Past Events at the Dr. David Chu Program in Asia-Pacific Studies
November 2016
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Tuesday, November 8th Empires and the Idea of Culture
Date Time Location Tuesday, November 8, 2016 4:00PM - 7:00PM The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School of Global Affairs
1 Devonshire Place+ Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Series
Dr. David Chu Distinguished Visitor Lecture
Description
The word “culture” in English today gestures toward two distinct ideas: one of a universal hierarchy of values, embodied in canons of art and literature; and the other of a plurality of systems of value associated with different societies. In what was called the “culture life,” cosmopolitan intellectuals in Japan between the two world wars conceived a third sort of culture in an attempt to bridge Eurocentric hierarchy and local particularism. The idea also gained currency in colonial Korea. Although the “culture life” in Japan collapsed in the 1930s under the weight of its own idealism, it had a long life in Korea and saw a revival in Japan after the war. The unresolved dialectic between universal Culture and particular cultures was later absorbed into heritage protection policy under UNESCO, where Japan played an important role as one of the most powerful non-European participants. This lecture will show how a hybrid conception of culture was enabled by Japan’s position among the imperial powers, and how the fall of the Japanese empire and the dismantling of European colonial empires redefined what could be imagined under the rubric of culture.
Jordan Sand is Professor of Japanese History and Culture at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. He holds a masters degree in architecture history from the University of Tokyo and a doctorate in history from Columbia University. His research focuses on material culture and the history of everyday life. He is the author of House and Home in Modern Japan (Harvard University Press, 2004), Tokyo Vernacular: Common Spaces, Local Histories, Found Objects (University of California Press, 2013) and 帝国日本の生活空間 (Living Spaces of Imperial Japan; Iwanami shoten, 2015). He has also published on historical memory, museums and cultural heritage policy, and the history of food. He has served as visiting professor at Sophia University, the University of Tokyo, University of Michigan, and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. He is presently a visiting researcher at Waseda University working on a study of the history of slums in Tokyo and other Asian cities.
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Sunday, November 13th Rites of Passage Film Screening
Date Time Location Sunday, November 13, 2016 7:00PM - 9:00PM External Event, Isabel Bader Theatre
93 Charles Street West+ Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Series
Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival
Description
Working from personal home videos, filmmakers Kobayashi, Mecija, Nakhai, Supnet and Truong use experimental editing techniques, animation and documentary interviews to reflect on their understandings of cultural heritage and personal identities through their experiences with love, fear and womanhood.
This collection of commissioned works will premiere alongside an original live musical score composed by Canadian orchestral pop band Obhijou. In 2013, Ohbijou announced they would go on indefinite hiatus, citing a need for “time to take pause and allow for new experiences,” and a discomfort with the way that constructions of otherness had confined readings of their work to a single narrative. Obhijou’s performance at Reel Asian will be their first time reuniting in three years – a rare opportunity for fans.
This project was made possible through funding from the Inter-Action Multiculturalism Program supported by the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Tickets:
Reel Asian Members $20.00
Regular $25.00
Student/Senior $23.00Please visit the Reel Asian website to purchase tickets.
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Tuesday, November 22nd Self-determination and the Rise of Youth Power in Hong Kong
Date Time Location Tuesday, November 22, 2016 6:30PM - 9:00PM External Event, Jackman Humanities Building Conference Room
First floor
170 St. George Street+ Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Description
Young social activists engaged in community movements and newly-elected Legislative Councillors will share their political vision for Hong Kong’s future and challenges confronting the City. They will also analyze the impact on “One Country Two Systems” and the independent judicial system of Hong Kong by the recent interpretation of Basic Law by National People’s Congress Standing Committee.
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Friday, November 25th Public Forum on Self-determination and the Rise of Youth Power in Hong Kong
Date Time Location Friday, November 25, 2016 6:30PM - 9:00PM External Event, Jackman Humanities Building, G/F, 262 Bloor Street West + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Description
For the first time in Toronto, young social activists engaged in Hong Kong community movements and newly-elected Legislative Councillors will share via Skype their political vision for Hong Kong’s future and challenges confronting the City. They will also analyze the impact on “One Country Two Systems” and the independent judicial system by the recent interpretation of Hong Kong Basic Law by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress.
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December 2016
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Tuesday, December 6th Metamorphoses: Archival Fictioning and the Historian’s Craft
Date Time Location Tuesday, December 6, 2016 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 208N, 1 Devonshire Place + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Description
In attempting to understand early modern science and medicine from Chinese natural history to Manchu translations of bodily gesture and sensation, my work has placed the history and translation of metamorphic stories at its center. For our gathering – intended more as a conversation about craft than a formal talk – I will introduce recent work in which I have been expanding my practice to integrate short fiction and prose poetry as modes of reading and analyzing historical documents. The focus of my attention will be a new project called Metamorphoses that is loosely inspired by the work of Ovid and is devoted to creating stories of material transformation through creative readings and misreadings of primary source documents that derive from (or are oriented toward) early modern China.
Carla Nappi is Associate Professor of History and Canada Research Chair of Early Modern Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her first book, The Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and its Transformations in Early Modern China (Harvard, 2009) was a study of belief-making in early modern Chinese natural history through the lens of the Bencao gangmu (1596), a compendium of materia medica. Her current research explores practices and contexts of translation in the Ming and Qing periods.
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