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This is the second virtual roundtable discussion for the new series – Theory/Praxis/Politics. This forum highlights film practitioners and programmers’ thoughts and reflections on the practices of censorship across Asia. Join our panelists, Sudarat Musikawong, Raymond Phathanavirangoon, and Thaiddhi, as they articulate their first-hand experiences in the field and unfurl the complexities of censorship both in the production and circulation of cinema.

Theory/Praxis/Politics is a webinar series working to advocate for and bring together perspectives of academics, filmmakers, programmers, civil servants, and other stakeholders with an interest in the question of censorship across Asia and its diasporas. We consider Asia as a productive site in which theory, practice, and politics overlap. The intersection allows us to question not only our understanding of censorship and the ways in which we engage with cinema in the region but also to reconsider the relationship between theory, aesthetics, and politics.

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RAYMOND PHATHANAVIRANGOON is a film producer and Executive Director of Southeast Asia Fiction Film Lab (SEAFIC). Previously he was programmer or delegate for Toronto International Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival and Cannes Critics’ Week. Prior, he was Director of Marketing & Special Projects (Acquisitions) for sales agent Fortissimo Films. His producing credits include Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s SAMUI SONG (Venice 2017) and HEADSHOT (Berlin 2012), Boo Junfeng’s APPRENTICE (Cannes 2016), Josh Kim’s HOW TO WIN AT CHECKERS (EVERY TIME) (Berlin 2015), Pang Ho-Cheung’s DREAM HOME (Tribeca 2010) and ABERDEEN (Hong Kong Film Awards Best Picture nominee 2014), the upcoming THIRTEEN LIVES by Ron Howard, among others.

SUDARAT MUSIKAWONG is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Population and Social Research at Mahidol University in Thailand. She received her Ph.D. and MA in sociology from the University of California at Santa Cruz and her BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She positions her investigations within cultural-political sociology and ethnographic research. Her publications include with Malinee Khumsupa, “Notes on Camp Films in Authoritarian Thailand,” Southeast Asia Research Journal (2019)Her publications include “Gendered Casualties: Thai Memoirs in Activism,” Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism (2013); “Mourning State Celebrations: Amnesic Iterations of Political Violence in Thailand,” in Identities, Global Studies in Culture and Power (2010); “Between Celebration and Mourning,” in Toward a Sociology of the Trace, (University of Minnesota Press, 2010); “Art for October Thai Cold War State Violence in Trauma Art,” positions: east asia cultures critique, Volume 18, Number 1, Spring 2010.

THAIDDHI is a Filmmaker, Producer, and also Film Programmer. He studies Filmmaking at FAMU in the Czech Republic for 3 years master’s degree program in Cinema and Digital Media. His first short film “Awake” won Best Short Film at FAMU Fest 2009. He co-founded Wathann Film Festival in 2011 and worked as a Programmer for the festival. In 2013 he founded Third Floor Film Production to produce Myanmar Independent short films and documentary films. He produced a short film Cobalt Blue (2019) by Aung Phyoe which was selected for the Pardi di Domani International Competition at 72nd Locarno Film Festival. He also worked as a Cinematographer in the recent film Money Has Four Legs (2020) by Maung Sun, which was premiered at New Currents (Busan International Film Festival 2020).

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The rise of platforms like Uber and Airbnb have created numerous challenges and opportunities for Canadian municipalities. Over the last several years, many municipalities have moved to regulate and tax these services. Some have also partnered with them, including to help bolster transit service.

On February 1, a panel of academics and practitioners will look at the future of the relationship between municipalities and the platform economy. Looking at examples from across the country the panel will examine questions including: What trends around the platform economy are lasting, which are short term? What new regulation is needed? Are new taxation models or user fee frameworks needed?
This is the first in a series of three events examining how municipalities in Canada are confronting issues related to new developments in technology and the use of data. Future events will focus on smart city technology and cybersecurity.

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The humanitarian disaster triggered by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 exposed the racial violence and class domination that structures New Orleans and the broader U.S. South. This talk uses ethnography to explore the social impact of the privatization of public services in Southern Louisiana in the years since Katrina made landfall. With a particular focus on the quasi-privatization of public schools, this presentation analyzes how the politics of space, place, and class in Black New Orleans are being transformed.

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Dr. Justin Hosbey
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Emory University

Dr. Justin Hosbey a cultural anthropologist and Black studies scholar. His research explores Black social and cultural life in the U.S. Gulf Coast and Mississippi Delta regions. His current ethnographic project utilizes research methods from the digital and spatial humanities to explore and visualize how the privatization of neighborhood schools in low income and working class Black communities has fractured, but not broken, Black space and place making in post-Katrina New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

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This lecture is a part of the Oxford-Penn-Toronto International Doctoral Cluster speaker series.

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In January of 1947, Canadian foreign minister Louis St. Laurent delivered the Gray Lecture at the U of T’s Convocation Hall, on The Foundations of Canadian Foreign Policy. Since then, scholars have debated the extent to which the lecture reflected Canadian policy, and its relevance today, particularly given the complex relationship between Canadian values and Canadian interests. The Graham Centre is honoured to sponsor a virtual symposium on The Gray Lecture After 75 Years, with former Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy, and Professors Patrice Dutil and Jennifer Tunnicliffe of Ryerson University.

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BOOK TALK

Stitching the 24-Hour City: Life, Labor, and the Problem of Speed in Seoul (Cornell University Press, 2021)

Stitching the 24-Hour City reveals the intense speed of garment production and everyday life in Dongdaemun, a lively market in Seoul, South Korea. Once the site of uprisings against oppressive working conditions in the 1970s and 80s, Dongdaemun has now become iconic for its creative economy, nightlife, and fast-fashion factories, and shopping plazas. Seo Young Park follows the work of people who witnessed and experienced the rapidly changing marketplace from the inside. Through this approach, Park examines the meanings and politics of work, focusing on what it takes for people to enable speedy production and circulation and also how they incorporate the critique of speed in the ways they make sense of their own work. Stitching the 24-Hour City provides in-depth ethnographic accounts of the garment designers, workers, and traders who sustain the extraordinary speed of fast fashion production and circulation, as well as the labor activists who challenge it. Attending to their narratives and practices of work, Park illuminates how speed is, rather than a singular drive of acceleration, an entanglement of uneven paces and cycles of life, labor, the market, and the city itself.

Learn more about the book at: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501756115/stitching-the-24-hour-city/#bookTabs=1
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Seo Young Park is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Scripps College and works on the ethnographic approaches to urban environment, labor, and gender in South Korea. Her writings appeared in Journal of Korean Studies and edited volumes. She is currently working on the public anxiety on air quality issues, and gendered platform labor in Korea.

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Alexander Herman, Director of the Institute of Art and Law, has published a new volume on the complex and fascinating topic of the restitution of cultural artifacts. The Graham Centre, and the Minerva Center for Human Rights, at Tel Aviv University, are pleased to sponsor a virtual discussion of this new book. Alexander Herman will discuss his book, followed by comments from Leora Bilsky of the Minerva Center; Juanita Johnston of the U’mista Cultural Centre, at Alert Bay; Jennifer Orange of the Lincoln Alexander School of Law; and Matthias Weller of the Bonn Institute for German and International Civil Procedure. Mayo Moran, Provost of Trinity College, will moderate.

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The Centre for the Study of Global Japan at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, welcomed Kiyoteru Tsutsui (Stanford University) for a talk about his book, “Rights Make Might.”  Since the late 1970s, the three most salient minority groups in Japan – the politically dormant Ainu, the active but unsuccessful Koreans, and the former outcaste group of Burakumin – have all expanded their activism despite the unfavorable domestic political environment. In Rights Make Might, Kiyoteru Tsutsui examines why, and finds an answer in the galvanizing effects of global human rights on local social movements. Tsutsui chronicles the transformative impact of global human rights ideas and institutions on minority activists, which changed their understandings about their standing in Japanese society and propelled them to new international venues for political claim making. The global forces also changed the public perception and political calculus in Japan over time, catalyzing substantial gains for their movements. Having benefited from global human rights, all three groups repaid their debt by contributing to the consolidation and expansion of human rights principles and instruments outside of Japan. Drawing on interviews and archival data, Rights Make Might offers a rich historical comparative analysis of the relationship between international human rights and local politics that contributes to our understanding of international norms and institutions, social movements, human rights, ethnoracial politics, and Japanese society.  

—Speaker Bio— Kiyoteru Tsutsui is Henri H. and Tomoye Takahashi Professor and Senior Fellow in Japanese Studies at the Shorenstein APARC at Stanford University, where he is also Director of the Japan Program, a Senior Fellow of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and a Professor of Sociology.

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Advances in the ability to collect and analyse data related to municipal infrastructure create both opportunities and challenges for local governments across Canada. While smart city technology can help cities deliver services more effectively, it also exposes potential vulnerabilities in current governance processes and raises questions about relationships with the private sector in terms of how data are generated, collected and stored. Meanwhile, as municipalities weigh these challenging ethical and policy questions, the introduction of data-infused public infrastructure has not slowed.

On February 16, a panel of academics and practitioners will examine the growing smart city industry and the advancement of data-intensive public infrastructure in Canada. How does smart city technology affect procurement or the financing of data-intensive public infrastructure? Are local governance functions threatened? What do policy-makers need to know about data governance? Do municipal policy-makers have the tools they need to balance public finance and public interest?

This panel discussion is the second in a series of three events examining how municipalities in Canada are confronting issues related to new
developments in technology and the use of data. The first event on the platform economy is on February 1. The third event in the series will focus on cybersecurity.

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This talk examined why a gender difference in vote choice emerged – and varies – in some countries, but not in Japan.  Speaker: Gill Steel, Professor of Political Science, Institute for the Liberal Arts, Doshisha University  Gill Steel is Professor of Political Science at the Institute for the Liberal Arts, Doshisha University. Her recent work includes What Women Want. Voting Preferences in Japan, Britain, and the United States (2022); editing Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan (2019); and co-editing 現代日本社会の権力構造 (2018) with Masahiko Asano; Power in Contemporary Japan (2016).

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Drawing on the famine records from late nineteenth century Punjab and North Western Provinces, this talk will contextualise the practices on famine public works construction within the trajectories of caste, gender and labour in South Asia. On famine public works, labourers, including a large number of women, worked in the construction of railways, roads, canals, and tanks in return for a subsistence wage. We will demonstrate that a relational definition of labour was central to the construction of caste respectability on famine works, thus opening up new ways to understand the relationship between caste, property and labour. Answering the question of who worked where and why, the talk will also show that women’s labour was constitutive of caste, and not merely its marker.

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Madhavi Jha is a postdoctoral fellow at Centre for South Asian Civilizations, Department of Historical Studies. Based on her PhD research, she is currently working on a book manuscript titled Women at Work: Women Labourers and Public Works Construction in Colonial India. Departing from the usual histories of construction work which present masculine experiences, this book offers insights gained from accounting for women labourers in a sector that remains the second largest employer of women in India today. Her research interests include labour, gender, infrastructural history, social stratification, and social and political movements. Her postdoctoral research explores the history of groups associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, like the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh.

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Our time has witnessed a surge of populism, where Taiwan is no exception. Contemporary studies on populism began to identify the intricate relationship between neoliberal globalization and populist politics, where populism is largely conceived as a political reaction to the encroachment of neoliberalism. However, the relationship between the two can be far more complicated than what is often portrayed in the existing literature: Is populism a consequence, a counterforce, or a co-constitutive element of neoliberalism? How does Taiwan fit in the aforementioned question? Is a structural analysis possible against the highly divergent forms of populist politics and neoliberal initiatives? Furthermore, how do Taiwan’s experiences contribute to the theoretical development of the global populism scholarship? Focusing on the restructuring of state-society relations and examining a number of Taiwan’s notable populist movements within their political-economic conjuncture in the post-democratization era, this talk seeks to shed light on the dynamics between neoliberalism and populism in Taiwan and beyond.

