Past Events

Description

This event showcases the work of students connected to the SSHRC funded Partnership Project: Gender, Migration and the Work of Care, Principal Investigator Ito Peng

-Presentation and discussion of policy options: Care Work Migration in Canada; Home Care Models and Worker Registries in Ontario; Culturally Appropriate Care for Immigrant Seniors; Immigration and the Temporary Foreign Worker Program -Video screening and discussion: Help Them Care, Make it Fair: New Organizing Strategies
Presenters: Chelsey Legge, Lina Pulido, Alexandra Pileggi, Katerina Kalenteridis (SPPG Interns) Joshua Rodriguez, Sarah lima, Melissa Nicholls, Bastian Leones (RAs)

A presentation of original research: ‘Good Care’ in the Elderly Care Sector of South Korea (Presenter: Yang-Sook Kim)

Description

Canadian Ambassador to South Korea, H.E. Eric Walsh, will share his views, via webconference, on the situation in the Korean Peninsula and the ensuing global implications.He will be joined by a group of University of Toronto experts who will engage in a wider discussion.

H.E. Eric Walsh, Ambassador of Canada

Ambassador Walsh has been serving as Ambassador of Canada to the Republic of Korea since February 12, 2015. This is his fifth overseas assignment since joining the then-Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 1995, following effective postings in Turkey, Romania, Geneva (as Deputy Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament) and Germany (as Deputy Head of Mission in Berlin). While in Ottawa, he was proud to be part of the team that negotiated the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel mines, and between subsequent postings he served as Coordinator for Middle East and North African Affairs, and as Director for the East Asia and North Asia divisions.

Welcome and opening remarks will be given by Professor Randall Hansen, Interim Director Munk School of Global Affairs.

Description

China’s explosive rate of urbanization has attracted attention for its unprecedented scale and speed, and for its explicit framing as a project of socio-economic development. China is trying to urbanize its way to prosperity. But urbanization has also been framed by planners and other government officials as a project of social engineering, in which new urban landscapes are thought to improve the quality of the people living in them. This talk will explore how this idea has been implemented and experienced in China’s ethnic minority regions. Although, as one scholar has noted, ‘cities in China are not meant to be ethnic,’ some urban spaces are becoming ‘ethnicized,’ while rural ethnic areas are becoming ‘urbanized’ through tourism and infrastructure development. What is the relationship between ethnic identity and urban space in China today? How has urbanization been framed as a way of re-shaping ethnic identity, and how has ethnic culture in turn influenced urbanization in minority regions? This talk will explore these questions by pursuing two related avenues of inquiry. First, I will discuss the urbanization of ethnic tourism in Guizhou: that is, the extension of an urban aesthetic to the practice and development of tourism in Guizhou’s ethnic countryside. Second, I will present recent research on the ‘ethnicization’ of cities in Guizhou Province: the deliberate transformation of urban space into ethnically-themed space.

Description

The Land Beneath Our Feet (2016) follows a young Liberian man, uprooted by war, who returns from the USA with never-before-seen footage of Liberia’s past. The uncovered footage is embraced as a national treasure. Depicting a 1926 corporate land grab, it is also an explosive reminder of eroding land rights. In post-conflict Liberia, individuals and communities are pitted against multinational corporations, the government, and each other in life-threatening disputes over land. What can this ghostly footage offer a nation, as it debates radical land reforms that could empower communities to shape a more diverse, stable and sustainable future?

Gregg Mitman is the Director, Producer, and Writer of The Land Beneath Our Feet. He is an award-winning author, filmmaker, and teacher, who has spent the past decade uncovering the story behind the 1926 Harvard expedition to Liberia. He holds a distinguished research chair at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and is founder and director of Madison’s popular environmental film festival, Tales from Planet Earth. Mitman recently directed and produced In the Shadow of Ebola (2015, 23 min.), an intimate story of a family and nation torn apart by the Ebola outbreak in Liberia, which aired online on PBS/Independent Lens.

Description

In a world before smart phones and social media, before there was human rights protection for lesbians and gays, before same sex marriage, Alan Li, a gay Asian teenager moved from Hong Kong to Canada in search for love and belonging. Amidst a world full of homophobia, racism and xenophobia, his pursuit took him onto pathways with many unexpected twists and turns, in his native and adopted countries; overcoming many challenges, and building many rewarding connections and relationships. The journey led to many inspiring experiences, including: practicing medicine in the oldest and poorest public housing neighborhood, leading Toronto gay pride parade through Chinatown, providing palliative care to his best friend who died of AIDS, becoming the first openly gay person to lead a national Chinese Canadian organization, mobilizing diverse racialized groups to fight against homophobic media, finding romance and sustaining long distance relationship before internet, fighting legislated racism with redress campaign for Chinese head tax and Exclusion Act, building the largest HIV/AIDS service organization serving Asian Canadians, founding the first public gay organization in Hong Kong and building a transformative network advocating for access and rights of immigrants and refugees living with HIV/AIDS.
Through his sharing with images and narratives of historic events and pivotal moments both personal and societal, Alan will reflect on his life journey and the complex pathways and connections that supported his nearly four decades of experiences in building chosen families and communities in the quest for love and pride.

Dr. Alan Li immigrated from Hong Kong at age 16. Since the 1980s, through his work as physician at Regent Park Community Health Centre and his many community connections, Alan has integrated his personal, professional and community work with many diverse marginalized communities and taken on roles as physician, community organizer, capacity builder, researcher and advocate to advance access and rights many issues related to immigrants and refugees, racial and sexual minorities, HIV/AIDS, and mental health. He has co-founded and played key leadership roles in many pioneering social justice and community service organizations, including as chair of Gay Asians Toronto, as National President of the Chinese Canadian National Council, the Hong Kong10% Club, Asian Community AIDS Services, and the Committee for Accessible AIDS Treatment.

Description

Sam Tanenhaus is a contributing columnist for Bloomberg View and the U.S. Writer at Large for the British monthly, Prospect. He was previously on staff at The New York Times,where he was editor (in chief) of both the Sunday Book Review (2004-13) and the Week in Review (2008-2010), and was also Writer at Large (2013-14). His books include: Whittaker Chambers: A Biography (winner of the 1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, finalist for both the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize), and The Death of Conservatism (chosen by The New Yorker as one of its editors’ “100 Favorite Books” of 2009). His articles and essays have appeared inThe New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, Atlantic, Esquire, Newsweek, Slate, Time, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and many other publications internationally. He has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia, as well as at the White House, the Clinton, Kennedy, and Johnson Presidential libraries. Tanenhaus is currently at work on a biography of William F. Buckley Jr.

A National Post original, Andrew Coyne’s journalism career has also included positions with Maclean’s, The Globe and Mail, and the Southam newspaper chain. In addition, he has contributed to a wide range of other publications including: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, National Review, Time, and Saturday Night. Coyne is a long-time member of the CBC’s popular At Issue panel on The National. He is currently a Fellow at the School of Public Policy & Governance at the University of Toronto.

Description

Although political parties of the extreme right closely connected to (Neo)-Nazism have drawn most of the attention of researchers and pundits for a long time, the German public became aware of the self-stylized “New Right” only with the recent rise of new right-wing populist movements. However, immediately after the Second World War, intellectuals constituted a “New Right” that replaced National Socialist ideology of racial supremacy with concepts of ethnopluralism, referred to volkish movements, specifically the “Conservative Revolution,” prior to National Socialism, and adopted new strategies in the struggle for cultural hegemony. While antisemitism, a key element of Nazi ideology, allegedly has been erased from the “New Right’s” political agenda, it still functions as an important ideological and mobilizing factor. In this talk, Marcus Funck will discuss recent developments in the antisemitic discourse of the political right in Germany.

Marcus Funck, historian, is a research associate and Graduate Program Director at the Centre for Research on Antisemitism, Technische Universität Berlin. From 2006 to 2010, he was the DAAD Visiting Professor at the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies at York University. He is the co-editor of the Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung and has published in the fields of modern German and European history. Currently, he is engaging in a “history of the present” exploring the historical archives of present-day radical nationalist thought and is preparing a book-length essay on the history of difference and sameness in Germany since 1800.

Description

This lecture considers the preponderance of cultural and political concern with the assimilation of Muslim minorities primarily in the US, but also in Europe. Such an emphasis on producing “good Muslims” comes from both the right and the left, and in the discussions on assimilation there is little talk of the forms of being that have to be given up, renounced, or sacrificed for the sake of assimilation. The putative promise of assimilation is that the state would extend its protections to the assimilated subject, protecting assimilated Muslims from exposure to violence. And yet the sacrifice demanded of minority subjects happens in a political and economic climate of neoliberal rationality. How might sacrifice as a historical and social problematic help us to analyze the renewed emphasis on Muslim assimilation?

Zahid Chaudhary, Associate Professor of English, Princeton University. Chaudhary specializes in postcolonial studies, visual culture and critical theory, and is the author of Afterimage of Empire: Photography in Nineteenth-Century India.

Description

Information is not yet available.

Description

In the past year, we have seen intense leadership tussle in Beijing. There are various signs that President Xi is consolidating his power. Who will be in the next Politburo Standing Committee, the echelon of power in Beijing? Who will take over the Presidential position when Xi eventually step down, if he do so? The upcoming 19th Party Congress scheduled for mid-October, where leadership transition will take place, is an important event to watch. Our panelists, Carl Minzner of Fordham Law School and Guoguang Wu of Victoria University of British Columbia will dissect these important issues for us.

Carl Minzner is a professor at Fordham Law School, specializing in Chinese law and governance. His book, End of an Era: How China’s Authoritarian Revival is Undermining its Rise, will be published by Oxford University Press in spring 2018.

Guoguang Wu, a Ph.D. from Princeton, is Professor in Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria, and concurrently Professor in Department of History and Chair in China & Asia-Pacific Relations at the Centre for Asian Pacific Initiatives at the same University. He specializes in Comparative Politics, Global/Comparative Political Economy, and the Global South (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan). He is author of four books, including China’s Party Congress: Power, Legitimacy, and Institutional Manipulation (CUP 2015) and Globalization against
Democracy: A Political Economy of Capitalism after its Global Triumph (CUP 2017).

Description

Description:
By the end of World War II about 600,000 Hungarian citizens were captured by the Soviet army. One third of the prisoners were civilian internees who were deported from Hungary to the Soviet Union in 1945. The Soviets did not make a distinction between civilians and soldiers and the war was seen as useful for the purpose of supplying a labor force, as well as expanding the communist system in the occupied territories. The presentation will give a detailed picture on the process of the deportation of the civilians and on their fate in Soviet forced labor camps. The presentation also tries to uncover the motives and plans of the Soviet military leadership directing the deportation of hundreds of thousands of civilians from East-Central Europe during the last months of the war.

Speaker:
Tamás Stark received his PhD from the Eötvös Lóránd University of Budapest in 1993. From 1983 he was a researcher at the Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and in 2000 he was appointed a senior research fellow. His specialization is forced population movement in East-Central Europe in the period 1938-56, with special regard to the history of the Holocaust, fate of prisoners of war and civilian internees, and the post war migrations. He was involved in numerous international research projects. In 1995/96 he was Pearl Resnick Post-Doctoral fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In 2014 he was Fulbright professor at Nazareth College, Rochester, NY. USA. His main publications include Hungary’s Human Losses in World War II (Uppsala, 1995) Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust and after the Second World War, 1939-1949: A Statistical Review (Boulder, CO 2000) Magyarok szovjet fogságban /Hungarians in Soviet Captivity/ (Budapest, 2006) A magyar polgári lakosság elhurcolása a Szovjetunióba a korabeli dokumentumok tükrében. /Deportation of Hungarian civilians to the Soviet Union. Documentary Collection./ (Budapest, 2017).

