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    EVENT ARCHIVE (2011-12)

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EVENT ARCHIVE (2011-12)



May 11-12, 2012
William Doo Auditorium and Wilson Hall (Rooms 523 and 524)
New College, University of Toronto, 40 Willcocks Street

The Seventh Annual Tamil Studies Conference: Traces of the Past

Sponsored by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), New College, University of Toronto, French Institute of Pondichery, University of Windsor

Link to the conference website: http://www.tamilstudiesconference.ca
Thursday, May 10, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Reception to Follow
Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School of Global Affairs

Frances Harrison
Former BBC TV correspondent, Colombo, Sri Lanka, recently Head of News for Amnesty International, and author of the soon to be released book, Still Counting the Dead (Portobello Books)

Rebranding Ethnic Conflict: Sri Lanka 2009

Chair: Naheed Mustafa, Award-winning freelance foreign affairs journalist and CBC show producer for Dispatches and The Current
A joined initiative of the Centre for South Asian Studies, the Journalism Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, and the South Asian Journalists' Association, Toronto chapter.
Abstract and registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=11862
Thursday, May 3, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room 208N, North House, Munk School of Global Affairs

Harsha Munasinghe
Professor of Architecture, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

Transformation of Colonial City: The Case of Sri Lanka

Chairs: Kanishka Goonewardena, Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Director, Program in Planning, University of Toronto
Abstract and registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=11975
Monday, April 16, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Reception to Follow
Room 208N, North House, Munk School of Global Affairs

Surabhi Sharma
Independent documentary filmmaker

Indie Docs in India: Aesthetics, Politics and the Practice of Filming-Making

Chair: Kajri Jain, Associate Professor, Visual Studies, UTM & Department of Fine Art, University of Toronto
Abstract and registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=11625
Thursday, April 12, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Reception to Follow
Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School of Global Affairs

Leela Gandhi
Professor, Department of English, University of Chicago

Christopher Ondaatje Lecture
On Descent: Stories from the Gurus of Modern India

Chair: Ritu Birla, Department of History and Director, CSAS, University of Toronto
Abstract and registration: http://www.munk.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=11861
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room 208, North House, Munk School of Global Affairs

Moon-Ho Jung
Associate Professor and Walker Family Endowed Professor of History, University of Washington

Subversive Histories: Race, National Security, and Empire Across the Pacific

Chair: Takashi Fujitani, Dr. David Chu Professor and Director in Asia Pacific Studies; Department of History
Co-presented with Dr. David Chu Community Network in Asia Pacific Studies, Department of History, Centre for the Study of United States, Canada Centre for Global Security Studies, Asian Institute
Abstract and registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=11561
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room 208N, North House, Munk School of Global Affairs

Johannes Bronkhorst
Section de langues et civilisations orientales of Universite de Lausanne

Who is a Brahmin? Some Questions Linked to the Spread of Brahmanism

Sponsored by Department for the Study of Religion and Yehan Numata Buddhist Studies Program
Chair: Arti Dhand, Associate Professor, Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto
Abstract and registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=11446
March 15-18, 2012
Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel

AAS Annual Conference

Link to the conference website: http://www.asian-studies.org/Conference
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Room 208N, North House, Munk School of Global Affairs

Ken Wissoker
Editorial Director, Duke University Press

The Problem of the Second Book

Chair: Ritu Birla, Department of History and Director, CSAS, University of Toronto
Abstract and registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=11706
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room 208N, North House, Munk School of Global Affairs

Anthony P. D'Costa
Professor of Indian Studies and Research Director, Asia Research Centre, Copenhagen Business School

Problematizing the New India: A Political Economy Perspective

Chair: Zaheer Baber, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto
Abstract and registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=11255
Sunday, March 11, 2012
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School of Global Affairs

Steven Collins
Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities, University of Chicago

Pali Practices of the Self

Sponsored by University of Toronto / McMaster University Yehan Numata Buddhist Studies Program, Henry Luce Foundation
Abstract and registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=10892
Monday, February 27, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
 Innis Town Hall, Innis College, University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Avenue

In Conversation with the Filmmakers of Snow

Speakers: Rohan Fernando (FilM Director), Kalista Zackhariyas (Lead Character), Suzanne Lively (Film Producer)
Sponsored by Centre for Comparative Literature, Cinema Studies Institute
Co-sponsored by Sutram Pictures, Pan Asia Student Society (PASS), Cinema Studies Student Union (CINSSU)
Abstract: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=11809
Friday, February 10, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room 208N, North House, Munk School of Global Affairs

Ishita Pande
Assistant Professor of South Asian History, Queen's University

Coming of Age: Body, Number and Child Protection in Late Colonial India

Respondent: Michelle Murphy, Acting Director, Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto
Abstract and registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=11274
Thursday, February 9, 2012
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room 208N, North House, Munk School of Global Affairs

Wan-ling Wee
Associate Professor of English, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Visiting Professor, Duke University

Nation and Region: Okakura Kakuzo, Rabindranath Tagore and Contemporary East Asia

