Past Events

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Established in 2008 our Annual Graduate Research Conference is now recognized as a premier inter-university forum for graduate students in the field of ethnic studies to come and present their work.

The main purpose of our conference is to provide graduate students with an opportunity to present their work in a professional yet convivial atmosphere in preparation for more formal settings.

9:00-9:05 Registration for Day Two Sessions

9:05-10:20 SESSION 3 Gender

10:20-11:50 SESSION 4 Identity

12:30-14:00 SESSION 5 Policy and Integration

14:30-16:30 Closing Lecture
Speaker: Prof. Morton Weinfeld (McGill University, Department of Sociology)
“Diasporas, Dual Loyalties, and Suspect Minorities: the (Canadian) Jewish Case”

*Please register separately for this event at https://archive.munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/27007/

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Join us for the annual Frank W. Woods Lunchtime Seminar, where Professor Michael L. Ross (UCLA) will present his latest research.

Taxes and subsidies for fossil fuels have large economic and environmental consequences, yet surprisingly little is known about them – including why some countries subsidize fossil fuels while others tax them, and how and why these policies change over time. To address these and other questions, we use an original data set on monthly gasoline taxes and subsidies for 157 countries. We find that from 2003 to 2014, global taxes on gasoline fell by about 13 percent; that 96.5 percent of all subsidies originate in just 22 countries, all of them oil and gas exporters; and that changes in taxes and subsidies are weakly associated with proximity to elections, but neither this nor other factors have much explanatory power. These findings underscore how little progress has been made on taxing fossil fuels, and how difficult it is to predict reforms.

Lunch will be provided.

Michael L. Ross is a Professor of Political Science at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA. He has published widely on energy politics, the political and economic problems of resource-rich countries, civil war, democracy, and gender rights. He has served on advisory boards for the US government, the World Bank, and his research has been featured in publications such as The Washington Post, Newsweek, Financial Times, etc.

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Countries which are diverse and formed largely through waves of immigration — like Canada — must face issues of competing identities and perhaps loyalties within their populations. At times these loyalties reflect competing values and interests, as well as the effects of victimization. When minority rights and interests are defended vigorously these minorities can be perceived as suspect. The Jewish group in its long diasporic history, often as an iconic “other,” has encountered these dilemmas and accusations regularly.
This is true even for the Canadian Jewish community, which is at the same time highly integrated even while many members perceive themselves in an ongoing marginal position. Transnational ties of diasporic groups may continue to pose challenges even for ostensibly liberal-democratic societies such as Canada.

Morton Weinfeld is a Professor of Sociology at McGill University, where he holds the Chair in Canadian Ethnic Studies and directs the Minor Program in Canadian Ethnic and Racial Studies. In 2018-2019 he is a Visiting Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, as well as at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

This event was rescheduled from November 1, 2018 and also serves as the closing lecture for the R.F. Harney 12th Annual Ethnic and Pluralism Studies Graduate Research Conference.

Reception to follow.

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The Environmental Governance Lab hosts regular EGL Work in Progress Talks. The talks are an informal, interdisciplinary forum where faculty and Ph.D. students can discuss ongoing research in the field of environmental politics, policy, and governance. At these events, two presenters offer a 10-minute overview of an ongoing project to serve as a fodder for discussion. If you are interested in hearing more about this and other Environmental Governance Lab events please email eg.lab@utoronto.ca for more information.

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The sixth annual China Law Conference will bring together scholars and practitioners across North America to address the intersection between Chinese Law and current events. The conference will feature panels on the South China Sea Dispute, Trade and “One Belt One Road” Initiative, and Human Rights and Ethnic Minorities of China. Speakers for the SCS panel are: Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon (University of Toronto), Ted McDorman (University of Victoria), Chris Chung (University of Toronto), and Nong Hong (Institute for China-America Studies). Speakers for the Trade panel are: Thomas S. Axworthy (Massey College), Gil Lan (Ryerson University), Julia Qin (Wayne State University), and Cyndee Todgham Cherniak (LexSage). Speakers for the Human Rights panel are: Alvin Y.H. Cheung (New York University), Masashi Crete-Nishihata (Citizen Lab), Mehmet Tohti (Canadian Uyghur Association), and Louisa Greve (Uyghur Human Rights Project).

Please note that you can either register on the chinalawconference.ca website OR on Eventbrite.

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How do we enhance leadership? How do we accelerate team genius? This 60-minute conversation focuses on pathways and principles of personal and professional leadership. We look at some of the leadership qualities of Pierre Elliot Trudeau when he was Prime Minsiter and explore the meaning of team genius, emotional intelligence, the art of mentoring and what we can learn from master leaders.

We examine the importance of deep empathy, deep eloquence, and deep endurance and create a short list of actions to improve our personal and professional leadership skills.

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DR JOSEPH MACINNIS is a physician-scientist who examines leadership and team genius in life-threatening environments and how they can be enhanced in our personal and professional lives.

Dr. MacInnis helped develop some of the systems and techniques that allow humans to function safely deep within the sea. He’s worked on undersea science and engineering projects with the US Navy, the Canadian government and the Russian Academy of Sciences. Supported by the Canadian government, he led ten research expeditions under the ice of the Arctic Ocean. The first person to explore the ocean beneath the North Pole, he was among the first to dive to the Titanic. He’s spent six thousand hours working inside the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic Oceans. Recently, he was the medical advisor and journalist on the James Cameron National-Geographic seven-mile science dive into the Mariana Trench.

Dr. MacInnis currently examines and writes about leadership and team genius in lethal environments. He’s produced two leadership training videos for the Canadian military. His latest book, Deep Leadership: Essential Insights from High-Risk Environments, was published by Random House. He has written and hosted radio, television and giant-screen stories for CBC, CBS, Imax Corporation, National Geographic and the Discovery Channel.

Dr. MacInnis gives leadership and team genius presentations in North America and Europe. His audiences have included Microsoft, IBM, National Geographic, Rolex, Visa and the U.S. Naval Academy. His work has earned him numerous distinctions including six honorary doctorates and the Order of Canada.

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A live stream of this event will be available. Please note that the stream will not load until shortly before the event start time. 

Please join the Global Migration Lab for another event in its speaker series examining contemporary issues and challenges in global migration governance.

Kelsey P. Norman: “Strategic Indifference: Understanding Responses to Migrant and Refugee Settlement in Mediterranean Host Countries”

Hiba Sha’ath: “At Cross Purposes: A Field-Based Perspective on IOM’s Framing(s) of Migration in Libya”

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The Central Mediterranean has been the site of mass irregular migration for at least the past decade. Overloaded boats full of desperate people have come to dominate media and popular imagery. Growing attention to the often-dire conditions of migrants in Sahel and North African transit states provides an important check on European claims that “breaking” smuggling rings and criminalizing humanitarian NGOs can co-exist with the promise of development aid and protecting the rights of migrants. Indeed, it is now clear that Europe’s externalized migration controls have dire consequences for migrants, help support autocratic governments, and undermine international protection norms.

However, the focus on Europe’s policy challenges and its ability to “externalize” controls ignores the interests, choices, and domestic politics in African transit and destination states. Likewise, International Organizations are characterized as passive vehicles of European policies, obscuring their significant interests and internal politics. This panel will unpack the policies and interests of Mediterranean transit and receiving states, explore how International Organizations mediate between their own and diverse state interests, and ask how these dynamics affect irregular migration in the region.

Kelsey Norman is a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Political Science and the Institute for European Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada and an instructor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. She has conducted several years of field research throughout North Africa.

Hiba Sha’ath is a second year PhD student in Human Geography at York University. Prior to joining York, she worked on data analysis, research coordination and reporting with IOM Libya’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) program from 2016 to 2017, and with IOM’s regional office for West and Central Africa in spring and summer of 2018.

This speaker series is supported in part by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada in the lead up to the 2019 International Metropolis Conference.

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In 1964, students at the University of California, Berkeley staged a mass demonstration in an attempt to remove the university’s ban on political activities. Present among the free speech advocates, civil rights activists, and anti-Vietnam war protesters was Hubert Lindsey, a lone Southern Baptist preacher and self-identified missionary to the radical student population. Known as “Holy Hubert” among the students, Lindsey popularized a form of aggressive campus preaching that is still practiced today.   This presentation explored how Lindsey’s mission to Berkeley, as well as the campus preaching movement it inspired, helps us historicize and clarify the pressing cultural politics of free speech and hate speech on college campuses today.

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Lecture Abstract:  Known for its unique culture and society, Japan’s rapidly ageing society and chronic labour shortages have created long-term structural challenges. While Japanese policy-makers, pundits, and scholars have debated whether or not Japan could address these issues through outsourcing and automation, in recent years, the rising costs of social programs combined with a shrinking economy have threatened to turn Japan’s ageing population into a national crisis. In December of 2018, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party made history by introducing major reforms to Japan’s strict immigration policy that will dramatically increase that country’s immigrant population. Having spent his career working for the Japanese Immigration Bureau and a nationally recognized advocate of immigration reform, Mr. Hidenori Sakanaka discussed why it is necessary for Japan to become a major destination for immigrants and how it can effectively manage immigration in the 21st Century.   

Speaker Biography Graduating with a Master of Law Degree from Keio Gijuku University in 1970, Mr. Sakanaka joined the Japanese Ministry of Justice that same year, going on to become the Bureau Chief of the Immigration Bureau’s Tokyo Office. Since retiring his post at the Immigration Bureau, he has become head of the Japan Immigration Policy Institute. In recent years, he has proposed that Japan admit 10 million immigrants by 2050 in his lecture/article titled, “A Vision for Japan’s Model Immigration State,” and called for the peaceful co-existence of all peoples in his lecture/article, “A Plan for a Community of Different Peoples.” Mr. Sakanaka is the author of several books including: How the immigration control will be implemented (1989), An Immigration Officer`s Memoirs (2005), The Road to Japan`s Model Immigration State (2011), and The Population Decline and the Immigration Revolution (2012).

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What determines implicit associations and explicit attitudes towards belligerent states during wartime? Scholars have increasingly noted the important role played by both implicit (or affect-based) and explicit (or cognition-based) attitudes in explaining important elements of political behavior, but there has been little prior research on implicit attitudes during wartime. Further, there is theoretical and empirical disagreement as to whether one of several possible identity categories, such as citizenship or ethnicity, or the dynamics of the conflict should determine attitudes. We use an implicit association test (IAT) and a questionnaire in four Ukrainian cities to determine 600 respondents’ relative preferences for Ukraine or Russia, deploying nationally representative survey data to perform robustness checks on our IAT recruitment and measurement strategy. We find that ethnicity does not predict absolute preference for one state over the other, but rather that all ethnic groups across all cities express pro-Ukraine views on average in both explicit attitudes and implicit associations. The relatively high degree of congruence between explicit and implicit attitudes, the latter of which are very difficult to manipulate and are therefore immune from social desirability bias or other forms of preference falsification, suggests that respondents are generally comfortable expressing their pro-Ukraine views. These findings speak to international relations literature on diversionary conflict and rally-effects and comparative politics literature on ethnicity and conflict. They challenge theories that suggest ethnic minority diaspora populations (in this case, ethnic Russian citizens of Ukraine) may feel allegiance to an external homeland in times of conflict.

Aaron Erlich is an Assistant Professor at McGill University. His current research interests include the impact of information in developing countries, measurement, democratization, and experimental design. Previous work has appeared in American Political Science Review and Comparative Political Studies, among other journals.

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My talk will engage with a set of late works by B. R. Ambedkar—Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Ancient India, The Buddha and His Gospel, The Buddha and His Dhamma, and Buddha or Karl Marx—where the analysis of Buddhism’s history in India intersects with Ambedkar’s understanding of “religion” and his philosophy of conversion. My talk returns to a question that haunts Ambedkar scholarship. This concerns the issue of how to understand Buddhist conversion within the complexly ramified temporalities of “return” and (Marxist) “revolution” that frames the project of human emancipation for B. R. Ambedkar.

Anupama Rao is Senior Editor, Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East; and Acting Director, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Rao has written widely on the themes of colonialism and humanitarianism, and on non-Western histories of gender and sexuality. Her book, The Caste Question (University of California Press, 2009) theorized caste subalternity, with specific focus on the role of anti-caste thought (and its thinkers) in producing alternative genealogies of political subject-formation.

She is currently working on a book on the political thought of B. R. Ambedkar; and a project titled Dalit Bombay, which explores the relationship between caste, political culture, and everyday life in colonial and postcolonial Bombay. Her most recent book, the edited volume Gender, Caste, and the Imagination of Equality was published in December 2017.

Her work has been supported by grants from the ACLS; the American Institute for Indian Studies; the Mellon Foundation; the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the SSRC. She was a Fellow-in-Residence at the National Humanities Center from 2008-09, and a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford during 2010-11. She was a Fellow at REWORK (Humboldt University, Berlin) in 2014-2015.

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We are excited that our 10th anniversary panel for the Ford+Munk conference features an impressive lineup of researchers, policy practitioners, academics and leaders from the medical community.

The panelists include:

Helen Angus, Deputy Minister, Ontario Ministry of Health & Long Term Care

Helen Angus was appointed Deputy Minister of Health and Long-Term Care in June 2018.
Most recently, Helen served as the Deputy Minister of Treasury Board Secretariat and the Secretary of Treasury Board and Management Board of Cabinet. Previously, she was Deputy Minister of International Trade and Deputy Responsible for Women’s Issues, and Deputy Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and International Trade. Helen has also served as an associate deputy minister at the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care with responsibility for Policy and Transformation.
Prior to her return to the Ontario Public Service in 2012, Helen served as the Vice President responsible for the Ontario Renal Network at Cancer Care Ontario. She was also Cancer Care Ontario’s Vice President of Planning and Strategic Implementation and Vice President of Research and Analysis at the Canadian Institute for Health Information.
Helen was educated at the University of Toronto and holds a Master of Science degree in planning.

Dr. Vicky Stergiopoulos, Physician-in-Chief, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)

Dr. Vicky Stergiopoulos is a Clinician Scientist and the Physician-in-Chief at CAMH. She is also a Professor and Vice-Chair, Clinical and Innovation in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Prior to joining CAMH, she served as the Psychiatrist-in-Chief at St. Michael’s Hospital, leading the development of a number of innovative health solutions for people experiencing homelessness and mental health and substance use challenges. Dr. Stergiopoulos has a keen interest in mental health policy, community development and the redesign of our system of mental health care for the purpose of system improvement. She champions equitable access to high quality health care, and the inclusion of service users in both service delivery and research.
Dr. Stergiopoulos completed her medical training at Dalhousie University and training in psychiatry at the University of Toronto. She holds a MHSc in health administration from the University of Toronto’s Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation. Her program of research focuses on the design, implementation, evaluation and dissemination of interventions aiming to improve housing stability, service coordination and recovery of adults experiencing mental health and addiction challenges and social disadvantage.

Gillian Kolla, PhD. Candidate, Dalla Lana School of Public Health: University of Toronto

Gillian Kolla is a PhD candidate in Social and Behavioural Health Sciences at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. She uses community-based research, ethnographic and qualitative methods to examine how to make health and social services more accessible to people impacted by marginalization. Her PhD research explores the delivery of health and social services within the spaces where people gather to use illicit drugs, with a focus on how the criminalization of drug use impedes the ability of public health programs to respond effectively to drug use. She is currently also conducting research on the impacts of the overdose epidemic on the physical and emotional health of communities of people who use drugs.
Gillian is a member of the coordinating committee of the Toronto Overdose Prevention Society, which set up unsanctioned Overdose Prevention Sites in Moss Park and Parkdale as a response to the devastating overdose crisis, and advocates for an evidence-based response to the overdose crisis. In recognition of this work, Gillian received the Emerging Public Health Leader award from the Public Health Alumni Association.

Matt Johnson, Coordinator: Overdose Prevention Site, Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre

Matt Johnson is the Coordinator of the Overdose Prevention Site at Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre. He is a long time Harm Reduction worker, advocate and was involved in setting up the unsanctioned Overdose Prevention Sites in Moss Park and Parkdale as an activist response to inaction around the overdose epidemic and the ongoing drug war. He has been asked to speak as an expert on substance use, Harm Reduction and Overdose response to Social Service agencies, Universities, a Coroner’s inquest and media. He continues to push for greater and meaningful involvement of people who use drugs in the development and implementation of services as well as policies affecting drug users. He works for an end to the drug war, and a humane system based in respect, human rights and greater health and stability for all.

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Georgina Black, Partner & National Leader: Management Consulting, KPMG Canada & Vice-Chair, KPMG Global Healthcare

Georgina is a National Leader, Management Consulting. She has 20 years of experience advising organizations in the areas of executive governance and leadership, strategic planning, performance improvement and complex organizational change. Until recently, Georgina was the President of Blackstone Partners which was acquired by KPMG to deepen the firm’s commitment to the healthcare and broader public sectors in Canada. Georgina’s area of focus is working closely with boards, executive teams and diverse stakeholder groups to develop strategies to improve performance. She is an accomplished strategist and facilitator who has a reputation for getting results. Clients appreciate her attention to the realities of implementation, political acuity and the discipline she brings from 10 years focused on the private sector. Throughout her career, Georgina has led several transformational projects (mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, governance and program reviews, shared services and organizational design) in the public sector to improve effectiveness and efficiency within complex stakeholder environments. Through her work with provincial, local government, not for profits and healthcare organizations, Georgina brings a systems perspective to identifying and addressing cross function, organization and sector opportunities.

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Lecture Abstract: Canada and Japan have long been key international partners, both bilaterally and multilaterally. The two countries are vibrant democracies that support open trade, investment and the rules-based international order. Their cooperation internationally spans a range of bodies including: the G7, G20, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Asian Development Bank, International Monetary Fund, Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The two sides are also committed to enhancing trade relations with the now-ratified Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) trade deal.   But while economic ties have long been the focal point of this relationship, it is a critical moment to reassess the need to elevate security and defense relations in order to make a more comprehensive and strategic partnership. Japan’s security environment continues to be laden with concerns—both short and long term—such as continued instability and uncertainty on the Korean peninsula along with meeting the long-term challenge of China. Meanwhile, Canada (also managing its own challenges in its relations with China) has increasingly voiced a desire to engage more deeply in the Asia-Pacific in security terms, and its relationship with Japan seems to be a natural cornerstone from which to base those evolving efforts. Where is this relationship going in security and defense terms? What are some of the main areas of opportunity? What are the challenges?  

Speaker Biography: Jonathan Berkshire Miller is an international affairs professional with expertise on security, defense and intelligence issues in Northeast Asia.  He has held a variety of positions in the private and public sector. Currently, he is a senior visiting fellow with the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA). He is also a Distinguished Fellow with the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada. Additionally, he is a Senior Fellow on East Asia with the EastWest Institute. Miller is also a Senior Fellow on East Asia for the Asian Forum Japan, based in Tokyo.   Previously, he was an international affairs fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations, based in Tokyo. Jonathan also held a fellowship on Japan with the Pacific Forum CSIS from 2013-16. At the Pacific Forum CSIS, he chaired a ten-member group focused on Japan-Korea relations, in the context of the US “rebalance” to Asia. Miller has also held a number of other visiting fellowships on Asian security matters, including at JIIA and the National Institute of Defense Studies (Ministry of Defense – Japan).    In addition, Miller previously spent nearly a decade working on economic and security issues related to Asia with the Canadian federal government and worked both with the foreign ministry and the security community. He regularly attends track 1.5 and track 2 dialogues in the region and lectures to universities, think-tanks, corporations and others across the Asia-Pacific region on security and defense issues. He also regularly provides advice and presents to multilateral organizations and foreign governments on regional geopolitics.   Jonathan is a regular contributor to several journals, magazines and newspapers on Asia-Pacific security issues including The Economist Intelligence Unit, Foreign Affairs, Forbes and Newsweek Japan. He has also published widely in other outlets including Foreign Policy, the World Affairs Journal, the Nikkei Asian Review, the Japan Times, the Mainichi Shimbun, the ASAN Forum, Jane’s Intelligence Review and Global Asia.  Miller has been interviewed and quoted on regional security issues across a wide range of media including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, Le Monde, Nikkei, The Japan Times, Asahi Shimbun, the Voice of America, The Globe and Mail and ABC news.

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Planning your first year at U of T in September 2019, and want to find out more about Munk One? Join us on February 13 for an opportunity to meet Munk One professors, students, and staff who will tell you about this unique first year opportunity for students interested in global affairs.

To make the most of your time with us, we ask that you arrive promptly at 6:00pm. During the first hour, Professor Teresa Kramarz, Director of Munk One will present a brief overview of the program, then students, and staff will talk about specific aspects of the program like its seminar class format, its labs, research opportunities, case competitions, international opportunities and much more. You will also have plenty of time to ask questions. Following that, starting at 7:00pm, Munk One students will take you on a short campus tour.

Meet us in the boardroom and library at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, 315 Bloor Street West. We are looking forward to seeing you there!

In the meantime, you can find out more about the program, by visiting our website:

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From houses of parliament to corporate board rooms, politics is framed by powerful notions of manhood and organised in large part through men’s relations with other men. Elections and public policies often are contests over the performance of particular forms of masculinity. As recent events have shown, right-wing and fundamentalist movements and communities draw support and strength from appeals to masculine values. At the same time, there are growing efforts by feminist movements, civil society organizations, and governments to engage men in building gender equality, and an increasingly visible conversation about new, healthy forms of masculinity. This event will explore the interconnections of masculinities, power and politics around the world, and the public and institutional policies that can have a positive and transformative impact through engaging men as allies with women in the gender equality revolution.

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The Kashmir valley is a geographic region that straddles India’s northwestern border with Pakistan. Known for its idyllic meadows and mountainous landscapes, the Indian-administered territory is the site of one of the longest international political disputes in modern history, and is one of the most militarized regions in the world. Since the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947, the valley has been the site of multiple wars between India and Pakistan, and control of the region has become the subject of one the most divisive political and social debates in South Asia. In the late 1980s, Kashmiri militants began a rebellion against Indian administration of the region. The subsequent insurgency and counter-insurgency continue to this day and have resulted in thousands of deaths and human rights violations.

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Nathaniel Brunt is an interdisciplinary scholar, photographer and archival artist based in Toronto, Canada. His research and photographic practice focus on the history and photographic representation of modern war. Brunt is currently pursuing a PhD in the Communication and Culture joint program at Ryerson University and York University. His doctoral research is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and The Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation.

Brunt’s photographic work has been featured in the Globe and Mail, Sharp Magazine, and PDN, and has been exhibited in Canada and internationally. He has received academic and photographic honours from organizations including the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, the International Visual Sociology Association, and the Alexia Foundation for World Peace. Recently Brunt was a visiting scholar at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. He is co-director, with Alisha Sett, of the Kashmir Photo Collective, a digital resource of endangered photographs and related historical material that preserves, visualizes, and diversifies the histories of the Kashmir Valley.

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The sixteenth century witnessed a proliferation of military texts written by French noblemen who were veterans of the Italian Wars and religious wars. In these texts, authors developed a new masculine standard through how they represented noblemen in combat. They abandoned the medieval trope of the knight and replaced it with that of the captain. Religious piety was an essential aspect of this change as the authors incorporated a renewed emphasis on crusade in their idealised representation of nobility. In the beginning of the period, authors’ religious ideals conflicted with political realities as they placed crusader imagery alongside gleeful descriptions of France waging war against Popes and allying with Protestants and Muslims against Catholics. These inherent contradictions did not resolve themselves until the latter half of the century when authors’ glorification of holy war dissipated as France plunged into its vicious cycle of religious conflict that shattered the social fabric of the nobility. The bloodshed between Frenchmen over religion meant that representations of noblemen as imagined crusaders ceased to be a favourable trope in military literature. Religious fanaticism was no longer glorified, and thus noblemen needed to present themselves as secular actors devoid of aggressive religious motivations. Authors continued to utilise the trope of the pious captain but without its original crusader rhetoric.

Benjamin (Benji) Lukas is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. His dissertation, “From Knights to Captains: The construction of nobility through masculinity and warfare in sixteenth-century France,” examines the changes in the representation of nobility in sixteen-century military literature. His research interests include the study of masculinity, warfare, religious conflict, and sexual violence.

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Patrick Cirillo, a founding member of the G7 Research Group, is Principal Assistant to the Secretary of the International Monetary Fund. Previously, he served as Deputy Chief of Operations in the IMF secretariat and Deputy Chief of Public Affairs in the IMF’s Communications Department. From 1997 to 2008, he was also the Secretary to the Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs and Development (G24), which brings together the major emerging market and developing countries. Prior to joining the Fund, Patrick worked in financial markets in Europe and in academia in Canada and Europe. Patrick attended universities in Switzerland, France and Austria and is a graduate of International Relations Program at the University of Toronto.

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From the rise of Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines to Myanmar’s military dictatorship, Southeast Asia is home to several fascinating cases of authoritarianism and populism. Efforts to combat corruption and drug trafficking have become authoritarian mechanisms through which to crack down on dissent and tighten the state’s stronghold on civil societies. Do such observations point to a recent resurgence of historical trends, or are we witnessing new forms of populism and authoritarianism in the 21st century? What are the political and socio-economic factors that give rise to and sustain populism in Southeast Asia? How is authoritarianism in Southeast Asia different from, or similar to, centralized governance in other parts of the world?

We are honoured and excited to welcome three distinguished panelists to our event:

Professor Arne Kislenko (Associate Professor of History, Ryerson University; Trinity College, University of Toronto) will discuss the regression in Thailand witnessed with the return of military government and a new king. He will also speak to the entrenchment of authoritarianism in Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar/Burma. Our second panelist Petra Molnar (Research Associate. International Human Rights Program, University of Toronto Faculty of Law) will be discussing her fact-finding trip to the Philippines in 2018, the impacts of the drug war, and more generally about human rights advocacy. Our third panelist, Irene Poetranto (PhD candidate, Department of Political Science & Research at the Citizen Lab) will be commenting on the digital/cyber component of populism and authoritarianism, for example, Duterte’s use of social media.

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Dr. Skubii’s research aims at broadening and rethinking our understanding of the Holodomor from a material perspective. She will discuss the importance of material items and commodities in saving children’s lives, both within their families and in orphanages. By focusing on children’s consumer goods, she will examine the mechanisms of distribution and allocation of consumer goods, as well as the spaces and practices of consumption by children in 1932-1933.

Dr. Iryna Skubii is an Associate Professor at Department for UNESCO “Philosophy of Human Communication” and Socio-humanitarian Disciplines at the Petro Vasylenko Kharkiv National Technical University of Agriculture. Her research interests include economic and social history, gender studies, consumption and materiality, and history of childhood in early Soviet Ukraine. She holds a Ph.D. degree from Karazin National University (2013). In 2016, Professor Skubii was a fellow of the German-Ukrainian Commission of Historians and undertook research at Ludvig-Maximillians University in Munich. In 2016-2017, she won research grants from the Shevchenko Scientific Society in America and the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. In 2017, Professor Skubii published her monograph “Trade in Kharkiv in the years of NEP (1921-1929): between the economy and everyday life.”

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Farid Shafiyev presents a study of Imperial Russian and Soviet Resettlement policies in the South Caucasus during the 19-20th centuries and their impact on the ethnic conflicts in the region, especially the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. The book investigates the nexus between imperial practices, foreign policy, religion and ethnic conflicts. Taking a comparative approach Dr. Shafiyev explores the most active phases of resettlement, when the state imported and relocated waves of Germans, Russian sectarians and Armenian settlers into the South Caucasus and deported thousands of others. He also offers insights on the complexities of empire-building and managing space and people in the Muslim borderlands.

Farid Shafiyev is a diplomat and scholar from Azerbaijan. He holds a PhD from Carleton University and an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School of Government as well as Bachelor of Law and Diploma in History from Baku State University. Farid Shafiyev served as ambassador of Azerbaijan to Canada and currently posted in the Czech Republic. He is author of numerous articles and op-eds.

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This event will take place as scheduled on Wednesday, February 27.
Click here to watch the webcast.

Join us as Sir Lawrence Freedman, Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King’s College, London, UK discusses The End of the Transatlantic Alliance? Trump, Brexit and the New World Order.

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The Dr. David Chu Scholarships in Asia-Pacific Studies offer funding to undergraduate and graduate students in the University of Toronto who are pursuing study and research related to the Asia-Pacific region (East and Southeast Asia). These awards are administered by the Faculty of Arts and Science with an application deadline of March 15. Learn more about the awards and how to apply through the Faculty of Arts and Science Website.

The information session features Professor Takashi Fujitani, Director of the Dr. David Chu Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, who will provide an overview of the award selection criteria and eligibility and how to build a strong proposal. Representatives from the Faculty of Arts and Science, School of Graduate Studies, and Asian Institute will also be available to help students in filling out the Financial Need Assessment form and answer questions about the application process.

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Uriel Abulof is a Senior Lecturer (US Associate Professor) at Tel-Aviv University’s School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs, where he directs the graduate studies program. He is also a research fellow at Princeton University’s LISD / Woodrow Wilson School and at the Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace. Abulof studies the politics of fear and legitimation, social movements, existentialism, nationalism and ethnic conflicts. His recent books include The Mortality and Morality of Nations (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Living on the Edge: The Existential Uncertainty of Zionism (Haifa University Press, 2015), which received Israel’s best academic book award (Bahat Prize). He is also the co-editor of Self-Determination: A Double-Edged Concept (Routledge, 2016) and Communication, Legitimation and Morality in Modern Politics (Routledge, 2017). Abulof is the recipient of the 2016 Young Scholar Award in Israel Studies. He is currently working on another book for Cambridge University Press on Political Existentialism and Humanity’s Midlife Crisis. His articles have appeared in journals such as International Studies Quarterly, International Political Sociology, Nations and Nationalism, British Journal of Sociology, European Journal of International Relations, Journal of International Relations and Development, Contemporary Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Society, Ethnic and Racial Studies and International Politics

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What is a phonographic recording? A copy, inseparable from an original sonic event? Or a representation, a ritual re-enactment, that requires the listener’s participation?   With these questions in mind, this talk examined two sets of recordings: Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music, compiled in the summer of 1952, and Woody Guthrie’s March 1940 recordings for the Library of Congress. Although these sets employ different representational strategies — with Guthrie using his own voice, Smith the voices and rhythms of various other people — both artists use the phonographic medium to construct a sonic “vision” of America. This talk explored the nature of these representations and how they might lead us to re-consider phonography and its place within the cultural nexus of American modernism.

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Please join the Global Migration Lab for another event in its speaker series examining contemporary issues and challenges in global migration governance.

A live stream of this event will be available shortly before the panel begins. 

Anne Staver: “Of two minds: reasserting national control while negotiating global migration governance”

James Milner: “Collective action in a time of populism: Everyday politics and the implementation of the Global Compact on Refugees”

Discussant: Jennifer Hyndman, Director of the Centre for Refugees Studies, York University

Moderator: Randall Hansen, Interin Director, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

Signed in December 2018, the Global Refugee and Global Migration Compacts are an admission that the challenges of migration are best approached through cooperation and collective action.

The Compact on Refugees recognizes the unequal burden placed on Global South states, which host refugees, and rich Global North states, which pay to keep them in regions of origin. Recognizing that most refugees will not return home or be resettled, the Compact proposes new solidarity, development, and finance mechanisms to foster the inclusion and development of displaced people and host populations alike. While promising, displacement crises continue to proliferate, host states remain under-funded, and programming faces major delivery challenges.

In terms of the Migration Compact, scholars have long argued that state interests are largely incompatible with attempts at global migration governance. Yet, in 2016 the International Organization for Migration became a UN agency, and the vast majority of states supported the Compact with a goal of facilitating safe, orderly, and legal migration. At the same time, right-wing parties in liberal democracies rallied against the Compact, arguing it would erode state sovereignty, and several prominent states “pulled out”.

This panel will unpack the potential for global migration governance, responsibility-sharing, and addressing collective action problems in the face of burden-shifting, populism, and a growing desire to assert control.

James Milner is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Carleton University. He is also currently Project Director of LERRN: The Local Engagement Refugee Research Network, a 7-year, SSHRC-funded partnership between researchers and civil society actors primarily in Canada, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon and Tanzania. He has been a researcher, practitioner and policy advisor on issues relating to the global refugee regime, global refugee policy and the politics of asylum in the global South. In recent years, he has undertaken field research in Burundi, Guinea, Kenya, India, Tanzania and Thailand, and has presented research findings to stakeholders in New York, Geneva, London, Ottawa, Bangkok, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and elsewhere. He has worked as a Consultant for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in India, Cameroon, Guinea and its Geneva Headquarters. He is author of Refugees, the State and the Politics of Asylum in Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), co-author (with Alexander Betts and Gil Loescher) of UNHCR: The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection (Routledge, 2012), and co-editor of Protracted Refugee Situations: Political, Human Rights and Security Implications (UN University Press, 2008).

Anne Balke Staver is a senior researcher at the Oslo Metropolitan University, focusing on migration and integration policies. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto and an MSc in Forced Migration from the University of Oxford. She is formerly a research fellow at the Institute for Social Research (Oslo), and has extensive experience from migration policymaking and implementation in the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration, Norwegian Police Immigration Service and the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Consultations on Migration, Asylum and Refugees (igc).

This speaker series is supported in part by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada in the lead up to the 2019 International Metropolis Conference.

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Over the course of the long nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of tsarist subjects left the Russian empire and resettled in western and central Europe. There, they created new communities that they called “Russian colonies.” This talk reconstructs the utopian experiments that emerged in the “Russian colonies,” and examines how they influenced political imaginaries in Russia and in their European host societies. Providing a vivid portrait of a unique émigré milieu, the presentation also argues that the story of the colonies offers a novel perspective on one of the most classic themes in Russian history—the relationship between Russia and Europe.

Faith Hillis is associate professor of history at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Children of Rus’: Right Bank Ukraine and the Invention of a Russian Nation (Cornell University Press, 2013). The recipient of research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, ACLS, Columbia, and Harvard, she is currently a fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.

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Join us as The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, former Chief Justice of Canada, discusses “Leadership: A Place for Women?” This presentation is part of the Women and Leadership Series of the David Peterson Public Leadership Program.
Biography
The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin served as Chief Justice of Canada from 2000 to mid-December 2017.
Ms. McLachlin works as an arbitrator and mediator in Canada and internationally. She brings to those forms of dispute resolution her broad and deep experience from over 35 years in deciding a wide range of business law and public law disputes, in both common law and civil law; her ability to work in both English and French; and her experience and skill in leading and consensus-building for many years as the head of a diverse nine-member court. Ms. McLachlin also sits as a Justice of Singapore’s International Commercial Court and the Hong Kong Final Court of Appeal.

Her judicial career began in 1981 in the province of British Columbia, Canada. She was appointed to the Supreme Court of British Columbia (a court of first instance) later that year and was elevated to the British Columbia Court of Appeal in 1985. She was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia in 1988 and seven months later, she was sworn in as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Ms. McLachlin is the first and only woman to be Chief Justice of Canada and she is Canada’s longest serving Chief Justice.
The former Chief Justice chaired the Canadian Judicial Council, the Advisory Council of the Order of Canada and the Board of Governors of the National Judicial Institute. In June 2018 she was appointed to the Order of Canada as a recipient of its highest accolade, Companion of the Order of Canada. She has received over 35 honorary degrees from universities in Canada and abroad, and numerous other honours and awards.

Ms. McLachlin is the author of numerous legal articles and publications, as well as a mystery novel, Full Disclosure, published in 2018.
The 2,094 Supreme Court of Canada judgments in which she participated – of which she wrote 442 – and her legal writings and speaking, include a wide range of subjects in corporate, construction, financial services, taxation, contract, tort, other areas of business law, as well as arbitration and mediation. Her legal texts include, as lead co-author, the first and second editions (1987 and 1994) of The Canadian Law of Architecture and Engineering. It is generally recognized that the judgments of the Supreme Court of Canada during her tenure have affirmed Canada as a jurisdiction that is very supportive of arbitration.

The former Chief Justice received a B.A. (Honours) in Philosophy in 1965 and both an M.A. in Philosophy and an LL.B in 1968 from University of Alberta. She was called to the Alberta Bar in 1969 and to the British Columbia Bar in 1971. She practised law in Alberta and British Columbia. Commencing in 1974, she taught for seven years in the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia as a tenured Associate Professor.

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It is recognized that the military coups in Thailand in 2006 and 2014 were the orchestrated attempts of the anti-democratic alliance of the old powers against the rise of electoral politics. After the coups, they have tried to establish firm control through various measures, including the constitutions of 2007 and 2017 and strengthening the bureaucracy. However, little attention has been paid to the Thai military’s expansive civil affairs projects, including rural and urban development programs, mass organizations and mobilization campaigns, ideological and psychological programs. Puangthong argues that the Thai military has always paid great importance to its civil affairs projects as a political offensive to control popular politics since the counter-insurgency period. The conservatives craftily manipulated legal and moral legitimacy in order to protect and expand the army’s role beyond its combatant sphere. The entrenchment has been more apparent and aggressive since the 2006 coup. Old apparatuses were reactivated and new ones were created. Power of the army over other state agencies increased more than ever. On one hand, the military’s civil affairs projects allow the military and conservative elites to dictate the country’s long-term political direction. This potent tool, on other hand, effectively polarizes the populace deeper and thus makes democratization in the future difficult.

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Puangthong R. Pawakapan is Associate Professor of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Harvard Yenching Institute, Harvard University, 2018-2019. Her recent works include “The Central Role of Thailand’s Internal Security Operations Command in the Post-Counter-insurgency Period,” Trends in Southeast Asia (ISEAS: Singapore 2017); “The Foreign Press’ Changing Perceptions of Thailand’s Monarchy.” Trends in Southeast Asia. (2015); State and Uncivil Society in Thailand at the Temple of Preah Vihear, (2013).

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In this paper, I draw on fieldwork in the Barakholka (in Almaty, Kazakhstan) and Kara-Suu bazaar (in southern Kyrgyzstan) to illustrate how these rent-generating institutions have localized patrimonialism through tumultuous renegotiations of property rights. Multiple narratives of ruination echo through this process: the bazaar as residue of a transition from communism; charred remains in the wake of bazaar fires; violent clashes between contenders vying for ownership and control.

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan. My ongoing research explores emerging commercial configurations in greater Central Asia, such as regional bazaar trade. During 2018-2019, I am a Senior Researcher at CERES.

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Join the Centre for the Study of Korea in a celebration of Dr. Sherry Yu’s book “Diasporic Media beyond the Diaspora: Korean Media in Vancouver and Los Angeles.” Dr. Yu will be joined by Dr. Karim Karim who will be the discussant for the event.

Sherry S. Yu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media and the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto.

Karim H. Karim is a Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication and the Director of the Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam at Carleton University. He is also an Associate of Migration and Diaspora Studies and the Centre for European Studies at Carleton University.

Coffee and refreshments available at event.

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To celebrate the publication of his revised The G20: Evolution, Interrelationships, Documentation, Peter Hajnal will talk about many changes that the G7 and G20 have undergone in the five years since the first edition in 2014.

One major change was the suspension of Russia’s membership in the G8 in 2014, turning it once again into the G7. Another challenge comes from the rise of populism internationally and US attitudes and actions under the Trump administration – on climate, trade, security and other issues. But on a positive note, both Gs, despite the challenges, are surviving as key institutions of global governance.

Peter has been a member of the G7/G8/G20 Research Groups since 1988 and attended 14 G7/G8/G20 summits as a member of the field team. He is also a member of the Academic Council on the United Nations System, the Union of International Associations, the Association of Former International Civil Servants and the American Library Association. Before his retirement he was Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto for 11 years. He also served as librarian for 25 years at the University of Toronto and 10 years at the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library in New York. He was consultant at the United Nations, in post-Yugoslavia Macedonia, at the Civil G8 project in 2006 in Russia, and the Graham Library, Trinity College, University of Toronto, and assessor of the 2005 G8 Stakeholder Consultation for Chatham House. He is also a participant in Canada Declassified, a project of the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History, Trinity College, University of Toronto.

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A webinar of this event will be available shortly before the panel begins. 
Immigration to Canada has progressively changed the religious composition of the country, and stimulated a number of heated policy debates around questions of citizenship and belonging. Religious groups have also long been some of the most vocal advocates for family migration and refugee resettlement. At the same time, narratives of displacement, welcome, and belonging have largely ignored the experience and opinions of Indigenous populations.
This discussion will examine how religion and shaped migration and vice versa: How have faith groups influenced immigration patterns and policy? How is immigration changing religion in a secular Canadian society? And what do Indigenous experiences of displacement tell us about popular narratives of welcome?
Shachi Kurl:
“Migration’s Impact on Secularism in Canada” 
Geoffrey Cameron:
“Religion and the course of private refugee sponsorship in Canada”
Sadia Rafiquddan:
“Words Matter: Reframing the narrative of refugees, Indigenous peoples and Muslims in Canada” 
Discussant: Michael Donnelly, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
Shachi Kurl is Executive Director of the Angus Reid Institute. She is a frequent guest on CBC’s “At Issue,” Canada’s most-watched political panel, and her analysis has been published in The Globe and Mail, the National Post, and other influential forums.
Geoffrey Cameron (MPhil, PhD) is Director of Public Affairs for the Baha’i Community of Canada, a Research Associate with the Global Migration Lab, and he teaches at McMaster University. He is co-editing a forthcoming volume, “Private Refugee Sponsorship: Concepts, Cases, and Consequences”.
Born in Sargodha, Pakistan, Sadia Rafiquddin draws inspiration from her parents’ move to Canada as refugees in 1990. She is a freelance writer, broadcaster and photographer focusing on human rights stories for CBC, Ferst Digital Inc., Philanthropic Foundations Canada, Hacking Health and Apathy is Boring among others. Her radio documentary Engaged at 14:“I was worried about science class. And now I am getting married?” for CBC’s The Doc Project, was awarded two silver prizes at the New York Festival’s World’s Best Radio Programs in 2018.

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This symposium brough together a distinguished group of scholars whose work either frames contemporary global assessments of the state of democracy around the world or focuses attention directly on the political struggle now underway between democracy and authoritarianism across the Asian region. Its purpose was to bring current comparative research on the evolution of democratic institutions and practices of government into dialogue with cutting-edge conceptual work on democracy and democratization.  The participants together addressed the challenge of maintaining domestic and international stability when countries are facing competing political imperatives generated both by globalizing capitalism and by the contemporary diffusion of systemic power.  

SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM  

 2:10-2:15PM

Welcoming Remarks RANDALL HANSEN Interim Director, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy  Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto        

2:15-4:00PM                

Panel I LUCAN AHMAD WAY Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto  Are we actually in the Midst of a Democratic Recession?  SEVA GUNITSKY Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto Great Powers and the Future of Democracy  LYNETTE ONG Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Asian Institute, University of Toronto Studying "China in the World" in 2019  PHILLIP LIPSCY Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Stanford University  Thomas Rohlen Center Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Democracy, Financial Crises, and Economic Volatility  MAIKO ICHIHARA Associate Professor, Graduate School of Law and the School of International and Public Policy, Hitotsubashi University, Japan Understanding Japan’s International Democracy Assistance Policy  Chair: LOUIS PAULY Interim Director, Centre for the Study of Global Japan J. Stefan Dupré Distinguished Professor of Political Economy, Department of Political Science  Discussant: DAVID A. WELCH University Research Chair and Professor of Political Science, University of Waterloo and Balsillie School of International Affairs    

4:00-4:15PM                         

Panel II  YUSUKE TAKAGI Assistant Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Japan Democracy in Asia: The Case of the Philippines  JOSEPH WONG Professor, Department of Political Science  Ralph and Roz Halbert Professor of Innovation, Munk School  Associate Vice-President and Vice-Provost, International Student Experience, University of Toronto Japan: Asia’s First Unlikely Democracy  DAN SLATER Professor of Political Science Ronald and Eileen Weiser Professor of Emerging Democracies  Director, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies (WCED), University of Michigan Indonesia: Asia’s Newest Unlikely Democracy  SANG-YOUNG RHYU Professor, Political Economy, Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea Upgrading Democracy in Korea: Resilient Consolidation and Complex Challenges  DIANA FU Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto State Control in China under Xi Jinping  Chair: LOUIS PAULY Interim Director, Centre for the Study of Global Japan J. Stefan Dupré Distinguished Professor of Political Economy, Department of Political Science  Discussant: DAVID A. WELCH University Research Chair and Professor of Political Science, University of Waterloo and Balsillie School of International Affairs   

5:55-6:00PM               

Closing Remarks TAKAKO ITO Consul General of Japan in Toronto  

6:00-7:00PM                

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In the past decade, Europe has drifted in and out of crises. The Eurozone crisis, the refugee crisis, and the resurgence of the far right have shaken the confidence of some of the most committed defenders of the European political project. Germany has found itself at the center of many of these issues, and its presence has often reinvigorated long-harbored global anxieties about German political power. Germany’s past, however, can teach us a great deal about both the potential and the limits of this current continental search for political alternatives. This talk will offer a set of theses on the recent influx of minorities, the faltering of the European Union, and the gradual transformation of Germany’s political landscape, including the rise of a New Right.
Jennifer Allen is an assistant professor of modern German history at Yale University. She is working on a book titled Sustainable Utopias: Art, Political Culture, and Historical Practice in Late Twentieth-Century Germany, which charts Germany’s postwar efforts to revitalize the concept of utopia. She argues that, contrary to popular accounts, German interest in radical social alternatives had not diminished by the late twentieth century. Rather, Germans pursued the radical democratization of politics and culture through a series of modest grassroots projects. They not only envisioned a new German utopia but attempted to enact their vision, reclaiming utopian hope from the dustbin of historical ideas. In addition to the themes of utopia and anti-utopianism, Allen’s research explores the theories and practices of memory; counterculture and grassroots activism; and the politics of cultural preservation during and after the Cold War. Her work has been supported by the Volkswagen and Mellon Foundations; the American Academy in Berlin; the Institut für Zeitgeschichte; DAAD; the Institute for International, Comparative and Area Studies at UC San Diego; and the Institutes for European Studies and International Studies at UC Berkeley. Allen received her Ph.D. in history from UC Berkeley in 2015. She is currently the Berthold Leibinger Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and a visiting researcher at the Dahlem Humanities Center at the Free University in Berlin.
 

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Natalia Roudakova is a cultural anthropologist (Ph.D., Stanford University, 2007) working in the field of political communication and comparative media studies, with a broad interest in moral philosophy and political and cultural theory. She has worked as Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication, University of California in San Diego, and as Visiting Scholar in the Media and Communication Department at Erasmus University in Rotterdam (Netherlands) and in the Department of Communication at Södertörn University, Stockholm (Sweden). In 2013-2014, Roudakova was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, California, where she completed her book, titled Losing Pravda: Ethics and the Press in Post-Truth Russia which is now out with Cambridge University Press.

Losing Pravda examines the spectacular professional unraveling of journalism in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union and its broader social and cultural effects. Roudakova argues that a crisis of journalism is unlike any other: it fundamentally erodes the value of truth-seeking and truth-telling in a society. In many ways, Roudakova tracks how a post-truth society comes into being. Russia’s case thus becomes far from unique, illuminating instead the historical and cultural emergence of phenomena such as “fake news,” misinformation (kompromat), and general distrust in politics and public life that have now begun to plague Western democracies as well. Roudakova’s account of one country’s loss of the culture of truth-seeking can serve as an important “wake-up call” for Western nations going forward.

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THE INDIA-CANADA ASSOCIATION LECTURE

Prakrit was, along with Sanskrit and Tamil, one of the main languages of literature in premodern South Asia. It flourished in the first half of the first millennium BCE, although it continued to be cultivated for many centuries afterwards. This talk will begin by sketching the historical outlines of this tradition and then explain why it is important to corroborate, elaborate, and reflect upon its history. First, Prakrit textuality was closely connected to broader developments in the religious and expressive literatures of South Asia, and gives us a unique perspective onto those developments. Second, the many ways in which Prakrit texts defy being ‘historicized’—verses that slip in and out of anthologies, stories told again and again, works that survive only in fragments or abridgements—actually tell us something important about the historical being of literary texts.

Andrew Ollett is a Junior Fellow at Harvard University’s Society of Fellows. He works on the literary and intellectual traditions of premodern South Asia.

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As France has assumed the presidency of the G7 for 2019, Marc Trouyet, France’s Consul General in Toronto, will share insights about his government’s preparation and its priorities for the summit it will host in Biarritz on August 24-26. He will also discuss continuities and cooperation with Canada’s 2018 presidency and themes at the Charlevoix Summit last June. The event will be moderated by Professor David Wright, Kenneth and Patricia Taylor Distinguished Professor of Foreign Affairs at Victoria College and Canada’s former and longest serving Ambassador to NATO.

Biography:

Marc Trouyet, the Consul General of France in Toronto since 2015, serves in the territorial jurisdiction of Ontario and Manitoba. Mr. Trouyet has been a diplomat for almost 15 years. His previous post as head of the department of French Overseas Development Assistance in Paris.

For four years, he served as Deputy Head of Mission of the French Embassy in Australia. When Mr. Trouyet was Deputy Permanent Representative to the French United Nations mission in Rome, he worked extensively with the World Food Program, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the Food and Agricultural Organization. He previously was the officer in charge of sustainable development issue in the UN division of the French Foreign Affairs department.

Prior to joining the foreign service, Mr. Trouyet held positions in the governing council of the Paris City Council. A Graduate of l’Ecole nationale d’administration (ENA), Mr. Trouyet received his bachelor in Political Science and a Masters in Town Planning.

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During the Korean civil war, thousands of real and imagined “leftists” were massacred by the emerging South Korean state. In the wake of South Korea’s long process of post-authoritarian transitional justice, the nature of many of these atrocities has to come to light, in turn leading to increased interest from South Korean and international scholars. This talk builds upon this research by focusing on the role that the family structure played in determining the targets and methods of the perpetrators. Drawing on Elisa Von Joeden-Forgey’s concept of “life force atrocities,” I discuss the ways in which counter-insurgency forces incorporated the decimation the family unit as part of the broader process of anti-leftist liquidation. This pattern was continued into the post-war years, as survivors and families of accused “leftists” were denied the right to properly mourn and placed under the “guilt by association system”. I argue that this process of systematic persecution gave rise to novel forms of communal identities, anchored around the notion of the collective bereaved family. This, in turn, led to unique forms of political resistance in the 1960-1961 period.

Dr Wright is currently the Korea Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto. He completed his PhD at the University of British Columbia in 2016. He is currently working on completing his manuscript “Civil War, Politicide, and the Politics of Memory in South Korea, 1948-1961”. His work has been published in Cross Currents, The Asia Pacific Journal, and by Routledge.

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The forced departure of President Mugabe, the transition to a new ZANU-PF leadership and the aftermath of the controversial 2018 elections have altered the Zimbabwean political landscape. Initial hopes that Zimbabwe was at a possible inflection point for democracy and development have vanished with the deepening political and economic crisis, the labor strikes and the regime’s violent crackdown in January 2019. Democratic space and opportunities for inclusive development are deteriorating as a result. What can be done to protect and enhance democratic space notably for women and youth and non-violent transformations from below? To better understand the situation, Global Affairs Canada supported a CANADEM team in making an assessment in February. Two members of the team will present and discuss their key findings at the brown bag lunch.

JULIET KIRANGWA KAYE AND JEAN-MARC MANGIN, EQUIPE UBUNTU

Jean-Marc and Juliet are the co-partners of EquipeUbuntu, a small consulting firm providing needs assessment, strategic advice and capacity-building.

From 2010 to 2016, Jean-Marc was the Executive Director of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the largest national organization of Canadian researchers and scholars. After fifteen years as a public servant with the UN, international NGOs and the Canadian Government, Jean-Marc became in 2006 the executive director of CUSO, Canada’s oldest volunteer-sending NGO, and was the first executive director of the Global Call for Climate Action, a civil society initiative bringing together over 350 international organizations and networks in support of transformational change and rapid action to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Jean-Marc has lived for more than 10 years in the Global South, mostly in Africa. Jean-Marc holds a M.A. in Political Sciences from the University of Toronto.

From 2004 to 2016, Juliet provided advice to over 400 entrepreneurs in the Greater Toronto Area in developing and executing their business plans. 83% were self-sustaining within 2 years; 8% earned over $1 million within 5 years. Prior to moving to Canada, Juliet worked with FAO and WFP in Ghana, Malawi and Zimbabwe in managing food security programs and in providing policy analysis. She has worked directly with farmers, extension services and agro-businesses as well as with policy units within the UN and local governments. Most recently, she supported private entities and consortiums achieving national food self-sufficiency goals in Guyana and Jamaica. Juliet holds a M.A. in Agricultural Economics from Makerere University in Uganda.

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This CV/Resume writing workshop is open to anyone interested in touching up on their resume, or learning how to write one from scratch. A representative from U of T’s Career Centre will be coming in to give you tips and tricks to write an impressive and concise resume! Learning these techniques is especially helpful as this is a popular time to be applying for jobs and internships. You are highly encouraged to bring a copy of your resume with you to this workshop, but if you do not have one then this is a great opportunity for you to get started! Please email pcjsociety@utoronto.ca with any questions.

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States in the North of Central America (NCA)– El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala – are characterized by endemic poverty, corruption, gang violence, criminality, sexual-identity and gender-based violence, and weak or repressive states. The situation has given rise to a major displacement crisis.

The region saw a tenfold increase in refugees and asylum-seekers from 2011 to 2016. Over 350,000 people claimed asylum globally from 2011 and 2017, with 130,500 in 2017 alone. Most made claims in Mexico and the US, but an increasing number sought refuge in Belize, Costa Rica, and Panama. In the first two months of 2019 alone, almost 8000 refugee claims were made in Mexico; the majority from Honduras and El Salvador. Women, families, and unaccompanied minors are over-represented in displaced populations.

Internal displacement is likewise significant. The region has the world’s most urbanized displaced population, with roughly 95% living in urban areas, making traditional, camp-based humanitarian assistance challenging.

Regional displacement has international implications. Between 400,000 and 500,000 NCA nationals cross irregularly into Mexico annually, most attempting to reach the US. Mexico has become a country of destination, and the new Mexican government has quickly put in place reception measures and enhanced access to the labour market for refugees.

To manage large displacements, states need to apply a comprehensive regional approach. UNHCR is supporting a state-led process known as the MIRPS – the Comprehensive Regional Protection and Solutions Framework – which seeks to promote mechanisms of responsibility-sharing for the prevention, protection and solutions of displaced populations.

This timely panel will offer an in-depth analysis of the current situation, examine the policies of the new government in Mexico, and ask what Canada can do to assist host states and displaced people.

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The PCJ Society has partnered with the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) and Canadian Studies Student Union to present a film screening event on Aboriginal peoples, First Contact.

Most Canadians have never taken the time to get to know Indigenous People or visit their communities. First Contact takes six average Canadians, all with strong opinions about Indigenous People, on a unique 28-day journey into Indigenous Canada. Leaving their everyday lives behind, the six travel deep into Winnipeg, Nunavut, Alberta, Northern Ontario, and the coast of British Columbia to visit Indigenous communities. First Contact is a journey that will turn the six participants’ lives upside down, challenging their perceptions and confronting their opinions about a world they never imagined they would see. It is an experience that will change their lives, forever.

The movie will run for roughly 50 minutes, before which we will open up a panel discussion with Professors from the Indigenous Studies Department at U of T, as well as members of audience (speaker information to follow).

This event is free and open to all University of Toronto students. Tickets are limited. Please register on Eventbite.

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Tickets: $5 General Admission/ Free for University Students (with student ID) & Munk Alumni

The title of the 13th annual Munk Graduate Student Conference is “The New Economy: What’s New?” and discusses the state of the modern economy and how it will be affected by a variety of factors over the following decade. The event will feature four panels: (1) Investing in the New Economy- Latin America; (2) Migration and its effect on the New Economy; (3) Canada’s role in the New Economy; and finally, (4) Perspectives of Munk Graduate Students on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the New Economy, which will only feature graduate students. The knowledge and experience gained will be both applicable and relevant to students as they transition out of academia and begin to navigate the complexities of the current labour market.

PANEL 1: Investing in the New Economy: Latin America
Panelists: Jonathan Hausman, Jesus Bravo, Daniel Bernhard, Moderator: Dr. Darius Ornston
PANEL 2: Migration and its Effect on the New Economy
Panelists: Dr. Sharry Aiken, Alexia Campbell, Dr. John Isbister
PANEL 3: Canada’s Role in the New Economy
Panelists: Dr. Trevin Stratton, Professor Paul Acchione, Adam Jagelewski, Dr. Danny Harvey, Moderator: Dr. Enid Slack
PANEL 4: Munk Graduate Students Panel: AI in the New Economy
Moderator: Dr. Robert Austin

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Artemi Troitsky is the leading Russian music journalist, radio host, producer, author and critic. He is the author of nine books on the history of Russian and Soviet music and youth culture, and he lectures widely around the world. Troitsky produces weekly shows for Radio Liberty and ARU.TV and regularly contributes to newspapers Novaya Gazeta, Postimees, and The Moscow Times. He is also a frequent contributor on Echo Moskvy, TV Dozhd, and BBC Russian Service.

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2018 was the year of the techlash. It was the year that long-simmering concerns about the potential negative effects of technology on our economy, on our personal lives and even on our democracy broke into public debate. But what is behind this reaction? How did Silicon Valley go from a catalyst of innovation that was broadly seen as aligned with economic growth and democratic participation to the source of serious questions about the integrity of our society and democracy? And what should we as citizens and our governments do to respond?

Taylor Owen is the Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics and Communications and Associate Professor in the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University. He was previously Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia, and the Research Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. His Doctorate is from the University of Oxford and he has been a Trudeau and Banting scholar, an Action Canada and Public Policy Forum Fellow, the 2016 Public Policy Forum Emerging Leader, and sits on the Board of Directors of the Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and on the Governing Council of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

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Beforel the 2019 G20 summit is hosted in Osaka, Japan, this panel event brought together experts to discuss Japan’s role in global governance and plurilateral summitry, specifically in the context of the G7 and G20. Organized by the G20 Research Group, the G7 Research Group, the International Relations Society (IRSOC), the Contemporary Asian Studies Student Union (CASSU), and co-sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Global Japan, this discussion focused on the history of Japan’s involvement in global governance, its contribution to the management of global affairs and the challenges it faces as the current G20 host and on the international stage writ large. This event hosted J. Stefan Dupré Distinguished Professor of Political Economy and Interim Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Japan, Professor Louis Pauly, G7 and G20 expert Dr. Peter Hajnal, and Japan International Cooperation Agency civil servant Mrs. Kazuko Funakoshi.

Speaker Biographies:  Alessandra Cicci is co-chair of the executive of summit studies for the G20 Research Group for the 2019 summit in Osaka, Japan and a Senior Researcher for the G7 Research Group. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, Italian and European Union Studies and graduated from St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto in 2018. She currently works in Government Relations at a public affairs firm and will begin a dual-degree program at Sciences Po and the Munk School in September for a Master of Public Policy and Master of Global Affairs.  

Kazuko Funakoshi has extensive career experience in development finance, and is currently studying at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Prior to the Munk School, she was leading the Official Development Assistance (ODA) loan projects team in Nepal at the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)—the government agency in charge of Japan’s ODA. At JICA, Kazuko formulated and implemented large-scale infrastructure projects across Asia in various sectors such as energy, environment, transport and housing—some of which were co-financed with the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. She also has experience with emergency response operations (Specifically, the 2015 Nepal Earthquake). She holds a master’s degree in Agricultural Economics from Kyoto University in Japan.  

Ji Yoon Han is co-chair, with Alessandra Cicci, of the executive of summit studies for the G20 Research Group for the 2019 Summit in Osaka. She graduated with a Honours Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Bioethics from the University of Toronto. Ji Yoon has previously served as compliance analyst, lead analyst and compliance director for both the G20 and G7 Research Groups. Her research interests are in green financing and renewable energy, developed through her work on clean energy, tax administration and international financial institution reform. Ji Yoon has attended G7 and G20 summits in Hamburg, Charlevoix and Buenos Aires.  

Peter Hajnal is a Fellow of Senior College and Research Associate, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto.  He has been a member of the G7/G8/G20 Research Groups since 1988 and attended fourteen G7/G8/G20 summits. Before his retirement he was Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto for 11 years; served as librarian for 25 years at the University of Toronto and 10 years at the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library in New York; and conducted a number of consultancies.  In addition to a number of articles, book chapters and conference presentations, he is the author or editor of eleven books, including The G8 System and the G20: Evolution, Role and Documentation (Ashgate, 2007; also published in Russian and Chinese editions).  His latest book is the second, revised edition of The G20: Evolution, Interrelationships, Documentation (Routledge, 2019).    

Louis W. Pauly is the J. Stefan Dupré Distinguished Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto.  He is cross-appointed to the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, where he also serves as Interim Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Japan.  A graduate of Cornell University, the London School of Economics, New York University, and Fordham University, he was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2011. With Emanuel Adler, he edited the journal International Organization from 2007 to 2012. In 2015, he received the Distinguished Scholar Award in International Political Economy from the International Studies Association. His major publications include Power in a Complex Global System; Hong Kong’s International Financial Centre; Global Ordering: Institutions and Autonomy in a Changing World; Global Liberalism and Political Order; Complex Sovereignty; Governing the World’s Money; Democracy beyond the State?; The Myth of the Global Corporation; Who Elected the Bankers? Surveillance and Control in the World Economy; and Opening Financial Markets: Banking Politics on the Pacific Rim.

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Join us as Professor Sánchez-Cuenca, discusses “Spain: A Wounded Country After Economic, Political and Territorial Crises.” This presentation is part of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy Distinguished Lecture Series.

Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Carlos III-Juan March Institute of Social Sciences at Carlos III University of Madrid. He has written extensively on political violence, terrorism, theory of democracy, and Spanish politics. His latest book is The Historical Roots of Political Violence (Cambridge University Press, 2019).

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INDIGENOUS INTERSECTIONS explored indigeneity as a category of identity with specific attention to the U.S. context. Through invited keynote lectures, panel presentations, and critical discussion inviting audience participation, this symposium interrogated the following questions: How does indigeneity intersect with race, gender, and sexuality? As significant numbers of indigenous peoples from Latin America migrate to the United States, how does indigeneity shift across the borders of settler states? How can Native Americans, Indigenous migrants, and communities of color (not mutually exclusive categories) support each other’s projects of sovereignty and decolonization?  

Invited Speakers:  María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University, author of Indian Given: Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States (2016) and The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development (2003)  Beginning with her seminal essay “Who’s the Indian in Aztlán? Rewriting Mestizaje, Indianism, and Chicanismo from the Lacandón,” Professor Saldaña-Portillo has been at the forefront of re-thinking Chicanx-Native American relations in the United States. Her most recent monograph, Indian Given, winner of the 2016 Best Book Award from the National Association of Chicano and Chicana Studies, examines the long and continued significance of British and Spanish colonial racialized notions of place.    

Brian Klopotek Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and Native American Studies Program Coordinator, University of Oregon, author of Recognition Odysseys: Indigeneity, Race, and Federal Tribal Recognition Policy in Three Louisiana Indian Communities (2011), co-editor (with Brenda Child) of Indian Subjects: Hemispheric Perspectives on the History of Indigenous Education (2014), and author of the forthcoming Indian on Both Sides: Indigenous Identities, Race, and National Borders.  Professor Klopotek’s pathbreaking 2011 interdisciplinary ethnography Recognition Odysseys explores the central role race plays in federal processes of tribal recognition. Turning his attention to the U.S.-Mexico border in his forthcoming monograph Indian on Both Sides, Professor Klopotek examines the continuing significance of race in determining who counts as Indigenous in the United States.   

Andrew Jolivétte Professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University, author of numerous volumes including Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco’s Two-Spirit Community (2016) and Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed Race Native American Identity (2007); editor of Obama and the Biracial Factor: The Battle for a New American Majority (2012).  Located at the intersections of Indigenous studies, queer studies, mixed-race studies, and public health, Professor Jolivétte’s 2016 monograph Indian Blood, a Lamda Literary Award finalist, explores the long impact of colonial trauma on two-spirited, mixed-race Native people as well as possibilities for healing and decolonization. Professor Jolivétte’s varied, illustrious career has included serving as Executive Director of the American Indian Community Cultural Center for the Arts in San Francisco, the Indigenous Peoples’ Representative at the United Nations Forum on HIV and the Law in 2011, and Tribal Historian for the Atakapa-Ishak Nation from 2008-2011.  

 Indigenous Intersections Symposium Schedule  9:00-9:30am – Coffee Reception 9:30-10:00am – Introduction: Intersections of Indigeneity, Race, Gender, and Identity in the Americas – Jedediah Kuhn, University of Toronto 10:00-11:00am – Andrew Jolivétte, San Francisco State University 11:00-11:30am – Question and Answer with moderator Rinaldo Walcott, University of Toronto 11:30am-1:00pm – Lunch Break  1:00-1:45pm – Brian Klopotek, University of Oregon 1:45-2:15pm – Question and Answer with moderator Jedediah Kuhn, University of Toronto 2:15-3:00pm – María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, New York University 3:00-3:30pm – Question and Answer with moderator Nicholas Sammond, University of Toronto 3:30-4:00pm – Coffee Break 4:00-5:00pm – Roundtable Discussion with Professors Saldaña-Portillo, Klopotek, and Jolivétte – Moderated by Jedediah Kuhn, University of Toronto.

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In her presentation, Prof. Velikanova discusses a new element in the historical picture explaining why politics shifted to mass repressions in 1937. Besides Stalin’s protracted conflict with regional party/state clans and the inflammatory role of new NKVD head Nikolai Yezhov, the dictator’s conceptualization of popular commentaries on the constitution and the results of the 1937 census could reverse his views on society and the hope that ordinary Soviets were sufficiently Sovietized. Together with international developments in the fall of 1936 that heightened Stalin’s fear of war, popular discussion of the constitution can provide the missing piece in the puzzle for why relative moderation ended and repressions expanded from former oppositionists to the officials and finally to the wider population.

Olga Velikanova is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Texas and a former alumna of CERES. She obtained her PhD from Saint Petersburg State university. She specializes in Soviet popular opinion studies and works extensively with declassified Communist party and secret police archives. She is author of five books discussing Soviet social mobilization campaigns and popular perceptions of Soviet politics and of Lenin’s image involving historical, anthropological and political culture methods. Her last book, Mass Political Culture under Stalinism: Popular Discussion of the Soviet Constitution of 1936 (Palgrave 2018) is the first full-length study of Stalin’s Constitution, exploring the government’s goals and Soviet citizens’ views of constitutional democratic principles and their problematic relationship with the reality of Stalinism.

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The invention of identification technologies is deeply connected with the surveillance of colonial populations. Fingerprinting, the forerunner of biometrics, was created by the British police in colonial India in 1897, and was also employed in Manchuria and Northeast China under Japanese occupation from the 1920’s to 1945. Why did fingerprint identification attract the Japanese imperialist power, and how effectively was it practiced? We examine narratives surrounding the Japanese identification systems in Manchuria, especially regarding Chinese workers who were placed under severe surveillance, and discuss how a similar scheme survived the lost war and was actually legitimated in post-World War Ⅱ Japan. The expansion and transformation of biometric power can be seen in the Japanese government’s repeated attempts to establish “perfect” identification systems. Surveillance has spread from ex-colonial populations to foreign workers and to citizens, culminating in recent legislative changes concerning enhanced technologies.

ASAKO TAKANO is an Associate Professor at Meiji Pharmaceutical University in Tokyo, Japan. She received her Ph.D. in Social Sciences from Hitotsubashi University, and published her book in Japan in 2016, Fingerprints and Modernity.

MIDORI OGASAWARA is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Queen’s University, and a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Ottawa. She conducted field research in China to investigate the Chinese experiences of Japanese colonial identification systems and obtained her Ph.D. in Sociology from Queen’s in 2018.

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Please use the registration button above to sign up for the lecture on March 22. To sign up for a reading on March 23, please click here to register on Eventbrite.

This two-day event brings together international scholars and critics to explore the complexity, dynamism, and significance of Manila within and beyond Asia. As a city that has experienced the multiple vestiges of empire, the disciplinary machinations of dictatorial rule, the effects an infamous “war on drugs”, and the continued realities of uneven resource distribution, Manila serves as a productive physical and ideological space to explore the dialogic nature of beauty and brutality—as these concepts intertwine in the urban repertoires of the global south. On March 22, speakers will reflect on how Manila influences their work as diasporic critics scholars. On March 23, renowned Filipino American author Jessica Hagedorn will have her Toronto debut and read from her most famous works. She will also converse with Lucy San Pablo Burns (UCLA), discussing her thoughts on the city, and Manila, as an imaginative space for her artistry and craft. Books can be purchased at the venue, in collaboration with Another Story Bookshop.

FRIDAY, MARCH 22
108N – NORTH HOUSE, MUNK SCHOOL OF GLOBAL AFFAIRS AND PUBLIC POLICY,
1 DEVONSHIRE PLACE
Program:
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM – Welcoming Remarks
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM – Dialogue 1: Sensing the City
SPEAKERS: Ferdinand Lopez (Toronto); Gary Devilles (Ateneo De Manila); Paul Nadal (Princeton); Genevieve Clutario (Harvard)
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM – Lunch
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM – Dialogue 2: Intimacies and the City
SPEAKERS: Robert Diaz (Toronto); Denise Cruz (Columbia); Martin Manalansan (Minnesota); Christine Balance (Cornell); Allan Isaac (Rutgers)

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SATURDAY, MARCH 23
NEXUS LOUNGE, 12TH FLOOR, OISE (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education), 252 BLOOR ST. W.
A Reading with Noted Author Jessica Hagedorn, in Conversation with Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns (UCLA)
Program:
4:00 PM – 4:10 PM – Welcoming Remarks
4:10 PM – 4:30 PM – Performance by Patrick Salvani
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM – Reading with Jessica Hagedorn, and Conversation with Lucy Burns (UCLA)

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On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for thirty-seven days. The Feminist Five became a global cause célèbre, with Hillary Clinton speaking out on their behalf and activists inundating social media with #FreetheFive messages. But the Five are only symbols of a much larger feminist movement of university students, labor activists, civil rights lawyers, performance artists, and online warriors prompting an unprecedented awakening among young Chinese women. Through interviews with the Feminist Five and other Chinese activists, Hong Fincher illuminates both the difficulties they face and their “joy of betraying Big Brother,” as one of the Feminist Five wrote of the defiance she felt during her detention. Tracing the rise of a new feminist consciousness now finding expression through the #MeToo movement, Hong Fincher describes how the movement against patriarchy could reconfigure China and the world.

Dr. Leta Hong Fincher is a journalist, scholar and author of Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China (Verso 2018), which was named a best book of 2018 by Vanity Fair, Newsweek and others. She is the first American to receive a Ph.D. from Tsinghua University’s Department of Sociology in Beijing. She also has a master’s degree from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree with high honors from Harvard University. Her first book was the critically acclaimed Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China (Zed 2014).

* Dr. Fincher’s book Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China will be available for purchase at the venue.*

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The documentary “Not in Our Name” is part of Central Asia’s First Regional Counter-Extremism Project, a research and documentary project developed by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) to help communities in Central Asia understand and prevent the spread of violence and extremism.

For more information and interviews with the team visit: https://pressroom.rferl.org/p/6831.htm

Q&A via Skype with Noah Tucker, Associate for the Central Asia Program at the Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University. Senior Editor for Central Asia at RFE/RL.

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The Trudeau government has repeatedly proclaimed that “Canada is back” in global affairs. In its public efforts to recommit to United Nations peace operations, Canada launched an initiative to increase the number of women participating in peace operations and deployed some 250 troops to the UN’s stabilization mission in Mali. While UN peacekeeping missions have made important contributions to maintaining peace and preventing conflict in recent years, the UN’s efforts have also been marred by sexual abuse scandals—exposing a startling accountability gap.

AIDS-Free World’s Code Blue Campaign is leading an effort to end impunity for sexual abuse by UN personnel. For its part, Canada has pledged to take action to prevent and respond to sexual exploitation and abuse, including through its second National Action Plan to implement the UN Security Council’s resolution on Women, Peace and Security.

But is Canada doing enough? Framed by Canada’s feminist foreign policy and an intensified focus on ending sexual violence in the #MeToo era, panellists will critically assess Canada’s current approach. What actions should Canada take to strengthen accountability for sexual violence in the aid sector?

3:10-3:15 – Opening remarks

3:15-4:00 – Panel Discussion

4:00-4:45 – Q & A

4:45-6:00 – Reception

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The signing of the peace agreements between the FARC-EP and the Colombian Government in late November 2016 generated hopes for peace in Colombia. However, the consolidation of peace and justice requires us to think about how to operationalize peace agreements. Agreements are not enough. Thus, reflecting on the existing challenges for the implementation of the agreements allows us to understand the current landscape in which the Colombian state is defaulting on its promise to implement a peace accord. This is the result of the tension between theory―the legislative frameworks guaranteeing human rights―and practice―the realization of these ideas― which frames Colombia’s challenges in consolidating the implementation of the peace agreements with the FARC-EP.

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Fabio Andrés Díaz is a Colombian political scientist. He is a Research Associate at the Department of Political and International studies at Rhodes University in South Africa and a Researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies in the Netherlands. Fabio works at the intersection between theory and practice, and his research interests are related to state strength, civil war, conflict and protests in the midst of globalization. In addition to his academic publications, his analysis has been published by Al Jazeera, Time, The Conversation, Los Angeles Times, among others.

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International investment agreements (IIAs) are a significant manifestation of the impact of legal globalization on national public policy. These are thousands of (mostly) bilateral treaties through which states commit to protect the rights of foreign investors. Moreover, these obligations can be enforced by a system of binding international investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), which allows investors to file claims against host countries that allegedly violated their obligations under their IIAs. The legitimacy of IIAs and ISDS is highly contested, however. On the one hand, they encroach on states’ regulatory space (SRS) and delegate legal authority to ad-hoc arbitration bodies, which lack transparency and accountability. On the other hand, their alleged positive effect on foreign investment is uncertain. As a party to about forty IIAs, Israel’s SRS is certainly affected by IIAs. Such potential impact came to the fore when an American company, Noble Energy, indicated that it might turn to ISDS against the Israeli government in relations to a disputed gas exploration project. I examine the implications of IIAs and ISDS to SRS both globally and with respect to Israel. After elaborating on and illustrating these relationships in the global arena, I present a measure of SRS that facilitates a systematic comparison of IIAs across time and space on this key dimension. I show that, of late, states around the world conclude IIAs with greater regulatory space and that Israel tracks this global trend. An analysis of investment disputes in the energy sector suggests that Israeli IIAs expose the country to costly ISDS claims and potentially limit its ability to regulate in important policy areas.

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Based on Robert Kramm’s book Sanitized Sex, the talk will discuss the various attempts to sanitize sexuality through the regulation of prostitution, venereal disease and intimacy in occupied Japan after World War II. It features sexuality as key element in issues of security, health and morale during the occupation period. In doing so it underscores how the sanitization of sex was a male-dominated struggle for control and authority in the clash of two competing patriarchal, imperial powers: Japan and the United States. That said, the talk is more than a study of the postwar sexual encounters. An analysis of sex, its regulation and negotiation between occupiers and occupied sheds new light on the everyday experiences and asymmetries of power in occupied Japan, the legacies of the Japanese Empire, and the particularities of postwar U.S. imperialism in the postcolonial formation of the Asia-Pacific region.

Robert Kramm is a post-doctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities and is affiliated with the Department of History at the University of Hong Kong. He holds a doctoral degree in history from ETH Zurich and received his B.A. and M.A., also in history, from the University of Erfurt.

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The fierce scholarly and practitioner debate on the question “did the United States promise not to enlarge NATO” has taken our attention away from an important policy problem and one newly released U.S. and Russian historical materials highlight very well: how do leaders manage tradeoffs and uncertainty? Pursuing one set of interests can harm the achievement of other interests. And sometimes, policies take a while to form, adding to uncertainty in relations among countries. American University Professor James Goldgeier will explain why Bill Clinton and his top advisers convinced themselves that they could both enlarge NATO and keep Russia on a Western-oriented track, despite Boris Yeltsin’s warnings to the contrary, and he will discuss the implications of their approach for U.S.-Russia relations today.

James Goldgeier is Visiting Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and Professor of International Relations at the School of International Service at American University, where he served as Dean from 2011-17. He holds the 2018-19 Library of Congress Chair in U.S.-Russia Relations at the John W. Kluge Center. Previously, he was a professor at George Washington University, where from 2001-05 he directed the Elliott School’s Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies. He also taught at Cornell University, and has held a number of public policy appointments, including Director for Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian Affairs on the National Security Council Staff, Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Henry A. Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress. In addition, he has held appointments or fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Hoover Institution, the Brookings Institution, and the Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation. He is past president of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs, and he co-directs the Bridging the Gap project, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. He has authored or co-authored four books.

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Renewable energy is the best means of bringing global emissions within the required 1.5 degrees limit. While this is an imperative technical response to climate change, the full cost of renewables needs investigation. Specifically, the value chains of minerals used to produce renewable energy remains hidden.

