Past Events at the Asian Institute
May 2009
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Friday, May 1st Asian Foodprints: China & Hong Kong
Date Time Location Friday, May 1, 2009 8:15AM - 6:00PM External Event, Munk Centre For International Studies, Campbell Conference Facility, South House,
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Asian Heritage Month Event
Description
*** The Conference & Dinner is SOLD OUT. We have opened more spaces for the CONFERENCE ONLY. ***
This conference will explore Chinese society, culture, and political economy through the perspective of its food and cuisine. We gather international scholars, chefs, food and wine experts and critics, and filmmakers to discuss how Chinese society – its culture, economy, and global identity – has been evolving and transforming over the last several decades. Using food as a social identity, we focus on the following issues:
• Historical evolution of food in Hong Kong and China;
• Changing social construction of culinary practice and art in Hong Kong and China;
• Changing global and local identities in Hong Kong and China through new food production and consumption patterns; and
• Chinese food and the political economy of the global food system.
This event is targeted to multiple sector audiences – academics, researchers, and students interested in Asian society and culture, industry experts working in areas of Asian and global cuisines and wine, and community members interested in Asian food and society.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM [updated 4.23.09]
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VENUE:
Vivian And David Campbell Conference Facility
Munk Centre For International Studies
1 Devonshire Place, South House8:15 – 8:45 Registration and continental breakfast by Senses at Work
8:45 – 9:00 Welcome
Joseph Wong (Director, Asian Institute, University of Toronto)Opening Remarks
Chancellor Emerita Vivienne Poy (Senator, Government of Canada)Introduction
Ito Peng (Director, Dr. David Chu Program in Asia Pacific Studies, University of Toronto)9:00 – 10:15 Panel I: Food, Politics and the Economy
•A Taste of Low Cuisine in Hong Kong
Sidney C. H. Cheung (Professor and Chairperson, Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
•Chinese Restaurants Without Borders
Cheuk Kwan (Director and Producer, Chinese Restaurants documentary series)Moderator: Eric Cazdyn
(Professor of East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature and Film Studies, University of Toronto)10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 12:10 Panel II: Food as Aesthetic Project
•Chinese Food from Neolithic to Now: From Simple to Elegant, Fashionable, Savory, and Super
Jacqueline M. Newman (Professor Emeritus-Queens College, Flushing NY; Editor-in-Chief of Flavor and Fortune, the only English-language Chinese food magazine in the USA; author of Cooking from China’s Fujian Province (Hippocrene 2008), other books, and hundreds of articles)
•Life in the Kitchen: Home and Abroad
David Lee (Chef and co-owner, Nota Bene and Splendido)
•Wine in Chinese Culture – The Cultural Shift
Drew Innes (George Brown College, Continuing Education Program)Moderator: Leo Chan (Adjunct Professor Chef of Asian Cuisine at the Humber School of Hospitality, Recreation and Tourism, Toronto)
12:10 – 1:00 Dim Sum Demonstration
by Canson Tsang (Director, Chinese Food & Beverage Operations, Metropolitan Hotel, Toronto) and Terrance Chan (Master Dim Sum Chef, Lai Wah Heen Restaurant, Metropolitan Hotel, Toronto)1:00 – 2:00 Dim sum lunch sponsored by Lai Wah Heen Restaurant, Metropolitan Hotel, Toronto and Dr. David Chu Community Network
2:00 – 3:40 Panel III: Food, Culture & Society
• Misrepresentation of Chinese Food Cultures and Cuisines
David Y. H. Wu (Fellow, East-West Center; Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawaii and Visiting Research Professor, National Tsing Hua University, Hsin Chu City, Taiwan)
• How Chinese Food is All-American
Jennifer 8. Lee (Journalist, New York Times; The Fortune Cookie Chronicles)
• A Tasting Menu of Shanghai Dining in Five Courses: Culinary Culture and Foodie Phenomena
Crystyl Mo (Food & Wine Columnist, City Weekend (Shanghai’s largest English language magazine))Moderar: Lily Cho (Assistant Professor of English, University of Western Ontario)
3:40 – 4:00 Break
4:00 –4:50 Keynote Address
An Imaginative Mammal Loves Aggressive (Chinese) Food
Lionel Tiger (Rutgers University; China’s Food: A Photographic Journey)4:50 –5:00 Concluding & Closing Remarks
Vanina Leschziner (Professor of Sociology of Culture, University of Toronto)5:00 –6:00 Happy Hour “Lan Kwai Fong”
D I N N E R I S S O L D O U T !!!
