RESPECT Daily Reflections
July 18, 2017
Selections from the daily report of the Osaka University students’ experiences in the 9-day intensive program written by 3 Master’s students.
Read full articleTeaching and research are two sides of the same coin. Good research relies on innovative teaching, and also leads into it.
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.
July 18, 2017
Selections from the daily report of the Osaka University students’ experiences in the 9-day intensive program written by 3 Master’s students.
Read full articleMarch 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.
Read full articleMarch 1, 2013
Students in CAS400Y1: Critical Perspectives on Asian Modernity and JPA411H1: Global Taiwan successfully received funding from the Faculty of Arts and Science to embark on an international course module (ICM) to Taipei, Taiwan, and Xiamen, China, over Reading Week 2013....
Read full articleFebruary 6, 2013
In 2012, a group of undergraduate students in the University of Toronto’s Contemporary Asian Studies program founded and organized the first annual “Interrogating Notions of Development and Progress” (INDePth) conference, bringing together future leaders to ask important questions and devise...
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