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This presentation asks what happens to feminist art in contexts of economic deregulation and concomitant care deficit that tend to reconnect women to regimes of social reproduction. Drawing on the observation that women’s photography centered on portraying relationships, photography critics—dominantly men—interpreted the genre as a project that aimed to reconnect communities that have unraveled in the wake of the long recession. Women photographers, however, rejected this interpretation. Building on this tension, I claim that critics projected onto women’s photography their own nostalgia for the high-growth era and its characteristic gender division of labor. My interviews with photographers reveal that it was precisely the desire to disengage from the normative gender roles of the high-growth period that drove women to photography. Women, I argue, practiced photography to expand the zones of subjectivity from which they were able to draw new forms of labor and pleasure.

Gabriella Lukacs is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research explores themes of mass media, digital media, capitalism, labor, and gender in contemporary Japan. Her first book, Scripted Affects, Branded Selves: Television, Subjectivity, and Capitalism in 1990s Japan, was published by Duke University Press. Her current book project, Diva Entrepreneurs: Labor, Gender, and the Digital Economy in Japan, explores why women turn to the digital economy and how this economy mobilizes them to regimes of unpaid labor that it harnesses as a motor of its own development.

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4:30-4:35 pm Greetings from the Munk School by Ron Levi

4:35-4:45 pm Inspiration by Joe Wong

4:45-4:50 pm AI experience with Betty Xie

4:50-4:55 pm AI experience with Christian Medeiros

4:55-5:00 pm AI experience with Cara Lew

5:00-5:05 pm Opportunities by Katherine MacIvor

5:05-5:08 pm Concluding remarks by Joe

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In his seminal study of contentious politics, Sidney Tarrow conceptualized social movements as constituting a series of protest cycles. While the concept of protest cycles has received much attention in the social movements literature, its empirical operationalization remains relatively crude compared to the rich theoretical discussion. Most studies operationalize protest cycles as the total number of protest events in a given period. Drawing on recent work on event structures, this paper attempts to further develop the application of the protest cycle concept by conceptualizing social movements as a population of interlinked events and identifying events that play critical roles in historical outcomes. We demonstrate the usefulness of considering protest cycles as protest event networks with a novel dataset on South Korea’s democracy movement. In our conceptualization the nodes of the network are protest events and links are coded as present if protestors cited a specific prior event as a source of inspiration for mobilizing. Appropriating strategies developed for network analysis we ascertain which events in Korea’s democracy movement were more likely to solicit direct responses and which linked disparate event clusters. By identifying the characteristics of events that contribute to the probability of protest contagion and movement cohesion, we hope to show the usefulness of identifying direct links between events when analyzing protest events data, while providing a better understanding of the structure of protest cycles in South Korea’s democracy movement.

Paul Y. Chang is Assistant Professor of Sociology and serves on the Executive Committee of the Korea Institute at Harvard University. His primary research interest is in South Korean social and political change. He is the author of Protest Dialectics: State Repression and South Korea’s Democracy Movement (Stanford University Press 2015), and co-editor of South Korean Social Movements: From Democracy to Civil Society (Routledge 2011).

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In explaining the economic success of the East Asian countries, the developmental state thesis highlights the positive role of the state intervention in markets. In particular, it sees as an essential condition for the East Asian economic mira¬cle the capacity of the autonomous national bureaucrats, which are assumed to be independent of particular economic and social interests, to lead the policy-making process on behalf of the nation as a whole. More specifically, the state’s industrial policies have been seen as a crucial means through which the national bureaucrats have been able to guide and discipline firms to play a role in national industrialization. This kind of explanations, however, lacks serious under¬standings of the spatial aspects of industrial development due to its limited focus on aspatial elements of industrial governance. Industrial activities actually take place at certain locations, and necessarily require the infrastructures fa¬cilitating the spatial flows and movements of materials, information, money, and so on. Indeed, constructing industrial complexes was an essential spatial technology that the Korean state deployed to promote national industrialization in the 1960s and the 1970s. Without paying sufficient attention to the spatiality of industrialization, the developmental state thesis may pro¬vide a biased view on the Korean industrial development. In particular, its emphasis on the leadership role of the state in national industrialization may not be easily justified, once the complicated socio-spatial processes through which the industrial complexes had been constructed are carefully examined.

