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Please join us for a discussion about the international community’s collective response to climate change against the backdrop of the historic Paris Agreement. The Secretary-General’s remarks will look at both the progress since COP21 and the challenges ahead. He will focus on how the national horizon in decision making, albeit a factor in the success at COP21, is nevertheless a barrier to efforts to respond to climate change on the scale and with the urgency required. He will share his views on how we can overcome this.

Please note this event will be live webcast at the link below. Webcast viewers are welcome to submit their questions for the QA session on Twitter using the hashtags #OECDclimatetalk and #MunkTalks.

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Mr. Angel Gurría has been the Secretary-General of the OECD since 2006. Under his leadership, the Organisation has established itself as a pillar of the global economic governance architecture including its active engagement with the G20, G7, APEC and other international fora. Mr. Gurría has advanced the OECD’s impact and relevance in several policy areas, focusing on the promotion of better lives through inclusive growth and new approaches to economic challenges. He has also made the OECD more inclusive through the accession of new members, strengthening the link with key emerging economies and fostering its global outreach. Mr. Gurría came to the OECD following a distinguished career in public service in his native Mexico, including positions as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Finance and Public Credit in the 1990s.

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On the 60th anniversary of Lester Pearson’s receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize and the 50th anniversary of his departure as Prime Minister, it is time to reassess the man and his actions in the field of international politics. Mike’s World, edited by Asa McKercher and Galen Roger Perras, brings together established and rising scholars to examine various facets of Pearson’s diplomacy and his attitudes to world affairs. Join the editors and several contributors to launch this important re-examination of a Canadian icon. Refreshments included, and books available for purchase.

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Despite becoming a global economic force, why does India win so few Olympic medals, and why do so many of its people live in conditions of poverty? Why have opportunities not become available more broadly? How can growing individuals assist with the task of building a growing economy? In contrast to other investigations, which have taken a top-down view of developments in the country, Krishna presents a ground-up view, delving into the lives of ordinary individuals. One review in the Indian media regarded this book as “a must-read for India’s leaders in every sphere.” Another reviewer emphasizes “the micro situations...that make it so difficult to climb out of that poverty and vulnerability for otherwise highly motivated and talented people.

ANIRUDH KRISHNA (PhD in Government, Cornell University, 2000; Masters in Economics, Delhi University, 1980) is the Edgar T. Thompson Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University. His research investigates how poor communities and individuals in developing countries cope with the structural and personal constraints that result in poverty and powerlessness. His most recent book – Fixing the Broken Staircase: The Paradox and the Potential of India’s One-Billion (Penguin and Cambridge University Press, 2017) – examines why poverty persists despite rapid growth and addresses ways to overcome inequality of opportunity. He has authored or co-authored five other books, including One Illness Away: Why People Become Poor and How they Escape Poverty (Oxford, 2010), and more than sixty journal articles and book chapters. Krishna received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University, Sweden in 2011; the Olaf Palme Visiting Professorship from the Swedish Research Council in 2007; the Dudley Seers Memorial Prize in 2005 and 2013; and a Best Article Award of the American Political Science Association in 2002. Before returning to academia, Krishna spent 14 years with the Indian Administrative Service, managing diverse rural and urban development initiatives (sites.duke.edu/Krishna).

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On August 1st of last year, Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen officially apologized to Taiwan’s indigenous peoples for “the four centuries of pain and mistreatment” they have endured. In this statement, recognition of governmental responsibility was quite clear, and actions for “true reconciliation” between the government and the indigenous peoples was fairly specific: for example, to delineate and announce indigenous traditional territories and lands in three months, or to set up an Indigenous Historical Justice and Transitional Justice Commission under the Presidential Office in about four months. Reconstructing historical archives and memories was also highlighted as one of the most significant issues to “shine a light on the true history of the indigenous peoples.”

The series of actions taken by the new Taiwanese president has attracted the keen attention of Taiwan’s indigenous peoples, and also gained widespread interest throughout the world. This upswell of concern, in conjunction with practices of pursuing transitional justice in Taiwan society in recent years, seeks reconsideration of Japanese colonial responsibilities as well as studies of historical injustice. This presentation is an attempt to engage in this work by focusing on the historical experiences of the indigenous peoples in Taiwan through an examination of the colonial war in records and memories.

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The Model International Mobility Convention is the culmination of a two-year effort by an international commission to rewrite the rules for the movement of persons across borders, from visitors through to refugees. More information (including a brief summary of the Convention) can be found here.

Profs. Randall Hansen, Michael Doyle, and Kiran Banerjee, all of whom were active in the development process, will present the Convention and discuss its significance in the context of the ongoing global migration crisis. They will be joined by Prof. Fen Hampson, Prof. Audrey Macklin, and Dr. Craig Smith for further discussion.

Kiran Banerjee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan, focusing in the areas of ethics and international politics. Banerjee’s research agenda addresses migration governance, with a focus on the normative dimensions of forced migration and membership as questions of global justice. His current work examines the role of non-state actors in shaping humanitarian responses toward forced displacement, as well as exploring the implications of the existing refugee regime as it plays out on the international level. Beyond this, his larger research interests include political theory, international ethics, the history of political thought, international relations theory, and migration studies, as well as legal theory. Accordingly, he has also written, published, and delivered lectures on EU citizenship and migration, the international refugee regime, as well as on liberalism, global justice, and the history of political thought.

Michael W. Doyle is the Director of the Columbia Global Policy Initiative and University Professor of Columbia University in the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia Law School and the Department of Political Science. His current research focuses on international law and international relations. His major publications include Ways of War and Peace (W.W. Norton); Empires (Cornell University Press); Making War and Building Peace (Princeton Press); Striking First: Preemption and Prevention in International Conflict (Princeton Press); and The Question of Intervention: J.S. Mill and the Responsibility to Protect (Yale University Press, 2015). He served as Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Planning and Special Adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan where his responsibilities included strategic planning (the “Millennium Development Goals”), outreach to the international corporate sector (the “Global Compact’) and relations with Washington. He also served as an individual member and the chair of the UN Democracy Fund from 2006 through 2013. He currently chairs the International Peace Institute.

Fen Osler Hampson is a distinguished fellow and director of CIGI’s Global Security & Politics program, overseeing the research direction of the program and related activities. He is director of the CIGI-led and sponsored World Refugee Council, which is chaired by Canada’s former foreign minister, Lloyd Axworthy. Previously, he served as director of Global Commission on Internet Governance, which was led by CIGI in cooperation of Chatham House in London. Most recently, he served as director of the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA) and continues to serve as Chancellor’s Professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

Fen holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University where he also received his A.M. degree. He also holds an MSc. (Econ.) degree (with distinction) from the London School of Economics and a B.A. (Hon.) from the University of Toronto. A fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, he is the past recipient of various awards and honours, including a Research and Writing Award from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship from the United States Institute of Peace (a non-partisan, congressionally-funded think tank) in Washington, D.C. He has also taught at Georgetown University as a visiting professor.Fen is the author or co-author of 13 books and editor or co-editor of more than 28 other volumes. In addition, he has written more than 100 articles and book chapters on international affairs. His latest books are Look Who’s Watching: Surveillance, Treachery and Trust Online (2016) and Master of Persuasion: The Global Legacy of Brian Mulroney, which will be published in the spring 2018.

Randall Hansen is Interim Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Full Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He works on immigration and citizenship, demography and population policy, and the effects of war on civilians. His published works include Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance after Operation Valkyrie (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), Sterilized by the State: Eugenics, Race and the Population Scare in 20th Century North America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014), Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany (Penguin, 2009), and Citizenship and Immigration in Post-War Britain (Oxford University Press, 2000). He has also co-edited Immigration and Public Opinion in Liberal Democracies (with David Leal and Gary P. Freeman) (New York: Routledge, 2012), Migration States and International Cooperation (with Jeannette Money and Jobst Koehler, Routledge, 2011), Towards a European Nationality (with P. Weil, Palgrave, 2001), Dual Nationality, Social Rights, and Federal Citizenship in the U.S. and Europe (with P. Weil, Berghahn, 2002), and Immigration and Asylum from 1900 to the Present. He appears regularly on TVO’s The Agenda and has written for and been quoted in the national and international press. He holds an Mphil and Dphil from the University of Oxford.

Audrey Macklin is Director of the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, and Chair in Human Rights at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. She teaches, researches and publishes in the fields of migration and citizenship law, business and human rights, and administrative law. In 2017, she was named a Trudeau Fellow by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.

Craig Damian Smith is the Associate Director of the Global Migration Lab at the Munk School. He earned his PhD from the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on migration, displacement, European foreign policy, and refugee integration. His doctoral thesis “Malignant Europeanization: Schengen, Irregular Migration Governance, and Insecurity on Europe’s Peripheries” examines the effects of European migration governance on transit states. He has conducted several years of fieldwork throughout the Middle East, North Africa, Western Balkans, and Europe. His current SSHRC-funded research looks at the effects of social networks on refugee integration. In addition to his scholarly work, he has provided media commentary on migration and refugee issues to outlets including the BBC, CBC, and NBC.