Szu-Yun Hsu is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at McMaster University. Dr. Hsu received her Ph.D. in geography from the University of British Columbia. Her research explores the intricate dynamics between populism, neoliberalism, and geo-political economy in East Asia with a focus on Taiwan.

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Local governments around the world have increasingly become common targets of cyberattack over the last several years. Studies in the United States have indicated that local governments are, on the one hand, regularly under attack and, on the other, not keeping up to date with cybersecurity best practices. Many municipalities across Canada are equally vulnerable.

Unfortunately, many municipalities suffer from capacity and knowledge gaps in trying to protect their organizations. On March 1, a panel of academics and practitioners will examine the growing threat of cyberattack to local governments in Canada and other parts of the world. How do municipalities need to adjust process and existing practices? What is the risk? What are the costs of action/inaction? Where do municipalities start to ensure they are protected?

This panel discussion is the third in a series of three events examining how municipalities in Canada are confronting issues related to new developments in technology and the use of data.

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BOOK LAUNCH

Welcome to a book launch for Plantation Life: Corporate Occupation in Indonesia’s Oil Palm Zone by Tania Li and Pujo Semedi. Professor Tania Li will give a short presentation followed by comments from Professor Thembela Kepe (Geography, U of T) and Professor Bhavani Raman (History, U of T).

“Plantation Life is an eye-opening book on many fronts. It offers up an ethnographically and historically rich account of forms of life in Indonesia’s corporate plantation zone and has much to give about method, collaboration, and evidence. Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi show how the plantation is a presence both fickle and contradictory, at once an occupying force and a source of neglect: occupation and abandonment, order and disorder, theft and calculability, alignment and fracture all coexist in a rough-and-tumble assemblage in which political economy and technologies of power are simultaneously in play. An important book.” — Michael Watts, Class of ’63 Professor, University of California, Berkeley

To learn more about the book and the collaborative research behind it, see https://antropologi.fib.ugm.ac.id/en/plantation-life-2/
The book is available for purchase at: https://www.dukeupress.edu/plantation-life

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On Thursday, March 3 at 2 p.m. ET, Lucan Way, Co-Director of the Munk School’s Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine will examine the latest developments with a panel of experts including Volodymyr Dubovyk, an Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations and Director of Center for International Studies at I. Mechnykov National University in Odessa, Marta Dyczok, an Associate Professor of History and Political Science at Western University, Olga Onuch, a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Manchester, Oxana Shevel, an Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, and Tatiana Zhuzhenko, Research Fellow, Centre for East European and International Studies, Berlin.

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Digital technologies are rapidly transforming our social, economic and political lives. This is especially true in the case of China, where city governments have begun to experiment with digital technologies to harness the power of big data analytics for governing society. From using biometric checkpoints to track Muslim minorities, to using AI for intelligent traffic management, big data driven applications are mushrooming quickly in Chinese cities. What are China’s digital and big data ambitions and actual local realities? Are these digital experiments more ‘buzz and hype’ or real game changing? Do these technologies alter digital governance practices in authoritarian China and if so, how? Top-down or bottom-up mobilized state-led digitalization? Are digital technologies tools for convenience or control? And how does it alter state-society relations in China? Drawing from interviews, surveys, and a database of local digital initiatives across China, this talk will shed light on the intended and unintended consequences of incorporating digital technologies into local governance processes in Chinese cities.

Genia Kostka is a Professor of Chinese Politics at the Freie Universität Berlin. Her research focuses on digital transformation, environmental politics, and political economy with a regional focus on China. Her most recent research project explores how digital technologies are integrated into local decision-making and governance structures in China (ERC Starting Grant 2020-2025).

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Using India as a case study, Joseph McQuade will discuss his research on how the modern concept of terrorism was shaped by colonial emergency laws dating back into the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Beginning with the ‘thugs’, ‘pirates’, and ‘fanatics’ of the nineteenth century, McQuade will trace the emerging and novel legal category of ‘the terrorist’ in early twentieth-century colonial law, ending with an examination of the first international law to target global terrorism in the 1930s. He will also discuss how many of the ideas embedded in this colonial legislation have continued to shape postcolonial counter-terrorism strategies well into the twenty-first century.

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Please note that the panel is scheduled to start at 1 pm and end at 2.15 pm.

Matthew Light studies migration control, policing and criminal justice, and public and citizen security, primarily in the post-Soviet region. His book (Routledge 2016) and several related articles on Russian federal and regional migration policies in the aftermath of the breakup of the USSR analyze what forms of freedom of movement emerged in the new post-Soviet Russian state, and frames the Soviet and post-Soviet experience with migration management in comparative international perspective. Light’s recent work concerns policing and other aspects of public and citizen security in several post-Soviet countries, including Russia, Georgia, and Armenia, and examines the evolution of both public policing institutions and private provision of security in the region.

Professor Margarita M. Balmaceda, Professor of Diplomacy and International Relations, joined the School of Diplomacy and International Relations in 1999. She teaches courses on the Politics of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity, on Post-Soviet and East European Politics and Foreign Policies, as well on Master’s Research Project. Currently she is an Associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. A specialist on the comparative energy politics of the post-Soviet states, since 2000 she has been “following the pipeline” – i.e. following the complex web of interconnections that accompany the energy relationship between Russian oil and gas producers, post-Soviet transit states, and European consumers. This research agenda has taken her on multiple field research stays in Eastern Europe and the former USSR, including Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Hungary and Moldova. Support from three Fulbright Awards, as well as funding from the Ford Foundation, the, Humboldt Foundation, the DAAD and many other foundations, has made possible such ambitious research agenda. Fluent in Spanish, Russian, Ukrainian, German, near-fluent in Hungarian and with a good working knowledge of Belarusian, Dr. Balmaceda feels very much at home almost everywhere in Eastern Europe. And with the strong international presence at the School of Diplomacy and International Relations, she is happy to use her language skills in many one-to one discussions with her students.

Sam Greene is professor in Russian politics and Director of the Russia Institute at King’s College London. Prior to moving to London in 2012 to join King’s, he lived and worked in Moscow for 13 years, most recently as director of the Centre for the Study of New Media & Society at the New Economic School, and as deputy director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. He holds a PhD in political sociology from the London School of Economics & Political Science. His most recent book, co-authored with Graeme Robertson, is Putin v the People: The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia, published in 2019 by Yale University Press. His previous book, Moscow in Movement: Power & Opposition in Putin’s Russia, was published in 2014 by Stanford University Press. Sam’s academic work has been published in leading disciplinary and area studies journals, including Comparative Political Studies, Perspectives on Politics, The Journal of Democracy, Post-Soviet Affairs and Problems of Post-Communism. He regularly contributes opinion and analysis pieces to general interest publications, such as The Washington Post, The Moscow Times, Foreign Policy, The New Statesman and others, and is a frequent commentator in British, American, Russian and European broadcast and print media.

Paul Massaro is the senior policy advisor for counter-corruption and sanctions. Paul’s work has advanced the recognition of corruption as a national security threat. He has been described in the media as “one of America’s foremost corruption experts” and an “endless source of democratic ingenuity.” He has worked on over 13 pieces of counter-corruption legislation and facilitated the founding of the Congressional Caucus against Foreign Corruption and Kleptocracy and the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance against Kleptocracy. Paul also covers German-speaking Europe and East Asia. His work on the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act, a landmark law redefining doping as fraud and making it illegal in international competitions anywhere in the world, has for the first time provided justice to clean athletes and held to account the authoritarian actors who use sport as a tool of foreign policy. The Associated Press described the unanimous passage of the act as “a remarkable achievement considering the polarization in U.S. politics.” His work on the Transnational Repression Accountability and Prevention (TRAP) Act was similarly groundbreaking, serving as the first-ever U.S. law to respond to abuse of INTERPOL by authoritarian regimes. Paul is regularly quoted and published by major media outlets such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, POLITICO, and Foreign Policy, and he speaks frequently on panels, podcasts, and broadcasts about corruption, sanctions, and European security policy. His work is featured in Casey Michel’s book American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World’s Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History. He co-hosts the award-winning Making a Killing podcast, which explores how corruption is reshaping global politics. He is a fellow at the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy, an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute’s Kleptocracy Initiative, and a member of the Royal United Services Institute’s Transatlantic Response to Illicit Finance Taskforce. Paul is an alumnus of the National Endowment for Democracy Penn Kemble Fellowship and the Robertson Foundation for Government Fellowship. He speaks fluent German.

Tymofiy Mylovanov is a President of Kyiv School of Economics. He graduated from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (Management) in 1997 and from Kyiv-Mohyla Academy majoring in Economic Theory in 1999. In 2004 he got his PhD in Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA).
During his professional career, he has been teaching for a long time at the European and American universities, including Rheinische Friedrich–Wilhelms–Universität Bonn, University of Pennsylvania and University of Pittsburgh. Tymofiy’s research interests cover such areas as theory of games and contracts, institutional design. His articles on these topics have been published in the leading international academic magazines, including Econometrica, American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies. During the Revolution of Dignity, jointly with other leading economists of Ukraine and the world, he founded the VoxUkraine platform aimed to increase the level of economic discussion in Ukraine. On July 7, 2016 the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine elected Tymofiy Mylovanov to the Board of the National Bank of Ukraine, and since October 2016 and until August 2019 he has been holding the position of Deputy Chairman of the Board. From August 2019 to March 2020, Tymofiy Milovanov held the post of Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine. On April 6th, Tymofiy Milovanov returned to work at the Kyiv School of Economics as President. In 2014 and 2015 (the rating was not issued anymore) Forbes Ukraine included Tymofiy Mylovanov in the ranking of the best Ukrainian economists. Thanks to extensive economic knowledge, belonging to the international academic community and familiarity with the situation in Ukraine Tymofiy Mylovanov makes a significant contribution to the development of KSE.

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Yevgenia M. Albats is a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist, author, and radio host. Since 2007 she has been the Political Editor and then Editor-in-Chief and CEO of The New Times, a Moscow-based, Russian language independent political weekly. Since 2004, Albats has hosted Absolute Albats, a talk-show on Echo Moskvy, the only remaining liberal radio station in Russia. Albats was an Alfred Friendly Press Fellow assigned to the Chicago Tribune in 1990, and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1993. She graduated from Moscow State University in 1980 and received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University in 2004. She is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) since its founding in 1996. Albats taught at Yale in 2003-2004. She was a full-time professor at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics, teaching the institutional theory of the state and bureaucracy, until 2011 when her courses were canceled at the request of top Kremlin officials. In 2017 Albats was chosen as an inaugural fellow at Kelly’s Writers House and Perry House at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2019 — 2020 she taught authoritarian politics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Albats is the author of the four independently researched books, including one on the history of the Russian political police, the KGB, whose graduates are running the country today. She has a daughter and resides in Moscow, Russia.

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Join the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Elizabeth Dowdeswell, and the Ambassador of Switzerland in Canada, Salome Meyer, in a conversation about how women have shaped the political discourse over the past 50 years in Canada and Switzerland. Based on their own experiences in top-level national functions and their careers in international relations, Elizabeth Dowdeswell and Salome Meyer will discuss how women have become innovation drivers and change makers in public life. The former Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations and the Conference on Disarmament, Rosemary McCarney, will be the moderator of the conversation.

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How do societies respond to great demographic change? This question lingers over the contemporary politics of countries where persistent immigration has altered populations and may soon produce a “Majority Minority” milestone. Until now, most of our knowledge about responses to demographic change are based on studies of individual people’s reactions; they are defensive and intolerant. Why and how are these instincts sometimes tempered to promote more successful coexistence? Grounded in rich narratives and novel statistical data, George Mason University political scientist Justin Gest reveals the way this contentious milestone and its accompanying identity politics are ultimately subject to good governance.

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Organized by the Centre for the Study of Korea and co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology, the Asian Institute’s Global Taiwan Program, the Centre for South Asian Studies, the Dr. David Chu Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, University of Toronto, and WIND Toronto Korean Feminist Collective.  

