Past Events at the Dr. David Chu Program in Asia-Pacific Studies
February 2014
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Monday, February 10th Wounded Futures: Pain, Sympathy, Solidarity - Japanese Sanitation Workers among the Dalit of India
Date Time Location Monday, February 10, 2014 3:00PM - 5:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs
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Description
In 2006, a small group of Japanese sanitation workers traveled from Tokyo to Chennai, India to meet with a group they saw as potential comrades – the Dalit. Over the course of several days, these groups shared stories of pain and discrimination – the rigors of marginalization told alongside triumphs of resistance.
My talk focuses on the politics and aesthetics of this solidarity project between the Japanese Buraku people and the Dalit of South Asia. In it, I develop solidarity as a project of rendering groups – here, the Buraku and the Dalit – commensurate through the operation of extending sympathy. I argue that the viability of political solidarity hangs on the cultivation of a “fellow feeling,” a formative process of learning to feel oneself through the imagined mediating gaze of another. I examine the rules that permit and constrain that sympathetic traffic, as well as the moments that lead to its blockage. This talk complicates notions of circulation and commensuration from linguistic and economic anthropology, and it critically engages work on recognition and vulnerability. My conclusion advances an argument for socio-historical connectedness as opposed to liberal sympathy.
Joseph Hankins is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on the politics of stigmatized labor in Japan. He earned his PhD in anthropology in 2009 from the University of Chicago and is, for the current academic year, a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Thursday, February 13th Dr. David Chu Scholarships in Asia-Pacific Studies Information Session
Date Time Location Thursday, February 13, 2014 12:00PM - 2:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs
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Description
If you are interested in applying for the Dr. David Chu Scholarships in Asia-Pacific Studies, come out to an info session on February 13 to learn more about the scholarships and gain insights and valuable tips into producing a successful application. Professor Takashi Fujitani, the Dr. David Chu Professor and Director in Asia-Pacific Studies, will lead the session, and past winners of the scholarship will also be in attendance. Over a light lunch, learn what the selection committee is looking for in a proposal and what you can do to boost your chances of a successful application.
TO REGISTER: Email ai.asianstudies@utoronto.ca.
The Dr. David Chu scholarships are open to undergraduate or graduate student in the Faculty of Arts and Science pursuing study or research related to the Asia Pacific region (East and Southeast Asia). This year’s application deadline is Monday, March 17, 2014. For further details on eligibility and application procedures, see: http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/scholarships/march15/dr-david-chu-scholarships-in-asia-pacific-studies
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April 2014
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Wednesday, April 9th Rethinking Modernity through Japan
Date Time Location Wednesday, April 9, 2014 1:00PM - 3:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs
1 Devonshire Place
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Thursday, April 10th The Abe Administration’s Foreign and Economic Policy
Date Time Location Thursday, April 10, 2014 3:00PM - 5:00PM External Event, Hart House Music Room
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Description
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came to power following the landslide victory by the Liberal Democratic Party in the 2012 general election. From the outset, the policies of the Abe government have been heavily influenced by two distinct realities: popular dissatisfaction fostered by almost two decades of economic stagnation, and growing uneasiness with Japan’s national security environment.
Japanese Ambassador to Canada Norihiro Okuda will present an overview of the foreign and domestic policies of the Abe Administration. He will discuss their developments in the context of ongoing events in Japan and the Asia Pacific region.
Mr. Norihiro Okuda completed a law degree at Tokyo University before joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) in 1975. In 1979, Mr. Okuda was appointed to the Embassy of Japan in Egypt. He subsequently returned to the Ministry’s Middle Eastern and African Affairs Bureau before becoming Deputy Director of the Energy Affairs Division and later served as Deputy Director at the Management and Coordination Agency in the Prime Minister’s Office. In 1987, Mr. Okuda was appointed to the Japanese Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York as First Secretary and three years later was assigned to the Embassy of Japan in Saudi Arabia. Mr. Okuda subsequently served as Legal Coordinator at MOFA before becoming Director of the Middle East Division and then of the Grant Aid Division. In 1997, he became Counsellor at the Japanese Embassy in Washington D.C. and then Minister. In 2004, Mr. Okuda was named Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Afghanistan and then to the UN as Deputy Permanent Representative at the Japanese Permanent Mission. He was Ambassador to Egypt before being posted to Canada in April 2013.
Schedule:
Talk & Q&A 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM
(Doors open at 3:00PM)Reception 4:15-5:00PM
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