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Winfried Heinemann is a Colonel with the German Armed Forces Centre of Military History and Social Sciences in Potsdam, Germany. He is also a professor of modern history at the Brandenburg Technical University in Cottbus (south of Berlin). He is currently working on a military history of the 20 July 1944 attempt on Hitler’s life and attempted overthrow of the Nazi regime by the German Army.

Resistance against Nazi rule is usually spoken of in terms of “Conscience in Revolt” (a book title from the 1950s). However, during the last decades, historians have asked for the political, diplomatic, social, economic etc. policies the “Other Germany” would have wanted to pursue. So far, though, no one has asked what their military plans were. How did they plan the coup d’état in Berlin? How did they want to end the fighting? What role did they foresee for a future German army? Or: what is their place in 20th century German military history?

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Andriy Lyubka, was born in 1987 in Riga, Latvia. He is the author of three books of poetry—Eight Months of Schizophrenia (2007), TERRORISM (2008), and Forty Bucks Plus Tip (2009)—and four books of prose—KILLER: A Collection of Stories (2012), Sleeping with Women (2014), Carbide (2015), A Room for Sorrow (2016) and Saudade (2017). His novel Carbide was shortlisted for the Angelus Central European Literature Award this year. He has also published several translations from Polish, Serbian and English into Ukrainian. He holds degrees in Ukrainian Philology from Uzhhorod University (2009) and in Balkan Studies from the University of Warsaw (2014). His works have been translated into Polish, Chinese, English, Portuguese, Russian, Czech, Serbian, Macedonian, Slovak, Lithuanian, Romanian, Turkish and German. He is a columnist for Radio Liberty, Den and Zbruch. Mr. Lyubka has been a curator for the literary festivals Kyivski Lavry and Meridian Czernowitz and has been writer-in-residence at cultural institutes in Poland, Latvia, Romania, Hungary, Sweden and Austria.

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At the end of the nineteenth century, large parts of Southeastern Europe began to see massive emigration to North America and other overseas destinations. At a time of intense nation-building, governments in the region could hardly ignore the fact that so many of their citizens were leaving. On the other hand, some of them discovered the usefulness of emigration for fostering nation-building. In my talk, I will discuss the emerging politics of diaspora, focussing on three case studies (Kingdom of Hungary, Greece, and interwar Yugoslavia). These efforts to project symbolic sovereignty across the Atlantic can elucidate new visions of the nation and its relation to territory, and heralded new forms of governmentality.

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Dr. Ulf Brunnbauer is director of the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies and chair of Southeast and East European History at the University of Regensburg.

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Omar el Akkad will read from his acclaimed new novel, American War.

Omar El Akkad was born in Cairo, Egypt, and grew up in Doha, Qatar. When he was 16 years old, he moved to Canada, subsequently completing high school in Montreal and college at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He has a computer science degree. For ten years he was a staff reporter for The Globe and Mail, where he covered the War in Afghanistan, military trials at Guantanamo Bay, and the Arab Spring in Egypt. He was most recently a correspondent for the western United States, where he covered Black Lives Matter. His first novel, American War, was published in 2017. It received positive reviews from critics, and the novel was named a shortlisted finalist for the 2017 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.

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All Joint French History Seminar events are held in English unless otherwise noted.

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After some general observations on the functioning of the eighteenth-century post-office, I first interpret three mysterious postmarks. I then treat the problems Mme de Graffigny faced in dealing with the cost of letters and especially with the opening and resealing of her mail by the government and by private individuals. There are ten illustrations.

David Smith, emeritus professor of French at the University of Toronto, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and honorary member of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, is a specialist on Helvétius, Mme de Graffigny and Voltaire. He first worked in the history of ideas, notably on the condemnation of Helvétius`s De l`esprit, then on editing the letters of Helvétius (5 volumes) and of Graffigny (15 volumes) as well as the Relation de Berthier for the Oxford edition of the Œuvres complètes of Voltaire. He has also produced several bibliographical articles on Voltaire and physical bibliographies of the works of both Helvétius and Graffigny. The latter was awarded a prize for the best bibliography of 2016 by the Syndicat du Livre Ancien et Moderne (SLAM).

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This talk will explore the political and cultural battles fought by Mykhailo Hrushevsky from his appointment to the chair of Ukrainian history in Lviv in 1894 to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. In these years he fought battles of varying degrees of intenstity against various establishments: the Austrian government in Vienna; the Polish authorities in Lviv; the Polish-dominated University of Lviv, and the Polish cultural and historical establishments in Galicia and beyond its borders. He also played a central role in transforming the Ukrainian cultural establishment in Galicia, sometimes in conflict with its leaders; sometimes in collaboration with them. Against this background of struggle, and the worsening state of Polish-Ukrainian relations in Galicia, Hrushevsky conceived and wrote volume 4, in the years between 1901 and 1907. It covers the period of Polish-Lithuanian rule of Ukraine, from the collapse of the principality of Galicia-Volhynia in 1340 to the 1569 Union of Lublin, when Ukraine was incorporated into the kingdom of Poland. Volume 4 was written when the young Hrushevsky was at the height of his powers as a historian and was unconstrained by the censorship which limited what he could write in the Soviet years. The talk will explore the connection between his political, social, and cultural activities after 1894 and his radical reconceptualization of the relationship between Ukraine, Lithuania, and Poland in the years in which the Polish-Lithuanian union was formed. It will suggest that Volume 4 contains some of Hrushevsky’s finest writing on political history.

The session will be chaired by Professor Piotr Wróbel, University of Toronto. Professor Frank Sysyn, University of Alberta, will serve as a discussant. The session will include a presentation of Mykhailo Hrushevsky, History of Ukraine-Rus’, Vol.4 Political Relations in the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries, translated by Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj. Ed. Robert Frost, Yaroslav Fedoruk, and Frank E. Sysyn with the assistance of Myroslav Yurkevich (Edmonton-Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2017). The publication is a project of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta. Volume 4 was sponsored by the Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko.

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Join us for a discussion on the evolution of the laws regulating armed conflict with a focus on tribunals and International Human Rights Law. This conference will bring together experts from the field of IHL including academics, practitioners and representatives from the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement.

Featuring Marco Sassoli from the University of Geneva as Keynote.

Date: Thursday, November 9th 2017
Registration: 12:45pm – 1:30pm
Conference: 1:30pm – 5:30pm
Informal Reception: 5:30pm – 6:30pm

Location: Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, University of Toronto, Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, M5S 3K7

To register, please click here: http://tinyurl.com/IHLToronto

For more information, please email IHLconference@redcross.ca

This conference is eligible towards the Law Society of Upper Canada’s (LSUC) CPD requirements as Substantive Hours only. Please note that this program is not accredited for Professionalism Hours or the New Member Requirement.

Please Visit the LSCU’s CPD Eligible Educational Activities webpage for more information: http://www.lsuc.on.ca/

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Fieldwork is one of the most thrilling, stimulating, yet challenging part of researching in geography and in social sciences. Speakers in this seminar will shift the focus away from what they found towards how they found it. Data is not given. It is produced in an empirical context through specific methods. Presenters will talk about their specific conditions of data collection in the Global South, and how they dealt with ‘the making of a field research’ – including, negotiating access to one’s field, dealing with language issues, managing relationships with interviewees, overcoming ineluctable misunderstandings with assistants and respondents, and drinking the unavoidable countless cups of bitter green tea. The presenters will reflect upon each of their field research carried out as undergraduate students, PhD students, and postdoctoral fellows.
Everyone is welcome.

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In April 1793, two Indian travelers from Gujarat landed in Marseilles. The son of the nawab of Broach and his attendant, they were heading for England but were stranded in France for a couple of months, just as the Revolution was spiralling into Terror. What happened to them? How did they manage to establish their credentials with the French authorities and get along in this strange new environment? This talk will be about social credit and the price of hospitality.

Rahul Markovits is assistant professor at the Ecole normale supérieure in Paris. His work focuses on the circulation of people, products and texts on a transnational scale in the eighteenth-century.

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*THE REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CLOSED. Rush tickets will be available but entries are not guaranteed. Please come 30 minutes before the show at the Innis Town Hall.*

India/Germany 2017
76 minutes
Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Bihari with English subtitles
PG • North American Premiere

DIRECTOR
Marco Hulser

CAST
Yogesh Pavan, Mohammad Khan, Gouri Mahato, Sushanta Thapa, Subodh Pramod

In the world’s second most populated country—characterized by centuries-old caste systems, more than 2000 ethnic groups, and large sects of all major religions—the one thing that seems to connect the diverse citizens of India is their constant need for piping hot masala chai.

The documentary follows the lives of five different tea makers: Yogesh, a US educated business owner of a posh teahouse in Pune; Mohammad, an elderly tea-maker who has worked in film production for 40 years; Gouri, an outspoken teen assisting with her family tea stall in Kolkata; and Sushanta and Subodh, who run small tea stalls in Darjeeling and Delhi, respectively.