PART 1  Introduction & Opening Remarks: 9:00am-9:05am  Panel 1: MeToo in East Asia: 9:05am-10:35am  Chang-Ling Huang: Why Asia’s Most Gender Equal Country Has No MeToo Movement?: The Case of Taiwan Hae Yeon Choo: From Madwomen to Whistleblowers: MeToo in South Korea as an Institutional Critique  Di Wang: #MiTu: The social and political costs of becoming an anti-sexual harassment activist in China  Chair: Jesook Song Discussant: Vanita Reddy  Panel 2: MeToo in South Asia: 10:50am-12:00pm  Chaitanya Lakkimsetti: Stripping Away at Respectability: #MeToo India and the Politics of Dignity  Ayesha Khurshid: Na Tuttiya Ve: Spiritual Activism and the #MeToo Movement in Pakistan   Chair: Mahua Sarkar Discussant: Brenda Cossman.

Paticipants’ Bios:  HAE YEON CHOO is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Decentering Citizenship: Gender, Labor, and Migrant Rights in South Korea (Stanford University Press, 2016). Her research on gender, intersectionality, citizenship, and urban sociology has appeared in Gender & Society, Sociological Theory, positions: asia critique, Urban Studies, and Feminist Formations. Her current book project examines social activism in contemporary South Korea as sites of emergent critical social theory and new political imagination. She has translated Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider and Patricia Hill Collins’s Black Feminist Thought into Korean.  

BRENDA COSSMAN is Professor of Law and Goodman-Schipper Chair at the University of Toronto. She was Director of U of T’s Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies from 2009-2018. Professor Cossman’s teaching and scholarly interests include family law, law and gender, and law and sexuality. Her book The New Sex Wars: Sexual Harm in the Age of #MeToo is published by NYU Press in 2021. Her publications include Sexual Citizens: The Legal and Cultural Regulation of Sex and Belonging (Stanford University Press, 2007), the co-authored Bad Attitudes on Trial: Pornography, Feminism and the Butler Decision (University of Toronto Press) and Censorship and the Arts (published by the Ontario Association of Art Galleries).   

CHANG-LING HUANG is a professor of political science at the National Taiwan University. Her research interests are quota politics and women’s political representation. She participates in Taiwan’s feminist movement and was once the president of the Awakening Foundation, the earliest established feminist organization in post-war Taiwan.   

AYESHA KHURSHID is an Associate Professor of Gender and Education at Florida State University. Her ethnographic research focuses on gender, culture, and education in Muslim communities, and examines how gendered subjectivities are produced and contested through education in these contexts. Her current research projects explore the lived experiences of women in a rural community of Pakistan and in a Mayan Muslim community in Chiapas, Mexico.   

CHAITANYA LAKKIMSETTI is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Texas A&M University with a faculty affiliation in Women’s and Gender Studies. She is the author of Legalizing Sex: Sexual Minorities, AIDS, and Citizenship in India (NYU Press, 2020). Her work at the intersections of sexuality, law, and social movements also appears in Feminist Formations, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Sexualities, positions: asia critique, and Qualitative Sociology. She is also the co-curator of the dossier “#MeToo and Transnational Gender Justice” for the journal Feminist Formations (2021). Her current work “Sex, Death, and the Law” explores the impact of carceral state agendas on discourses around rape and sexual violence in India.  

VANITA REDDY is associate professor of English at Texas A&M University with a faculty affiliation in women’s and gender studies. Her research examines practices of cultural identity, belonging, and political community within the South Asian American and the global South Asian diaspora. She has published widely on beauty and fashion cultures in diasporic communities, and is the author of Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Femininity, and South Asian American Culture (Temple University Press, 2016). She is also the coeditor of a special issue of the journal The Feminist and Scholar Online, “Queer and Feminist Afro-Asian Formations” (2018), and has just completed co-editing (with Chaitanya Lakkimsetti) a dossier on the transnational Metoo movement for the journal Feminist Formations (Winter 2021). She is currently writing a book about comparative South Asian diasporas from a feminist and queer perspective, tentatively titled Global Intimacies.  

MAHUA SARKAR is a professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Before joining the faculty at the University of Toronto in 2021, she was Professor of Sociology, and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Binghamton University, New York. A historical sociologist by training, Professor Sarkar’s research and teaching is interdisciplinary and spans a range of topics including contemporary guest-work regimes with particular focus on Bangladeshi male migrants; gestational surrogacy as a new form of racialized and gendered labour; free and unfree/constrained work under global capitalism; religious nationalisms in South Asia; Muslim and Hindu identity formation and the gender question in late colonial Bengal; and epistemological debates underlying qualitative research methods. Her current writing project is an advanced monograph entitled Bidesh Kara (Going Abroad): Bangladeshi Contract Migrants and Contemporary Guest Work.  

JESOOK SONG is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on contemporary urban transformation and welfare issues, including homelessness, youth unemployment, single women’s housing, mental health in South Korea. She is author of South Koreans in the Debt Crisis: The Creation of a Neoliberal Welfare Society (Duke University Press, 2009) and Living on Your Own: Single Women, Rental Housing, and Post-Revolutionary Affect in Contemporary South Korea (SUNY Press, 2014), On the Margins of Urban South Korea: Core Location as Method and Praxis (University of Toronto Press 2019, co-edited with Laam Hae).   

DI WANG is a feminist researcher and advocate from China. She is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin−Madison, USA. Her ten years of experience as a women’s and LGBTQ rights advocate have informed her research, which has been published in Law & Social Inquiry, China Law and Society Review, Qualitative Inquiry, ChinaFile, lambda nordica, and elsewhere.

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At the time of writing, over 1 million Ukrainians have fled Russian bombs, shells, and bullets. It is the largest displacement of European refugees since the 1990s Balkan wars and the largest refugee movement since the Syrian Civil War. The panel will explore Ukrainian refugees in the context of broader global refugee flows and it will reflect on what Canada and Canadians can do.

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Randall Hansen is Director of the Munk School’s Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, as well as the Global Migration Lab. He is Full Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto and Canada Research Chair in Global Migration. He served as Interim Director of the Munk School from 2017 to 2020. Hansen works on immigration and citizenship, demography and population policy and the effects of war on civilians. His published works include Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance after Operation Valkyrie (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), Sterilized by the State: Eugenics, Race and the Population Scare in 20th Century North America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014), Fire and Fury: the Allied Bombing of Germany (Penguin, 2009), and Citizenship and Immigration in Post-War Britain (Oxford University Press, 2000).

Lama Mourad is an Assistant Professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University. Her research interests are focused on the intersection of forced migration, local governance, and the politics of borders, with a regional focus on the Middle East. Professor Mourad previously held fellowships at Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania, and with the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Her research has been supported by a number of institutions and agencies, including the Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Her work has been published in both academic and public outlets, including the Journal of Refugee Studies, Middle East Law and Governance, Forced Migration Studies, the European Journal of International Relations as well as The Atlantic, Lawfare, The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, and The Toronto Star.

Craig Damian Smith is a Senior Research Associate at the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration Program at Ryerson University, a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University, and a Senior Associate at the Global Migration Lab at the Munk School. His research examines the international politics of irregular migration, global migration governance, and refugee integration. Craig has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto. Learn more at www.craigdamiansmith.ca.

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This symposium, “Joint: A Black Gathering on Catastrophe” is dedicated to exploring the concept of catastrophe in American life. While journalists, politicians, and activists insist the calamitous and irreversible threat of [partisanship/domestic terrorism/“cancellation”/conspiracy] matters “now more than ever,” this symposium addresses the relationship between blackness and catastrophe that necessarily rejects pre-Trump/post-Trump or pre-COVID/post-COVID periodization. Inspired by the experience of being on, or in, the “cusp” of catastrophe, this event explores converging crises at the point of cultural, political, and aesthetic transition. This interdisciplinary conversation will highlight the work of scholars and artists as they reflect on gathering as both a moment of volatility and an act of transformation.

This symposium is being organized by Professor Lauren McLeod Cramer (Cinema Studies Institute, U of T), who is the Bissell-Heyd Research Fellow for 2021-2022 at the Centre for the Study of the United States.

— AGENDA —
11:00am -12:45pm: Panel #1 “A State of Catastrophe: Politics In and Out of Time”
– Presenters: Bedour Alagraa and American Artist

1:00 – 2:30pm: BREAK

2:30 – 4:15pm: Panel #2 “The Aesthetics of Catastrophe and The Catastrophe of Aesthetics”
– Presenters: Tao Leigh Goffe and Ladi’Sasha Jones

4:30 – 5:30pm: Panel #3
– Presenters: Bedour Alagraa, American Artist, Tao Leigh Goffe, Ladi’Sasha Jones

— ABOUT THE SPEAKERS —
Tao Leigh Goffe is an award-winning writer and DJ specializing in the origin stories that emerge from histories of race, empire, climate, and technology. Dr. Goffe is the founding director of the Dark Laboratory, a collective on race and ecology where members develop stories using creative technology (VR, AR, XR, DJ’ing, film, screenwriting). Dr. Goffe is also the Executive Director of the Afro-Asia Group, an advisory organization with the mission of creating spaces of collaboration between African and Asian diasporas on futurity, solidarity, and infrastructure. Her writing has been published in Artsy, South Atlantic Quarterly, Small Axe, Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, and Boston Review.

Ladi’Sasha Jones is a writer and curator from Harlem, NY. Her research-based practice explores Black cultural and spatial histories through text, design and public engagement. She has written for Aperture, Avery Review, Arts.Black, Houston Center for Photography, Art X Lagos, Temporary Art Review, Art-Agenda, The Art Momentum, and Recess among others. Her project, Black Interior Space / Spatial Thought was commissioned by THE SHED (NYC) as a part of Open Call 2021 and was the recipient of a 2021 Research and Development award from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Currently, Jones is the Artist Engagement Manager for The Laundromat Project. She held prior appointments at the Norton Museum of Art, the New Museum’s IdeasCity platform, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She holds a B.A. in African American Studies from Temple University and a M.A. in Arts Politics from NYU, Tisch School of the Arts.

Dr. Bedour Alagraa is Assistant professor of Political and Social Thought in the Department of African and African diaspora studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her PhD from the department of Africana Studies at Brown University in the Spring of 2019, and was an Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Fellow during her time at Brown. She also holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Toronto, and a Masters in Race, Ethnicity, and Post-Colonial Studies from the London School of Economics. Her book manuscript is entitled The Interminable Catastrophe: Fatal Liberalisms, Plantation Logics, and Black Political Life in the Wake of Disaster, and charts a conceptual history of catastrophe as a political category/concept (rather than Event), via its inauguration in early modern natural science and empiricist debates, and subsequent crystallization as a concept on the plantation. She has been published in several journals, including Critical Ethnic Studies, Contemporary Political Theory, The CLR James Journal of Caribbean Philosophy, Small Axe, and Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society. She is currently co-editor, alongside Anthony Bogues, of the ‘Black Critique’ book series at Pluto Press.

American Artist makes thought experiments that mine the history of technology, race, and knowledge production, beginning with their legal name change in 2013. Their artwork primarily takes the form of sculpture, software, and video. Artist is a 2021 LACMA Art & Tech Lab Grant Recipient and a resident at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn. They are a former resident of Red Bull Arts, Abrons Art Center, Recess, EYEBEAM, Pioneer Works, and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. They have exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art; MoMA PS1; Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Kunsthalle Basel, CH; and Nam June Paik Center, Seoul. They have had solo museum exhibitions at The Queens Museum, New York and The Museum of African Diaspora, California. Their work has been featured in the New York Times, Artforum, and Huffington Post. Artist is a 2021 Regents’ Lecturer at UCLA and teaches critical theory at the School for Poetic Computation.

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In a world where the international liberal order is under severe strain, Canada’s commitment to multilateral institutions, trade agreements and to the defense and promotion of human rights is more important than ever. The Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affair will join Janice Stein, founding director of the Munk School, to discuss Canada’s foreign policy in a time of deep uncertainty and transformation.

