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Founded in 1989, the Henry L. Stimson Center is a nonprofit, nonpartisan institution devoted to enhancing international peace and security through a unique combination of rigorous analysis and outreach.

The Stimson Center's work is focused on three priorities that are essential to global security:

* strengthening institutions for international peace and security
* building regional security, and
* reducing weapons of mass destruction and transnational threats

The Dr. David Chu Program in Asia-Pacific Studies has just introduced three new courses for the 2009-10 academic year: "Democracy and Identity in Asia" taught by Professor Jacques Bertrand, "Asia and the New Global Economy" taught by Professor Joe Wong, and "Nationalism, Revolution and Reform in Asia: China in Comparative Perspective" taught by Professor Yiching Wu. The three new courses are all 400-level, and will also be available to interested graduate students. For course codes, times, and descriptions, please visit: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/ai/Resources.aspx

15 May 2009 at York University

In celebration of York University's 50th anniversary, the York Centre for Asian Research is presenting two events celebrating Asian transformations.

The Global Modern: Transnationalism and the Media in Asia symposium* and the launch of the /transpulsation /– new asian canadian imaginings exhibition

Both events will take place on Friday, 15 May 2009 on the Keele campus of York University, 4700 Keele Street in Toronto.

Details about the symposium and the exhibition can be found below or at

www.yorku.ca/ycar/Events/U50_Asian_Transformations.html

For more information, contact ycar@yorku.ca.

1) The Global Modern: Transnationalism and the Media in Asia symposium
Friday, 15 May 2009 | 10am to 5pm | 280 York Lanes | York University

The Canada Council for the Arts is pleased to invite you to submit nominations to the 2010 Killam Prizes.

The five Killam Prizes are worth $100,000 each. Annually, one prize is awarded in each field: Social Sciences; Humanities; Natural Sciences; Health Sciences; and, Engineering.

The updated information sheet and nomination form for the Killam Prizes are available on the Council’s website at: http://www.canadacouncil.ca/prizes/killam/nf127281699611562500.htm

Nominations and all related documentation must be submitted directly to the Canada Council for the Arts by the deadline of June 15, 2009.

We solicit your collaboration in publicizing the call for nominations throughout your institution and look forward to receiving your nominations to this year’s competition.

July 2009

The Asian Division Friends Society announces the Florence Tan Moeson Research Fellowship Program for 2010. This Fellowship Program is made possible by a generous donation of Florence Tan Moeson, for 43 years a Chinese Team cataloger in the Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division at the Library of Congress before she retired in 2001. Mrs. Moeson passed away on November 15, 2008.

Throughout the month of May various Asian pieces will be shown as a part of Asian Heritage Month Movie Showcase in Innis Town Hall, St.George Campus.

A motion to recognize May as Asian Heritage Month was moved by The Honorable Vivienne Poy and unanimously adopted by the Senate in 2001, then duly signed in 2002. This is an important initiative which acknowledges the diversity of Canadian communities.

"Be it resolved that May be recognized as Asian Heritage Month, given the important contributions of Asian Canadians to the settlement, growth and development of Canada, the diversity of the Asian Community, and its present significance to this country."

The Richard Charles Lee Canada Hong Kong Library has about 500 titles in its media collection. You can now borrow and view the DVD and VCD titles at the media centre of the Library. If you are interested in video materials about Hong Kong, please go to the media collection page of the Library's website for more details:

http://content.library.utoronto.ca/hongkong/collections/media/index_html

You can find the following in the webpage:

1. The DVD and VCD title list
2. A brochure highlighting some items in the collection
3. Borrowing and viewing procedure

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