Past Events at the Asian Institute
May 2022
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Tuesday, May 3rd – Wednesday, May 4th Navigating Information and Race in the Era of COVID-19
Date Time Location Tuesday, May 3, 2022 9:00AM - 5:00PM External Event, External Event Wednesday, May 4, 2022 9:00AM - 5:00PM External Event, External Event + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Description
This symposium advances multidisciplinary, transcultural and transnational understandings of how disinformation affects Canada’s vulnerable groups, including marginalized, minority, and indigenous communities, when accurate and bias-free health and anti-racism messages on the Internet become more critical than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019 to 2022. It consists of featured papers, panel presentations, roundtable discussion, open forum and a focus group meeting to discuss the conclusions and recommendations for future direction. The participants include senior scholars, emerging academics, graduate and undergraduate students, as well as community and business leaders whose work leads them to focus on cross-cultural encounters, information movements across borders, processes of displacement and historical change. In addition to Toronto-based participants, presenters and audience can attend the symposium nationally and globally through virtual conferencing technology.
SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM: https://ycar.apps01.yorku.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Navigating-information-and-race-program.pdf
This symposium is generously supported by: York University Libraries, Osgoode Hall Law School, York Centre for Asian Research, Canadian Studies Program and Asian Institute at the University of Toronto, and Justin Poy Agency.
The symposium is organized by Jack Leong, Norda Bell, Kalina Grewal, Thumeka Mgwigwi and Sharon Wang from York University.
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Wednesday, May 18th Taiwan, the United States, and the Hidden History of the Cold War in Asia: Divided Allies
Date Time Location Wednesday, May 18, 2022 3:00PM - 5:00PM Online Event, Online Event + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Series
Global Taiwan Lecture Series
Description
This presentation explores the challenges which faced the United States and Taiwanese alliance during the Cold War, addressing a wide range of events and influences of the period between the 1950s and 1970s. Tackling seven main topics to outline the fluctuations of the U.S.–Taiwan relationship, Dr. Lin’s new book highlights the impact of the mainland counteroffensive, the offshore islands, Tibet, Taiwan’s secret operations in Asia, Taiwan’s Soviet and nuclear gambits, Chinese representation in the United Nations, and the Vietnam War. Utilizing multinational archival research, particularly the newly available materials from Taiwan and the United States, to reevaluate Taiwan’s foreign policy during the Cold War, revealing a pragmatic and opportunistic foreign policy disguised in nationalistic rhetoric. Moreover, this study represents a departure from previous scholarship, emphasizing the dictatorial and incompetent nature of the Chinese Nationalist regime, to provide fresh insights into the nature of U.S.–Taiwan relations.
SPEAKER’S BIO:
Hsiao-ting Lin is curator of the Modern China and Taiwan collection and research fellow at the Hoover Institution. His academic interests include border strategies and defenses in modern China, political institutions and the bureaucratic system of the Chinese Nationalist Party, and US-Taiwan military and political relations during the Cold War. He has published extensively, including Accidental State: Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the Making of Taiwan (Harvard University Press, 2016); Modern China’s Ethnic Frontiers: A Journey to the West (Routledge, 2011); Tibet and Nationalist China’s Frontier: Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928–49 (UBC Press, 2006), Taiwan, the United States, and the Hidden History of the Cold War in Asia: Divided Allies (Routledge, 2022); and over a hundred journal articles, book chapters, edited volumes, reviews, and opinion pieces.
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Disclaimer: Please note that events posted on this website are considered to be public events – unless otherwise stated – and you are choosing to enter a space where your image and/or voice may be captured as part of event proceedings that may be made public as part of a broadcast, webcast, or publication (online and in print). We make every effort to ensure your personal information is kept and used in compliance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA). If you have any questions please get in touch with our office at munkschool@utoronto.ca or 416-946-8900.