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Thurs 10 Oct

12:30 – 2:00 pm

CENTRE FOR CHINESE RESEARCH

"Daoism in Contemporary China"

by Professor Qing Xitai, Religions Research Institute, Sichuan University
(Please note Professor Qing’s talk will be in Mandarin)

Fri 11 Oct

11:00 – 12:30pm

PROGRAM FOR CANADA-ASIA POLICY STUDIES, CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH AND CENTRE FOR AUSTRALIAN STUDIES

"East Asian Regionalism: Implications for Asia Pacific and the Global Trading Systems"

By Peter Drysdale
Peter Drysdale is the Director of the Australia-Japan Research Centre at the Australian National University. A major figure in economic policy circles in Asia and Australia, his presentation will examine the rise of East Asian regionalism, including multilateral processes like the ASEAN Plus Three process and the spate of proposed "Free Trade" arrangements in the region, and look at its implications for the other Asia Pacific actors, including Australia, Canada and the United States, and the global trading system.

Room #120

Wed 16 Oct

12:30 - 2:00 pm

CENTRE FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA RESEARCH

"Decentralization and Women in Indonesia: A Case Study of North Sumatra"

by Ms. Asima Yanty Siahaan
PhD candidate, Development Studies Institute, Massey University, New ZealandLecturer, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of North Sumatra, Indonesia
This seminar will focus on gender issues that emerge in implementing Law 22/1999 on local government and decentralization in North Sumatra.

Fri 18 Oct

2:00- 5:30 pm

CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH

"Modern Japan's Path to Global Integration: The Competing Pulls of Diffusion of Innovation, International Migration and Trade"

by Dr. Carl Mosk, Economics Department, University of Victoria
There are three vehicles through which countries can integrate in economic terms with the rest of the world: through the importing or exporting of technological and organizational innovations; through merchandise trade and the import and export of capital; and through international migration. Over the period from the 1850s to the present, Japan has mainly integrated through the diffusion of innovation, secondarily through merchandise trade, and hardly at all through international migration. This paper reviews the evidence on this point, and then offers six reasons as to why Japan has integrated with the rest of the globe in this fashion. The first reason involves path dependence, the deadweight of historical inertia going all the way back to the sakoku policy of the Tokugawa regime. The second reason is geographic, revolving around Japan's relative geographic isolation from Western Europe that was the main geographic locus for industrialization and from the Atlantic Ocean that was the main locus for shipping prior to World War I. The third reason is tied up with culture and language, and is crystallized in the Nihonjinron philosophy that commingles concepts of eugenics with views about cultural uniqueness. The fourth reason revolves around the relatively large scale of the domestic market in Japan, and therefore reflects population size. The fifth reason involves income per capita. Finally the sixth factor is linked to international geopolitics, in particular to pre-1950 Western and Japanese imperialism, and to the policies adopted by the main countries of frontier settlement - the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand - barring immigration from Asia.
Dr. Mosk's presentation will be followed by a reception in the C.K. Choi Building foyer from 3.30pm to 5.00pm.

Tues 22 Oct

12:30 – 2:00 pm

CENTRE FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA RESEARCH

"ASEAN: Coping with China"

By Dr. Pheuiphanh Ngaosyvathn, 2002 ASEAN Chair, University of Toronto
With China expected to attract as much as 80% of global foreign investment, up from 60% now, and with foreign investment in ASEAN countries predicted to drop from 16% to 10%, there is no greater force affecting livelihoods in Southeast Asia today than China. While still harbouring concerns regarding China’s long term intentions, and despite some recalcitrant problems affecting their relations, ASEAN political leaders, however, quietly avoid fearful rhetoric in their eager search for a future with China.

Thurs 24 Oct

12:30 - 2:00 pm

CENTRE FOR CHINESE RESEARCH

Building a community for immigrants: the role of SUCCESS, 1973-1998

Dr. Guo Shibao

Dr. Guo recently completed his Ph.D in the Department of Educational Studies at UBC. His areas of interest include the study of ethnic organisations in Vancouver, the history of Chinese immigrants in Canada, multicultural education, adult education and comparative and international education.