Masala Chai offers a warm glimpse into the personal struggles of some of India’s most common and relied-upon vendors. The film is also a captivating exploration of the vast class differences of a diverse nation that is steeped in ancient traditions and societal difficulties, many of which are being rebuffed by its younger generation.

Marco Hülser was born 1992 in Hamburg and gained his “Abitur” in 2011. After a voluntary service 2011/2012 in India, Tamil Nadu Marco started the studies „Motion Pictures“ at the „Hochschule Darmstadt“, which he completed in 2016. During his studies, he directed the short film „Zusammen Allein“ which was nominated at several festivals as „Max-Ophüls-Preis“ and received the rating „valuable“ by „Deutsche Film- und Medienbewertung“. Since mid-2015, he is working on his first documentary “Masala Chai” which will be released 2017.

The film screening will be followed by a conversation between the filmmaker and Professor Jayeeta Sharma.

Please note, registration opens 30 minutes before showtime. Please arrive early as all tickets become void as of 15 minutes before showtime.

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Modern domesticity in colonial-era Korea has generally been understood using the twin parameters of nationalism and colonialism. Much less attention has been paid to the impact of a transpacific network, mainly between the US and Korea through the Christian missionary societies, on the formation of modern domesticity before, during and after Japanese colonial rule. In this presentation, I examine the ways in which Korea’s modern domesticity was shaped by not only Japanese colonial policies but also the notion of modernity that was transmitted, reinterpreted and performed through the transpacific network that had formed among the Korean elite and American missionaries. Taking the idea of “modern home” as a key locus where national, colonial and missionary projects converged, I demonstrate how the intimate private sphere was rendered as one of the most dynamic sites for uncovering the confluence of interaction between the local, the national and the global.

Hyaeweol Choi is Professor of Korean Studies at the Australian National University. Her research interests are in the areas of gender history, religion, and transnational studies. She is the author of Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea: New Women, Old Ways and New Women in Colonial Korea: A Sourcebook among others.

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Is there really a global “refugee crisis” as much media suggests?

In this presentation, Professor Hathaway suggests that the language of crisis is overstated. There is of course little doubt that the international refugee regime as presently implemented is an abject mess; it does not meet the needs of developed countries, of the poorer states that host the overwhelming majority of the world’s refugees, much less of refugees themselves. Yet the regime as implemented bears little resemblance to the approach actually agreed to by international treaty. The challenge, then, is not to come up with new law, but is rather to adopt insurance-style mechanisms to do what we have already promised to do in a dependable and managed way.

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James C. Hathaway, the James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor of Law and Director of the Program in Refugee and Asylum Law at the University of Michigan since 1998, is a leading authority on international refugee law whose work is regularly cited by the most senior courts of the common law world. He is also Distinguished Visiting Professor of International Refugee Law at the University of Amsterdam. He earned law degrees from the Osgoode Hall Law School (Toronto) (LL.B. Honours) and Columbia (LL.M., J.S.D.), and has received doctoral degrees honoris causa from the Université catholique de Louvain (2009) and University of Amsterdam (2017).

From 2008 until 2010 Hathaway was on leave from the University of Michigan to serve as the Dean of Law and William Hearn Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne, where he established Australia’s first all-graduate legal education program. He previously held positions as Professor of Law and Associate Dean of the Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada (1984-1998), Counsel on Special Legal Assistance for the Disadvantaged to the Government of Canada (1983-1984), and Professeur adjoint de droit at the Université de Moncton, Canada (1980-1983). He has been appointed a visiting professor at the American University in Cairo, and at the Universities of California, Macerata, San Francisco, Stanford, Tokyo, and Toronto.

Hathaway’s publications include more than eighty journal articles and chapters, a leading treatise on the refugee definition (The Law of Refugee Status, second edition 2014 with M. Foster; first edition 1991, republished in both Russian in 2007 and Japanese in 2008); of an interdisciplinary study of models for refugee law reform (Reconceiving International Refugee Law, 1997); and of The Rights of Refugees under International Law (2005, republished in Japanese in 2014, and in Chinese 2016), the first comprehensive analysis of the human rights of refugees set by the UN Refugee Convention. He is the founding Editor of Cambridge Asylum and Migration Studies; Senior Advisor to Asylum Access, a non-profit organization committed to delivering innovative legal aid to refugees in the global South; and Convener of the biennial Colloquium on Challenges in International Refugee Law. Hathaway regularly advises and provides training on refugee law to academic, non-governmental, and official audiences around the world.

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Returning to the Golden Rule of Balanced Budgets: The Institutional and Political Economy of Restricting Public Deficits and Debt

The “golden rule” of public finance states that over an economic cycle, governments should borrow only to invest and not to fund current spending, and that the current budget must always balance or be brought into surplus. In Ontario, all municipalities are subject to legal borrowing limits, with special exceptions for Toronto and York Region.

Yet implementing the “golden rule” is not a simple question of setting limits to deficits and debt. Using the case of Switzerland, international expert and IMFG Visiting Scholar Bernard Dafflon will present new research and recommendations for budget management in the public sector.

How do we balance the needs of current expenditures with intergenerational equity? Does fiscal control over deficit or debt require top-down policies from higher levels of government, or is self-imposed control reasonable?

In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, the issue of controlling public budget deficits and debt received renewed attention from both politicians and public finance economists. Around the world, detailed and precise regulations were imposed on how governments deal with public deficit and debt. This seminar will demystify public sector budget management practices, and help policymakers and the public better understand whether governments are promoting budget responsibility or not.

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Bernard Dafflon is a Visiting Scholar at IMFG and Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Economic and Social Science, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Since 2013, he has been an advisor to the Tunisian government on decentralization. His research interests are fiscal federalism, decentralization and local finance, deficit and public debt rules, and the use of the benefit principle in financing environmental policies. While at IMFG, he will be conducting research on municipal finance.

Seating is limited for this event, and registration is required.

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Risk, Relation, Revolution and Repair: these four concepts will serve as the basis for a conversation about how anti-colonial storytelling might disrupt hegemonic political, social and cultural discourse in critical media studies. What are the risks involved in producing subversive and inelegant subject formations that inform emerging political imaginaries, ways of being – alternative cultural geographic revolutions that pulsate with anger, love and optimism? What relations, and at what scale, are negotiated in the process? How might we highlight the risks of investing in this approach – to map out moments of uncertainty that animate social and political projects of possibility – given the colonial violence that structures and saturates mainstream media spaces? This paper will explore my personal and professional ambivalence, through struggles and unsettling moments that have occurred over the past two years, as I created and hosted a daily radio show entitled “Sense of Place.” Through a series of vignettes and radio clips, and informed by Sarah De Leeuw’s concept of “writing as righting” (De Leeuw 2017), I focus on the concepts of risk, relation, revolution and repair to share with listeners what anticolonial approaches can do to engage and refuse ongoing forms of colonial violence.

Part of the Asian Pathways Speaker Series; hosted by the Asian Pathways Research Lab.

Open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

Minelle Mahtani is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Geography, and the Program in Journalism at University of Toronto, Scarborough. Previously, she taught in Media Studies at Lang College at the New School. She is former President of the Association of Canadian Studies and the winner of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee award. She is a former national television news journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and a former associate producer with “Canada: A People’s History.” She is the author of “Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality” (UBC Press) and one of the editors of the book, “Global Mixed Race” (NYU Press). Currently, she hosts a radio programme, “Sense of Place” at Roundhouse Radio.

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In the early 1930s, Soviet architects and engineers began work on a series of large-scale urban development projects in Moscow. Brought together in 1935 under the banner of the Moscow General Plan, these projects included the Moscow-Volga Canal, the Moscow Metro, and a building that, had it been completed, would have stood as the tallest state headquarters in the world: the Palace of Soviets. This talk explores the global networks and ideas that shaped the Palace of Soviets construction effort and were key more broadly to Moscow’s “socialist reconstruction” during the Stalin era.

Dr. Katherine Zubovich is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Ryerson University. She holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MA from the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Toronto.

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Can Israel be Jewish-democratic and at the same time equal and inclusive to all its citizens?
Is there a potential for genuine partnership between Israeli Jews and Palestinians citizens of Israel?
Can such partnership challenge Jewish hegemony in Israeli politics? And how does this relate to the fate of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict?

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Sayed Kashua is a Palestinian citizen of Israel, author, and journalist born in Tira, Israel, known for his books and humorous columns in Hebrew. Kashua is the author of three novels: Dancing Arabs, Let it Be Morning, and Second Person Singular. He is the writer and creator of the hit Israeli TV show “Arab Labor”, and is the focus of the documentary Forever Scared. His novel Dancing Arabs has been made into a feature film, and premiered in 2014 at the Telluride Film Festival. Kashua is the winner of many awards, including the prestigious Berstein Prize.