Description

North Korean wartime literature has never been valued highly by literary scholars. The lack of literary qualities in these wartime stories have deterred many from looking more seriously at this type of literature as its heroes, seemingly without any obstacles in their way, defeat the enemy and attain victory. Add this to the subservient role literature plays in North Korea and the worship of its leaders, and it is obvious why one would shy away from analysing these texts.

However, even under such conditions of prescribed rules and top-down directives, the writer still needs to imbue the story with sufficient literary qualities to make it interesting to its readers. This is because the author is still constrained by the fact that the novel should not stray too far from reality or else the reader will not be persuaded. The author, therefore, also needs to address issues that are politically and socially sensitive in society. Condemnation of these issues in itself is not enough: to make an ideological claim the issue needs to be foregrounded, and the author must give a satisfactory interpretation of the issue.

This led to the creation of quite interesting propaganda literature in wartime North Korea: The characters are imbued with heroic but down-to-earth characteristics that portray both the wartime experiences of North Korean soldiers and citizens, but also gives expression to North Korea’s wartime concerns.

Jerôme de Wit is Professor in the Korean Studies department at the University of Tübingen, Germany. He is a specialist on North and South Korean Wartime Literature and modern Korean culture. His research interest in Korean culture is focused on public discourses concerning history and society and how cultural sources can provide us with different viewpoints on debates such as nationalism, identity, and history. His recent projects deal with such topics as post-colonialism in contemporary South Korean alternate history novels, and a study on the representation and changes in identity in the literature and movies of ethnic Koreans in China.

Description

Richard McGregor’s Asia’s Reckoning is a compelling account of the widening geopolitical cracks in a region that has flourished under an American security umbrella for more than half a century. The toxic rivalry between China and Japan, two Asian giants consumed with endless history wars and ruled by entrenched political dynasties, is threatening to upend the peace underwritten by Pax Americana since World War II. Combined with Donald Trump’s disdain for America’s old alliances and China’s own regional ambitions, east Asia is entering a new era of instability and conflict. If the United States laid the postwar foundations for modern Asia, now the anchor of the global economy, Asia’s Reckoning reveals how that structure is falling apart.  With unrivaled access to archives in the United States and Asia, as well as to many of the major players in all three countries, Richard McGregor has written a tale that blends the tectonic shifts in diplomacy with bitter domestic politics and the personalities driving them. It is a story not only of an overstretched America, but also of the rise and fall and rise of the great powers of Asia. The about-turn of Japan—from a colossus seemingly poised for world domination to a nation in inexorable decline in the space of two decades—has few parallels in modern history, as does the rapid rise of China—a country whose military is now larger than those of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and southeast Asia’s combined.  The confrontational course on which China and Japan are set is no simple spat between neighbors: the United States would be involved on the side of Japan in any military conflict between the two countries. The fallout would be an economic tsunami, affecting manufacturing centers, trade routes, and political capitals on every continent. Richard McGregor’s book takes us behind the headlines of his years reporting to show how American power will stand or fall on its ability to hold its ground in Asia.  

Richard McGregor is an award-winning journalist and author with unrivalled experience in reporting on the top-level politics and economies of east Asia, primarily China and Japan, and also in Washington on national security issues.He was the Financial Times bureau chief in Beijing and Shanghai between 2000 and 2009, and headed the Washington office for four years from 2011. His book on the Chinese Communist Party published in 2010, ‘The Party’, was called a “masterpiece” by The Economist and won numerous awards in the US and overseas, including the Asia Society in New York award in 2011 for best book on Asia. A new book, on Sino-Japanese relations and the fate of US power in east Asia, tentatively titled “Asia’s Reckoning”, is due out in September, 2017, through Viking Press in the US, Penguin in the UK, and in Chinese and Japanese editions in Asia.He was a fellow at the Wilson Center in 2015 and a visiting scholar at the Sigur Center at George Washington University in 2016. McGregor has lectured widely, in the US and elsewhere, on Chinese politics and Asia.

Description

DESCRIPTION: The Nordic countries are often viewed as a group of small states successfully pursuing an international agenda in accordance with the fundamental values of their welfare states. Over the past three decades Nordic foreign and security policies have evolved considerably providing new opportunities for cooperation but also disclosing significant differences in worldviews and strategic choices. This lecture unpacks the state of Nordic foreign and security policies today and discusses current challenges and opportunities.

Anders Wivel teaches international relations at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His main research interests are foreign and security policies of small European states, the intersection of European integration and security, and the realist tradition in international relations theory. His last book, co-edited with Peter Nedergaard, is The Routledge Handbook of Scandinavian Politics, Routledge, 2017.

SPEAKERS:

Anders Wivel, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. He is a member of the Department of Political Science research group on International Relations, Centre for Advanced Security Theory (CAST) and Cente for European Politics (CEP). Professor Wivel cooperates on a regular basis with Centre for Military Studies (CMS). His research focuses on foreign policy, in particular the foreign and security policies of small European states; european integration and security, in particular the exercise of power politics and the role of small states in the EU as well as International Relations theory, in particular the realist tradition..

Francisco Beltran, moderator, Lecturer, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

SPONSOR: Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

SPONSOR: Royal Danish Embassy in Ottawa

Description

My presentation reframes the history and logic of settler colonial capitalism through a focus on Asian racialization in Canada and the US. Drawing on an archive of Asian North American visual culture, I argue that the historical alignment of Asian bodies and labor with capital’s abstract and negative dimensions became one of settler colonialism’s defining features. My focus on the economic modalities of Asian racialized labor attempts to push beyond existing approaches to settler colonialism as a Native/settler binary to formulate it as a dynamic triangulation of Native, settler, and alien populations and positionalities.

Iyko Day is an associate professor of English at Mount Holyoke College, chair of the Program in Critical Social Thought, and co-chair of the Five College Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program. She is the author of Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism (Duke, 2016).

Description

Book Launch: Foreign Voices in the House: A Century of Addresses to Canada’s Parliament by World Leaders, by J. Patrick Boyer

Since 1917, numerous world leaders have addressed Canada’s Parliament on the great issues of the day. In this book, author and parliamentarian J. Patrick Boyer has compiled the most memorable of these speeches, by figures such as Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and Barack Obama. He will discuss his book, and copies will be available for purchase and signing. Refreshments provided.

Description

Come join us as 10 outstanding student researchers who have participated in The Grandparent Project present their final projects, which combine oral histories of mobility from Asia to Canada with personal reflections. Over the summer, these students have been working in the Asian Pathways Research Lab to investigate the mobility histories and practices of their own family members in order to reflect on how their own life pathways are both similar and different from those of older generations. The stories presented encourage new kinds of inter-generational conversations about the changing meanings of home, belonging, mobility, identity, diaspora and citizenship. This event will be structured as a literary short story reading, and free copies of our inaugural publication Pathways will be distributed at the event. This event is open to the public and ideal for students who may be interested in getting involved in the Asian Pathways Research Lab.

Description

Information is not yet available.

Description

Abstract: Japan’s combination of economic success and conservative dominance from the 1950s into the early 1990s was the consequence of what Pempel calls “developmentalism.” The term involves more than the well-studied ‘developmental state.’ Most particularly, the Japanese success story relied on a specific and unusual socio-economic alignment; a positive sum relationship between state direction and corporate creativity; and Japan’s Cold War security and economic partnership with the United States. The combination unleashed a positive cycle of economic development and conservative political strength.  Japan’s positive cycle was challenged by two external changes: first, the breakdown in diplomatic and security bipolarity that began with the Nixon visits to China and the Deng economic reforms; and second, the challenges from increased power of global finance and multinational production networks. These external global shifts undercut the Japan’s prevailing model and opened the challenge to find a suitable substitute. That search has continued for over twenty years resulting in some successes and many false starts. Professor Pempel’s talk examined the relationship between this more complete understanding of developmentalism as the roots of Japan’s early successes and the subsequent difficulties of finding its adequate replacement.  

Biographical Sketch:  T.J. Pempel is Jack M. Forcey Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on Japan’s political economy, economic and security issues in East Asia, and Asian regionalism. His most recent book with Keiichi Tsunekawa is "Two Crises, Different Outcomes: East Asia and Global Finance" (Cornell University Press).

Description

As the polls close on 2017 elections in Germany and New Zealand, the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation, the Foundation for European Progressive Studies, the Munk School of Global Affairs, and the Broadbent Institute invite you to join us for a unique panel discussion.

Next Steps for the Global Left

Trump, Brexit, climate change, an ongoing refugee crisis — there are no small problems facing the world right now. How should progressives respond? What does securing a just and democratic future look like, here in Canada, in Europe and around the globe?

Sabina Dewan, Executive Director, JustJobs Network

Angella MacEwen, Senior Economist with Canadian Labour Congress

Stewart Wood (Lord Wood of Anfield), Chair of the United Nations Association UK, British Parliamentarian, Former Advisor to Ed Miliband

Moderated by Randall Hansen, Interim Director, Munk School of Global Affairs

Description

Over the past century, ‘indigenous’ as a political concept has become internationalized and, more recently, has risen in vogue as environmental protection movements worldwide are increasingly framed as Indigenous resistance to the enduring ills of settler colonialism. However, despite its trendiness, ‘indigeneity’ remains poorly defined, historically contingent, and the answers to its most basic questions (such as ‘who is Indigenous?’) remain in flux. In Southeast Asia, both Western and internal colonialism have been instrumental in the legal and political construction of Indigeneity and its application to specific populations. Meanwhile, Indigenous concepts of indigeneity typically diverge widely from State definitions, especially where territorial sovereignty is at stake. Drawing on my field research in the Philippines (and the work of others in Southeast Asia), I will discuss the cultural and political conundrums perpetuated by this nebulous term, and why grappling with ‘Indigeneity’ – as well as pondering its future – matters more than ever today.

OONA PAREDES is Assistant Professor in the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore, and is the author of A Mountain of Difference: The Lumad in Early Colonial Mindanao (Cornell SEAP, 2013).

Description

From marriage equality to wearing the veil, some of the most controversial questions about Muslims in Canada focus on their bedrooms and their wardrobes. But what exactly is the conflict between Islamic and liberal ideas about sex, love, and gender?

Muslim women are typically the topic of this conversation, but rarely have a voice in it. Instead, patriarchal Muslims and Islamophobic white supremacists alike characterize Muslim women as either victims or villains, both equally excluding Muslim women from debates about themselves.

LGBTQ Muslims have also been excluded from these crucial conversations. The horrifying anti-gay hostilities in Indonesia, Chechnya, and Iraq clearly show that LGBTQ persons in these countries are at terrible risk. Closer to home, in a 2016 study, a majority of Canadian Muslim households surveyed said it was not possible to be an observant Muslim and in a same-sex relationship. Living at the intersection, LGBTQ Muslims are therefore confronted with both homophobia and Islamophobia.

When it comes to sex and gender issues in Islam, there is much controversy and little consensus. But what do we actually know about the bedrooms and the values of Muslims? How have Islamic ideas about sex shaped social and political realities of Muslims around the world? Are these Muslim beliefs about gender, sexuality, and family incompatible with widely accepted liberal democratic ideals?

Understanding sex in Islam is an essential part of the conversation about human rights and fundamental freedoms. Do LGBTQ Muslims have any hope for inclusion, both here in Canada and around the world? And how does the field of Islamic feminism challenge patriarchal visions of Islam, as well as white supremacist and Islamophobic beliefs about Islam and Muslims?

To tackle these tough questions, the Islam and Global Affairs Initiative is pleased to host this dynamic panel event, featuring four distinguished leaders.

Speakers:
Ayesha S. Chaudhry is the Canada Research Chair in Religion, Law and Social Justice and an Associate Professor of Islamic studies and Gender studies at the University of British Columbia, where she also serves on the Board of Governors. She is the author of Domestic Violence and the Islamic Tradition: Ethics, Law, and the Muslim Discourse on Gender (Oxford University Press, 2014).