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VENUE:
Metropolitan Hotel, Toronto Ballroom
108 Chestnut Street6:30 Chinese Banquet Dinner
Hong Kong Style
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Wednesday, May 20th Canadian Premiere of "Flowers in the Sky" directed by Prasanna Vithanage
This event has been cancelled
Date Time Location Wednesday, May 20, 2009 6:00PM - 10:00PM External Event, Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue (south of Bloor at St. George),
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Asian Heritage Month Movie Showcase
Description
FREE ADMISSION | E-REGISTRATION IS A MUST | PLEASE ARRIVE AT LEAST 15 MINUTES IN ADVANCE TO ENSURE A SEAT
Schedule to be confirmed:
6:00-6:15 pm Welcome by Chelva Kanaganayakam, Director, Centre for South Asian Studies
Opening remarks by Bandula Jayasekara, Consul General of Sri Lanka in Toronto
6:15-7:45 pm Canadian premiere screening of “Flowers in the Sky”
7:45-8:00 pm Break
8:00-9:00 pm Filmmaker Prasanna Vithanage lecture and Q&A
9:00-10:00 pm Informal gathering with light refreshmentsDirector Vithanage has been invited by the Tamil Studies Conference to be held on May 22-23 (http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~tamils/tsc2009/)
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Year: 2008
Running Time: 90 minutes
Country: Sri Lanka
Language: Sinhala with English subtitles
Genre: Feature
Cast: Malani Fonseka, Nimmi Harasgama, Dilhani Ekanayake, Kaushalya Fernando, Samanalee Fonseka, Jayani Senanayake
Director: Prasanna VithanageDescription: Sandhya Rani is an ageing film star who was once the darling of the silver screen. Having lost fame and fortune in a changing world, she now lives quietly in obscurity. She ekes out a living by renting out a room in her home to the young film and television stars of today to satisfy their illicit sexual desires.
Her daughter, Priya, whom Rani was forced to abandon when Priya was a just an infant, is now an attractive young woman who works as a hostess in a Karaoke night club. But she is also three months pregnant and infected with HIV. Rani’s guilt at what she did to her daughter in her rise to fame, drives her to search for Priya and seek forgiveness. But the form of her eventual forgiveness is not what she expected.
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Friday, May 22nd – Saturday, May 23rd Home, Space and the Other
Date Time Location Friday, May 22, 2009 9:00AM - 8:30PM External Event, Trinity College
6 Hoskin Avenue
University of TorontoSaturday, May 23, 2009 9:00AM - 8:30PM External Event, Trinity College
6 Hoskin Avenue
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Tamil Studies Conference
Description
The objective of the conference is to map the various ways in which the Tamil regions and their spaces – linguistic, cultural, political, economic, religious etc. – have been constituted by, interacted with or responded to influences from within and outside their cultural norms, conventions, or geographical boundaries. The “other” could be defined internally as in constructions of “ur”, “kaadu-naadu” and the “aham-puram” schema of Sangam literature, or it could be identified as the various languages, religions, peoples and political forces that impinged on the Tamil regions. How have “others” in turn conceptualized the Tamil region, peoples and traditions? What are the sources and ongoing relevance of Tamil theorization of the “other” and how has the impact of the “other” introduced new forms of such theorization or altered interpretive frames. In the colonial and modern era when the Tamil regions have been subject to new regimes of knowledge and when Tamils have traveled, been transported and expelled how have they encountered and conceptualized new “others” and how have they been conceived and transformed by these new “others” in their historic and diasporic worlds?
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Sunday, May 24th A Prasanna Vitanage Film: Death on a full Moon Day
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Date Time Location Sunday, May 24, 2009 3:30PM - 5:00PM External Event, Innis Town Hall & Café, 2 Sussex Avenue (south of Bloor at St. George),
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Film banned in Sri Lanka
Screening followed by Q&A with one of South Asia’s most critically acclaimed film makers
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Monday, May 25th Tiger's Lair and Other Stories: Tamil Language, Culture and Women
Date Time Location Monday, May 25, 2009 4:00PM - 6:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Asian Heritage Month Event
Description
Ambai is a historian and a creative writer who writes about love, relationships, quests and journeys in the Tamil region and elsewhere. Her real name is C S Lakshmi. Dr. C S Lakshmi has been an independent researcher in Women’s Studies for the last thirty years. She has a Ph.D from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and has several books and articles to her credit.
