Category: Society
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A Case for Taiwan’s Participation at the World Health Assembly
As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is encouraging Canadians during this Mental Health Week to raise…
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Event Report “INDePth Conference 2017: Worlding South Asia Beyond Borders”
The 2017 Interrogating Notions of Development and Progress Conference, also known as INDePth, was held…
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Event Report “The Crisis of ‘Society’ and Explosion of ‘The Social’: Social Construction Projects in South Korea and China”
On March 21, 2017, the Munk School of Global Affairs hosted Professor Mun Young Cho…
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Event Report “Forget Chineseness: On the Geopolitics of Cultural Identification”
On March 24, 2017, as a part of the Global Taiwan Lecture Series, the Munk…
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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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