With this problem orientation, this paper aims to explore the ways in which the Masan Free Export Zone was developed in the late 1960s. In contrast to the developmental state thesis, which relies on the neo-Weberian assumption of the state-society separation and the methodological nationalism, this research borrows the strategic-relational view to the state, which sees the state actions as an outcome of complex interactions among social forces acting in and through the state, as well as the multi-scalar approach to the political economic processes, in order to better grasp the spatiality of Korean industrialization. In particular, this paper will examine the ways in which the construction of Masan Free Export Zone was planned, implemented and materialized through complex and contested interactions among social forces at various geographical scales act¬ing in and through the state.

Bae-Gyoon Park is a Professor of Geography in the College of Education at Seoul National University in Korea, and also serves as the Head of International Relations at Seoul National University Asia Center. He received his PhD in Geography at Ohio State University in the USA after doing his BA and MA in Geography at Seoul National University. He had also taught in National University of Singapore as an assistant professor of Geography. He is now a Co-editor of Territory, Politics, Governance, and a member of the editorial boards of Political Geography, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and Geography Compass. His recent research is focused on multi-scalar understandings of East Asian developmental states and developmental urbanism in East Asia. He has recently edited an English-written book, entitled “Locating Neoliberalism in East Asia”, and several Korean-written books, including “Gukkawa Jiyeok(State and Localities)”, “Saneok Gyeongkwanui Tansaeng(The Birth of Industrial Landscapes)”, and so on. He has also published papers in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Political Geography, Economic Geography and Critical Asian Studies.

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For the past 70 years, the US government has assumed that Japan’s security policies would reinforce American interests in Asia. The political and military profile of Asia is changing rapidly, however. North Korea’s missile and nuclear programs, China’s rise, and the relative decline of US power have commanded strategic review in Tokyo just as they have in Washington. What is the next step for Japan’s security policy? Will confluence with US interests – and the alliance – survive intact? Will it be transformed? Or will Japan become more autonomous? Professor Samuels will explore how changes in the regional security environment have intersected with changes in domestic Japanese politics to shape Japan’s grand strategic choices.

Richard J. Samuels is Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2005 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2011 he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star, by the Emperor of Japan and the Japanese Prime Minister. In 2013, Cornell University Press published his book about the political and economic effects of Japan’s March 2011 catastrophes: 3.11: Disaster and Change in Japan.

The JAPAN NOW Lecture Series is presented jointly by the Asian Institute and the Consulate General of Japan

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This lecture will look at nationalism, internationalism and cosmopolitanism as an interconnected triad of movements and ideas from the beginning of the 20th century. Armed nationalist revolutionaries in India established connections abroad to seek arms and training. Indian communists joined the Communist International launched by the Soviet Union in order to move the anti-colonial movement in India in the direction of a people’s democratic revolution. Following World War II, with an emerging Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, a space was created at Bandung in 1955 for a new internationalism of the new independent nations, demanding the end of colonial rule and racial discrimination and the formal establishment of equal sovereignty of all nation-states. This lecture will argue that despite the recent call for a cosmopolitan global order superseding the nation-state, these historical achievements of nationalism and internationalism cannot be erased.

Partha Chatterjee is Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies at Columbia University, New York, and Honorary Professor, Center for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Among his many books are Natinalist Thought and the Colonial World (1986), The Nation and Its Fragments (1993), The Politics of the Governed (2004) and The Black Hole of Empire (2012).

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Japan Today will examine the country’s prominence in global Asia, with a focus on contemporary political, social, and diplomatic issues in Japan. The panel discussion aims to take an academic approach to strengthening bilateral relations between Canada and Japan and forming the basis of future cooperation and friendship with Japan.