Aviad Rubin (PhD, McGill University) is the Israel Institute Visiting Faculty in the Department of Political Science at University of Toronto. He is a senior Lecturer (US Associate Professor) in the School of Political Science, University of Haifa, Israel, where he specializes in the intersection between the politics of identity and regime theory. His forthcoming book explores the influence of the state-religion relationship in Israel and Turkey on democratic performance in both states.

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The situation of the European spiritual crisis after the Second World War set the special conditions for drawing Ukrainian occidental theory that was born in the circle of Ukrainian scholars united around the Ukrainian Free University and in the intellectual circles of the displaced persons camps of the 1940-50ies. While reflecting on the crisis of European identity Ukrainian intellectuals discusses Occidentalism as a decolonizing discourse to introduce a special mission of Ukraine to Western audience, to contextualize the idea of westernization of the 1920ies and to offer an alternative perspective of a universal European history.

Tamara Hundorova (Ph.D. in Philology) is a corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, professor and chair of the Department of Literature and Comparative Studies in the Shevchenko Institute of Literature (NAS of Ukraine), the Executive Director of the Institute of Criticism, professor and dean of the Ukrainian Free University (Munich), and an Associate of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. She has published extensively on Ukrainian literature, modernism, postmodernism, postcolonial criticism, kitsch, feminism and Chornobyl.

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*The registration for this event has now been closed. Rush tickets will be available but entries are not guaranteed. Please arrive 30 minutes before the show at the Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave (entrance off of St. George St.).*

Japan 2017
95:00
English, Japanese with English subtitles
PG • Canadian Premiere

DIRECTOR
Megumi Sasaki

CAST
Jay Alabaster

In the once quiet seaside village of Taiji in Wakayama prefecture, the local whaling practice has become synonymous with animal abuse since Louie Psihoyos’s film The Cove won the 2009 Oscar for Best Documentary.

Years later, filmmaker Megumi Sasaki offers a more balanced examination of the small fishing community, focusing on points of contact and communication between both sides of the conflict—environmentalism versus tradition—in ways that The Cove did not.

A Whale of a Tale does not attempt to resolve what will remain an ideological deadlock between the foreign activists who have devoted years to their cause, and agricultural workers who have developed a long-standing tradition passed on to the next generation. Instead, in a global climate where opposing sides are communicating at each other instead of with each other, Sasaki succeeds in allowing us to give pause—and listen to what the other side has to say.

Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Megumi Sasaki was an anchor, reporter and news director for NHK Television, Japan’s public broadcasting network. Her first feature-length documentary Herb & Dorothy (2008), about legendary New York art collectors Herb and Dorothy Vogel, won top honors at the Hamptons International Film Festival, Philadelphia Film Festival, SILVERDOCS and others. In 2013, she directed a follow-up documentary titled Herb & Dorothy 50X50, which had nationwide theatrical distribution in the U.S. and Japan. A Whale of a Tale is her third feature-length documentary.

The film screening will be followed by a conversation between the filmmaker and Professor Takashi Fujitani, Director of the Dr. David Chu Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, Asian Institute.

Please note, registration opens 30 minutes before showtime. Please arrive early as all tickets become void as of 15 minutes before showtime.

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This special seminar will outline events leading to the current relationship between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, its immediate neighbours, the United States, and the United Nations. Also discussed will be the issue of what role, if any, Canada might play in connection with this dangerous confrontation.

Donald Rickerd practiced law in Toronto, taught at York University, and was President of the Donner Canadian Foundation in Toronto. He is a Senior Fellow at Massey College and a Counsellor in the International Relations Program.

Commentary will be by Prof. Andre Schmid, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of East Asian Studies. Formerly Director of the Centre for the Study of Korea, he is a prize winning author and distinguished authority on Korea.

Space is limited. Please register by email to: Marilyn Laville at irpro@trinity.utoronto.ca

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In conversation with Zoltán Kovács, Spokesperson for the Government of Hungary.

Dr. Zoltán KOVÁCS is the spokesperson of the Government of Hungary. In the past, KOVÁCS has held numerous positions in government including, 2013-2014: Minister of State for Social Inclusion, 2010-2013: Minister of State for Government Communications and Public Relations and 2006-2010: elected member of the local City Council, communications director to the Debrecen City Council. Dr. KOVÁCS has an MA and a PhD in History from the Central European University in Budapest. He has also held a wide variety of international scholarships and teaching positions.

In this conversation with Professor Lucan Way, Dr. Kovacs will discuss what is ahead for Hungary and the European Union.

Moderator: Professor Lucan Ahmad Way, Dept. of Political Science, University of Toronto

Sponsors: Hungarian Studies Program, CERES, Consulate General of Hungary

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In this insightful and lively history, Liberal insider Darryl Raymaker recalls the attempt to broker “a marriage from hell” between the federal Liberal Party and Alberta’s Social Credit government in the late 1960s. Raymaker uses his deep connections and backroom knowledge to trace the tangled political relationships that developed when charismatic statesman Pierre Trudeau confronted the forces of oil and agriculture in Canada’s west. Part memoir, part chronicle, Trudeau’s Tango provides a window into Canadian history, politics, economics and the zeitgeist of the late 1960s.

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All Joint French History Seminar events are held in English unless otherwise noted.

Jane McLeod is associate professor of history at Brock University. She is the author of Licensing Loyalty: Printers, Patrons and the State in Early Modern France (University of Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011). Her interest in state-media relations continues in her current SSHRC-funded project, “Printers Confront the French Revolution: Profits, Principles and Perils.”

Her paper presents an argument about the nature of media control in the reigns of Louis XV and XVI and explores how this changed in 1789 with the advent of Freedom of the Press. Case studies of printers’ careers are used to explore the high levels of persecution experienced by printers from early in the Revolution.

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Canada is not preparing its young people to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing world.
On November 27, the Munk School of Global Affairs will host the Toronto launch of a landmark report by the Study Group on Global Education, an independent group of university and college presidents, private sector leaders, and policy experts.

The report sounds an urgent warning and call to action.

International learning is vital.
It fosters the knowledge and skills that young Canadians will need to succeed in the 21st century workplace, and the global connections that Canada will need to succeed in a more complex world.

Canada performs poorly.
Relatively few Canadian students go on international learning programs, and those who do overwhelmingly travel to just a few countries and study in their native language.

Other countries are racing ahead.
Peer countries like the United States, Australia, and members of the European Union have all launched ambitious global education strategies, with impressive results. Canada has no such strategy – and it shows.

Canada must act.
The report sets out a plan for Canada’s governments, educational institutions and private sector to dramatically increase the number of young Canadians participating in international study, co-ops, and work traineeships over the next 10 years.

This event will include a brief presentation of the report’s findings, followed by a panel discussion. Speakers include:

Margaret Biggs
Study Group Co-Chair and Matthews Fellow on Global Public Policy, Queen’s University

Roland Paris
Study Group Co-Chair and Professor and University Research Chair, University of Ottawa

Delila Bikic
Alumnae, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs
Junior Fellow, Massey College, University of Toronto

Zabeen Hirji
Strategic Advisor and former Chief Human Resources Officer, Royal Bank of Canada
Member of the Study Group on Global Education

Joseph Wong
Vice-Provost & Associate Vice-President, International Student Experience, University of Toronto
Ralph and Roz Halbert Professor of Innovation, Munk School of Global Affairs

Moderator
Randall Hansen
Interim Director, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto

View the report: Global Education for Canadians: Equipping Young Canadians to Succeed at Home and Abroad.

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Presented by the School of Public Policy and Governance

Big data. Algorithms. Mobile devices. The Internet of things. Digital technologies are undeniably disrupting society and government. Moving beyond the rhetoric of ‘going digital’, come and hear firsthand from leading experts at “Digital government: what’s working, what’s not, and what’s next”.

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JARS BALAN, Interim Director of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS), University of Alberta, will deliver the 20th Toronto Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture, “Tell the Kremlin we are starving; we have no bread!” Rhea Clyman’s 1932 Odyssey through the “Famine Lands” of Ukraine.

Jars Balan will discuss the life of journalist Rhea Clyman, one of the only journalists to witness and write about the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-33 known as the Holodomor. Born in Toronto to a poor immigrant Jewish family, Clyman encountered adversity early in life, losing part of one leg in a streetcar accident. In September 1932, Clyman, then 28 years old, made a journey by car through the agricultural heartland of the Soviet Union just as the Holodomor was beginning to exact its terrible toll. Her road trip took her from Moscow through Eastern Ukraine all the way to Tbilisi, Georgia, where she was arrested and given twenty-four hours to leave the country, accused of spreading false news about the Soviet Union. Her expulsion, the first by Soviet authorities of a Western journalist in eleven years, was reported in scores of newspapers around the world. Clyman’s vivid eyewitness accounts of the “Famine-Lands” were published in the London Daily Express before appearing in twenty-one feature articles in the Toronto Telegram in 1933. Balan will discuss the passion, courage, and perseverance that Clyman exhibited both in her reporting and in life.

