dean of the School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Director, Center on Environment, Energy and Resource Policy; Chair Professor, Division of Social Science)
Moderator: William Hurst (Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto)
Speaker: Ms. Gloria Lo (Director, Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office)
Asian InstituteCo-Sponsored by:
East Asia Seminar Series & Hong Kong
Seminar Series
Monday, Nov. 14
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs - 1 Devonshire Place
South House - The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility 154S
Appropriate Technologies and Re-inventing the Toilet
Speaker: Yu-Ling Cheng (Director, Centre for Global EngineeringProfessor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto)
Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto Schools, Canada Centre for Global Security Studies
Global Ideas Institute Speaker Series
Tuesday, Nov. 15
4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Whose Cultural Responsibility? Preferential Policies for
Indigenous Students in Taiwan
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10749
Speaker: Chang-Ling Huang (Professor of Political Science, National Taiwan University)
Chair: Ping-Chun Hsiung (Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences, University of Toronto, Scarborough)
Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in TorontoCo-Sponsored by:
Global Taiwan Lecture Series
Friday, Nov. 18
12:00 PM-2:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Common Room 202N
Fairchild Television | Chang-Ling Huang InterviewFriday, Nov. 18
2:00 PM-2:30 PM
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DATE AND TIME EVENT LOCATION
September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2012
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 108N
PASS | Pan-Asia Career Panel I
Register online at:
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11111
Panelist: Justin Poy (Founder and President, The Justin Poy Agency)
Panelist: Clara Ho (Research Lawyer, Toronto Advocacy Centre for the Elderly)
Panelist: Sonia Sakamoto-Jog (Executive Director, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival)
Moderator: Betty Xie (President, Pan-Asia Student Society)
Asian InstituteCo-Sponsored by:
Pan-Asia Student Society (PASS)Sponsored by:
Thursday, Nov. 24
3:00 PM-5:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 108N
Worlds of the Contemporary Global: Approaches from the Centre
For South Asian Studies Faculty
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Main Sponsor: Centre for South Asian Studies
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10508
Asian InstituteCo-Sponsored by:
Friday, Nov. 25
9:30 AM-5:45 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Why Taiwan Matters
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10785
Speaker: Shelley Rigger (Brown Professor of East Asian Politics and Chair of Political Science at Davidson College in North Carolina)
Chair: Joseph Wong (Director, Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs; Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Toronto; Canada Research Chair in Political Science)
Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in TorontoCo-Sponsored by:
Global Taiwan Lecture Series
Monday, Nov. 28
4:30 PM-6:30 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Asian Authoritarianism in the Age of Democracy
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11383
Speaker: Netina Tan (Ph.D. University of British Columbia) (SSHRC Post Doctoral Fellow, Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto)
Chair: Joseph Wong (Director, Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs; Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Toronto; Canada Research Chair in Political Science)
Practice Job Talk Series
Tuesday, Nov. 29
10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
State Power and Individual Coping Strategies: How Their
Interplay Has Shaped the Trajectory of China's Employment
System Change
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11107
Speaker: Jing Shen (PhD candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto)
Discussant: Stephen Noakes (SSHRC post-doctoral fellow at the Asian Institute)
Asian Institute PhD Seminar Series
Tuesday, Nov. 29
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
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DATE AND TIME EVENT LOCATION
September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2012
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 108N
Where Resource Frontiers and National Frontiers Interlock:
Agrarian Expansion, Resource Extraction and Sovereign Politics
on the Indonesian-Malaysian Frontier
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11207
Speaker: Michael Ellenberg (Professor of Development and Global Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark; Visiting Professor at Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto)
Chair: Tania Li (Professor, Anthropology Department, University of Toronto; Canada Research Chair in the Political-Economy and Culture of Asia-Pacific)
Southeast Asia Seminar Series
Friday, Dec. 02
12:00 PM-2:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 108N
Male Homosexual Behaviours in China: Perspectives of Sex
Imbalance
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10541
Speaker: Xueyan Yang (Associate Professor of Institute for Population and Development Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China)
Speaker: Yiching Wu (Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto)
East Asia Seminar Series
Friday, Dec. 02
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Innis Town Hall, Innis College at the University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Avenue (south of Bloor at St. George)
Tribute to Tagore Film Festival 2011: In Honour of the 150th Birth
Centenary of Rabindranath Tagore
Asian Institute, Centre for South Asian Studies, Innis College, York University,
New College, University of TorontoSponsored by:
Saturday, Dec. 03
12:30 PM-9:00 PM
Innis Town Hall, Innis College at the University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Avenue (south of Bloor at St. George)
Tribute to Tagore Film Festival 2011: In Honour of the 150th Birth
Centenary of Rabindranath Tagore
Asian Institute, Centre for South Asian Studies, Innis College, York University,
Co-Sponsored by:
New College, University of TorontoSponsored by:
Sunday, Dec. 04
1:00 PM-8:00 PM
Munk Centre For International Studies1 Devonshire Place
South House - The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility 154S
Integrative Thinking Approaches for Health Innovations in the
Global South
Speaker: Ellie Avishai (Director, I-Think Initiative, Rotman School of Management)
Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto Schools, Canada Centre for Global Security Studies
Co-Sponsored by:
Global Ideas Institute Speaker Series
Tuesday, Dec. 06
4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Munk Centre For International Studies1 Devonshire Place
South House - The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility 154S
North Korea and East Asia after Kim Jong Il: Roundtable
Discussion with U of T Experts
Register online at:
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11536
Panelist: William Hurst (Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science)
Panelist: Ito Peng (Professor, Department of Sociology; Associate Dean, Interdisciplinary & International Affairs, Faculty of Arts and Science; Interim Director, Centre for the Study of Korea)
