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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

Register online at:

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



China Awash in Debt: State Liabilities and Monetary and Welfare

Implications

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Speaker: Victor Shih (Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University)



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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Kings and the Rebellious Monks: Buddhism and Political Conflict

in Cambodia

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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



Markets and Bodies: Women, Service Work, and the Making of

Inequality in China

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Speaker: Eileen Otis (Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Oregon)

Dr. David Chu Community Network in Asia Pacific Studies

Co-Sponsored by:


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


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?


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

Co-Sponsored by:

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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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:


Monday, Sep. 26

2:00 PM-4:00 PM






Maternalist Internationalism: China's Original Soft Power

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Speaker: Kim Manning (Associate Professor of Political Science, Concordia University)

Canada Centre for Global Security StudiesCo-Sponsored by:


Tuesday, Sep. 27

2:00 PM-4:00 PM



Dana: The Perils of the Gift

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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


Centre for South Asian Studies, Asian InstituteCo-Sponsored 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




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



China, Japan and Cooperation in East Asia’s Maritime Order

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Speaker: James Manicom (Asian Institute Affiliate; SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow; Balsillie School of International Affairs)


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






Bi-annual Meeting of the Canadian Council for Southeast Asian

Studies

Friday, Oct. 14

9:00 AM-7:00 PM



Bi-annual Meeting of the Canadian Council for Southeast Asian

Studies

Saturday, Oct. 15

9:00 AM-5:00 PM



Transforming Southeast Asia: Dissertation Workshop

Canada Research Chairs Program, Asian Institute

Co-Sponsored by:

Monday, Oct. 17

9:00 AM-5:00 PM



Transforming Southeast Asia: Dissertation Workshop

Canada Research Chairs Program, Asian Institute

Co-Sponsored by:

Tuesday, Oct. 18

9:00 AM-5:00 PM


The China Challenge: Sino-Canadian Relations in the 21st Century


Asian Institute, University of Toronto Libraries, York Centre for Asian Research

Co-Sponsored by:

Book Launch

Tuesday, Oct. 18

10:00 AM-1:00 PM



From Impunity to Accountability? The Khmer Rouge Tribunal

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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

Co-Sponsored by:

An Exhibition and Symposium

Tuesday, Oct. 18

11:30 AM-2:30 PM



Documenting China: Being a Professional Photographer in the

Middle Kingdom

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Speaker: Ryan Pyle (Award winning documentary photographer)


Wednesday, Oct. 19

4:00 PM-6:00 PM



Global Ideas Institute: Health Innovations in the Global South |

Orientation


Thursday, Oct. 20

3:30 PM-6:30 PM






Elections and the Ethnic Vote: Numbers Lottery or Political

Representation?

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Main Sponsor: Centre for South Asian Studies


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



Open Labor Markets vs. Workplace Participation: Lessons of

Market Reform in China

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Speaker: Joel Andreas (Associate Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University)

Critical China Studies GroupCo-Sponsored by:


Friday, Oct. 21

2:00 PM-4:00 PM



Bhakti: A Phenomenological Analysis of Aesthetic Experience in

Jainism

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Speaker: Kamini Gogri (Coordinator of Jainology courses at Mumbai University)

Chair: Chelva Kanaganayakam (Professor, Department of English, University of Toronto)


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



FILM WEEKEND CONFERENCE KEYNOTE LECTURE | Cuisine,

Commerce and Cultural Poetics: Night Markets in Taiwan

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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




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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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


EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN | Taiwanese Cuisine: Intimate Politics

in Film

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Cinema Studies Institute, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, Toronto, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, Pan-Asia Student Society (PASS)

Co-Sponsored by:

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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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)

Co-Sponsored by:

Saturday, Oct. 22

5:00 PM-7:00 PM


KUEI-MEI, A WOMAN | Taiwanese Cuisine: Intimate Politics in

Film

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Cinema Studies Institute, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Toronto, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, Pan Asia Student Society (PASS)

Co-Sponsored by:

Saturday, Oct. 22

8:00 PM-10:30 PM



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



'Debate Which Destroys the Crazy Elephant': Mongolian

Scholastic Encounters with Inner Asian Modernities at the turn of

the Twentieth Century

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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)


