| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, November 10, 2009 | 6:00PM - 8:00PM | Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies 1 Devonshire Place |
Pre-opener to the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival 2009
East Asian development deeply impacts our global future. Invited film directors and panelists discuss the emerging social and culture changes that we face, and in particular look at how film plays a role in understanding these changes.
Registrants are invited to a post-panel reception.
Moderator: Bart Testa (Cinema Studies Institute, UofT)
Panelists:
Lixin Fan (Director, Producer) was the cinematographer for Up the Yangtze. His debut documentary Last Train Home (2009) focuses on the largest migration of human workers from rural farms to urban factories in China.
Uruphong Raksasad (Director) was born in Northern Thailand. His film Agrarian Utopia (Reel Asian 2009) focuses on farming communities affected by national policy and industrial globalization.
Peter Vandergeest (Sociology, York University) is principle researcher for the project “Challenges of Agrarian Transition in South East Asia.” His articles include “Mapping Nature: Territorialization and State Power in Thailand.”
Jennifer Hsu (Visiting Scholar, Asian Institute, UofT) received her PhD in Developmental Studies from the University of Cambridge in 2009. Her dissertation is entitled, “State-Society Relations in China: A Case-Study of Migrant Civil Society Organizations in Beijing and Shanghai.”
The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, celebrating its 25th anniversary, is setting out to identify the 25 most important issues for Canada’s Future with Asia with a video contest, www.25at25.ca.
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