Shereen El-Feki is a Professor of Global Practice at the Munk School, an Associate Fellow of Chatham House, a Senior Fellow with Promundo, and Co-Chair of the Gender-Based Violence Hub at the Joint Learning Initiative for Faith and Local Communities. She is the author of Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World (Penguin Random House, 2013).

El-Farouk Khaki is the Imam of the LGBTQ-affirming mosque El-Tawhid Juma Circle in Toronto, the founder of Salaam: Queer Muslim Community, the co-founder of the Muslim AIDS Project, and an award-winning speaker and activist on Islam and human rights.

Mohammad Fadel is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, with a specialization in Islamic Law. He has published extensively in leading legal journals on family law in the Islamic tradition, international human rights law, and the compatibility between Islamic and liberal democratic legal traditions.

Description

Student Led Research Project Presentations from the Richard Charles Lee Insights through Asia Challenge, Global Taiwan Projects and CAS450H: Asian Pathways Research Practice

The Asian Institute at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs is one of North America’s leading centres of Asian research and teaching. AI’s approach to Asia balances regional specialization rooted in local knowledge with transnational, global, and interdisciplinary conversations that contextualize and transects local viewpoints on contemporary issues.
The Asian Institute prides itself on offering innovative teaching programs, as well as distinctive hands-on international learning experiences for students. In their future careers, our students will navigate a knowledge economy shaped by globalization that requires fluency across cultural, business, social, and political spheres. In order to develop this fluency, spending time on the ground in Asia is a crucial complement to classroom learning. The AI aims to offer as many of its students as possible the opportunity for an academically rooted, life-changing field research experience in Asia at least once during their studies. To that end, the AI has designed unique extracurricular programs that are on the vanguard of supporting the University’s wider goals of internationalization, redesigning undergraduate teaching, and increasing student mobility. Programs such as ITAC and Global Taiwan are uniquely on campus and are important vehicles in achieving those goals.

Description

This lecture is organized as part of a series of three screenings devoted to the First World War and will be held in English

Description

Corruption, understood as “the misuse of entrusted power for private gain,” is considered to be one of the biggest barriers to human development and economic growth. Corruption is without borders; it can be found in any country, in different forms, levels, and types of organizations and institutions . In the health sector annually, an estimated $5.3 trillion is spent worldwide on providing health services, yet as much as 6 percent or $300 billion USD is lost to corruption and errors according to the World Health Organization. Corruption negatively impacts public health budgets, the price of health services and medicines, and the quality of care and medical products; as well, it threatens a country’s ability to provide universal health coverage by increasing the price of health care. Corruption diverts resources from the public sector, making it difficult to appropriately fund operations and maintenance that help ensure increased access and quality care. The pharmaceutical sector is particularly vulnerable to corruption given it is lucrative, technically complex, and composed of many stakeholders with varying degrees of accountability.

This one day seminar will provide an opportunity for health care professionals and researchers to gain a deeper understanding of how corruption and lack of good governance can have an impact on pharmaceutical services and importantly provide strategies and tactics to educate participants on how to counter vulnerabilities within the sector.

Objectives

To introduce and discuss concepts of governance and corruption and explain how they relate to the pharmaceutical sector
To educate participants on how to identify potential areas of weak governance that can lead to poor results in pharmaceutical services
To highlight anti-corruption initiatives, strategies and tactics relevant to the pharmaceutical sector

Audience

The course is targeted to health professionals and health policy researchers.

Cost: Regular Rate – $175.00 + HST
Student Rate – $50.00 + HST

To Register:
Please contact whocc.gat@utoronto.ca

http://cpd.pharmacy.utoronto.ca/register.html&pid=698

Description

Culture has been frequently mentioned as an explanation for Asian successes in economic development. Typical is the comment by Samuel Huntington, the author of the controversial book, The Clash of Civilisations, offered as an explanation of the economic divergence between South Korea and Ghana, two countries that were at similar levels of economic development in the 1960s, argued: “Undoubtedly, many factors played a role, but ... culture had to be a large part of the explanation. South Koreans valued thrift, investment, hard work, education, organisation, and discipline. Ghanaians had different values. In short, cultures count”.
In this talk, Ha-Joon Chang will argue that those arguments trying to explain international differences in economic development in terms of cultural differences are often ignorant, usually fail to take a dynamic view of culture, and are invariably based on simplistic theories.

Professor Ha-Joon Chang is the economist at the University of Cambridge. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, he has published 16 authored books (five co-authored) and 10 edited books. His main books include The Political Economy of Industrial Policy (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1996), Kicking Away the Ladder (Anthem Pr, 2002), Bad Samaritans (Bloomsbury Press, 2009), 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism (Bloomsbury Press, 2012), and Economics: The User’s Guide (Bloomsbury Press, 2014). By 2018, his writings will have been translated and published in 41 languages and 44 countries. Worldwide, his books have sold 2 million copies. He is the winner of the 2003 Gunnar Myrdal Prize and the 2005 Wassily Leontief Prize. He was ranked no. 9 in the Prospect magazine’s World Thinkers 2014 poll.

Description

Getting to Work: Women’s Economic Empowerment in Pakistan

Aga Khan Foundation Canada (AKFC) and the Master of Global Affairs Program, Munk School of Global Affairs invite you to join a conversation about women’s empowerment in Pakistan as part of AKFC’s annual University Seminar Series.

Women’s economic empowerment is fundamental to sustainable and inclusive economic growth. Lack of access to economic resources and opportunities impacts women’s ability to participate and succeed in economic activities. In Pakistan, despite important progress in access to education, health, and participation in community life for women, many women still face significant barriers accessing economic opportunities. Many young women lack the skills, confidence and support to make key life decisions, including those related to employment and livelihoods. Within the labour market, the institutions intended to facilitate women’s participation are often weak and unable to implement laws meant to ensure women’s safety and security. This lack of a supportive environment discourages women from pursuing a wider range of employment opportunities – particularly those outside traditional income‐generating roles.

On September 28, join Yasmin Karim, Programme Manager with the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme Pakistan, for a conversation about women’s empowerment in challenging contexts and how vocational and skills training in Pakistan is challenging social norms and transforming women’s roles in their household and their communities. By working through a case study, participants will explore how some of approaches, challenges and lessons learned implementing women’s economic empowerment programs.

Yasmin Karim is the Programme Manager, Gender and Development with the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP) Pakistan. Since 2011, Yasmin has worked with AKRSP to design and implement community development programs that drive women’s social and economic empowerment. Previously, she has worked for the International Rescue Committee, and the Aga Khan Development Network Multi-input Earthquake Reconstruction Programme. In 2005, Yasmin was one of 1000 women collectively nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize through the 1000 Peace Women initiative, and in 2012 she was awarded the Human Rights Defender Award by the Prime Minister of Pakistan.

Description

Award-winning novelist and journalist, Francisco Goldman is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, where he has published an eight-part series on the missing students of Ayotzinapa, Mexico. He is the author of the novels: The Long Night of White Chickens, The Ordinary Seaman, The Divine Husband: A Novel, The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? and Say Her Name. His most recent book is The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle.

For additional information, please contact Berenice Villagomez: las.coord@utoronto.ca.

Description

We hosted a unique opportunity to meet Professor Taniguchi and his panelists. WE engaged with the Special Advisor to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet in a dialogue on regional and global Japan-related issues, as well as issues on Japanese society.  The goal of "Walk in Canada, Talk on Japan" was to increase awareness about Japan in Canada on a variety of issues and to further develop the Japan-Canada relationship through people-to-people diplomacy.

Description

In 2016, Washington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies began preparation of a brief for the next U.S. Administration on what the American strategy should be. President Obama talked about a “Pivot to Asia” and championed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). With incoming President Trump’s announcement that the USA would be withdrawing from TPP negotiations, that strategy needed an update. Join the co-author of the CSIS report “Reinvigorating U.S. Economic Strategy in the Asia Pacific: Recommendations for the Incoming Administration”, Scott Miller, as he brings us up to date on the U.S. economic agenda in Asia, and how Congress is looking at trade negotiations in the post-TPP era.

Scott Miller has been a senior adviser and the William M. Scholl Chair in International Business at CSIS since 2012. The Scholl Chair focuses on key issues in the global economy, such as international trade, investment, competitiveness, and innovation. He has led many campaigns supporting U.S. free trade agreements and has been a contributor to U.S. trade and investment policy over many years. Mr. Miller advised the U.S. government as a liaison to the Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations, and he is a member of the State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy. He was the founding chairman of the Department of Commerce’s Industry Trade Advisory Committee (ITAC) Investment Working Group. He is one of the authors of the CSIS report Reinvigorating U.S. Economic Strategy in the Asia Pacific https://www.csis.org/events/reinvigorating-us-economic-strategy-asia-pacific>

Description

Raised in a Buddhist household, “the Third Way” describes the path that Kristyn Wong-Tam has found to lead to move forward in new and challenging projects. As a queer, Asian woman, who left home as a teenager, she has forged a path to becoming a successful entrepreneur, realtor, community activist, and now politician. In each stage of her life, she has utilized the principles of finding a Third Way to develop creative solutions to complex problems. Leading with values of social justice and equity, she will share her experiences of bringing people together to find collaborative, community-responsive solutions to many challenges facing Toronto residents.

Kristyn Wong-Tam is Toronto’s only openly gay, racialized City Councillor. She was elected in 2010 and has been a champion for social justice, equity. She has championed the development of Gender-Responsive Budgeting at the Municipal level, Toronto’s first LGBTQ youth shelters, and initialized comprehensive, sustainable planning policies in the downtown. She has led the way in ensuring Toronto’s downtown communities are liveable and sustainable for all residents.

Description

Professor Alon Tal founded the Israel Union for Environmental Defense, Israel’s leading green advocacy organization and the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, a regional center for Arabs and Israelis. Between 2010 and 2013 he served as chair of Israel’s Green Party. Haaretz newspaper selected him as the country’s most effective environmental leader and Israel’s Ministry of Environment gave him a life achievement award at age 48. In 2005 he was the winner of the prestigious Bronfman prize, and international humanitarian award. Today he chairs the Tel Aviv University’s department of public policy.

The lecture is based on a Professor Tal’s award winning book “The Land is Full”, published this year at Yale University Press.

Description

The meaning of the struggle for recognition and identity politics or politics of difference in Central and Eastern European countries has gained significance after the political transformation of the nineties, with the appearance of demands for the emancipation of many ethnic groups aiming to recognize their differences and specificity of culture. The lecture will describe two of such groups: Silesians and Carpatho-Rusyns, for which the democratization of social life opened the way to fight for recognition by the states in which those groups live. The aim of the presentation is to reconstruct the strategies of the struggle for recognition and identity politics of Carpatho-Rusyns and Silesian activists in relation to the signalized by Thomas H. Eriksen universal “grammar of identity politics”. Simultaneously, basing on analysis of states policy towards aspirations of Silesians and Carpatho-Rusyns it will show the fundamental difficulties in achieving legal recognition and protection, which involve groups of unknown status, stateless minority, divided in terms of identity, whose right to emancipation is challenged by various social actors.

Ewa Michna PhD habil., is a sociologist associated professor at the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora, Jagiellonian University, Cracow. Her research interests focus around ethnic and national minorities in Central and Eastern Europe, the struggle of minority communities for their recognition and the identity politics of ethnic leaders. Authors of Łemkowie. Grupa etniczna czy naród? (The Lemkos. An Ethnic Group or a Nation?), Kwestie etniczno-narodowościowe na pograniczu Słowiańszczyzny wschodniej i zachodniej. Ruch rusiński na Słowacji. Ukrainie i w Polsce (Ethnic and National Issues in the Borderlands of Eastern and Western Slavic World. The Rusyn Movement in Slovakia, Ukraine and Poland).