Bios:

The Honourable Mélanie Joly

The Honourable Mélanie Joly was first elected to represent Ahuntsic-Cartierville in the House of Commons in 2015. She has previously served as Minister of Economic Development, Minister of Tourism, Official Languages and La Francophonie, and Minister of Canadian Heritage. In her ministerial roles, Minister Joly has worked to promote Canadian culture, and to grow and increase the visibility of Canada’s tourism sector. She has also worked to safeguard Canada’s two official languages while promoting the use of French in Canada and around the world, including in the digital sphere. Minister Joly holds an Honours Bachelor of Law from the Université de Montréal and a Magister Juris in European and Comparative Law from the University of Oxford. She is the author of Changing the Rules of the Game, in which she shares her vision for public policy and civic engagement. She was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

Janice Stein

Janice Gross Stein is the Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science and was the Founding Director of the Munk School (serving from 1998 to the end of 2014). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario. Her most recent publications include Networks of Knowledge: Innovation in International Learning (2000); The Cult of Efficiency (2001); and Street Protests and Fantasy Parks (2001). She is a contributor to Canada by Picasso (2006) and the co-author of The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar (2007). She was the Massey Lecturer in 2001 and a Trudeau Fellow. She was awarded the Molson Prize by the Canada Council for an outstanding contribution by a social scientist to public debate. She is an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Melanie Woodin

Professor Melanie Woodin joined the University of Toronto in 2004 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Zoology, and became a Professor in 2017 in the Department of Cell & Systems Biology. In her research, she works to understand how the brain functions, studying neuronal circuits and the mechanisms underlying learning and memory. At U of T, she has served as the Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies for the Department of Cell & Systems Biology; Director of the Human Biology Program; Associate Dean, Undergraduate Issues & Academic Planning; and, most recently, Vice-Dean, Interdivisional Partnerships.The Dean of Canada’s largest and most comprehensive Faculty oversees the Faculty’s leadership team and focuses on the key priorities of the Faculty, such as faculty renewal, financial sustainability, graduate student support, undergraduate education and internationalization. Moreover, the Dean promotes the Faculty as a global hub for research, teaching and innovation.

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This panel of scholars from war-torn Ukraine and from outside of Ukraine will examine some of the historic roots and modern religious dimensions of the Russian war on Ukraine. Themes will include the relations of the church to the state and the Ukrainian Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches’ pastoral and humanitarian responses to the war.

Archimandrite Cyril Hovorun is a Professor in Ecclesiology, International Relations and Ecumenism at the University College Stockholm (Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm). A graduate of the Theological Academy in Kyiv and National University in Athens, he accomplished his doctoral studies at Durham University under the supervision of Fr Andrew Louth. He was a chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, first deputy chairman of the Educational Committee of the Russian Orthodox Church, and later research fellow at Yale and Columbia Universities, visiting professor at the University of Münster in Germany, international fellow at Chester Ronning Centre for the Study of Religion and Public Life at the University of Alberta in Canada, director of the Huffington Ecumenical Institute at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and Assistant Professor at the same university. He has published several books in different languages, including La riconciliazione delle memorie: Ricordare le separazioni tra le Chiese e la ricerca dell’unità (Roma: San Paolo, 2021, in co-authorship with Lothar Vogel and Stefano Cavallotto); Sacred Architecture in East and West (edited, Los Angeles: Tsehai, 2019), Political Orthodoxies: The Unorthodoxies of the Church Coerced (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2018; Ukrainian translation published in 2018); Ukrainian Public Theology (Kyiv: Dukh і Litera, 2017, in Ukrainian), Scaffolds of the Church: Towards Poststructural Ecclesiology (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2017; Ukrainian translation published in 2018); Wonders of the Panorthodox Council, (Moscow: Christian Book Club, 2016, in Russian); Meta-Ecclesiology, Chronicles on Church Awareness, (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015; Ukrainian translation published in 2017); From Antioch to Xi’an: an Evolution of ‘Nestorianism’ (Hong Kong: Chinese Orthodox Press, 2014, in Chinese); Will, Action and Freedom. Christological Controversies in the Seventh Century (Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2008).

Nadieszda Kizenko is Professor of History and Director of Religious Studies at the State University of New York at Albany. She earned her BA at Harvard and Radcliffe in History and Literature and her PhD in History at Columbia University. Prof. Kizenko specializes in Orthodox Christianity on the territories of the former Russian empire, with a special interest in sacramental practice and liturgical texts. Her
award-winning books and articles include an annotated translation and introduction to the service composed by Teofilakt Lopatynsky on the occasion of the Battle of Poltava and ‘The Feminization of Patriarchy? Women in Contemporary Russian Orthodoxy.” Her most recent monograph, Good for the Souls: a History of Confession in the Russian Empire drew extensively on Ukrainian archives and was published in 2021 with Oxford University Press. Prof. Kizenko’s comparison of the liturgical practices of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Church of Ukraine will soon appear as part of an edited volume, Orthodoxy in Two Manifestations? The Conflict in Ukraine as Expression of a Fault Line in World Orthodoxy (Peter Lang, 2022).

Prof. Jaroslav Skira is an associate professor of historical theology at Regis College; a Fellow of the Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies (University of St. Michael’s College); and a member of the coordinating committee of the Jacyk Program. His research interests include modern Orthodox theology and ecumenical relations between the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches.

Dr Pavlo Smytsnyuk is the Director of the Institute of Ecumenical Studies and a Senior Lecturer at the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) in Lviv. Pavlo studied philosophy and theology in Rome, Athens and St Petersburg, and holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford. His main interests are in political theology, Russian Orthodoxy, nationalism and religion, as well as colonial studies.

Marta Dyczok is Associate Professor at the Departments of History and Political Science, Western University, Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, and Adjunct Professor at the National University of the Kyiv Mohyla Academy. She has published five books, including Ukraine’s Euromaidan. Broadcasting through Information Wars with Hromadske Radio (2016) Ukraine Twenty Years After Independence: Assessments, Perspectives, Challenges (co-edited with Giovanna Brogi, 2015), Media, Democracy and Freedom. The Post-Communist Experience (co-edited with Oxana Gaman-Golutvina, 2009), articles in various journals including The Russian Journal of Communication (2014), Demokratizatsiya (2014), and regularly provides media commentary. Her doctorate is from Oxford University and she researches mass media, memory, migration, and history.

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Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad (UC Press, 2019)

The book presentation will be followed by a conversation between Manu Karuka and U of T graduate students.

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Empire’s Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants who toiled on its path. In this meticulously researched book, Manu Karuka situates the railroad within the violent global histories of colonialism and capitalism. Through an examination of legislative, military, and business records, Karuka deftly explains the imperial foundations of U.S. political economy. Tracing the shared paths of Indigenous and Asian American histories, this multisited interdisciplinary study connects military occupation to exclusionary border policies, a linked chain spanning the heart of U.S. imperialism. This highly original and beautifully wrought book unveils how the transcontinental railroad laid the tracks of the U.S. Empire.

Learn more about the book at: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520296640/empires-tracks

Manu Karuka is the author of Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad (University of California Press, 2019). He is a co-editor, with Juliana Hu Pegues and Alyosha Goldstein, of “On Colonial Unknowing,” a special issue of Theory & Event, and with Vivek Bald, Miabi Chatterji, and Sujani Reddy, he is a co-editor of The Sun Never Sets: South Asian Migrants in an Age of U.S. Power (NYU Press, 2013). His work appears in Critical Ethnic Studies, J19, Settler Colonial Studies, The Settler Complex: Recuperating Binarism in Colonial Studies (UCLA American Indians Studies Center, 2016, edited by Patrick Wolfe), and Formations of United States Colonialism (Duke University Press, 2014, edited by Alyosha Goldstein). He is an assistant professor of American Studies at Barnard College.

Student participants:

Thomas Blampied, History Department, U of T
Megan Femi-Cole, Department of Social Justice Education, OISE, U of T
Yehji Jeong, History Department, U of T
Rui Liu, Women and Gender Studies Institute, U of T
Melanie Ng, History Department, U of T
Fernanda Yanchapaxi Travez, Department of Social Justice Education, OISE, U of T

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The Indo-Pacific is a critical region, containing over half the world’s population, almost two-thirds of global GDP, and seven of the world’s largest military forces. In recent years, major actors have formulated Indo-Pacific strategies to serve as guiding principles for their regional engagement. From an early stage, Japan has articulated a vision for a "Free and Open Indo-Pacific," emphasizing principles such as the rule of law, quality infrastructure investment, and maritime stability. In September 2021, the European Union adopted a strategy for cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, emphasizing stepped up engagement in priority areas such as sustainable and inclusive prosperity and a green transition. In the United States, the Biden administration released its Indo-Pacific Strategy in February 2022, emphasizing both the importance of the region and mounting challenges, particularly China’s pursuit of a "sphere of influence" as it seeks "to become the world’s most influential power." Canada is also actively developing an Indo-Pacific strategy to diversify trade and investment, strengthen security cooperation, and boost international assistance.  How should we understand these Indo-Pacific strategies? Are the strategies likely to contribute to tangible changes in foreign policy? What are the common themes, and what are significant areas of disagreement or divergence? How can global institutions complement the national strategies to facilitate cooperation and reduce systemic risks? What are the implications of the war in Ukraine for the Indo-Pacific? A panel of distinguished experts from Canada, Japan, the United States, and Europe shared their insights.  

 —Speaker Bios— Jonathan T. Fried is a Senior Advisor with Bennett Jones, LLP in Ottawa, the Albright Stonebridge Group in Washington, DC, Senior Associate to the Center for Strategic and International Studies also in Washington, DC, and Advisor to Llewellyn Consulting in London, UK. Prior to his retirement from the Government of Canada in August, 2020, he was Coordinator for International Economic Relations, with a mandate encompassing Canada-Asia and other international trade and economic policy.  He was the Personal Representative of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for the G20 from 2017-2020. Mr. Fried was Canada’s Ambassador to the WTO 2012-2017, where he was Chair of the WTO’s General Council (2014) and Chair of the Dispute Settlement Body (2013). Formerly Canada’s Ambassador to Japan; Executive Director for Canada, Ireland and the Caribbean at the IMF; Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister; Senior Assistant Deputy Minister for the Department of Finance and Canada’s G7 and G20 Finance Deputy, and earlier Chief Negotiator on China’s WTO accession; and chief counsel for NAFTA. Mr. Fried is a Distinguished Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Foundation and the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Health Standards Organization and the Advisory Boards of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, the World Trade Board, and the Central and East European Law Institute.  Mr. Fried received his B.A. and LL.B. from the University of Toronto, and LL.M. from Columbia University.  

Dr. Akiko Fukushima is a Senior Fellow at the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research, with a Doctoral degree from Osaka University and M.A. from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. Her carrier includes a Professor at School of Global Studies and Collaboration, Aoyama Gakuin University and Director of Policy Studies at the National Institute for Research Advancement (NIRA).  Concurrently Dr. Fukushima is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Hague Journal of Diplomacy. She has served on the Japanese government committees including the Advisory Council on National Security and Defense Capabilities to the Prime Minister.  Her publications include Japanese Foreign Policy: The Emerging Logic of Multilateralism (1999) by MacMillan, “Japan’s Perspective on Asian Regionalism,” in  Asia’s New Multilateralism (Columbia University Press, 2009),and “Multilateralism Recalibrated,” in Postwar Japan (CSIS 2017). She has contributed articles to journals including “Reshaping the United Nations with Concept of Human Security Version 2.0” Strategic Analysis (October, 2020), “COVID-19 is a human security crisis” at East Asia Forum (April 16th, 2020), and “ From the Asia-Pacific to the Indo-Pacific: Its Motives, Aims and Future,” (CGAI, 2021), “Promises and Pitfalls of Digital Connectivity,” (EUI 2021).

