Past Events at the Asian Institute
May 2012
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Thursday, May 3rd Transformation of Colonial City: The Case of Sri Lanka
Date Time Location Thursday, May 3, 2012 4:00PM - 6:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs
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Sri Lanka, having gone through 450 years of colonial domination, is an instructive example to study the transformation of colonial city. We use the World Heritage city of Galle as the case here. Galle rose to prominence as a landmark on ancient sea routes between the Middle East and Orient, and was fortified by the Portuguese in the 16th century AD. Their uneasy stay is marked by an unplanned town. The Dutch, replacing them, rebuilt the fort for various types of social ranks accommodated in various types of buildings. The physical form and the spatial structure criteria attest to a well-laid out city exclusively built for Europeans. The British took over the colonial territories in the 19th century and allowed locals to settle down in Galle fort, triggering various layering of the colonial city. Galle, becoming a provincial capital at the dawn of independence assigned a new role to the city, and its inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List further diversified its society-space relationship. Today, Galle fort is more a place dedicated to heritage tourism, setting examples for other colonial built city quarters. With about 60% of its built fabric representing the Dutch origin but transformed, Galle fort shows the evolution of both society and urban space, resulted by colonial and neo-colonial developments.
Harsha Munasinghe is a Professor of Architecture, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. He was the Head of the Department of Architecture and the Director of Research and Graduate Studies, and is currently on sabbatical leave. He has published over 30 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, and has been recognised through awards and citations. He is currently working on two research projects; one on the convergence of culture sector and urban development and the planning of low-carbon neighbourhoods. He can be contacted via email- harsha.munasinghe@uom.lk
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Thursday, May 10th Rebranding Ethnic Conflict: Sri Lanka 2009
Date Time Location Thursday, May 10, 2012 2:00PM - 4:00PM The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk Centre For International Studies - 1 Devonshire Place Registration Full Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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South Asia in the Media
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PROGRAM:
2:00-4:00 Lecture & Discussion
4:00-6:00 ReceptionThe final phase of the Sri Lankan civil war in 2009 is probably one of the most costly conflicts in terms of human lives this century and yet few have even heard of it. Experts working for the UN Secretary General concluded that war crimes and crimes against humanity were committed and up to 40,000 people were killed in just 5 months. The death toll could be far higher. Three years later we still don’t know.
Journalist, writer and former head of news for Amnesty International Frances Harrison has been gathering information on the denouement of the war – a period in which the distinction between civilians and combatants was blurred and there were few independent witnesses. Her research and interviews with survivors of the war paint a picture of unimaginable suffering, accounts which should not be silenced if substantive peace is to be sustained in Sri Lanka. Drawing attention to what the victorious government calls a “Sri Lankan model” for wiping out terrorism, she will highlight her investigation of what happened in the name of crushing terrorism in Sri Lanka.
The former BBC Correspondent in Sri Lanka, Harrison has spent the last year and a half tracking down eyewitnesses to the 2009 war in Sri Lanka for a new book called “Still Counting the Dead” to be published later this year by Portobello Books in London. The book attempts to piece together accounts to convey what it was like in the war zone in those final months for those who were defeated.
Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Asian Heritage Month
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Friday, May 11th – Saturday, May 12th The Seventh Annual Tamil Studies Conference: Traces of the Past
Date Time Location Friday, May 11, 2012 1:00PM - 8:30PM External Event, William Doo Auditorium and Wilson Hall (Rooms 523 and 524), New College, University of Toronto, 40 Willcocks Street Saturday, May 12, 2012 9:00AM - 8:00PM External Event, William Doo Auditorium and Wilson Hall (Rooms 523 and 524), New College, University of Toronto, 40 Willcocks Street Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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This conference aims to understand the means by which people come to know, feel, and reflect upon their past. Questions of history, memory, and heritage are all guided by the ethical concerns of the present and by desires regarding the future. The production of alternatives to the dominant narrative might also entail their own forms of exclusion. Contestation arises precisely when the past becomes a resource to remake the contemporary world. But how do we narrate pasts? What counts as “evidence” in such narrations? Whose stories prevail? Which pasts are silenced?
Traces of the past need not refer to archives alone. We also invite papers that would interpret how memory is inscribed on the human body, the landscape, in practices of commemoration, cinema, through nostalgia, and images of utopia or revolution. We encourage scholars to examine how collectives and subjectivities are formed, reformed, and contested through recuperation and retrospection, and how conceptions of past selves engage critically with the world-scale economic projects of colonialism, neocolonialism, and nationalism.
