On November 3, 2017, the event “Transnational Domesticity in the Making of Modern Korea” happened at North House in Munk School of Global Affairs. The Asian Institute of the Munk School of Global Affairs introduced professor […]
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 […]
The 2017 Interrogating Notions of Development and Progress Conference, also known as INDePth, was held on March 10 at the Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, where delegates were welcomed into the space by the […]
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 […]
The intersection between religion and politics is of interest to many scholars. J.Barton Scott’s work entitled “Spiritual Despots: Modern Hinduism and the Genealogies of Self-Rule” captures this topic. In this book, Scott examines the role […]
On 15 March 2017, Synergy: The Journal of Contemporary Asian Studies hosted a panel discussion titled “Resettlement of North Koreans in South Korea”. This event was co-sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Korea, Asian […]
The University of Toronto hosts an annual lecture series as part of their annual Southeast Asia Seminar Series – Lecture in the Arts, Histories, Literatures and Religions of Burma. This year’s talk focused on the […]
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