Kristi Govella is Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of the Asia Program at The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). She specializes in the international relations of the Indo-Pacific region, including regional institutional architecture, economic-security linkages, and the governance of the global commons. In addition to her publications in academic journals and edited volumes, Dr. Govella is the co-editor of two books: Linking Trade and Security: Evolving Institutions in Asia, Europe, and the United States (2013) and Responding to a Resurgent Russia: Russian Policy and Responses from the European Union and the United States (2012). She also serves as an adjunct fellow with the East-West Center and Pacific Forum and as co-editor of the journal Asia Policy. Prior to joining GMF, Dr. Govella was an Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, and an Associate Professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. She has also been a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Tokyo and Waseda University. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.  

Nicolas Véron cofounded Bruegel in Brussels in 2002-05, joined the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington DC in 2009, and is currently employed on equal terms by both organizations as a Senior Fellow. His research is primarily about financial systems and financial services policies, with a main geographical focus on Europe. A graduate of France’s Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines, his earlier experience includes senior positions in the French government and private sector in the 1990s and early 2000s. He is also an independent board member of the global derivatives trade repository arm of DTCC, a financial infrastructure company that operates on a non-profit basis. In September 2012, Bloomberg Markets included Véron in its yearly global “50 Most Influential” list with reference to his early advocacy of European banking union.  

As part of her Canadian foreign service career, Deanna Horton spent a total of twelve years in Japan, including as Deputy Head of Mission, and also served as Ambassador to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. She was a NAFTA negotiator, followed by two postings in Washington, most recently as Minister (Congressional, Public and Intergovernmental Affairs). As a Munk School Senior Fellow she has led a digital mapping project on Canada’s footprint in Asia https://archive.munkschool.utoronto.ca/canasiafootprint/ and related research on Canadian technology multinationals. Ms. Horton is also affiliated with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, and the Wilson Center in Washington, DC, commenting on economic and trade policy issues with a focus on Asia.  

Yves Tiberghien (Ph.D. Stanford University, 2002; Harvard Academy Scholar 2006; Fulbright Scholar 1996) is a Professor of Political Science and Konwakai Chair in Japanese Research at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada. He is also Director Emeritus of the Institute of Asian Research, and Director of the Center for Japanese Research.  Yves is Distinguished Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada and a Senior Fellow at the University of Alberta’s China Institute. He is an International Steering Committee Member at Pacific Trade and Development Conference (PAFTAD). In November 2017, he was made a Chevalier de l’ordre national du mérite by the French President. In 2014-2016, Yves served as Co-Director of the UBC Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs (MPPGA), which he founded as Chair of the UBC Public Policy Curriculum Committee in 2014.  He is a regular visiting professor at Tokyo University (Graduate School of Public Policy) and at Sciences Po Paris (Paris School of International Affairs). He has held other visiting positions at National Chengchi University (Taiwan), GRIPS (Tokyo), and the Jakarta School of Public Policy (Indonesia).  Yves’ research specializes in comparative political economy and global economic and environmental governance, with an empirical focus on Japan, China, Korea, and Europe.  His books include The East Asian Covid-19 Paradox. August 2021. Elements in Politics and Society in East Asia, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108973533, Entrepreneurial States: Reforming Corporate Governance in France, Japan, and Korea (2007, Cornell University Press); L’Asie et le futur du monde (2012, Paris: Science Po Press); and Leadership in Global Institution-Building: Minerva’s Rule (2013, edited volume, Palgrave McMillan). In 2020, he edited an online collection of papers on Japan’s leadership in the Liberal International Order. He has published articles and book chapters on the political economy of Japan and China, global governance, global climate change politics, and the governance of agricultural biotechnology. He is working on two books: Up for Grabs: Disruption, Competition, and the Remaking of the Global Economic Order and Navigating the Age of Disruption: Understanding Canada’s Options in a Shifting Global Order.  Dr. Tiberghien co-founded the Vision 20 initiative in 2015, a new coalition of global scholars and policy-makers aiming at providing a long-term perspective on the challenges of global economic and environmental governance. The V20 held six summits (Hangzhou, 2016, Buenos Aires 2018, Tokyo 2018, and Washington DC, 2017, 2018, 2019.

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We gather together to amplify our understanding of hip hop as a form of Black Feminist Sonic World-Making. akua naru, Azmera Hammouri-Davis, and Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo (aka SAMMUS), members of the global Black womxn-led KEEPERS collective (8 countries and counting!), will speak on their creation of the FIRST comprehensive digital archive to focus on the artistic work of womxn and girls throughout 5 decades of Hip Hop music and culture. Jennifer Lynn Stoever joins the conversation by sharing archival and oral history research from the “Living Room Revolutions ”project on the vital but often unacknowledged role of Black and Latinx women in bringing hip hop into being in 1970s, particularly the way their record collections and home music selecting practices sounded new ways of being in the world for themselves and their families. Producer and beatmaker SAMMUS, will talk about her sound work and perform a short set that vibrates us all higher and farther on into space, helping us to imagine new futures.

—Speaker Bios—

Azmera Hammouri-Davis
Azmera Hammouri-Davis, MTS (aka the Poetic Theorist) is a womanist poet, producer, and visual-performance artist-educator from Keaáu, Hawaii. She is currently the Community Partnership Lead at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, creating community-based learning engagements focused on youth-leadership and the Law, Education and Justice. Prior to Radcliffe, she became the first person offered the Africana Spirituality Chaplain role at Tufts University Multi-faith Chaplaincy. In 2017-2018 she completed a ten month artist-in-residence in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil as a U.S Fulbright Creative and Performing Arts researcher for her project entitled “Capoetics: Exploring the power of movement and word through Capoeira and Poetry”. She is in her fifteenth year as a practitioner of the Afro-Brazilian Martial Art of Capoeira and remains curious about the ways Black women Capoeiristas push us to re-imagine civic engagement and national identity through music. Her research interests include womanist + liberation theology, Hip Hop and performance studies, audio-visual engineering.

Since 2015 Azmera has served as the founder and director of Break The Boxes, a women-of-color led popular-education organization. In the summer of 2020 she became a founding member of theKEEPERS Hip Hop Collective. Azmera is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School where she received her Masters of Theological Studies in African and African American Religions. She holds a double Bachelor of Arts in Visual and Performing Arts and Social Sciences Psychology from the University of Southern California (USC).

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Dr. Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo aka SAMMUS
SAMMUS (Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo) is a Black feminist rap artist and producer from Ithaca, NY with a PhD in science and technology studies from Cornell University. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the music and multimedia composition (MMC) program at Brown University, teaching classes on rap songwriting and feminist sound studies and she will start as an assistant professor in fall of 2022. Beyond her creative work, Enongo’s research interests include Black feminist sound studies, video game music and sound design, and hip hop studies and performance. She is currently thinking and writing about the intersection of hip hop and AI, and the market dynamics that shape life for rap artists of color who work within video game music scenes.

In 2019 she became Director of Audio at Glow Up Games, a women-of-color led game studio. In the summer of 2020 she became a member of theKEEPERS, a Hip Hop collective that is currently developing the most comprehensive digital archive to map the international contributions of womxn and girls across Hip Hop’s 50-year history.

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akua naru
akua naru is a Hip Hop artist, producer, activist, and scholar from New Haven, CT, who theorizes the myriad experiences of Black women through rhyme along a sonic spectrum from jazz to soul. She has released four albums: “...the journey aflame (2011)”, “Live & Aflame Sessions (2012)”, “The Miner’s Canary (2015)”, and “The Blackest Joy (2018)”–three of which were on the label she co-founded, The Urban Era. Akua has performed hundreds of shows in more than fifty countries across five continents with her six-piece band. She has been invited to lecture at Harvard University, University of Oxford, Cornell University, Princeton University, Fordham University, University of Cologne (Germany), Ahfad University for Women (Sudan), and Pivot Point College (China), among countless others. She was a 2018-19 Nasir Jones Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, She is currently a Mellon Arts & Practitioner Fellow at

In 2019, akua naru became a Race & Media Fellow at the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA) at Brown University. Prior to arriving at Brown, she served as a Nasir Jones Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University (2018-19). She is currently a Mellon Arts & Practitioner Fellow at the Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration at Yale University, in addition to her role as the Founder & Artistic Director of The Keeper, where she brings her deep embodied knowledge and passion to the study of women’s hip hop artistry. Her research interests include hip hop studies, theater, performance, and Black feminism.

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Jennifer Lynn Stoever
Jennifer Lynn Stoever is co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Sounding Out!, Associate Professor at SUNY Binghamton, and author of The Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening (NYU Press: 2016). She is currently working on an oral-history based book project entitled Living Room Revolutions, part of which has been published as “Crate Digging Begins at Home: Black and Latinx Women Collecting and Selecting Records in the 1960s and 1970s Bronx” in the Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Studies (2018).

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Eastern 2:00-5:00 PM | Central 1:00-4:00 PM | Mountain 12:00-3:00 PM | Pacific 11:00 AM-2:00 PM  NOTE: This was a 3-hour event with a 10-minute break.   

For many years now, discussions have taken place between academics and community leaders on the ethics of research in racialized and Indigenous communities.  Ours to Tell is a collective of Japanese Canadian scholars, community leaders and allies joined in pursuit of change. Racialized researchers have faced longstanding marginalization, are often tokenized and treated as "native informants" in collaborative research rather than scholars in their own right. As well, those outside the community often claim information provided by community knowledge keepers as their “discovery” with no credit given to independent scholars and storytellers. "Unbiased research", "academic detachment" and/or "objectivity" have all been invoked to discount the work of racialized and Indigenous scholars who have chosen to conduct research within their own communities. This form of devaluation privileges research conducted by non-racialized researchers.   A dynamic group of panelistsl discussed the ethics of research in Asian communities, with a focus on, but not limited to Japanese Canadians. Participants included prominent Japanese Canadian scholars, junior Japanese Canadian researchers, and one of the country’s most dynamic leaders in Asian Canadian Studies. The discussion began with a keynote presentation by Dr. Margaret Kovach, an influential and highly regarded Indigenous scholar who has written extensively on the topic of Indigenous Research Methodologies.   Community leaders asked what strategies universities and government funders can employ to ensure that histories and stories told about us acknowledge and fully include our voices and research contributions.  

PARTICIPANTS BIOS:  DR. MARGARET KOVACH is of Nêhiyaw and Saulteaux ancestry from Treaty Four, Saskatchewan and a member of Pasqua First Nation. Dr. Kovach is the Associate Dean for Indigenous Education and a Professor in the Department of Educational Studies, UBC (Vancouver).  She is a member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada. Among her publications, Dr. Kovach is the author of Indigenous Methodologies:  Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts (University of Toronto Press) now in its 2nd edition (2021). She is a co-editor of the newly published edited book (2021) Royally Wronged:  The Royal Society of Canada and Indigenous Peoples (2021). Dr. Kovach is an internationally known scholar in Indigenous research methodologies with research interests that include Indigenous higher education and social justice approaches to education. Her research explores ways in which Canadian universities can cultivate environments that enhance the experience for Indigenous scholars and graduate students.    

JENNIFER MATSUNAGA  is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Ottawa, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg. Her interdisciplinary research examines reparations for historical injustices in the context of settler states with a particular focus on Canada. She reflects on themes such as truth telling, intergenerational/historical/racial trauma, shame, resilience, assimilation, and colonization. Rooted in her lived experience as a sansei or third generation Japanese Canadian, the stories of her family’s and community’s internment and redress motivate much of her work. She is an active member of numerous academic and community-based committees dealing with questions of decolonization, anti-racism and social justice. She is a founding member of the School of Social Work’s Kinistòtàdimin: On se comprend Circle at the University of Ottawa.   

MONA OIKAWA is Associate Professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University. With Professor Bonita Lawrence, she co-founded the undergraduate degree program, Race, Ethnicity and Indigeneity, from which the Indigenous Studies Program was launched in 2018.  She is the author of Cartographies of Violence: Japanese Canadian Women, Memory, and the Subjects of the Internment.  Mona and Kirsten Emiko McAllister are co-editors (with Roy Miki) of the forthcoming book After Redress.   