Thursday, Oct. 27

12:00 PM-2:00 PM






Writing Empire's Garden: Assam and the Making of India

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Speaker: Jayeeta Sharma (Assistant Professor of History, University of Toronto)

Chair: Ritu Birla (Department of History and Director, CSAS, University of Toronto)


Friday, Oct. 28

12:00 PM-2:00 PM



Writing into the Unknown

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Speaker: Rana Dasgupta (Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize)

Chair: Nais Dave (Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto)


Friday, Oct. 28

2:00 PM-4:00 PM



Self-Reliance, Courtesy of Beijing: Sino-Democratic Kampuchean

Relations and the Politics of Mutual Resistance

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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



From Male Renunciates to Nationalist Asceticism: Masculinity

and the Imagining of India

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Speaker: Chandrima Chakraborty (Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University)



Friday, Nov. 04

4:00 PM-6:00 PM



Trading Equality for Talent: The Troubled Turn in Korean K-12

Education

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Main Sponsor: Centre for the Study of Korea


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






Not All Candy: Complicated and Determined Youth in 2 Recent

Taiwan Independent Films

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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


Hong Kongers Living on the Mainland: A Force for Integration?

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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)


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


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)



Tuesday, Nov. 15

4:00 PM-6:00 PM



Whose Cultural Responsibility? Preferential Policies for

Indigenous Students in Taiwan

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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


North House - Common Room 202N

Fairchild Television | Chang-Ling Huang InterviewFriday, Nov. 18

2:00 PM-2:30 PM






PASS | Pan-Asia Career Panel I

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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)


Pan-Asia Student Society (PASS)Sponsored by:

Thursday, Nov. 24

3:00 PM-5:00 PM



Worlds of the Contemporary Global: Approaches from the Centre

For South Asian Studies Faculty

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Friday, Nov. 25

9:30 AM-5:45 PM



Why Taiwan Matters

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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



Asian Authoritarianism in the Age of Democracy

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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



State Power and Individual Coping Strategies: How Their

Interplay Has Shaped the Trajectory of China's Employment

System Change

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Speaker: Jing Shen (PhD candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto)

Discussant: Stephen Noakes (SSHRC post-doctoral fellow at the Asian Institute)


Tuesday, Nov. 29

2:00 PM-4:00 PM






Where Resource Frontiers and National Frontiers Interlock:

Agrarian Expansion, Resource Extraction and Sovereign Politics

on the Indonesian-Malaysian Frontier

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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)


Friday, Dec. 02

12:00 PM-2:00 PM



Male Homosexual Behaviours in China: Perspectives of Sex

Imbalance

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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)


Friday, Dec. 02

2:00 PM-4:00 PM


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


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



Integrative Thinking Approaches for Health Innovations in the

Global South

Speaker: Ellie Avishai (Director, I-Think Initiative, Rotman School of Management)


Co-Sponsored by:


Tuesday, Dec. 06

4:00 PM-6:00 PM



North Korea and East Asia after Kim Jong Il: Roundtable

Discussion with U of T Experts

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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:


Tuesday, Jan. 10

2:00 PM-4:00 PM






Collaborative Master’s Program in Asia- Pacific Studies

Information Session

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Chair: Hy Van Luong (Director, Master's in Asia-Pacific Studies; Professor, Department of Sociology)

Thursday, Jan. 12

2:00 PM-4:00 PM



On Race, Inequality and the Colonial Order: The Contemporary

Relevance of Rabindranath Tagore

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Speaker: Ananya Mukherjee-Reed (Professor and Chair of Political Science, York University)



Thursday, Jan. 19

12:00 PM-2:00 PM



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)



Thursday, Jan. 19

4:00 PM-6:00 PM



Gender, Sexuality and Islam under the Shadow of Empire

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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



“Engineering Fictions”: Constructions of Everyday Life in Early

Modern Korean Literature, 1910-1916

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Speaker: Jooyeon Rhee (Visiting Scholar at the Asian Institute)

Chair: Janet Poole (Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto)


Friday, Jan. 20

2:00 PM-4:00 PM



Living up to “Flower of Capitalism” Title: Advertising in

Contemporary South Korea

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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)


