March, 2002
 

1-2 March Fri-Sat.

CENTRE FOR AUSTRALIAN STUDIES

ASANA Conference

The Centre for Australian Studies is hosting the Australian Studies Association of North America's annual conference here at the Institute of Asian Research, C. K. Choi Building, UBC.  We will have over 60 Australian studies scholars from throughout North America, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe who will be giving papers on a variety of topics that relate to Australian Studies. The conference will cover a wide variety of topics ranging from Australian Cultures, Political/Social Concerns, and other economic and social issues which are closely tied to the many graduate research subjects/themes found though out the UBC community.  The conference opening address will be delivered by the Australian High Commissioner to Canada, Tony Hely on Thursday night (February 28) from 5:45 - 6:00 p.m. in the foyer of the IAR.  A wine and cheese reception will immediately follow.  The formal conference dinner is planned for the Friday evening (March 1) at Green College with David Headon as the evening speaker.  The conference will conclude by late Saturday afternoon.

The cost of the conference is $30.00 CN for faculty without the Green College Dinner/$60 with dinner, and $10 for students without the Green College dinner/$40 with the dinner.  Interested person wishing to attend the conference, please contact Kathrine Richardson, Coordinator, Centre for Australian Studies at 604) 822-2968 (tel) or by email at kathrine@interchange.ubc.ca in order to register.

For additional conference information, please check our web site at http://www.iar.ubc.ca/centres/cas/ASANA.htm .  We look forward to seeing you at the conference. Conference Room #120

08 March Fri.
2:00 - 3:00 pm

The UBC Centre for Southeast Asia Research, in collaboration with the UVIC Southeast Asia Group and the Departments of Pacific and Asian Studies and Theatre is pleased to present:

An Experimental Performance From One of Indonesia's Finest Contemporary Actresses:

SITI NURBAYA ON THE RUN

created and performed by: TITI MARGESTI NINGSIH

TITI MARGESTI NINGSIH:  As the female lead in the landmark Jakarta experimental group, TEATER SAE, from 1987-1994, Margesti developed a powerful, physically expressive acting style that has carried over into her more recent performances, as well as informing her directorial work with the Workers' and Community Theatre groups she has founded and led since 1992.

SITI NURBAYA ON THE RUN presents Margesti's reflections on the lives of women in contemporary Indonesia. Conference Room #120
 

08 March Fri.
3:30 - 5:00 pm

CENTRE FOR KOREAN RESEARCH
"W_nhyo and the Making of a Korean Buddhist Identity" by  Eunsu Cho, University of Michigan

W_nhyo (617?686) has been used by contemporary scholars to exemplify various aspects of Korean life and thought. Korean imaginations of secularity and sacredness reflect W_nhyoís own life, which was full of surprises and adventures. Most peopleóscholars and non-academics alikeóhave taken for granted the received narrative of W_nhyo, a narrative that is now highly nationalized. However, our current image of him, one sustained through innumerable writings, cultural allusions and citations, and culminated in an appellation of "W_nhyo s_ngsa," W_nhyo, the holy master, and the cultural hero in the Korean history is not that which has always been held. It was in only in the twentieth century that W_nhyo became Koreaís most eminent cultural hero to the public. This talk will focus on one particular narrative about W_nhyo, the tíong Pulgyo (comprehensive, syncretic Buddhism) narrative. It emerged in a 1930 essay by Chíoe Nams_n (1890?1957) and was subsequently elaborated to become a dominant discourse of interpreting not only W_nhyo but also Korean Buddhism generally. It has generated a syncretic ideology that has grounded contemporary Korean Buddhist scholarship.

Conference Room #120
 
 

11 March Mon.
12:00 - 1:15 pm

INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCH
"Reengendering Shinto: Gender Politics and Memory of Ise Ritual in Postwar Japan" By Rosemarie Bernard, Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Bowdoin College

Rosemarie Bernard is a candidate for the Keidanren Chair in Japanese Research

In the wake of World War II, changes were made to the legal status of Shinto, as well as to the certain key ritual positions at the Grand Shrines of Ise, Japan's highest ranking Shinto shrine dedicated to the imperial spirit.  This paper examines the political context of those changes, and comments  on the uses of the distant and recent past in reinterpreting the significance of Shinto in postwar Japan. Conference Room #120
 
 

13 March Wed.
10:30am - 12:00 pm

CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH
"Gear Change: From an Economic Giant to a Responsible Middle Power: A Hypothesis" By Yoshinobu Yamamoto, University of Tokyo Conference

Room #120
 
 

13 March Wed.
4:30 - 6:00 pm

INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCH GLOBALIZATION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF ASIAN SOCIETIES: "Democratization (or Democracy) in Korea"

by Professor Byung Young Ahn, Dept. of Public Administration, Yonsei University, Visiting Scholar, Centre for Korean Research, UBC Conference

Room #120
 

14 March Thurs.
12:30 - 2:00 pm
7:30 - 9:30 pm

 CENTRE FOR INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA RESEARCH
P. Sainath, "A Tribe of His Own: The Journalism of P. Sainath" (documentary film by Joe Moulins) and photo essay "Visible Work, Invisible Women"

The award-winning, provocative and controversial Indian journalist P. Sainath will be in attendance for these special screenings of a new documentary film about his work entitled "A Tribe of His Own: The Journalism of P. Sainath". Mr. Sainath is the author of the acclaimed book Everybody Loves a Good Drought and is a pioneer of "development journalism", and Amnesty International recently named him "human rights journalist of the year" for 2000. Joe Moulins, the producer of the film, will also be at the screenings, and both Mr. Sainath and Mr. Moulins will be on-hand for questions afterward. There will also be an exhibition of Mr. Sainathís photo essay "Visible Work, Invisible Women" in the lounge. This consists of sixty-five pictures taken over the past dozen years - many from the rural areas Mr. Sainath wrote about in Everybody Loves a Good Drought. For more information about the film and Mr. Sainath please visit www.moulinsmedia.com.  Conference Room #120
 