PAMELA SUGIMAN is a Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Toronto. Dr. Sugiman is a member of the Board of Directors of the Atkinson Foundation and Pathways to Education Canada. She is a recipient of the Errol Aspevig Award for Outstanding Academic Leadership (Ryerson), Outstanding Contribution Award (Canadian Sociological Association), Marion Dewar Prize in Canadian Women’s History and has been named as a W.L. Morton Lecturer, Trent University. Dr. Sugiman has written extensively about memory, racism and the internment of Japanese Canadians.   

TOD DUNCAN is the manager of content development for a non-profit association representing municipal social service managers throughout Ontario. There he conducts research on poverty, childcare, and housing to provide education, training, and advocacy for the association’s members. Tod has an MA in Political Science and is a PhD candidate in Social and Political Thought at York University. His dissertation research focuses on the development of Canadian multiculturalism and its relationship to the internment and redress of Japanese Canadians. Tod has also studied and researched labour and human rights law, as well as migrant labour and the economy.  

BAILEY IRENE MIDORI HOY is a research assistant and graduate of the University of Toronto. A fourth-generation Japanese Canadian, her interests involved work related to diaspora, feminism, and material culture. She will be starting her Master’s at the University of British Columbia in September 2022.  

LAURA ISHIGURO is a yonsei settler living on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ territories, and a faculty member in History and Asian Canadian & Asian Migration Studies at UBC. Her current work is reimagining how we tell and teach histories of people of Asian descent, particularly nikkeijin, in northern North America.  

KIRSTEN EMIKO MCALLISTER is a Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. In addition to researching contemporary issues of displacement and exclusion, she has worked closely with Issei and Nisei elders as well as Sansei artists to learn about the intergenerational aftermath of WWII interment camps.  

DR. HENRY YU works in collaboration with community organizations, civic institutions, and government. The often-untold stories of struggles for inclusion and justice inspire him. He is a founding member of the Chinese Canadian Museum  among others, and an honorary member of the National Association of Japanese Canadians Advisory Council.

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Lynn Viola, University Professor, Department of History, University of Toronto. Professor Viola is an archival researcher extraordinaire and award-winning historian of 20th-century Russian political and social history. Her research interests include gender, rurality, political culture, and violence in the era of Stalin. Author of many articles and books, her most recent publication is a monograph on NKVD perpetrators in Soviet Ukraine during Stalin’s “Great Terror,” Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine (Oxford University Press, 2017).

Taras Koznarsky, Associate Professor, Ukrainian and Interim Chair and Graduate Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto. He is currently working on a project on the ‘text of Kyiv’ and the constructions of the city in Ukrainian, Russian, Jewish, and Polish literary and cultural imaginations, 1800s-1930s.

Oksana Dudko, Petro Jacyk Postdoctoral Fellow in Ukrainian Studies at the Department of History, St. Thomas More College at the University of Saskatchewan. She is an historian of 20th-century Europe, whose research focuses on violence, gender, and the cultural history of the First World War and the revolutions in Eastern Europe.

Serhy Yekelchyk, Professor of History and Germanic & Slavic Studies, University of Victoria. His research interests include the social and political history of the Stalin period, as well as the formation of a modern Ukrainian nation from the mid-nineteenth century to the present He is the author of six books on Ukrainian history and Ukrainian-Russian relations, with most recent book on the role of Ukraine in Russian and geopolitics Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2020).

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Dr. Filiz Tutku Aydin is an Assistant Professor at the Social Sciences University of Ankara. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Toronto in 2012 and taught there. She returned to Turkey under TUBITAK returning scholars program in 2014. She has a book titled “Émigré, Exile, Diaspora and Transnational Movements of Crimean Tatars: Preserving the Eternal Flame” published by Palgrave, and she edited a forthcoming book on the occupation of Crimea in Turkish. She has published in Communist and Post-Communist Studies and several journals in Turkey and Ukraine, and has several book chapters, published in English, Romanian and Crimean Tatar. She completed a research project titled “Protection and enforcement of minority rights in the post-Soviet space between 1991-2014: Comparing the cases of Tatarstan, Chechnia in Russia and Crimean Tatars and Russians in Ukraine” funded by TUBITAK. Ms. Aydın is a member of the Crimean Tatar diaspora from Ankara, Turkey. She contributed the letter of “Statement of Concerned Scholars on the Current Predicament of the Crimean Tatars” to protest the Russian annexation of Crimea and participated in the Second World Crimean Tatar Congress in July 2015.

David R. Marples is a Distinguished University Professor of Russian and East European History, University of Alberta. He is the author of sixteen single-authored books, including Understanding Ukraine and Belarus (2020), Ukraine in Conflict (2017), Our Glorious Past: Lukashenka’s Belarus and the Great Patriotic War (2014), and Heroes and Villains: Creating National History in Contemporary Ukraine (2008). He has published over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He has also edited four books on nuclear power and security in the former Soviet Union, contemporary Belarus, and Ukraine. At the University of Alberta, he received the J. Gordin Kaplan Award for Excellence in Research (2003) and the University Cup in 2008. In 2009, he was Visiting Fellow for the Wirth Institute at the Department of Contemporary European History, University of Innsbruck where he taught a course on Ukraine and Belarus as EU Border Countries. In 2013, he was Visiting Fellow at the Slavic and Eurasian Center, Hokkaido University, Japan.

Ghia Nodia is professor of politics and director of the International School of Caucasus Studies in Ilia Chavchavadze State University in Tbilisi, Georgia. He is also a founder of the Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development (CIPDD), an independent public policy think tank in Tbilisi, Georgia and member of the Forum’s NDRI think tank network, which he has led since August 2009 and in 1992-2008. In February–December 2008, he served as the minister for education and science of Georgia. Prof. Nodia has published extensively on democratization; state-building, security, and conflicts in Georgia and the Caucasus; theories of nationalism; and democratic transition in the post-cold-War context. He has been involved in pro-democracy advocacy efforts in Georgia and internationally and has been a frequent participant of international congresses and conferences on related topics.

Edward Schatz is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He recently published Slow Anti-Americanism: Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia with Stanford University Press. His previous books include Paradox of Power: The Logics of State Weakness in Eurasia (2017) and Political Ethnography: What Immersion Contributes to the Study of Power (2009). Professor Schatz is currently working with Professor Rachel Silvey on a SSHRC-funded project about the downstream effects of China’s Belt and Road Initiative.

Lucan Way’s research focuses on democratization and authoritarianism in the former Soviet Union and the developing world. His most recent book (with Steven Levitsky), Social Revolution and Authoritarian Durability in the Modern World (forthcoming Princeton University Press) provides a comparative historical explanation of the extraordinary durability of autocracies born of violent social revolution. Professor Way’s solo authored book, Pluralism by Default: Weak Autocrats and the Rise of Competitive Politics (Johns Hopkins, 2015), examines the sources of political competition in the former Soviet Union. His book, Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War (with Steven Levitsky), was published in 2010 by Cambridge University Press. Way’s work on competitive authoritarianism has been cited thousands of times and helped stimulate new and wide-ranging research into the dynamics of hybrid democratic-authoritarian rule.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had significant impacts on global cities in particular. Many of the assets of global cities – connectivity, proximity, agglomeration – almost overnight proved also to be vulnerabilities. As cities emerge from the pandemic into the economic recovery phase, their underlying strengths are beginning to re-emerge. But cities, and city policies, have also been changed by the pandemic, and cities will need to adapt and adjust to address some of these issues, particularly regarding urban inequalities, which the experience of the pandemic has exposed. In this talk, Professor Mark Kleinman of King’s College London will discuss these issues with a particular focus on London UK, but drawing also on comparative evidence.

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Today many Russians believe that Russia is waging war not against Ukraine but against the West, which threatens Russia by using Ukraine. In their imagination, Russia is playing a messianic role, freeing not only Ukraine from the ‘Nazis’ and ‘foreign rule,’ but also the whole world from Western, especially American, domination. This combination of messianism with anti-Westernism has long roots. Nikolai Berdyaev’s books The Origin of Russian Communism (1937) and The Russian Idea (1947) offer one of the most influential historiosophical explanations of Russian messianism. Some assessments of the Russian philosopher coincide with the ideas of another thinker, who was almost the opposite of Berdyaev in his views – the ideologue of Ukrainian integral nationalism Dmytro Dontsov. However, Dontsov, much more than Berdyaev, linked Russian messianism to anti-Westernism and hostility to Ukraine. Today we can assess the correctness of their predictions about the further development of Russian messianism and Russia’s attitudes to the West and to Ukraine.

Oleksandr Zaitsev is a professor at the Department of History, Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. His studies deal mainly with the political history of interwar Western Ukraine and the intellectual history of Ukrainian integral nationalism. He is the author of Ukrainian Integral Nationalism of the 1920s and 1930s: Essays in Intellectual History (2013), Nationalist in the Fascist Epoch: Dmytro Dontsov’s Lviv Period, 1922-1939. Towards an Intellectual Biography (2019), co-author and editor of Nationalism and Religion: the Greek-Catholic Church and Ukrainian Nationalist Movement in Galicia, 1920s – 1930s (2011), editor of Fascism and Right Radicalism on the East of Europe (special issue of the journal Ukraina Moderna, 2013), and co-editor of Ukrainian Radical Right in Past and Present: Studies in Ideology, Memory and Politics (special issue of the journal Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 2015).

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BOOK TALK

The Shenzhen Experiment: The Story of China’s Instant City (Harvard University Press), unravels the myth of Shenzhen, showing how the success of this modern “miracle” depended as much on its indigenous villagers and migrant workers as on central planning and policy makers. Drawing on a range of cultural, social, architectural, geographical, political, and economic perspectives, the book uncovers a surprising history—filled with ancient forts, oyster fields, urban villages—and personal narratives of individual contributors to the city. The Shenzhen Experiment is an important story for all rapidly urbanizing and industrializing nations around the world seeking to replicate China’s economic success in the twenty-first century.

The book has received international recognition from a wide spectrum of disciplines such as the “2020 Book of the Year Award” by ASU’s Institute for Humanities Research, “2020 Best Sellers” by the Library Journal, “Top Books” and “Must Reads” by The Architect’s Newspaper (2020), Nature (2020) and International Affairs (2021). The book has been widely reviewed by international media and academic journals, such as Architectural Record, Domus, ICON, City & Society, and Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Asian Review of Books, Asian Affairs, The Journal of Asian Studies, The China Quarterly, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, and Frankfurter Allgemeine.

Dr. Juan Du is Dean and Professor at the University of Toronto’s John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design. She has previously taught architecture and urban design at the University of Hong Kong and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research and writings have been published in Asia, Europe and the United States, including in The Architectural Review, Volume, Domus, Journal of Architectural Education, e-flux, Time+Architecture, Urban Flux and Urban China. Du is a recognized scholar on China’s rapid urbanization, and her works have been featured by international journals and public media.

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This talk will discuss a set of ethical-political configurations that are increasingly emerging in cities – they take the shape of what I’m calling a decolonial, feminist commons. In the face of extreme inequality and disenfranchisement, people are coming together in various ways to challenge regimes of private property, and to enact new forms of horizontal, structural care (which differ significantly from humanitarian care). I will discuss several such commoning practices, which include the occupations of public spaces and buildings by undocumented migrants, forms of mutual aid such as free fridges and stores, and affective and political configurations that respond to the Covid19 pandemic, often inspired by the Movement for Black Lives. The goal is to think about a non-innocent ethics and politics of living together in a world where – as Covid19 has rendered clear — we are in a life-and-death embrace with each other that no one can escape.

