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Power Geometries of Global Parenting:
Raising Children in the Stratified Emotional Field

Building on Doreen Massey’s insight, I coined the concept “the power geometry of global parenting” to describe the rising class inequality and emotional stratification as a condition and a consequence of “global parenting”—the repertoire and practice of childrearing are increasingly transformed by the transnational flows of idea, goods and people. Drawing on in-depth interviews with middle-class and working-class parents in Taiwan, this paper investigates childrearing as an emotional field in which social class shapes parents’ differential relations with globalization and divergent styles of childrearing. Parents with class privilege not only cross borders more easily, but they also have more access to transnational cultural and emotional resources. Moreover, the hyper-mobility of some families, whether in the geographic, cultural or emotional landscape, can hurt the life opportunities of those who are trapped locally.

Dr. Pei-Chia Lan is Professor of Sociology at National Taiwan University. Her award-winning book Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan was published by Duke University Press in 2006. She is working on her second book, tentatively entitled Global Parenting Divides, which examines how ethnic Chinese parents in the US and Taiwan negotiate cultural differences and class inequality to raise children in the contexts of globalization and immigration.
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Emerging Agendas in Migration Research

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This workshop is organized by: Dr. Rachel Silvey, Associate Professor, Department of Geography & Planning, University of Toronto; Dr. Danièle Bélanger, Professeure titulaire, Départment de géographie, Université Laval; and Dr. Hae Yeon Choo, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto.

EVENTS IN HONOUR OF THE MEMORY OF DOREEN MASSEY

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MMMMM...Gendai Kitchen is a year-long seasonal subscription service and series of event-based responsive programming. With
food-inspired artist multiples, responsive performances, and critical texts, the program unfolds over the course of this four-season
cycle, with one artist multiple delivery and corresponding launch event each season.

Myung-Sun Kim is an artist and arts programmer based in Toronto. In her practice she examines the evolution of culinary practices and food culture in relation to historical events. During her Winter Island Artist Residency at Artspace Gibaltrar Point she faciliated workshops on alchemy, magic and rice wine, and hosted Haunting In The Flesh, an experimental feast of food and research on the evolving cultural culinary practices and cuisine of Korea, exploring food as a way to tell stories of war, migration, colonialism, resilience, and healing. She has a BFA in Sculpture & Installation from Ontario College of Art & Design and an MFA from York University.

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How Can Local Governments Build Public Trust?

Speakers: Dina Graser and Pamela Robinson

The national infrastructure deficit has been estimated at close to $400 billion, and much of it rests at the municipal level. Before local governments can raise these funds – through taxes, fees, or other revenue sources – residents must trust that the money is needed and that it will be spent wisely. On September 7, Dina Graser and Pamela Robinson will present findings from their new paper, which explores the notion of trust in government and sets out five key ingredients for achieving it.

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Dr. Heidi Hein-Kircher earned her M.A. and PhD from Heinrich Heine-University in Düsseldorf. She has been on the research staff of the Herder-Institute for Historical Research in East Central Europe in Marburg, Germany since 2003.

In her research, she focuses on political and cultural memory and political cults in East Central Europe. Another field of research is urban history of the 19th and 20th in East Central Europe, especially emerging cities and L’viv (Lwów/Lemberg) in the 19th century in relation to local government.

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How can you counteract an information war? Hromadske Radio, Public Radio Ukraine, decided to provide accurate and objective information to audiences – free of state and corporate censorship and any kind of manipulation. They broadcasted throughout Ukraine’s Euromaidan, and beyond. This book brings together a series of English language reports on the Ukraine crisis first broadcast on Hromadske Radio between 3 February 2014 and 7 August 2015. Collected and transcribed here, they offer a kaleidoscopic chronicle of events in Ukraine. Bookending the reports, purpose written introduction and conclusion sections contextualize the independent radio project within the larger picture of Ukraine’s media and political developments – both before the Euromaidan and in its dramatic aftermath. The book also features a preface by David R. Marples.

For more information on the book, please follow this link: http://www.e-ir.info/2016/03/22/open-access-book-ukraines-euromaidan-broadcasting-through-information-wars-with-hromadske-radio/

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

Olivia Ward is a foreign affairs reporter for The Toronto Star who has written on international affairs for over 16 years, beginning as the Star’s UN correspondent and reporting from countries around the globe. Olivia has led the Moscow and London bureaus for the Star and has reported from the former Soviet Union, South Asia, and the Middle East, and on conflict zones including Chechnya, Tajikistan, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Kosovo, Serbia, Iraq, and Israel and Palestine.

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• 70 min screening of Living with Memories (2015). English subtitle.
Directed by Doi Toshikuni. For more information on the filmmaker, go to: http://doi-toshikuni.net/e/doc/pf.html

• Presentation by Kim Puja
Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and Visiting Professor, Asian Institute

History of the former “comfort women,” or the survivors of the wartime Japanese military comfort system, otherwise known as the military sex enslavement (1937-1945), and their ongoing struggles for justice since the 1991 public testimony of Kim Hak-sun, have inspired many writers, artists, filmmakers, and scholars throughout the world. Belatedly released in 2015, Doi Toshikuni’s Living with Memories chronicles the everyday life and thoughts of several women survivors since twenty years ago, when the filmmaker began covering the issue in 1994. The workshop will feature a partial screening of the film and a presentation by Professor Kim Puja, the historian of gender and colonialism and longtime “comfort women” redress activist in Japan and Korea. Professor Kim will discuss the film’s historical significance and the special meaning it holds in contrast to other “comfort women” cultural representations. Doi has generously donated the film to the University of Toronto community.

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Decentering Citizenship follows three groups of Filipina migrants’ struggles to belong in South Korea: factory workers claiming rights as workers, wives of South Korean men claiming rights as mothers, and hostesses at American military clubs who are excluded from claims—unless they claim to be victims of trafficking. Moving beyond laws and policies, Hae Yeon Choo examines how rights are enacted, translated, and challenged in daily life and ultimately interrogates the concept of citizenship.

Choo reveals citizenship as a language of social and personal transformation within the pursuit of dignity, security, and mobility. Her vivid ethnography of both migrants and their South Korean advocates illuminates how social inequalities of gender, race, class, and nation operate in defining citizenship. Decentering Citizenship argues that citizenship emerges from negotiations about rights and belonging between South Koreans and migrants. As the promise of equal rights and full membership in a polity erodes in the face of global inequalities, this decentering illuminates important contestation at the margins of citizenship.