15 March Fri.
9:00 am - 4:00 pm

 PROGRAMME IN INTER-CULTURAL STUDIES IN ASIA (PICSA) AND WOMENíS STUDIES PROGRAMME

On Friday 15 March, 2002, the Programme in Inter-cultural Studies in Asia at the Institute of Asian Research will be holding a day-long workshop to establish a network among the faculty of UBC, SFU and UVic who are working on gender and development issues in Asia.
Please contact Dr. M. Bose, Director of the Centre for India and South Asia Research at mbose@interchange.ubc.ca or Dr. Sunera Thobani, Women's Studies, at sth@interchange.ubc.ca for further details.

Workshop Schedule
Morning Session: Coffee

9: 00-9:15 Welcome by Mandakranta Bose and Sunera Thobani

9:30-10:30 Panel of 3x15 minute presentations and discussion
10:30-11:30 Panel of 3x15 minute presentations and discussion
11:30-12:30 Panel of 3x15 minute presentations and discussion

Lunch break:

12:30-2:00 Working lunch

Afternoon Session:

2:00-3:30 Discussion and future plans for building the network.

Adjourn Conference Room #120
 
 

15 March Fri.
3:30 - 5:00 pm

CENTRE FOR KOREAN RESEARCH
"The Three Types of Ipkyeoch" by Eun Kyu Lee, Taegu Catholic University

"A Study of the Semantics of Active and Passive in Korean and English" by Jung Tag Lee, Seoul Women's University

 Seminar Room #129
 
 
 

19 March Tues.
12:30 - 2:00 pm

CENTRE FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA RESEARCH
"Why ASEAN, APEC, and ARF are Still Weak Regimes"

Sorpong Peou, Associate Professor of Political Science / International Relations, Faculty of Comparative Culture, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, and Visiting Scholar, UBC Centre for Southeast Asia Research.

In this talk, Dr. Peou will present a cross-institutional analysis of these international regimes, which seeks to shed light on their Lockean nature and explains why they are unlikely to become mature in Kantian terms. Conference Room #120
 
 

21 March Thurs.
12:00 - 1:15 pm

INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCH
"Japan between East Asia and North America: Japan-US Alliance and Future of Japan's Independent Foreign Policy" by Yasuhiro Izumikawa, Political Science, Miyazaki International College (MIC)

Yasuhiro Izumikawa is a candidate for the Keidanren Chair in Japanese Research

Dr. Izumikawa will examine the patterns of Japan's foreign policies toward northeast Asia (China and/or Korea) and its increasing desire to seek its own policy initiatives independent of pressure from the US. He will then analyze the underlying causes and a possible course of Japan's policy toward China and/or Korea from external and domestic perspectives.

 Conference Room #120
 
 

22 March Fri.
11:30 - 1:00 pm

CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH
 This seminar is the first event of the UBC Year of Japan Series (March  2001-April 2002)

"Jomon Archaeology and the Sannai Maruyama Site: Degree of Sedentism and the Evolution of Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers on the Japanese Archipelago" by Professor Junko Habu, Dept. of Anthropology, University of California,  Berkeley

The prehistoric Jomon culture of the Japanese Archipelago is known as a  unique hunter-gatherer culture associated with sophisticated pottery, ceremonial features, and  large settlements. It shares a number of characteristics with so-called "complex"  hunter-gatherers in various parts of the world. These characteristics include seasonally and/or spatially  intensive subsistence strategies, food storage, relatively sedentary lifeways (sedentism), and high  population density. My presentation examines the dynamics of the development of these cultural  characteristics through the Jomon period, with an emphasis on the interpretation of data  from the Sannai Maruyama site, a large Jomon settlement recently excavated in Aomori Prefecture. Discussion will focus on the mechanisms and implications of these developments in the course of human history in general, and in the context of Japanese prehistory in  particular.

The reception following the seminar will serve refreshments. Everyone welcome

 Conference Room #120
 
 

25 March Mon.
4:00-5:30 pm

CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH & DEPT. OF ECONOMICS
 UBC Year of Japan Series

"A Test for Long-Run Granger Non-Causality in Cointegrated  Systems, with an Application to the Japanese Economy" by Taku Yamamoto, Hitotsubashi University

Professor Yamamoto is a professor of economics and formerly the dean of the Faculty of Economics of Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo.

Professor Yamamoto will discuss some useful time series models and its application to the Japanese economy will be presented.

Conference Room #120
 
 

25 March Mon.
11:30am - 1:00 pm

INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCH GLOBALIZATION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF ASIAN SOCIETIES: "Will WTO Help China's Unemployed Former Workforce" by Professor Dorothy Solinger, University of California, Irvine

I will argue that China's entry into the World Trade Organization can only be considered a "win-win" deal for both the US and China, if the plight of some 50 million laid-off and unemployed workers--and that of millions more to follow--is ignored.  Unlike what several optimistic claims suggest, for those people whose skills are low and educational level is inferior, the impact of the entry will be higher unemployment and thus more stiff competition in an already hugely oversupplied market for unskilled labor.  For this reason, this unfortunate prognosis for them and people like them is not short term but instead is multi-decade.  It is likely that many more jobs will be lost than gained by China's entry.