Tuesday, Jan. 24

12:00 PM-2:00 PM






Subversion, Citizenship and Belonging through Food and the

Vernacular in South Asian-Canadian Writing

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Speaker: Julie Mehta (Faculty, Canadian Studies Program, University of Toronto)



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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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:


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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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:


Friday, Jan. 27

2:00 PM-4:00 PM

'Munk Centre For International Studies1 Devonshire Place


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)



Tuesday, Jan. 31

4:00 PM-6:00 PM






Structural Violence and State Building in East Asia

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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:


Friday, Feb. 03

12:00 PM-2:00 PM



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



Nation and Region: Okakura Kakuzo, Rabindranath Tagore and

Contemporary East Asia

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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

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Reimagining the Asia-Pacific Series

Thursday, Feb. 09

11:00 AM-1:00 PM



The Effects of Internet Activism on Protest Policing in China

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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:


Friday, Feb. 10

12:00 PM-2:00 PM



Coming of Age: Body, Number and Child Protection in Late

Colonial India

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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






Large Hydropower Dams, Fish Migrations, Livelihoods, State

Territorialization, and Geopolitics in the Mekong River Basin

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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:


Friday, Feb. 10

2:00 PM-4:00 PM


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)



Tuesday, Feb. 14

4:00 PM-6:00 PM



Pan-Asia Career Panel II Featuring U of T Alumni

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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)



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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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:


Friday, Feb. 17

10:00 AM-12:00 PM



The Death Penalty and Institutional Reform in China

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Speaker: Stephen Noakes (SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow, Asian Institute)

Chair: William Hurst (Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto)


Friday, Feb. 17

2:00 PM-4:00 PM





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

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Monday, Feb. 27

4:00 PM-6:00 PM



Narrating the Previous Lives of the Buddha in 14th Century

Tibetan Murals

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Speaker: Sarah Richardson (PhD Candidate, Department of Art History, University of Toronto)

Discussant: Amanda Goodman (Department for the Study of Religion)


Tuesday, Feb. 28

2:00 PM-4:00 PM



The Last Train Home: Migrant Workers in China and Southeast

Asia

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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

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Pan Asia Student Society (PASS)Sponsored by:

Friday, Mar. 02

10:00 AM-2:00 PM



Kiss and Censor: Redactionary Aesthetics in Transwar Japan

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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

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Friday, Mar. 02

2:00 PM-4:00 PM



Bearing Witness: Documenting China's Rise

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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

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Celebrating the Tenth Anniversary of Asian

Heritage Month

Friday, Mar. 02

6:00 PM-9:00 PM






Roundtable on Current Affairs in China

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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)


Tuesday, Mar. 06

2:00 PM-4:00 PM



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

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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

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Asian Institute, Canada Centre for Global Security Studies, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Dr. David Chu Community Network in Asia Pacific Studies

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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

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Friday, Mar. 09

2:00 PM-4:00 PM



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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)


Saturday, Mar. 10

9:30 AM-7:00 PM




J.J.R. MacLeod Auditorium (MS2158), University of Toronto, 1 King’s College Circle

The 30th Annual Ontario Japanese Speech Contest

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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

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Saturday, Mar. 10

1:00 PM-6:00 PM



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Sunday, Mar. 11

9:00 AM-5:00 PM



Pali Practices of the Self

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Main Sponsor: University of Toronto


Speaker: Steven Collins (Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities, University of Chicago)


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

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The University of Toronto / McMaster University Yehan Numata Buddhist Studies Program

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Monday, Mar. 12

9:00 AM-5:30 PM



Places and Pathways of China's Urban Development

Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Geography & Planning, Asian Institute

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Monday, Mar. 12

12:00 PM-1:30 PM



The Disagreement of Being, A Critique of Life and Vitality in the

Meiji Era

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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)


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

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The University of Toronto / McMaster University Yehan Numata Buddhist Studies Program

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Tuesday, Mar. 13

9:00 AM-5:30 PM






Problematizing the ’New’ India: A Political Economy Perspective

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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)


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)


Department of Art, University of Toronto, Seminar in East Asian Art

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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

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Wednesday, Mar. 14

4:00 PM-6:00 PM



The Problem of the Second Book

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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

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Wednesday, Mar. 14

5:30 PM-7:00 PM



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

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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

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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


