Past Events at the Asian Institute
May 2011
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Tuesday, May 3rd Roundtable Discussion on the 1911 Revolution
Date Time Location Tuesday, May 3, 2011 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs
1 Devonshire Place+ Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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Asian Heritage Month Event
Description
Participants:
Li Chen (History, University of Toronto)
Joshua Fogel (History, York University)
Evie Gu (Art History, University of Toronto)
Joan Judge (History, York University)
Tong Lam (History, University of Toronto)
Meng Yue (East Asian Studies, University of Toronto)
Scott Reylea (History, Hamline University)
Yiching Wu (East Asian Studies, University of Toronto)Chair:
Janet Poole (East Asian Studies, University of Toronto)
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Thursday, May 5th Crisis in Japan: The Unfolding Catastrophe
Date Time Location Thursday, May 5, 2011 5:00PM - 7:00PM The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School of Globsl Affairs - 1 Devonshire Place + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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Debating the Headlines: A Munk School Forum
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Panellist bios:
Dr. Miriam L. Diamond is Professor at the University of Toronto in the Department of Geography and Program in Planning with cross-appointments to the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. She received her B.Sc. in Biology from the University of Toronto, M.Sc. from the University of Alberta in Zoology, M.Sc.Eng from Queen’s University (Kingston Ontario) in Mining Engineering, and her Ph.D. in environmental engineering from University of Toronto. Her research focuses on understanding the sources, emissions, fate and exposure from and to chemical contaminants in natural and human environments. This research has been published in over 100 articles and chapters in addition to receiving media attention. Dr. Diamond is a member of the Science Advisory Board of the International Joint Commission of Canada and currently sits on National Academies of Sciences Institute of Medicine panel reviewing the exposure of Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans to Agent Orange. She is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the journal Environmental Science and Technology and a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Environmental Law Association. She is a Fellow of the Canadian Geographical Society and was named Canadian Environmental Scientist of the Year in 2007 by that society.
Professor Donnelly is completing a manuscript on the political economy of nuclear energy in Japan. His research has included numerous field trips to nuclear power facilities, including Tokaimura, Rokkashomura and Fukushima Daiichi. He previously served as the founding Director of the Asian Institute and the first holder of the Dr. David Chu Professorship in Asia Pacific Studies.
Theodore (Ted) Goossen is Professor of Humanities at York University. He is the editor of The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories and a translator of numerous Japanese authors including Masuji Ibuse, Naoya Shiga, Hiromi Kawakami, Yoko Ogawa and Haruki Murakami His most recent publication is Monkey Business, the English version of a contemporary Japanese literary magazine, co-edited with Motoyuki Shibata.
André Sorensen is Associate Professor of Urban Geography in the Department of Social Science, University of Toronto Scarborough. He has published widely on urbanisation, land development, and planning history. His most recent book, titled Megacities: Urban Form, Governance and Sustainability was published by Springer in January 2011. His book ‘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. He is the editor with P. J. Marcotullio and J. Grant, of Towards Sustainable Cities: East Asian, North American and European Perspectives. (Ashgate 2004), and with C. Funck Living Cities in Japan: Citizens’ Movements, Machizukuri and Local Environments (Routledge 2007). His current research examines processes and institutions generative of urban form in the Tokyo and Toronto regions.
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Friday, May 6th Education and Global Cultural Dialogue Conference: A Tribute to the Work of Dr. Ruth Hayhoe
Date Time Location Friday, May 6, 2011 9:00AM - 5:00PM External Event, OISE + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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The Comparative, International Development Education Centre at OISE, University of Toronto is pleased to announce a one-day conference in honour of Dr. Ruth Hayhoe’s extensive work in comparative education. Scholars from around the world will be sharing their research in a variety of sessions and workshops. Join us for dinner and entertainment following the conference.