Hae Yeon Choo is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, Mississauga. Her book Decentering Citizenship: Gender, Labor, and Migrant Rights in South Korea (Stanford University Press, 2016) examines how inequalities of gender, race, and class affect migrant rights through a comparative study of three groups of Filipina women in South Korea—factory workers, wives of South Korean men, and club hostesses.

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Anna Korteweg is Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Her work problematizes the notion of “immigrant integration” and the ways in which belonging is defined in the intersections of gender, religion, ethnicity and national origin in Western Europe and Canada. Her co-authored book (with Gökçe Yurdakul), Headscarf Debates: Conflicts of National Belonging, was published by Stanford University Press in 2014.

Jesook Song is Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto. She is an urban anthropologist of political economy and subject formation in finance, welfare, education, and neoliberalism, focusing on South Korean context. Her books include South Koreans in the Debt Crisis (Duke University Press 2009), Living on Your Own (SUNY Press 2014), New Millennium South Korea (editor, Routldged 2011).

Please join us for the post-event reception to welcome the start of CSK’s new academic year. During the event we will welcome Jesook Song as our interim director for the year. Beverages and food will be provided.

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The quality of our governance systems is a matter of great interest to Canadians. Yet little has been written about what good governance looks like at the local level. On September 15, Zack Taylor will explore findings from his recent IMFG Paper on the meaning of good local governance for Canadian cities, and how to measure it.

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Dr. Wolowyna will speak about the results of recent research conducted by a team of demographers from Ukraine and the US. In-depth analysis of available data and recently discovered documents put in question some popular beliefs about the Holodomor. Also a comparative analysis of 1932-1934 famine losses at the regional level in Ukraine and of recent estimates of regional losses in Russia provide a new perspective on the Holodomor in particular and the 1932-1934 famine in general.

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Please note that this event is only open to University of Toronto Faculty and Students. TCards will be required upon entry.

A team of interdisciplinary undergraduate students have worked together to host a conference on evolving Israeli and Palestinian ideologies in the 21st Century, as an agent or reconciler of the ongoing conflict, entitled “Divergent Ideological Frameworks, One Conflict”

The conference will be jointly hosted by the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies, the Institute of Islamic Studies at the UofT, the Department of Political Science, the Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice, and the Munk School of Global Affairs.

This event will feature various academic experts on the topic of Israel & Palestine, who will each bring their respective research to demonstrate how conflicting ideological lenses have added to the contention surrounding the almost 70 year dispute between the two peoples.

Our aims are to share diverse perspectives, experiences, knowledges, and understandings of the Israel- Palestine conflict to the greater academic community at the University of Toronto. The program hopes to simultaneously demonstrate the complexity of the Israel- Palestine conflict, while empowering students to use academia as a critical and objective bridge between peoples.

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From the 140 characters of Twitter to the 10 seconds of Snapchat, digital and social media are transforming the role of media in U.S. politics. As the Presidential candidates, TV and cable news, and print media race to keep pace with instantaneous reporting, citizen journalists and social media, how is political coverage evolving, and how is this changing politics? What will be the impact when 100 million Snapchat users become politically active?

Join former Globe and Mail editor John Stackhouse in discussion with Marcus Brauchli, former editor of the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal in what will no doubt be a compelling and insightful discussion just six weeks away from the U.S. elections.

THIS EVENT IS COMPLETELY FULL; NO ADDITIONAL REGISTRATION IS POSSIBLE AT THIS TIME.

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Recent research interprets southeastern Europe as a learning site for ethnic cleansings. In contrast to this view, the paper argues that besides being a classic laboratory for ethnic cleansing this region is also a learning site for the development of modern international minority protection. In the course of the state-building processes in this region, it was understood that the aggressive propensity toward violence of the modern nation-state needed to be contained if the nation-state was to fulfill its promises of participation and integration for all nationals. The result was the prohibition of discrimination of certain minorities. In the course of the long nineteenth century, this prohibition was gradually developed into an internationally embedded general system of minority protection.

Dr. Mathias Beer is head of the Department of Contemporary History at and managing director of the Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies (IdGL) in Tübingen, Germany, as well as a lecturer in the department of history of the University of Tübingen. He is a member of the advisory board of the Foundation “Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung.” His many publications on refugees, forced migration, and minority issues include his 2011 book, Flucht und Vertreibung der Deutschen. Voraussetzungen, Verlauf, Folgen.

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China’s participation in contemporary globalization has intensified since its entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001. As the volume of goods labeled “Made in China” grows, many artifacts “faked in China” have also come into transnational circulation. Meanwhile, numerous domestic actors have sought to transform China from a manufacturer of foreign goods into a creator of its own brands – a nation-branding project best captured by the slogan “From Made in China to Created in China.” These different ways of engaging the globalizing Intellectual Property Rights regime have generated competing visions for the nation, at a time when new media technologies have become the daily means of communication for many Chinese. The stories of counterfeit cultural artifacts such as the shanzhai mobile phones, or “bandit” phones made in informal sectors, prompt us to complicate the dominant narrative of China’s economic rise from the perspective of cultural change.

Fan Yang is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). She is the author of Faked in China: Nation Branding, Counterfeit Culture, and Globalization (Indiana University Press). Her current research examines how China is imagined in contemporary U.S. media.

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This presentation outlines current thinking on important terms for research and innovation driven regional development. In our case study from Baden-Württemberg, Germany, we describe the supporting policies for and the activities of a public-private partnership comprising: HEIs and RTOs, enterprises from MNCs to SMEs, different innovation-facilitating and -boosting, administrative and civil society organisations. In order to stay successful also in global markets, and thus to maintain well-paid jobs and quality of life in the region, they invested about C$ 150 million from private (50%) and public sources (regional, national, EU) to develop Microsystem Technology (MST) applications. MST, General Purpose Technologies (GPTs) with innovation promoting potential in all industrial sectors, impact increasingly on practically all aspects of our everyday lives. Investments went to interrelated R&I activities, and a range of ‘structural projects’, from internationalisation to education and (re)training, to strategy (co)development and implementation.
Dr. Günter Clar, an industrial chemist by education, started his professional career in the academic sphere teaching, performing research and cooperating with industry in Europe, Asia and America. Firmly rooted in his professional and policy networks, Günter Clar is an independent consultant, involved in policy advice and development, strategic capacity building, R&I program design and evaluation, and the development of the institutional landscape/governance systems.