Panelist: Ronald Pruessen (Professor, Department of History; Deputy Director, International Partnerships; Munk School of Global Affairs)
Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs, Centre for the Study of Korea
Co-Sponsored by:
East Asia Seminar Series
Tuesday, Jan. 10
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Page 10 of 27Asian Institute
DATE AND TIME EVENT LOCATION
September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2012
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 108N
Collaborative Master’s Program in Asia- Pacific Studies
Information Session
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11424
Chair: Hy Van Luong (Director, Master's in Asia-Pacific Studies; Professor, Department of Sociology)
Thursday, Jan. 12
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
On Race, Inequality and the Colonial Order: The Contemporary
Relevance of Rabindranath Tagore
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Main Sponsor: Centre for South Asian Studies
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11071
Speaker: Ananya Mukherjee-Reed (Professor and Chair of Political Science, York University)
Chair: Ritu Birla (Department of History and Director, CSAS, University of Toronto)
Asian InstituteCo-Sponsored by:
Thursday, Jan. 19
12:00 PM-2:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs - 1 Devonshire Place
South House - The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility 154S
The Psychology of the Last Mile Problem: Why End Users Don’t
Adapt Innovative Solutions and What We Can Do About It
Speaker: Dilip Soman (Professor, Rotman School of Management; Director of the India Innovation Institute, University of Toronto)
Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto Schools, Canada Centre for Global Security Studies
Global Ideas Institute Speaker Series
Thursday, Jan. 19
4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 108N
Gender, Sexuality and Islam under the Shadow of Empire
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11072
Speaker: Saadia Toor (Associate Professor of Sociology, College of Staten Island, City University of New York)
Co-Chair: Ritu Birla (Department of History and Director, CSAS, University of Toronto)
Co-Chair: Alyssa Trotz (Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto)
Women and Gender Studies Institute, Centre for South Asian Studies, Asian Institute
Co-Sponsored by:
Friday, Jan. 20
12:00 PM-2:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 108N
“Engineering Fictions”: Constructions of Everyday Life in Early
Modern Korean Literature, 1910-1916
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10542
Speaker: Jooyeon Rhee (Visiting Scholar at the Asian Institute)
Chair: Janet Poole (Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto)
East Asia Seminar Series
Friday, Jan. 20
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Living up to “Flower of Capitalism” Title: Advertising in
Contemporary South Korea
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11336
Speaker: Olga Fedorenko (PhD Candidate, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto)
Chair: Janet Poole (Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto)
Asian Institute PhD Seminar Series
Tuesday, Jan. 24
12:00 PM-2:00 PM
Page 11 of 27Asian Institute
DATE AND TIME EVENT LOCATION
September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2012
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Subversion, Citizenship and Belonging through Food and the
Vernacular in South Asian-Canadian Writing
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Main Sponsor: Centre for South Asian Studies
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11073
Speaker: Julie Mehta (Faculty, Canadian Studies Program, University of Toronto)
Chair: Chelva Kanaganayakam (Professor, Department of English, University of Toronto)
Asian InstituteCo-Sponsored by:
Thursday, Jan. 26
12:00 PM-2:00 PM
Music Room, Hart HousePan-Asia Cultural Showcase: A Night to Celebrate Diasporic Arts
in Music, Film, Dance, & Literature
https://www.facebook.com/events/332861243400333/
Asian Institute, Shinsedai Cinema Festival
Pan Asia Student Society (PASS), South Asian Development Council
Sponsored by:
Thursday, Jan. 26
7:00 PM-10:30 PM
PLEASE NOTE THE LOCATION: Larkin Building, 15 Devonshire Place, Room LA200
Gender Imbalance Evolution in China: Social Change and Public
Governance
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11384
Speaker: Shuzhuo Li (Institute for Population and Development Studies, School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China)
Chair: Tania Li (Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto; Canada Research Chair in the Political-Economy and Culture of Asia-Pacific)
York UniversityCo-Sponsored by:
East Asia Seminar Series
Friday, Jan. 27
10:00 AM-12:00 PM
PLEASE NOTE THE LOCATION: Anthropology Department, University of Toronto, Room AP246, 19 Russell Street, Toronto, M5S 2S2
Fantasy and Interaction in Encounters between Primitivist
Tourists and Korowai of West Papua, Indonesia
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10513
Speaker: Rupert Stasch (Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego)
Chair: Joshua Barker (Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto)
Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
Co-Sponsored by:
Southeast Asia Seminar Series
Friday, Jan. 27
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
'Munk Centre For International Studies1 Devonshire Place
South House - The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility 154S
Involvement of the Public, Non-governmental and Private Sectors
in Knowledge Translation, Implementation and Scaling: A
Country Example from the Trenches
Speaker: Stanley Zlotkin (Professor of Paediatrics, Public Health Sciences and Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto)
Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto Schools, Canada Centre for Global Security Studies
Global Ideas Institute Speaker Series
Tuesday, Jan. 31
4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Page 12 of 27Asian Institute
DATE AND TIME EVENT LOCATION
September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2012
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 108N
Structural Violence and State Building in East Asia
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10804
Speaker: Tuong Vu (Visiting Research Fellow, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University; Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Oregon)
Chair: Todd Hall (Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto)
Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, Canada Centre for Global Security Studies
Co-Sponsored by:
Southeast Asia Seminar Series
Friday, Feb. 03
12:00 PM-2:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 108N
Anti-Corruption: The Breakdown
Speaker: Professor S. Sinha (Munk School of Global Affairs)
Speaker: Sunil Sheoran (India Against Corruption)
South Asian Development Council, Indian Student Society, Asian Institute
Co-Sponsored by:
Friday, Feb. 03
4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Nation and Region: Okakura Kakuzo, Rabindranath Tagore and
Contemporary East Asia
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11467
Speaker: C. J. W.-L. Wee (Associate Professor of English, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Chair: Takashi Fujitani (Dr. David Chu Professor and Director in Asia Pacific Studies; Professor of History, University of Toronto)
