On Friday November 15th, Dr. Gal Gvili from the East Asian Department at McGill University addressed an attentive room of attendees at the Munk School of Global Affairs for the annual Bengal studies lecture sponsored […]
Abstract Wokou pirate incursions battered the Ming’s extensive coastline for most of the dynasty’s 276 year-long lifespan. The social dislocation and suffering endured by coastal communities presented a serious crisis to the Ming court. Yet, […]
On October 4, 2019, the Munk School of Global Affairs invited Dr. Bérénice Guyot-Réchard, a professor of Twentieth-Century International History at King’s College London, to present a lecture entitled “The Fear of Being Compared: India, […]
On Friday, October 25th, the Munk School of Global Affairs’ Asian Institute welcomed Dr. Abhi Subedi, Professor Emeritus from Tribhuvan University in Nepal, to speak on the topic of Nepali Literature. Dr. Subedi is a […]
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“Street Food in Bangkok and Hanoi: Conflicts Over the Use of the Urban Space,” an event hosted at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy on October 21, 2019, examined the ideological framing […]
On October 11th, the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy welcomed Dr. Sidharthan Maunaguru, a scholar of anthropology from the National University of Singapore, to present his forthcoming book as part of a […]
On October 10th, the Asian Institute hosted an India-Canada Association Lecture with an intriguing name – “The Dark Night of Love in the Indian Tradition”. The speaker, Dr. Fabrizia Baldissera, discussed Indian literature and its […]
On November 8, 2018, the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies at the Munk House of Global Affairs and Public Policy hosted Professor Nu-Anh Tran for a presentation titled “How Democratic Should Vietnam Be?: Anticommunist Nationalists […]
On September 12, 2018, the “Mix the Spurious with the Genuine: An Introduction to Xiqu (Chinese Opera)” talk, which is part of the Hong Kong Seminar Series, was held at the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong […]
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