Film Weekend | Taiwanese Cuisine: Intimate Politics in Film
October 6, 2011
The two-day film event on October 21-22 showcases Taiwan through films and discussions.
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Job Posting | Korea Foundation Chair in Korean Studies
August 24, 2011
The Faculty of Arts and Science of the University of Toronto invite applications and nominations for the Korea Foundation Chair in Korean Studies.
Read full entryAsian Institute Welcomes New Dr. David Chu Professor Takashi Fujitani
May 19, 2011
The Asian Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of the new Dr. David Chu Professor in Asia-Pacific Studies, Takashi Fujitani. Professor Fujitani will be cross-appointed with the Department of History and the Asian Institute beginning fall 2011.
Read full entryAsian Institute Welcomes Professor William Hurst
April 20, 2011
The Asian Institute is pleased to announce the recent appointment of Professor William Hurst to political science at the Department of Social Sciences, UTSC. Professor Hurst will be affiliated with the Asian Institute beginning in the fall of 2011.
Read full entryOne Thousand Cranes for Japan
March 28, 2011
From March 28 to April 1, the Asia-Pacific Club and the Asian Institute will be folding one thousand paper cranes to raise money for Japan in the wake of the devastating damaged caused by the recent earthquake and tsunami.
Read full entryAI and RCLL Welcome Visiting Scholar Dr. Kui-Wai Li
January 7, 2011
Professor Kui-Wai Li (City University of Hong Kong) has been awarded a Richard Charles Lee Canada Hong Kong Library (RCLL) short-term travel grant, and will be Visiting Professor at the Asian Institute and the RCLL from January to March 2011.
Read full entrySAS415H1 History, Memory, Archives: Alternative Histories of Colonial India
November 18, 2010
Visiting Professor Nonica Datta (University of Delhi) will teach a fourth-year seminar in January 2011 focusing on the interplay of history, memory, and archives to understand and craft parallel histories in colonial India.
Read full entryAsian Institute Welcomes Visiting Scholar Mami Iwakami
November 12, 2010
Professor Iwakami teaches Sociology at the University of the Sacred Heart in Tokyo, Japan, and her major research area is the Modern Japanese Family. She will be a Visiting Scholar at the Asian Institute for 2011-12.
Read full entryArjun Appadurai gave inaugural Asian Futures Lecture at the Munk School
October 28, 2010
Last week Professor Appadurai (Goddard Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University) talked about “The New and the Now: Globalization and the Politics of the Déjà Vu” to a grateful audience in an overfilled facility.
Read full entryTaiwan Field School 2010
October 14, 2010
Last year’s Taiwan Field School was such a success, it has been renewed for another year. Interested upper-year undergraduate students in the Faculty of Arts and Science are eligible to apply for the field school, which will run from Dec 5-11, 2010.
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