Asian Institute, Centre for South Asian Studies, East Asia Seminar Series
Co-Sponsored by:
Dr. David Chu Community Network in Asia Pacific Studies
Sponsored by:
Reimagining the Asia-Pacific Series
Thursday, Feb. 09
11:00 AM-1:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 108N
The Effects of Internet Activism on Protest Policing in China
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10787
Speaker: Guobin Yang (Associate Professor, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures and Department of Sociology, Barnard College, Columbia University)
Chair: Lynette Ong (Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto)
Critical China Studies Group, Canada Centre for Global Security Studies
Co-Sponsored by:
East Asia Seminar Series
Friday, Feb. 10
12:00 PM-2:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Coming of Age: Body, Number and Child Protection in Late
Colonial India
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Main Sponsor: Centre for South Asian Studies
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11274
Speaker: Ishita Pande (Assistant Professor of South Asian History, Queen’s University)
Respondent: Michelle Murphy (Acting Director of the Women and Gender Studies Institute, and Co-Coordinator of the History and Theory Group, University of Toronto)
Asian Institute, History and Theory Working Group
Co-Sponsored by:
Friday, Feb. 10
12:00 PM-2:00 PM
Page 13 of 27Asian Institute
DATE AND TIME EVENT LOCATION
September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2012
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Large Hydropower Dams, Fish Migrations, Livelihoods, State
Territorialization, and Geopolitics in the Mekong River Basin
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10515
Speaker: Ian G. Baird (Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Chair: Tania Li (Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto; Canada Research Chair in the Political-Economy and Culture of Asia-Pacific)
Department of Geography, University of TorontoCo-Sponsored by:
Southeast Asia Seminar Series
Friday, Feb. 10
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Munk Centre For International Studies1 Devonshire Place
New Models for Financing Innovative Technologies and
Entrepreneurship in the Global South
Speaker: Murray Metcalfe (Professor, Globalization in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto)
Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto Schools, Canada Centre for Global Security Studies
Global Ideas Institute Speaker Series
Tuesday, Feb. 14
4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Pan-Asia Career Panel II Featuring U of T Alumni
Register online at:
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11112
Speaker: Tony Wong (Journalist, The Toronto Star)
Speaker: Jon Silva (Senior Development Officer, Canadian International Development Agency)
Speaker: Jing Jing Chang (Assistant Professor, Department of English and Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University)
Moderator: Betty Xie (President, Pan-Asia Student Society)
Asian InstituteCo-Sponsored by:
Pan-Asia Student Society (PASS)Sponsored by:
Thursday, Feb. 16
3:00 PM-5:00 PM
PLEASE NOTE THE LOCATION: Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, 8th floor, 130 St. George St., University of Toronto
Pan-Chinese Patriotism and Postwar Hong Kong’s Cantonese
Cinema
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11648
Speaker: Jing Jing Chang (Assistant Professor, Department of English and Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University)
Chair: Bart Testa (Cinema Studies, University of Toronto)
Discussant: Jessica Li (Faculty Associate, York Centre for Asian Research, York University)
Asian Institute, Dr. David Chu Community Network in Asia Pacific Studies, University of Toronto Libraries, Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office
Co-Sponsored by:
Richard Charles Lee Canada Hong Kong Library, Pan-Asia Student Society (PASS)
Sponsored by:
East Asia Seminar Series
Friday, Feb. 17
10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 108N
The Death Penalty and Institutional Reform in China
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10841
Speaker: Stephen Noakes (SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow, Asian Institute)
Chair: William Hurst (Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto)
East Asia Seminar Series
Friday, Feb. 17
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Page 14 of 27Asian Institute
DATE AND TIME EVENT LOCATION
September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2012
Innis Town Hall, Innis College at the University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Avenue (south of Bloor at St. George)
In Conversation with the Filmmakers of SNOW
Registration: No registration required; FREE ADMISSION
Speaker: Rohan Fernando (Film Director)
Speaker: Kalista Zackhariyas (Lead Character)
Speaker: Suzanne Lively (Film Producer)
Asian Institute, Sutram Pictures, Pan Asia Student Society (PASS), Cinema Studies Student Union (CINSSU), Centre for South Asian Studies
Co-Sponsored by:
Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, Cinema Studies Institute
Sponsored by:
Monday, Feb. 27
4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Narrating the Previous Lives of the Buddha in 14th Century
Tibetan Murals
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11285
Speaker: Sarah Richardson (PhD Candidate, Department of Art History, University of Toronto)
Discussant: Amanda Goodman (Department for the Study of Religion)
Asian Institute PhD Seminar Series
Tuesday, Feb. 28
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 108N
The Last Train Home: Migrant Workers in China and Southeast
Asia
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11377
Panelist: Alana Boland (Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Toronto)
Panelist: William Hurst (Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto)
Panelist: Rachel Silvey (Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Toronto)
Asian Institute, Dr. David Chu Community Network in Asia Pacific Studies
Co-Sponsored by:
Pan Asia Student Society (PASS)Sponsored by:
Friday, Mar. 02
10:00 AM-2:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 108N
Kiss and Censor: Redactionary Aesthetics in Transwar Japan
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10546
Speaker: Jonathan Abel (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Japanese, Penn State University)
Chair: Takashi Fujitani (Dr. David Chu Professor and Director in Asia Pacific Studies; Professor of History, University of Toronto)
Dr. David Chu Community Network in Asia Pacific Studies, Asian Institute
Co-Sponsored by:
East Asia Seminar Series
Friday, Mar. 02
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Munk Centre For International Studies1 Devonshire Place
South House - The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility 154S
Bearing Witness: Documenting China's Rise
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11592
Speaker: Ryan Pyle (Award winning documentary photographer)
Chair: Joseph Wong (Canada Research Chair, Department of Political Science and Director, Asian Institute, University of Toronto)
McGill University, University of Alberta, University of British Columbia, University of Manitoba, University of Ottawa
Co-Sponsored by:
Asian Institute, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, Mandarin House Language School
