October 17, 2018
In his talk at the Asian Institute, Interim Munk School Director Randall Hansen compared the findings from his bestselling book Fire and Fury, about the Allied bombing of Germany in WWII, to the case of Japan. Professor Takashi Fujitani served as discussant.
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October 3, 2018
Dr. Li is an affiliate of the Asian Institute and former Director of the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies. She is the first U of T researcher to receive the prestigious Insight Award, which recognizes the outstanding achievement and demonstrable impact of the awardee’s research.
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August 20, 2018
Master’s student Mary-Anne Meerasabeer reflects on what she learned about environmental sustainability in Thailand during a summer internship at CanCham Thailand.
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July 10, 2018
Johanna Pokorny, Bronwyn Frey, Nicholas Feinig, Brenton Buchanan In Japan, Professor Shiho Satsuka explains, the city of Osaka has a strong history of grassroots activism in advocating for issues of social inequality. Prof. Satsuka remembers this being visible when she...
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June 22, 2018
Professor Fu’s book was awarded the 2018 Gregory Luebbert Prize for the best book on Comparative Politics from the American Political Science Association.
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May 30, 2018
Asian Institute students, staff, faculty, and family worked together to pull a 757 cargo plane 20 feet across the tarmac at Pearson International Airport for the 2018 Orbis Plane Pull for Sight.
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May 22, 2018
Bob Rae spoke about the Rohingya crisis at an event hosted by the Asian Institute last week.
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May 11, 2018
On May 17, Bob Rae, Prime Minister’s Special Envoy to Myanmar, will discuss his report on the humanitarian crisis in Bangladesh and Myanmar.
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April 27, 2018
In February 2018, CAS students took part in an international course module in Indonesia led by Professor Jacques Bertrand . View their presentation and video and learn more about the ICM.
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