Description

In recent months, President Trump has stepped up his anti-immigration campaign. The President declared his intention to end the DACA “Dreamers” program, which has until now kept hundreds of thousands of young people safe from deportation. The Supreme Court is set to review Trump’s “Muslim ban” in a matter of weeks, while the Trump administration makes it increasingly difficult for Muslims to enter the United States using tools other than the blanket Muslim ban. Meanwhile, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have arrested thousands of undocumented persons across America, breaking apart families and sparking nationwide demonstrations and lawsuits. Will courts defer to the President on these policies or challenge him? Will street protests and popular mobilization have any effect on either the Trump administration or the Courts?

To answer these crucial questions, the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, in collaboration with the Islam and Global Affairs Initiative and the Global Justice Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, is pleased to host a dynamic discussion panel with leading experts on national and international security and the US courts system.

Join Shirin Sinnar, a John A. Wilson Faculty Scholar and Associate Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, and other leading scholars as they dive into pressing issues on rights, liberty and democracy, immigration, national security, and the role of institutions and mass resistance.

Watch live webcast at: https://hosting2.desire2learncapture.com/MUNK/1/Live/412.aspx

Speakers:
Shirin Sinnar is the John A. Wilson Faculty Scholar and Associate Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. She writes and teaches on the role of institutions, including courts and executive agencies, in protecting individual rights and democratic values in the national security context. Her scholarship also addresses the procedural dimensions of civil rights and national security litigation, domestic intelligence-gathering and profiling, and the impact of counterterrorism policies on U.S. minority and immigrant communities. Her articles have been published in the Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, and other journals. In 2016, Sinnar was selected by the graduating class at Stanford Law School as the recipient of the John Bingham Hurlbut Award for Excellence in Teaching. Prior to joining Stanford Law School as a Thomas C. Grey Fellow in 2009, Sinnar spent five years representing individuals facing discrimination based on government national security policies and unlawful employment practices, first at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of San Francisco and then at the San Francisco-based Asian Law Caucus. Sinnar earlier served as a law clerk to the Honorable Warren J. Ferguson of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She is a graduate of Stanford Law School, Cambridge University, and Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges.

Aisha Ahmad is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Co-Director of the Islam and Global Affairs Initiative at the Munk School of Global Affairs. Her work explores the political economy of Islamist power in weak and failed states. She has conducted field research in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and Kenya. In 2012, she was a fellow at the Belfer Center on Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Carmen Cheung is a Professor of Global Practice at the Munk School of Global Affairs, where she also serves as the Executive Director of the Global Justice Lab and the Associate Director of the Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict, and Justice. Her research and practice focus on security and human rights, and state responses to threats to public safety and security. She has acted as counsel in public interest cases in the U.S. and Canada, including litigation over the use of torture and extraordinary rendition by the U.S. government, and an inquiry into the transfer of Afghan detainees by Canadian Forces to risk of torture.

Moderator:
Mohammad Fadel is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, with a specialization in Islamic Law. He has published extensively in leading legal journals on family law in the Islamic tradition, international human rights law, and the compatibility between Islamic and liberal democratic legal traditions.

Description

After Brexit and Trump, everyone is into “populism,” not only the few specialists who had previously studied the radical right. Populism usually has two targets, “experts” and conspicuous “others.” Concentrating on the latter aspect, this talk lays out an agenda for studying the effects of populism on the law and politics of “membership” in the liberal state. Particular attention is given to the regulation of immigration, citizenship, and majority culture within the European Union and its member states.

Christian Joppke holds a chair in sociology at the University of Bern (CH). He is also a Visiting Professor in the Nationalism Studies Program at Central European University, Budapest, and an Honorary Professor in the Department of Political Science and Government at Aarhus University (Denmark). He is a Member of the German Expert Council on Integration and Migration (SVR). He recently published Legal Integration of Islam (with John Torpey) (Harvard UP 2013), and The Secular State Under Siege: Religion and Politics in Europe and America (Cambridge: Polity 2015), and Is Multiculturalism Dead? Crisis and Persistence in the Constitutional State(Cambridge: Polity 2016).

Description

FRIDAY, 6 OCTOBER 2017

9:00 – 9:15
Welcome
Randall Hansen – University of Toronto
Craig Damian Smith – University of Toronto

9:15 – 10:45
Panel 1: Causes, Theory, and Politics of Migration
Chair: Till van Rahden – Université de Montréal

Gary Freeman – The University of Texas at Austin
How Social Science Failed to Predict the Great Migration Crisis of the Twenty-first Century

Sara Wallace Goodman – University of California, Irvine
The Architecture of Failure: The Institutional Origins of the Refugee Crisis

Daniel Göler – Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
Migration in Europe and the Refugee Crisis: What Remains?

Sebastian Zeitzmann – Europäische Akademie Otzenhausen
Will Brexiters Be Able to Fight Their Nemesis EU Migration Post-Brexit?

10:45 – 11:15
COFFEE BREAK

11:15 – 12:30
Panel 2: Integration Policy and Practices
Chair: Anna Korteweg – University of Toronto

Christian Joppke – Universität Bern
Refugees and Integration Policy

Marco Martiniello – FRS-FNRS and Université de Liège
Refugee Integration and Refugee Integration Policies in the EU: Ambiguities and Perspectives

Liav Orgad – WZB Berlin, EUI Florence, IDC Herzliya
The Citizen-Makers: Ethical Dilemmas in Immigrant Education

12:30 – 13:15
LUNCH

13:15 – 14:45
Panel 3: Attitudes toward Migrants & Asylum Seekers
Chair: Phil Triadafilopoulos – University of Toronto

Magdalena Lesińska – University of Warsaw
Backlash against Immigrants and Asylum Seekers in Central-Eastern Europe

Rahsaan Maxwell – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Cosmopolitan Immigration Attitudes in Europe’s Large Cities: Adaptation or Selection?

Antal Örkény – Eotvos Loránd University, Budapest
The Social Representation of Strangers and Attitudes towards Immigrants in Europe

14:45 – 15:00
COFFEE BREAK

15:00 – 16:30
Panel 4: Legal Perspectives
Chair: Jennifer Elrick – McGill University

Kay Hailbronner – Universität Konstanz
The Common European Asylum System: Wishful Legal Thinking or Reality?

Dia Anagnostou – Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
Human Rights Law and Its Consequences for Asylum Policy in Europe

Shauna Labman – University of Manitoba
The Export Experiment: Globalizing Canada’s Private Sponsorship

Steve Peers – University of Essex
Litigating the Refugee Crisis

16:30 – 17:30
RECAP DISCUSSION

SATURDAY, 7 OCTOBER 2017

9:30 – 10:30 BREAKFAST AND CONSULTATIONS

10:30 – 12:15 Panel 5: National and Regional Perspectives
Chair: Daniel Göler – Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg

Danica Šantić – University of Belgrade
Serbia’s Response to the Current Migration Crisis: New Strategies and Policies for Managing Mixed Migration Flows?

Simon Green – Aston University
Reflections on Asylum Policy in Germany

Adrian Favell – University of Leeds
Crossing the Race Line: Brexit, Citizenship and “Immigrants” in the Referendum

Oliver Schmidtke – University of Victoria
The Fallout of the “Refugee Crisis” in Germany’s Competitive Party Politics: A Post-electoral Assessment

12:15 – 13:00
LUNCH

13:00 – 14:30
Panel 6: Mobility and Borders within the EU
Chair: Marco Martiniello – FRS-FNRS and Université de Liège

Nils Holtug – University of Copenhagen
A Fair Distribution of Refugees in the European Union

Alfonso Giordano – Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali, Rome
Borders and Spaces in Mediterranean Migration between Supranational Consultations and National Interests

Christof Roos – Europa-Universität Flensburg
The (De-)Politicization of EU Freedom of Movement: Political Parties, Framing, and Policy Change in Germany and the UK

14:30 – 14:45
COFFEE BREAK

14:45 – 17:00
CONCLUDING DISCUSSIONS

Description

Following the capitalist crisis in 1997/98, Indonesia’s economic and political reforms led to increased incorporation into global capitalism. This paper examines three major issues related to such capitalist development after reformasi. First, the motor behind the development of capitalism is a remarkable exploitation of labor. Second, the accumulation of capital through land-based industries has seriously assaulted the mass of independent poor producers. Third, evidence indicates that the appropriation of nature has become the underlying feature of capitalist development. In response to such development there is a growing anti-capitalist movement in the country. Thus this paper also examines the anti-capitalist tendencies in the country. I will restrict my attention to two major tendencies among Indonesian activists today. The first is “reformist anti-capitalist” activists who advocate for a more regulated capitalism and demand a role for the state in regulating the market. The second is “revolutionary anti-capitalist” activists, whose concerns go beyond reforms to the capitalist system.

Description

**THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED**

This talk explores ways in which the Baltic region enabled the rise and consolidation of the French colonial empire in the Americas. The Baltic, a supplier of masts, tar, hemp, iron, planks, and other naval stores, has long been viewed as central to early modern European expansion overseas. Nevertheless, its particular association with French empire building remains little studied. Drawing on data from the Danish Sound Toll Registers and French consular records, the talk delineates how French colonization began as an attempt to secure commercial independence from the Baltic, only to produce the opposite effect of binding the French colonial enterprise and the Baltic ever closer together.

Pernille Røge is Assistant Professor of French and French Colonial History at the University of Pittsburgh. Her scholarly interests focus on interconnections between eighteenth-century political economic theory and colonial policy and practice. Her publications on the French, British, and Danish colonial empires have appeared in edited volumes and peer reviewed journals, including Dix-huitième Siècle, Slavery and Abolition, Atlantic Studies, and History of European Ideas. She is co-editor of a collection of essays entitled The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013). Her book manuscript Reinventing the Empire: Political Economy, France, and the African and Caribbean Colonies, c. 1750-1800 is currently under review with Cambridge University Press.

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

Description

The Republic of Serbia is a country with a long tradition of emigration, with specific economic political, religious, cultural context and significant number of people living abroad. Although a comprehensive census of Serbian diasporas and Serbs in the region has never been conducted, it is estimated that this emigrant community today counts around 5 million people. One of the main characteristics of this particular diaspora is heterogeneous geographical distribution, with the majority being in Western Europe, North America and Australia. Also, Serbia is one of the largest remittance-recipient countries in the world. The Serbian diaspora possesses immense untapped economic potential and is an important factor in improving economic ties between origin and destination countries. It has the potential to contribute to countries’ economies and overall development, not only through the positive impacts of remittances but also through the transfer of know-how acquired abroad and possibly through the migrants’ return to their home country.

Danica is an Assistant Professor at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Geography, Serbia. Her main fields of research are migration and population geography, in the first place distribution characteristics, forms of spatial structures, connections and relationships between demographic elements, and other spatial systems as dynamic and temporally variable categories. Her current research centers on integrating migration into the academic curricula in Serbia, and developing international networks ’’Migration, interconectivity and regional development’’ and ’’West Balkan migration network’’. In empirical terms her recent work has been focused on Balkan migration route and on Serbian diaspora.

Description

Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia
Alex Cooley, Columbia University and Barnard College

Weak, corrupt, and politically unstable, the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are dismissed as isolated and irrelevant to the outside world. But are they? Based on years of research and involvement in the region, Cooley discusses his book co-authored with John Heathershaw (U. Exeter), in which they reveal how business networks, elite bank accounts, overseas courts, third-party brokers, and Western lawyers connect Central Asia’s supposedly isolated leaders with global power centers. Cooley uncovers widespread Western participation in money laundering, bribery, foreign lobbying by autocratic governments, and the exploitation of legal loopholes within Central Asia. Cooley’s talk exposes the global connections of a troubled region that must no longer be ignored, arguing for fundamental changes to how we analyze the global political economy.