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The talk will be based on Roselyn Hsueh’s forthcoming book – Micro-institutional Foundations of Capitalism: Sectoral Pathways to Globalization in China, India, and Russia (Cambridge University Press, expected May 2022)  What is the relationship between internal development and integration into the global economy in developing countries? How and why do state–market relations differ? And do these differences matter in the post-cold war era of global conflict and cooperation? Drawing on research in China, India, and Russia and examining sectors from textiles to telecommunications, Micro-institutional Foundations of Capitalism introduces a new theory of sectoral pathways to globalization and development. Adopting a historical and comparative approach, the book’s Strategic Value Framework shows how state elites perceive the strategic value of sectors in response to internal and external pressures. Sectoral structures and organization of institutions further determine the role of the state in market coordination and property rights arrangements. The resultant dominant patterns of market governance vary by country and sector within country. These national configurations of sectoral models are the micro-institutional foundations of capitalism, which mediate globalization and development.   Roselyn Hsueh is an associate professor of political science at Temple University, where she co-directs the Certificate in Political Economy. She is the author of Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism: Sectoral Pathways to Globalization in China, India, and Russia (Cambridge University Press, May 2022), China’s Regulatory State: A New Strategy for Globalization (Cornell University Press, 2011), and scholarly articles on states and markets, comparative regulation and governance, and political economy of development. She is a frequent commentator on politics, finance and trade, and economic development in China and beyond. BBC World News, The Economist, Foreign Affairs, National Public Radio, and The Washington Post, among other media outlets, have featured her research. The Fulbright Global Scholar Award and other prestigious fellowships have funded research and international fieldwork. She holds a B.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

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In the 1920s and 1930s, U.S. audiences gained unprecedented access to music produced in prisons. The professionalization of folklore and ethnography, an increased curiosity about the realities of imprisonment, and developments in portable recording technology precipitated the collection of music by incarcerated people. Published books containing transcriptions of songs collected in prisons brought this music to a wide audience.

In this talk, I read volumes containing songs from prisons published by several authors: Howard Odum (1926), Carl Sandburg (1927), John and Alan Lomax (1934), and Lawrence Gellert (1936). I argue that these songbooks show that the 1920s and 1930s were a pivotal moment, during which “prison music” underwent a series of shifts. Whereas earlier volumes framed songs from prisons as evidence of immorality and criminality, later on, such songs became prized objects of U.S. heritage to be conserved and analyzed by scholars. Finally, they became something people sang in their homes. This process was concurrent with the consolidation of music from prisons into a genre of sorts. Different authors used different designations for music in this genre, but always connected it directly to its genesis in the prison.

Thus, by the end of the 1930s, knowing “prison music,” owning folk song collections containing it, and singing it at home was becoming part of a well-bred, educated, and moral middle-class identity. A complicating factor to this repositioning, however, is that many of the authors involved in publishing music from prisons, as well as the bulk of their audiences, were non-incarcerated and white, while much of the music they published was by Black incarcerated people. Therefore, in the final part of the talk, I examine the moral quandaries created by encouraging such audiences to sing the music of incarcerated people. I draw on Dylan Rodriguez’s critique of the term “prison writing” as “domesticating and delimited,” to consider how the equally fraught category of “prison music” was historically constructed and to provide context for the ways that music publications from the 1920s and 1930s shaped understandings of incarceration that persist into the present.

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Velia Ivanova is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. She holds a PhD in Music from Columbia University and is currently working on a book project about the musical legacy of prison ethnography. Velia’s work has been published in the Journal of the Society for American Music and has been supported by the Jon B. Lovelace Fellowship (Library of Congress), the Margery Lowens Dissertation Research Fellowship (Society of American Music), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

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Abstract: Since the end of World War II, most response to large scale refugee movements has been handled by the international humanitarian system. Made up of UN agencies, national governments, and large international NGOs, this system relied heavily on its ability to move goods to refugees in camps. This system, as many have pointed out is both broke (underfunded) and broken, and increasingly fails to meet refugees needs. However, a new alternative is emerging. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, millions of Polish citizens, mostly self-organized, have provided food, housing, clothing and more to the two million Ukrainians who have crossed into Poland. In the absence of both the nation-state and international aid agencies, this internet-mediated volunteer response has become one of the fastest, most efficient and cost-effective humanitarian actions ever. In this talk, I look at the volunteer response as a form of distributed networked action and ask if it can permanently disrupt the traditional humanitarian system.

Bio: Elizabeth Cullen Dunn is Professor of Geography and the Director of the Center for Refugee Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. She has conducted research on Poland since 1992, and her first book, Privatizing Poland, was awarded the Orbis Book Prize. Her latest book, No Path Home, looks at the failure of humanitarian aid in the wake of the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008. Her current research, funded by the National Science Foundation, focuses on humanitarian labor, including volunteer action and the role of refugee resettlement agencies in agricultural labor markets.

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China represents Russia’s most powerful ally today. Yet, Russia’s invasion and subsequent international isolation have severely tested this friendship.  Three experts on China and its influence in the post-Soviet region discussed the future of the Chinese-Russian alliance, its impact on the war,  as well as the affect of the war on Chinese foreign policy.   

PANELISTS’ BIOS:  JUDE BLANCHETTE holds the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Previously, he was engagement director at The Conference Board’s China Center for Economics and Business in Beijing, where he researched China’s political environment with a focus on the workings of the Communist Party of China and its impact on foreign companies and investors. Prior to working at The Conference Board, Blanchette was the assistant director of the 21st Century China Center at the University of California, San Diego. Blanchette is a public intellectual fellow at the National Committee on United States-China Relations and serves on the board of the American Mandarin Society. He is also a senior advisor at Martin+Crumpton Group, a geopolitical risk advisory based in Arlington, Virginia. He holds an M.A. in modern Chinese studies from the University of Oxford and a B.A. in economics from Loyola University in Maryland.  

PATRICIA KIM is a David M. Rubenstein Fellow at Brookings and holds a joint appointment to the John L. Thornton China Center and the Center for East Asia Policy Studies. She is an expert on Chinese foreign policy, U.S.-China relations, and U.S. alliance management and regional security dynamics in East Asia. Previously, Kim served as a China specialist at the U.S. Institute of Peace, where she focused on China’s impact on conflict dynamics around the world and directed major projects on U.S.-China strategic stability and China’s growing presence in the Red Sea region. Kim received her doctoral degree from the Department of Politics at Princeton University and her bachelor’s degree with highest distinction in political science and Asian studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and Korean, and proficient in Japanese. Kim is also a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.  

YURII POITA is Head of the Asia-Pacific section at the Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies (CACDS), and the Asian Section at the New Geopolitics Research Network (NGRN), Ukraine. He is a scientist and researcher of China-Ukraine relations, incl. defence cooperation; China’s influence in the post-Soviet space; and "hybrid" methods of influence. Poita was educated at the Zhytomyr Military Institute (Ukraine) with a degree in military sciences, at the Kyiv International University (with a Master degree in international relations), and is currently working on his PhD dissertation at the Kazakh National University al-Farabi. He has experience in the defense, in think tanks, as well as on individual research projects in a number of Ukrainian, Kazakh and European institutions and think tanks.

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Marusya Bociurkiw is a storyteller and theorist, and Professor of Media Theory at Ryerson University, where she teaches courses in media studies, social justice media and documentary production, and conducts research in the areas of feminist/queer archives, affect theory, media activism, and migration studies. She is also an award-winning filmmaker and author. She has directed 10 films, and is author of 6 books including, most recently, Food Was her Country: The Memoir of a Queer Daughter (Caitlin Press/Dagger Editions). Her most recent film, the award-winning documentary “This Is Gay Propaganda: LGBT Rights & the War in Ukraine”, screened in 12 countries and was translated into 3 languages. Her books have won and been shortlisted for several awards including Kobzar Award, Lambda Literary Award and Independent Publisher Award. She is the recipient of FCAD’s SRC Award (2014) and the Ryerson-wide Knowledge Mobilization & Engagement Award (2018), in recognition of her community-based research creation in the areas of affect theory, feminist archival studies, LGBT activism and migration studies.

Anna Dovgopol is a Gender Democracy Program Coordinator at Heinrich Boell Foundation, Kyiv Office – Ukraine. She has an MA degree in Gender Studies from Central European University. Anna is a gender expert and a trainer, and a feminist. She has over 10 years of experience with LGBT and feminist activism in Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan, including 3 years as a member of KyivPride Organizing Committee.

Tamara Martsenyuk holds a Ph.D. (Candidate of Sciences) in Sociology, she is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Ukraine), Fulbright Scholar at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University (the USA, 2017-2018). She is the author of more than 100 academic publications, chapters of textbooks, and chapters of books, particularly, “Gender for All. Challenging Stereotypes” (2017), “Why not be Afraid of Feminism” (2018), “Defenders of the Galaxy”: Power and Crisis in the Male World” (2020). Tamara teaches at the Department of Sociology courses “Introduction to Gender Studies”, “Gender and Politics”, “Masculinity and Men’s Studies”, “Social Problems in Ukraine and in the World”, and others.
She is engaged in educational activism, conducts trainings for a wide target audience: journalists, think tanks, civil servants, politicians, civic activists, and more. Helps NGOs and think tanks to develop internal organizational policies on non-discrimination and gender equality. Tamara is the author of a popular online course on Prometheus titled “Women and Men: Gender for All”. Tamara shares the idea of public sociology – science and research for the sake of social change and is therefore constantly involved in various international research or teaching projects.

Tamara Zlobina holds a Ph.D. (Candidate of Sciences) in Philosophy, she is an Editor in chief of online magazine Gender in detail
https://genderindetail.org.ua/

Ksenya Kiebuzinski is Head of the Petro Jacyk Central & East European Resource Centre, and Slavic Resources Coordinator, for the University of Toronto Libraries. She also co-directs (with Professor Lucan Way) the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine, and coordinates the Ukraine Research Group, at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies. Her research interests include nineteenth-century French stage representations of Ukraine, its historical figures, and events, as well as bibliography, the history of the book, and Austrian Galicia.

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Description: The speakers and the audience will discuss a new collection of documents that examines the rise of the most powerful socialist party in the world through the eyes of British diplomats stationed in Germany. The documents raise the question of how people in one nation view people from another. They also illuminate political systems, election practices, and anti-democratic strategies in the highly industrialized federal state of Saxony. These primary sources will interest researchers and students of labour movement history or those wishing to move beyond the Prussian view of German history before 1914.

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James Retallack
Author, University Professor of History and Senior Fellow, Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History, University of Toronto

Andrew G. Bonnell
Associate Professor in History, University of Queensland, Brisbane

Molly Robson
M.A. student, Department of History, University of Toronto

Doris Bergen
Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Chair in Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto (Moderator), with assistance from Dr. Gavin Wiens

Cloth, paperback, and Ebook copies of “German Social Democracy through British Eyes” are available with 25% discount on the website of University of Toronto Press: https://utorontopress.com/9781487527488/. Use coupon code “Retallack25” on checkout.

This event is generously supported by the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History, the DAAD/University of Toronto Joint Initiative in German and European Studies at the Munk School for Global Affairs & Public Policy, and the Intellectual Community Committee, Department of History, University of Toronto.

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We dove into China’s heartland with celebrated author and journalist Peter Hessler, who moved back to China in 2019 to teach writing at Sichuan University.  Hear his stories about deep reporting from a lesser-known region of China. What was it like for a veteran American journalist to to be teaching and reporting from China’s interior during the pandemic?  What is the future of reporting in and on China by foreigners?  Hessler joined us for this timely conversation.    

SPEAKER’S BIO:  For more than twenty years, Peter Hessler has been a staff writer at The New Yorker. He first went to live in China as a Peace Corps volunteer, from 1996 to 1998, an experience that became the subject of his first book, River Town. With his next two books—Oracle Bones and Country Driving—he completed a trilogy that spanned a decade in China. In 2011, he moved with his family to Cairo, where he lived for five years. His fifth book, The Buried, described his experiences during the Egyptian Arab Spring.  In 2019, Hessler moved back to Sichuan province, the region where he had served in the Peace Corps more than two decades earlier. For two years, he taught at Sichuan University, where he also covered the pandemic, reporting in Wuhan and other cities during 2020 and 2021. This experience will be the subject of his next book. In 2011, Hessler was named a MacArthur Fellow. He currently lives in southwestern Colorado.