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In August 2014, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Nepal. In a speech to parliament he spoke a few sentences in Nepali. To a rapturous reception, he declared that Nepal was a sovereign country and that the Buddha was born in Nepal. This was widely perceived as the opening of a new era in India–Nepal relations. Little more than a year later, Modi had become a villain like no other. How did this happen? What is it about the relationship, and in particular the place of Madhesh within Nepal, that makes it so difficult to handle? I review the emergence of politically sensitive ethnic blocks in Nepal, analogous to similar groupings within India, that will have a deep influence on future developments.

David N. Gellner is Professor of Social Anthropology and a Fellow of All Souls College in the University of Oxford. He has been researching religion, ethnicity, and politics in Nepal since the early 1980s. His edited collection Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia appeared with Duke University Press in 2013.

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Raisa Rozina is a leading researcher at the V.V. Vinogradov Russian Language Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, and Professor of European Languages, Institute of Linguistics, Russian State Humanities University. A socio-linguist and a specialist in lexical semantics, she is a longtime student of slang and everyday speech in both Russia and the USA. She is the editor-in–chief and co-author of the dictionary Slova s kotorymi my vse vstrechalis’: tolkovyi slovar obshchego russkogo zhargona (Words we have all encountered: An Explanatory dictionary of modern Russian general slang (1995), as well as a compiler of the Tolkovyi slovar russkoi razgovornoi rechi (Explanatory dictionary of Russian everyday speech)–(vol.1 2014; vol.2 in preparation). She has also served as commentator on the works by J.D. Salinger, John Cheever, Sherwood Anderson and other American writers in editions published in English for Russian readers, and translator into Russian of articles by the distinguished Australian linguist Anna Wierzbicka.

In her presentation “Russian life through the prism of everyday speech” Prof. Rozina explores the perspectives of Russian speakers on their everyday existence by analyzing semantic fields of everyday words. She focuses especially on the richest and most suggestive fields, such as FALL, DIRT, GREEDINESS, and ALIENS. Comparison between these semantic fields and corresponding ones in everyday English speech illuminates differences in the mentalities of Russian and English speakers.

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The ‘war on terror’ has seen a growing overlap between humanitarian and medical assistance efforts and military operations in the actions of the U.S. military globally. In particular, this overlap has been prominent in the practices of the U.S. military’s geographic combatant command for Africa, US Africa Command (AFRICOM). Established in 2007, all U.S. military operations in Africa fall under AFRICOM’s remit, and it represents both the ambition of the U.S. to further extend military intervention globally under the banner of the ‘war on terror’, and an articulation of the interconnected core tenets of contemporary U.S. foreign policy: the “3Ds” of defence, diplomacy, and development. Military led medical assistance practices have been a central feature of the command’s efforts. However, the seeming benevolence of these practices obscures their intersecting geopolitical and biopolitical underpinnings, and the logic of war that ultimately guide them. This talk will explore these dimensions of the medical assistance efforts of AFRICOM through a study of its Medical Civic Action Programmes (MEDCAPS) and Medical Readiness Training Exercises (MEDRETEs). After situating these contemporary efforts in the context of earlier colonial and counterinsurgency wars, the talk will discuss how medical assistance operations extend military logics to practices of care, tying geopolitical performance and rationale to biopolitical management at the scale of the body, while also contributing to the further generation of knowledge of target populations on-the-ground.

Killian McCormack is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. He holds a BA (Geography and History) from University College Dublin, and an MA (Geography) from the National University of Ireland, Galway. His Ph.D. research focuses on the biopolitical and geopolitical dimensions of the medical assistance efforts of the US military in Africa.

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Orit Rozin, is senior lecturer in the Department of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University. Her research interests and publications focus on the social, legal and cultural history of the Israeli state and society in the 1950s and 1960s. Rozin has published articles on Israeli legislation and ruling; the relations between policy-makers and the media, and between immigrants and old-timers, on desparate housewives in times of austerity, and on the image of Mizrahi women. Other published works deal with various aspects of quotidian life which reflect and mold national identity, such as hygiene, parenthood and food consumption.
Her book, The Rise of the Individual in 1950s Israel: A Challenge to Collectivism (2011), was published by UPNE/Brandeis University Press. The Hebrew version of the book, published by Am Oved Press and the Chaim Weizmann Institute at Tel Aviv University received the Shapiro best book award in 2009.
Her book A Home for all Jews: Citizenship, Rights and National Identity in the New Israeli State was published by UPNE/Brandeis University Press in July 2016. Rozin is currently working on a new manuscript: A History of Fear: Israelis in the Shadow of War, 1949-1967.

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Regulation of foreign corrupt practices, including both bribery and money laundering, has emerged as one of the most prominent forms of regulation for multinational enterprises, rivaling competition law. Recent enforcement actions have stretched the limits of traditional legal principles, which allocate regulatory authority based primarily on territoriality and nationality. The new approach amounts to a form of quasi-universal jurisdiction. This approach is typically defended as a way to end impunity for corrupt officials and their accomplices, as well as to protect the human rights of inhabitants of countries burdened with corrupt governments. This lecture will critically examine the new approach, in terms of both effectiveness and legitimacy, and show that the range of situations in which expansive assertions of regulatory authority can be justified is more limited than is commonly understood.

Kevin E. Davis is Vice Dean and Beller Family Professor of Business Law at New York University School of Law. His research focuses on contract law, quantitative measures of the performance of legal institutions and anti-corruption law.

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The recovery of the Vietnamese American community in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina was much more robust than was the recovery of other communities that were similarly-affected. In my lecture I’ll explore several explanations for why that was, focusing on a potential role for culture. I’ll explain why many disaster researchers and other social scientists avoid explanations that invoke culture; discuss how culture is often conflated with other features of social structure that are more akin to privilege; review some recent developments in the study of culture; and apply some of this recent work towards an understanding of why the Vietnamese fared so well.

Mark VanLandingham, Ph.D., is a sociologist and demographer who focuses on a wide array of topics related to social science and public health. He currently leads projects focusing on the antecedents and consequences of largescale rural-to-urban migration within Southeast Asia; and acculturation, health, and well-being among Vietnamese immigrants in the United States. He co-leads a team of researchers from Tulane, Harvard, NYU, Brown, and Michigan investigating Health and Demographic Disparities in long term Recovery from Hurricane Katrina (HDDR-HD), funded by a new Program Award (P01) from NIH. He teaches Population Studies, Field Methods in Disaster Research, and Health Problems of Developing Societies.