Speaker:
Alex Cooley is director of Columbia University’s Harriman Institute and a professor of Political Science at Barnard College

Chair: Ed Schatz

Description

The Munk School of Global Affairs and the Department of Political Science are delighted to announce an event to celebrate the International Studies Association’s Best Security Article Award to Professor Aisha Ahmad for her International Security article, “The Security Bazaar: Business Interests and Islamist Power in Civil War Somalia.”

Professor Ahmad’s article investigates the reasons why radical Islamist groups sometimes gain political power in civil war contexts. Ahmad arrives at the counterintuitive conclusion that Islamist rule is sometimes preferred by the business community because Islamists are able to provide security for business activities at a lower cost than local warlords’ protection rackets or fragile public governments. Based on extensive field work and a mix of qualitative and quantitative analysis, Ahmad tests her theory in civil war Somalia. She finds that economic interests better explain support for Islamist security networks than either clan or Islamic identity. Her work carries important implications for international policy aimed at stabilizing public government in areas prone to Islamist radicalism.

After a presentation of the award by Professor Robert Keohane on behalf of the International Studies Association, this event will celebrate Professor Ahmad’s ideas through a lively panel discussion among leading scholars of international relations.

About the Speakers

Aisha Ahmad is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Co-Director of the Islam and Global Affairs Initiative at the Munk School of Global Affairs. Her work explores the political economy of Islamist power in weak and failed states. She has conducted field research in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and Kenya. In 2012, she was a fellow at the Belfer Center on Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is currently working on a book on the relationship between clandestine business and Islamist movements in civil wars across the Muslim world.

David B. Dewitt is a University Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University. His principal focus is on international relations, notably covering the Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Canadian foreign, security and defence policies, and international and regional security and conflict management. Active in t2 and t1.5 diplomacy, along with consulting with government departments and international institutions. Visiting scholar at the Canadian Forces College, Tel-Aviv University, and the Korean Institute for Defence Analysis (KIDA). Member of the International Studies Association (ISA), the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) and the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP). Chair, Partnership for International Strategies in Asia (PISA – Washington, DC). Publications covering Canadian foreign, security and defence, Asia Pacific security, Middle East security, arms control and proliferation, human security, international relations theory. Teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels in these areas; also the PhD core course in international relations. At York, Associate VP Research, Director, York Centre for International & Security Studies (YCISS); also on leave as VP Research & Programs, Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI).

Antoinette Handley is the Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto where she teaches comparative, developing country politics, including African politics and government, African political economy, and the politics of epidemics. Prior to her appointment at the University of Toronto, Handley served as the director of studies at the South African Institute of International Affairs in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she led the institute’s research and publications division. Handley’s research focuses on the nature of the private sector, specifically, business as a political actor and the role of these actors in the political economy of development more broadly. More recently, her work has focused on how African economic elites respond to moments of national social or political crisis.

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 (w. P. Weil, Palgrave, 2001), Dual Nationality, Social Rights, and Federal Citizenship in the U.S. and Europe (w. P. Weil, Berghahn, 2002), and Immigration and asylum from 1900 to the present.

Robert O. Keohane is Professor of International Affairs, Princeton University. He is the author of After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy (1984) and Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World (2002). He is co-author (with Joseph S. Nye, Jr.) of Power and Interdependence (third edition 2001), and (with Gary King and Sidney Verba) of Designing Social Inquiry (1994). He has served as the editor of the journal International Organization and as president of the International Studies Association and the American Political Science Association. He won the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, 1989, and the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science, 2005. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Academy of Sciences. He has received honorary degrees from the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and Science Po in Paris, and is the Harold Lasswell Fellow (2007-08) of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

Barnett Rubin is a Senior Fellow and Associate Director of CIC, where he directs the Afghanistan Pakistan Regional Program. He has worked at CIC since July 2000. During 1994-2000 he was Director of the Center for Preventive Action, and Director, Peace and Conflict Studies, at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Rubin was Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for the Study of Central Asia at Columbia University from 1990 to 1996. Previously, he was a Jennings Randolph Peace Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University. From April 2009 until October 2013, Dr. Rubin was the Senior Adviser to the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan in the U.S. Department of State. In November-December 2001 Rubin served as special advisor to the UN Special Representative of the Secretary General for Afghanistan, during the negotiations that produced the Bonn Agreement. He subsequently advised the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan on the drafting of the constitution of Afghanistan, the Afghanistan Compact, and the Afghanistan National Development Strategy.

Stephen M. Saideman is the Paterson Chair in International Affairs at Carleton University. His research interests focus on the causes and consequences of intervention into intra-state conflicts. His latest book, Adapting in the Dust: Learning Lessons from Canada’s War in Afghanistan, comes out in early 2016. His current research focus is on the role of legislatures in democratic civil-military relations. He teaches courses on Contemporary International Security, Civil-Military Relations and US Foreign and Defence Policy.

Description

While social realism dominated the scene in South Asian prose for much of the 20th century, we have been witnessing the constant rise of a new mode of writing in the last forty years or so. Blending realism with supernatural elements, Magic Realism was mostly received as world literature from South America (Márquez, Borges, etc.). Ever since Rushdie‘s Midnight’s Children (1980), Magic Realism has become a strong presence in South Asian literatures, both English and vernacular.
The paper will sketch the recent genealogy of Magic Realism from South Asia and outline, through a number of examples from Hindi, Bengali and Urdu literatures, how strategies of this literary mode are deployed in South Asia. It will also look at how some Bengali authors and critics position this production. Has Magic Realism, as some critics argue, always been a part of South Asian literary heritage? Is it an invention and cultural property of the global South? What do such patterns of appropriation mean for our thinking about world literature?

Hans Ulrich Harder is Professor of Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany. His research interests are modern literatures in South Asia, particularly Bengali, religious movements, and intellectual history. He is the author of “Sufism and Saint Veneration in Bangladesh” (Routledge 2011) and other books, and has edited “Asian Punches: A Transcultural Affair” (Springer 2013).

Description

On October 12, 12-2 pm, the Bill Graham Centre hosts a panel discussion on volume three of the official history of the Department of External Affairs, Innovation and Adaptation, 1968-1984, by John Hilliker, Mary Halloran, and Greg Donaghy, at the Library, Munk School of Global Affairs, 315 Bloor Street West. The discussion will be chaired by author and filmmaker Alexandre Trudeau. Light refreshments available.

Description

Graduate students discuss their career opportunities with a great deal of gallows humour. Student lounges and faculty meeting rooms echo with stories about the saturated job market and sorrowful accounts of classmates and former students caught on the dreaded sessional treadmill. It is true that there is, in most academic fields and particularly in the social sciences and humanities, a mismatch between the number of tenure-track faculty positions and the number of PhD graduates. It is not true, however, that recently minted PhDs are destined for penury and a professional life of long-term underemployment.

This half-day seminar examines key stages and strategies in the professional lives of individuals who are completing or have completed their PhDs. It reviews the nature of academic employment in North America and internationally, and covers such topics as:

* Making the most of your time in graduate school;
* Establishing an academic and professional persona;
* Professional engagement and creating contacts outside the academy;
* Converting your PhD research into scholarly interest in your career;
* Is there a “publish and prosper” strategy?
* Breaking out of the (academic) comfort zone: considering jobs in non-traditional places.
* Knowing when to switch to a non-academic career.
* Succeeding in the academy: from tenure-terror to professional success.

The seminar aims to provide graduate students and junior faculty members with a practical guide to managing expectations and developing strategies for career success.

The seminar is led by Dr. Ken Coates, former President of the Japan Studies Association, with assistance from Dr. Carin Holroyd, University of Saskatchewan, and Dr. David Welch, University of Waterloo. Dr. Coates is currently the Canada Research Chair in Regional Innovation, University of Saskatchewan. He has held senior administrative roles at the University of Waterloo, the University of Saskatchewan, the University of New Brunswick at Saint John, the University of Waikato and the University of Northern British Columbia. He has diverse and interdisciplinary interests in such fields as Japan studies, science, technology and society, Indigenous rights, northern development, and Northern Canadian history.

Lunch will be provided.

Description

Within the past few years, the Ukrainian authorities have been heavily critisized by international watchdogs and independent observers for some legal steps and practical policies that allegedly curtail freedom of speech and access to information in the country. The government and its supporters argue, however, that the policies are justified by the actual situation of war waged by the neigboring Russia against Ukraine and have nothing to do with a censorship in a conventional sense but, rather, represents a defensive measure against the enemy’s propaganda, subversion, and provocative disinformation. The debate represents a partiular case of a broader controversy between the demand for unrestrained freedom of speech indispensable for modern democracy and the need of those very democracies to protect themselves from the rogue individials, groups, and regimes that increasingly learned how to weaponize media and (dis)information for their malevolent goals.

Description

On October 12, 5-7 pm, the Bill Graham Centre launches Innovation and Adaptation, 1968-1984, by John Hilliker, Mary Halloran, and Greg Donaghy, and Trudeau’s World: Insiders Reflect on Foreign Policy, Trade, and Defence, 1968-84, by Robert Bothwell and J.L. Granatstein, at the Library, Munk School of Global Affairs, 315 Bloor Street West. Books available for purchase. Refreshments available.

Description

The University of Toronto—in conjunction with the new Centre for the Study of Global Japan at the Munk School, and the Japan Futures Initiative—is pleased to host the 2017 Japan Studies Association of Canada Annual Meeting, October 12-15, 2017.

The theme of the conference will be Future Uncertain: Economic, Environmental, Social and Political Challenges Facing Japan. Panels and presentations will draw from a full range of social science and humanities approaches to understanding Japan’s past, present, and future. Speakers will come from across Canada, Japan, the United States and Europe. Presentations will provide the most recent updates on political, social and economic events and trends occurring in Japan. Speakers will address a diverse range of topics that place Japan at its centre, including lifetime employment in the 21st century, agricultural policy, popular culture, infrastructural aid to developing countries, science and technology policy, Tohoku’s recover from the 3/11 disaster, and Japan’s relationship with the U.S. A major theme of this year’s conference will be Japan’s approach to environmental and energy issues. Concerns about climate change, nuclear energy, Japan’s disaster risk and the country’s economic future have sparked a concerted effort in the development of renewable energy, smart communities and smart cities, and the integrated policymaking necessary to support these initiatives.

Although designed for academics with a serious interest in Japan, JSAC is a welcoming and warm conference that encourages attendance from not only undergraduate and graduate students, but also the general public.