Fri 25 Oct

3:30 – 5:30 pm

CENTRE FOR KOREAN RESEARCH

"Personal Network and the Presidential Politics in South Korea"

by Yunshik Chang, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Anthropology & Sociology, UBC

This seminar (1) critically reviews the current usage of the social capital concept by analysing the patterns of informal presidential politics that emerged in South Korea during the authoritarian era (1960-1992) with a special reference to the scandal surrounding presidential political funds and (2) explains how personal (affective) networks have been utilized in the capitalist development and somewhat negatively affected the democratization process.

Wed 30 Oct

12:30 - 2:00 pm

CENTRE FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA RESEARCH

Women's Issues and Current Initiatives for Advancing Women's Human Rights in Southeast Asia

by Prof. Carolyn Sobritchea,Professor of Philippine Studies at the Asian Center and Director of the Center for Women's Studies, University of the Philippines, Diliman

Over the last two and a half decades, women's groups in Southeast Asia have worked very hard to address many serious violations of the human rights of women and children. They critiqued mainstream society, the state and various social institutions for their insensitivity, if not outright denial, of the reality of many gender-based social, economic and political issues. My paper examines how the feminist project of getting women's issues into mainstream discourses on human rights and development have been carried out in recent years. It interrogates the various modes used to represent women's problems and the strategies for integrating human rights principles into state policies, structures and processes.

Professor Sobritchea's expertise covers the fields of Gender and Development, feminist theories, feminist research and reproductive rights.She was past President of the Women's Studies Association of the Philippines and one of the convenors of the Asian Women's Studies Network.She has represented the Philippines in various international meetings of the United Nations and other multilateral organizations that help advance women's rights and promote gender equality.

Room #120

CENTRE FOR CHINESE RESEARCH

"Church-State Relations in China Today"

By Professor Liu Peng, Institute of American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing

This talk will analyse church-state relations in China today: the model for church - state relations; the basic considerations of the government in dealing with religion; the basic religious policy; the main problems in church-state relations; trends in church-state relations in China.

Tues 5 Nov

1:00 - 2:00 pm

PROGRAMME IN INTER-CULTURAL STUDIES IN ASIA (PICSA)

"Amazons At The Gates: Women In Politics In The Villages Of North India"

By Dr. Ranjana Sheel, visiting scholar, centre for India and South Asia, UBC

Dr. Ranjana Sheel has taught in the Department of Women's Studies, Banaras Hindu University, India. She is currently associated with the Centre for India and South Asia Research as a visiting Shastri Faculty Fellow. She is working on her project on "Money, Marriage and Gender: Dowry in the Indian Diaspora." At her own university she is engaged in a variety of projects, including a NGO project on trafficking in women andchildren and political participation of women in north Indian villages. Her work includes evaluating impact of micro-credit on women's lives. Her doctoral research was on the Political Economy of Dowry and Wormen's Movemnt in India.

Wed 6 Nov

12:00 - 1:30 pm

CENTRE FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA RESEARCH AND ASIA PACIFIC FOUNDATION OF CANADA

"Why Filipinos Would Rather Be Anywhere But Home"

The speaker will be Miriam Grace Go, who is a Senior Writer at Newsbreak Magazine in Manila. She is visiting Vancouver as the Asia Pacific Foundation McCluhan Fellow for 2002, an award for the writer of the year as chosen by the Canadian Embassy in Manila.

Liu Centre

6476 N. W. Marine Drive, Case room

Wed 6 Nov

12:30 - 2:00 pm

CENTRE FOR CHINESE RESEARCH

"No Laughing Matter..."

by Paul Best, Political Cartoonist

Paul Best's first political cartoon was published in Wellington's Evening Post, [1983] (New Zealand) he later honed his illustration skills at The Australian in Sydney (Australia) before landing at the doorstep of the South China Morning Post in 1988. Apart from appearing daily in the Post, his cartoons were syndicated from time to time in a number of publications, Time magazine and Newsweek for example. During his 12 years in Hong Kong, he published four cartoon collections. His current projects include illustrating a children's book and submitting cartoons to various publications.

Thurs 14 Nov

9:00 am-6:00 pm

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Fri 15 Nov

9:00am-12:00pm

CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH

SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CHANGE IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM:
JAPAN AND CANADA IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
The Centre for Japanese Research, University of British Columbia (UBC) is celebrating its 10th anniversary. This coincides with the `the UBC Year of Japan' project, a multi-conference event held by UBC in 2002-3. To celebrate this event the Centre is holding an international symposium that examines aspects of Japan's rapidly changing social and political circumstances and which will make comparisons with trends in Canada in the beginning years of the 21st century.