Join us for a keynote presentation from Dr. Stephen Lucas, Deputy Minister, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Government of Canada followed by a discussion with Ms. Julie Gelfand, Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, Office of the Auditor General of Canada on the governance of the mineral supply chain for renewable energy.

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Dr. Stephen Lucas was appointed Deputy Minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) on January 23, 2017. As Senior Associate Deputy Minister (Climate Change) from June 2016 to January 2017, Dr. Lucas led ECCC activities in support of the development and adoption of the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change. Before joining ECCC, Dr. Lucas was Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet for Plans and Consultations and Intergovernmental Affairs at the Privy Council Office. From 2013 to 2014, he was Assistant Secretary, Economic and Regional Development Policy, at the Privy Council Office.

As Assistant Deputy Minister, Science and Policy Integration at Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) from 2009 to 2013, he was responsible for strategic policy development related to energy, mineral and forest resources, climate change and clean energy and international and intergovernmental relations. Prior to that, from 2007 to 2009, he was Assistant Deputy Minister, Minerals and Metals Sector, at NRCan, where he provided leadership on innovation, green mining and corporate social responsibility.

Dr. Lucas started his career as a research scientist at the Geological Survey of Canada in 1988. He has a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Geological Engineering from Queen’s University and a Ph.D. in structural geology and tectonics from Brown University.

Ms. Julie Gelfand was appointed as Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development in March 2014. Before joining the Office of the Auditor General, Ms. Gelfand held the positions of Chief Advisor at Rio Tinto Canada and of Vice-President of Environment and Social Responsibility at the Rio Tinto Iron Ore Company of Canada (IOC).

Prior to joining IOC, Ms. Gelfand was Vice-President, Sustainable Development at the Mining Association of Canada and co-chair of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Centre of Excellence, under the federal CSR Strategy for the Canadian International Extractive Sector.
From 1992 to 2008, she served as President of Nature Canada. She also founded and chaired the Green Budget Coalition.

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In the first decade of the 16th century, the historian Kemālpashazāde (d. 1534) composed an elaborate History of the Ottoman Dynasty, in which he included a lengthy account of the pre-Ottoman past of the Balkans (Rumeli) based—after a thorough redaction—on an apocryphal Christian work of medieval Bulgarian history. By taking this peculiar case of convergence between Muslim and Christian historical narratives as a starting point and trying to locate it in its proper cultural and political contexts, this talk will embark on an attempt to tackle the wider issue of the make-up and dynamics of historical writing in a period of ideological experimentation in the nascent Ottoman imperial enterprise. It will explore the competitive nature of various historiographic strands originating in Rumeli and relating its history, as well as possible venues of interaction between them, in order to demonstrate how the consolidation of the dynasty’s authority in the region was paralleled by a process of appropriation of its past through the merger of these originally competing traditions.

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In April and May, the 2019 Indian general elections will be held, determining the fate of Narendra Modi and the experiment in BJP government. Join political scientist Ramesh Thakur of Australian National University and longtime journalist Haroon Siddiqui to explore the outlook for the elections and beyond. Reception with refreshments to follow.

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An examination of whether accountability mechanisms in global environmental governance that focus on monitoring and enforcement necessarily lead to better governance and better environmental outcomes.

The rapid development of global environmental governance has been accompanied by questions of accountability. Efforts to address what has been called “a culture of unaccountability” include greater transparency, public justification for governance decisions, and the establishment of monitoring and enforcement procedures. And yet, as this volume shows, these can lead to an “accountability trap”—a focus on accountability measures rather than improved environmental outcomes. Through analyses and case studies, the contributors consider how accountability is being used within global environmental governance and if the proliferation of accountability tools enables governance to better address global environmental deterioration. Examining public, private, voluntary, and hybrid types of global environmental governance, the volume shows that the different governance goals of the various actors shape the accompanying accountability processes. These goals—from serving constituents to reaping economic benefits—determine to whom and for what the actors must account.

After laying out a theoretical framework for its analyses, the book addresses governance in the key areas of climate change, biodiversity, fisheries, and trade and global value chains. The contributors find that normative biases shape accountability processes, and they explore the potential of feedback mechanisms between institutions and accountability rules for enabling better governance and better environmental outcomes.

Contributors Graeme Auld, Harro van Asselt, Cristina Balboa, Lieke Brouwer, Lorraine Elliott, Lars H. Gulbrandsen, Aarti Gupta, Teresa Kramarz, Susan Park, Philipp Pattberg, William H. Schaedla, Hamish van der Ven, Oscar Widerberg.

Edited by Susan Park and Teresa Kramarz and published by MIT Press.

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Governments and regional bodies across Sub-Saharan Africa are increasingly eager to support science. Regional and national policy documents and programmes reflect this enthusiasm and ambition and commitments to more resource for science, research and innovation (SRI).  This is matched by rising levels of financial support from funders outside the region looking for new ways to support research that conform to Sub-Saharan African aspirations and needs.    

Behind this consensus about the need to support SRI however lays some stark differences about the criteria that should be used to evaluate the contributions of science.  In this talk I reflected on recent research and focus on the complex array of expectations about what science can and should deliver. National, regional and international funders adopt a variety of sometimes ambiguous rationales about the pathways through which these contributions from science funding are delivered, with distinctions between ‘basic’ and ‘applied’ science failing to provide significant clarity. On the one hand there is a desire for excellent research as sanctioned by academics acting with high degrees of autonomy and, on the other, for science that is deeply embedded in local social and policy realities and whose success or failure requires input and evaluation by a much broader array of stakeholders.   These aims are not impossible to resolve, but reconciliation is far from straightforward and significant policy and communication rifts make it difficult to achieve.  The talk will identify a number of relatively straightforward ways in which the process of supporting science can be improved and enhanced so that science contributes to multiple agendas.  However, it will also highlight more fundamental challenges which confront science funders across the globe related to the ways in which support for research is framed and provided.

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What are the current trends in internet control in China and Southeast Asia? How has increasing state control over the internet impacted human rights and civil liberties in the region? What implications do such trends hold for Canada?

As a fast-growing region with increasing ties to Canada, issues of technology, security, privacy and surveillance across Asia cannot be ignored. From increasing threats to press freedom in the Philippines under Rodrigo Duterte to the broad monitoring of telecommunications in Singapore, Southeast Asia is home to numerous examples of state control over the internet, media, and speech at large. Such a discussion would be incomplete without considering China, where the Communist regime continues to tighten its grip on information flow across cyberspace. And with the recent Sino-Canadian dispute over the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, the presence of Chinese cybertechnology in Canada and the intersection between cybertechnology issues and the Asia-Pacific at large have been thrust to the forefront of socio-political discourse in our country.

Irene Poetranto is a Senior Researcher for the Citizen Lab and a Doctoral Student in Political Science at the University of Toronto. Her primary research interest is on the cybersecurity policy development in the Global South, especially in Asia. Her dissertation project focuses on the issue of Internet controls in Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. She obtained her Master’s degree in Political Science and Asia-Pacific Studies from the University of Toronto, and Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of British Columbia.

Lotus Ruan is a researcher at The Citizen Lab, University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the interplay of the state and private companies in terms of internet management and innovation in the digital age with an area focus on China. Prior to joining University of Toronto, Lotus received her master’s degree in Asia Pacific Policy Studies at the University of British Columbia and worked as a journalist and news editor in China for over two years.

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This workshop brings together a distinguished group of scholars, politicians and policy makers to discuss the role of women in politics and political leadership in Canada and beyond. Although the last decades have seen a remarkable increase in the prominence of women in politics, parity is rarely realised and in many countries progress appears to have halted. In the workshop participants will discuss the challenges that remain for women to run, win and hold elected office as well as discuss institutional, legislative and behavioural changes that may be used to overcome these challenges A final panel focuses specifically on Canada and will explore the way forward for women in Canadian politics.

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

08.30 – 09.00 Conference Registration

09.00 – 10.30 Panel 1: Women obtaining positions of influence in- and outside the legislature
Panel speakers: Paru Shah (Milwaukee) & Julie Dolan (Macalaster College), Rosie Campbell (King’s College London), André Blais & Semra Sevi (Université de Montréal), Robyn Bourgeois (Brock University)
Chair: Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant (Queen’s University)

10.30-10.45 Coffee Break

10.45-12.15 Panel 2: Women in Politics
Panel speakers: Kelly Dittmar (Rutgers), Nadia Brown (Purdue), Tiffany Barnes (Kentucky), Malliga Och (Idaho), Erica Rayment (University of Toronto)
Chair: Erin Tolley (University of Toronto)

12.15 Lunch – Q&A with Kate Graham on the Canada2020 project “no second chances” focusing on Canada’s female first ministers

1.15-2.45 Panel 3: Women in Leadership
Panel speakers: Diana O’Brien (Texas A&M), Linda Trimble (Alberta), Sarah Liu (Edinburgh), Cora Voyageur (Calgary University)
Chair: Peter Loewen (University of Toronto)

2.45-3.00 Coffee Break

3.00-4.30 Panel 4: Legislative Framework and Policy Solutions
Panel speakers: Susan Franceschet (Calgary University), Magda Hinojosa (Arizona), Netina Tan (McMaster), Cheryl Collier (Windsor) & Tracey Raney (Ryerson), Chantal Maillé (Concordia)
Chair: Donna Dasko (Canadian Senator)

4.30-5.30 Panel 5: Women in Politics in Canada, the way forward
Panel speakers: Sylvia Bashevkin (University of Toronto), Yaprak Baltacioglu (Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy), Manon Tremblay (University of Ottawa), Elizabeth Renzetti (Globe and Mail)

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Ahead of the 2019 institutional reconfiguration of the EU is a fitting moment to take stock of the European integration process and decide which priorities should define the strategic agenda of the next generation of incumbents.

While acknowledging that the entire EU collective is concerned – member states and institutions alike – this report is addressed to the one actor that has a more direct role in fleshing out the policy agenda for Europe: the European Commission.

This report assesses how the ‘last chance Commission’ of President Juncker has fared; whether it has followed the ten guidelines it set out at the beginning of its mandate; how far it was blown off course by critical events; and whether we might see the return of a ‘political’ Commission in the second half of this year.

Against the backdrop of global trends and deepening divisions between member states and within the European Parliament, the contributors to this report distil key policy priorities in areas that will determine the future European Union, from the single market and the rule of law to migration, external security and climate change.

Thanks to its wide research coverage of EU policy and strong in-house expertise, CEPS is uniquely placed to comment on these issues and recommend action.

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Unlike the more notable elephant, whose sheer size is a marker of problems parties refuse to discuss, the Mavka hints at other kinds of silences in family histories and narratives about the past. The Mavka is a forest nymph, a girl or young woman that died tragically, but whose spirit lingers on in the forests of Eastern Europe. Her very existence is born not only of the trauma of an unnatural death, but also efforts to suppress the details of what happened to her.

On March 29, a panel of scholars across the disciplines of History and Slavic Languages and Literatures will discuss a range of silences that affect scholarship on the region as well as personal and familial accounts of the past. We will discuss why gender has been muted or is absent in studies of the artistic avantgarde and the nationalist underground during WWII and the implications of integrating those perspective into histories of the region. Viewing East European, Russian, and Soviet history as a family drama, we also consider how violence and trauma over the centuries has shaped what is said and what remains unsaid. Additionally, panelists will reflect on conceptual, practical and methodological hurdles facing scholars aiming to address these silences and restore agency to voices that remain unheard. Chief among them will be the silences facing the researcher—personal and professional reasons for pursuing one research agenda over another. We will also discuss how to broach topics that remain taboo, how to deal with historical figures that are unsympathetic and those we might love too much, and how to address questions that make us uncomfortable, both individually and collectively.

Speakers:

Orysia Kulick (Petro Jacyk Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Toronto)
Markian Dobczansky (Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Ukrainian Studies, Columbia University)
Oksana Dudko (PhD Candidate, History Department/Anne Tanenbaum Center for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto)
Mayhill Fowler (Assistant Professor of History, Stetson University)
Anna Muller (Assistant Professor of History; The Frank and Mary Padzieski Endowed Professor in Polish/Polish American/Eastern European Studies, University of MIchigan-Dearborn)
Dragana Obradovic (Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto)

Discussants:
Alison K. Smith (Professor and Chair, Department of History, University of Toronto)
Lynne Viola (Professor, Department of History, University of Toronto)

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On 1 October 1791, the French Legislative Assembly convened in Paris, initiating the constitutional regime that revolutionaries in 1789 had committed themselves to establish. Within a year, however, the monarchy had been overthrown, and the Constitution of 1791 had collapsed. In explaining the French Revolution’s transition during this period from a moderate to a more radical phase, historians have emphasized factors such as the importance of the Flight to Varennes, the rise of the popular movement, and the dynamic of revolutionary discourse. Such explanations have tended to dismiss support for the constitutional regime on the eve of its demise as marginal, insincere, or irrelevant. Yet the advent of republican democracy in France should not completely eclipse the significance of the constitutional monarchy’s failure. This paper suggests that debate within the Legislative Assembly reveals not conflict between republicans and royalists, but a more nuanced struggle between differing conceptions of the revolution, the location of national sovereignty, and the importance of a written constitution. For example, the opposition of some deputies to the declaration of war against Austria on 20 April 1792 reflected determination to defend the constitution and the liberal principles it embodied. Beyond the Assembly, the paper also examines the departmental denunciations of the Paris crowd’s invasion of the Tuileries Palace on 20 June 1792. These addresses and petitions went beyond manifestations of loyalty to Louis XVI to express commitment to the ideal of constitutionalism. Thus this paper argues that there were many in France who still hoped to defend the liberal revolution of 1789, with its promise of individual liberty, property rights, and the rule of law, on the eve of a second revolution which would sweep away the Constitution of 1791.

Bill Cormack received his Ph.D. from Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario in 1992. In 1995, Cambridge University Press published his first book, Revolution and Political Conflict in the French Navy 1789-1794. Since 1998, he has been a member of the Department of History at the University of Guelph in Ontario, where he teaches modern European history. His new book, Patriots, Royalists, and Terrorists in the West Indies: The French Revolution in Martinique and Guadeloupe, 1789-1802, comes out with the University of Toronto Press in January 2019. His current research concerns the French Legislative Assembly and the demise of the Constitution of 1791.

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A multisite church is a single church that meets at multiple locations, often through the use of audio, projection, and even hologram technologies. Nearly all megachurches in the world have adopted this franchise-like form in the last decade, but this fairly new organizational practice originated in South Korea in the 1970s. This talk draws upon transnational ethnographic research at two of the first multisite churches in the world: Yoido Full Gospel Church and Onnuri Church. Following the speaker’s participant-observation on production technology teams at these churches, this talk illustrates Christian efforts to create and maintain “holy infrastructures” [kŏrukhan inp’ŭra] through one’s body, actions, and the objects of one’s practice. Ultimately, this talk asks how one might imagine ethics and pursue the good life in a world permeated by often unseen networks of contact and communion, conscription and contagion.

Heather Mellquist Lehto is a cultural anthropologist who studies religion, technology, and social relations. She is currently a Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology at the University of Toronto, and she holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley and a master’s degree in religious studies from Harvard Divinity School. Her first book manuscript, Holy Infrastructure: The Multisite Church Revolution in South Korea and the United States draws on two years of multisited ethnographic research in Seoul and Los Angeles to explore the coordination of technological and religious innovation in some of the world’s first and largest multisite churches.