FOR TICKETS: CLICK LINK AT THE END OF THE PROGRAM

PROGRAM [draft 8.22.17]

Thursday, October 12

12:00–16:00 Professional development: A Seminar for Graduate Students and Junior Faculty Members [Registration required: https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/csgj/event/23594/]

15:00–18:00 JSAC Conference Registration

18:00–21:00 Opening Reception

Welcoming Remarks
• Professor Randall Hansen (Interim Director, Munk School of Global Affairs)
• Professor Louis Pauly (Interim Director, Centre for the Study of Global Japan, University of Toronto)
• Professor Carin Holroyd (President of JSAC)
• Consul‐General of Japan in Toronto

Opening Keynote

Maria Toyoda (Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences and Professor of Government, Suffolk University)
“The Political Economy of Things: Some Considerations for Japan’s Infrastructure Aid to Developing Economies”

Friday, October 13

08:30–09:00 Breakfast

09:00–10:30 Session 1: Keynote

Joseph Caron (Former Ambassador of Canada to Japan)
“Being Ambassador to Japan”

10:30‐10:45 Break

10:45–12:15 Session 2A: Society and Culture (I)

Mark Rowe (Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University)
“Ghosts and Spirits in Contemporary Japanese Buddhism”

Josh Trichilo (Ph.D. Candidate, Humanities, York University)
“3.11, Interspecies Trauma, and Kawakami’s ‘Kami‐sama’ Story(ies): Mobilizing Limits to (Not) Represent What it is Like to Whisper Across Finitudes”

James X. White (Ph.D. Candidate, School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield, UK)
“Josei no(!) osake no(!) nomikata‐‐How Women Drink: The Perception and Evaluation of Women’s Alcohol Consumption in popular media”

Sheri Zhang (Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literature, University of Ottawa)
“Inspiration of Japan: Silence, Avoidance and Positive Approach Tackling Prejudice and Racial Discrimination”

Session 2B: Politics

Scott Harrison (Project Specialist, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada)
“Canada and Japan‐Canada Relations”

Jacob Kovalio (Associate Professor of History, Carleton University)
“Japan in the 21st Century: A Model Pacifist Liberal‐ Democracy Coping with a Corporatist Chinese Regime’s Lebensraum Foreign Policy”

Matthew Linley (Designated Professor, International Education and Exchange Center, Nagoya University)
“Explaining the Gap in the Provision of Disaster Preparedness Information to Foreign Residents in Japanese Cities”

Yves Tiberghien (Associate Professor of Political Science, UBC)
Title TBA

12:15–13:30 Lunch

13:30–15:00 Session 3: Keynote

Atsushi Sunami (Vice President and Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS))
‘‘Society 5.0’ as Japan’s Science and Technology, Innovation Strategy”

15:00–15:15 Break

15:15–16:45 Session 4A: Disaster Recovery

Millie Creighton (Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia)
“Difficulties, Disasters, Dams and the Backside of Japan: Re‐Ordering People, Place, and Pollution in Precarious Times”

David Edgington (Professor, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia)
“The Road Back: Arrangements for Recovery of Population and Jobs in the Futaba District of Fukushima Prefecture”

Shinya Nagasaki (Professor and Canada Research Chair in Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Management, Department of Engineering Physics, McMaster University)
“Uncertainty in nuclear policy in Japan: A Comparison of Japanese and Ontarians’ Opinions on Nuclear Energy”

Maxine Polleri (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, York University)
“Commodifiable Phantasm: The Politicization of the Native Land in a Post‐Fukushima Context of Radioactive Contamination”

Session 4B: Art and Language

Norio Ota (Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University)
“Uncertainties of the future of the Japanese language: A Case Study of Conditionals”

Cary Takagi (Adjunct Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University)
“Future Uncertain for the Early Japanese Diaspora in Canada: Challenges and Responses to Religious Identity”

Noriko Yabuki‐Soh (Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University)
“Images of Japanese women: An Analysis of Language Use in Advertisements”

X. Jie Yang (Professor, School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures, University of Calgary)
“Life Scenes in Classical Painting: A Research Approach with Digital Technology”

19:00–21:00 Dinner and Keynote
John Nilsson‐Wright (Fuji Bank University Senior Lecturer in Modern Japanese Studies, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge University)
Title TBA

Saturday, October 14

08:30–09:00 Breakfast

09:00–10:30 Session 5: Keynote

Patricia Maclachlan (Associate Professor, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin)
“Cultivating Institutional Change in Japan: Globalization, Demographic Decline, and the Future of Farming”

10:30‐10:45 Break

10:45–12:15 Session 6A: Education and Tourism

Teri Bryant (Associate Professor Emerita, Haskane School of Business Leighton Wilks Instructor, Haskane School of Business)
“Developing Cross‐Cultural Skills in Undergraduate Students through a Group Study Program to Japan: Design and Implementation Issues”

Atsuki Hashimoto (Department of Geography and Tourism Studies, Brock University)
David Telfer (Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Tourism Studies)
“A Comparison of Historic Tourism at the Villages of Shirakawa‐go and Gokayama”

Saeko Suzuki (Ph.D. Candidate, University of British Columbia)
“Digital Humanities: Electronic Resources or Print Resources”

Gregory Wheeler (Assistant Professor, Center of Medical Education, Sapporo Medical University)
“Morality or Neo‐nationalism? Examining Concerns Over the Implementation of
Moral Education as an Official Subject in the Japanese Elementary and Junior High Schools”

Session 6B: Roundtable on the Japan Futures Initiative
• Ken Coates (Canada Research Chair in Regional Innovation, Johnson‐Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan)
• Carin Holroyd (Associate Professor of Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan)
• Seung Hyok Lee (Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto)
• Masayuki Tadokoro (Professor of International Relations, Keio University)
• David Welch (CIGI Chair of Global Security and Professor of Political Science, Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo)

12:15–13:30 Lunch and Business Meeting

13:30–15:00 Session 7: Keynote

Andrew DeWit (Professor, School of Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Rikkyo University)
“Japanese Smart Communities as Industrial Policy”

15:00–15:15 Break

15:15–16:45 Session 8: Greening Japan

Teri Bryant (Associate Professor Emerita, Haskane School of Business, University of Calgary)
Iain Macpherson (Assistant Professor, MacEwan University)
“Colouring Japanese Organizations Green: Environmental Image‐Making Strategies for the 21st Century”

Jay Goulding (Professor, Department of Social Sciences, York University)
“Tokugawa’s Environmental Philosophy”

Sachiyo Kanzaki (Department of Anthropology, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM))
“Yusuhara: regional autonomy, revitalization and green energy”

Thomas Waldichuk (Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies)
“Green Space and Suburban Planning”

Sunday, October 15

08:30–09:00 Breakfast

09:00–10:30 Session 9: Society and Culture (II)

Fumiko Ikawa‐Smith (Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology, McGill University)
Title TBA

Evan Koike (Ph.D. Candidate, University of British Columbia)
“‘If the Top Changes’: Nonprofit Organizations’ Attempts to Raise Japan’s Low Birthrate by Educating Company Managers”

Brian Pendleton (Professor Emeritus of Asian Studies, Langara College)
“‘My Generation are Lost Sheep ... We Must Worship Democracy’: The 1961 Garden
Club of America Tour to Japan”

Bill Sewell (Associate Professor, Department of History, Saint Mary’s University)
“Realism and Recollection: the Perils of Recalling Historical Figures”

10:30–10:45 Break

10:45–12:15 Session 10: Economy and Business

Dick Beason (Professor of International Business and Business Economics, Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta)
“Lifetime Employment in 21st Century Japan: Employment Trends in Research Intensive Firms”

Derek Hall (Associate Professor of Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University)
“Japanese Overseas Agricultural Investments”

Shigenori Matsui (Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, UBC)
“AirBnB and Uber in Japan: Is Law Killing the Development of New Technology?”

James Tiessen (Associate Professor and Director, School of Health Services Management, Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University)
“Strategies of Japanese for‐Profit Long Term Care Providers: How do Firms Compete?”

12:15–12:30 Closing Remarks
Carin Holroyd (President, JSAC)

Description

This keynote lecture was a part of the 2017 Japan Studies Association of Canada conference (https://archive.munkschool.utoronto.ca/csgj/jsac2017/). The JSAC conference was a paid event, and this keynote was offered free of charge.  

Biography:  Honorary Professor, Institute of Asian Research, UBC. Joseph Caron joined the Trade Commissioner Service in 1972, and served abroad in Saigon and Ankara. In 1975, he began Japanese language studies, and subsequently served three times at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, including as Minister and Head of Chancery. During the 1980s, he undertook private sector assignments involving China, Hong Kong, Korea and Taiwan. In Ottawa, he has held several positions related to Asian and international economic affairs, including G8 summitry. In 1998, he became Assistant Deputy Minister for Asia Pacific and Africa, and served as Canada’s Senior Official for Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation. Until 2005, Mr. Caron served as Canada’s Ambassador to China, with concurrent accreditation to North Korea and Mongolia. From 2005 to 2008, he was Canada’s Ambassador to Japan. In 2008, Mr. Caron was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Meiji Gakuin University. From August 2008 to June 2010, Mr. Caron was High Commissioner to the Republic of India, with concurrent accreditation as Ambassador to the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal and the Kingdom of Bhutan.

Description

Information is not yet available.

Description

This keynote lecture was a part of the 2017 Japan Studies Association of Canada conference (https://archive.munkschool.utoronto.ca/csgj/jsac2017/). The JSAC conference was a paid event, and this keynote was offered free of charge.  

Abstract:  What is “Society 5.0” (“ a super smart society”) and why is it important for Abenomics as its main pillar of the economic growth strategy? Can Japan go through socio-economic reforms necessary to realize a world-leading “super smart society”? Now, the Party of Hope (a new party led by Governor Koike) is campaigning against Prime Minister Abe and the LDP to “reset” and to “create a new political structure that is not tied down to vested interests.” Is this an indication of the difficulty in realizing Society 5.0 without facing a most dramatic political change?  

Biography:  Professor Sunami holds BSFS from Georgetown University. He obtained MIA and PhD in Political Science from Columbia University. He is currently Professor, and Vice President at National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan. He is serving as Special Advisor, Cabinet Office responsible for Science and Technology and Innovation and President and Executive Director, the Ocean Policy Research Institute , the Sasakawa Peace Foundation.  Before joining GRIPS, he was a Fellow at Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry established by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan between 2001 and 2003. He also worked as a researcher in the Department of Policy Research at Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. From 1989 to 1991. He was a visiting researcher at Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, and Tsinghua University, China.　He is also a members of the Advisory Board for the Promotion of Science and Technology Diplomacy in Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, the Council for Science and Technology in Ministry of Education, Culture ,Sports, Science and Technology and the Expert Panel on Basic Policy in Council for Science, Technology and Innovation of Cabinet office.

Description

In 1985, Japan established a law called the Equal Employment Opportunity Law (EEOL/雇用機会均等法), which created a framework to promote gender equality in the workplace in Japan. This also generated conversations about the culturally ingrained sexism and gender inequality in the country. With the combination of this law and the recent economic strategy (Abenomics) instigated by Prime Minister Abe, the cabinet pledged to empower women by increasing the number of women in the workforce and creating a safe work environment. However, despite the implementation of the law and the active promotion of the economic plan, female representation in the workforce is still not visible and sexism does not appear to be either decreasing or well addressed. A group of Japanese students with diverse backgrounds discussed and tackled both socially and culturally embedded issues of gender inequality and sexism in Japan from their perspectives and experiences.

Description

This keynote lecture was a part of the 2017 Japan Studies Association of Canada conference (https://archive.munkschool.utoronto.ca/csgj/jsac2017/). The JSAC conference was a paid event, and this keynote was offered free of charge.  

Biography:  Patricia Maclachlan, who arrived at UT in 1997, is now Associate Professor of Government and Asian Studies.  She received her Ph.D in political science and Japan studies in 1996 from Columbia University and spent one year as a research associate in the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at Harvard University. Her research and teaching interests include the politics and political economy of East Asia, with a focus on Japan. Her current book project explores the political economy of Japanese agriculture and the politics of agricultural policy reform in comparative perspective. Professor Maclachlan is the author of The People’s Post Office: The History and Politics of the Japanese Postal System: 1871-2010 (Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2011)andConsumer Politics in Postwar Japan: The Institutional Boundaries of Citizen Advocacy (NY: Columbia University Press, 2002). She is a co-editor of and contributing author to The Ambivalent Consumer: Questioning Consumption in East Asia and the West (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006), and has written several articles and book chapters on consumer-related issues in Japan and the West, Japanese civil society, and Japanese postal politics.

Description

This keynote lecture was a part of the 2017 Japan Studies Association of Canada conference (https://archive.munkschool.utoronto.ca/csgj/jsac2017/). The JSAC conference was a paid event, and this keynote was offered free of charge.  

Biography:  Andrew DeWit is Professor in the School of Policy Studies at Rikkyo University and an Asia-Pacific Journal editor. His recent publications include “Energy Transitions in Japan,” in Ted Lehmann (ed), The Geopolitics of Global Energy: The New Cost of Plenty and “Climate Change and the Military Role in Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response,” in Paul Bacon and Christopher Hobson (eds),  Human Security and Japan’s Triple Disaster(Routledge, 2014).