The purpose of the symposium is to provide scholars a forum in which to meet and talk about their ongoing interests focusing on social and political trends in our two countries. Topics will include political reform movements, management of rural decline, gender issues, visible minority groups, law and society, and education policy.

For further information please visit http://www.iar.ubc.ca/centres/cjr/cjrindex.html. The web site for the `UBC Year of Japan' http://www.iar.ubc.ca/centres/cjr/yearofjapan.html.

"The Political Idea of Patriotism in Confucian Korea and Liberal America"

By Professor Yong Min Kim, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.

We live in the age of globalization and multi-culture. In this global age, it is an irresistible trend that every state becomes a member of a global community and is exposed to the strong influences of foreign culture. At this juncture, a significant political problem arises: is the political idea of patriotism no longer a useful term for explaining the political identity of a citizen? This research on the different shapes of patriotism in Confucian Korea and in Liberal America will shed some light on the fate of patriotism in the age of globalization.

Fri 29 Nov

3:00 - 5:00 pm

CENTRE FOR KOREAN RESEARCH

"The Government Role in Economic Growth in 20th-Century Korea: The Relationship between Government and Producers Associations"

by Prof. Sub Park, Inje University

Throughout the 20th century Korea had rarely developed a "big government." Nevertheless, the Korean government was strong enough to lead industry. This seminar shows the ways in which the Korean government collected information necessary for formulating policies as well as enforce producers to comply with the government policies. One essential avenue for enforcing policies was to make use of producers associations. The discussion will also involve some comparisons between Korean cases and (Japanese), Canadian, German, and Indonesian cases.

Wed Dec 4

12:30 - 2:00 pm

CENTRE FOR CHINESE RESEEARCH

"On The Problems Of Democratic Politics In China"

by Professor Shen Jishi

East China University of Politics and Law, Shanghai/ IAR Visiting scholarDuring the economic reform and modernization of the last twenty years, China's economy has undergone expeditious growth. However, the development of democratic politics in China seems quite slow. This talk will analyse the reasons and timing for this.(Please note: Professor Shen's talk will be in Mandarin)For more information, please contact the Centre for Chinese Research:Diana Lary (lary@interchange.ubc.ca)or Tim Cheek (t.cheek@ubc.ca).

Friday Dec 27

7:00 - 9:00 pm
Doors Open: 6:30pm

CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH
UBC YEAR OF JAPAN

AWAJI PUPPET THEATRE
The Mihara High School Folk Performing Arts Club

Since its establishment in 1952, the club has striven to preserve and propagate the Awaji Puppet Theatre, which has been prevailing for about 500 years on Awaji Island. They received an award at Japan Inter-High School Cultural Festival and as a result was given an opportunity to perform at Japan National Theatre. Some members of the club joined in the abroad performance tours by the Awaji Ningyo Troop in Russia, Europe and the U.S. The club itself was also invited to perform at the festival of Hungary's 1100th commemoration of national foundation in 1996.

UBC Robson Square Theatre
Admission by donation

Friday 10 January

4:00-5:30pm

CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH

"Buddhist Clergy and Fornication in Tokugawa Japan"

by Professor Nam-lin Hur, Dept. of Asian Studies, UBC

In Tokugawa Japan, the state could execute, imprison, or banish Buddhist monks who "slept with women"(nyobon). Buddhist monks, except those belonging to the True Pure Land Sect, were strictly forbidden to marry until 1872. Legal actions taken against "nyobon criminals," which ranged from decapitation, banishment to a remote island, and expulsion to public humiliation, indicate what the bakufu expected from Buddhism in terms of ethical standard, public authority, gender and sexuality, and social engineering. In what way did the Law of the King determine how the Law of the Buddha should be practiced? By examining the trial records of "nyobon" cases this seminar will discuss the interactions between Buddhism and the state in early modern Japan.

Friday 17 January

4:00 - 5:30 pm

CENTRE FOR KOREAN RESEARCH

1000 YEARS OF KOREAN POETRY

by Kevin O'Rourke, Professor of English Literature, Kyung Hee University, SeoulFriday, January 17, 4 p.m., large seminar room, Choi Building, first floor

This talk draws on Professor O'Rourke's 40 years of study and translation of Korean poetry. After introductory remarks comparing and contrasting poetry in English, Korean, and Chinese he will focus on the Korean poetic genres of hyangga (songs from the Shilla period), hanshi (poetry in Chinese written by Koreans), songs from the Koryo period, shijo (songs from mostly the Choson period), and modern poetry. Throughout, Professor O'Rourke will move back and from the premodern to the modern Korean poetic tradition, illuminating connections between the two.