Chair: Takashi Fujitani, Dr. David Chu Professor and Director in Asia Pacific Studies, Departmnet of History
Co-presented with Dr. David Chu Community Network in Asia Pacific Studies and East Asia Seminar Series
Abstract and registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=11467
Thursday, January 26, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room 208N, North House, Munk School of Global Affairs

Julie Mehta
Professor Canadian Studies Program, University of Toronto

Subversion, Citizenship and Belonging through Food and the Vernacular in South Asian-Canadian Writing

Chair: Chelva Kanaganayakam, Professor, Department of English, University of Toronto
Abstract and registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=11073
Friday, January 20, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room 108N, North House, Munk School of Global Affairs

Saadia Toor
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, College Staten Island, City University of New York

Gender, Sexuality and Islan under the Shadow of Empire
Chairs: Ritu Birla, Department of History and Director, CSAS & Alyssa Trotz, Women and Gender Studies Institute
Co-presented with the Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto
Abstract and registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=11072
Thursday, January 19, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room 208N, North House, Munk School of Global Affairs

Ananya Mukherjee-Reed
Assistant Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, York University

On Race, Inequality and the Colonial Order: The Contemporary Relevance of Rabindranath Tagore
Chair: Ritu Birla, Department of History and Director, CSAS
Abstract and registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=11071
Saturday, December 3 – Sunday, December 4, 2011

Innis Town Hall, Innis College at the University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Avenue

Tribute to Tagore Film Festival 2011: In Honour of the 150th Birth Centenary of Rabindranath Tagore

Sponsored by New College, University of Toronto
Abstract: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=11122
Friday, November 25, 2011

Worlds of the Contemporary Global: Approaches from the Centre For South Asian Studies Faculty

Abstract and registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=10508
Friday, November 4, 2011
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room 208N, North House, Munk School of Global Affairs

Chandrima Chakraborty
Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University

From Male Renunciates to Nationalist Asceticism: Masculinity and the Imagining of India
Chair: Chelva Kanaganayakam, Professor, Department of English, University of Toronto
Abstract and registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=10527
Friday, October 28, 2011
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room 208N, North House, Munk School of Global Affairs

Rana Dasgupta
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize

Writing into the Unknown
Chair: Nais Dave, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
Abstract and registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=10977
Friday, October 28, 2011
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room 208N, North House, Munk School of Global Affairs

Jayeeta Sharma
Assistant Professor of History, University of Toronto

Writing Empire's Garden: Assam and the Making of India
Chair: Ritu Birla, Department of History and Director, CSAS, University of Toronto
Abstract and registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=10601
Friday, October 21, 2011
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room 108N, North House, Munk School of Global Affairs

Kamini Gogri
Coordinator of Jainology courses at Mumbai University

Bhakti: A Phenomenological Analysis of Aesthetic Experience in Jainism
Chair: Chelva Kanaganayakam, Professor, Department of English, University of Toronto
Abstract and registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=10711
Friday, October 21, 2011
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Sidney Smith Hall, University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street, SS2125

Uma Kothari
Manchester University

The Unequal Geographies of Time: Enduring Poverty amidst Rapid Change
Sponsored by the Department of Geography
Abstract: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=11143
Thursday, October 20, 2011
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School of Global Affairs

Elections and the Ethnic Vote: Numbers Lottery or Political Representation?
CSAS South Asia in the Media Session

Speaker: Jagmeet Singh, MPP-elect for Brampton-Gore-Malton

Speaker: Rana Sarkar, Federal liberal candidate for Scarborough-Rouge River & The President of the Canada-India Business Council

Speaker: Steven D'Souza, CBC TV/Radio reporter covering provincial politics

Speaker: Sunil Rao, Editor, South Asian Focus

Moderator: Piya Chattopadhyay, Anchor, with Steve Paikin of The Agenda & Host, Big Ideas Lecture Series, TVO
Co-Sponsored by Journalism Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs; South Asian Journalists' Association, Toronto Chapter
Abstract and registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=11115
Saturday, October 1 – Sunday, October 2, 2011

Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School of Global Affairs; Trinity College, 6 Hoskin Avenue

Festival of South Asian Literature and the Arts 2011

Sponsored by Toronto South Asian Review
Abstract: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=10852
Friday, September 30, 2011
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Combination Room, Trinity College, University of Toronto

Mahesh Dattani
Internationally acclaimed playwright and author

My Life in Theatre and Cinema
Sponsored by Toronto South Asian Review
Abstract: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=11057
Friday, September 23 – Saturday, September 24, 2011

University of Toronto, Jackman Humanities Building, Room 318, 170 St. George Street; University of Toronto Mississauga, Instructional Centre, Rooms 250 & 245

Conference on South Asian Religions - Crossing Boundaries: Texts, Traditions, Temporalities

Co-sponsored by Department of Historical Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga, Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto
Abstract: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=11006
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
OISE, 252 Bloor Street West, Room 7-162 (seventh floor)

Amiya K Bagchi
Director, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, India; Chancellor, Tripura University, India

Colonialism and Underdevelopment: The Great Divergence between Europe and Afrasia
Sponsored by Adult Education Radical Reading Group (OISE|UT), Historical Materialism Group, Toronto
Abstract: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=10883
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