 Conference Room #120
 
 

27-28 March .
9:00 am - 5:00 pm

 CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH UBC Year of  Japan: 2002-2003 (First Symposium in a Series)
JAPAN, CANADA, & THE PACIFIC RIM: TRADE, INVESTMENT & SECURITY ISSUES
 
 

27 March Wed.
9:00 am              Opening address by Dean of Graduate Studies, Dr. Frieda Granot.
9:15-10:00 am    Keynote Speaker: Professor John Ravenhill (Political Science, Edinburgh)
10:15-11:30 am  Session 1
                            Japan and Canada's Overseas Trade with Asia-Pacific:
                            Canadian speaker:  Mr. Ron Richardson (Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada).
                            Japanese speaker:  Mr. Toshiki Takahashi (Japan External Trade Organization,
                            JETRO, Toronto)

                            Discussant: Ilan Vertinsky (UBC Commerce)
11:30-12:45 pm  Session II
                             Japanese Business Overseas:  North America
                             North American speaker: Neil Reid (Geography & Planning, Toledo University)
                             Japanese speaker:  Kenkichi Nagao (Institute of Economic Research, Osaka
                             City University)

                             Discussant: John Ries (UBC Commerce)
1:30-2:15pm  Session III
                              Japanese Business Overseas: Asia-Pacific
                              Australian speaker: Wendy Smith (Asian Research Inst., Monash University)
                              North American speaker: Walter Hatch (University of Washington)

                              Discussant: Roger Hayter (Simon Fraser University, Geography)
3:00-4:15 pm  Session IV
                              Australian and Canadian Links with Japan
                             Australian presenter: Dennis Rumley (Intíl Relations, U.. of Western Australia)
                             Canadian presenter:  James Fox (Dept. of Foreign Affairs & Trade, Ottawa)

                             Discussant: Rick Barichello (UBC Agricultural Science)

For further information, please contact David Edgington at edgingtn@geog.ubc.ca

Conference Room #120
 
 

28 March Thurs

9:00am-12:00pm CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH UBC Year of  Japan: 2002-2003 (First Symposium in a Series)

JAPAN, CANADA, & THE PACIFIC RIM: TRADE, INVESTMENT & SECURITY ISSUES
Thurs 28 March
9:00 am               Registration
9:30-10:45 am  Session V
                              Japan's Trade and Financial Linkages in the Asia-Pacific Region
                              Japanese Speaker: Kiyokatsu Nishiguchi (Economics, Ritsumeikan, UBC)
                              Japanese Speaker: Hiro Haga (Fukuoka Sangyo University)

                              Discussant: Masao Nakamura (Commerce, UBC, Director Centre for Japanese
                              Research)
11:00-11:45am Session VI
                              Security and Trade Issues around the Pacific Rim
                              Canadian Speaker. Dr. Brian Job, Liu Centre for the Research of Global
                              Issues, UBC
                              Japanese Speaker. Dr. Tsutomu Kikuchi, Director, Aoyama Centre for
                              International Political Economy, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo

                              Discussant: Professor Tsuyoshi Kawasaki, Dept. of Political Science, SFU
11:45-12:00 pm   Closing Remarks:
                              David W. Edgington (Geography, UBC) & Masao Nakamura
                       (Commerce, CJR UBC)

For further information, please contact David Edgington at edgingtn@geog.ubc.ca

Conference Room #120
 

February, 2002
 

1 February Fri..
2:00  - 5:30 pm

CENTRE FOR KOREAN RESEARCH
"War Against Terrorism and the Korean Peninsula"

For further information, please contact Kyung-Ae Park (kpark@interchange.ubc.ca)
Sponsored by The Korea Economic Institute of America, Washington, DC, Institute of International Relations, UBC, Korea Foundation, Korea and The Korea Daily, Vancouver

Conference Room #120
 

7 February Thur.
2:00 - 3:00 pm

PROGRAM ON CANADA-ASIA POLICY STUDIES
"Andrew McAlister, Canada's Ambassador to Thailand, will be visiting UBC on Thursday, February 7th.  We will be organizing an open and informal Roundtable between 2-3 pm in the Choi building on current developments in Thailand and implications for Canada.

Please contact Paul Evans (pmevans@interchange.ubc.ca) or Shirley Yue (syue@interchange.ubc.ca, 822-0436) if you'd like to join the Roundtable.

Seminar Room #129
 

8 February Fri..
12:00 - 1:30 pm

CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH
"Mind Roaming above the Ocean: Mental Health and Subculture of Young Japanese Sojourners in Vancouver " By  Dr.Etsuko Kato , Post-doctoral researcher, Dept. of Psychology and Centre for Japanese Research

With increasing popularity of living in Canada as students or Working Holiday makers among Japan-born Japanese youth today, boundaries between visitors, residents and immigrants become increasingly blurred.
This paper discusses specific problems this emerging population of Japanese youth in Vancouver faces.  Based on interviews and participant observation, the paper discusses unique types of identity crisis the youth experience, including uncertainties of their ultimate countries of residence, of visa status, of their jobs, and indecisiveness about to which factor above should be given priority.  Along with these general tendencies, the paper discusses more serious problems some of the youth suffer, such as escaping, if not hostile, attitudes towards Japanese society, abusive relationship with Canadian partners, or drugs, and analyses what factors lead them to the more destructive life in Vancouver.

 Conference Room #120
 

12 February Tue.
12:30 - 2:00 pm

CENTRE FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA RESEARCH
"Creating Transnational/Local Spaces for Feminist Advocacy and Gender Mainstreaming in the Bureaucracy: The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women (NCRFW), and Philippine Women's NGOs" By Leonora C. Angeles, Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Community and Regional Planning, UBC, UBC Women's Studies Scholar in Residence for 2001-2002

Mapping the transnational terrain of gender advocacy and mainstreaming in the Philippines reveals the role of various international developmentagencies, particularly the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and its support for Gender and Development (GAD) programs in the post-Marcos era (1986-present). Since the early 1990s, CIDA-funded GAD projects in the Philippines, to be found in the interstices of its partnerships and bilateral assistance programmes, have been developed within its wider focus on capacity-development and adjustments to the new decentralisation framework under the post-authoritarian or "democratic" transition. This has marked the considerable decline of CIDA's direct assistance to women NGOs in the Philippines and corresponding shift to institutional capability-building of government agencies. Two CIDA projects, the Women NGOs Umbrella Project, and Institutional Strengthening Project with the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women (NCRFW), and Canadian aid to Negros Occidental province are used to illustrate the interesting relationships between women NGOs, national and local governments, and Canadian development aid. A critical examination of Canadian-Philippine linkages in promoting gender mainstreaming in the bureaucracy must include the analysis of the opportunities and constraints in creating a pool of state-based gender advocates, as well as those posed by the internal dynamics of the Philippine women's movement since 1986. Such transnational linkages, embodied in the interesting mix of "state feminism" and "critical engagement" in the NCRFW's "bibingka" (rice cake) strategy, show the interpenetration of the "global" and the "local" and the blurring of boundaries between "government" and "civil society" in the
course of gender advocacy and mainstreaming.

C.K. Choi Bldg. Conference Room #120
 

13 February Wed.
11:30 - 2:30 pm

INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCH LUNAR NEW YEAR FESTIVAL
Asian food sale by various Asian restaurants with cultural performances and craft demonstrations

For more information visit www.iar.ubc.ca

C.K. Choi Bldg.
 

14 February Thur
12:30 - 2:00 pm

INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCH
"A Fulbright Experience: The Joys and Tribulations of Doing Dissertation Research in China"  by  Mark Jacobs

Mark Jacobs is a Fulbright PhD student from Cornell University studying in China under the auspices of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.  His research is a comparative study focusing on two locales, Wenzhou in Zhejiang Province and Wuxi in Jiangsu.  Wenzhou has been a center of privatized industry, while Wuxi has been noted for the emphasis it has placed on more socialist types of firms, specifically town and village enterprises.  Although property rights in both places are now becoming more clear, the historical institutional backgrounds of Wuxi and Wenzhou differ quite a bit.  His interest is in determining how these backgrounds, in the midst of ongoing economic and social reforms, are influencing the two places' current developmental patterns.

C.K. Choi Bldg. Conference Room #120
 

15 February Fri.
3:30 - 5:00 pm

CENTRE FOR KOREAN RESEARCH
"Characteristics and Evolution of Comic Poems in Written Chinese during the Choson Dynasty" by Beom Joong Seong, Ul-San University, Korea

C.K. Choi Bldg. Conference Room #120
 

18-19 February Mon-Tue.
Mon 18 Feb 8:45 am - 5:45 pm
Tues 19 Feb 9:00 am - 12:30 pm

CENTRE FOR KOREAN RESEARCH "Globalization and Local Social Cohesion in Korea: Workshop"

For more information please contact Yunshik Chang at yunshik@interchange.ubc.ca, 822-3797

C.K. Choi Bldg. Conference Room #120
 

27 February Wed

INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCH GLOBALIZATION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF ASIAN
SOCIETIES:
"Globalization and Religion in China" by Pitman Potter, Institute of Asian Research, UBC

C.K. Choi Bldg.

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28 February Thur.
12:00 - 1:15 pm

INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCH
"Teaching History after Defeat: Comparing Postwar Japan and the Germanys" By Julian Dierkes, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Japan Centre, University of Cambridge

Julian Dierkes is a candidate for the Keidanren Chair in Japanese Research

An analysis of the historiographical orientation of postwar Japanese and German (GDR and FRG) textbook portrayals of the nation in six historical
episodes. Differences and over-time developments in this orientation are explained through an institutionalist account of the educational policy-making regime and of the collective interests of actors who participate in decision-making.

C.K. Choi Bldg.

January, 2002

7 January Mon.
12:00-1:00 pm

CENTRE FOR INDIA & SOUTH ASIA RESEARCH
"In Pursuit of Science in Nineteenth-Century Benares" by Michael Dodson, Assistant Lecturer in the History of South Asia, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge

Conference Room #120
 

8 January Tues.
12:00 - 1:00 pm

INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCH
"Association, Power, and Politics: Lawyer's Groups in Modern Japan" by Dr. Darryl Flaherty, Post-doctoral fellow, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute
of Japanese Studies, Harvard University

Darryl Flaherty is a candidate for the Keidanren Chair for Japanese Research.

The talk will discuss the importance of voluntary associations in modern Japan, with a focus on groups of lawyers.  During the Meiji period (1868-1912), associations of lawyers introduced legal thinking as a new way of organizing society and then, through their influence in the lower house of the Diet, passed legislation favorable to their profession.  Later, in the early 1920s the Japan Lawyers Association, the national professional association, successfully campaigned for the establishment of a jury system in Japan.  In the years that followed, national associations of lawyers increased their influence on matters of concern to the profession, at the expense of their activism on behalf of the general public.  The talk will focus on the role of the Japan Lawyers Association in the establishment of the jury system, in the context of this broader history.
 

Conference Room #120
 
 
 

16 January Wed.
4:30 - 6:00 pm

INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCH GLOBALIZATION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF ASIAN SOCIETIES:
"What Can India Get Out of Globalization?" by Ashok Kotwal, Dept. of Economics, UBC

The talk will explore the history of past episodes of  globalization for possible lessons for India today. It will also  touch upon other implications of trade that may be more relevant to India than to other countries.
This is an attempt to sort out which aspects of the historical experience of globalization are relevant in understanding the process of globalization presently underway, and to speculate on the possible implications for India.

Seminar Room #129
 
 

18 January Fri.
2L30 - 4:30pm

THE CENTRE FOR KOREAN RESEARCH CONFERENCE

Comfort Women of World War II: Their Suffering Must Not Be Forgotten
 

The Centre for Korean Research at the University of British Columbia announces a public discussion of the issue of Comfort Women and Japan's responsibility for the suffering they have endured for over half a century.

The 1990s witnessed a reawakening by the outside world to the Japanese enslavement of thousands of women during World War II. Last year an international group of concerned men and women met in Tokyo to convene a tribunal to evaluate the evidence for the charge that Japanese military forces forced into sexual slavery thousands of women from Korea, Taiwan, and other Asian regions under the control of the Japanese military in the late 1930s and the early 1940s.

On Friday, 2:30-4:30 P.M., January 18, 2002,  we will hear Sylvia Yu, a journalist from CHTV in Victoria, talk about "The History of the 'Comfort Women' and Impact on  Canadian Society." Then we will watch a short video about that Tokyo tribunal and its findings. After that, Young-Ae Yamashita, a professor from Ritsumeikan University in Japan currently visiting UBC, will discuss "The Re-discovery of the Comfort Women Issue in Korea." She will be followed by Etsuro Totsuka, a Japanese law professor and activist currently visiting the UBC Faculty of Law, who will report on "The NGO's Legal Efforts to Obtain Redress and Compensation for Former Comfort Women."

Sponsored by the UBC Centre for Korean Research, with the support of the UBC Program in Women's Studies, the B.C. Association for Learning and Preserving the History of World War II in Asia, and the Canada Asia Pacific Resource Network. Everyone is welcome.

Program

1. Sylvia Yu: "The History of the 'Comfort Women' and Impact on Canadian Society"
2. Video: "The Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual  Slavery" (provided courtesy of BC ALPHA)

Coffee Break

3. Young-Ae Yamashita: "The Re-discovery of the Comfort Women Issue in Korea."
4. Etsuro Totsuka: "The NGO's Legal Efforts to Obtain Redress and Compensation for Former Comfort Women."
 
 

22 January Tues.
4:30 - 6:30 pm

CENTRE FOR KOREAN RESEARCH

The Centre for Korean Research, with generous sponsorship from the  Canada Korea Business Association and the Joong Ang Ilbo (Korea Central Daily), is pleased to host a performance by this master of the tanso. Light  refreshments will be served.
"An Evening of Tanso (Korean bamboo flute) flute music with Korean Buddhist Monk, Duck Hyun Sunim"

Conference Room #120
 

24 January Thur.
12:30 - 2:00 pm

CENTRE FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA RESEARCH

"Asia's Response to the New Regionalism in the Context of the Multilateral Framework" by Professor  Linda Low, Associate Professor in the Department of Business Policy, National University of Singapore

In this talk, Dr. Low will discuss the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement and related proposals for trade multilateralism under ASEAN+3, ASEAN-CER with Australia and New Zealand, and ASEAN-China.  She will also present an update and analysis of current Singaporean bilateral free trade arrangements.

C.K. Choi Bldg. Conference Room #120
 

25 January Fri.
3:30 - 5:00 pm

CENTRE FOR KOREAN RESEARCH

"Koreans' Understanding of Japan in the Late Choson Dynasty" by Professor Woo-Bong Ha, Chonbuk National University

C.K. Choi Bldg. Conference Room #120
 

30 January Wed.
4:30 - 6:00 pm

INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCH GLOBALIZATION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF ASIAN SOCIETIES:
"Step Back and Consider Afresh: The World Bank Independent Review of the Sardar Sarovar Dam Project on Indiaís Narmada River" by Professor John R. Wood, Political Science, UBC

Conference Room #120
 
 

November, 2001

1 November Fri.
1:00 pm

PROGRAMME IN INTERCULTURAL STUDIES IN ASIA AT THE INSTITUTE
Indian Light Classical Music: A Lecture Demonstration, By The Gulwadi Quartet

This exposition of North Indian vocal music will introduce listeners to the different forms of light classical style, including thumri, kajri, bhajan, geet, gazal and folk music.  The Gulwadi Quartet comprises of four siblings, sisters Shobhana Rao, Shaila Hattangadi and Nirmala Jaishankar and thier brother Arun Gulwadi.  Thier musical roots are in Allahabad, where under their musician mother's training they have grown into a highly regarded ensemble of variously textured voices.

C.K. Choi Bldg. Conference Room #120
 

7 November Wed.
1:00 - 2:30 pm

CENTRE FOR INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA RESEARCH
"Is Pakistan on a Taliban and Nuclear Fuse? South Asian Security Dynamics & the US War in Afganistan"  by Dr. Haider K. Nizamani, Global Security and Cooperation Fellow of the Social Science Research Council, Institute of International Relations, UBC

Conference Room #120
 

9 November Fri.
3:00 - 5:30 pm

CENTRE FOR KOREAN RESEARCH
CKR Fall 2001 Conference: "Issues in Korean Politics and Society"

Everyone is welcome

1. Professor Sang-In Jun, Department of Sociology, Hallym University
Title: "Do Asian Values Make Sense?"

This presentation tries to challenge the pro-Confucian hypotheses, which explain that the Confucian value has contributed to the rise of capitalist East Asia. First of all, the concept of East Asia is too abstract and too vague to serve as a proper unit of analysis. Second, it is difficult to employ cultural tradition as an autonomous and independent variable for a meaningful analysis of economic development. Third, the alleged positive correlation between Confucianism and East Asia's economic success fails to make sense in terms of logical causality as well as empirical evidence. And finally, the debate over Asian values seems to be a geopolitical and ideological struggle rather than a purely academic polemic.

2. Professor Steven H. Lee, Department of History, The University of British Columbia
Title: "The 1954 Geneva Conference on Korea"

This paper will discuss the international diplomacy surrounding the 1954 Geneva Conference on Korea. The conference has traditionally been downplayed in the diplomatic literature because of the international prominence given to the Conference on Indochina, which met at the same venue in the summer of 1954. An analysis of the Korean conference serves to underline the cold war objectives of the great powers and the two Koreas in the period immediately following the signing of the armistice.

3. Professor Byung-Hoon Suh, Department of Political Science, Soong Sil University
Title: "Kim Dae-Jung's Engagement Policy and the South-South Conflict in South Korea"

South Korean President Kim Dae-Jung's efforts and his general policy direction aiming at reconciliation and cooperation between the North and South are quite admirable. But his leadership style is not. As many data indicate, South Koreans have grown increasingly dissatisfied with his authoritarian government, and the general public's distrust of him has already hurt his Sunshine Policy toward North Korea. Kim's loss of political influence and his lame duck status are having an extremely negative impact on the nation. His way of dealing with North Korea has seriously aggravated the so-called South-South conflict in South Korea. President Kim needs to overhaul and depoliticize his engagement policy with North Korea. He is urged to hurry and reach a consensus with the opposition regarding unification issues. For these purposes, his principle of flexible reciprocity toward North Korea must no longer be accompanied by his so-far low-profile approach. The assistance of North Korea, that of the opposition party in South Korea, and that of the United States are needed to ensure any measure of success.
 

Conference Room #120
 

13 November Tues.
1:00 - 2:00 pm

PROGRAMME IN INTERCULTURAL STUDIES IN ASIA (PICSA)
"The Post-Human Body and East Asian Popular Culture" by Sharalyn Orbaugh, Associate Professor,Asian Studies and Women's Studies.

This seminar is being presented as part of the PICSA Gender and Development Series.

Conference Room #120
 

14 November Wed.
4:30 - 6:00 pm

INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCH, GLOBALIZATION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF ASIAN SOCIETIES:
"Two Faces of Korean Nationalism and South Korean Democracy" by Yunshik Chang, Professor Emeritus, Anthropology and Sociology, UBC

Conference Room #120
 
 

15 November Thurs,
12:30 - 2:00 pm

CENTRE FOR CHINESE RESEARCH
"Temple Festivals in Rural North China: Baoding, Hebei: A Preliminary Report with Photo Display"  by Daniel L. Overmyer, Professor Emeritus, Department of Asian Studies and Centre for Chinese Research

Conference Room #120
 
 

21 November Wed.
4:30 - 6:00 pm

INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCH
GLOBALIZATION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF ASIAN SOCIETIES:
"Cambodia 2001: Freedom at Last?" By Gordon Longmuir, Diplomat in Residence, Institute of Asian Research, UBC

Conference Room #120
 

30 November Fri
 3:30-5:00  pm

CENTRE FOR KOREAN RESEARCH
Continuity and Discontinuity of Confucian Tradition in Late Choson
Korean Society,  by Professor Kim In-Geol, Seoul National University
 

seminar room of C.K.Choi.

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28 February Thur. - 02 March Sat. 2002

The Centre for Australian Studies in cooperation with Dr. Wes Pue, Faculty of Law UBC, Rollins College, and Queen's University will be hosting the Australian Studies Association of North America (ASANA) annual conference at the Institute of Asian Research, UBC from Thursday, February 28 through Saturday, March 2, 2002. ASANA is a multidisciplinary association, designed to bring together scholars working on Australian topics or conducting research involving comparisons with Australia. It holds a yearly conference that features a range of papers and presentations from different disciplinary perspectives such as law, history, security, trade, political science, sociology, media, and literature.

The conference sponsors encourage both faculty and students in all related disciplines at UBC to participate in this event. Anyone interested in presenting a paper or wanting to attend should go to ASANA web site at http://www.iar.ubc.ca/centres/cas/ASANA.htm for specific details about registration and call for papers.

The conference dinner is planned for the Friday evening (March 1) at Green College, with the conference concluding by late Saturday afternoon. The cost of the conference is $170.00 CN which includes a one year ASANA membership, a wine and cheese reception, formal dinner, and all other meals throughout the programme.

If you have additional inquires regarding the conference, please do not hesitate to contact Kathrine Richardson at the Centre for Australian Studies at 822-2968, or by email kathrine@interchange.ubc.ca
 
 

October, 2001

9 October Tues.
1:00 - 2:00 pm

PROGRAMME IN INTERCULTURAL STUDIES IN ASIA (PICSA)
"Scandal and Homicide in Batavia: Literary Representations of Dutch  Indies Society around 1900" By Tineke Hellwig, Asian Studies, UBC
 Conference Room #120

10 October Wed
4:30 - 6:00 pm
INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCH & GLOBALIZATION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF ASIAN SOCIETIES:
"When Free Expression Hits the Fan: Contemporary Art in Indonesia" by Astri Wright, Dept. of Fine Arts, University of Victoria

 Conference Room #120
 
 

12 October Fri
3:00 - 5:00 pm

CENTRE FOR KOREAN RESEARCH
"How Korean is traditional Korean medicine?" By Donald Baker, Director, Centre for Korean Research

In the last couple of decades the Korean term for Chinese medicine in Korea has been changed to "Korean medicine." However, my research on the history of Chinese medicine on the Korean peninsula has convinced me that the basic principles and practices of traditional Korean medicine have been and remain the same as the basic principles and practices of Chinese medicine. Over the centuries Koreans have modified slightly the principles and practices they have imported from China. Nevertheless, the traditional medicine of Korea is essentially the same as the traditional medicine of China.