Tues 21 January

12:30 - 2:00 pm

CENTRE FOR CHINESE RESEARCH

"Women in Afghanistan"

by Dr. Tooralai Wesa, Department of Asian Studies, UBC

This talk will discuss the status and possibilities for women in Afghanistan, in the wake of recent events. Dr. Wesa is an expert on agricultural extension work in Afghanistan, and a recent graduate of the Faculty of Education, UBC.

Tues 21 January

7:00 - 9:00 pm

CENTRE FOR KOREAN RESEARCH & DEPT. OF ASIAN STUDIES

"Chong Ch'ol Kasa: A New Reading Of The Mid-Choson Master"

By Kevin O'Rourke, Kyunghee University Seoul, Korea

This presentation is cosponsored by the Centre for Korean Research and the Department of Asian Studies. Kevin O'Rourke has lived in Korea since 1964. He obtained a Ph.D. from Yonsei University in Seoul and has since taught at Kyunghee University in Seoul. He has published numerous translations of Korean literature, both premodern and modern, most recently THE BOOK OF KOREAN SHIJO (Harvard University Asia Centre, 2002). His talk will be preceded by a reception at 6:30 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.

Wed 22 January

4:00 - 5:30 pm

CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH

"Japanese Monsters in the Era of Millennial Capitalism"

by Professor Anne Allison, Duke University

As Japan entered the 21st century, two kinds of monsters have been at the forefront of domestic news. One is a new breed of criminal: seemingly "normal" youth who erupt in acts of violence. The other is fantasy creatures (Digimon, Pokemon, Hamataro) whose mass production by Japan's cultural industries has spread as the newest fad in kid's goods around the world. What in the conditions of post-industrialism and global capitalism has inspired these two brands of Japanese monsters; how, if at all, are they linked; and what does Japan's success on the global marketplace with popular beasts say about the terrain of global culture today and Japan's place within it?

Friday 24 January

4:00-5:30 pm

CENTRE FOR KOREAN RESEARCH

"The Korean Diaspora in the Imjin War, 1592-1598"

by Professor Nam-lin Hur, Dept. of Asian Studies, UBC

This seminar will discuss where, why, and how many Koreans were forced to leave their home country during the Imjin War, 1592-98, and what happened to them afterwards. It is estimated that tens of thousands of Koreans, young and old, men and women, were taken to Japan as prisoners of war, slaves, or laborers, and that another thousands of Koreans sought refuge in China. It is also known that hundreds of Korean women, who had liaisons with Chinese soldiers during the war moved to China when the latter withdrew to their country. Many Koreans taken to Japan were later sold as slaves to Portuguese merchants who operated a far-reaching slave trade network. The Imjin War marked the first major Korean diaspora in Korean history whose legacies are still felt, particularly in Japan. This seminar examines these legacies in a historical context.

Thurs 29 Jan

12:00 - 1:30 pm

PROGRAMME IN INTER-CULTURAL STUDIES IN ASIA (PICSA)

"Transfer of Agricultural Technology: with focus on the case of Korea and India"

by Prof. Sub Park

Prof. Park is a currently a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Korean Research (Institute of Asian Research). He is Associate Professor at the School of Economics and International Trade, Inje University, South Korea. He will be presenting from his recent publication "Transfer of Agricultural Technology from Imperialist Countries to the Colonies-with focus on the case of Korea and India" Historia Scientiarum 12-2 (76) Tokyo: History of Science Society of Japan, 2002

Thurs 29 Jan

12:00 - 1:30 pm

CENTRE FOR CHINESE RESEARCH

"Canada's response to the rise of China"

by John Morrison, Director, China and Mongolia Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Government of Canada

This talk will cover trade, economic, political and cultural aspects and will focus on Canadian government programs, policies and long-term thinking.

This will be a very valuable opportunity to hear about Canadian polices in China.