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The Qurultay of 1991, the first National Convention since their return to Crimea declared Crimean Tatars indigenous peoples of Crimea, articulating their exclusive rights to the land and its resources. It was indeed the first time since korenizatsiia that the Crimean Tatars embraced indigeneity as a mobilizing political identity, aligning themselves with the global indigenous movement. The choice of this mobilizing framework is not self-evident. First, the Crimean Tatars shared more commonalities with other Soviet “deported nationalities”, than with First Nations in Canada or Maori in New Zealand. Second, it is intuitive to suggest that in light of the prevailing Soviet-era classifications on “backward indigenous people” and “developed nations”, Crimean Tatars, who consider themselves an urbanized modern nation would find it contradictory to also identify as indigenous. Finally, while the global indigenous movement poses itself as a counterforce to the capitalist West, Crimean Tatars support the market economy and identify with European liberal values. In light of these paradoxes, this talk asks why Crimean Tatars chose to embrace indigenous identity and align with the global indigenous movement? How this indigenous political identity has been used as a tactic in the Crimean Tatars’ struggle for self-determination? To answer these questions, I will tackle the role of the state in shaping identities, the change in socio-economic conditions in the aftermath of the Soviet collapse, the rise and victories of the global indigenous movement, and the role of the intelligentsia in revisioning national history and popularizing the term “indigenous peoples”.

Mariia (Masha) Shynkarenko is a PhD Candidate in Politics Department at The New School. Her dissertation explores the instrumentalization of collective identities as tactics of resistance in the Crimean Tatars’ movement for self-determination. Her broader academic interests include nonviolent civil resistance, authoritarianism, and politics of history. Masha is currently an International Graduate Visiting Student at CERES and a Visiting Scholar in The Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at NYU. Her article “Compliant Subjects? How the Tatars in Crimea Resist Russian Occupation” just came out in Communist and Post-communist Studies journal.

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About Ice War Diplomat:

Tasked with finding common ground and building friendships between the world’s two largest countries and arctic neighbours, a young Canadian diplomat finds himself on his first overseas assignment in Moscow, the Soviet capital. It’s the early 1970s and a Cold War between capitalism and communism, the West and the East, is simmering—while the ice rink is just starting to heat up. Trained in Russian and deployed by Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s détente policy, Smith opts for sports diplomacy, throwing off his embassy black tie dress code and donning the blue and white sweater of the Moscow Maple Leafs.

Armed with cases of Molson, Smith sets forth into Russian beer league hockey. A vodka-infused encounter with the influential Izvestia journalist “The Snowman” leads him into the murky world of Soviet hockey officialdom, the KGB and the decision that USSR “amateurs” were finally ready to play Canadian professionals in an eight-game Friendship Series of the best versus the best.

Trusted by each side with unparalleled access to officials, coaches and players on both teams, Smith portrays this unique and epic hockey series that has come to transcend time, becoming a symbol of the unity and clarity that sports can offer. Discover amazing and surprising events: a motorcycle joyride around the Kremlin with the Canadian prime minister; a secret visit to a Soviet hospital by a blood-coughing Phil Esposito; an argument with Bobby Orr about Team Canada’s behaviour; and an invitation in 2017 from Russia to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the series in Moscow.

The 1972 Canadian-Soviet Hockey Series has gone down in history as a pivotal political event, changing the course of two nations and the world of hockey—learn the fascinating story and more in this book, perfect for history and sports fans alike.

About Gary J. Smith:

Gary J. Smith was a diplomat at the Canadian embassy in Moscow from 1971 to 1974. He was instrumental in making the 1972 Canadian-Soviet Hockey Series happen—and keeping it from falling apart. Smith lives in Perth, ON.

Note from the author: February 25, 2022

“Hockey has been a diplomatic bridge between Canada and Russia dating back fifty years to the storied Summit Series of 1972. At that time, and following the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau used hockey as a form of common ground with the Soviet Union to reduce the risk of conventional and nuclear war. Forty-five years later President Putin himself embraced that series and told players from Team Canada in 2017 that “the series had improved relations with Canada and he would like to follow up on it.” Now with Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, we will have to wait and see whether the hockey bridge can—or should—sustain, once again, the weight of Russian tanks.” —Gary J. Smith

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2022 Reach Symposium Event Details

Day 1 – Thursday, April 21, 2022, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET

Day 2 – Friday, April 22, 2022, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET

Persisting global shocks – such as the coronavirus pandemic, populism, and racial injustice – continue to exacerbate inequality and further marginalize the hardest-to-reach populations, those living in extreme poverty, the administratively invisible and geographically remote.

The pandemic threatened to break global systems, yet we have remained resilient — as individuals, as organizations, and in our commitment to making the world a more just, equitable and ultimately flourishing place. Resilience, in some instances, has been about staying true to original goals and pathways to achieve them; resilience, in other cases, has been about adapting and discovering new and innovative pathways.

This year’s symposium is more important than ever. The task before us now is to apply what we’ve learned to our shared goal: the achievement of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.

Reach research uncovers insights about society’s margins to understand the story of human resilience, studying the mechanisms that help hard-to-reach communities prepare for and endure inevitable shocks. We investigate how organizations pivot in the face of challenges and remain steadfast in their commitment to reaching the hardest-to-reach.

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ABOUT THE BOOK:

What happens when refugees encounter Indigenous sovereignty struggles in the countries of their resettlement?

From April to November 1975, the US military processed over 112,000 Vietnamese refugees on the unincorporated territory of Guam; from 1977 to 1979, the State of Israel granted asylum and citizenship to 366 non-Jewish Vietnamese refugees. Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi analyzes these two cases to theorize what she calls the refugee settler condition: the fraught positionality of refugee subjects whose resettlement in a settler colonial state is predicated on the unjust dispossession of an Indigenous population. This groundbreaking book explores two forms of critical geography: first, archipelagos of empire, examining how the Vietnam War is linked to the US military buildup in Guam and unwavering support of Israel, and second, corresponding archipelagos of trans-Indigenous resistance, tracing how Chamorro decolonization efforts and Palestinian liberation struggles are connected through the Vietnamese refugee figure. Considering distinct yet overlapping modalities of refugee and Indigenous displacement, Gandhi offers tools for imagining emergent forms of decolonial solidarity between refugee settlers and Indigenous peoples.

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Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi is an assistant professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization across Guam and Israel-Palestine (University of California Press, 2022).

Helga Tawil-Souri is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication and the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at NYU. Helga’s work deals with spatiality, technology, and politics in the Middle East, with a particular focus on contemporary life in Palestine-Israel.

Professor Sarah Ihmoud is a sociocultural anthropologist who works at the intersection of anthropology and feminist studies. Her current ethnographic research in Jerusalem focuses on militarization, state violence and Palestinian feminist politics. She also writes about the politics of sexual violence and feminist approaches to activist research in anthropology. In addition to her research, Dr. Ihmoud is invested in building collaborative Black, Indigenous and women of color feminist praxes in and outside of the academy geared towards expanding visions of liberation and decolonial futures.

Thy Phu is a Professor of Media Studies at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. She is coeditor of Feeling Photography, also published by Duke University Press, and Refugee States: Critical Refugee Studies in Canada. She is also author of Picturing Model Citizens: Civility in Asian American Visual Culture.

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Join us on April 22 as panelists discuss the contrast between popular expectations for future war involving cyber, drones, and AI and how they contrast with the ugly realities revealed in Ukraine. Technologies are prominent in the war, of course, but in different ways. Instead of cyberwar we see intensive and effective propaganda. Instead of killer robots we see global media and logistics networks mobilized to support Ukraine. Instead of secret espionage advantages we see intelligence being revealed publicly, before and during the war. And instead of a lightning fast battle, we are seeing a grim war of attrition.

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The third mission of universities is often conceived as a regional one, encompassing contributions to regional development and engagement with regional actors. Yet, universities are increasingly global institutions with internationally mobile faculty. This raises the question of how the embeddedness of academics in their regions shapes engagement at the regional scale. Using survey data of 625 faculty members at seven universities, we investigate the role of place attachment and informal social networks in shaping academics’ regional engagement efforts. The findings indicate that academics with a strong sense of local attachment and extensive social networks engage more with local partners.

Rune Dahl Fitjar is Pro-rector for Innovation and Society at the University of Stavanger and Professor of Innovation Studies at the University of Stavanger Business School. He is affiliated with the Centre for Innovation Research. His research deals with different aspects of regions, in recent years mostly related to regional innovation.

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The Russian invasion has sparked unprecedented sanctions against Russia that have motivated the departure of many Western companies and that are projected to cause a contraction of as much as 15% in 2022. Simultaneously, the Russian army has experienced an extremely high casualty rate. What impact are such developments likely to have on authoritarian durability in Russia? Four experts on Russian politics, mass protest and civil military relations will discuss the impact of the invasion on Russian domestic politics.

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The Greater Toronto Area (GTA) welcomes over a third of all immigrants and refugees within Canada. In response, local governments in the region are adapting their engagement processes to incorporate newcomers into municipal decision-making. While planning practitioners in the GTA are taking innovative steps to design more inclusive methods of engagement, they continue to confront significant barriers. Local governments need to extend additional resources to support planners as they seek to implement culturally-sensitive public participation and revitalize their governance structures to best serve the interests of their diverse communities.

On April 26, IMFG Graduate Fellow Shervin Ghaem-Maghami will examine how selected municipalities in the GTA are engaging immigrants in planning decisions, and how such public participation activities can be improved to most meaningfully draw upon the strengths and adapt to the needs of newcomer communities.

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Marta Dyczok is Associate Professor at the Departments of History and Political Science, Western University, Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, and Adjunct Professor at the National University of the Kyiv Mohyla Academy. She has published five books, including Ukraine’s Euromaidan. Broadcasting through Information Wars with Hromadske Radio (2016) Ukraine Twenty Years After Independence: Assessments, Perspectives, Challenges (co-edited with Giovanna Brogi, 2015), Media, Democracy and Freedom. The Post-Communist Experience (co-edited with Oxana Gaman-Golutvina, 2009), articles in various journals including The Russian Journal of Communication (2014), Demokratizatsiya (2014), and regularly provides media commentary. Her doctorate is from Oxford University and she researches mass media, memory, migration, and history.

Shelby Grossman is a research scholar at the Stanford Internet Observatory. She was previously an assistant professor of political science at the University of Memphis. Dr. Grossman’s primary research interests are in comparative politics and sub-Saharan Africa. Her research has been published in Comparative Political Studies, PS: Political Science and Politics, World Development, and World Politics. Dr. Grossman was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law from 2016-17. She earned her PhD in Government from Harvard University in 2016.

Yevhen Fedchenko is director of the Mohyla School of Journalism at National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kiev, Ukraine and co-founder and chief editor for stopfake.org. He has spent almost 20 years within the media industry, covering international stories for different types of media. He was co-founder of Digital Future of Journalism programme for journalists and Digital Media for Universities Internet journalism curriculum development programme. He teaches courses in international news and factual programming. His main interests are digital journalism and innovations, journalism education in transitional societies, news standards, propaganda and weaponisation of information, coverage of international politics in media. He has contributed to RFE/RL, BBC, NPR, Public Radio International, Radio Canada International, CBC, Mashable, SKY and more.In 2010-2011 Yevhen Fedchenko was Fulbright visiting professor at USC Annenberg in Los Angeles, USA.

Volodymyr Yermolenko, PhD, is a Ukrainian philosopher, journalist and book writer. He works as analytics director at Internews Ukraine, a chief editor at UkraineWorld.org and a senior lecturer at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He holds a doctor of political studies degree from EHESS, France, and PhD in philosophy from Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine. He received Sheveliov Prize for best Ukrainian essays book in 2018, Petro Mohyla Prize in 2021, and Book of the Year prize in several nominations in 2018 and 2015.