Balan has been involved with CIUS for almost four decades and has an extensive list of scholarly publications. Since 2000 he has overseen the administration of the Ukrainian Canadian Studies Program, and in 2007 he was appointed coordinator of Kule Ukrainian Canadian Studies Centre (CIUS). He is working on a book about Rhea Clyman.

THE TORONTO ANNUAL FAMINE LECTURE began in 1998 at the initiative of the Famine-Genocide Commemorative Committee of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Toronto Branch. Past lecturers have included James Mace, Norman Naimark (Stanford University), Alexander Motyl (Rutgers University), Anne Applebaum (Washington Post), Timothy Snyder (Yale University), and Serhii Plokhy (Harvard University).

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As a complement to the ROM’s inaugural Annual South Asia Lecture, the Asian Institute hosts a “ROM Masterclass at the UofT” with Mumbai-based journalist Sidharth Bhatia of TheWire.in. Bhatia will be leading a two-hour session with faculty and graduate students titled “Times are Changing in Indian Journalism.”

This masterclass will focus on how, in a large and diverse country like India, the media industry (newspapers and TV channels) is doing well commercially, while professional standards are declining and large media houses have become very pro-establishment in the last three and a half years. In this context, we will discuss how a handful of small media outlets, mainly in the digital space, are upholding professional standards.

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For over two decades now, Japan has found itself at the forefront of economic policymaking. The bursting of the bubble economy ushered in an era of zero interest rates and unconventional monetary policy, long before such measures were widely adopted elsewhere during the Global Financial Crisis. Japan’s demographic trends presage continental Europe’s future. Many policy choices have been copied, even though their effectiveness continues to be debated in Japan as abroad. This event brought together leading members of the policy community from Japan and North America to discuss Japan’s experience. The purpose was not to take stock of Japan’s (alleged or real) malaise, but to identify common themes that provide useful lessons for other countries.

Innovation and Economic Growth in Japan: Firm-Level Approach  by Nobuyuki Kinoshita.  Slowdown in TFP and capital stock accumulation are the two main causes of Japan’s long-term economic stagnation. I analyzed this problem on the firm-level approach. Nowadays ICT innovation has changed our way of lives everywhere in the world. Under this circumstance, Japanese firms do invest in ICT and R&D too, but something is weighting down on TFP growth. Actually, they stick to their own R&D and collaborate less with other organizations. Besides, entry of innovative entrepreneurs and exit of unproductive firms are remarkably weak in Japan. As a result, Japanese firms all in all get older and less active. My presentation gave the policy implication that the Japan’s enterprise system should be reformed and that the speed up of the industries restructuring is particularly critical.   

Nobuyuki KINOSHITA (Senior Advisor, AFLAC Insurance Japan, Tokyo), formerly with the Ministry of Finance and then the Bank of Japan, is an expert on corporate governance reforms in Japan and their macroeconomic implications. He served as Executive Director at the Bank of Japan from 2010 to 2014. He is currently senior advisor to Aflac (Columbus, GA), a leading supplemental insurance provider in the US and Japanese markets. He regularly presents to academic and professional audience on Japanese macroeconomic policies.  

Aging in Japan: A Fiscal and Macroeconomic Conundrum by R. Anton Braun.  Japan is in the midst of a demographic transition that is both rapid and large by international standards. Aging is already placing a burden on government finances. Public expenditures on pensions, medical care and long-term care are rising.  At the same time, low fertility rates in conjunction with longer life expectancies are increasing the old-age-dependency ratio and workers are facing higher tax burdens.  Moreover, Japan’s ability to confront the negative fiscal implications of future aging is constrained by its very high debt-GDP ratio. In my presentation I detailed the size of the fiscal imbalances created by aging, explained how Japan’s fiscal situation is creating a drag on macroeconomic activity and discussed the efficacy of alternative strategies for stabilizing the fiscal situation and boosting economic growth.  

R. Anton Braun is a research economist and senior adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and a visiting professor of economics at Keio University. His research topics include fiscal and monetary policy and aging. Before joining the Bank in 2010 he was a professor of economics at the University of Tokyo where he taught from 2001-2010.  Symposium chaired by Mark Manger  Mark Manger (Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto). Professor Manger is an Associate Professor of Political Economy and Global Affairs at the Munk School and the Department of Political Science.  He received his doctorate from UBC and joined the Munk School in 2012 following tenure-track appointments at McGill University and the London School of Economics.  Professor Manger’s field of specialization is international political economy, with emphasis on trade and finance, and the political economy of East Asia and Japan. He has been a visiting researcher at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, in 2003 and in 2010, and is an alumnus of the Program on US-Japan Relations at Harvard University, where he was a fellow in 2007-2008.

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Aversion to taxes presents a major policy dilemma for elected governments: voters want governments to deliver goods and services but are deeply suspicious of their efforts to raise taxes. When are citizens willing to support major changes to tax policy? IMFG’s 2017-2018 Postdoctoral Fellow Matthew Lesch will discuss a new study on whether and how Canadians are likely to accept tax reforms to address three distinct policy problems – climate change, infrastructure, and deficit reduction. The findings hold important policy implications for scholars and practitioners interested in the politics of public finance.

About the Speaker
Matthew Lesch is the 2017-2018 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance, and a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University. His research specializes in the study of comparative public policy. His main research interests include fiscal policy, taxation, environmental policy, policy learning and cognition, policy feedback effects, and policy diffusion.

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In 1946, Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace wrote with concern to President Harry Truman over the direction of postwar US foreign policy. With the continued production of atomic bombs, he wrote, “these actions must make it look to the rest of the world as if we were only paying lip service to peace at the conference table.” Fired for perceived Soviet sympathies expressed in this letter, Wallace was both reviled and lauded for his public criticism of the US position on atomic energy control. The controversy surrounding his dismissal is a crucial example of how the Truman administration reacted to public opposition in the emerging Cold War. This talk will explore the intersection between domestic and foreign policymaking in the atomic age, arguing that Wallace’s dismissal presents one of the earliest examples of hardline anti-Communism that would shape the Cold War for years to come.

Katie Davis is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Toronto where she is a Connaught International Scholar. She holds a Master’s degree in the Theory and History of International Relations from the London School of Economics. Katie’s research interests focus on international nuclear history and the role of public opinion in foreign policymaking. She is also the editor of Past Tense Graduate Review of History.

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In 1970, the Park Chung Hee regime imprisoned Kim Chi-ha for publishing Ojŏk (Five Bandits), a lengthy satirical poem that dared to call the government a band of thieves. The poet on trial then turned the court into a stage for further dramatizing his resistance. Nearly half a century later, the “candlelight revolution” that brought down Park Chung Hee’s daughter from power turned the streets and social media into a fluid offline-online stage for a phenomenonal drama of resistance. But the candlelight revolution was preceded by what might be called a “podcast revolution,” launched in 2011 by the wildly parodic Nakkomsu (I am a petty cheat). Examining the role of political satire through Ojŏk and Nakkomsu, the talk will address the transformation and media-specific potency of “laughtivism” in South Korean democratization.

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Professor Youngju Ryu is Associate Professor of Korean Literature and Director of the Korean Language Program in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. Professor Ryu specializes in modern Korean literature and her areas of research expertise include aesthetics of dissidence, cultures of authoritarianism, and philosophies of reconciliation in twentieth-century Korea. She is the author of Writers of the Winter Republic: Literature and Resistance in Park Chung Hee’s Korea (Columbia University Press, 2016).

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On October 1st, the government of the Spanish region of Catalonia held a referendum on independence in open defiance of a constitutional court ban. The ensuing police crackdown transformed the long simmering political stand-off from an internal affair to a news item worthy of international headlines. This talk is for anyone interested in the background to the issue, current developments, and future prospects and implications.

Karlo Basta is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland. As part of a broader research project on identity conflict in multinational states, he has followed the rise of Catalan secessionist movement since 2009.

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A Tale of Sub-human: The Rohingyas in Myanmar and Bangladesh

The first discussion in the event series, Rohingya in Peril: Buddhist/Muslim tensions in Myanmar and beyond.

The Rohingyas, considered by the United Nations as the world’s most persecuted people, have recently experienced unprecedented violence and brutality committed by Myanmar security forces and vigilantes. Following alleged attacks on Myanmar police posts and a military base by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) on August 25, 2017, Myanmar security forces indiscriminately fired on Rohingya civilians, burnt their houses down, raped girls and women, and killed thousands mercilessly in what the United Nations termed as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing.” This state-sponsored violence spurred 600,000 Rohingya to flee to Bangladesh in the past two months. The Rohingyas have experienced intense, ongoing violence because they are non-citizens in Myanmar. In fact, citizenship is a legal status conferred by the state that makes non-citizens a new ‘other,’ a vulnerable category viewed as less than human that Uddin refers to as being treated as “sub-human.” This talk will focus on the state of the Rohingyas in Bangladesh and Myanmar illuminating an intricate relation of statelessness, human rights and the paradox of the “sub-human.”