Friday 31 January

10:00am-4:30pm

CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH

A UBC Year of Japan Series event

A workshop on global warming and Canada: "How should we cope with the Kyoto protocol? Canada and Japan. "

This workshop is free and open to the public. Everyone is welcome. Since the number of seats is limited, please register your name and affiliation with Karen Jew ( by Email: kjew@interchange.ubc.ca, Tel: (604) 822-4688, or Fax: (604) 822-5207 ). "HOW SHOULD WE COPE WITH THE KYOTO PROTOCOL? CANADA ANDJAPAN?"Canada and Japan ratified the Kyoto protocol on the emissions of global warming gases in December 2002 and May 2002, respectively. The Kyoto protocol since then has added a new dimension in policy decision making in both the public and private sectors of these countries. In this workshop some of these issues will be discussed.The tentative program of the workshop is found in:http://www.iar.ubc.ca/centres/cjr/kyoto.html

Mon 10 Feb

4:00 - 5:30 pm

CENTRE FOR KOREAN RESEARCH

"The United States and the Fall of the Syngman Rhee Government"

By Steven H. Lee, Department of History, UBC

Description: The United States and South Korea had a turbulent relationship for much of the 1950s. American and Korean officials disagreed with each other over a number of substantive issues, including the armistice negotiations, the size of the Korean military, nuclear weapons, and economic development. In mid-1952, amidst a perceived political crisis in South Korea, American diplomats seriously considered the option of overthrowing the Syngman Rhee government and replacing the Korean President with a new leader. Nevertheless, Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower continued to support Rhee, and provided his government with significant amounts of military and economic aid throughout the decade. In the late 1950s, however, the bilateral relationship entered into a period of sustained crisis and instability, one which ultimately contributed to the fall of the First Republic. This paper will examine the reasons for the increase in tensions in Korean-American relations after 1958, and explore the role of the Eisenhower administration in facilitating the removal of Syngman Rhee from office in the spring of 1960.

Tues 11 Feb

2:30 - 4:00 pm

CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH

"Japan's Multi-layered Trade Strategy"

by Hidehiro Konno, Special Advisor to Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

followed by a reception

Wed 12 Feb

2:00-3:30 pm

CENTRE FOR CHINESE RESEARCH

"Excavation and Preservation of Large Archaeological Sites in China"

by Dr. Song Xinchao (Associate Chief of Archaeology and Cultural HeritageConservation, China State Bureau of Cultural Relics Administration)

Fri 14 Feb

12:30 - 2:00 pm

CENTRE FOR CHINESE RESEARCH

"First Empires of Ancient China: Archaeological Excavation at Capital Cities and Royal Cemeteries of the Qin-Han Dynasties"

by Professor Liu Qingzhu (Director, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

Tues 25 Feb

12:30 - 2:00 pm

CENTRE FOR AUSTRALIAN STUDIES

Presentation on the Role of Australia and New Zealand in the Pacific Rim

by Jean Fournier (Canadian High Commissioner, Canberra, Australia) and John Donaghy (Canadian High Commissioner, Wellington, NZ).

These two High Commissioners will discuss recent immigration and comparative trade policies, and the geo-political position of Australia and New Zealand in the post 9.11 world.

Tues 25 Feb

4:00 - 5:30 pm

CENTRE FOR KOREAN RESEARCH

"Imperial Japan's Language Policies in Colonial Korea"

by Professor Yeounsuk Lee, School of Language and Society, Hitotsubashi University, Japan

It is well-known that Imperial Japan executed a series of language policies in Colonial Korea in the name of promoting "national language" (Japanese) to the Korean colonial subjects. In 1941 Korean language was completely removed from the school curriculum. This seminar concerns how Imperial Japan's language policies in Colonial Korea were molded, applied, and implemented by focusing on the role of Hoshina Koichi (1872-1955), who offered key ideas and policy suggestions to the colonial government. Hoshina, who studied in detail the example of colonial language policies in Germany toward Poland under the financial support of the Government General, envisioned the imperial assimilation of colonial subjects through the "national language" movement in relation to the vision of Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. This seminar will trace his intellectual trajectory to see what was really behind his endeavor and how his ideas worked for Imperial Japan's colonial rule of Korea.

