November 22, 2012
The Centre for South Asian Studies has partnered with the Cinema Studies Institute and the Royal Ontario Museum to bring Anand Patwardhan, India’s leading documentary filmmaker, to Toronto.
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The Dr. David Chu Program in Asia-Pacific Studies is asking U of T students to submit photos that incites us to imagine the Asia-Pacific from unique perspectives. Submission deadline: January 14, 2013.
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In an article in the Guardian, SIRG member Reza Mirza discusses what makes a good ecosystem for social enterprises.
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Over the next week the Asian Institute will celebrate Asian film with two special events in partnership with the Reel Asian International Film Festival.
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November 7, 2012
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/138449/lynette-h-ong/indebted-dragon
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September 25, 2012
Curated by Photo Archive Group, and Dr. Carla Rose Shapiro from the Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs, this exhibition calls attention to the atrocities in Cambodia in the 1970s, and human rights issues overall.
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September 17, 2012
http://ahr.oxfordjournals.org/content/117/5/1562.2.extract
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City University of Hong Kong professor and Asian Institute visiting scholar elaborates in his book the context and ingredients of economic freedom that have brought success and prosperity to Hong Kong.
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September 6, 2012
The book Gandharan Buddhist Reliquaries appeared in August 2012 as the first volume in a new Gandharan Studies series published by the Early Buddhist Manuscript Project, University of Washington.
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August 28, 2012
Interweaving insightful and theoretically informed discussions of rural credit, development, governance, and bank bailouts, Asian Institute’s Lynette Ong identifies various sources for China’s uneven development.
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