A light lunch will be provided, please register.

The JAPAN NOW Lecture Series is presented jointly by the Asian Institute and the Consulate General of Japan

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André Sorensen – The Tokyo region presents a unique set of urban policy challenges, in part because of its vast size and high population density and in part because it has the world’s best heavy rail transit system. High population densities, excellent public transit, and extremely mixed land uses mean that the standard ‘sustainable city’ solutions prescribed for the cities of Europe and North America (intensification, revitalization, mixed use, and improved public transit) don’t make sense for Tokyo. Instead, the major risks for Tokyo are associated with: 1. demographic decline of the Japanese population. 2. the growth of highly vulnerable areas of substandard housing throughout the 20th century, a situation that contributes to the elevated disaster risks facing huge segments of the Tokyo population. 3. the rapid redevelopment and intensification of land use in central areas of the city. This is in large part a product of changes in planning regulations, which are likely to exacerbate rather than limit existing vulnerabilities, and necessitate even more costly interventions later. The factors generating and perpetuating these vulnerabilities, and their spatial consequences are discussed, and Tokyo’s current resilience is evaluated.

Ambassador Caron will reflect on some of the enduring features of Japan’s foreign policy, past and present, and Japan’s priorities in a rapidly changing Asia and the world. He will also speak about Canada’s interests in Japan and elements of an activist foreign policy for Canada.

David A. Welch – Japan finds itself on the geopolitical defensive in East Asia. Possible explanations include changes in the balance of power, material conflicts of interest, clashing national egos, unresolved historical grievances, domestic politics, misunderstanding, or simple artlessness. I seek to determine which of these are important and which are not, and to determine whether there is anything Japan could do to improve its standing in the region as well as its security.

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André Sorensen is Professor and Chair of the Department of Human Geography, University of Toronto Scarborough. He has published widely on Japanese urbanisation, urban planning, and planning history. His monograph ‘The Making of Urban Japan: Cities and Planning from Edo to the 21st Century’ (Routledge 2002) won the book prize of the International Planning History Association in 2004. In 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the University of Tokyo School of Engineering in recognition of his research on Japanese urbanism and urban planning. His current research examines institutions, urban space, and temporal processes in urbanization and urban governance from an institutionalist perspective, with a focus on urban land and property development, infrastructure management, and the creation of increasingly differentiated property rights in urban settings.

Ambassador Joseph Caron was born and raised in Southern Ontario, and graduated from the Université d’Ottawa with an Hon. B.A. in political science. He joined the Canadian Foreign Service in 1972, and subsequently served in Ho Chi Minh City and Ankara Turkey. He began Japanese language studies at the American Foreign Service Institute in Yokohama, Japan in 1975, and over his diplomatic career, spent 18 years in Japan in various capacities, including the private sector. He served as Ambassador to the PRC from 2001 to 2005, and was appointed concurrently as non-resident Ambassador to the DPRK and to Mongolia. He was Canadian Ambassador to Japan from 2005 to 2008. He was subsequently appointed Canadian High Commissioner to India, until 2010, when he retired from the Foreign Service. He is currently a member of the Boards of Directors of Manulife Financial Corporation, Vancouver International Airport and Westport Innovations. He is also a Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and UBC’s Institute of Asian Research. He lives in West Vancouver.

