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Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics

October 26, 2012

Centre for South Asian Studies and Anthropology Professor Naisargi Dave’s new monograph, Queer Activism in India (Duke University Press 2012), examines the formation of lesbian communities in India from the 1980s to the early 2000s. Based on ethnographic research conducted with activist organizations in Delhi, a body of letters written by lesbian women, and research with lesbian communities and queer activist groups across the country, Dave studies the everyday practices that constitute queer activism in India.

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Exhibiting the Cambodian Genocide: The Pasts and Present of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum and Choeung Ek Genocidal Center

October 26, 2012

Researcher: Asian Institute Affiliate Carla Rose Shapiro   Scant scholarly attention has been paid to the genocide in Cambodia relative to the Holocaust, and genocides perpetrated subsequently. Fewer still are the number of studies which consider the representation of the...

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China and India: Foundations of Growth and Challenges

October 3, 2012

October 3, 2012. Full event details here: https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/ai/event/12588/ Series East Asia Seminar Series Description Pranab Bardhan, a Cambridge University PhD, has been at Berkeley since 1977, following teaching appointments at MIT and the Delhi School of Economics. He was the...

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Prosper or Perish: Credit and Fiscal Systems in Rural China

September 26, 2012

Asian Institute and Political Science Professor Lynette Ong’s new monograph, Prosper or Perish (Cornell University Press 2012), examines credit and fiscal systems in rural China.

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Buddhist Reliquaries of Gandhara

September 26, 2012

Researcher: David Jongeward, Asian Institute Visiting Scholar Gandhara is well known to art historians and historians of religion as home to a prolific school of Buddhist sculpture that flourished in the 1st to 4th centuries AD. I am currently engaged...

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The Already Dead: The New Time of Politics, Culture, and Illness

August 26, 2012

By Eric Cazdyn In The Already Dead, Eric Cazdyn examines the ways that contemporary medicine, globalization, politics, and culture intersect to produce a condition and concept that he names “the new chronic.” Cazdyn argues that just as contemporary medicine uses targeted...

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Bearing Witness: Documenting China’s Rise

March 10, 2012

March 10, 2012. Full event details: https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/ai/event/11592/ Series Celebrating the Tenth Anniversary of Asian Heritage Month Description China, in the last thirty years, has industrialized faster than any other nation in our history. This policy of rapid economic growth has...

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Betting on Biotech: Innovation and the Limits of Asia’s Developmental State Book Launch

January 24, 2012

January 24, 2012 Event details: https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/11469/ In Betting on Biotech: Innovation and the Limits of Asia’s Developmental State, Joseph Wong examines the emerging biotechnology sector in Taiwan, South Korea, and Singapore. These economies have invested billions of dollars in biotech...

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North Korea and East Asia after Kim Jong II: Roundtable Discussion

January 10, 2012

January 10, 2012 Event details: https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/ai/event/11536/    

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A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900–1949

November 26, 2011

By Tong Lam In this path-breaking book, Tong Lam examines the emergence of the “culture of fact” in modern China, showing how elites and intellectuals sought to transform the dynastic empire into a nation-state, thereby ensuring its survival. Lam argues...

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