Jacques Bertrand (Director, Collaborative Specialization in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies and Professor, Political Science) has published Winning by Process: The State and Neutralization of Ethnic Minorities in Myanmar (Cornell University Press, 2022). Winning by Process asks why the peace...
Tong Lam’s photo essay for positions analyzes the politics of eviction, demolition, resistance, and gentrification in China through an urban village renewal project. Tong Lam; The Dark Side of the Miracle: Spectacular and Precarious Accumulation in an Urban Village under Siege...
Diana Fu and Emile Dirks have co-published a chapter in a new book published by Brookings Press. The book, The Party Leads All: The Evolving Role of the Chinese Communist Party (Brookings Institution Press, 2022). Their chapter, “The Party’s Struggle...
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 May 2022 Emmrich, Christoph, Joseph McQuade, Sana Aiyar and Thibaut d’Hubert. (2022). Towards a Burma-inclusive South Asian Studies: A Roundtable. Modern Asian Studies, 1-38. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X21000718 Abstract Burma, or Myanmar as it was renamed...
Lynette H. Ong (Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Asian Institute) has published Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China (Oxford University Press, 2022). A compelling examination of China’s engagement of nonstate actors as a counterintuitive solution to...
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Bringing together leading experts on Asia from across disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, the Asian Institute is an aggregator and accelerator of faculty and student research. Our pan-Asian approach furthers the deep, specialized knowledge about particular regions that is necessary to understand the complexities of local issues, while fostering transnational and interdisciplinary conversations that transcend and contextualize local viewpoints. Through our innovative teaching programs, projects, and events, we provide researchers with the inspiration, support, and resources they need to produce leading-edge scholarship on Asia.
May 6, 2016
Opening the Second Annual Meeting and Workshop of Urban Climate Resilience in Southeast Asia Partnership program (UCRSEA) in Hanoi, H.E. David Devine, Canadian Ambassador to Vietnam, highlighted the importance of building resilient urban futures for the countries in the Mekong...
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September 16, 2015
Professor Francis Cody received a SSHRC Insight Grant for his project Mediating the People: Newspapers and Mass Politics in South India. Read more about the project below. This project examines the role of newspapers in shaping political life in Tamil Nadu, India....
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January 15, 2015
Undergraduate student Rachel Ball-Jones sat down with Professor Takashi Fujitani to talk about his research on Japan in World War II and how Hollywood plays a role shaping memory.
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January 15, 2015
Undergraduate student Lily Li sat down with Professor Beatrice Jauregui to talk about publications and her study of the police force in India.
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November 5, 2014
Asian Institute affiliated Professor Amrita Daniere co-directs a new multimillion dollar partnership on climate resilience
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November 15, 2013
The Hong Kong Basic Law Portal was successfully launched with a well-attended ceremony held at the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library on November 13, 2013. The ceremony was officiated with remarks by Dr. Vivienne Poy, Chair of the Advisory...
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April 3, 2013
The 2012-13 Global Ideas Institute (GII) challenged Toronto-area high school students to create a strategy to scale up the supply of Sprinkles micronutrient powders, improve the distribution of the product, and ensure that targeted end-users (people in developing countries who have limited access to a diverse supply of foods and are at risk of micronutrient deficiencies) are aware of it and are using it correctly. Students worked together with U of T professors and undergraduate and graduate student mentors throughout the year on this problem, culminating in a day-long symposium where they present their findings to leading experts in the field.
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March 2, 2013
The Social Innovation Research Group held a groundbreaking conference in Taipei, Taiwan, in February 2013 that brought together guests from diverse fields within the local social enterprise community. The SIRG symposium was held to discuss the ways in which success in social enterprise can be achieved and measured, as well as how to coordinate the social enterprise community in order to achieve maximum impact in society.
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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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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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