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Nasir Uddin is a cultural anthropologist based in Bangladesh and a professor of anthropology at the University of Chittagong. His research interests include statelessness and refugee studies; human rights and non-citizens; indigeneity and identity politics; the state in everyday life; the politics of marginality and vulnerability; and borderlands and border people, particularly those of Bangladesh and Myanmar, the Chittagong Hill Tracts, and South Asia. His publications include To Host or To Hurt: Counter-narratives on the Rohingya (Refugees) in Bangladesh (2012); Life in Peace and Conflict: Indigeneity and State in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (2017) and Indigeneity on the Move: Varying Manifestation of a Contested Concept (2017). Currently he is working on a new monograph, the Rohingyas: A Tale of Sub-Human (2018).

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Colonel Jay Janzen, Director of Military Strategic Communications for the Canadian Armed Forces, will highlight the hybrid disinformation tactics used by the Kremlin and ISIS in an effort to divide alliances, spread fear, and recruit extremists. His view is that the greatest threat to NATO allies is not a biological virus or a nuclear missile, but rather the large-scale ‘weaponization’ of information. Using real-world examples, he will demonstrate potential adversaries are targeting Canada’s government and Canadian military operations. Colonel Janzen will describe best-practices for countering disinformation and fake news, and will provide recommendations for military forces, the media, and citizens to protect themselves from trolls, bots, and echo-chambers.

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Based on hundreds of oral histories of Ukrainian Jews, the lecture discusses how Soviet Jews survived Famine, and how they made sense of their experiences.

Anna Shternshis holds the position of Al and Malka Green Associate Professor of Yiddish studies and the director of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. She received her doctoral degree (D.Phil) in Modern Languages and Literatures from Oxford University in 2001. Shternshis is the author of Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923 – 1939 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006) and When Sonia Met Boris: An Oral History of Jewish Life under Stalin (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017). She is the author of over 20 articles on the Soviet Jews during World War II, Russian Jewish culture and post-Soviet Jewish diaspora. Together with David Shneer, Shternshis co-edits East European Jewish Affairs, the leading journal in the field of East European Jewish Studies.

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In his new book Outcasts of Empire, Paul D. Barclay probes the limits of modern nation-state sovereignty by positioning colonial Taiwan at the intersection of the declining Qing and ascending Japanese empires. Outcasts chronicles the lives and times of interpreters, chiefs, and trading-post operators along the far edges of the expanding international system, an area known as Taiwan’s “savage border.” In addition, Barclay boldly asserts the interpenetration of industrial capitalism and modern ethnic identities.

By the 1930s, three decades into Japanese imperial rule, mechanized warfare and bulk commodity production rendered superfluous a whole class of mediators—among them, Kondo “the Barbarian” Katsusaburo, Pan Bunkiet, and Iwan Robao. Even with these unreliable allies safely cast aside, the Japanese empire lacked the resources to integrate indigenous Taiwan into the rest of the colony. The empire, therefore, created the Indigenous Territory, which exists to this day as a legacy of Japanese imperialism, local initiatives, and the global commoditization of culture.

Paul D. Barclay teaches East Asian history at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, U.S.A. He is the general editor of the digital repository East Asia Image Collection and author of Outcasts of Empire: Japan’s Rule on Taiwan’s “Savage Border,” 1874-1945(University of California, 2017). Barclay’s research has received support from the National Endowment from the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, the Japanese Council for the Promotion of Science, and the Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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**Lecture in English followed by discussion in French and English.

The May 7 French election has been portrayed in the North American Press as an overwhelming victory against the rise of populism. But a victory of what, exactly? That is an important question at this juncture in the history of the Fifth Republic. Emmanuel Macron’s rise was made possible by the collapse of all the major parties and the failure of social movements and unions to change much of anything in French economic and political life. Yet, despite Emmanuel Macron’s election populism will not disappear if France cannot stop Islamic terrorism. What are the chances of new parties and new movements forming? Is it finally time for a Sixth Republic- and if so, what might it look like?

Marc Lilla, political scientist, historian of ideas, Journalist, is Professor of Humanities at Columbia University. He has written widely on French Politics and continental philosophy, notably in the New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Le Monde and Le Débat. His numerous publications include The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics (2017); The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction (2016); The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals and Politics (2001); and French Thought: Political Philosophy (1994).

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In a number of cities around the world, community councils give local residents the power to get directly involved in local matters facing municipal government. In Toronto, City Council will soon consider the boundaries, mandates, and powers of its four community councils, which were created in 1998 to address the perceived lack of direct access to City Hall as a result of amalgamation.

This panel will discuss the benefits and challenges of using bodies such as community councils to govern local decisions. In learning from the experiences in Toronto, Vancouver, and New York, this panel will explore whether community council-like bodies have the potential to create more accessible and participatory local governments.

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China’s financial system is threatened by instability from high debt levels and financial risks. The nation is caught between promoting lending for growth purposes and dampening lending to reduce financial instability. Financial reforms that the government put in place this year are not being enforced, as banks hesitate to end lucrative funding channels. Will this end in crisis or stagnation? In this talk, Dr. Sara Hsu explores China’s unique circumstances and the possibility of crisis, discussing the origins of the debt debacle and assessing the perils posed to the financial system.

Speaker Biography:
Sara Hsu is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the State University of New York at New Paltz, and has published over six books and fifteen journal articles on the Chinese economy and financial sector. Hsu has published one of the only English language books on the topic of Chinese informal finance, entitled “Informal Finance in China: American and Chinese Perspectives”, as well as one of the only Chinese-language books on Chinese shadow banking. Her writings about current events in the Chinese economy have appeared in The Diplomat, the Nikkei Asian Review, East Asia Forum, China Brief, and China World. She is also a columnist with Forbes Magazine.

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“Exploring the HKSAR, China and Taiwan – What Has Changed in the Past 20 Years and a Look Ahead to the Future” is an academic conference hosted by the University of Toronto Hong Kong Public Affairs and Social Service Society (UTHKPASS).

As the first student-led academic conference at U of T focussing on Hong Kong issues, this conference serves to analyze the ever-changing social, economic and poltical dynamics in Hong Kong. The event will also consider Hong Kong’s relationship to China and the world in the post-handover era by examining the major issues of the past two decades and how these parallel issues in Taiwan and China.

Discussion Questions:

First Question/Topic: What implications does the political development of Hong Kong have on the Taiwanese Political climate?

Second Question/Topic: What role can Hong Kong play in China’s future? What are the implications for Hong Kong with a foreseeable stronger China on the world stage?

Please find the Eventbrite link here

Speakers’ Bios

Lynette Ong – Associate Professor of Political Science jointly apppinted by the Department of Political Science and the Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto

Professor Lynette Ong is an expert in the politics and the political economy of China. With expertise in authoritarian politics and the political economy of development, she currently focuses on contentious politics in China and is undertaking a project on protest and land politics. Her book Prosper and Perish: Credit and Fiscal Systems in Rural China published by Cornell University Press has attracted lots of attention towards the non-sustainability of the “China Model”. Her publications have appeared or are forthcoming in Perspectives on Politics, Comparative Politics, International Political Science Review, China Quarterly and China Journal, etc.

Tong Lam – Associate Professor, Department of Historical Studies; Director, Global Taiwan Studies Program, Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto

Professor Tong Lam focuses his research on the modern and contemporary history of China, amongst other interests. Lam cofounded the Critical China Studies Working Group and organized an international conference on Architectural Spectacle and Urbanism in (Post)socialist China. His current research lies in the relation between politics and aesthetics and entails the use of history, ethnography and visual arts, a cutting edge approach adopted by few others. Lam published a photo essay book and exhibited his work internationally, and continues to examine urban infrastructures, ruins and ruination, and development in post-socialist China.

Victor C. Falkenheim – Professor Emeritus, East Asian Studies, University of Toronto
With experience working on CIDA and World Bank projects in China, Professor Victor Falkenheim focuses on contemporary Chinese politics and issues concerning urbanization and migration. Serving as a Professor Emeritus of Political Science of East Asian Studies, he has been instructing a course on the dynamics of democratic transformation over the past 4 decades in East Asian states. He has often been called upon to advise the government on Sino-Canadian issues, and has spoken about the One Belt One Road policy. Falkenheim co-authored Hong Kong and China in Transition and has published in the Asian Journal of Public Administration and more.

Kui-Wai Li – Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Finance, City University of Hong Kong
As a visiting professor at the Asian Institute of the Munk School of Global Affairs, Professor Kui-Wai Li is a keen advocate of the Economism paradigm. He specializes in political economy, financial and economic development, and industry and trade, and has been acting as consultants to international institutions, foreign governments and businesses. With focuses in the Chinese and other Asian economies, he has published several books, including Economic Freedom: Lessons of Hong Kong and his articles have appeared in journals published in USA, UK, Italy, etc. Li has edited Financing China Trade and Investment and been regularly interviewed on Hong Kong, China and foreign issues. Li has also published a book entitled Redefining Capitalism in Global Economic Development in June 2017.

