Consulate General of Japan presents Lunchtime Video Screenings
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)
New Summer Abroad Program: Shanghai & Beijing
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
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
Coping with Crisis in the Wake of the Cultural Revolution
Coping with Crisis in the Wake of the Cultural Revolution: Toward a Historical Critique of China’s Postsocialist Condition
Speaker: Yiching Wu
Postdoctoral Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows and Assistant Professor, Anthropology and History, University of Michigan
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
108N – Seminar Room, North House
Munk Centre For International Studies
1 Devonshire Place
Register at http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=7037
Mobilization, Repression, and State Capacity
Mobilization, Repression, and State Capacity: China and Indonesia Compared
Speaker: William J. Hurst
Assistant Professor, Government, University of Texas at Austin
Monday, December 8, 2008
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
108N – Seminar Room, North House
Munk Centre For International Studies
1 Devonshire Place
Register online at http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=7035
Neo-Confucianism in History and Computing China's History
The Department of East Asian Studies presents
Neo-Confucianism in History
And
Places and People:
Computing China’s History
Two lectures by
Prof. Peter K. Bol
Harvard University
Thursday, December 11
2.00 – 3.30 p.m. (Neo-Confucianism lecture)
4.00 – 5.30 p.m. (Computing China’s History lecture)
EAS Lounge
Robarts Library, 14th floor
130 St. George Street, Toronto M5S 3H1
Social Capital and Migration
Speaker: Janet W. Salaff
Department of Sociology, Emerita, University of Toronto
Monday, December 8, 2008
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
208N – Seminar Room, North House
Munk Centre For International Studies
1 Devonshire Place
Register online at http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=6994
Engendering the Public Sphere
Engendering the Public Sphere: Globalization, Islam, and Women's Activism in Indonesia
Speaker: Rachel Rinaldo, Center for the Pacific Rim, University of San Francisco
Thursday, December 4, 2008
208N – Seminar Room, North House
Munk Centre For International Studies
1 Devonshire Place
Register online at http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=7034
