Asia Pacific Reader

Specter of Colonial Past: The Case of South Korean Horror Films

Speaker: Jinsoo An
School of Design and Media, Hongik University, Korea

Monday, February 23, 2009
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
208N – Seminar Room, North House
Munk Centre For International Studies
1 Devonshire Place

Register online http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=6660

Towards a Comparative Ethnography of Economic Recession: Yogyakarta (Indonesia) in the 1930s, 1960s and 1990s

Speaker: Ben White
Department of Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam

Tuesday, February 10, 2009
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
208N – Seminar Room, North House
Munk Centre For International Studies
1 Devonshire Place

Register online http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=7109

"The world-wide financial crisis of the contemporary conjuncture compels us to revisit and re-assess Marx's 'law of populations peculiar to capitalist society', and to specifically re-think the significance of the concept of the surplus population. In this talk, I address the question of surplus populations on two analytical registers: first, on the level of the 'pure' principles of capitalist commodity economies; and second, on the level of capitalism's historical transformation into the stage of imperialism.

Revised Call for Papers

Symposium on
RELIGION AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA
Saturday, 30 May 2009 Toronto, Canada

The York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) at York University, Centre for Asian-Canadian Theology and Ministry at Knox College, University of Toronto and the Hudson Taylor Centre for Chinese Ministries at Tyndale College invite scholars, religious organizations and human rights workers to share their research and experience in a one-day symposium on *Religion and Human Rights in China*, to take place in Toronto on Saturday, May 30, 2009. Professor Pitman Potter (University of British Columbia) will be the keynote speaker.

The students in Asia-Pacific Studies (ASI400Y) have already made diligent plans to spend their entire Reading Week visiting think tanks, attending academic lectures and meeting with intellectuals in Seoul, Korea. Twelve students and their instructor Stephen Trott, received elusive funding from the Faculty of Arts and Science as an Internationalized Course Module which aims to narrow the gap between classroom learning and firsthand experience.

The Japan Information Centre (JIC) is pleased to present a series of casual,entertaining and informative events for anyone interested in spending his or her lunchtime learning more about Japan.

Feel free to bring your lunch and enjoy DVD screenings that present various faces of Japan in a way that will surely whet your appetite for things Japanese.

FRIDAY, January 9th
12:10 - 12:50PM
&
WEDNESDAY, January 21st
12:10 - 12:50PM & 1:10 - 1:50PM

1. Japanese Everyday Harmony - Sound (20 min)

The University of Toronto is offering a new summer abroad program in 2009.

The summer program in Shanghai and Beijing will provide students with a unique, intensive look at critical international issues from both Western and Chinese perspectives, using faculty from both the University of Toronto and Fudan University.

Course: POL376Y0 Transforming Global Politics: Comparative and Chinese Perspectives

Program Dates: Sunday, May 9 to Sunday, May 31, 2009 (3 weeks)

Information Session:
Date: January 20, 5 to 7pm
Location: Woodsworth College Residence, Waters Lounge

Elusive Homecomings: Race, Sex and Diasporic Youth in Filipino Return Migration

Speaker: Martin F. Manalansan
University of Illinois, Department of Anthropology

Friday, January 16, 2009
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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

Register online http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=6334