Description

Abstract:
Pollution is one of the most pressing issues facing contemporary China and among the most prominent causes for unrest. Much of industry and mining takes place in rural areas, yet we know little about how rural communities affected by severe pollution make sense of it and the diverse form of activism they embrace. This talk draws on my new book to describe some of these engagements with pollution touching on three in-depth case studies. It argues for a more encompassing, holistic and diachronic study of pollution as it is experienced in its local contexts. It promotes an anthropological study of how villagers experience pollution, what socio-economic and political relations exist between communities, local officials and polluting firms, how patterns of action and inaction develop and how they relate to shifting definitions of health, environment, development and a good life. The term “resigned activism” serves as a conceptual tool to attend to subtle shifts in parameters and expectations and to the diverse forms of environmental engagement that they support. It encapsulates a spectrum of perceptions and practices comprising acts that may fit the conventional label of collective environmental contention, such as protesting at the factory gates and filing petitions. But it also includes less confrontational and more individualised or family-oriented tactics aimed at minimising pollution in one’s immediate surroundings.

Bio:
Anna Lora-Wainwright is Associate Professor of the Human Geography of China in the School of Geography and the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China (2017) and Fighting for Breath: Living Morally and Dying of Cancer in Rural China (2013), and director of the project ‘Circuits of Waste and Value: Making E-waste Subjects in China and Japan’, funded by the Leverhulme Trust.

Description

Please join us to celebrate the publication of Neda Maghbouleh’s book, The Limits of Whiteness, and Clayton Childress’ book, Under the Cover. The authors will attempt a non-traditional format, in which each will present and discuss the other’s book, followed by Q&A. This is not their first attempt at a joint venture: Maghbouleh and Childress are colleagues in the U of T Department of Sociology, spouses, and parents of the very same 3-year-old daughter. The talk will be followed by a reception, and copies of the books will be for sale.

The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race (2017, Stanford University Press) shares the under-theorized and sometimes heartbreaking story of how Iranian American young adults and teenagers move across a white/not-white colour line. By contextualizing ethnographic data with a century’s worth of neglected historical and legal evidence, the book offers new evidence for how a “white” American immigrant group might become “brown,” and what such a transformation says about race in North America today. Born in New York City and raised in Portland, Oregon, Neda Maghbouleh is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Her research integrates the study of immigration with the study of race by examining settlement and discrimination-related challenges faced by Middle Eastern-heritage immigrants in North America.

Under the Cover: The Creation, Production, and Reception of a Novel (2017, Princeton University Press) follows the life trajectory of a single work of fiction, going behind the scenes to reveal how a novel is shepherded across three interdependent fields—authoring, publishing, and reading—and how it is transformed by its journey. Drawing on original survey data, in-depth interviews, and ethnographic fieldwork in the U.S., the book reveals how decisions are made, inequalities are reproduced and novels are built to travel in the creation, production, and consumption of culture. Born and raised in Berkeley, California, Clayton Childress is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. His research interests are most squarely in the sociology of the culture, with a focus on meaning and decision making as it relates to social organization and cultural objects.

Description

The Wild Lily movement of March 1990 and the Sunflower movement of March 2014 were arguably the two largest student protests in Taiwan’s post-war history. The former, a six-day sit-in at CKS memorial square, aimed to reform the non-democratic national assembly while the latter, a 24-day occupation of parliament, was against trade liberalization agreements with China. In this talk, professor Fan will analyze the differences and sameness of these two student-led protests as well as their respective roles in Taiwan democratic transition.

Yun Fan received her PhD from Yale University and currently is associate professor of sociology at National Taiwan University. Her research interests include social movements, civil society and gender politics. Her work has been published in Sociological Theory, Social Justice, Taiwanese Sociology, Taiwanese Journal of Political Science and a few edited books. Her forthcoming book entitled “Activists Matter: Social movements during Taiwan’s democratic transition, 1980s-1990s” will be published by Routledge. Besides her academic work, she has been actively involved in the Taiwanese student movement, women’s movement and political reform movement for more than twenty years.

Description

Talk Abstract:
Despite playing a key contributory role in China’s recent economic reforms and the Party’s regime durability, there has been a noted reduction in central-level policy experimentation under Xi Jinping’s administration. Recent studies have further noted an empirical reduction in policy innovation at the subnational level, and question whether local officials will continue to experiment in the foreseeable future.

This talk suggests that although these changes at the central-level are filtering down to local officials, a great deal of variation in policy experimentation exists. Thus, the puzzle motivating this talk is how do local officials filter these institutional changes to the extent of observed variations in local policy innovation?

Using recent fieldwork evidence, this talk presents three potential explanations: (1) the ineffectiveness of the vertical reward and punishment systems operated by the Party-state; (2) differing base preferences of local officials; and, (3) the presence of a cohort effect, viz. a communities of practice. While some officials are still conducting policy experimentation, the overall reduction in innovation strongly suggests that potential solutions to governance problems remain trapped at the local level, and that the central government will lose this “adaptable” governance mechanism that has contributed to its past economic and political successes.

Biography:
Reza Hasmath (Ph.D., Cambridge) is a Professor in Political Science at the University of Alberta. His award-winning research is currently supported by various multi-year grant schemes, notably from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation. His recent journal articles appear in the Journal of Social Policy, International Political Science Review, Voluntas, Development Policy Review, Journal of Civil Society, The China Quarterly, Current Sociology, and the Journal of Contemporary China.

Description

So far, security studies have given surprisingly little attention to ethnic diversity as a constituent factor in the overall dynamics of security management. Many basic contributions to the field still refer to ethnic difference mainly as a source of conflict and therefore as an object of securitization. As a consequence, cultural codes, linguistic barriers, and processes of self-identification and ethnic grouping as well as ethnic othering have not constituted an important aspect of analysis. Especially in multi-ethnic societies, however, ethnic affiliations play a crucial role in pre-structuring audiences and security agendas. The presentation thus addresses this emerging field for interdisciplinary security studies. It aims at identifying components coming from different disciplines that will help us to understand why and when ethnic difference becomes a security issue at the intersection of different societal categories and agencies. It will do that in reference to historical as well as current European examples, thus inviting to reflect on the development of a new research design.”

Since 2007, Peter Haslinger has been the Director of the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East-Central Europe in Marburg, Professor of East-Central European History at the Historical Institute of the Justus Liebig University and the Interdisciplinary Center for Eastern Europe in Gießen (GiZo). His research and teaching focuses security and violence studies; minority issues and questions of nationalism, regionalism and language policies; memory and history of discourse; the spatial turn and the history of cartography. His publications focus on the Habsburg monarchy and successor states in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Description

Registration for this event is now full. Please note that seating is provided on a first-come, first-served basis.

On October 1st, the Government of Catalonia held a referendum on the issue of secession from Spain. The Constitutional Court had ruled the referendum illegal, and the police intervened to uphold the law when the regional government openly defied the tribunal. The images of riot police trying to prevent the voting from happening made headlines all over the world. The Catalan premier proclaimed that a majority of voters were in favor of secession, and that the regional parliament will declare unilateral independence soon, despite the many observers and legal experts who allege that the whole process violates the Constitution, the Catalan laws and the regional parliament’s bylaws. How did we arrive at this situation? Does the Catalan referendum embody a people’s struggle for its liberation, as the secessionists claim, or is it just an outright attack on a well-established democracy, as those contrary to independence say? Would the European Union recognize the new state as a member of the club? Is the international media impartial or biased when reporting on the matter? Will this be just another local crisis or will it have wider political consequences? The lecture will address all these issues, and will claim that the outcome of the Catalan crisis will have a decisive impact on the future of European democracy and on the liberal regimes of the West.

SPEAKERS:

Carolina de Miguel, speaker, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

Francisco Beltran, speaker, Lecturer, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

Jon Allen, discussant, Former Ambassador of Canada to Spain

Robert Austin, moderator, Associate Professor, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

SPONSOR: Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

Description

This event will be held in German.

STEFANIE BUCHENAU ist maître de conférences an der Université Paris 8 in Saint Denis. Ihr Vortrag behandelt die folgende Thematik: Wenn wir von Menschenwürde sprechen, sprechen wir die Sprache der Aufklärung. Wir verwenden einen Begriff oder ein Begriffskompositum, das seine historischen Wurzeln im 18. Jahrhundert hat. In dieser neuen lexikalischen Verknüpfung der Nomina „Mensch“ und „Würde“ kommt die moderne Idee zum Ausdruck, dass der Mensch als Mensch einen „unveräußerlichen“ und „unantastbaren“ Titel besitzt, der bestimmte Rechte begründet und einen Anspruch auf Achtung seitens seiner Mitmenschen. In diesem Vortrag soll dieses neue Begriffsfeld der Aufklärung in einigen charakteristischen Grundzügen und insbesondere mit Blick auf Mendelssohn, Kant und die Debatte um die Bestimmung des Menschen rekonstruiert werden. Das soll einerseits helfen, die Sprache, in der wir heute unseren Intuitionen und Forderungen nach Würde kleiden, besser und konkreter zu verstehen. Andererseits soll anhand dieser Rekonstruktion auch ein neuer historischer Zugriff auf die Aufklärung und Kants kritische Philosophie entwickelt werden.

If you have any accommodation needs, please e-mail german@chass.utoronto.ca five business days prior to the event, and we will do our best to assist you.

Description

Registration for this event is now full. Please note that seating is provided on a first-come, first-served basis.

The widespread complicity of German racial scientists in Nazi eugenic and racial policy is well documented. By contrast, the question of what influence these scientists had on the shaping and radicalization of Nazi biopolitics is more difficult to answer. Wetzell challenges the thesis that Nazi racial science “created the conceptual framework” for Nazi racial policy. Racial science could not have provided a coherent conceptual framework because the field was characterized by competing conceptions of race and heredity, which frequently led to controversies and conflicts, three of which will be examined in this presentation. Instead of using “race” as an analytical category for understanding Nazi Germany, historians must investigate how both scientists and Nazi officials deployed competing conceptions of race for various strategic purposes at different points in the development of the Nazi regime.

Richard F. Wetzell is a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington DC and Adjunct Associate Professor at Georgetown University. His most recent publication is the co-edited volume Beyond the Racial State: Rethinking Nazi Germany (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming fall 2017). His other publications include Inventing the Criminal: A History of German Criminology, 1880-1945 (2000), Engineering Society: The Role of the Human and Social Sciences in Modern Societies, 1880-1980 (co-edited, 2012), and Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany (2014).

Description

Information is not yet available.

Description

This event will be held in French.

La conférence se présente en deux temps, d’abord depuis l’archive ensuite depuis trois œuvres artistiques en cours de réalisation, le film de Pierre Shoeller « Un peuple et son roi », en cours de montage, le spectacle de Séverine Chavrier « Egmont » dont la première était le 21 septembre, 2017, le film en préparation de Vincent Dieutre sur Saint-Just. Dans les trois cas Sophie Wahnich est conseillère scientifique et littéraire.

Madame Sophie Wahnich, professeur distingué invité au CEFMF, directrice de recherche au CNRS est spécialiste en histoire, anthropologie et études politiques sur la Révolution française. Elle est directrice de l’Institut interdisciplinaire d’anthropologie contemporaine et membre d’un groupe de recherche « Transformation radicales des mondes contemporains » à l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales et elle contribue régulièrement au Chronique « historique » du journal Libération.

Description

Information is not yet available.

Description

A Discussion and Book Launch

We host a discussion on Patrice Dutil’s Prime Ministerial Power in Canada: Its Origins Under Macdonald, Laurier and Borden, 1867-1920 (UBC Press) featuring the author and Prof. Mel Cappe, former Clerk of the Privy Council of Canada. How has the PM’s role changed in the last century? Does the argument of a recent centralization of power still hold? 1 Devonshire Place, Campbell Conference Facility

Description

Information is not yet available.