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THE ANNUAL BENGAL STUDIES LECTURE

Once considered the “primordial source of all books” and a proxy for the Qurʾān itself, the Persian and Bengali versions of theNūrnāma (Book of Light) virtually disappeared from the religious landscape of contemporary Bangladesh and West Bengal. The Book of Light narrates the creation of the world by God through the body of the Muḥammad of light. This creation story played a key role in shaping the popular understanding of Islamic cosmology, language, and the significance of the written word in Bengali Islam. With this lecture, I will address the topic of vernacular literacy and multilingualism in Bengal between the 17th and 19th century through the study of the Nūrnāma tradition. A fresh look at the textual tradition that surrounded the transmission of this creation story reveals ways to conceive of vernacular Islam beyond categories of elite vs. popular, or orthodox vs. heterodox.

Thibaut d’Hubert is associate professor in the department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations (SALC) at the University of Chicago. He published several articles in periodicals and collective volumes, and contributed entries on Bengal for Brill’s Encyclopedia of Islam, THREE. In his book titled In the Shade of the Golden Palace: Ālāol and Middle Bengali Poetics in Arakan(New York: Oxford University Press, 2018), d’Hubert studies the encounter of Persian, Sanskrit, and vernacular poetics in the courtly milieu of the frontier region between today’s Bangladesh and Myanmar. He is also the co-editor with Alexandre Papas of the volume Jāmī in Regional Contexts: The Reception of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī’s Works in the Islamicate World, ca. 9th/15th-14th/20th (Handbook of Oriental Studies, Leiden: Brill, 2019).

Reception to follow

*In the Shade of the Golden Palace by Thibaut d’Hubert will be available for purchase at the venue.*

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The Environmental Governance Lab hosts regular EGL Work in Progress Talks. The talks are an informal, interdisciplinary forum where faculty and Ph.D. students can discuss ongoing research in the field of environmental politics, policy, and governance. At these events, two presenters offer a 10-minute overview of an ongoing project to serve as a fodder for discussion. If you are interested in hearing more about this and other Environmental Governance Lab events please email eg.lab@utoronto.ca for more information.

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Innovation is the source of sustainable competitive advantage for firms. Innovation itself has been argued to stem from control of valuable and non-imitable resources. As the pace of technology change has increased, however, firms find that resources or resulting innovations fail to secure sustained competitive advantage. Drawing upon field research on contract manufacturers in China, this talk will discuss how resource-constrained SMEs develop different categories of innovations and their impacts on firm organization and performance.

Michael Murphree is assistant professor of international business at the University of South Carolina and is currently a visiting professor with the Innovation Policy Lab at the University of Toronto. Professor Murphree is currently working with the Innovation Policy Lab on a study of knowledge transfer, innovation, entrepreneurship, economic growth and employment in the offshore petroleum industry in Newfoundland and Labrador. His primary research interests include globalization, innovation in emerging economies, technology standards and market formation, and intellectual property rights. His research considers China in comparative perspective with other emerging economies and the developed West, particularly Europe. His other research interests are globalization, state-firm relations, innovation, technology standards and market formation, and intellectual property rights, especially in China and East Asia. He has conducted field research in China since 2007 and speaks fluent Mandarin. Professor Murphree has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, as well as a book, chapters in edited volumes and numerous commissioned reports for groups including the Global Commission on Internet Governance and the U.S. National Academies.

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A webinar of this event will be available shortly before the panel begins. 
While the concept of sanctuary cities ancient, it has taken on new importance along with the politicization and securitization of migration.
In the US, local sanctuary policies and social movements can play an important role in defending undocumented people. This is particularly important given schisms between city, state, and federal policy, and the proportion of undocumented people with partners, spouses, and children with US citizenship. Sanctuary policies can also play an important role in ensuring that undocumented people can access healthcare and social services, and feel safe to report crimes, unfair labour practices, and domestic abuse.
At the same time, sanctuary policies can serve as a point of backlash from law enforcement agencies, immigration authorities, and often first and second-generation immigrant communities. 
This panel will unpack the role of sanctuary movements in the US context, and compare them with policies in Canada, where the role of immigration enforcement and undocumented populations is far less politicized from either end of the spectrum. The panel brings together practitioner and academic perspectives, in conversation with policymakers from the City of Toronto.
Alexandra Délano Alonso: “The Limits and Possibilities of Sanctuary: Modes of Resistance and Solidarity in the Trump era”
Idil Atak: “Toronto’s Sanctuary City Policy: Rationale and Barriers”
Ritika Goel: ““No Sanctuary Without Health: Uninsured in Canada”
In conversation with Chris Brillinger, Executive Director, Social Development, Finance and Administration at City of Toronto
Idil Atak is an Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Criminology at Ryerson University. She received her Ph.D. from the Université de Montréal’s Faculty of Law. She was a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the McGill Centre for Human Rights & Legal Pluralism. Idil is the Editor-In-Chief of International Journal of Migration and Border Studies (IJMBS). She is a member of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration’s (IASFM) Executive Committee, the past president of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS), and a research associate at Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law (McGill University). 
Her research interests include irregular migration, refugee protection, and international and European human rights law. She is currently conducting a SSHRC-funded research on the intersection of security, irregular migration and asylum, along with Professors Graham Hudson (Ryerson University) and Delphine Nakache (University of Ottawa). Idil served as a legal expert for the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ankara, then as deputy to the Permanent Representative of Turkey to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.
Alexandra Délano Alonso is Associate Professor and Chair of Global Studies at The New School and the current holder of the Eugene M. Lang Professorship for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring. She received her doctorate in International Relations from the University of Oxford. Her work focuses on diaspora policies, the transnational relationships between states and migrants, sanctuary, and the politics of memory in relation to borders, violence and migration. She is a faculty fellow at the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility and a member of the Sanctuary Working Group at The New School.
She is the author of From Here and There: Diaspora Policies, Integration and Social Rights beyond Borders (Oxford University Press, 2018). Her book Mexico and Its Diaspora in the United States: Policies of Emigration since 1848 (Cambridge University Press, 2011) was the co-winner of the William LeoGrande Prize for the best book on US-Latin America Relations and was published in Spanish by El Colegio de México in 2014. Recent publications include the special issue “Microfoundations of Diaspora Politics” (co-editor and co-author with Harris Mylonas, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2018) and “Borders and the Politics of Mourning” (co-editor and co-author with Benjamin Nienass, Social Research, Summer 2016).
Dr. Ritika Goel is a family physician and activist in Toronto. She works with migrants with precarious immigration status, and people experiencing homelessness and poverty, at Queen West Community Health Centre and the Inner City Health Associates. Ritika has been involved with various social justice issues such as working for access to healthcare for uninsured migrants, defending our public healthcare system, and upstream policy change on the social determinants of health. She is Chair of the Social Accountability Working Group at the College of Family Physicians of Canada, a Board Member of Canadian Doctors for Medicare and a founding member of the OHIP for All campaign. If you’re interested in learning more about the intersections of social justice, politics and health, you can follow her on Twitter @RitikaGoelTO.”
Chris Brillinger is the Executive Director of the Social Development, Finance & Administration Division, responsible for Social Policy & Research, Community Resources and Financial and Administrative oversight and support for the City’s human services cluster.
An Urban Planner by training, Chris has held a variety of positions in a number of non-governmental organizations prior to joining local government. Several of Chris’s; most recent achievements include the development of the Toronto Seniors Strategy, Toronto Newcomer Strategy, Toronto Youth Equity Strategy, Toronto Strong Neighbourhoods Strategy 2020 recommending a new set of priority neighbourhoods for the City of Toronto, TO Prosperity, the poverty reduction strategy for the City of Toronto, and Tenants First: A Way Forward for Toronto Community Housing and Social Housing in Toronto.

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Wars are often moments of religious mobilizations, when priests and ministers reassure the public that God is on their side. During World War II, however, the opposite happened. Rather than espouse Christian nationalism, America’s most important Protestant leaders fervently embraced the United Nations and human rights. This talk looked at the emergence of Protestant globalism during the mid-twentieth century and how thinking about the whole world transformed American attitudes toward domestic problems, especially segregation. Although the Cold War would soon eclipse the wartime enthusiasm for internationalism abroad, domestic politics were permanently transformed as Protestant leaders reevaluated their views on race in light of universal human rights. Using a global frame of reference, this talk cast new light on the history of antiracism, human rights, and political polarization in the United States.

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This talk discusses the rapid emergence of ban damunhwa (“anti-multiculture”) or the sentiment of anti-immigration in South Korea. Ban damunhwa discourse centers on a variety of issues such as the state’s multicultural policy, crimes by foreigners and problems of the so-called “illegal sojourners” and has been most active and visible on the Internet especially since the mid-2000s. In this talk, I specifically focus on the way ban damunhwa defines the state’s multicultural policy as what gives special preferences to migrants, which, in turn, is said to destroy the livelihoods of the nationals. Represented as “voices of ordinary citizens,” ban damunhwa narratives appeal to, not nationalist or racist sentiments, but rather a neoliberal commonsense of fairness and equity, under which migrants emerge as demonic free-riders. I show how ban damunhwa not only serves as a symptom of a neoliberal ethic but also mirrors the dilemma of the people who struggle under neoliberal system of precarity and yet persist it by reproducing its main ideologies.

EuyRyung Jun is assistant professor of anthropology at Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea. Jun primarily works on migration, multiculturalism, right-wing populism, and biopolitics and animal discourse. She has published articles in FOCAAL, Positions, Anthropological Quarterly, Kyeongje wa Sahoe [Economy and Society], and Hanguk Munhwa Inryuhak [Korean Cultural Anthropology]. She also writes for Kyunghyang Shinmun, a major newspaper in South Korea, on animal issues.

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This is a two day conference:

April 4 from 9-3pm Campbell Conference Facility & 3-5pm Rigby Room, Trinity College
April 5 from 10-1pm Combination Room, Trinity College

The International Relations Society is proud to announce its annual conference, this year on the topic of climate change. The two-day conference titled “Building Biodiversity and Controlling Climate Change: International and Canadians Contributions” will take place at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and Trinity College on April 4 and 5, 2019.

The conference will explore the intersectionality of climate change, unpacking the effects of it on the political, economic, and socio-cultural arenas in international affairs, and to identify the actions that students and others in the university community can take now to effectively control climate change. This year, we invite all students of the university community to partake in discussing the urgent threat of climate change through six panels featuring distinguished professors, politicians, and professionals.

Conference Agenda:
THURSDAY, APRIL 4TH
9:00-9:15 – Registration
9:15-9:20 – Acknowledgement of Traditional Land and Opening Remarks
9:20-9:25 – Welcoming Remarks by Provost Mayo Moran
9:25-9:40 – Keynote Introduction
9:40-10:3 – Keynote Address by Dr. Cristiana Pasca Palmer, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity
10:30-11:30 – Panel 1: Biodiversity, Sustainability, and Equitable Development
– Speakers: Mike Schreiner (Leader of the Ontario Green Party), Freedom-Kai Phillips (Research Associate, Centre for International Governance Innovation)
11:30-11:45 – Break
11:45-12:45 – Panel 2: Climate Change and Health
– Speakers: -Lawrence Loh (U of T, Faculty at Dalla Lana School of Public Health), Kate Mulligan (U of T, Faculty at Dalla Lana School of Public Health), Stephanie Gower (U of T, Faculty at Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Toronto Public Health )
12:45-1:45 – Lunch
1:45-2:45 – Panel #3: Climate Financing and Clean Capitalism
– Speakers: Ellen Lourie (North American Policy Associate, IETA), Tim Stoate (VP Impact Investing, The Atmospheric Fund)
2:45-3:00 – Health Break + Transition to Rigby Room, Trinity College
3:00-4:00 – Panel 4: Global Responses to Climate Change
– Speakers: Jessica Green (U of T, Faculty at Department of Political Science)
4:00-5:00 – Panel 5: Improving Implementation and Accountability Assessment
– Speakers: John Robinson (U of T, Faculty at Munk School of Global Affairs, Trinity College Fellow), Jiyoon Han (Co-Chair of Summit Studies, G20 Research Group), Julia Tops (Co-Chair of Summit Studies, G7 Research Group)

FRIDAY, APRIL 5TH Combination Room, Trinity College
10:00-11:00 – Panel 5: Local Responses to Climate Change
– Speakers: Diane Saxe (Environmental Commissioner of Ontario), Laurel Besco (U of T, Faculty in Department of Geography), Stephen Scharper (U of T, Faculty in the School of the Environment)
11:00-11:15 – Break
11:15-11:20 – Keynote Introduction
11:15-12:00 – Keynote Address by Elizabeth May, Leader of Green Party
12:00-1:00pm Lunch

Lunch and all refreshments will be provided on both days for registrants.

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Dr. Hila Zahavi (Ph.D., Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) is the Director of the Simone Veil Research Centre for Contemporary European Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Dr. Zahavi leads the European Commission funded “Near-EU Jean Monnet Research Network.” She also serves as a member of the core committee of COST action “CA17119 – EU Foreign Policy Facing New Realities: Perceptions, Contestation, Communication and Relations.” Recently Dr. Zahavi co-edited a Special Issue of the European Journal of Higher Education titled “Twenty Years of the Bologna Process – Reflecting on its Global Strategy from the Perspective of Motivations and External Responses” (2019). Her Ph.D. research (completed in August 2018) dealt with higher education as a tool in foreign policy. Her research interests focus on higher education policies from a political perspective, the political dimensions of the Union’s foreign and security policy, and Israeli-European Union relations. Since 2015, Dr. Zahavi teaches different courses on the European integration process in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

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“First, it was just tech people. Now, literally everyone is interested in Bitcoin,” said New York Times while reporting on the Bitcoin mania that haunted South Korean society in the winter of 2017-2018. In this talk, I take this collective effervescence as an entry point to explore the “magical” features of contemporary financial capitalism. Drawing upon an ethnographic research on a South Korean Bitcoin investor online community, I first examine how the logics of uncertainty and luck are found at the heart of casino capitalism and how lay investors deal with the ambiguous future and luck in their everyday practices. In analogizing their logic and practices with those of gamblers, I illuminate how the emerging mass investment culture exhibits the religious and magical understanding of the world based on self-fulfilling “performativity” and what André Orléan calls “collective belief.” In consequence, this talk seeks to situate the Bitcoin frenzy and its mass investment culture within the broader transformation of human condition with the triumphant rise of financial capitalism. 

Seung Cheol LEE is an assistant professor of Anthropology and East Asian Studies at the University of Mississippi. His research interests are focused on the question of how neoliberal financialization has reshaped people’s social, affective, ethical, and political lives. He is currently working on the formation of mass investment culture in South Korea in the context of its post-developmental and post-work transition. 

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Europe’s Southern and Eastern neighbourhoods have changed considerably during the past few years, and the key words describing the regional security environment are fluidity, instability and unpredictability. Furthermore, there is a general failure of governance as the Eastern Mediterranean and its adjoining regions remain an extremely turbulent and unstable neighbourhood and the security environment continues to be ‘Hobbesian’.

Greek security policy makers will function for the foreseeable future under the Damocles sword of the country’s economic limitations, which is imposing a number of serious constraints and limitations. As key organizations such as the EU and NATO are evolving in an effort to adapt to new global, regional and domestic trends, Greece needs to find its own niche in the distribution of regional roles and influence and convince its partners and allies of its own added value in managing common security challenges. A difficult task, indeed, for a country with limited resources, but the alternative is strategic marginalization and inability to protect its vital national interests.

Thanos Dokos is the Director-General of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), a think tank based in Athens, which conducts policy-oriented research on European and regional developments. He has been working on issues of European and regional security in the Mediterranean/Middle East, as well as parts of the former Soviet space, for more than 20 years. For research purposes he is using a broad definition of security, including both hard and soft security dimensions. His current work focuses on global and regional trends and the policy challenges for international organizations and regional stakeholders in the Mediterranean. He has a B.A in International Studies: Webster University (in Geneva), and MSc in International Relations, University of Southampton, and M.Phil in International Relations, University of Cambridge, and a Ph.D in International & Strategic Studies, University of Cambridge.