Sponsored by:
Celebrating the Tenth Anniversary of Asian
Heritage Month
Friday, Mar. 02
6:00 PM-9:00 PM
Page 15 of 27Asian Institute
DATE AND TIME EVENT LOCATION
September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2012
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 108N
Roundtable on Current Affairs in China
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11764
Panelist: Loren Brandt (Professor, Department of Economics, University of Toronto)
Panelist: Victor Falkenheim (Professor Emeriti, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto)
Panelist: William Hurst (Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto)
East Asia Seminar Series
Tuesday, Mar. 06
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs - 1 Devonshire Place
South House - The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility 154S
Blind Spots in the Welfare State: Lessons from the Global South
Speaker: Joseph Wong (Canada Research Chair, Political Science; Director, Asian Institute, University of Toronto)
Canada Centre for Global Security StudiesCanada Centre for
Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto Schools
Co-Sponsored by:
Global Ideas Institute Speaker Series
Tuesday, Mar. 06
4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Music Room, Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, University of Toronto
INDePth - "Interrogating Notions of Development and Progress"
Conference
Registration: Please register here: http://indepthconference.eventbrite.com/
http://indepthconference.wordpress.com/
Asian Institute, Canada Centre for Global Security Studies, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Dr. David Chu Community Network in Asia Pacific Studies
Co-Sponsored by:
Pan-Asia Student Society (PASS)Sponsored by:
Friday, Mar. 09
11:00 AM-4:00 PM
PLEASE NOTE THE LOCATION: Room 3130, 3rd Floor, Sidney Smith Hall, Department of Political Science, 100 St. George Street, University of Toronto
Crude Ambitions: The Internationalization of Emerging Country
NOCs
Speaker: Pauline Jones Luong (Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan)
Department of Political Science, Canada Center for Global Security Studies, Asian Institute
Co-Sponsored by:
Friday, Mar. 09
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Music Room, Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, University of Toronto
INDePth - "Interrogating Notions of Development and Progress"
Conference
Registration: Please register here: http://indepthconference.eventbrite.com/
http://indepthconference.wordpress.com/
Asian Institute, Canada Centre for Global Security Studies, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Dr. David Chu Community Network in Asia Pacific Studies
Co-Sponsored by:
Pan-Asia Student Society (PASS)Sponsored by:
Saturday, Mar. 10
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
East Asian Departmnet, 14th Floor, Robarts Library, University of Toronto
Deception: The University of Toronto 12th Annual East Asian
Studies Graduate Student Conference
http://groups.chass.utoronto.ca/easgsc/
Keynote: Dr. James Keith Vincent (Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature, Boston University)
Asian InstituteCo-Sponsored by:
Saturday, Mar. 10
9:30 AM-7:00 PM
Page 16 of 27Asian Institute
DATE AND TIME EVENT LOCATION
September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2012
J.J.R. MacLeod Auditorium (MS2158), University of Toronto, 1 King’s College Circle
The 30th Annual Ontario Japanese Speech Contest
http://buna.arts.yorku.ca/ojsc
Consulate General of Japan, Asian InstituteCo-Sponsored by:
The Organizing Committee for the Ontario Japanese Speech Contest (Department of East Asia Studies, University of Toronto), Japan Foundation
Sponsored by:
Saturday, Mar. 10
1:00 PM-6:00 PM
Music Room, Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, University of Toronto
INDePth - "Interrogating Notions of Development and Progress"
Conference
Registration: Please register here: http://indepthconference.eventbrite.com/
http://indepthconference.wordpress.com/
Asian Institute, Canada Centre for Global Security Studies, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Dr. David Chu Community Network in Asia Pacific Studies
Co-Sponsored by:
Pan-Asia Student Society (PASS)Sponsored by:
Sunday, Mar. 11
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs - 1 Devonshire Place
South House - The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility 154S
Pali Practices of the Self
Register online at:
Main Sponsor: University of Toronto
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10892
Speaker: Steven Collins (Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities, University of Chicago)
Asian Institute, Centre for South Asian StudiesCo-Sponsored by:
Sunday, Mar. 11
6:00 PM-8:00 PM
University of Toronto,Faculty Club,41 Wilcocks Street
THERAVADA CIVILIZATIONS: Thematic Continuities and
Vernacular Appropriations
Henry Luce Foundation, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Asian Institute
Co-Sponsored by:
The University of Toronto / McMaster University Yehan Numata Buddhist Studies Program
Sponsored by:
Monday, Mar. 12
9:00 AM-5:30 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Places and Pathways of China's Urban Development
Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Geography & Planning, Asian Institute
Co-Sponsored by:
Monday, Mar. 12
12:00 PM-1:30 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
The Disagreement of Being, A Critique of Life and Vitality in the
Meiji Era
Register online at:
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11398
Speaker: Sean Koji Callaghan (PhD Candidate, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto)
Discussant: Takashi Fujitani (Dr. David Chu Professor and Director in Asia Pacific Studies; Professor of History, University of Toronto)
Asian Institute PhD Seminar Series
Monday, Mar. 12
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
University of Toronto,Faculty Club,41 Wilcocks Street
THERAVADA CIVILIZATIONS: Thematic Continuities and
Vernacular Appropriations
Henry Luce Foundation, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Asian Institute
Co-Sponsored by:
The University of Toronto / McMaster University Yehan Numata Buddhist Studies Program
Sponsored by:
Tuesday, Mar. 13
9:00 AM-5:30 PM
Page 17 of 27Asian Institute
DATE AND TIME EVENT LOCATION
September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2012
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Problematizing the ’New’ India: A Political Economy Perspective
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Main Sponsor: Centre for South Asian Studies
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11255
Speaker: Anthony P. D'Costa (Professor of Indian Studies, Asia Research Centre, Copenhagen Business School)
Chair: Zaheer Baber (Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto)
Asian InstituteCo-Sponsored by:
Tuesday, Mar. 13
3:00 PM-5:00 PM
NOTE THE LOCATION: Room 6029, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George Street, University of Toronto
Before and After Superflat: Contemporary Art in the Post-Bubble,
Post-Disaster Society
http://www.art.utoronto.ca/news-and-events/east-asia-conference
Speaker: Adrian Favell (Professor of Sociology, Sciences Po, Paris)
Asian InstituteCo-Sponsored by:
Department of Art, University of Toronto, Seminar in East Asian Art
Sponsored by:
Wednesday, Mar. 14
12:00 PM-2:00 PM
JHB318, Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St. George St.
