Past Events at the Asian Institute
June 2017
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Tuesday, June 13th How Does China Respond to the Threat of Terrorism? Information and Political Mechanisms
Date Time Location Tuesday, June 13, 2017 1:00PM - 3:00PM Seminar Room 208N, 1 Devonshire Place + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Description
The world is faced with the necessary, if unasked for, task of effectively countering globally coordinated and financed extremist-based terrorism. This lecture presents Professor Fang’s comprehensive structural approach that China is utilizing to counter that threat. Under the title of “The Law of Triangle Motion,” the synergistic interactions between a) government leadership, b) psychologically informed, legislative, educational, economic and defensive countermeasures to extremist ideology, and c) involvement of the people and society, will be described in detail. Complimentary political mechanisms will be discussed.
Note this lecture will be translated live by translatorQiang Fang is a Professor at Northwest University of Political Science and Law in Xi’an, and one of China’s pioneers in the field of legal (forensic) psychology and a pioneer and leading contributor to Chinese research on extremism and terrorism. He was awarded the titles of “Outstanding Expert” and “Prominent Jurist” along with an “Expert Prize” and an “Allowance for Life” from the State Department of China. He was also a writer for the Chinese Encyclopedia, the Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychology, and the Chinese Contemporary Psychology Textbook. Professor Fang’s works have received various awards including: An Introduction to Legal Psychology, The Shanxi Provincial First Prize for Outstanding achievement in the Philosophical and Social Sciences, and the Shanxi Provincial Education Committee’s Humanity Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award.
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Friday, June 16th Gold Mining and Agrarian Transformation
Date Time Location Friday, June 16, 2017 5:00PM - 7:00PM External Event, York University Room 208N York Lanes Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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Join us for this free public lecture(no registration required) by Nancy Lee Peluso (UC-Berkeley).
Nancy is a longtime contributor to political ecology, the critical approach to the study of socio-ecological transformations and their politics across scales. Her work has influenced studies of the relationships between violence and environmental change, including how violence shapes resource access and agrarian change, how nature conservation legitimizes violent dispossessions, and how violence is integral to the constitution of political forests.
Her work examines the social processes that affect the management of land-based resources, using ethnographic, historical, and other broadly sociological research methods. Her work explores various dimensions of resource access, use, and control, while comparing and contrasting local, national, and international influences on management structures and processes. She grounds her analysis of contemporary resource management policy and practice in local and regional histories.
She is particularly interested in how social difference – ethnic identity, class, gender – affects resource access and control. How do government and non-government institutions and actors define, make claims upon, contest, and attempt to manage natural resources?
Nancy is the Henry J. Vaux Distinguised Professor of Forest Policy, and Professor of Society and Environment (University of California, Berkeley).
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Disclaimer: Please note that events posted on this website are considered to be public events – unless otherwise stated – and you are choosing to enter a space where your image and/or voice may be captured as part of event proceedings that may be made public as part of a broadcast, webcast, or publication (online and in print). We make every effort to ensure your personal information is kept and used in compliance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA). If you have any questions please get in touch with our office at munkschool@utoronto.ca or 416-946-8900.