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A new, independent documentary film by MATSUI Hisako (with English subtitles), “What are you afraid of?” features Prof. Ueno and several other prominent feminists in Japan, and by doing so, shows the 40+ years of history of feminism in Japan. Women’s history was long neglected in Japan, and this film plays an important role in documenting and remembering the earlier efforts of feminists in Japan. This is a rare opportunity to view this independent documentary chronicling the lives of early feminists.
The information on the film can be found here: http://feminism-documentary.com

Q& A: Chizuko Ueno

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10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Arrival and light refreshments
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Presentation

Dr. Un-Chan Chung served as the prime minister of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) during 2009-2010. He has served as the chairman of the Presidential Commission on Shared Growth for Large and Small Companies. In February 2012, he was appointed the first honorary mayor of the Jeju Global Education City (JGEC), whose goal is to reduce the country’s educational trade deficit. He was a professor of Seoul National University (SNU) from 1978 to 2009, serving as the president of the university from July 2002 to July 2006.

Dr. Chung earned a bachelor’s degree in economics at SNU and his master’s degree in economics at Miami University (Ohio). In 1978, he was awarded a doctoral degree in economics from Princeton. Chung returned to Princeton in 2008 as a visiting fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS).

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Poets appear as central characters in two of D. Dilip Kumar’s (1951-) Tamil short stories: first, as a feckless, drunken husband in the 1988 experimental piece “Nikala Marutta Arputam” (“The Miracle that Refused to Happen”), and second, as a romantic, suicidal misfit in the 1992 “Manam Enum Tōṇi Parri.” The title of the latter is the first line of a poem from the Śaiva Tirunāvukkarasar Tēvāram, and is used as part of the moody soundscape of the story, but has little bearing on the actual plot (the author and I have titled the story “Scent of a Woman” in English). I will explore three moments in which poetry appears in these stories. First, in “The Miracle that Refused to Happen,” Mr. James, the protagonist and for all practical purposes the only speaker in the entire story, utters a poem of his own composition towards the end of a disastrous monologue aimed at his wife. Second, James also begins to spout passages from the King James Version of the Psalms, and here I will examine how the Psalms in Tamil carry a very different feel from the same lines in the English of the King James text, and how the passages are used in this instance to manipulate and break down the resolve of his wife. My third example is drawn from “Scent of a Woman.” The story is semi-autobiographical, and the two poems that are featured in it are recited in intimate conversation with the story’s romantic heroine at moments of decisive and critical turns in its very structure. Exploring the several instances in which Dilip Kumar pays homage to the antiquity of the Tamil language and to its literary conventions, I will consider how verse is embedded in prose, what the shifts in register accomplish in terms of plot and character development, and how one mode of discourse is ultimately valued over another.

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Building on the early foreign policy successes of the Trudeau government, how should Canada define and pursue its long-term goals in international affairs? In an era of dramatic global change and rising challenges, old assumptions about Canadian foreign policy may no longer apply. Canada needs to position itself to succeed not in the world that we have known, but in the world that is emerging.

Roland Paris holds the University Research Chair in International Security and Governance at the University of Ottawa and teaches in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. He was recently Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s senior advisor on global affairs and defence. Previously, he served as policy advisor in the Privy Council Office, the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Federal-Provincial Relations Office, director of research at the Conference Board of Canada, assistant professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder, and visiting researcher at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, and at Sciences-Po in Paris. A prolific scholar and commentator, he has won numerous awards for his research, teaching and public service.

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Many observers predicted the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party following the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, and again following the serial collapse of communist regimes behind the Iron Curtain. Their predictions, however, never proved true. Despite minor setbacks, China has experienced explosive economic growth and relative political stability ever since 1989. In The Dictator’s Dilemma, Bruce Dickson provides a comprehensive explanation for regime’s continued survival and prosperity. Dickson draws upon original public opinion surveys, interviews, and published materials to explain why there is so much popular support for the regime. This basic stability is a familiar story to China specialists, but not to those whose knowledge of contemporary China is limited to the popular media. This talk will appeal to anyone interested in understanding China’s increasing importance in world politics.

Bruce Dickson is professor of political science and international affairs and chair of the political science department at the George Washington University. His research and teaching focus on political dynamics in China, especially the adaptability of the Chinese Communist Party and the regime it governs.

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Lecture Abstract: Mrs. Renho, a politician with a Taiwanese father, was elected to the leadership of the Democratic Party of Japan, which implies she could even be the Japan’s prime minister. Although her “dual-nationality” triggered some debate, what is more important and interesting is that her ethnic background does not seem to have handicapped her political career. In fact, both the size and roles of minority ethnic groups in Japan are far from negligible though they tend to be belittled as poor powerless groups. In addition, constant inflows of “newcomers” have been transforming their social status and public images. This lecture gave a snapshot of ethnic minorities in Japan today and discussed challenges Japan is facing as well as efforts being made to rectify them. It also tried to analyze the current status of Japan’s multi-ethnization by referring to its historical contexts and geopolitical environments.  

Speaker Bio: Masayuki Tadokoro is a Professor at Keio University, who previously taught at the National Defense Academy. He studied at Kyoto University and the London School of Economics. His primary field is international political economy, but he works also on Japanese foreign and security policy. Currently he is spending sabbatical at University of Waterloo.

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The current presidential election has profound implications for America’s foreign policy and relations with the rest of the world, including Canada. Explore them with former US Ambassador to Finland Derek Shearer.

Ambassador Shearer served in the Clinton administration as an economics official in the Commerce Department, and then as Ambassador to Finland (1994-97).After diplomatic service, Ambassador Shearer was a fellow at the Economic Strategy Institute and then at the Woodrow Wilson Scholars Center in Washington, DC. He served as a foreign policy advisor to Vice President Gore during the 2000 Presidential campaign and to Senator Hillary Clinton in the 2007-2008 Presidential primary contests. He is currently at Occidental College, where he directs the McKinnon Center for Global Affairs and is Stuart Chevalier Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs.