David A. Welch is CIGI Chair of Global Security at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo, and Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. His 2005 book Painful Choices: A Theory of Foreign Policy Change (Princeton University Press) is the inaugural winner of the International Studies Association ISSS Book Award for the best book published in 2005 or 2006, and his 1993 book Justice and the Genesis of War (Cambridge University Press) is the winner of the 1994 Edgar S. Furniss Award for an Outstanding Contribution to National Security Studies. He is the author of Decisions, Decisions: The Art of Effective Decision-Making (Prometheus, 2001), and co-author of Vietnam if Kennedy had Lived: Virtual JFK (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009); The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Concise History (Oxford University Press, 2007); On the Brink: Americans and Soviets Reexamine the Cuban Missile Crisis (1st ed., Hill and Wang, 1989; 2nd ed., Noonday, 1990); and Cuba on the Brink: Castro, The Missile Crisis, and the Soviet Collapse (Pantheon, 1993; 2nd ed., Rowman & Littlefield, 2002). He is co-editor of Intelligence and the Cuban Missile Crisis (Frank Cass, 1998), and his articles have appeared in Asian Perspective, Ethics and International Affairs, Foreign Affairs, The Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Intelligence and National Security, International Security, International Journal, International Studies Quarterly, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, The Mershon International Studies Review, The Review of International Studies, and Security Studies. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1990.

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To register please visit: http://jftor.org/event/pen-literary-dialogues/. Guests are welcome to register for one or both sessions.

SESSION 1:

3:00 pm Welcome and Introduction
3:15 pm A Woman’s Image: From Anne of Green Gables to The Ghost Brush Yuko Matsumoto and Katherine Govier, Q&A moderated by Ayako Sato
4:20 pm Break
4:30 pm Serious Illustration: Telling difficult stories in books for children Akira Nogami and Jennifer Lanthier
5:45 pm Reception
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SESSION 2:

5:45 pm Reception
6:30 pm Writing about War: Jiro Asada and John Ralston Saul in conversation

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Directed by emerging Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Betty Xie, The Home Promised is a short documentary film that takes us to the heart of one of the last “illegally-constructed” neighbourhoods in downtown Taipei, soon to be torn down. With its earliest buildings dating back to the Japanese colonial period, the neighbourhood was later settled by loyal Kuomintang soldiers who fled mainland China after 1949, as well as rural migrants who desired to find jobs in the city. Through its architecture, people, history, and collective memory, the Shaoxing neighbourhood is not only a reflection of Taipei’s current growth and urban history, but also a self-enclosed world within the city centre. Shot with a distinct cinema verite style, The Home Promised centres on Wang Chang-biao, the leader of the local residents’ association, and his struggles to help chart a permanent solution for the neighbourhood. Juxtaposed with shots into the everyday life of the residents, the film follows Wang through a visit to a potential relocation site and heated citizens’ meetings. It is during this process of dealing with an uncertain future, that the residents begin to see each other as part of a shared community. Candid and moving, The Home Promised depicts the fight for relocation as an integral part of community formation, calling into question where and why we belong.

Betty Xie is an emerging filmmaker who believes that extraordinary stories are embedded in the everyday lives of ordinary people, and she is on a life-long search for extraordinary/ordinary narratives. Specifically, she is interested in themes of diaspora, migration, and identity. Betty wrote and directed the fiction short Girlfriends, which was screened at the 2013 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival and the 2014 Reel World Film Festival. Her second film, The Home Promised, premiered at the 2014 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, and is an official selection of CAAMFest 2015 in San Francisco, the 2015 American Documentary Film Festival in Palm Springs, and the 2015 Sunderland Short Film Festival in the UK.

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Taking the long 20th century as its canvas, this lecture will explore the multiple strands of skills and commercial/commissioned art practices that have shaped the visual worlds of urban India but have remained largely unaddressed in modern Indian art history. I wish, in particular, to push outside certain defined arenas of ”popular” art – constituted by rural folk and craft traditions, ”bazaar” and calendar pictures, and print iconographies – to consider other spheres of practice that have grown out of the democratizing opportunities of doing “art” and becoming an “artist” in modern and contemporary India.