Jeffrey Ngo – Visiting Scholar at the University of Toronto/Chief Researcher of Demosisto in Hong Kong
Jeffrey Ngo is a Visiting Scholar jointly affiliated with the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library and the Munk School of Global Affairs who studies the history of Hong Kong’s sovereignty. He’s also chief researcher for Demosisto, the Hong Kong youth pro-democracy political party. His writings have appeared in, among others, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history from New York University.

Sida Liu – Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Toronto
With interests in sociolegal studies, Professor Sida Liu conducts empirical work on Chinese law and the legal profession and research on political sociology, criminal justice, and more. Having served and researched at different institutions, he has published extensively with articles appearing in Journal of Legal Education, Law and Social Inquiry, Law and Society Review, and others. He has been developing a theory of social space for analyzing law, professions, and other social entities following the Simmelian tradition of social geometry and the Chicago School of sociology. Liu currently teaches courses in the Criminology, Law and Society program.

William Watson – Lecturer/Undergraduate Coordinator, Centre for Criminological & Sociological Studies, University of Toronto
Professor William Watson is a lecturer and the Undergraduate Coordinator of the Centre for Criminology & Sociological Studies. His academic interests include the practice of forensic psychiatry, psychopathy, and the place of critical social science in public policy making. His articles also appeared in Sociology, The International Journal of Comparative Sociology, The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, and others. Born and raised in the United Kingdom and having his doctorate completed at the University of Cambridge, Professor Watson witnessed the negotiation between the United Kingdom and China over the retrocession of Hong Kong in the 1980s.

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The launch of Mobilizing without the Masses: Control and Contention in China written by Diana Fu (University of Toronto) and published by Cambridge University Press (2017).

“When advocacy organizations are forbidden from rallying people to take to the streets, what do they do? When activists are detained for coordinating protests, are their hands ultimately tied? Based on political ethnography inside both legal and blacklisted labor organizations in China, this book reveals how state repression is deployed on the ground and to what effect on mobilization. It presents a novel dynamic of civil society contention – mobilizing without the masses – that lowers the risk of activism under duress. Instead of facilitating collective action, activists coach the aggrieved to challenge authorities one by one. In doing so, they lower the risks of organizing while empowering the weak. This dynamic represents a third pathway of contention that challenges conventional understandings of mobilization in an illiberal state. It takes readers inside the world of underground labor organizing and opens the black box of repression inside the world’s most powerful authoritarian state.”

Author Bio:

Diana Fu is an assistant professor of political science at The University of Toronto and an affiliate of the Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs. Fu’s research examines the relationship between popular contention, state power, and civil society in contemporary China. Her book Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China, is to be published in 2017 with Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics Series and Columbia University’s Studies of the Weatherhead East Asia Institute. It examines state control and civil society contention under authoritarian rule. Based on two years of ethnographic research that tracks the development of informal labor organizations, the book explores counterintuitive dynamics of organized contention in post-1989 China.

Articles that are part of this broader project have appeared in Governance (2017), Comparative Political Studies (2017), The China Journal (2018), among others.

Diana Fu graduated with distinction from Oxford University (M.Phil. in Development Studies and D.Phil in Politics), where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Prior to joining the department, she was a Walter H. Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University. She was also a Predoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Fu’s research has been supported by the Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation, the Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation, and the Rhodes Trust.

Fu’s writing and research have appeared in The Economist, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, Boston Review, Nick Kristof’s On the Ground Blog (The New York Times), PostGlobal, and Global Brief.

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William A. Galston is the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in Governance Studies and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington. A leading commentator on American politics as well as a leading voice in liberal policy circles. From 1993 to 1995, he served as Deputy Assistant to President Clinton for Domestic Policy, and he has been an advisor to six U.S. presidential campaigns, including that of Al Gore which he served as issues director. He is also College Park Professor at the University of Maryland, where formerly he served as Saul Stern Professor and Acting Dean at the School of Public Policy, as well as director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy. During the late 1990s, he was the executive director of the National Commission on Civic Renewal, and later he was the founding director of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE).

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South Korean and Japanese citizens have become increasingly influential in shaping their bilateral relations. The society-level influence on government interactions is especially clear when a publicized bilateral issue linked to national security prompts emotional involvement of mainstream citizens. For better or worse, democratic political structures of Japan and South Korea enable the two domestic societies to perform a “watchdog” function of limiting policy options available to government officials involved in publicized bilateral interactions.  This presentation focused on the Japan-South Korea bilateral relations during the last decade in order to illustrate this point. In the midst of the fast-changing regional security environment during this period, the two societies started to re-evaluate and re-examine their respective national security identities of the Cold War period.  Interestingly, these identity-shifts in both countries were first fueled by the changing domestic public attitude toward North Korea.   

The normative transformations initially sparked by the ‘North Korea factors’, however, also led to a ‘mutual security anxiety’ between Japanese and South Korean citizens, as they started to embrace a sense of uncertainty about the other side’s possible future trajectory as a potential threat to their own state. This societal-level mutual distrust from the last decade continues to provide a powerful ideational limit to the government-level bilateral interactions even up to today.

 Biography  Seung Hyok Lee is currently a Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, and an Associate at the Centre for the Study of Global Japan, Munk School of Global Affairs. Previously, he was a short-term Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Law, Hokkaido University, Japan, as well as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace and at the Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.  He also worked as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Renison University College, University of Waterloo, and as a Visiting Scholar at the Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs. Dr. Lee received his doctoral degree in Political Science (International Relations) at the University of Toronto in 2011. His research interest is domestic society’s influence on publicized foreign policy issues, with specific focus on Japan and the Korean Peninsula. He is the author of Japanese Society and the Politics of the North Korean Threat (University of Toronto Press, 2016), “North Korea in South Korea-Japan Relations as a Source of Mutual Security Anxiety among Democratic Societies,” (The International Relations of the Asia-Pacific), and “Be Mature and Distinguish the ‘Forest’ from the ‘Trees’: Overcoming Korea-Japan Disputes Based on Incompatible National Historical Narratives.” (Asteion)

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On January 20, 2009, a commercial building in Yongsan, a central district of Seoul, South Korea, erupted into flames. It was during a police crackdown of the building’s tenants-turned-evictees who were staging a protest against the redevelopment of the neighbourhood by occupying the building. During the fire, five protesters and one police officer died. In the aftermath of the tragedy, a heated debate ensued over who was accountable for the deaths – a debate that unfolded in courtrooms, in parliament, and on the streets. The Remnants 공동정범 follows the life of the evictees, who were incarcerated on a charge of the death of the policeman, raising questions about state violence, urban space, and democratic citizenship. Today, 9 years since the Yongsan tragedy, we hope this showing of the documentary the Remnants and the discussion with Min Sook Lee (documentary filmmaker and academic) and Jesook Song (urban anthropologist of Korea) will help us think through these important questions.

Min Sook Lee has directed numerous critically-acclaimed feature documentaries, including: Donald Brittain Gemini winner Tiger Spirit, Hot Docs Best Canadian Feature winner Hogtown, Gemini nominated El Contrato and Canadian Screen Award winner, The Real Inglorious Bastards and most recently, Canadian Hillman Prize winner Migrant Dreams. Lee is a recipient of numerous awards, including the Cesar E. Chavez Black Eagle Award, and the Alanis Obomsawin Award for Commitment to Community and Resistance. Lee is an Assistant Professor at OCAD University, her area of research and practice focuses on the critical intersections of art+social change in labour, border politics, migration and social justice movements.

Jesook Song is Professor of Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. She is an urban anthropologist with interests in housing, finance, welfare, labor, gender, and sexuality. Her first book, South Koreans in the Debt Crisis (Duke University Press, 2009) deals with homelessness and youth unemployment during the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s to early millennium. Her second book Living On Their Own (SUNY Press, 2014) is about single household and informal financial markets through single women’s struggle in South Korea.

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In the age of drone warfare and the weaponization of codes, it is timely to consider the implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for international law and relations. Join Jean-Gabriel Castel, Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar at Osgoode Hall Law School, for a lecture and discussion. Light refreshments provided.

About the speaker:

Jean-Gabriel Castel, O.C., O.Ont., Q.C., L.S.M., Officier de la Légion d’Honneur, B.Sc., Lic. Droit (Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne), J.D. (Mich.), S.J.D. (Harv.), Docteur hon. causa (Aix-Marseille), fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Academy of Social Sciences, associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, member of the Académie du Var (France), former editor of the Canadian Bar Review and a Distinguished Research Professor emeritus at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University.

He has focused his career on emerging topics in both public and private international law and international business law. He is also a world-renowned international arbitrator having participated to many important business disputes spanning multiple jurisdictions, legal systems and cultures. He has lectured in many universities around the world and published several books and articles dealing with topical subjects pertaining to law, international business and artificial intelligence.