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This event will also be available via live webcast at the following link on October 13 starting at 1:30pm:
http://hosting2.desire2learncapture.com/MUNK/1/live/382.aspx

Inaugural lecture as a Distinguished Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs.

Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil, and Israel illuminates what kinds of stigmatizing or discriminatory incidents individuals encounter in each country, how they respond to these occurrences, and what they view as the best strategy—whether individually, collectively, through confrontation, or through self-improvement—for dealing with such events. This deeply collaborative and integrated comparative study draws on more than four hundred in-depth interviews with middle- and working-class men and women residing in and around multiethnic cities—New York City, Rio de Janeiro, and Tel Aviv—to compare the discriminatory experiences of African-Americans, black Brazilians, and Arab Palestinian citizens of Israel, as well as Israeli Ethiopian Jews and Mizrahi (Sephardic) Jews. Our detailed analysis reveals significant differences in narratives about behavior. We account for these patterns by the extent to which each group is actually a group, the socio-historical context of intergroup conflict, and the national ideologies, neo-liberal repertoires, and other narrativesthat group members rely on. We also consider similarities and differences between the middle class and the working class, as well as between men and women, and older and younger interviewees, to capture the extent to which racial identity overshadows the daily experiences of stigmatized groups across contexts. Our hope is that our book will be viewed as making a contribution to the study of everyday racism and stigma management, the quest for recognition and the comparative study of inequality and processes of cultural change.

Michèle Lamont is Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies at Harvard University. She serves as the 108th President of the American Sociological Association in 2016-2017. A cultural and comparative sociologist, Lamont is the author of a dozen books and edited volumes and close to one hundred articles and chapters on a range of topics including culture and inequality, racism and stigma, academia and knowledge, social change and Successful Societies, and qualitative methods. She is currently working on a monograph titled Being Worthy. Her most recent publications include the coauthored book Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil, and Israel (Princeton University Press, 2016) and a special issue of Social Science and Medicine on “Mutuality, Health Promotion, and Collective Cultural Change.” Lamont is Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; and Co-director of the Successful Societies Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil, and Israel (Princeton University Press, 2016) will be available for sale at the event.

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This year’s Korea Week festival will be held under the theme of “Flavour of Korea: Culture, Language, and Cuisine”. The 2016 Korea Week will officially begin on Tuesday, October 11, with the final events taking place on Friday, October 14. There will be many various events showcasing the distnict and unique aspects of Korean culture all throughout the week right here at U of T.

As with last year’s Korea Week, UTKSA has once again partnered with the Centre for the Study of Korea at the Munk School of Global Affairs as well as the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Toronto to host the festival.

Co-hosts for the 2016 U of T Korea Week include the Korean Outreach Volunteer Association (KOVA), The Korea Club, Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, East Asian Studies Student’s Union (EASSU), Contemporary Asian Studies Student’s Union (CASSU), and Global Leaders Association (GLA). All have helped prepare the numerous events to celebrate Korean culture and give everyone at U of T and in Toronto to experience a taste of Korea.

For a full list of event visit facebook.com/uoftkoreaweek

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Author Professor Laszlo Borhi’s book discusses the American dilemmas of external transformation during the Cold War as well as the constraints faced by weak states in international politics. The book is a result of extensive multi archival research.

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The central task of all statebuilding is to create a state that is regarded as legitimate by the people over whom it exercises authority. States sufficiently motivated to bear the costs of building a state in some distant land, however, are likely to have interests in the future policies of that country, and will therefore seek to promote loyal leaders who are sympathetic to their interests and willing to implement their preferred policies. Except in rare cases where the policy preferences of the statebuilder and the population of the country whose state is to be built coincide, as in the famous success cases of West Germany and Japan after 1945, promoting a leader who will remain loyal to the statebuilder undermines that leader’s legitimacy at home. Paradoxically, the greater the interests of the statebuilder in the target country, the more difficult it is to build a legitimate state that can survive on its own. The analysis is illustrated through the case of U.S. statebuilding efforts in Iraq after 2003.

David A. Lake is the Jerri-Ann and Gary E. Jacobs Professor of Social Sciences and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He presently President of the American Political Science Association.

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Taking its cue from novelist Fred D’Aguiar’s assertion that each generation of African Americans “need their own version of the past, to see the past in their own images, words. To have slavery nuanced their way,” this talk aims to examine some of the ways in which one particular generation of African American artists, those born in the post-Civil Rights era and emerging on the artistic scene in the 1990s, has attempted “to nuance” the enduring legacy of New World slavery in word, performance, and image according to their own needs. Concretely, it focuses on the works of playwright Suzan-Lori Parks and visual artist Kara Walker for case studies. The talk is based on a larger book project on recent engagements with slavery in African American culture and seeks to sketch out the book’s overall conceptual frame and theoretical premises. It attempts to identify a poetic paradigm shift in the engagement with slavery from the neo-slave narratives of the 1970s and 80s to the postmodern works of the 1990s and 2000s. In comparison with their predecessors, the younger artists’ works evince a heightened imaginative investment in the past, marked by liberal collusion of fact and fiction, a high degree of ludic (and frequently iconoclastic) signifying on established tropes, iconographies, and narrative structures of black memory culture and a prevalent and pointed (at times, irritating) sense of humor. To stress the radically performative dimension of their approach to slavery and to distinguish it from more conventionally mimetic historiographic praxis, I introduce the concept of historiopoiesis – the making of history in literature through poetic means. The difference in poetic approach also bespeaks a different attitude toward the past. Unlike the authors of neo-slave narratives, Parks and Walker deploy their imagination not in order to reconstruct or recuperate the experience of African Americans under slavery but to lay bare the discursive dimension of slavery, to address the fraught history and legacy of its various verbal and visual signs, and, in this manner, to clear a discursive space for fresh approaches to thinking about the past and its meanings for contemporary black identities.

Ilka Saal is a Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Toronto and a Professor of American Literature at the University of Erfurt, Germany. She holds a Ph.D. from Duke University. She has written on the literature of September 11 as well as on 20th century and contemporary American drama and theatre, including the award-winning book New Deal Theater: The Vernacular Tradition in American Political Theater. Her current research focuses on recent engagements with New World slavery in African American literature, theatre, and visual culture.

