Features


Three people ride a motorcycle, with a blurred background, in Vietnam. Photo by Timothy Tse.

Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City Are a Study in Contrasts for Undergraduates

July 22, 2016

With support from the Dr. David Chu Program, students in Contemporary Asian Studies travelled to two Vietnamese cities during Reading Week 2016 to study urban infrastructures.

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Still from Changing Season: On the Masumoto Family Farm

Co-presentation of Changing Season: On the Masumoto Farm at the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival

July 21, 2016

This complex film engages with organic food and farming, social injustices, labour, love, the environment and much more.

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critical refugee studies and the wars in southeast asia

Critical Refugee Studies and the Wars in Southeast Asia

July 14, 2016

Watch a video recording of the March 2016 event featuring Yen Le Espiritu, and read the report published in Synergy: The Journal of Contemporary Asian Studies.

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outdoor barber shop in China, Photo by Tong Lam

Dr. David Chu Program Welcomes Tong Lam and Jennifer Purtle as Acting Directors for 2016-17

July 7, 2016

Professors Lam and Purtle will fill in while Professor Fujitani is on leave.

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Beauty of the City by Timothy Tse. Black and white photo, three shadows sitting in the foreground looking out from atop a hill at a city of skyscrapers, lit up at night.

Beauty of the City Wins 2015-16 Photo Contest

July 7, 2016

The photo was taken by fourth year CAS student Timothy Tsun Him Tse.

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Scholarships

June 28, 2016

The Dr. David Chu Program is proud to provide a number of annual academic scholarships, which are reserved for undergraduate and graduate students of the Asia-Pacific region who are Canadian citizens or permanent residents.

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walking a fine line by Alice Tsang

Call for Submissions – Imaging the Asia-Pacific Photo Contest 2016-17

December 4, 2015

The fifth annual photo contest will accept submissions until January 23, 2017.

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black and white photo of 3 people (shadows) sitting in the foreground looking out over Hong Kong at night, with scyscrapers lit up. The text reads Dr. David Chu Program in Asia-Pacific Studies.

Bringing the Asia-Pacific into Global Conversations

September 4, 2015

Our hallmark is that we provide an intellectual meeting ground for critical and self-reflexive conversations that cut across conventional academic disciplines and traditional area studies.

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Monsoon Sweeps Third Annual Imaging the Asia Pacific Photo Contest

September 4, 2015

In February 2015, Joshua Nashieski was selected as the winner of the 2014-15 Imaging the Asia Pacific photo contest for his photo “Monsoon Remix.”

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Recent Asian Institute Grad, Hormuz Dadabhoy, featured in the UofT Magazine

July 21, 2014

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