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Tuesday, May 10th Enlarging the Educational Discourse: Lessons for Canada from Educational Reforms in Hong Kong, China and India
Date Time Location Tuesday, May 10, 2011 4:00PM - 6:00PM External Event, OISE Auditorium, 252 Bloor Street West + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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Asian Heritage Month Event
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Chair:
The Honourable Vivienne Poy
Senate of Canada and Chancellor Emerita, University of Toronto
Panel Chair: Professor Ruth Hayhoe OISE, University of TorontoPlenary Presentations:
The Contemporary Context of Indian Higher Education
Professor Ruth Hayhoe OISE, University of TorontoAsian Heritage Month Lecture:
The Higher Education Scene in Hong Kong
Professor Lap-Chee Tsui
Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Hong Kong
The Contemporary Context of Indian Higher Education
Professor Roopa Desai Trilokekar
Education, York University
Opportunities and Challenges for Canada-India Educational Exchanges
Professor Sheila Embleton
York University and President, Canada-India Education Council
Discussant: Dean Martin Singer
Dean, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York UniversityReception Follows at 6:00 p.m. at the OISE Library on the Ground Floor
(Sponsored by Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office)FREE ADMISSION
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Friday, May 13th – Saturday, May 14th Parimaanam: Images, Embodiments and Contestations
Date Time Location Friday, May 13, 2011 1:30PM - 8:30PM External Event, University of Toronto,
New College,
45 Willcocks StreetSaturday, May 14, 2011 9:00AM - 9:00PM External Event, University of Toronto,
New College,
45 Willcocks StreetPrint this Event Bookmark this Event
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2011 Tamil Studies Conference
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The objective of this year’s conference is to explore the manifestations in which images, aesthetic representations and constructs of various kinds have played a significant role in constructing and destabilising ways of being Tamil.
Conference papers and panels will discuss, from the perspectives offered by different disciplines and fields, how notions of Tamil-ness have been imagined, identified and embodied in historical, political, cultural and aesthetic practices that engage intellectual perception and subjective response through a range of materials, technologies, visions, models and movements which help fashion ways of being Tamil.
Guiding questions would include:
Constructing and Reinforcing: What role do aesthetics and performances play in the intervention within and the shaping of political debate? How are aesthetics and the body theorised within the context of Tamil poetics? How do either text or performance establish normative ways of seeing, looking and moving and, thereby, shape canonicity and mythology? How do artists, their publics and their mediators, how do theorists, teachers, and consumers of objects, photographs, movies, installations, fetishes and lifestyles contribute to experimenting, imagining and experiencing what it is that embodies being Tamil?
Destabilising and Deconstructing: How does public performance of protest or dissent interrogate the binaries of the local and the global, the modern and the medieval, national and the transnational, the “homeland” and the diaspora? What are the ways in which pre-modern Tamil conceptual categories disrupt or interrogate the binaries of mind and body or local and foreign? How is gender performed and disrupted with Tamil spaces and geographies? What are the sociocultural matrixes of Tamil bodies? Is there a specifically Tamil history of vision which mediates between the observer and the objects visualised?
This unique International interdisciplinary conference brings together scholars, students, artists, writers and activists to engage with the conference theme more directly.
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Monday, May 16th Studying Chinese Politics in an International Age
Date Time Location Monday, May 16, 2011 9:30AM - 5:00PM External Event, TBC Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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Program:
9:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks, Kimberley Manning
Opening Paper
Charles Burton (Brock University)
“Please Let us Know the Next Time You Are in Ottawa/Beijing: Comparing the relationship between academic research and the forging of government policy in China and Canada.”10:30 Roundtable One: Studying Chinese Politics in China
Participants:
CHAIR: Kimberley Manning (Concordia University)
Guoguang WU (University of Victoria)
Stephen Noakes (Queen’s University)
GUO Dingping (Fudan University)
ZHA Qiang (York University)LUNCH
1:30 Roundtable Two: Studying Chinese Politics in Canada (The West)
Participants:
CHAIR: Wenran JIANG (University of Alberta)
Netina Tan (University of Toronto)
Marie-Eve Remy (University of Toronto)
LI Yingtao (Beijing Foreign Studies University)
Zhiming CHEN (Université de Montreal)3:15 Roundtable Three: Making Connections and Moving Forward
Participants:
CHAIR: Tim Cheek (University of British Columbia)
ZHAO Fengping (Zhengzhou University)
Jing QIAN (University of Victoria)
James Manicom (University of Toronto)
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Saturday, May 28th FREE Movie Screening | Bodyguards & Assassins
Date Time Location Saturday, May 28, 2011 8:00PM - 10:00PM External Event, Toronto Underground Cinema, 186 Spadina Ave (N of Queen) + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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Asian Heritage Month Event
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In celebration of Asian Heritage Month, the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival presents Bodyguards & Assassins, a free movie screening. We hope you will join us for this thrilling martial arts flick with a star-studded cast including Donnie Yen, Nicholas Tse, Leon Lai and Tony Leung ka-Fai!