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Directed by Hisako MATSUI; Japanese with English Subtitles

A new, independent documentary film by MATSUI Hisako (Leonie, 2010; Oriume, 2002), What are you afraid of? (2015) features Prof. Chizuko Ueno and several other feminist forerunners in Japan, and by doing so, shows the 40+ years of history of feminism in that country. Women’s history has long been neglected, and this film plays an important role in documenting and remembering the earlier efforts of feminists in Japan. This is a rare opportunity to view this independent film chronicling the lives of early feminists whose courage, vision and perseverance will surely inspire you.

Question & Answer by: Dr. Chizuko Ueno (Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo; President, Women’s Action Network)
Moderator: Dr. Izumi Sakamoto (Associate Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work)

Sociologist by training, Dr. Ueno Chizuko is widely known for her critical role in pioneering the field of gender studies in Japan. She is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo, Specially Invited Professor at Ritsumeikan University, and President, Non-Profit Organization, Women’s Action Network (https://wan.or.jp/). Among her many books, English translation is available for Nationalism and Gender (2004) and The Modern Family in Japan: Its Rise and Fall (2009) (Transpacific Press).

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Geographic analysis of firms focuses on location conditions, organizational characteristics, and internal adjustments of firms to external factors (e.g., policy). In recent years, high-tech firms and product innovation tied to leading industrial clusters have been the focus of interest and far less emphasis has been placed on the evolution of process-based manufacturing. Process industries, characterized by strong resource linkages, mature technologies, and long product lifecycles, form a significant portion of industrial activity across the United States. Moreover, the products of process industries, often non-assembled (e.g., chemicals), are inputs for many other forms of production, integrating these industries into value chains that cross sectoral and geographic boundaries. This study examines shifts in a process industry (biorefineries) within the broader institutional context of renewable energy development. A related focus of the study is to understand patterns of reorganization in biorefineries in response to external conditions such as cost of inputs, market evolution, technological uncertainty, and policy shifts. Results show temporal shifts in the role of institutions vis-à-vis input availability and market conditions. Furthermore, organizational adjustments show the need to pursue various types of process innovation to adjust to external pressures.

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Near the end of the Second World War, The United States made a bold strategic gambit that rewired the international system. Empires were abolished and replaced by a global arrangement enforced by the U.S. Navy. With all the world’s oceans safe for the first time in history, markets and resources were made available for everyone. Enemies became partners.

We think of this system as normal – it is not. We live in an artificial world on borrowed time.

In The Accidental Superpower, international strategist Peter Zeihan examines how the hard rules of geography are eroding the American commitment to free trade; how much of the planet is aging into a mass retirement that will enervate markets and capital supplies; and how, against all odds, it is the ever-ravenous American economy that-alone among the developed nations-is rapidly approaching energy independence. Combined, these factors are doing nothing less than overturning the global system and ushering in a new (dis)order.

Geopolitical Strategist Peter Zeihan is a global energy, demographic and security expert.

Zeihan’s worldview marries the realities of geography and populations to a deep understanding of how global politics impact markets and economic trends, helping industry leaders navigate today’s complex mix of geopolitical risks and opportunities. With a keen eye toward what will drive tomorrow’s headlines, his irreverent approach transforms topics that are normally dense and heavy into accessible, relevant takeaways for audiences of all types.

In his career, Zeihan has ranged from working for the US State Department in Australia, to the DC think tank community, to helping develop the analytical models for Stratfor, one of the world’s premier private intelligence companies. Mr. Zeihan founded his own firm — Zeihan on Geopolitics — in 2012 in order to provide a select group of clients with direct, custom analytical products. Today those clients represent a vast array of sectors including energy majors, financial institutions, business associations, agricultural interests, universities and the U.S. military.

His freshman book, The Accidental Superpower, debuted in 2014. His sophomore project, Shale New World, will be released later this year.

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Ambassador McDowell will describe the run-up to Myanmar’s historic November 2015 election, and the take a look at the transition, Aung San Suu Kyi’s first months in power, and the challenges that lie ahead.

Mark McDowell served from 2013 to 2016 as Canada’s first resident Ambassador to the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. He joined the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 1994 and has served abroad in New York, Taipei, Bangkok, and Beijing. At headquarters his most recent position was Director of Public Diplomacy and Domestic Outreach, and he has worked extensively on international Aboriginal/Indigenous issues.

He received his BA in History and Philosophy from the University of Toronto, and has Masters degrees from the University of Toronto and Harvard University. From 2008-09 he was an Asia Research Fellow at the Ash Institute for Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School.

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Japan is a rapidly ageing society with the world’s second longest life expectancy. The increase of the care burden has become a serious political issue. Since the implementation of the Long Term Care Taking Insurance in 2000, Japan has accumulated 16 years of experience. Recently the Japanese government has shifted its policy towards ageing in place and dying at home, which is welcomed by the elderly. But how can it be realized? I will examine this policy change in light of the practice of medical practitioners and care providers.

Light refreshment will be provided.

Dr. Chizuko Ueno is one of the most popular sociologists in Japan, who is well-known for her contributions in pioneering the field of gender studies in Japan. She is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo, Specially Invited Professor at Ritsumeikan University, and President of the Non-Profit Organization Women’s Action Network (http://wan.or.jp/). Born in 1948, Dr. Ueno finished her Doctoral courses at Kyoto University, and later received her Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo. She has been invited to be a visiting professor at several universities across the globe, including University of British Columbia, Columbia University, Uni. Bonn, and El Colegio de Mexico. Dr. Ueno is a prolific writer both for academic and general public audiences, and some of her many books include: Patriarchy and Capitalism (1990), The Erotic Apparatus (1998), The Politics of Difference (2002), A Thought for Survival (2006), Misogyny in Japan (2010), and A Sociology of Care (2011). English translation is available for Nationalism and Gender (2004) and The Modern Family in Japan: Its Rise and Fall (2009, by Transpacific Press). Several of her books and papers have been translated into Chinese, Korean, French, and Spanish.

Dr. Sheila Neysmith’s scholarship focuses on feminist theory and praxis. She is interested in how knowledge is constructed and used in policies, programs, and praxis. The substantive area of her research for many years has been the paid and unpaid caring labour done by women. Related to these questions is her ongoing engagement with policy issues that affect women as they age. Her current research and writing examines how ageism impacts social policies and service systems – and thus the quality of women’s lives.

