Transformative Student Research at the Asian Institute
Thursday, September 26th, 2019
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, September 26, 2019 | 12:00PM - 4:00PM | Seminar Room 208N, 1 Devonshire Place |
Description
Featuring presentations from the Asian Institute’s 2018-19 RICHARD CHARLES LEE INSIGHTS THROUGH ASIA CHALLENGE (ITAC) & BIG IDEAS COMPETITION: EXPLORING GLOBAL TAIWAN Student Research Awardees
Event Program
12:00-1:15PM
Richard Charles Lee Insights through Asia Challenge (ITAC) Presentations
Yujuan (Emmy) Fu, Ethics, Society & Law; Literature & Critical Theory
Jennifer Han, Peace, Conflict & Justice and Political Science
Sites of (Un)belonging: Spaces/Faces of Honjok Youth in Seoul, South Korea
Amrita Kumar-Ratta, MGA, PhD Student, Department of Geography and Planning
Shades of Brown Girl: The Many Colours of Transnational South Asian Femininity
Katie Kwang, Psychology; Economics
Benita Leong, History; Political Science (UTM)
Hui Wen Zheng, Contemporary Asian Studies; Peace, Conflict, and Justice
Moving in and moving out: understanding the effects of social exclusion on the mental health of rural-urban migrants in Shenzhen
Zixian Liu, PhD Candidate, Department of History
Rural Land Marketization, the Displacement of the Urban Poor and the Neoliberalizing Developmental State in Beijing
Habiba Maher
Aliza Rahman
Asian Modest Fashion in the Museum Space
Minh Anh (Mia) Nguyen, Contemporary Asian Studies; Political Science
Unwanted Children
Man (Angela) Xu, Sociology Department
The Invisible Hand of South-South Globalization: A Study of Chinese Migrants in Tehran
1:15-1:45PM
Lunch Break
1:45-3:00PM
Big Ideas Competition: Exploring Global Taiwan Presentations
Adam Zivokinovic (“Zivo”) – Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Ji Chen (Tony) Yin – Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
The Referendum
Anson Au, Department of Sociology; Department of Chinese Literature (Joint Appointment), National Sun Yat-Sen University
The Everyday Politics of LGBTQ Minorities in Taiwan: Discrimination, Legalization, and Community
Sabrina Teng-io Chung, PhD, East Asian Studies
Exhibiting In-Justices: Human Rights Discourses in Taiwan’s Recent Redress Efforts
Yiwei Jin, MA student, Department of Political Science
Hsieh-Piao and the Politics of Personalization in Taiwan
Niki C Yang, Criminology
Celina B. Servanez, Criminology and Sociolegal Studies (graduate department)
Sohrab Naderi, Political Science and Criminology
Anti-Death Penalty Efforts in Taiwan
3:00-4:00PM
Reception
About the Richard Charles Lee Insights through Asia Challenge (ITAC)
The Richard Charles Lee Insights through Asia Challenge (ITAC) is an interdisciplinary experiential learning program at the Asian Institute that offers students the opportunity for an academically rooted, life-changing field research experience in Asia. On the vanguard of supporting the University’s wider goals of internationalization, redesigning undergraduate teaching, and increasing student mobility, ITAC supports students through the complete trajectory of their research, providing workshops on proposal writing, project management, research methods, ethical research practices, and data analysis as well as direct mentoring. Encouraging students to produce their research in various forms ranging from policy reports to documentary films or something else entirely, ITAC is open to undergraduate and graduate students from all disciplines, across all three UofT campuses. Out of approximately 100 applications, five to seven research teams are awarded annually by an academic jury. More info: https://archive.munkschool.utoronto.ca/ai/rcl-itac/
About the Big Ideas Competition: Exploring Global Taiwan
The Big Ideas Competition: Exploring Global Taiwan is a student research competition, which supports selected undergraduate and graduate student teams to conduct their outstanding research and creative projects in Taiwan. The Competition provides opportunities for student experience in Taiwan by combining research on issues connected to Taiwanese culture/society with travel, taking classroom learning into the field in order to develop academic research skills and self-confidence. The program is enthusiastically interdisciplinary, encouraging student-researchers across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences to collaborate with complementary skills and knowledge bases.
Throughout the winter, awarded teams collectively participated in workshops on project management, research methods, ethical research practices, data analysis, and safety abroad. Teams work closely with an academic mentor and Asian Institute staff, rigorously developing their research projects before departing for field research in the summer semester. Spending up to a month immersed in local cultures, developing cultural fluencies, and conducting research, students return to write up final reports and produce their projects in the late summer.
More info: https://archive.munkschool.utoronto.ca/ai/global-taiwan-studies-program-big-ideas-competition/
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