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



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



Sunday, Mar. 18

8:00 AM-10:00 AM


China’s Macao SAR: 12 Years of Breakthrough & Transformation

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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

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Speaker: Kevin O'Brien (Alann P. Bedford Professor of Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley)




Monday, Mar. 19

3:00 PM-5:00 PM



Constructing Commonality: Standardization and Modernization in

Chinese Nation-Building

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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


Tuesday, Mar. 20

12:00 PM-2:00 PM





Bootstraps Capitalism and Housing Aid in East Asia, 1949-1960

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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)


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



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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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






Rising Innovation Capacity in the Asia-Pacific: What Does it Mean

for Canada?

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Main Sponsor: Munk School of Global Affairs


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

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The National Conversation on Asia – Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada

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Tuesday, Mar. 27

9:00 AM-12:00 PM



Who is a Brahmin? Some Questions Linked to the Spread of

Brahmanism

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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)


Department for the Study of Religion, Yehan Numata Buddhist Studies Program

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Tuesday, Mar. 27

10:00 AM-12:00 PM



Subversive Histories: Race, National Security, and Empire Across

the Pacific

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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

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Tuesday, Mar. 27

3:00 PM-5:00 PM






Transformations of Voice in Christian South Korea

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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)


Thursday, Mar. 29

3:00 PM-5:00 PM



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



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

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Friday, Mar. 30

9:00 AM-5:00 PM



Urban Planning for Creating Complete Communities: Graduate

Research Presentations

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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)


Tuesday, Apr. 03

12:00 PM-2:00 PM



Small Works: Poverty and Economic Development in

Southwestern China

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Speaker: John Donaldson (Associate Professor of Political Science, School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University)



Monday, Apr. 09

2:00 PM-4:00 PM






On Descent: Stories from the Gurus of Modern India

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Speaker: Leela Gandhi (Professor of English, University of Chicago; Founding coeditor of the journal Postcolonial Studies)


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



PASS | Korean Language ExchangeFriday, Apr. 13

1:00 PM-3:00 PM



Indie Docs in India: Aesthetics, Politics and the Practice of

Filming-Making

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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

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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

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Thursday, Apr. 19

9:00 AM-5:00 PM



Refugees 1400-1700




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Friday, Apr. 20

9:00 AM-5:00 PM






ASIAN FUTURES RESEARCH CLUSTER: Technologies,

Infrastructures and the Imagination of Asian Futures

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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



Refugees 1400-1700




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Saturday, Apr. 21

9:00 AM-5:00 PM



In the Gaze of Democracy: Perspectives on 2012 Taiwan Election

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Tuesday, Apr. 24

2:00 PM-4:00 PM



Global China: Changing Identities, Changing Policy

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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)


Friday, Apr. 27

2:00 PM-4:00 PM



Transformation of Colonial City: The Case of Sri Lanka

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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)


Thursday, May. 03

4:00 PM-6:00 PM






Rebranding Ethnic Conflict: Sri Lanka 2009

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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)

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Saturday, May. 12

9:00 AM-8:00 PM

Music Room, Hart House, University of Toronto


A Japan-Canada Symposium on Knowledge Sharing, Local

Governance, and Resilience in Food Systems

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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://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

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Food Policy Research Initiative (FPRI)Organizered by:

Thursday, May. 17

7:00 PM-9:30 PM






Korea in the 21st Century

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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

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Friday, Jun. 01

10:00 AM-12:00 PM



Indonesia: Challenges to the World’s Largest Muslim Democracy

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Speaker: R. William Liddle (Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Ohio State University)


Wednesday, Jun. 20

3:00 PM-5:00 PM


Brilliance, Virtuosity and Creativity on Stage: From the Golden

Age of Cantonese Opera to the Contemporary Theatrical Arts in

Hong Kong

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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


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




Hong Kong

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Saturday, Jun. 23

12:00 PM-5:00 PM




Hong Kong

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Sunday, Jun. 24

12:00 PM-5:00 PM






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

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Shinsedai Cinema FestivalSponsored by:

Friday, Jul. 13

7:00 PM-11:00 PM



China's Impact on the Global and Regional Order

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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

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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

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Tuesday, Aug. 21

12:00 PM-1:00 PM


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