This unique International interdisciplinary conference brings together scholars, students, artists, writers and activists to engage with the conference theme more directly.
Direct any media inquiries to: media@tamilstudiesconference.ca
All general inquiries should be directed to: info@tamilstudiesconference.ca
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Wednesday, May 16th – Thursday, May 17th A Japan-Canada Symposium on Knowledge Sharing, Local Governance, and Resilience in Food Systems
Date Time Location Wednesday, May 16, 2012 10:30AM - 12:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Music Room, Hart House, University of Toronto Thursday, May 17, 2012 7:00PM - 9:30PM External Event, Music Room, Hart House, University of Toronto + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, 1 Devonshire Place8:30 – 9:15
Networking breakfast9:15 – 10:15
Welcome & Keynote
Featuring Dr. Yoko Niiyama, Kyoto University10:30 – 12:00
Concurrent Paper Sessions
A. Transparency | Transparency in food safety and disclosure (CCF)
B. Access | Towards a broader understanding of food access (208N)
C. Resilience | Critical perspectives on policy participation in food systems (108N)12:00 – 13:00
Lunch and networkingThursday, May 17, 2012
19:00 – 21:30
Public Forum
Featuring Dr. Sumiko Abe, Food System Research Association of Japan
Music Room, Hart House, University of Toronto, 7 Hart House CircleThe nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan following the northeastern earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 demonstrated the potential for serious public health problems to arise from environmental threats, calling into question the adaptive capacity of local and global food systems, and the ability of governments to manage food risk effectively and transparently. This interdisciplinary symposium will bring together researchers, decision makers, and community members to reflect on the Fukushima crisis, and envision how governments can enable citizens to take informed action in the presence of environmental health threats and food system change.
About the Food Policy Research Initiative (FPRI):
The Food Policy Research Initiative was launched in 2011 by the Ontario Tobacco Research Unit at the University of Toronto and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Our mission is to improve public health through research on innovative and effective policy solutions to contemporary food issues. Please contact Dr. Catherine L. Mah at catherine.mah@utoronto.ca or (416) 535-8501 x4665 for further information.General Information:
Akiko Inui
Akiko_Inui@camh.net or (416) 535-8501 x 2005Press Inquiries:
Helen Thang
Helen_Thang@camh.net or (416) 535-8501 x 6867Event Website: http://japanfoodresilience.ca/
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Friday, May 25th FREE Screening | Overheard 2
Date Time Location Friday, May 25, 2012 7:00PM - 9:00PM External Event, Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles St W + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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Celebrating 10th Year of Asian Heritage Month
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Hong Kong heavyweights Lau Ching Wan, Louis Koo and Daniel Wu return in this crime thriller about greed and betrayal in the high-stakes world of insider trading and corporate espionage. Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival screened Overheard 2 as Richmond Hill Opening Night presentation in 2011. The film was nominated for 9 Hong Kong Film Awards in 2012.
Overheard 2
Hong Kong 2011, 119 min, Rated 14A
Cantonese with English subtitles
Trailer: http://bit.ly/JniewsDirectors: Felix Chong, Alan Mak
Cast: Lau Ching Wan, Louis Koo, Daniel Wu
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June 2012
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Friday, June 1st Korea in the 21st Century
Date Time Location Friday, June 1, 2012 10:00AM - 12:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs
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The South Korean legislative elections of this past April, the presidential elections coming this December, the recent death of Kim Jong-il, and ongoing economic challenges make these particularly interesting times in Korean politics. Dr. Un-Chan Chung will offer his reflections on recent developments and current challenges, from the perspective of a scholar of the Korean economy and a leading figure on the country’s public scene.
Dr. Un-Chan Chung was Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea from 2009-2010, after serving as President of Seoul National University, where he taught economics for more than thirty years. He has been a member of numerous government commissions, and taught or lectured at universities including Columbia, the University of Hawaii, the London School of Economics, and the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum. He holds a PhD in economics from Princeton, and is the author of many publications on economic questions, including The Korean Economy after the IMF Bailout Loan and East Asia’s Economic Crisis: The Case of Korea.
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Wednesday, June 20th Indonesia: Challenges to the World’s Largest Muslim Democracy
Date Time Location Wednesday, June 20, 2012 3:00PM - 5:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs
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Southeast Asia Seminar Series
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A former Dutch colony, modern Indonesia is a multi-ethnic Muslim-majority developing country comprising thousands of islands spread across nearly four thousand miles in equatorial Southeast Asia. After forty years of personal and military dictatorship under Presidents Sukarno and Suharto, Indonesia became a democracy in 1999. Three successful national elections have since been held; a fourth is scheduled for 2014. Serious challenges to democratic stability remain, however, including corruption, weak judicial institutions, threats from radical Muslims, separatism in the easternmost provinces of Papua, and the slow pace of economic growth.