Tues 25 Feb

1:00 - 2:30 pm

CENTRE FOR INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA RESEARCH

"Mullas, Popular Islam and Misogyny in Bangladesh"

By Professor Taj Hashmi

Prof. Hashmi is a Visiting Professor at the Department of Asian Studies, UBC since January 2003. He has also been a Reseach Associate at the York Centre for Asian Studies, York University, Toronto since July 2002. He received his PhD in South Asian History from University of Western Australia. Previously, Prof. Hashmi taught at universities in Australia, Bangladesh and Singapore. His publications include "Women and Islam in Bangladesh: Beyond Subjugation and Tyranny" (NY: Macmillan & St. Martin's Press, 2000), "Pakistan as a Peasant Utopia" (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992) and "Islam, Muslims and the Modern State" (co-ed, NY:Macmillan and St. Martin's Press, 1994).

Wed 26 Feb

4:00 - 6:00

INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCH GLOBALIZATION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF ASIAN SOCIETIES

Mr. James Cooney, Vice President, Placer Dome Inc., and Rev. T.R.Anderson, Professor Emeritus Vancouver School of Theology will present a joint seminar on " Globalization: Corporations and Religions" on Wednesday, February 26th, 2003 in the C.K.Choi Conference Room at 4:30.

There will be an opportunity to meet the speakers before the seminar during a tea/coffee/cookie social from 4:00 on in the lobby of the C.K.Choi Building.

All welcome.

For further information contact Barrie M.Morrison at barrie@interchange.ubc.ca or Karen Jew at kjew@interchange.ubc.ca.

Fri 28 February

4:00 - 5:30 pm

CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH

"Why Aren't the Japanese More Like the Koreans? Political and Economic Reform in East Asia"

by Professor Kent E. Calder, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Kent Calder, Director of Princeton University's US-Japan Program, and author of four volumes on Northeast political economy, and recently Special Advisor to the US Ambassador to Japan, will compare the divergent patterns of economic reforms in Japan and South Korea since the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98. He will focus particularly on the much more rapid pattern of economic reform in South Korea, and the reasons for it. He will argue that political context, rather than bureaucratic strategy, is the crucial determinant of economic policy profiles, contrary to the assumptions of the `developmental state' model of policymaking. Calder will also consider the origins of Japan's nuanced and incremental profile of reform, with special emphasis on the political. Where reforms has on occasion succeeded, as with respect to the `Big Bang' financial reforms of 1996-97, political leadership was a key determinant. Where reforms have been less extensive than the norm, as in corporate governance, entrenched stakeholders supportive of the dominant ruling party have been a factor, he will argue. Calder will also discuss the prospects for future economic reform in Japan, and the fateful prospective implications for the global economy.

Tues 4 March

4:00 - 5:30 pm

CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH

"The Empiricist Perspective of Postwar Japanese History Education"

By Julian Dierkes , Keidanren Chair in Japanese Research, Institute of Asian Research, UBC

Wed 5 March

12:30 - 2:00 pm

CENTRE FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA RESEARCH

"Forestry Corruption and the Poor in Indonesia"

by Chris Bennett, Food and Resource Economics, UBC, and Consultant

Corruption in developing countries hurts the poor most. Forestry corruption in Indonesia illustrates the problem. Huge financial costs of forestry corruption in Indonesia have been exceeded by the social and environmental costs of policy corruption -- excluding the poor from sustainable livelihood opportunities in public land -- an enduring legacy of three decades of forest mismanagement. Understanding the history of corruption in the forestry sector explains much of the reason for the calamitous state of Indonesia s state forest land. (kawasan hutan negara) - deteriorating and diminishing areas of natural forest, expanding areas of treeless grassland and increasing conflict over forest land rights. This seminar presents the findings of on-going research into the origins of policy corruption within the wider forestry corruption context, its relationship to classical forestry management, the effect of decentralisation of forest resource management and prospects for combating it.

Thurs 6 March

12:30 - 2:00 PM

CENTRE FOR KOREAN RESEARCH

"Religion and Public Policy"

By Sally McFague, Distinguished Theologian in Residence at the Vancouver School of Theology.

New House Rules: Christianity, Economics, and Planetary Living.A look at how human beings should interact with nature, with commentary by Don Baker on Korean ethical perspectives on environmentalism.