TAPATI GUHA-THAKURTA is Professor in History and the Director of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC). Her two main books are The Making of a New ”Indian” Art: Artists, Aesthetics and Nationalism in Bengal (Cambridge University Press, 1992) and Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institutions of Art in Colonial and Postcolonial India (Columbia University Press and Permanent Black, 2004). She has written widely on the art and cultural history of modern India, and has authored several exhibition monographs – among them, Visual Worlds of Modern Bengal: An introduction to the archive of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (Kolkata:Seagull, 2002), The Aesthetics of the Popular Print: Lithographs and Oleographs from 19th and 20th Century India (Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata, 2006); and The City in the Archive: Calcutta’s Visual Histories (Calcutta: CSSSC, 2011). She has recently co-edited two anthologies of essays: Theorising the Present: Essays for Partha Chatterjee (Delhi: OUP, 2011) and New Cultural Histories of India: Materiality and Practices (Delhi: OUP, 2013). Her latest book is called In the Name of the Goddess: The Durga Pujas of Contemporary Kolkata (Delhi: Primus Books, 2015).

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How can we best study the experience of caregivers and care receivers?

What new challenges are researchers in this field facing? What questions remain?

In Canada and around the world, the meanings of care are changing. The reorganization of care, responding to shifts in gender roles, demographic patterns, and socio-economic structures, has led to a huge increase in the global migration of women and men to work as care givers, many leaving families behind. These changes have raised questions about citizens’ rights to care and migrants’ rights to citizenship. Join us as we explore how researchers are addressing these fast-changing developments.

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The unification of North and South Korea is widely considered an unresolved and volatile matter for the global order, but this book argues capital has already unified Korea in a transnational form. As Hyun Ok Park demonstrates, rather than territorial integration and family union, the capitalist unconscious drives the current unification, imagining the capitalist integration of the Korean peninsula and the Korean diaspora as a new democratic moment.

Based on extensive archival and ethnographic research in South Korea and China, The Capitalist Unconscious shows how the hegemonic democratic politics of the post-Cold War era—reparation, peace, and human rights—have consigned the rights of migrant laborers—protagonists of transnational Korea—to identity politics, constitutionalism, and cosmopolitanism. Park reveals the riveting capitalist logic of these politics, which underpins legal and policy debates, social activism, and media spectacle.

While rethinking the historical trajectory of Cold War industrialism and its subsequent liberal path, this book also probes memories of such key events as the North Korean and Chinese revolutions, which are integral to migrants’ reckoning with capitalist allures and communal possibilities. Casting capitalist democracy within an innovative framework of historical repetition, Park elucidates the form and content of the capitalist unconscious at different historical moments and dissolves the modern opposition among socialism, democracy, and dictatorship. The Capitalist Unconscious astutely explores the neoliberal present’s past and introduces a compelling approach to the question of history and contemporaneity.

Hyun Ok Park teaches sociology at York University. She writes about global capitalism, transnational migration, empire, postcolonialism, and the issues of comparison and comparability. She is the author of Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria (Duke University Press, 2005).

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Final Schedule

8:30-8:45 Welcome

8:45-10:30 Trafficking Gestures

8:45: Katherine Zubko, U North Carolina, Asheville
Not Just Lovesick Anymore: Gestures of

9:00: Harris Solomon, Duke University
Small Movements: Gesture, Traffic and Trauma in Mumbai

9:15-9:30 Discussion

9:30 Lauren Dean, U of Illinois, Chicago
Keeping Women in Their Place: Public and Private Spaces on the Mumbai Local Train

9:45 Rashmi Sadana, George Mason University
In the Ladies Coach of the Delhi Metro

10:00 Discussion

10:15-10:30 Coffee/Tea break

10:30-12:00 Neoliberal Bodies and Identities

10:30 Holly Donahue Singh, U Michigan
Bodies and Bonds in Motion: Reproductive Migrations in Contemporary India

10:45 Rupa Pillai, U Oregon
Nurturing Feminisms through Bodies: Indo-Guyanese Practices of Yoga in NYC

11:00 Suparna Chatterjee, Xavier College
‘It’s not Newtonian Science, It’s just Survival:’ Recasting Women at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Some Contexts and Considerations