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Dementia is a cultural phenomenon that affects society as much as it does the individuals who bear the paralyzing label. As a researcher and a carer to my mother, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer at the age of 58, my research highlights the ways in which symbolic language comes to define dire realities both for individuals who are labeled as patients of neurodegenerative diseases and for their families who are expected to accept the ‘sentence of social death.’ The aim of my cross-disciplinary research and advocacy efforts is to offer an alternative language to talk about dementia by educating the public about arts-based and improvisational skills in order to improve quality of life, prevent isolation and create a sense of community and self-worth for individuals living with the diagnosis and their families.

My research reflects on the discourse employed both in English speaking countries, where a national dementia strategy is practiced or in the process of becoming; and in Israel, where a national strategy has not yet been normalized and/or institutionalized. The goal of my research is to critically examine the popular discourse that is used to talk about AD and the impact of this language on Alzheimer’s and dementia-related policies that in turn, affect negatively the everyday lives of persons diagnosed with AD and their families and care-partners. Through my research I wish to change the language that we use to talk about AD and dementia, as illnesses or disease, and start evaluating the condition as a cultural phenomenon that reveals the constructedness of seemingly naturalized concepts such as memory, identity, pathology and tragedy.

Liza Futerman is a Vanier doctoral scholar at the Centre for Comparative Literature and the the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto, where she researches the popular discourse around Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and the ways it affects policymakers, individuals who are diagnosed as ‘AD patients’ and families. Futerman holds an MA in History of Art and Visual Culture from the University of Oxford, UK, and a BA and MA in Foreign Literatures and Linguistics from Ben-Gurion University in Israel. Futerman is a writer and an avid advocate for arts-based dementia care. She is the CEO & Founder of www.ArtsForDementia.com

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During WWII Lviv experienced a variety of traumatic occupations that disrupted the balance of relations between its major ethnic inhabitants, Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians. Prof Hnatiuk explores the myths, the animosities, and the interactions between these groups during the war years, dispelling many of the presumed truths about irremediable hostility and conflicts. Her focus is on the relations between individuals as documented in personal archives rather than on collective perceptions and activities.

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In the late nineteenth century wine production took off in French-ruled Algeria, to such an extent that for most of the following century this Muslim-majority territory was the fourth biggest wine producer in the world. Many of Algeria’s vineyards were on a scale that far exceeded those found in metropolitan France, earning some colonists spectacular fortunes and, in time, significant influence over the colony’s affairs. Through a study of the backgrounds and business dealings of these “vinelords,” this talk will demonstrate the central importance of wine to the economic life of colonial Algeria, while arguing that agricultural capitalism also posed substantial risks to the French project of colonization.

Owen White is an associate professor of history at the University of Delaware. His publications include Children of the French Empire: Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa, 1895-1960 and the edited volume (with J.P. Daughton) In God’s Empire: French Missionaries and the Modern World, as well as articles on a variety of topics in French colonial history. He is currently completing a book manuscript about the Algerian wine industry.

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The seminar on Prospects for Inclusive Growth by Professors Bourguignon (Paris School of Economics) and Leipziger (George Washington University) will cover not only why we care about inclusive growth and how we define it, but also what it is about global inequality trends that are encouraging globally but discouraging within countries. The seminar will address the links between trade and income distribution and how we can make trade more beneficial to many. The speakers will also address the current state of the world economy in terms of growth prospects, its implications for policy, and its possible ramifications. Finally, the seminar will address the important questions of growth and development strategies and what countries like Canada can offer by way of articulating a practical policy vision and taking leadership in an effort to rescue globalization.

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The National Security Archive is a digital repository of documents on American foreign policy, indispensable for scholars of the Cold War period. Go inside with its Director, Thomas Blanton.

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In 1989, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (MoCA) invited the American composer and artist John Cage to create a new artwork. The result was a chance-derived, four movement composition for museum entitled Rolywholyover A Circus. While many other artists have experimented with the form of an art exhibition, Cage’s project constituted something new: he constructed his exhibition in a manner akin to his musical composition, forming a new field of research – the composer as a curator – where the exhibition space adopts sound composition principles, and thereby, alters the concept of exhibition-making.

Liora Belford is a Ph.D. Candidate from the Department of Art, University of Toronto. As a sound artist, scholar, and curator who has had the opportunity to organize exhibitions in both public and private institutions, Belford’s practice spans the experimental sonic realm. In her ongoing research, she investigate the relationship between sound and space and her doctoral thesis surrounds the American composer John Cage, and his groundbreaking composition for museum – Rolywholyover A Circus.

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People who live far from war zones and repressive states may nevertheless be connected to them through their use of digital communication technologies. This panel will discuss people’s digital vulnerabilities to conflict and repression, and possible responses to those vulnerabilities.

Debates over cyber security usually focus on threats to military assets, critical infrastructure, and intellectual property, and ignore the individuals who might be at risk. These risks take different forms. Activists around the world are subject to hacking and surveillance, and they participate in propaganda wars on Twitter and Facebook. Alienated young people are targeted for radicalization and recruitment. And people who simply want to communicate with loved ones in repressive states and conflict zones may find that these communications are sources of sorrow or danger rather than solace.

The panelists will discuss their recent research and reporting on these issues, with an emphasis on the Syrian context. The panel will also serve as the launch of a SSHRC-funded project, The War is Just a Click Away, which includes journalism and expert commentary published by OpenCanada.org.

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It has never been easy to write the history of Vietnam. This small country’s role in one of the most violent wars of decolonization of the 20th century and in one of the Cold War’s longest conflicts has meant that its past has been endlessly abused for all sorts of purposes, both inside and outside the country. It is perhaps only now, in the early 21st century, that the events which created the modern state can be seen from a more dispassionate, historical perspective. To illustrate this point, Christopher Goscha examines two themes that have been left out of standard accounts of Vietnam – the question of Vietnamese colonialism and collaboration. He will also suggest why it might be useful to revisit the question of periodizing Vietnam’s ‘modern history’ in terms of this country’s colonial encounter with the French in 1858 in order to push it further back in time or leave it open.

Christopher Goscha is associate professor of international relations at the department of history at the Université du Québec à Montréal. His works focuses on colonial Indochina, the wars over Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, and the Cold War in Asia. He recently published Vietnam, A New History (Basic Books, 2016) and is currently working on a social history of colonial Saigon and Hanoi in a time of war (1945-54).

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There is much that ordinary Ukrainians do not know about Jews and that ordinary Jews do not know about Ukrainians. As a result, those Jews and Ukrainians who may care about their respective ancestral heritages usually view each other through distorted stereotypes, misperceptions, and biases. This talk sheds new light on highly controversial moments of Ukrainian-Jewish relations and argues that the historical experience in Ukraine not only divided ethnic Ukrainians and Jews but also brought them together.

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern is the Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of History in the History Department at Northwestern University, Chicago. He has authored a number of prize-winning books, including The Golden Age Shtetl (Princeton University Press, 2015). His research and publications have been supported by a number of foundations, including the Rothschild, Jewish Memorial, DAAD, Kosziuszko, Lady Davis, and National Endowment for the Humanities. He has taught at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. For his pedagogical and scholarly contribution, he has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” in Kyiv.

Registration is not required for this event.

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This year marks the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the Ottawa Process that culminated in the international treaty to ban anti-personnel landmines. The Graham Centre and its partners come together to mark this anniversary with participants in the Ottawa Process and the broader Human Security agenda, scholars of the Ottawa Process, current NGO activists, and students. The event is at Toronto’s Gardiner Museum, October 27-28, and features a keynote address by Minister of Foreign the Hon. Affairs Stephane Dion.

Attendance is $125, $75 for members of participating organizations, and $30 for students (with defrayed admission available on application). The Graham Centre is sponsoring this event in conjunction with the Canadian International Council, Canadian Landmine Foundation, Government of Canada, Handicap International, Mines Action Canada, Academic Council on the United Nations System, Laurier Centre for Military, Strategic, and Disarmament Studies, and Trinity College.

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There is no doubt that the year 2016 so far has been a pivotal year for Europe and for Canadian-European relations: With the decision to exit the European Union, the British people have made a historic step against all odds with so far unforeseen ramifications. At the same time, Europe is coping with the consequences of a unique influx of refugees in the past year as a result of severe instability on Europe’s periphery. In addition, Canada and the European Union are about to sign a much anticipated Strategic Partnership Agreement and a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, both of which will not only bring both sides closer together and give an ambitious and strategic framework for our future partnership, but also set standards for fair and just 21st century trade. All of these developments have immediate repercussions for Canada’s relations to the European Union and beyond. There could not be a more suitable occasion to discuss all of these issues with the person who actually oversees the Affairs of the European Union at the German cabinet table, Minister of State for Europe Michael Roth

Michael Roth has been Minister of State for Europe at the Federal Foreign Office since 2013 and a directly elected member of the German Bundestag since 1998. From 2010 to 2013, he was spokesperson on Europe for the SPD parliamentary group and from 2009 to February 2014 was Secretary-General of the SPD in the federal state of Hesse.

Since 2014, Mr. Roth has been Commissioner for Franco-German Cooperation, member of the Deutsche Welle Broadcasting Board, member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for European Politics and member of the board of the Franco-German Institute in Ludwigsburg, Chairman of the supervisory board of the Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF), and member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation.

This event will be webcast here.

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A panel discussion on the civic and scholarly significance of the book, Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence, co-authored by Professor Paul Robert Magocsi (University of Toronto) and Professor Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (Northwestern University), and published by University of Toronto Press.

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Professor Doris Bergen
Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto

Commentators:

Adrian Karatnycky
Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

Professor Ori Yehudai
Department of History, University of Toronto

Professor Anna Shternshis
Director, Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto

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Professor Paul Robert Magocsi
Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Toronto

Professor Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
The Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies, Northwestern University

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The Center for Southeast Asian Studies invites you to the first screening of a brand-new movie series. We will screen the second documentary by critically-acclaimed filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing) about the 1965 Indonesian genocide. In this sequel, Oppenheimer “focuses on a family of survivors who discovers how their son was murdered, as well as the identities of the killers. The youngest son, an optometrist named Adi, decides to break the suffocating spell of submission and terror by doing something unimaginable in a society where the murderers remain in power: he confronts the men who killed his brother and, while testing their eyesight, asks them to accept responsibility for their actions. This unprecedented film initiates and bears witness to the collapse of fifty years of silence http://thelookofsilence.com/).” Tania Li, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Southeast Studies, will comment on the movie and contextualize it in relation to politics and development in Indonesia.

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A meeting in memory of Bernard Bate (1960 – 2016), anthropologist and scholar of Tamil.

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CASSU (Contemporary Asian Studies Student Union) and Taiwan Now cordially invite you to join Director-General Catherine Y.M. Hsu from the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Toronto (TECO) for a luncheon on Friday, October 28th. The event is co-sponsored by the Munk School of Global Affairs. The Director-General will briefly present on Canada-Taiwan relations, and share TECO’s initiatives and student opportunities. There will be opportunities to speak with Ms Hsu and her team over an authentic Taiwanese lunch experience.

Event is open to faculty and students only. Please register early as places are limited.

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The conference will bring together presenters on the Irish (Peter Gray, Queen’s University, Belfast), Bengal (Janam Mukherjee, Ryerson University), and Ukrainian (Liudmyla Hrynevych, Academy of Sciences, Ukraine) famines and examine differences and commonalities (Mark von Hagen, Arizona State University and Andrea Graziosi, Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of University and Research).

If you have any questions regarding the event, including registration, please contact Ms. Marta Baziuk at 416 923-4732

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In this lecture, Prof. Andreas Wirsching will discuss the critical edition of Hitler’s Mein Kampf, which the Institute for Contemporary History published earlier this year following the expiry of the copyright in 2015 (i.e., 70 years after the death of the author) and which has since attracted worldwide attention. Prof. Wirsching will expound upon the many scholarly, legal, political, and moral aspects that were taken into account in producing this new edition.

Andreas Wirsching has been Director of the Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Institute for Contemporary History) München – Berlin and Full Professor for Modern and Contemporary History at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich since April 2011. Prior to this appointment, he was Associate Professor for Modern West European History at the University of Tübingen and then Full Professor for Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Augsburg. He studied History, (Protestant) Theology and Philosophy at the Universities in Berlin and Erlangen and received his doctoral degree from the University of Erlangen in 1988. In 1995, he received his habilitation at the University of Regensburg. His research focuses, among others, on the History of Germany and France in the Interwar Period, on the History of National Socialism as well as on German and European History since the 1970s.

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Dr. Hrynevych will discuss propaganda in the context of the Holodomor.

Please note that the lecture will be in Ukrainian.

If you have any questions regarding the event, including registration, please contact Ms. Marta Baziuk at 416 923-4732