Les Vietnamiens dans les pays occidentaux: Acteurs et relais
dans les
efforts pour une réconciliation (inachevée)
Speaker: Nguyen Ngoc Giao (Professor Emeritus, University Paris VII)
Asian Institute, Canada Center for Global Security Studies
Co-Sponsored by:
Centre for Diaspora and Transnational StudiesSponsored by:
Wednesday, Mar. 14
4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
The Problem of the Second Book
Register online at:
Main Sponsor: Centre for South Asian Studies
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11706
Speaker: Ken Wissoker (Editorial Director, Duke University Press)
Chair: Ritu Birla (Professor, Department of History and Director, CSAS, University of Toronto)
Asian Institute, Dr. David Chu Community Network in Asia Pacific Studies, Centre for the Study of the United States
Co-Sponsored by:
Wednesday, Mar. 14
5:30 PM-7:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Pre Association for Asian Studies Conference Workshop:
In/secure intimacies: Inter-Asian Migrations in the Shadow of the
State
Centre for South Asian Studies, Canada Centre for Global Security Studies, Dr. David Chu Community Network in Asia Pacific Studies
Co-Sponsored by:
Thursday, Mar. 15
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
Toronto III Room, Hilton Hotel, 145 Richmond Street West
AAS Conference | Koreanists' Reception
Asian Institute, Centre for the Study of Korea, Korea Foundation
Co-Sponsored by:
Thursday, Mar. 15
6:00 PM-8:00 PM
Civic Ballroom South, Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, 123 Queen Street West, Toronto
AAS Conference | Roundtable and Reception | Speculating on
Asian Studies
Friday, Mar. 16
7:30 PM-9:30 PM
Page 18 of 27Asian Institute
DATE AND TIME EVENT LOCATION
September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2012
Dominion Ballroom South, Second Floor, Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, 123 Queen Street West, Toronto
AAS Conference | Everyday Life in North Korea: Socialism and
Mass Utopia
Main Sponsor: Centre for the Study of Korea
Asian InstituteCo-Sponsored by:
Saturday, Mar. 17
6:30 PM-8:30 PM
Dufferin Room, Second Floor, Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, 123 Queen Street West, Toronto
AAS Conference | The Historical Landscape of North Korea
through Cultural History
Main Sponsor: Centre for the Study of Korea
Asian InstituteCo-Sponsored by:
Sunday, Mar. 18
8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, 8th floor, 130 St. George St., University of Toronto
China’s Macao SAR: 12 Years of Breakthrough & Transformation
Registration: MORNING SESSIONS REGISTRATION <br /> To register, please click on the following link: <a href="http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=11826">http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=11826</a> <br /> <br /> LUNCH REGISTRATION <br /> To register, please click on the following link: <a href="http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=11827">http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=11827</a> <br /> <br /> AFTERNOON SESSIONS REGISTRATION <br /> To register, please click on the following link: <a href="http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=11828">http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=11828</a>
The International Institute of Macau, Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute, Asian Institute
University of Macau, University of TorontoSponsored by:
Monday, Mar. 19
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
NOTE THE LOCATION: Room 3130, 3rd Floor, Sidney Smith Hall, Department of Political Science, 100 St. George Street, University of Toronto
Relational Repression in China: Using Social Ties to Demobilize
Protesters
Register online at:
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10850
Speaker: Kevin O'Brien (Alann P. Bedford Professor of Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley)
Chair: William Hurst (Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto)
Canada Centre for Global Security StudiesCo-Sponsored by:
East Asia Seminar Series
Monday, Mar. 19
3:00 PM-5:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Constructing Commonality: Standardization and Modernization in
Chinese Nation-Building
Register online at:
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11770
Speaker: Andrew Kipnis (Senior Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Australian National University)
Chair: Yiching Wu (Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto)
Critical China Studies Group, Department of East Asian Studies
East Asia Seminar Series
Tuesday, Mar. 20
12:00 PM-2:00 PM
Page 19 of 27Asian Institute
DATE AND TIME EVENT LOCATION
September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2012
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Bootstraps Capitalism and Housing Aid in East Asia, 1949-1960
Register online at:
Main Sponsor: Centre for the Study of Korea
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11399
Speaker: Nancy Kwak (Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of California, San Diego)
Chair: Andre Schmid (Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto)
Asian InstituteCo-Sponsored by:
Thursday, Mar. 22
12:00 PM-2:00 PM
Blue room (SF 1105), Sandford Fleming Building, University of Toronto
The 6th Annual Toronto Korean Speech Contest
http://www.utoronto.ca/csk/speech/
Centre for the Study of Korea, Asian Institute, Consulate General of Republic of Korea in Toronto, Korean Education Centre in Canada, Korea Tourism Organization, Korean Canadian Cultural Association of the G.T.A, The Korea Times Daily, Korean Language & Culture Center, Korea University, Samsung Electronics Canada, Inc., Galleria Supermarket in Toronto, Korean Air
The Organizing Committee for the 6th Annual Toronto Korean Speech Contest (Korean Programs at University of Toronto, York University, University of Western Ontario)
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Saturday, Mar. 24
12:30 PM-5:30 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Roundtable on Takashi Fujitani’s New Book, Race for Empire:
Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans in WWII (UC
Press, 2011)
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11559
Speaker: Takashi Fujitani (Professor of History and the Dr. David Chu Professor and Director in Asia Pacific Studies, University of Toronto)
Commentator: Ken Kawashima (Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto)
Commentator: Andre Schmid (Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto)
Commentator: Moon-Ho Jung (Associate Professor and Walker Family Endowed Professor of History, University of Washington)
Chair: Elspeth Brown (Director of the Centre for the Study of the United States and Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Toronto)
Monday, Mar. 26
4:00 PM-6:00 PM
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DATE AND TIME EVENT LOCATION
September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2012
Munk School of Global Affairs - 1 Devonshire Place
South House - The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility 154S
Rising Innovation Capacity in the Asia-Pacific: What Does it Mean
for Canada?
