Indonesia

The East Asian Library has just arranged a month's free trial of the Shenbao database. I know this is a crucial resource for some EA courses. Would you please let the EAS faculty and students know that we currently have the database available in the East Asian Library website at:

http://link.library.utoronto.ca/eal/flash/menu.cfm?level=3&item0=Resourc...

route: www.library.utoronto.ca/east >> Resources Tab >> China Studies Resources >> Trial Databases

SAINT-PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICAL STUDIES
DEPARTMENT OF EASTERN PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURE
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF SAINT-PETERSBURG

6th International Scientific Conference of Philosophy, Religion and Culture of Asian Countries (Torchinov readings)
IDEALS - NORMS - VALUES

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SGS Research Travel Grant 2009-2010

SGS is pleased to announce the SGS Research Travel Grant for 2009-2010. The SGS Travel Grant is available to a limited number of PhD students in the Humanities or Social Science for research in or outside Canada. Please note that not all projects can be funded, nor is the funding sufficient to cover all the expenses of the successful applicants. Last year, of the 156 applications SGS received, 129 were funded. We anticipate funding a similar number of projects this year. Preference will be given to those who are applying for the first time. Travels to conferences or courses/seminars are not covered under this program.

The workshop will focus on the global economic crisis and its impacts on Asia and Asian diaspora, with an emphasis on livelihoods, social policy, and labour markets. Presenters will reflect on the unfolding crisis in terms of our understanding of longer-term processes of social, economic, and political change in the region and its global linkages. Attention will be given to vulnerabilities and adaptation within market integration processes as well as to comparisons with the 1997 Asian financial crisis and other periods of significant economic instability.

Wednesday, 8 April
9am to 12:15 pm
280 York Lanes
York University

All are welcome

Panel One | (9 to 10:45am)

Integration into Unstable Global Markets: The Agrarian Sector in Thailand

James Siegel
Departments of Anthropology & Asian Studies, Cornell University

Tuesday, April 7, 2009
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

208N – Seminar Room, North House
Munk Centre For International Studies
1 Devonshire Place

Register http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=6907

The tsunami that struck in 2003 hit hardest in the Indonesian province of Aceh. Joshua Barker, from UT along with Arief Djati, an NGO worker, visited the cities struck. This talk describes the effects of the catastrophe three years after it occurred. It begins by asking what a 'catastrophe' is and whether this disaster qualifies as one.

Globalization and Ethno-Religious Violence in Central Sulawesi Indonesia

Arianto Sangaji

Friday, March 13, 2009
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
208N – Seminar Room, North House
Munk Centre For International Studies
1 Devonshire Place

Register http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=6347

To the House of Commons in Parliament Assembled

We, the undersigned residents of Canada, wish to bring to your attention the following:

For more than thirty years, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) has been promoting and supporting university-based research and training in the humanities and social sciences. SSHRC funding has been used to complete ground breaking research in countless areas in Canada and around the world.

The Federal Budget presented on January 27th contains a sentence that has the potential to halt this kind of research: "Scholarships granted by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council will be focused on business-related degrees".

On the (ir)reconcilability of Marxism and Post-Structural Thought

Intense contestation has been embedded in the historical trajectory for a politics of social change both inside and outside of the academy. Marxist thought asserts that ideas of social change can be conceived most effectively at the site of production and circulation within capitalist economies. How these processes intricately construct, reproduce and affect the subjectivities involved remains under-theorized.

Conversely, the post-structural focus on the construction and reproduction of these subjectivities deems the political-economic context a minor aspect in terms of understanding the reproduction of violence and oppression.