She has been writing from the age of 16 and is a well-known writer in Tamil. Her stories have been translated in two volumes entitled A Purple Sea and In a Forest, A Deer. The latter recently shared the Hutch-Crossword award for translated fiction. She is currently the Director of SPARROW (Sound & Picture Archives for Research on Women).
The talk is basically about how Tamil culture through its literary and language traditions defines women through their bodies and the limitations and ramifications of such defining attempts. Several literary texts and everyday language traditions will be used as illustrations in the talk.
An informal gathering with light refreshments follows the talk.
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Tuesday, May 26th Roundtable with High Commissioner Joseph Caron on the Canada-India relationship
Date Time Location Tuesday, May 26, 2009 4:00PM - 5:30PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Asian Heritage Month Distinguished Lecture
Description
Joseph Caron is High Commissioner to the Republic of India with concurrent accreditation to the Kingdom of Bhutan and to Nepal. He received a BA Hon. in Political Science from the University of Ottawa in 1970. He joined the Trade Commissioner Service in 1972, and served abroad in Saigon and Ankara. In 1975, he began Japanese language studies, and subsequently served three times at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, including as Minister and Head of Chancery. During the 1980s, he undertook private-sector assignments involving China, Hong Kong, Korea and Taiwan. In Ottawa, he has held several positions related to Asian and international economic affairs, including the G8 summitry. In 1998, he became Assistant Deputy Minister for Asia Pacific and Africa, and served as Canada’s Senior Official for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation. Until 2005, Mr. Caron served as Canada’s Ambassador to China, with concurrent accreditation to North Korea and Mongolia. From 2005 to 2008, he was Canada’s Ambassador to Japan. In 2008, Mr. Caron was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Meiji Gakuin University.
The High Commissioner will situate Canada’s relationship with India in its historical setting, and describe the current dynamics that shape the Canada-India relationship. He will also reflect on post-election India, and what it might mean for Canada. He will also welcome ideas from the audience on how to increase Canadian awareness of develoments in India, and engagement with this rapidly changing country.
The roundtable will be conducted under Chatam House rules.
An informal reception follows.
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Sunday, May 31st Asian Heritage Month Outreach Film Festival
Date Time Location Sunday, May 31, 2009 2:00PM - 8:12PM External Event, Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue (south of Bloor at St. George),
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Program:
2:00 pm Screening of 8 short films
Lights for Gita directed by Michel Vo
Me, Masi & Mr. Clean directed by Nina Sudra
Souvenirs from Asia directed by Joyce Wong
Amal directed by Richie Mehta
Kata Practice directed by Siu Ta
The Chinese Violin directed by Joe Chang
Roses Sing on New Snow directed by Yuan Zhang3:30 pm Screening of documentary “Chinese Restaurants: Three Continents” directed by Cheuk Kwan
5:00 pm Panel discussion “What Does Food Say About Culture?”
Panelists: Cheuk Kwan (Chinese Restaurants filmmaker), Victoria Shen (former president of Chinese Canadian National Council), Smita and Sanjeev Chandra (co-authors of Indian cookbooks)
Moderator: Bobby Del Rio (ReelWorld programmer)6:30 pm Screening of feature film Bolly Double directed by Arun Bharali
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Sunday, May 31st What Does Food Say About Culture? (Film and Panel)
Date Time Location Sunday, May 31, 2009 3:30PM - 5:45PM External Event, Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue (south of Bloor at St. George),
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Asian Heritage Month Outreach Film Festival
Description
Program:
3:30-4:40 Screening of “Chinese Restaurants: Three Continents” directed by Cheuk Kwan
4:40-5:00 Break
5:00-5:45 Panel discussion with Cheuk Kwan (director of Chinese Restaurants), Victoria Shen (former president of Chinese Canadian National Council), Smita and Sanjeev Chandra (co-authors of Indian cookbooks)
Moderated by Bobby Del Rio (ReelWorld programmer)
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