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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. We attract a great number of proposals from various universities, not just in Canada but also the United States, South America, Europe, Asia and Africa.

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.

All sessions are open to the public.

January 25th, 2018: Room 208N
Session 1: 9:00-10:30
Session 2: 10:40-12:10
Session 3: 1:00-2:00

January 26th, 2018: Room 108N
Session 4: 9:00-10:15
Session 5: 10:30-11:45
Session 6: 1:00-2:15
Session 7: 2:25-3:40

Please note that the keynote lecture for this conference will be given by Professor Nancy Foner (CUNY) on January 25, 2018 (2:30-4:30pm).
Please register on the Munk School events page.

About the Speaker:
Nancy Foner is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her work has focused on the comparative study of immigration, comparing the immigrant experience in the United States and Europe as well as immigration today with earlier periods in the United States. She is the author or editor of 18 books, including In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration and most recently, with Richard Alba, Strangers No More: Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe.

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How do religious movements promote or hinder transitions to ecologically sustainable societies in Asia? This talk considers the interaction of religion and ecology in the greater China region, focussing on Daoists in mainland China, Buddhists in Taiwan, and Mazu as the goddess of the marine bioregion connecting Taiwan, Fujian, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau. From these three cases, the talk engages arguments from Duara and Latour concerning the intersection of culture, nature and modernity, and argues for a specifically East Asian approach to the theorization of religion in the anthropocene.

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James Miller’s research focuses on the intersection of religion, culture and ecology in China, with a focus on Daoism, China’s indigenous organized religion. He is professor of humanities at Duke Kunshan University, and has published six books including, most recently, China’s Green Relgion: Daoism and the Quest for a Sustaianable Future (Columbia 2017).

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A comparative analysis of black migrants and their children in Western Europe and the United States points to the complex, and sometimes surprising, ways that the social, political, and demographic contexts and historical developments on the two sides of the Atlantic influence the nature and impact of racial boundaries and barriers that play such a significant role in their lives.

About the Speaker:
Nancy Foner is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her work has focused on the comparative study of immigration, comparing the immigrant experience in the United States and Europe as well as immigration today with earlier periods in the United States. She is the author or editor of 18 books, including In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration and most recently, with Richard Alba, Strangers No More: Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe.

This event also serves as the keynote lecture for our R.F. Harney 11th Annual Graduate Research Conference in Ethnic and Pluralism Studies (January 25-26, 2018).

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 Drawing on archival sources and published writings, including the controversial bestseller Silent Spring (1962), this talk addressed the impact of Rachel Carson’s concept of “life” on the suburban imaginary of the United States. Tensions within Carson’s “fabric of life” signal a revolution in environmental thought. What counts as “life”?

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Are you interested in working in Asia? Wondering how to best prepare for a global career after your undergraduate degree? With the support of the Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs, the Contemporary Asian Studies Student Union (CASSU) is proud to present its annual Global Careers Through Asia conference.

We will be hosting an exciting list of speakers, including professionals and academics. Our speakers span numerous sectors and fields, including government, business, film, journalism, and more.

Program:

9:00AM-9:30AM Registration and Coffee
9:30AM-9:40AM Opening Remarks
9:40AM-12:00PM Industry Panel Speaker Sessions

9:40AM-10:20AM
1. Media: Journalism and Film
• Panelist #1: Betty Xie – Development Manager & International Programmer, Reel Asian Film Festival; Asian Institute Alumna
• Panelist #2: Aaron Wytze Wilson – Journalist; Masters of Global Affairs Candidate, University of Toronto
• Audience Q&A

10:20AM-11:00AM
2. Government and International Trade
• Panelist #1: Don Campbell – Former Deputy Minister and Ambassador to Japan and Korea
• Panelist #2: Julie Nguyen – Director, Canada-Vietnam Trade Council
• Panelist #3: Victor Hong Min Liu, Director, Taipei Economic & Cultural Office, Toronto
• Audience Q&A

11:00AM-11:10AM Health Break

11:10AM-12:00PM
3. Not-for-Profit and Public Awareness
• Panelist #1: Jordan Dupuis – Project Manager, Toronto Office Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada
• Panelist #2: Marcia Iwasaki – Culture & Ed. Coordinator, Consulate General of Japan, Toronto
• Audience Q&A

12:00PM–1:30PM Networking Lunch

1:30PM-3:00PM Workshop on Academia and Applied Research
• Speaker #1: James Poborsa, PhD Candidate, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto
• Speaker #2: Joseph McQuade, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow Centre for South Asian Studies, Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs
• Speaker #3: Scott McKnight, PhD candidate in Political Science (international relations and comparative politics)
• Speaker #4: Aaron Wytze Wilson – Journalist; Masters of Global Affairs Candidate, University of Toronto
• Speaker #5: Professor Yiching Wu, Director, Dr. David Chu Program in Contemporary Asian Studies; Associate Professor, Asian Institute and Department of East Asian Studies (TBC)

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All Joint French History Seminar events are held in English unless otherwise noted.

During the Second World War, France established a rationing system that attempted to provide a minimum amount of food to each of its citizens. It is generally accepted that rationing failed French civilians and worsened the food crisis. If free consumers could not always find enough food, what then of those that Vichy interned in its camps? This talk examines the ways in which Vichy’s rationing laws limited the ways in which camps could procure food and feed the individuals that they interned. It also looks at how food, once purchased made its way to internees and evaluates how much internees likely received. Faced with constant food shortages and hunger, internees, international aid organizations, and occasionally camp administrators tried as best they could to find additional food.

Laurie Drake is a PhD candidate in the Department of History and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation examines the hunger crisis in Vichy’s internment camps and the ways in which the government, camp administrators, internees, and international aid organizations tried to find solutions.

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The presentation will start by providing a broad-brushed picture of the geography of foreign direct investment (FDI) to and from the European regions by function (i.e. Headquarters, Innovative activities, Sales, Production activities, Logistic & Distribution), looking at trends for the period 2003-2014. This simple exercise will allows us to shed some initial light on Multinational Enterprises’ (MNE) location choices of their different kinds of operations across subnational space, identifying regional trajectories both in the core and in the periphery of Europe (Crescenzi and Iammarino, 2017; Comotti, Crescenzi and Iammarino, 2017, in progress).

The presentation will then examine the structural transformation of regional industrial bases within the UK by focusing on the role played by inward manufacturing FDI in facilitating shifts towards service activities (Ascani and Iammarino, 2017, in progress). From a conceptual perspective, this research brings together different strands of literature, including studies on the impact of FDI on recipient regions, research on structural change, as well as contributions on the identification of local multipliers. From an empirical standpoint, the paper considers a specific demand-side channel for structural change: namely, the forward linkages established by foreign MNEs operating in manufacturing industries with local service providers. The paper uses data at plant level in the UK as reported in the Annual Census of Production Respondents Database (ARD), a business-level database collected by the UK Office of National Statistics. We estimate the multiplicative effects that FDI in manufacturing has on the creation of new service jobs in a region. In order to produce reliable estimates of such a regional multiplier, our methodology relies on the adoption of an instrumental variable approach. Our findings confirm that foreign MNEs do establish prominent demand linkages with service providers, and that FDI in manufacturing is accompanied by notable multiplicative effects in service employment within UK travel-to-work-areas. This effect is strongly concentrated in tertiary activities that produce intermediate services, rather than final demand services. Furthermore, while the composition of this effect tends to be homogeneous in terms of the knowledge content of service activities, it becomes highly heterogeneous once the degree of concentration of tertiary activities across space is considered.

Some implications for policy and directions for future research will conclude the presentation.

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“The Walkers” (行者) is a documentary film whose director took over 10 years to make. It presents the story of renowned Taiwanese choreographer Lin Lee-chen and her Legend Lin Dance Theatre. Extracting the essential details of Lin’s daily life, the film explores the origins of her dance, contemplates the poetic and ritualistic movements she creates, and delineates her lifetime pursuit of aesthetic concerns.

For more information about the film please click here.

Country: Taiwan
Year: 2015
Genre: Documentary
Runtime: 141 min
Director: Singing CHEN
Producers: Singing CHEN, LIN Leh-Chyun

January 30, 2018 Screening – Schedule of Events:

5:00PM REGISTRATION OPENS – Reception with Taiwan inspired cuisine
5:30PM WEBSITE LAUNCH – The Taiwan Gazette (Global Taiwan Studies Program, Asian Institute)
6:00PM FILM SCREENING
8:30PM POST-SCREENING DISCUSSION

MODERATOR:
PROF. ANTJE BUDDE, Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Toronto

DISCUSSANTS:
LIN LEE-CHEN (林麗珍), Artistic Director, Legend Lin Dance Theatre

Legend Lin Dance Theatre will perform at the following Canadian venues in January and February 2018:
“Canadian Dance Festival”, January 20 at the National Arts Center in Ottawa
“Danse Danse”, January 24 to 27 at the Theatre Maisonneuve in Montreal
“PuSH International Performing Arts Festival”, February 3 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver