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Exhibition to run from July 9 – August 25, 2008

Tommy Li graduated from the School of Design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Over his career, he has received almost 500 awards worldwide. Li is a member of the esteemed Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) and his company, Tommy Li Design Workshop Limited, is a leading brand and image consultant for many prestigious corporations in China, Hong Kong and Japan.

For more information, please visit http://www.yorku.ca/ycar/Events/Connecting_Words_and_Images.html or contact Wendy Wong at wsywong@yorku.ca.

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Exhibition to run from July 9 – July 20, 2008

Tommy Li graduated from the School of Design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Over his career, he has received almost 500 awards worldwide. Li is a member of the esteemed Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) and his company, Tommy Li Design Workshop Limited, is a leading brand and image consultant for many prestigious corporations in China, Hong Kong and Japan.

For more information, please visit http://www.yorku.ca/ycar/Events/Connecting_Words_and_Images.html or contact Wendy Wong at wsywong@yorku.ca.

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A screening of the classic 1978 kung fu film
Heroes of the East (a.k.a. Shaolin Challenges Ninja)
With live appearance by Gordon Liu
(Kill Bill 1 & 2, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin)
A Q&A and autograph session with Gordon Liu will follow the screening

Synopsis of the film:

Heroes of the East: Gordon Liu plays Ah To, a kung fu student whose rich father has set up an arranged marriage for him with the daughter of a Japanese business associate. She turns out to be not only beautiful, but a practitioner of Japanese martial arts. Ah To?s attempts to persuade her to give them up in favour of more feminine styles of Chinese kung fu backfire, bringing several Japanese martial arts masters to his doorstep for an intense showdown. Featuring meticulous fight choreography and a compelling story seamlessly woven into the action, Heroes of the East is a humourous and thrilling clash of Japanese and Chinese martial arts, and misunderstood customs leading to the ultimate martial battle of the sexes. The film is in Cantonese with English subtitles.

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When the copyright on Rudyard Kipling (1867-1936) expired, Penguin Classics brought out an edition of his masterpiece Kim with an introduction by Edward Said (1987; reprinted in Culture and Imperialism 1993). This could be seen as a publishing coup that staged an encounter between the Great Colonial and the Great Postcolonial. But as it turned out, Kipling’s oriental narrative of the adventures together in late nineteenth century India of a British boy and a Buddhist monk seemed to bring out the most liberal-humanist and indeed apolitical aspects of Said’s sensibility. Comparing Kipling with writers such as Henry James and Proust, Said declared Kim to be a work ‘of great aesthetic merit,’ suggested we were entitled to read it as free of its ‘encumbering political and historical circumstances,’ and seemed to justify or at least excuse Kipling’s imperialist attitudes by saying that for Kipling to think of questioning these then popular attitudes would have been like ‘arguing with the Himalayas.’ In this paper, I seek to argue with Kipling’s attitudes and even more with Said’s.

Harish Trivedi is Professor of English at the University of Delhi, and has been visiting professor at Chicago and London. He is the author of Colonial Transactions: English Literature and India (Calcutta 1993; Manchester 1995), and has co-edited The Nation across the World (New Delhi 2007; New York 2008), Literature and Nation: Britain and India 1800-1990 (London 2000), Post-colonial Translation: Theory and Practice (London 1999), and Interrogating Post-colonialism: Theory, Text and Context (Shimla 1996; rpt. 2000, 2006). He has recently been invited by Penguin Classics to prepare a new edition of Kipling’s Kim.

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Why do Indian metro elites, large land developers, the country offices of the World Bank, US Aid (all staunch supporters of Liberalization), lobby for comprehensive Master Plans with citizen participation? What happens on the ground of Mega Infrastructure Projects? One explanation may lie in what the elite fear as ‘Vote Bank’ politics. Looking at cases from Bangalore, Mumbai (Bombay), and Delhi, I explore how poor groups claim public services, but in ways that re-constitute politics, institutions, and economy. Such spaces, ‘Occupancy Urbanism’, reflect a politicization of municipal administration that allows poor groups to appropriate real estate surpluses, underpin legal foot-dragging that subvert ‘developmentalism’ via Mega Projects and investments into high-end infrastructure. Occupancy Urbanism poses a political consciousness that refuses to be disciplined by NGOs, well-meaning progressive activists, and the metro elite now promoting
the ‘Vote India Campaign’.

Solomon Benjamin moved to the Department of Political Science in 2006 from Bangalore where he was a founder member of an independent research group. He has an academic background in Urban Studies, and has a special interest on urban land, ‘Bazaar’ economies, and city politics.

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On 8 December 1941, the Japanese army launched a surprise attack on Hong Kong. The city fell after 18 days of defence in which 1,975 Canadian soldiers were engaged, signifying a close interrelationship between Canada and Hong Kong. On 25 December, 1941, the Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Mark Aitchison Young, surrendered to the Japanese force. Hong Kong people started the period of “Three Years and Eight Months” of Japanese occupation. To better understand this war period, the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library and Asian Institute at the University of Toronto have organized this panel discussion. Six speakers, including Senator Vivienne Poy, Canadian Veterans who fought in Hong Kong, and scholars of Hong Kong studies, will discuss the Second World War in Hong Kong from various perspectives.

During the event, artifacts and photos from the Second World War in Hong Kong and library resources for the studies of this topic will be on display.

Light dim sum lunch to follow

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We often hear about “Asia rising,” but in many ways, Asia has already risen. Canada is an Asia-Pacific country, and Canadians have a vested interest in being at the forefront of contemporary Asia studies. As the nation’s leading independent think-tank on Asia and Canada-Asia relations, the Asia Pacific Foundation (APF) works hard to ensure timely, accurate, and relevant research/analysis is produced to help guide and influence the direction of public policy, research, and business decisions through its networks.

This informal talk will speak briefly about some of the major projects the APF works on, but the overall purpose is to help raise awareness of the APF as a source of information for graduate students and more specifically, to explain the Post-Graduate Research Fellowship Program through which successful applicants spend a year working in our think-tank environment, participating in roundtable discussions, presenting research, and producing a policy paper to be considered for publication as a Canada-Asia Commentary.

Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
The Asia Pacific Foundation (APF) is Canada’s leading independent think-tank on contemporary Asia and Canada-Asia relations. The APF brings together the academic, business, and policy community to facilitate dialogue on political, social, economic, and security issues of importance to Canada and the Asia-Pacific more generally. Established by an Act of Parliament in 1984, the APF is a not-for-profit organization with headquarters based out of downtown Vancouver, BC.

Ajay Parasram is a Post-Graduate Research Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. He was educated at Dalhousie University, the University of British Colombia, and Carleton University where he received an MA in Political Science specializing in Asian International Relations and sub-regional integration in South/Southeast Asia. Ajay comes to the Asia Pacific Foundation from the Canada Border Services Agency in Ottawa where he worked as a researcher focusing on long-term Commercial Border Policy. His research interests surround the opportunities and challenges of multiculturalism in Canada and foreign policy. Internationally, he is interested in Asian contributions to International Relations theory and practice, normative challenges emerging from the collision of spaces in an era of rapid globalization(s), and the political economy of regionalism.

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The Mahamastakabhisheka is the largest of all Indian temple rituals and is performed once every twelve years at a few sites in southern India. It is an event of major religious and social importance not only for the members of the Digambara denomination, but for the entire Jaina community, attracting pilgrims from all over the world.

The lecture gives impressions of the ritual as performed in Shravanabelagola and Dharmasthala, the oldest and youngest sites, explaining some of the details of Jaina temple ritual and the Jaina concept of divinity.

Robert Zydenbos studied Indology at the universities of Utrecht and Heidelberg and afterwards taught Indian philosophy, Indian religions, Sanskrit, Prakrit, Kannada and Tamil at the universities of Heidelberg, Madras, his native Toronto (1992-93) and Cologne before taking up his present position as professor of Indology at the University of Munich, Germany. . His main research interests are Indian philosophy and religion (particularly Jainism, Virasaivism, and Dvaitavedanta) and Kannada language and literature. His publications include The Concept of Divinity in Jainism and The Calf Became An Orphan: a study in contemporary Kannada fiction.

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Ron Rice is the President Emeritus, International Communication Association and the Co-Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television, and New Media University of California, Santa Barbara