11:15-11:45 Discussion

11:45-12:30 Experiencing Moments Through Visual Media Arts

11:45 Nirmal Raja
Memory, Movement, Location

12-12:30 Discussion and morning wrap-up

12:30-1:30 Lunch

1:30-3:00 From Wives to Lovers

1:30 Saumya Saxena, University of Cambridge
Cultural Identities and Social Justice: The Story of Satiin Contemporary India

1:45 Rumya Putcha, Texas A&M
Performing the Modern Wife: Taste, Class and Caste in Global South India

2:00 Discussion

2:15 Kareem Khubchandani, U Texas, Austin
Dancing Against the Law: Critical Moves in Bangalore’s Queer Nightlife

2:30 Sneha Annavarapu, U Chicago
“Behave Yourself”: A Tale of Public Displays of Affection in India

2:45 Discussion

3:00-3:30 The Body in Dance: Performance & Discussion

3:00 Aparna Sindhoor
Courtesans’ Conversation

3:15-3:30 Discussion

3:30-3:45 Coffee

3:45-5:30 Nirbhaya

3:45 Harleen Singh, Brandeis
December 16, 2012, Rape in India: From Street to Stage to Screen

4:00 Krupa Shandilya, Amherst
Victim or Agent?: The Politics of Movement in Yael Farber’s Nirbhaya

4:15 Sharvari Sastry, U Chicago
The Eponymous Public: Identification and Anonymity in the Nirbhaya Movement

4:30-5:30 Discussion and afternoon wrap-up

5:30-7:00 Feminist Preconference Reception

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The Canadian Centre for the Responsibility to Protect will be hosting a round-table discussion on “Canadian Foreign Policy & Mainstreaming Responsibility to Protect” which will take place at the Munk School of Global Affairs (Room 108N, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto) on Oct 22, 2015 at 12-2pm.

In the post-election climate, we hope to bring together key thinkers and practitioners of Canadian foreign policy to generate a discussion on how we can turn the R2P from promise to practice, as we witness on-going crises in Syria, Yemen, South Sudan and North Korea.

Please join us for an engaging discussion with Dr. Jennifer Welsh (UN Secretary-General’s Special Advisor on R2P), Ambassador Marius Grinius, Master Hugh Segal of Massey College and Dr. Stephen Toope of the Munk School of Global Affairs. Following presentations, there will be an opportunity for Q&A with the audience. Light lunch will be served.

To register, please click here. Please contact recruiting@ccr2p.org if you have any questions.

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October 22 – 25, 2015 | New Ways of Analyzing Variation 44: Intersections 

 
Toronto is a large and (mostly) flat city that is criss-crossed by long and (mostly) straight major roadways. The urban grid functions as a sort of coordinate system; locals will tell you that if you've gone north of Steeles, you've left the city. Many neighbourhoods are as readily identified by prominent intersections as by their characteristics: Church and Wellesley, Bathurst and St. Clair, Yonge and Eglinton, Jane and Finch. In other senses, intersections play a role in the study of language variation and change. There are always the questions of how to divide up our data and of which cross-tabulations and interactions are meaningful when it comes to the interpretation. Social identity is also subject to intersectionality; the population can be split into subgroups according to any of the different social factors that we examine and then some. Variationist sociolinguistics itself lies at the crossroads of related subfields in linguistics and statistical modelling; interdisciplinary effort may yield new ideas and techniques. In all of these cases, the intersectional territory holds much to be learned. Co-hosted by the University of Toronto and York University, NWAV 44 will be centered around probing the places where variation meets other subfields of linguistics.

Registration for conference is required. For general inquiries, please email nwav44@chass.utoronto.ca or visit their website.

All events are taking place on or near the University of Toronto's downtown (St. George) campus. Hart House will be the primary venue for NWAV 44, however some sessions will also take place at University College, Sidney Smith and the Medical Sciences Building.

Please visit the link below for the full program of the conference.

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Day 1 – Film Screenings
Monday, October 26 | 7:00 PM | Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue

Screening of Albert Shin’s critically acclaimed feature, In Her Place, preceded by
Gloria Kim’s short film The Auction.

In Her Place | 115 min.| 2014| directed by Albert Shin
Inspired by Korean culture’s strong stigma against adoption In Her Place stars Kil Hae-Yeon and Ahn Ji-Hye as a mother and daughter living on a farm in Korea. When the teenage daughter becomes pregnant, a woman (Yoon Da-Kyung) arrives from Seoul to propose a secret adoption, conditional on her staying with them for the duration of the pregnancy so that she can hide the adoption when she returns to Seoul after the baby’s birth. The film premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, garnered five nominations at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards and won the Scotiabank Jay Scott Prize for an Emerging Artist at the 2014 Toronto Film Critic Association Award.

The Auction | 17 min. | 2010 | directed by Gloria Kim
It’s Christmas in Toronto, 1978. Eight-year-old Meehee Park longs for two things: to make her mother happy and to get a Cindy doll from Santa. While selling her toys at a shop, she comes across an auction that will pit her two greatest desires, leaving Meehee to make a difficult choice. A semi-autobiographical tale of immigrant dreams, The Auction is a poignant blend of narrative and director Gloria Ui Young Kim’s found family footage. The film screened in film festivals around North America and won the Lift & Fuji Award for Best Film at the 2010 Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival.

Day 2 – Panel Discussion
Wednesday, October 28 | 6:30 PM | Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue

Influenced by their upbringings as first or second-generation immigrants, Asian Canadian filmmakers and artists have foregrounded identity and belonging as a recurring theme in their work. In this panel and discussion, Korean Canadian filmmakers Albert Shin and Gloria Kim will share their experience of living and working in different cultural settings, and discuss how that has impacted their artistic vision and cinematic practice. As they extrapolate the identities of fictional characters on screen, what have they learned about their own?

Moderator: Jane Kim, Filmmaker and Programmer
Panelists: Albert Shin, Director of In Her Place & Gloria Ui Young Kim, Writer and Director of The Auction

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A rare opportunity to understand the complexities of promoting awareness and prevention of HIV/AIDS in Tibetan communities in Tibet.

Chupal Sangpo is a pioneering HIV/AIDS awareness advocate from Tibet. Born in a nomadic family in Kardze, he has collaborated with Tibetan community leaders to form the first Tibetan AIDS Group, dedicated to providing awareness on the spread of HIV/AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) and health-related topics in Tibet. Chupal has taken his public health message across the vast expanse of the plateau – visiting schools, villages, and towns, some of which are located in the most remote and underserved regions of Tibet. Chupal has also published numerous bilingual health pamphlets and brochures, including a book, Questions and Answers on HIV/AIDS Prevention, public service announcement videos and releases daily audios, videos, and messages in Tibetan language on his wechat account where he has over 100,000 followers.

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Bac Ninh, a province adjacent to the Hanoi Capital Region, has long been renowned for its craft villages whose feudal-era products were sold in the eponymously-named streets of what is now Hanoi’s Old Quarter. Today, Bac Ninh is becoming, like other provinces of the Red River Delta, renowned for the toxic environments produced by its contemporary craft industries, such as the recycling of electronic waste. Based on household survey data from Van Mon commune in Bac Ninh province, the paper will analyze household strategies for accessing clean water for household use and consider the ways in which such strategies are outcomes and markers of social differentiation as well as examining their gendered use and implications.

Le Thi Van Hue is project coordinator and researcher at the Center for the Environment and Community Asset Development (CECAD), the Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations (VUSTA). Her specialization and research focus is natural resource use and management, community asset building, climate vulnerability and adaptation in the North, Central and Central Highlands of Vietnam. Hue received her MA in Urban and Environmental Policy at Tufts University, USA, her PhD in Agriculture and Rural Development at the Institute of Social Studies at The Hague, the Netherlands, and was a post-doctoral fellow at Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.