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Upcoming Student Opportunities: Imaging the Asia Pacific Photo Contest, Dr. David Chu Scholarships in Asia-Pacific Studies, Joseph Wong Student Experience Fund, South Asian Studies Graduate Awards and Bursaries, Daisy Ho Contemporary China Special Undergraduate Fund

Upcoming Opportunities for students

February 21, 2020

From research scholarships to a photo contest, there are a variety of upcoming opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students studying East, Southeast, or South Asia. Check out our opportunities page for details and deadlines.

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Members of the Contemporary Asian Studies Student Union (CASSU). Photo: Dewey Chang.

Student-run Asian studies conference explores global careers

February 21, 2020

From a film producer to a banking risk assessor to a sitting Canadian senator, panelists at the Global Careers Through Asia conference discussed how their careers connect to, and benefit from, relationships with Asia.

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Text reads: A Sweet and Sour Christmas. Illustrations of holly, Chinese restaurant food and decor.

A Sweet and Sour Christmas

December 20, 2019

The short documentary film follows a family running a Chinese Canadian restaurant in small-town Ontario on Christmas Day. Produced by CAS alumna Betty Xie. Streaming on CBC Gem.

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Image has abstract shapes of looped arrows and text that reads:Have an idea for a creative research project in Asia? Asian Institute Student Research Awards 2019-20 Call for Ideas. Richard Charles Lee Insights through Asia Challenge, Big Ideas Competition: Exploring Global Taiwan

Call for Ideas: Asian Institute Student Research Awards

December 19, 2019

Learn more about how to apply for funding for your creative research project in Asia. Application deadline January 24, 2020.

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Diana Fu stands at podium in Munk School

DIANA FU’S RESEARCH, AWARD-WINNING BOOK PROVIDE INSIGHT INTO CONTEMPORARY CHINA

November 14, 2019

Diana Fu talks about her research on labour movements in China.

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A damaged surveillance camera is seen at Tai Koo MTR station on October 3, 2019 in Hong Kong, China.

China’s Surveillance State Has Tens of Millions of New Targets

October 24, 2019

Read the Foreign Policy article co-authored by doctoral student Emile Dirks, whose supervisors include affiliated faculty Diana Fu, Joseph Wong, and Victor Falkenheim.

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exhibition display case in Robarts Library

Unit 731: Medical Atrocities in Wartime East-Asia

September 27, 2019

The exhibition at Robarts Library explores the atrocities carried out by the Japanese Imperial Army’s human experimentation unit, the historical context, and the implications for international politics, justice, and human rights.

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Congratulations Diana Fu: Charles Tilly Book Award Recipient

Professor Diana Fu Honoured with 2019 Charles Tilly Book Award from ASA

September 26, 2019

This marks the third major book award for 2017’s Mobilizing Without the Masses: Contention and Control in China.

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students stand on the bank of a river in Osaka, Japan

Diversifying Culture Beyond the Human in Osaka, Japan

September 11, 2019

Antony Zelenka and Johanna Pokorny What can strolling along a dammed and dyked river system on the post-industrial outskirts of Osaka, Japan teach us about cultural diversity? This past spring, eleven graduate students from the University of Toronto were led...

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3 CAS students in Myanmar

“Nothing short of eye-opening”: The Asian Institute’s ICM to Myanmar

August 1, 2019

Asian Institute students and faculty traveled to Yangon, Myanmar for ten days to see, feel, taste, and hear about the issues they study in seminars and readings.

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