Category: Society
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Event Report “Religion and the Modern: Discussing J. Barton Scott’s Spiritual Despots”
The intersection between religion and politics is of interest to many scholars. J.Barton Scott’s work…
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Event Report “The Resettlement of North Korean Refugees in South Korea and Beyond: What Do We Know?”
On 15 March 2017, Synergy: The Journal of Contemporary Asian Studies hosted a panel discussion titled…
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Event Report “Buddhist Law in Burma: A History of Dhammasattha Texts and Jurisprudence, C. 1250-1850 CE”
The University of Toronto hosts an annual lecture series as part of their annual Southeast…
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Event Report “Curative Violence: How To Inhabit The Machine With Disability”
On February 8, 2017, the Munk School of Global Affairs hosted a book release for…
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Western Artistic Influences in the Cultural Revolution (Primary Source Analysis of “Creating the Socialist New, Fostering Proletarian Originality” in the Peking Review, 1968)
Abstract The Cultural Revolution is widely considered to be a time when cultural life in…
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Event: Resettlement of North Korean Migrants in South Korea and Beyond: What Do We Know? 15 March 2017
Synergy Lecture South Korea has long promoted a sense of ethnic and cultural homogeneity, but…
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An Analysis of the Korean Wave
Abstract This paper is an analysis of the Korean Wave and scholarly reaction to it.…
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Event Report “Metamorphoses: Archival Fictioning and the Historian’s Craft”
“Metamorphoses: Archival Fictioning and the Historian’s Craft” was an event held at the Munk School…
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Event Report “After the Land Grab: Infrastructural Violence and the Mafia System in Indonesia’s Oil Palm Plantation Zone”
As a part of the Development Seminar Series held by the Department of Anthropology, Professor…
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Event Report “A New History of Vietnam? Questions of Colonialism, Collaboration, and Periodization”
Christopher Goscha presented his newest book, “Vietnam: A New History,” in front of a learned…
