Asia Pacific Reader

The APR has this year expanded its online publication endeavours to include reviews of current academic research, and we have just published graduate and undergraduate student reviews of the 2012 Association for Asian Studies conference, held this past March in Toronto.

Reviewers offer critical analyses of a wide array of panels and topics, in an effort to sustain dialogue relating to current research in the field. To view the reviews, please go to http://www.asiapacificreader.org/publications

Thank you to all the students, faculty and administrators who participated in our Higher Learning events this past 2011-2012 academic year. We'd especially like to thank you for participating in our first ever Higher Learning Summer School, which expands the opportunities for student engagement year-round. We are so very grateful to you for your continued support of our programmes and educational initiatives.
For all of you who are new to Higher Learning…welcome! Higher Learning at TIFF Bell Lightbox is a free on-going programme that provides post-secondary students and faculty with a forum to examine the role of film, video, new media and gaming from a wide range of cultural, social, historical, political and technological approaches. The initiative’s primary goals are as follows:

The Canadian Trade Office in Taipei is interested in hiring interns in the Trade and General Relations section. Please visit http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/ai/Resources.aspx for more details, including position descriptions, eligibility, and application requirements.

Applications must be submitted by May 22, 2012 at 5:00pm.

Dear students,

The Embassy of Canada to China in Beijing will hire two interns for positions beginning in July 2012. Please visit http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/ai/Resources.aspx for more details, including position descriptions, eligibility, and application requirements.

Applications must be submitted by June 4, 2012, 5:00 PM.

About the Author:

Departure date: Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Duration of stay: 1 week

Airfare between Toronto and Taipei (Eva Airlines) (leading Professor: business class; students economy class), travel cancellation insurance, lodging in Taiwan (hotel and all meals), and ground transportation in Taiwan are provided. The delegation participants will be responsible for their own medical insurance, ground transport to and from Pearson International Airport in the GTA, and pocket money. Short paper: Students selected for the delegation are required to submit to the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) a short paper of a minimum 1,500 words on the topic, Taiwan in changing global political and economic order, at least one week before the delegation departure date.

Roundtable on Takashi Fujitani’s New Book:
Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans in WWII

Monday, March 26, 2012
Roundtable & Discussion: 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Book Signing & Reception: 6:00 - 7:00 PM

Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs
1 Devonshire Place, 208N, North House

Register Online at: http://www.munk.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11559

Takashi Fujitani
Professor of History and the Dr. David Chu Professor and
Director in Asia Pacific Studies, University of Toronto

Moon-Ho Jung - Commentator
Associate Professor and Walker Family Endowed Professor of History
University of Washington

Ken Kawashima - Commentator
Associate Professor of East Asian Studies
University of Toronto

Andre Schmid – Commentator

Mon Mar 26
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
AMC Kennedy Commons, 33 William Kitchen Road, Scarborough
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=11956 (Register Here)

Love in the Buff (2012) | Director: Pang Ho-cheung
Canadian Premiere and Hong Kong International Film Festival Opening Film