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Main Sponsor: Munk School of Global Affairs
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11817
Speaker: Prof. Janice Stein (Director, Munk School of Global Affairs)
Speaker: Prof. Atsushi Sunami (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan)
Speaker: Mr. Yuen Pau Woo (President and CEO, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada)
Speaker: Dr. Rahim Rezaie (Post Doctoral Fellow, Munk Shool of Global Affairs and Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada)
Speaker: Prof. Joseph Wong (Director, Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs)
Moderator: Douglas Gould (Director, National Conversation on Asia and Senior Editor, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada)
The Munk School of Global Affairs, The Japan Foundation, The Rotman School of Management, Asian Institute
Co-Sponsored by:
The National Conversation on Asia – Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
Sponsored by:
Tuesday, Mar. 27
9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Who is a Brahmin? Some Questions Linked to the Spread of
Brahmanism
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11446
Speaker: Johannes Bronkhorst (Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, University of Lausanne)
Chair: Arti Dhand (Associate Professor, Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto)
Centre for South Asian Studies, Asian InstituteCo-Sponsored by:
Department for the Study of Religion, Yehan Numata Buddhist Studies Program
Sponsored by:
Tuesday, Mar. 27
10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Subversive Histories: Race, National Security, and Empire Across
the Pacific
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11561
Speaker: Moon-Ho Jung (Associate Professor and Walker Family Endowed Professor of History, University of Washington)
Chair: Takashi Fujitani (Professor of History and the Dr. David Chu Professor and Director in Asia Pacific Studies, University of Toronto)
Department of History, University of Toronto, Centre for the Study of United States, Asian Institute, Centre for South Asian Studies, Canada Centre for Global Security Studies
Co-Sponsored by:
Dr. David Chu Community Network in Asia Pacific Studies
Sponsored by:
Tuesday, Mar. 27
3:00 PM-5:00 PM
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DATE AND TIME EVENT LOCATION
September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2012
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 108N
Transformations of Voice in Christian South Korea
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Main Sponsor: Centre for the Study of Korea
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11319
Speaker: Nicholas Harkness (Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University)
Chair: Ito Peng (Professor, Department of Sociology; Associate Dean, Interdisciplinary & International Affairs, Faculty of Arts and Science; Interim Director, Centre for the Study of Korea)
Asian InstituteCo-Sponsored by:
Thursday, Mar. 29
3:00 PM-5:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs - 1 Devonshire Place
South House - The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility 154S
Not a Drop to Drink: Water Scarcity and Politics in the 21st
century
Main Sponsor: Master of Global Affairs
http://www.munkschool.utoronto.ca/mgc/
Munk School of Global Affairs, Master of Global Affairs Program, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Canada Center for Global Security Studies, Asian Institute, School of Graduate Studies, Graduate Students' Union
Thursday, Mar. 29
5:30 PM-8:30 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs - 1 Devonshire Place
South House - The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility 154S
Not a Drop to Drink: Water Scarcity and Politics in the 21st
century
Main Sponsor: Master of Global Affairs
http://www.munkschool.utoronto.ca/mgc/
Munk School of Global Affairs, Master of Global Affairs Program, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Canada Center for Global Security Studies, Asian Institute, School of Graduate Studies, Graduate Students' Union
Co-Sponsored by:
Friday, Mar. 30
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Urban Planning for Creating Complete Communities: Graduate
Research Presentations
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Main Sponsor: Centre for the Study of Korea
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11427
Speaker: Thomas Beck (Graduate Student, Master of Science in Planning Program, University of Toronto)
Speaker: Anna Iannucci (Graduate Student, Master of Science in Planning Program, University of Toronto)
Speaker: Dukhee Nam (Graduate Student, Master of Science in Planning Program, University of Toronto)
Asian InstituteCo-Sponsored by:
Tuesday, Apr. 03
12:00 PM-2:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Small Works: Poverty and Economic Development in
Southwestern China
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11677
Speaker: John Donaldson (Associate Professor of Political Science, School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University)
Chair: William Hurst (Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto)
East Asia Seminar Series
Monday, Apr. 09
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
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DATE AND TIME EVENT LOCATION
September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2012
Munk Centre For International Studies1 Devonshire Place
South House - The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility 154S
On Descent: Stories from the Gurus of Modern India
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Main Sponsor: Centre for South Asian Studies
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11861
Speaker: Leela Gandhi (Professor of English, University of Chicago; Founding coeditor of the journal Postcolonial Studies)
Chair: Ritu Birla (Department of History and Director, CSAS, University of Toronto)
Dr. David Chu Community Network in Asia Pacific Studies, Department of History, University of Toronto, Asian Institute, Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, Department of English, University of Toronto
Co-Sponsored by:
2011-12 Christopher Ondaatje Lecture on
South Asian Art, History, and Culture
Thursday, Apr. 12
4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 023N
PASS | Korean Language ExchangeFriday, Apr. 13
1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Indie Docs in India: Aesthetics, Politics and the Practice of
Filming-Making
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11625