 Conference Room #120
 
 

16 October Tues
2:00 - 3:30 pm

CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH
"Culture, Self, and Dissonance" By Professor Shinobu Kitayama, Kyoto University and University of Chicago

Crafting the sense of "I" (or the personal agency) that locates the self in the attendant socio-cultural milieu is a universal human task.  However, different cultures have developed and encouraged remarkably different modes of constructing the personal agency. In this talk, I delineate two cross-culturally divergent modes of constructing the personal agency. Specifically, in Western "independent" cultures, the personal agency is typically constructed in reference to privately held attitudes, preferences, and judgments. The agency, then, is likely to be experienced as fully detached from and independent of the surrounding. In contrast, in Eastern "interdependent" cultures, the personal agency is constructed in reference to attitudes, preferences, and expectations held by relevant others in the surrounding. The agency, then, is likely to be experienced as inseparably engaged and interdependent with others in the surrounding. These ideas are illustrated with initial evidence from a series of cross-cultural experiments on a cognitive dissonance effect.

 Conference Room #120
 
 

16 October Tues
12:00 noon

Asian Centre Auditorium
CENTRE FOR CHINESE RESEARCH
CONCERT OF CHINESE PIPA MUSIC Lui Pui-yuen, Pipa (lute) & Qin (zither)

Free and open to the public

Following his early musical education in Shanghai during the 1950s, Mr. Lui spent the next two decades in Hong Kong where he founded the Hong Kong
Chinese Music Association. He has recorded most of the traditional and contemporary pipa and qin repertory for Lyrichord and other major labels,
establishing himself as one of the leading performers of late 20th-century.
 
 

17 October Wed
12:30 - 2:00 pm

CENTRE FOR CHINESE RESEARCH
"Xinjiang in the New Millennium" by ZHANG Feng

The lecture will deal with migration, ethnic relations and ecological issues in Xinjiang. Zhang Feng is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, UBC. He has done field work in Xinjiang.

C.K. Choi Bldg., Conference Room #120
 
 

18 October Thurs
12:30 - 2:00 pm

CENTRE FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA RESEARCH AND ASIA PACIFIC FOUNDATION OF CANADA
"Trends in the Philippine media and the role that multi-media and investigative journalism play in democratization in the Philippines"  By Vinia M. Datinguinoo, Chief of Research, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism and McLuhan Fellow

 Conference Room #120
 
 

19 October Fri
9:00 - 5:00 pm

CENTRE FOR KOREAN RESEARCH
"Korea, Past and Future: Korea University-University of British Columbia, Centre for Korean Research Workshop"

For more information contact Prof. Yunshik Chang yunshik@interchange.ubc.ca

C.K. Choi Bldg. Conference Room #120
 
 

22 October Mon
1:00 - 2:30 pm

CENTRE FOR INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA RESEARCH
"South Asian studies and diaspora studies in St. Petersburg (Russia)" By Igor Kotin

Dr. Igor Kotin, Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies at the University of St. Petersburg, Russia, is a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for India and South A sia Research. He has worked on South Asian Muslims in Britain and is at present working on the Sikh Diaspora in Canada.

C.K. Choi Bldg. Conference Room #120
 
 
 

23 October Tues
12:30 - 2:00 pm
CENTRE FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA RESEARCH
"The Politics of Islamic 'Fundamentalism' and Human Rights" by Professor M. Maznah

The specific focus of this talk will be an analysis of the roots of  "Islamic Fundamentalism" in Malaysia, especially the cultural and political contexts of its development. The bigger issue posed by this examination is the question of Islam's compatibility with liberal institutions of democracy, its human rights regime and its model of political pluralism. This question is especially urgent for a country like Malaysia which is multiethnic, and like the rest of the world, will have to come to terms with the challenge posed by conflicting world views competing to influence current intellectual discourse and political practice."

Conference Room #120
 
 
 

25 October Thurs
4:30 - 6:00 pm

INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCH
GLOBALIZATION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF ASIAN SOCIETIES: "The 'Myanmar Way': Burman Cultural Values, Authoritarian Rule and the
Tensions of Globalization" by Bruce Matthews, Comparative Religion, Acadia University

C.K. Choi Bldg. Seminar Room #129
 
 

26 October Fri
12:30 - 1:30 pm

CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH
"Japan's Optical Industry during the 1920s, 1930s, and the Post WWII Era" by Jeff Alexander, Ph.D. student, Department of History and CJR, UBC

This presentation examines the development of Japan's optical industry during the 1920s, 1930s, and through the immediate post-World War Two era, placing particular emphasis upon the support given to emergent optical firms by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). The speaker seeks to trace IJN support for optical munitions development back to the Washington Naval Limitation Treaty of 1922 and the subsequent London Naval Treaty of 1930 - arguing that the root of Japan's early optical research and development initiatives is to be found in Japan's compensatory Naval Supplementary Bill of 1930. Through an investigation of Nikon's own company histories and the U.S. Navy Technical Mission to Japan, 1945, the operational and technical growth of companies such as Nikon, Fuji, Canon, and Minolta are examined. Critical technical advances made in the furtherance of IJN projects are shown to be at the heart of Japan's optical design and manufacturing successes in the post-war occupation period. In building upon its significant wartime technical breakthroughs and mass-production processes, Nikon was able to capture post-war consumer optical markets both at home and abroad by the late 1950s. That chain of events will be shown to have originated with the emphasis placed by the IJN upon developing auxiliary and experimental weapons technologies following the London Naval Treaty of
1930.