Description

Political scientist and global development champion Kirk Bowman has developed an alternative approach to international development and philanthropy. The strategy, which he calls “Identify, Invest and Inspire,” flips many traditional assumptions and practices about international development on their heads and is succeeding in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Drawing from years of international development experience and scholarship, Professor Bowman will discuss the key elements of the model his organization, Rise Up & Care, uses in its work—including, a “community bank model”; building long-term relationships with successful local organizations; focusing on niche areas; playing sidekick, not superhero; and inspiring partner organizations and communities through documentaries by award-winning filmmakers. Professor Bowman’s talk will include a showing of one of his films, followed by a panel discussion on social innovation and the power of film to inspire social change.

About the speakers:

Dr. Kirk Bowman is the Jon R. Wilcox Term Professor in Soccer and Global Politics in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. A specialist in Latin American politics and political development, he is author of Militarization, Democracy, and Development: The Perils of Praetorianism in Latin America; Peddling Paradise: The Politics of Tourism in Latin America; Lessons from Latin America: Innovations in Politics, Culture, and Development; and numerous journal articles, book chapters, and reference chapters. Dr. Bowman is the co-founder and director of the international NGO Rise Up & Care (www.riseup.care). Rise Up & Care employs an innovative model of international community development that combines global development research, high-level performance organizations in the global south to transform youth, and powerful documentary films by top local directors. Dr. Bowman co-produced five feature documentary films in Brazil the Reimagine Rio Festival with over 450 screenings in Rio de Janeiro in August 2016.

Geraldine Cahill is the Manager, Programs and Partnerships for Social Innovation Generation (SiG) – a collaborative partnership working to create a culture of social innovation in Canada. Geraldine joined SiG in 2009 and, prior to that, was Communications Director for www.therealnews.com. Geraldine specializes in communications development and management and is also a filmmaker by training and passion. She produced and presented a national current affairs program and weekly drive time program at 3CR Community Radio in Melbourne for 7 years before moving to Canada in 2005.

Dr. Michele Mastroeni is the Graduate Program Director at OCAD University’s Strategic Foresight and Innovation Program. He is pursuing a research agenda exploring innovation systems, innovation policy, and the application of design principles to solving societal challenges through innovation. Michele’s latest research is in developing a smart regional development framework for non-metropolitan communities in Canada and he is curious about the use of science fiction as a way to inspire change in governance. He has worked for the Ontario government, was a research fellow at the University of Edinburgh, and has held positions at the non-profit think tanks, RAND Europe and the Conference Board of Canada.

Maheen Zaidi is co-founder and Managing Partner of The Innovation Shop, a design consultancy in Toronto. She specializes in strategic foresight, transition design, and narrative design. Maheen is completing a Masters of Design in Strategic Foresight and Innovation at OCAD University, and has an Honours Bachelor of Business Administration from York University. Her thesis explores the intersection of transition design and science fiction, and proposes a framework for transitioning complex systems towards more sustainable future states. Maheen is also a science fiction writer and, in her previous life, was a marketing executive who worked with multi-nationals, startups, and scale-ups to build brand equity.

Description

Sophie Wahnich. Directrice de recherche au CNRS. Spécialiste en histoire, anthropologie et études politiques sur la Révolution française.

Description

In late 2016, South Korea saw a series of Internet-born street protests demanding that then-President Park Geun-hye step down, eventually leading to her impeachment in March of 2017. These candlelight protests were only the newest iteration of the youth-driven candlelight protest that originated online in 2002, which has now become a standard repertoire for activism. Drawing on Kang’s recent book Igniting the Internet (2016), this presentation attends to the cultural dynamics that allowed the Internet to so rapidly bring issues to public attention and exert influence on South Korea’s domestic and international politics. Kang will discuss the cultural dynamics of online politics and media-driven popular politics, situating them in the legacies of South Korea’s authoritarian and post-authoritarian eras. This presentation will consider the interplay among local historical context, structural variation across different societies, and the role of chance in the dynamics of mass movements and the “cultural ignition process”—speculating about the future of Internet-driven youth activism in South Korea and beyond.

Jiyeon Kang is an associate professor of Communication Studies and Korean Studies at the University of Iowa. Her research interests include South Korean social movements, Internet activism, youth culture, globalization, and the mobility of Asian university students.

Description

In this work, I explore the religion-state relationship in Turkey and Israel with surprising insights. Specifically, my study repudiates the commonly held Western-liberal assumption according to which the separation of religion from state affairs is a necessary condition for a functioning democracy. In fact, sometimes the opposite holds true – when popular preferences support the inclusion of religion in the regime, failing to do so may work against democratic performance. Conversely, the integration of religion in the state within certain bounds, when this policy accords with popular preferences, may produce positive influence on democratic governance.

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.

Description

During her talk, 2012-2013 Jacyk Postdoctoral Fellow Professor Mayhill Fowler will present her recently published book. In Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge, Mayhill C. Fowler tells the story of the rise and fall of a group of men who created culture both Soviet and Ukrainian. This collective biography showcases new aspects of the politics of cultural production in the Soviet Union by focusing on theater and on the multi-ethnic borderlands. Unlike their contemporaries in Moscow or Leningrad, these artists from the regions have been all but forgotten despite the quality of their art. Beau Monde restores the periphery to the center of Soviet culture. Sources in Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, and Yiddish highlight the important multi-ethnic context and the challenges inherent in constructing Ukrainian culture in a place of Ukrainians, Russians, Poles, and Jews. Beau Monde on Empire’s Edge traces the growing overlap between the arts and the state in the early Soviet years, and explains the intertwining of politics and culture in the region today. The book has been published with University of Toronto Press.

Dr. Mayhill C. Fowler (Ph.D., Princeton) is assistant professor of history at Stetson University, where she also directs the program in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. She teaches and researches the cultural history of Russia and Eastern Europe, with a focus on Ukraine, and is interested in how social and political structures shape entertainment, representation, and live performance. She has published widely on culture in Ukraine. Her first book– Beau Monde at Empire’s Edge: State and Stage in Soviet Ukraine (Toronto, 2017)—tells the story of how a very rich cultural center became a cultural periphery through a collective biography of young artists and officials in the 1920s and 1930s. Her second project investigates how we entertain soldiers, through the lens of the former Red Army Theater in Lviv. She also thinks about the Soviet actress, Yiddish theater, and 19th century itinerant theater clans. She was the Petro Jacyk Postdoctoral Fellow at Toronto in 2012-2013, held a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute, and taught cultural history at the Catholic University in Lviv.

Description

In his lecture, Patrice G. Poutrus will lead us through the developments of migration and asylum policy in the two postwar German states from the end of late 1940s to early 1990s, with the main focus on West Germany. His aim is to show how changes in constitutional law, migration policy and political culture were accompanied and influenced by migration itself. Looking at how public and political opinions on the issues of migration and asylum were shaped can help us to better understand the nature subsequent developments in public opinion and asylum policy, including their consequences for the refugee crisis of 2015.

Dr. Poutrus is a member of the German Research Foundation’s ‘Foundations of Refugee Research’ network. He served as senior fellow at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna and at the Simon-Wiesenthal-Institute for Holocaust Studies and has taught at the Martin-Luther University (Halle) and the Free University (Berlin). Next semester, he will be affiliated with the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt Oder, where he will be doing a substitution as a lecturer and will lead classes on the History of Nationalism and another on Media History.

Description

Information is not yet available.

Description

Come learn more about the graduate programs at the Munk School of Global Affairs. Representatives from the following programs will be on hand:

Master of Global Affairs
Master of Arts in European and Russian Affairs
Collaborative Master’s and Doctoral Program in South Asian Studies
Collaborative Master’s Program in Asia-Pacific Studies

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/munk-school-graduate-programs-open-house-tickets-38085516806

An information session for the MGA program only will be held from 12-1pm. Please register here for the information session: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/master-of-global-affairs-information-session-tickets-38085655220

For more information please contact: mga@utoronto.ca

Description

George Liber will speak about his book Total Wars and the Making of Modern Ukraine, 1914–1954. Between 1914 and 1954, the Ukrainian-speaking territories in East Central Europe suffered almost 15 million “excess deaths” as well as large-scale evacuations and population transfers, the consequences of two world wars, revolutions, famines, genocidal campaigns, and purges. George Liber argues that these events made and re-made Ukraine’s boundaries, institutionalized its national identities, and pruned its population according to various state-sponsored political, racial, and social ideologies. In short, the two world wars, the Holodomor, and the Holocaust played critical roles in forming today’s Ukraine.

George O. Liber is Professor of History at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. His previous books include Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR, 1923-1934 and Alexander Dovzhenko: A Life in Soviet Film.

No registration is required for this event.

Description

How have UK counter-terrorism laws and policies adapted to the phenomenon of ‘foreign terrorist fighters’? The question immediately engages the problem of who fits that description and whether the label is apt. For these purposes, the focus will be upon persons linked to conflict or terrorism in Iraq and Syria associated with the establishment and defence of Islamic State (Daesh). The UK’s law and policy responses, which have been amongst the earliest and most comprehensive of any country, involve a broad catalogue which covers: the formulation of strategy; criminal justice, policing and prosecution aspects of response; and non-criminal justice aspects of response, including travel and citizenship restrictions and the countering of violent extremism. The diversity of responses raises the issue of how to select between them and which should be given priority, including as applied to special cohorts such as minors. This presentation is based on recent work undertaken for the UK government and will seek to provide statistical and interview data to inform the analysis.

About the speakers:

Clive Walker is Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice Studies at the School of Law, University of Leeds, where he has served as the Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies (1987‐2000) and as Head of School (2000‐2005, 2010). In addition to police law and human rights, key aspects of his research work are terrorism legislation and counter-terrorism policies and laws. He has written extensively on terrorism issues, with many published papers and books not only in the UK but also in other jurisdictions, especially Australia, Malaysia, and the USA. In 2003, he was a special advisor to the UK Parliamentary select committee scrutinized what became the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, from which experience he published The Civil Contingencies Act 2004: Risk, Resilience and the Law in the United Kingdom (Oxford University Press, 2006). His books on terrorism are recognized and cited widely and include Terrorism and the Law (Oxford University Press, 2011), The Anti‐Terrorism Legislation, (3rd ed., Oxford University Press, 2014), and the Routledge Handbook of Law and Terrorism (Routledge, 2015). He has given evidence to many parliamentary inquiries (including in Canada and Australia) and has been appointed by the Home Office as Senior Adviser to the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation (David Anderson QC) since 2010. For his work with public bodies, he received the title of Queen’s Counsel honoris causa in 2016.

Kent Roach is a professor of law at the University of Toronto, where he holds the Prichard-Wilson Chair of Law and Public Policy. He works in a variety of areas involving both criminal justice and constitutional laws. He has done significant and far-reaching work on counter-terrorism law both in Canada and many other parts of the world. His work explores the role of judicial review in a democracy, constitutional remedies provided by courts and other institutions, the effect of criminal justice systems on Aboriginal people in Canada, as well as miscarriages of justice and other failures of the criminal justice system. Professor Roach has been editor-in-chief of the Criminal Law Quarterly since 1998. In 2002, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2013, he was one of four academics awarded a Trudeau Fellowship in recognition of his research and social contributions. In 2015, he was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2016, named (with Craig Forcese) one of the top 25 influential lawyers in Canada (change-maker category) by Canadian Lawyer. He was awarded the Molson Prize for the social sciences and humanities in 2017.

Description

An interactive discussion with Samir Saran of New Delhi’s Observer Research Foundation and Shuvaloy Majumdar, Munk Senior Fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. Anchored around China’s unprecedented rise, the discussion will be broken into three parts, including 1) India, Canada and the Liberal Order; 2) Himalayan Faceoff: India and China; and 3) Hacking Democracy: Internet & the State.