Speaker: Surabhi Sharma (Independent documentary filmmaker)
Chair: Kajri Jain (Associate Professor, Visual Studies, UTM & Department of Fine Art, University of Toronto)
Centre for South Asian Studies, South Asian Development Council, Asian Institute
Co-Sponsored by:
Monday, Apr. 16
2:00 PM-6:00 PM
Interior Corridor, Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place
Global Ideas Institute: Student Approaches to Reinventing the
Toilet | Poster Exhibition
University of Toronto SchoolsCo-Sponsored by:
Tuesday, Apr. 17
9:00 AM-4:00 PM
Victoria UniversityUniversity of Toronto
Early Modern Migrations: Exiles, Expulsion, and Religious
Refugees 1400-1700
http://migrations.crrs.ca/
Asian Institute, Centre for South Asian Studies
Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto
Sponsored by:
Thursday, Apr. 19
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
Victoria UniversityUniversity of Toronto
Early Modern Migrations: Exiles, Expulsion, and Religious
Refugees 1400-1700
http://migrations.crrs.ca/
Asian Institute, Centre for South Asian StudiesCo-Sponsored by:
Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto
Sponsored by:
Friday, Apr. 20
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
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DATE AND TIME EVENT LOCATION
September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2012
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 108N
ASIAN FUTURES RESEARCH CLUSTER: Technologies,
Infrastructures and the Imagination of Asian Futures
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11636
Speaker: Joseph Wong (Director, Asian Institute; Professor and Canada Research Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto)
Speaker: Ken Kawashima (Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto)
Speaker: David Butz (Professor, Department of Geography, Brock University)
Speaker: Nancy Cook (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Brock University)
Friday, Apr. 20
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Victoria UniversityUniversity of Toronto
Early Modern Migrations: Exiles, Expulsion, and Religious
Refugees 1400-1700
http://migrations.crrs.ca/
Asian Institute, Centre for South Asian StudiesCo-Sponsored by:
Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto
Sponsored by:
Saturday, Apr. 21
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 108N
In the Gaze of Democracy: Perspectives on 2012 Taiwan Election
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11857
Tuesday, Apr. 24
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Global China: Changing Identities, Changing Policy
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11833
Speaker: Jia Qingguo (Professor & Associate Dean, School of International Studies, Peking University)
Chair: Joseph Wong (Director, Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs; Canada Research Chair, Political Science, University of Toronto)
Munk School of Global AffairsCo-Sponsored by:
Friday, Apr. 27
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Transformation of Colonial City: The Case of Sri Lanka
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Main Sponsor: Centre for South Asian Studies
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11975
Speaker: Harsha Munasinghe (Professor of Architecture, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka)
Chair: Kanishka Goonewardena (Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Director, Program in Planning, University of Toronto)
Asian InstituteCo-Sponsored by:
Thursday, May. 03
4:00 PM-6:00 PM
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DATE AND TIME EVENT LOCATION
September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2012
Munk Centre For International Studies1 Devonshire Place
South House - The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility 154S
Rebranding Ethnic Conflict: Sri Lanka 2009
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Main Sponsor: Centre for South Asian Studies
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11862
Speaker: Frances Harrison (Former BBC TV correspondent, Colombo, Sri Lanka, recently Head of News for Amnesty International, and author of the soon to be released book, Still Counting the Dead (Portobello Books))
Chair: Naheed Mustafa (Award-winning freelance foreign affairs journalist and CBC show producer for Dispatches and The Current)
Journalism Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, South Asian Journalists' Association, Toronto Chapter, Asian Institute, Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
Co-Sponsored by:
South Asia in the Media
Thursday, May. 10
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
William Doo Auditorium and Wilson Hall (Rooms 523 and 524), New College, University of Toronto, 40 Willcocks Street
The Seventh Annual Tamil Studies Conference: Traces of the Past
http://www.tamilstudiesconference.ca/
Asian Institute, University of Windsor, French Institute of Pondicherry, New College, University of Toronto, Centre for South Asian Studies, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
Co-Sponsored by:
Friday, May. 11
1:00 PM-8:30 PM
William Doo Auditorium and Wilson Hall (Rooms 523 and 524), New College, University of Toronto, 40 Willcocks Street
The Seventh Annual Tamil Studies Conference: Traces of the Past
http://www.tamilstudiesconference.ca/
Asian Institute, University of Windsor, French Institute of Pondicherry, New College, University of Toronto, Centre for South Asian Studies, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
Co-Sponsored by:
Saturday, May. 12
9:00 AM-8:00 PM
Music Room, Hart House, University of Toronto
North House - Room 108N
A Japan-Canada Symposium on Knowledge Sharing, Local
Governance, and Resilience in Food Systems
Register online at:
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11430
http://japanfoodresilience.ca/
Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Kyoto University, Japan Ministry of Education, Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs, CIDEC, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto Food Strategy, Toronto Public Health, Toronto Food Policy Council, Asian Institute
Co-Sponsored by:
Food Policy Research Initiative (FPRI)Organizered by:
Wednesday, May. 16
10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Music Room, Hart House, University of Toronto
A Japan-Canada Symposium on Knowledge Sharing, Local
Governance, and Resilience in Food Systems
Register online at:
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11430
http://japanfoodresilience.ca/
Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Kyoto University, Japan Ministry of Education, Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs, CIDEC, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto Food Strategy, Toronto Public Health, Toronto Food Policy Council, Asian Institute
Co-Sponsored by:
Food Policy Research Initiative (FPRI)Organizered by:
Thursday, May. 17
7:00 PM-9:30 PM
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DATE AND TIME EVENT LOCATION
September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2012
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
Korea in the 21st Century
Register online at:
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=12217
Speaker: Dr. Un-Chan Chung (Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea from 2009 to 2010)
Centre for Contemporary International History, Asian Institute, Centre for the Study of Korea, National Conversation on Asia / Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
Co-Sponsored by:
Friday, Jun. 01
10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 108N
Indonesia: Challenges to the World’s Largest Muslim Democracy
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http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=12288
Speaker: R. William Liddle (Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Ohio State University)
Southeast Asia Seminar Series
Wednesday, Jun. 20
3:00 PM-5:00 PM
Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, 8th floor, 130 St. George St., University of Toronto
Brilliance, Virtuosity and Creativity on Stage: From the Golden
Age of Cantonese Opera to the Contemporary Theatrical Arts in
Hong Kong
Register online at:
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=12286
Asian Institute, Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, University of Toronto Libraries, Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (Canada), Hong Kong Canada Business Association, Performing Arts Centre
Co-Sponsored by:
Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Asian Heritage Month and
the 15th Anniversary of the Establishment of
the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Friday, Jun. 22
3:00 PM-5:00 PM
Innis Town Hall, Innis College at the University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Avenue (south of Bloor at St. George)
Toronto Korean Film Festival
http://tkff.ca/
Asian Institute, Dr. David Chu Community Network in Asia Pacific Studies, Centre for the Study of Korea
Co-Sponsored by:
Friday, Jun. 22
7:00 PM-11:00 PM
Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, 8th floor, 130 St. George St., University of Toronto
Brilliance, Virtuosity and Creativity on Stage: From the Golden
Age of Cantonese Opera to the Contemporary Theatrical Arts in
Hong Kong
Register online at:
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=12286
Asian Institute, Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, University of Toronto Libraries, Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (Canada), Hong Kong Canada Business Association, Performing Arts Centre
Co-Sponsored by:
Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Asian Heritage Month and
the 15th Anniversary of the Establishment of
the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Saturday, Jun. 23
12:00 PM-5:00 PM
Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, 8th floor, 130 St. George St., University of Toronto
Brilliance, Virtuosity and Creativity on Stage: From the Golden
Age of Cantonese Opera to the Contemporary Theatrical Arts in
Hong Kong
Register online at:
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=12286
Asian Institute, Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, University of Toronto Libraries, Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (Canada), Hong Kong Canada Business Association, Performing Arts Centre
Co-Sponsored by:
Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Asian Heritage Month and
the 15th Anniversary of the Establishment of
the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Sunday, Jun. 24
12:00 PM-5:00 PM
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DATE AND TIME EVENT LOCATION
September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2012
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
North House - Room 208N
South Korea – Ontario Health System Symposium
Asian Institute, Centre for the Study of Korea, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
Co-Sponsored by:
Tuesday, Jul. 10
9:00 AM-5:00 PM
Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto
4th Annual Shinsedai Cinema Festival | Opening Screening:
Ringing in Their Ears
Registration: Please buy tickets at http://shinsedai.ca/tickets
http://shinsedai.ca/films/ringing-in-their-ears
Asian Institute, Dr. David Chu Programme in Asia Pacific Studies
Co-Sponsored by:
Shinsedai Cinema FestivalSponsored by:
Thursday, Jul. 12
7:00 PM-9:00 PM
Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto
4th Annual Shinsedai Cinema Festival
Registration: Please buy tickets here: http://shinsedai.ca/tickets
http://shinsedai.ca/
Asian Institute, Dr. David Chu Programme in Asia Pacific Studies
Co-Sponsored by:
Shinsedai Cinema FestivalSponsored by:
Friday, Jul. 13
7:00 PM-11:00 PM
Munk School of Global Affairs1 Devonshire Place
South House - The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility 154S
China's Impact on the Global and Regional Order
Register online at:
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=12411
Speaker: The Honourable Kevin Rudd (Australia’s 26th Prime Minister 2007-2010; Australia’s Foreign Minister 2010-2012)
Chair: Joseph Wong (Canada Research Chair, Department of Political Science and Director, Asian Institute, University of Toronto)
Canada Centre for Global Security Studies, Asian Institute
Co-Sponsored by:
Monday, Jul. 23
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Office of International Affairs, SickKids, 7th Floor Conference Room, 525 University Avenue (SE corner of University & Elm)
Public Hospital Reform in China
Speaker: Yingyao Chen (Professor of Health Services and Assistant to the Dean, School of Public Health, Fudan University; Deputy Director, Department of Hospital Management; Deputy Director, National Key Lab of Health Technology Assessment)
Moderator: Joseph Wong (Professor and Canada Research Chair, Political Science; Director, Asian Institute, University of Toronto)
Peter A Silverman Centre for International Health, Mount Sinai Hospital, The Office of International Affairs, Hospital for Sick Children, Global Health Division, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Asian Institute, Comparative Program of Health and Society
Co-Sponsored by:
Tuesday, Aug. 21
12:00 PM-1:00 PM
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