C.K. Choi Bldg. Conference Room #120
 
 

26 October Fri
6:30 pm

SACPAN RECEPTION
Evening Reception at home of Bob Anderson & Kathy Mezei (tel 604 299 9701)
304 North Delta Avenue
Capitol Hill, North Burnaby

PLEASE!! send RSVP to Bob Anderson at "randerso@sfu.ca". Contribution for food and refreshments will be $18.00 - RSVP required to estimate the
order for food accurately.
 
 

27 October Sat
9:30 am - 3:30 pm

SFU Harbour Centre, 515 W Hastings Street, Ground Floor, The Segal Centre, Room 1400
CENTRE FOR INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA RESEARCH, UBC/DEPT. OF HISTORY AND DEPT. OF COMMUNICATIONS, SFU

The South Asia Colloquium of the Pacific Northwest (SACPAN)

For more information please contact Mandakranta Bose 604 822-6463 or mbose@interchange.ubc.ca

September, 2001

7 September. Fri
2:00 - 3:30 pm

CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH
"Attending Holistically vs. Analytically: Comparing the Context Sensitivity of Japanese and Americans" by Takahiko Masuda, University of Michigan.

Much research indicates that Japanese, more than Americans, explain events and make predictions about them with reference to the context.  We examined whether Japanese also attend to the context more than do Americans.  In Study 1, Japanese and American participants saw animated vignettes, reporting after each vignette what they had seen.  In a subsequent recognition test, participants were shown objects they had previously seen, either in their original setting or in some other setting, and objects they had not seen, and were asked to say whether they had seen the objects or not.  Study 2 replicated the recognition task using still photos of animals.  The results indicated that 1) the Japanese mentioned information about the context more than Americans; 2) the Japanese made more statements about relationships than Americans; 3) the Japanese recognized previously seen objects more accurately when they saw them with the original background than when they saw them with the novel background, whereas this manipulation had relatively little effect on Americans.  The results suggest that Japanese explain events in contextual terms more than do Americans in part because they attend more to contexts.
 Conference Room #120
 

12 September Wed
12:30 - 2:00 pm

CENTRE FOR INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA RESEARCH
"CISAR get-together"

The annual gathering of all South-Asianists on Campus will be held to welcome new-comers and old friends.  A light lunch will be served.
 RSVP Mandakranta Bose
mbose@interchange.ubc.ca, 822-6463 before Sept. 8  Lounge
 
 

12 September Wed
4:30 - 6:00 pm

INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCH & GLOBALIZATION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF ASIAN SOCIETIES:
"The Fluid World: Fragmenting Authority, Increasing Capability, Transient Places, and Insecurity" Barrie M. Morrison, Honorary Professor, Institute of Asian Research.

Over the last fifty years, the many changes that are labeled "globalization", as well as others, have transformed our world. Those institutions which have claimed authority have lost effectiveness and legitimacy. Individual have gained in capabilities. Certainty about social place has dissolved. Multiplying organizations generate ideological plurality, societal conflict and, perhaps, encourage democratic practices.
In sum, these changes are a challenge to the social order at a time when disorder carries increasing costs.  This paper will explore dimensions of these changes in the Asian countries that have been discussed earlier in our seminars. Conference Room #120
 

24 September Mon
12:30 - 2:00 pm

CENTRE FOR CHINESE RESEARCH
"Literature in Manchukuo" (Weiman wenxue) By LI Zhengzhong

The talk will be in Mandarin, all are welcome.

Li Zhengzhong, born in Shenyang in 1921, is a noted calligrapher, author, and poet from China's Northeast. This lecture will illuminate Mr. Li's experiences as a writer during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, 1931-45. Mr. Li was active in the local literary world "exposing the reality" of the occupation through six volumes of poetry and short fiction between 1941 and 1945. Mr. Li also worked as a literary critic and editor, assisting in the production of women's writings; his wife, Zhu Ti, is one of the most prominent contemporary women writers of the region. In 1948,
the couple traded their pens for guns as they joined the Communist army and remained in the People's Republic to be condemned as "traitors to China" during the Cultural Revolution. Mr. Li will give a lecture on the nature of Chinese literature during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. This lecture is in conjunction with Li Zhengzhong's calligraphy exhibit: September 14-23, 11 am - 5 pm, Asian Centre, U.B.C.  Seminar Room #129
 
 

25 September Tues
1:00 - 2:00 pm

PROGRAMME IN INTERCULTURAL STUDIES IN ASIA (PICSA)
"Gender and Security in the Phillippines" by Susanne Duska

Susanne is a part of the first cohort of students in the Masters in Asia Pacific Policy Studies (MAPPS) at the Institute of Asian Research.  She recently completed a brief research project in the Phillippines in the context of the MAPPS program and the Southeast Asia Cooperation Project funded by CIDA.

This seminar is being presented as part of the PICSA Gender and Development Series. Conference Room #120
 

26 September Wed
4:30 - 5:00 pm

INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCH & GLOBALIZATION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF ASIAN SOCIETIES:
"Megawati Sukarnoputra and the Prospects for Stability in Indonesia" by Chris Dagg, Eastern Indonesia Project, SFU

Conference Room #120