R. William Liddle is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Ohio State University and a specialist on Southeast Asian, particularly Indonesian, politics. His current research focuses on political leadership, voting behavior, and popular attitudes toward Islamic politics in Indonesia.
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Friday, June 22nd – Sunday, June 24th Brilliance, Virtuosity and Creativity on Stage: From the Golden Age of Cantonese Opera to the Contemporary Theatrical Arts in Hong Kong
Date Time Location Friday, June 22, 2012 3:00PM - 5:00PM External Event, Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, 8th floor, 130 St. George St., University of Toronto Saturday, June 23, 2012 12:00PM - 5:00PM External Event, Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, 8th floor, 130 St. George St., University of Toronto Sunday, June 24, 2012 12:00PM - 5:00PM External Event, Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, 8th floor, 130 St. George St., University of Toronto + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Asian Heritage Month and the 15th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
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Brilliance, Virtuosity and Creativity on Stage:
From the Golden Age of Cantonese Opera to the Contemporary Theatrical Arts in Hong KongDate:
Opening Ceremony: Friday, June 22, 3:00 – 5:00 PM
Exhibition: Saturday & Sunday, June 23 & 24, 12:00 – 5:00 PMThe exhibition will:
– Re-visit Hong Kong artist Dr. Lam Kar-sing’s legacy on the inheritance of Cantonese Opera through some of his artefacts
– Depict the power of creativity and diversity on stage in Hong Kong’s performing artsAs an event to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and to mark the finale of the Asian Heritage Month, the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library and the Asian Institute of the University of Toronto, together with the Hong Kong-Canada Business Association and Starlight Chinese Opera Performing Arts Centre, are holding an exhibition (June 23 – 24) and mini performance of Cantonese opera (June 22) to showcase the golden age of Hong Kong’s stage arts from the 1960’s to the modern time.
Excerpts from Cantonese opera artist Dr. Lam Kar-sing’s performances will be reproduced by the Starlight performers. People can also re-visit Dr. Lam’s legacy through the display of his historical photographs, costumes and artefacts. The exhibition also features works by the younger generation Hong Kong stage and costume designers Ricky Chan and Mandy Tam, depicting the power of creativity and diversity in Hong Kong’s performing arts.
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Friday, June 22nd Toronto Korean Film Festival
Date Time Location Friday, June 22, 2012 7:00PM - 11:00PM External Event, Innis Town Hall, Innis College at the University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Avenue (south of Bloor at St. George) Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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The Toronto Korean Film Festival (TKFF) is an annual 9 days festival founded in 2012. We are a group of young Korean film enthusiasts, who got together with the common goal of wanting to share Korean culture and films with the Toronto community. We feel strongly about the power of this medium and aim to create synergy between Koreans, Canadians, filmlovers, scholars, and Toronto.
Toronto Korean Film Festival successfully launched on January of 2012 with the slogan : Taste Kimchi Cinema.
With the purpose of expanding international Korean film market and its recognition in Toronto, we are hosting free retrospective screenings of leading Korean directors. February 25th, 2012 launched the first of the series, with director Lee Myung-se’s“Nowhere to Hide”. The retrospective screenings will be held in various Toronto academic locations including University of Toronto, Ryerson university, OCAD, Seneca, and York university.
The 10 day festival will be held from June 22nd until July 1st, 2012. With support from various local media groups and fellow film festivals, we are confident in our strong programming. The festival will be composed of various genres, classics and new films, up and coming directors, indie works, shorts, and many others. The variety in the programming will satisfy audiences of all ages while bringing Korean traditional and contemporary culture to Torontonians. Toronto Korean Film Festival is not just a celebration for the Koreans in Toronto, but will push towards becoming a celebration in Canada for Korean culture.
