With the recent move by Taiwan’s Constitutional Court to legalize same-sex marriage, some regional political observers have speculated on whether this will have a ripple effect on LGBT rights in mainland China. Chinese advocacy groups […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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