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Dr. Hila Zahavi (Ph.D., Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) is the Director of the Simone Veil Research Centre for Contemporary European Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Dr. Zahavi leads the European Commission funded “Near-EU Jean Monnet Research Network.” She also serves as a member of the core committee of COST action “CA17119 – EU Foreign Policy Facing New Realities: Perceptions, Contestation, Communication and Relations.” Recently Dr. Zahavi co-edited a Special Issue of the European Journal of Higher Education titled “Twenty Years of the Bologna Process – Reflecting on its Global Strategy from the Perspective of Motivations and External Responses” (2019). Her Ph.D. research (completed in August 2018) dealt with higher education as a tool in foreign policy. Her research interests focus on higher education policies from a political perspective, the political dimensions of the Union’s foreign and security policy, and Israeli-European Union relations. Since 2015, Dr. Zahavi teaches different courses on the European integration process in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

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There is evidence that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has indefinitely and arbitrarily detained as many as 800,000 to 2 million of its Uyghur, Kazakh, and Kyrgyz citizens in mass internment camps where they are subjected to great psychological and physical duress. Coupled with the establishment of a dystopian surveillance state throughout the Uyghur region of China, these camps appear to represent a concerted state-led effort to transform the identity and culture of Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities. This talk will discuss this issue with particular reference to how the present situation has emerged from an intersection of China’s Neo-colonial policies towards its Turkic minorities with the Islamophobic ideologies of the global war on terror.

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When Kazakhstan’s Nursultan Nazarbayev resigned from the office of the presidency in March 2019, it surprised observers and Kazakhstanis alike. Was this a new form of “authoritarian succession” that others in Eurasia might emulate? Would Kazakhstan’s role in the region shift? What were the prospects for dynastic succession? In this roundtable, we explore what a dictator’s resignation might mean.

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In February 2019, seventeen University of Toronto students travelled to Japan to participate in the Kakehashi Project. Promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan and facilitated by the Centre for the Study of Global Japan in association with the Canadian administrator of the project, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, the program aims to develop a network of exchanges in order to deepen mutual understanding and friendship between Japan and Canada.

In this workshop, participating students will reflect on their Kakehashi experience, examining its impact on their academic and cultural relationship to Japan and Japanese studies. Join us as students address topics ranging from emerging technologies to economics and feminism in Japan.

PROGRAM

2:10-2:15 Welcome
Professor Louis Pauly, Interim Director, Centre for the Study of Global Japan

2:15-2:45 Panel I: Internet of Things in Japan: Cross-Sectoral Applications

Speakers:
Benson Ompoc, Kakehashi Delegate
Jasmine Wright, Kakehashi Delegate
Vijai Singh, Kakehashi Delegate

Moderator: Dr. Seung Lee, Associate, Centre for the Study of Global Japan

2:45-3:15 Panel II: Feminism in Contemporary Japan

Speakers:
Khadija Ahmed, Kakehashi Delegate
Cydney Melnyk, Kakehashi Delegate
Stephanie Xu, Kakehashi Delegate

Moderator: Dr. Seung Lee

3:15-3:50 Panel III: Japanese Politics and Diplomacy

Speakers:
Dennis Venslauskas, Kakehashi Delegate
Kiara Sunho Lee, Kakehashi Delegate
Yuna Ban, Kakehashi Participant
Irish Marigmen, Kakehashi Delegate

Moderator: Dr. Seung Lee

3:50-4:00 Concluding Remarks, Professor Louis Pauly

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This event is free and open to the public. 
Event: 4 pm to 6 pm with a reception at 3 pm 
The Jews of Hungary, Germany’s ally, were the last to be pulled into the Nazi machinery of murder. But in the summer of 1944, Adolf Eichmann and his team, working together with Hungarian police, rounded up 450,000 Jews and transported them to Auschwitz to be killed.
Our speakers reflect on the devastation of the Holocaust in Hungary and its ongoing significance, 75 years later. Livia Prince is a survivor of Auschwitz and an alumna of U of T (BA Classics, 1979). Ferenc Lazcó, a historian from Maastricht University, is the author of Hungarian Jews in the Age of Genocide: An Intellectual History, 1929-1948. Judith Szapor, a historian of modern Europe from McGill University, is the author of Hungarian Women’s Activism in the Wake of the First World War: From Rights to Revanche.
This event is presented by the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Chair in Holocaust Studies in partnership with the Faculty of Arts & Science; the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies; the Elizabeth and Tony Comper Holocaust Education Fund; the Joint Initiative in German and European Studies (funded by the DAAD with funds from the German Federal Foreign Office); the Hungarian Studies Program at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy; and the Department of History.

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Dr. Cheng Li is Director and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center. Dr. Li is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Committee of 100, and a Distinguished Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. He is the author/editor of numerous books, including Rediscovering China: Dynamics and Dilemmas of Reform (1997), China’s Leaders: The New Generation (2001), Bridging Minds Across the Pacific: The Sino-US Educational Exchange (2005), China’s Changing Political Landscape: Prospects for Democracy (2008), China’s Emerging Middle Class: Beyond Economic Transformation (2010), China’s Political Development: Chinese and American Perspectives (2014), Chinese Politics in the Xi Jinping Era: Reassessing Collective Leadership (2016), and The Power of Ideas: The Rising Influence of Thinkers and Think Tanks in China (2017).He is the principal editor of the Thornton Center Chinese Thinkers Series published by the Brookings Institution Press.

Dr. Li has advised a wide range of US government, education, research, business and not-for-profit organizations on work in China and has frequently been called upon to share his unique perspective and insights on China, appearing on BBC, CCTV, CBS, CNN, C-SPAN, ABC World News, NPR, PBS and more. Li grew up in Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution. In 1985, he came to the United States and later received an M.A. in Asian Studies from the University of California and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Princeton University.

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We are now into the third year of implementation of a new law and framework for Chinese security governance of overseas NGOs, foundations and thinktanks in China — which already has one of the largest and most rapidly growing NGO and charitable communities in the world. This presentation analyzes these important policy and regulatory shifts in China in control and monitoring of the overseas NGO, foundation and thinktank sector, including the recent detention of a Canadian citizen in which this new framework has been mentioned, and draws some conclusions about the future work of these organizations in China.

Mark Sidel is Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and consultant for Asia at the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL). He was part of the team that opened the Ford Foundation office in Beijing in the late 1980s, has consulted widely with international donors and NGOs in China, including the Ford, Gates, Asia and other foundations, and has worked in China since 1972. He writes and speaks frequently on the nonprofit sector and philanthropy in China, India, Vietnam, and elsewhere in Asia.

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Vibrant colors and pulsating sounds of religious devotion punctuate the streets and gullies of Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley. Among the Valley’s Newar Buddhist community, art and ritual work in concert to make the divine present in the urban landscape of the city. For Newar Buddhists, art and ritual performance reinforce core philosophical principles and cultural ideals related to sacred space and ritual cosmology. This lecture examines the role of festivals and image processions in manifesting the divine in the city of Patan. The vibrant ritual festivities and artistic traditions build layers of sacred geography and Buddhist cosmology into the streets and courtyards of the city spaces. Thus, this lecture explores the creation of sacred space in the city of Patan through festivals and other celebrations to examine how the Newar Buddhist community navigates the diversity of religious experience in the Kathmandu Valley to ultimately reaffirm their own religious identity.

Kerry Lucinda Brown, Professor of Art History at Savannah College of Art and Design, is a specialist in South Asian and Himalayan art. Her research explores the relationship between art and religious identity in Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley, situating Newar Buddhist art within the larger context of South Asian Buddhist heritage.

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What has changed and remained the same in Ukrainian politics after the Euromaidan revolution? Definitely, the Ukrainian political system has become more democratic, transparent, and competitive. At the same time, the patrimonial nature and organizing principles of the political system remain the same. Surprisingly, after the Euromaidan revolution, Ukraine’s patrimonial politics are paradoxically contributing to the institutionalization of political pluralism and political competition, via a series of formal and informal power-sharing arrangements between the major Euromaidan players. In my presentation, I try to examine the decisive role of informal politics and shadow patron-client networks in Ukraine that remain an under-researched topic for a long time and demonstrate how a neopatrimonial democracy in which state capture is the primary gain, unexpectedly stimulates competitive politics.

Dr. Oleksandr Fisun is Professor of Political Science and Department Chair at the V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in Ukraine. His primary research interests are Ukrainian politics and comparative democratization. He has held visiting fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute, the National Endowment for Democracy (Washington, DC), the Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies at the University of Washington (Seattle), Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta (Edmonton), and the Aleksanteri Institute at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is the author of Demokratiia, neopatrimonializm i global’nye transformatsii [Democracy, Neopatrimonialism, and Global Transformations] (Kharkiv, 2006), as well as numerous book chapters and articles on regime change, informal politics, and neopatrimonialism in Ukraine.

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Joseph McQuade is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Asian Institute’s Centre for South Asian Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge as a Gates Scholar, with a dissertation that examined the origins of terrorism in colonial South Asia in international perspective. This research is currently being revised into a book manuscript, tentatively titled Anti-colonial nationalism and the birth of ‘terrorism’ in colonial India, 1857-1947. His postdoctoral research at the University of Toronto will interrogate the role of terrorism and insurgency in defining national identity in postcolonial India and Burma (Myanmar). His broader research and teaching interests include critical genealogies of ‘terrorism’ as a political and legal category, the global history of political violence, and the relationship between insurgency and nation-states.

Kanta Murali is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include comparative political economy of development, Indian politics, politics of growth and economic policy, state-business relations and labor policy. Her Ph.D. dissertation (“Economic Liberalization, Electoral Coalitions and Private Investment in India”) at Princeton University aims to understand the political conditions favourable to growth-oriented policies in poor democracies by focusing on a specific empirical puzzle related to India. It examines sub-national policy variation in the competition for private investment in India after the country undertook market reforms in 1991 and analyzes the political factors behind why some subnational governments have been more pro-active in undertaking investment promotion policies than their counterparts.

Jaby Mathew is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto. Mathew received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Toronto and he is currently revising his doctoral dissertation “Representation in the Shadow of Colonialism: Conceptions of Political Representation in 19th and 20th Century India” into a book manuscript. Mathew’s research focuses on modern Indian thought, contemporary democratic theory, and postcolonial theory with particular attention to the ethics of comparison and translation.

Christoph Emmrich is Director of the Centre for South Asian Studies at the Asian Institute; Associate Professor for South and Southeast Asian Buddhism at the Department for the Study of Religion and the Department for Historical Studies and is Chair of the UofT/McMaster Numata Buddhist Studies Program. His research bridges Southeast and South Asia as it engages with fields as diverse as Burmese and Nepalese Buddhism, and Tamil Jainism.

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The 2019 Lionel Gelber Prize Award Ceremony and Lecture

The event will be live webcast beginning at 5:30pm: The 2019 Lionel Gelber Prize Award Ceremony and Lecture

The Lionel Gelber Prize was founded in 1989 by Canadian diplomat Lionel Gelber. The prize is a literary award for the world’s best non-fiction book in English on foreign affairs that seeks to deepen public debate on significant international issues. Presented annually by the Lionel Gelber Foundation, in partnership with the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto and Foreign Policy magazine, the winning author receives $15,000.

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
Crashed: The global financial crisis of 2007 – 2009 undermined global capitalism, exposed the failures of banks to manage their risks, almost broke the Eurozone and played a role in the Ukrainian conflict, Brexit and the election of Donald Trump. In a bold work of extraordinary range and ambition, Adam Tooze has written the standard work on the crisis and its aftermath. This is a big picture book, covering developments in the United States, China and Europe, but Tooze never loses sight of the role of key individuals and the political context in which vital economic decisions were taken.

Adam Tooze is the author of The Deluge (winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize) and The Wages of Destruction (winner of the Wolfson History and Longman-History Today prizes). He is the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University where he directs the European Institute. He previously taught at Yale University and the University of Cambridge. He writes for the Financial Times, the Guardian and the Wall Street Journal.

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A webinar of this event will be available shortly before the panel begins. 
Irregular migration represents a tiny fraction of overall global mobility. Most irregular migrants overstay visas or lose legal status rather than attempt to cross borders on foot or arrive at shores by boat. Among these, a significant proportion have legitimate claims to asylum.
Nonetheless, irregular migration over borders plays a disproportionate role in political discourse, and politicians in liberal states have embarked on progressively more restrictive policies to close borders, detain migrants, and extend controls to transit and host states. These policies can have far-ranging effects, including more lethal migration routes, larger markets for smugglers and traffickers, undermining liberal international norms, and fostering hysterical domestic responses to irregular migration.
The final event in our Global Migration Challenges series will look at the effects of EU attempts to externalize migration controls in West Africa, unpack the Trump administration’s policies of deterrence, detention, and family separation, and present evidence about how changes in US policy affect irregular migration to Canada.
Philippe M. Frowd: “Playing the numbers game in Europe’s African borderlands”
Luis Campos: “Broken Borders and Broken Promises: An Update on U.S. Asylum Law and Policy and the Legal Resistance at the American Southern Border”
Craig Damian Smith: “America First, Canada Last? The Effects of US Policy Change on Emerging Irregular Migration Systems to Canada”
In conversation with Prof. Alison Mountz, Director, International Migration Research Centre and Canada Research Chair in Global Migration Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University
Luis Campos is Immigration Counsel to Haynes and Boone LLP in Dallas, Texas and a former Assistant Professor of Law at the University of New Brunswick. Dr. Campos has led Haynes and Boone’s pro bono program of representing Central American asylum seekers affected by the government’s Zero Tolerance Policy. In this role, he coordinates the firm’s deportation defense teams; frequently visits immigration detention facilities throughout the Southwest; and appears in related federal court proceedings. Dr. Campos received his legal education in the U.S. and Canada (J.D., SMU; M.A., U Texas; LL.M. and S.J.D., U Toronto).
Philippe M. Frowd is Assistant Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. His research focuses on the politics of border security and migration management, with a particular focus on transnational security relationships in the Sahel. His bookSecurity at the Borders (Cambridge, 2018)draws on research in Mauritania and Senegal to examine the new practices and technologies that shape borderwork in the region. Philippe’s work has appeared in diverse venues including Security Dialogue, International Political Sociology, and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
Craig Damian Smith is the Associate Director of the Global Migration Lab. His research focuses on migration, displacement, European foreign policy, and refugee integration. His current SSHRC-funded research looks at the emergence of irregular migration systems to Canada and their effects on Canada’s domestic politics and international migration relations. He consults on refugee integration policies in EU Member states, and has made several appearances before the Canadian House of Commons Citizenship and Immigration Committee. In addition to his scholarly work, he has provided media commentary on migration and refugee issues to outlets including the Globe and Mail, National Post, BBC, CBC, and NBC.
Alison Mountz is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Migration at the Balsillie School of International Affairs at Laurier University. Her work explores how people cross borders and access migration and asylum policies. She researches the tension between the decisions, desires, and displacements that drive migration and the policies and practices designed to manage migration. She analyzes geographies of political asylum and detention, including recent research on islands and US war resister migration to Canada, asking how people seek, find, and forge safe haven. Her monograph, Seeking Asylum: Human Smuggling and Bureaucracy at the Border (Minnesota), was awarded the Meridian Book Prize from the Association of American Geographers. She recently published Boats, Borders, and Bases: Race, the Cold War, and the Rise of Migration Detention in the United States (California, with Jenna Loyd). Mountz directs Laurier’s International Migration Research Centre and edits the journal Politics & Space. She was the 2015-2016 Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at Harvard University and is a member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada.