Abstract: Since the 1970s, Saudi Arabia’s oil revenue-driven high GDP growth has led to an increase of Saudi women obtaining higher education and increasingly becoming employed in non-domestic sectors. However, because Saudi culture tends to […]
In the olden days, being beautiful was like winning a biological jackpot. Modern technology, however, has levelled the playing field: anyone can physically alter their body if they are willing to pay the right price. Seoul […]
On September 25, 2017 the Munk School of Global Affairs held a talk with visiting Professor Oona Paredes on “Cultural Contexts of Indigeneity in Southeast Asia”. Professor Paredes works the National University of Singapore and […]
On September 19, 2017, the Munk School of Global Affairs hosted Richard McGregor for a discussion on his new book Asia’s Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century at […]
The Munk School of Global Affairs, in conjunction with the Consulate General of Japan, regularly hosts the JAPAN NOW lecture series regarding issues in contemporary Japan. On 22 September 2017, the newly established Centre for […]
Abstract The unity of the themes gender and class have always been a point of friction in Marxist thought but are nevertheless very important. This essay examines the social history of women who have been […]
As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is encouraging Canadians during this Mental Health Week to raise awareness about mental health, it is hoped that attention can also be drawn to an important but sometimes invisible issue […]
I met Tenzin in Kathmandu, Nepal, on a research trip. He was born and raised in a remote village in Kham, a province that historically belongs to Tibet but divided into the Tibet Autonomous Region […]
On March 21, 2017, the Munk School of Global Affairs hosted Professor Mun Young Cho for a symposium titled “The Crisis of ‘Society’ and the Explosion of “The Social”: Social Construction Projects in South Korea and […]
On March 24, 2017, as a part of the Global Taiwan Lecture Series, the Munk School of Global Affairs hosted Professor Allen Chun for a discussion on his new book Forget Chineseness: On the Geopolitics […]
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