For more information, please visit http://tkff.ca/
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July 2012
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Tuesday, July 10th South Korea – Ontario Health System Symposium
Date Time Location Tuesday, July 10, 2012 9:00AM - 5:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs
1 Devonshire Place
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Thursday, July 12th 4th Annual Shinsedai Cinema Festival | Opening Screening: Ringing in Their Ears
Date Time Location Thursday, July 12, 2012 7:00PM - 9:00PM External Event, Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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Ringing in Their Ears
Director: Yu Irie
Cast: Fumi Nikaido, Kurumi Morishita, Uji Kiyotaka, Yui Miura, Tatsuya Sakamoto, Mikihito Tsurugi, Toru Nomaguchi, Keisuke Horibe
Genre: Drama
Release Type: Canadian Premiere
Year: 2011
Runtime: 89 minutes
Website: http://www.kamattechan-movie.com/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytut4RqCJicYou don’t often hear about a rock band that uses web cameras and laptops in their live performances and that are fronted by a hikikomori, Japanese for shut-in, but there are few bands on the music landscape like Shinsei Kamattechan. Now this quartet from Chiba City forms the nucleus of an equally irreverent film by the award-winning director of 8000 Miles (Saitama Rapper), Yu Irie. The real-life story of Shinsei Kamattechan’s move from indie stardom to major label commodity is interwoven with the fictional lives of some of their most unusual fans.
Fumi Nikaido (winner, along with Shota Sometani, of the 2011 Marcello Mastroianni Award for best young actor and actress at the Venice Film Festival) stars as Michiko, a girl who is torn between becoming a professional shogi (Japanese chess) player and the love of her high school sweetheart, who incidentally introduces her to the music of Shinsei Kamattechan. Then there is single mother Kaori, played by Kurumi Morishita, who can’t seem to separate her young son from his laptop. It turns out he is obsessed with Shinsei Kamattechan and its eccentric lead singer Noko, but his love for the band may result in him being expelled, and his mother losing her job as an exotic pole dancer. During all this Shinsei Kamattechan’s manager must find a way to navigate the corporate waters of the music industry so that his band can maintain their integrity and their rabid fan base.
This web of fact mixed with fiction culminates in an electric live performance by Shinsei Kamattechan and it’s charismatic and quirky lead singer Noko. Few films are able to convey the power that certain rock bands have on their audience, but Yu Irie does that and more with Ringing in Their Ears.
Advance tickets and passes for the 4th Shinsedai Cinema Festival go on sale starting on Thursday, June 21st via the festival website, SHINSEDAI.CA, and at participating Toronto retailers Eyesore Cinema (801 Queen Street West, 2nd Flr.) and Things Japanese (128 Harbord Street).
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Friday, July 13th 4th Annual Shinsedai Cinema Festival
Date Time Location Friday, July 13, 2012 7:00PM - 11:00PM External Event, Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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The Shinsedai Cinema Festival, an annual showcase of the best in new, independent and rarely seen Japanese films. Conceived of by programmers Chris MaGee (The J-Film Pow-Wow) and Jasper Sharp (Midnight Eye) in 2009, as a way of expanding people’s ideas of what films from Japan are and can be, The 4th annual Shinsedai Festival will be coming to Toronto’s Revue Cinema (400 Roncesvalles Ave.) between July 12th and July 15th, 2012. Insightful dramas, quirky comedies, hard-hitting documentaries, experimental shorts, and more... all from Japan’s new generation of filmmakers; The Shinsedai Cinema Festival will be an event that film fans will not want to miss!
Please view the film schedule here: http://shinsedai.ca/schedule
Advance tickets and passes for the 4th Shinsedai Cinema Festival go on sale on Thursday, June 21st via the festival website, SHINSEDAI.CA, and at participating Toronto retailers Eyesore Cinema (801 Queen Street West, 2nd Flr.) and Things Japanese (128 Harbord Street).
For more information on the Shinsedai Cinema Festival, please visit www.shinsedai.ca
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Monday, July 23rd China's Impact on the Global and Regional Order
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Date Time Location Monday, July 23, 2012 2:00PM - 4:00PM The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School of Global Affairs
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Kevin Rudd served as Australia’s 26th Prime Minister between 2007-2010 and subsequently as Australia’s Foreign Minister from 2010 until 2012. As Prime Minister, Mr Rudd led Australia’s response during the Global Financial Crisis where Australia was the only major advanced economy not to go into recession. Mr Rudd is internationally recognised as one of the founders of the G20 as the premier global economic decision-making institution. As Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Mr Rudd also oversaw the doubling of Australian foreign aid over five years, making Australia the seventh largest aid donor in the world. Domestically, Prime Minister Rudd in 2008 delivered the formal National Apology to Indigenous Australians as the first parliamentary act of his government. On the environment, Prime Minister Rudd ratified the Kyoto Protocol and his government introduced an Australian Mandatory Renewable Energy target of 20% by 2020. He was a co-author of the 2012 report of the United Nations Secretary General’s High Level Panel on Global Sustainability – “Resilient People, Resilient Planet”. He remains deeply engaged on the questions of Australia’s strategic and economic future in Asia, aboriginal reconciliation, the teaching of Asian languages, homelessness and organ donation.
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