Director Teddy Chan Tak Sun | China 2009 | 139 min | rated 14A
Cantonese & Mandain with English subtitles
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June 2011
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Wednesday, June 1st China's Five Year Plans: A Review of the 11th and a Preview of the 12th
Date Time Location Wednesday, June 1, 2011 12:00PM - 2:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs
1 Devonshire Place+ Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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In its Five Year Plan, the Chinese leadership provides a comprehensive outline of desired medium-term policy outcomes. Understanding the government’s priorities is indispensable for effectively engaging China and successful commercial relations. In this presentation, Mark will give an overview of the planning process. He will look at the extent to which the 11th Five Year Plan achieved its goals. He will consider the recently released 12th Five Year Plan and discuss what specific policies the government should implement to maximize the Plan’s success.
Mark Kruger oversees the economic and financial analysis and reporting undertaken at the Embassy. He is responsible for engaging the Chinese authorities on a broad array on economic issues including macroeconomic and financial policy as well as topics that have a significant impact on Canada’s interests.
A China watcher for more than 25 years, Mark has been working in the Canadian Embassy since September 2006. From January 2003 to August 2006, he was Senior Advisor to the Canadian Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund. From 1989 to 2003, he held a number of positions in the Bank of Canada, including Assistant Chief in the Banks’ International Department, where he was responsible for international financial policy and emerging market issues. Mark began his career working for the Alberta Petroleum Marketing Commission in Calgary, Alberta.
Mark holds a B.A. (Economics) from Colby College and an M.A. (Economics) from the University of Toronto.
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Friday, June 10th Asian Foodprints: Exploring Korea through Its Foods and Foodways
Date Time Location Friday, June 10, 2011 8:30AM - 5:00PM The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, CONFERENCE
Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place
RECEPTION & DINNER
University Club of Toronto, 380 University Avenue+ Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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Monday, June 13th Munk School Meeting with Harmony Foundation
Date Time Location Monday, June 13, 2011 12:00PM - 2:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs
1 Devonshire Place
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Wednesday, June 15th U of T/Taiwan Signing Ceremony and Reception
Date Time Location Wednesday, June 15, 2011 5:00PM - 7:00PM The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk Centre For International Studies - 1 Devonshire Place
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Saturday, June 18th Appreciation for Tamil Studies Conference Volunteers
Date Time Location Saturday, June 18, 2011 11:00AM - 4:00PM Campbell Conference Facility Lounge, 'Munk Centre For International Studies - 1 Devonshire Place
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July 2011
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Monday, July 11th Hong Kong's Financial Secretary 'Dialogue With Canadian Students'
Date Time Location Monday, July 11, 2011 5:30PM - 7:00PM External Event, Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, University of Toronto, 8th floor, Robarts Library, 130 St. George Street + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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INVITATION TO STUDENTS ONLY
5:30 pm-7:00 pm Dialogue session
7:00 pm Reception to followChina’s “12th Five-Year Plan for the National Economic and Social Development” promulgated in March 2011 officially positions Hong Kong as its global financial centre, and an international trade and shipping centre of the country. The Beijing government also supports Hong Kong’s development into an offshore renminbi (RMB) business centre and an international asset management centre, playing the roles of “firewall” and “testing ground”.
According to the Global Financial Centers Index (March 2011), London, New York and Hong Kong are the world’s top three. Hong Kong was the biggest global IPO center for both 2009 and 2010 (raising US$58 billion), far ahead of New York and London. In addition to multinational corporations like Rusal Plc, SouthGobi Resources, L’Occitane and AIA, etc, which have raised record capitals in Hong Kong, China enterprises have so far raised a total of US$396 billion in Hong Kong.
Against this very exciting background, Hong Kong’s Secretary for Finance, John Tsang, will be visiting Toronto and taking a chance to meet with local students to share his vision about the future development of Hong Kong and what opportunities there will be for our future leaders. He will explain Hong Kong’s roles in China’s 12th 5-Year Plan, the blueprint for the country’s development in the next five years, and the opportunities for young Canadians, who are right at the cross road of thinking which direction to go in terms of starting their careers.
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