Fri 7 March

4:00 - 5:30 pm

CENTRE FOR KOREAN RESEARCH

"The Structural Changes and Trade Patterns of South Korea during 1910-1990"

by Insang Hwang, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan

After the end of colony era, Korea peninsula was separated to South and North Korea. During the era of Japanese colony (1910-1945), South Korean economy was fostered mostly by light industry such as textile and foods while North Korean economy was developed mostly by heavy and chemicals. The main trading counter part was the Imperial Japan. Korea exports primary goods and raw materials while she imports the consumer goods of light industries. After the end of Japanese colonial rule, South Korea has been showing rapid and high economic growth since 1960s. Especially, international trade has been the main engine of hers economic growth. This research investigates the long-run performance of industrial structures and trade activity during 1910-1990. By using data of industrial structures and commodity trade during 1910-1990, this research aims to show some insights on the problem of the continuity and discontinuity of South Korean economy during 1910-1990. It seems to be that there is some continuity on the industrial structures. However, the trade patterns seems to imply that there is quite discontinuity in the Korean economy.

Tues 11 March

4:00 - 6:00 pm

CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH

Takashi Fujitani (History, UC San Diego) and Lisa Yoneyama (Literature, UC San Diego): "Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s)"

Takashi Fujitani: "Race Under Fire: Korean Japanese and Japanese Americans in WWII"

Lisa Yoneyama: "Traveling Memories: The Americanization of Japanese Crimes Against Humanity at the End of the Post-Cold War"

Thurs 13 March

4:30 - 6:00 pm

CENTRE FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA RESEARCH

"Asian Crisis as Opportunity - Thailand's famous "Sandwich Man" discusses his downfall and recovery"

By Mr. Sirivat Voravetvuthikun, "Stockbroker turned Sandwich Vendor" (www.sirivatsandwich.com)

Thailand's "Stockbroker turned Sandwich Vendor", Mr. Sirivat Voravetvuthikun made international headlines after the devaluation of the Thai Baht in July of 1997 and subsequent upheaval of the Asian economic crisis. As a stock trader and property developer, Sirivat resorted to selling sandwiches on the street to survive and his boom to bust and remarkable recovery in the world of business has been documented over the past five years by Asia Week, the Far Eastern Economic Review, CNN, BBC World as well as numerous scholarly publications. Sirivat became a symbol of the post-1997 period in Southeast Asia and, due to his solid training in business, years of experience and sheer determination he has rebuilt his life as a sandwich vending franchiser and expanded his business to include organic juices, coffee, and unique brown rice sushi. Having been arrested numerous times in the early post-crisis period for infringing on municipal by-laws in Bangkok, Sirivat has also become a voice for the city's thousands of vendors who earn their living selling food on the streets of the city.Come hear Thailand's sandwich man recount his perspective on the Asian crisis and gradual recovery on his first trip to Vancouver.

Fri 14 March

12:30 - 2:00 pm

CENTRE FOR CHINESE RESEARCH

"Intercultural Art in Central Asia: Issues and Methodology"

By Angela Sheng, Ph.D, Independent Scholar, Cantley, Quebec

The history of the arts, cultures, and civilizations of Central Asia is long and complex. Rather than surveying it, this seminar aims to contextualize our encounter with it. Intercultural art, a concept currently used to challenge the centrality of contemporary western art, is projected into antiquity to highlight the interculturality of Central Asia. The key issues to be addressed include the ecosystems, communication routes, and linguistic diversity that constitute the region’s geographic determinism. A new methodology that draws from the concept of “double rule” will be proposed to show art as agency and Central Asians as cultural mediators. The emphasis will be on the ancient past, from about the fifth century BCE to about the mid-seventh century CE, highlighting the art of the ancient pastoral nomads, early Central Asian Buddhism, and the Sogdian merchant elite. The methodology can also be applied to later times.

Fri 14 March

12:00 - 1:15 pm

INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCH

"Whither Nationalist Urbanism? Public Life in Governor Sutiyoso's Jakarta"

By Dr. Abidin Kusno, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Art History, Binghamton Univ. NY

Dr. Kusno is a candidate for the Tier II Canada Research Chair in Contemporary Social Change and Sustainable Development in Southeast Asia.

The talk will examine the spatial and architectural outcomes of the social, political and economic crises of Jakarta in the last five years. It will indicate that the urban changes that have happened can be made more understandable if we approach them not through the perspectives of the directors and their policies, but through the change of consciousness of the people in the city. I will suggest that this change of consciousness and the concomitant moment of social, economic and political crises have opened up possibilities for a more responsible and democratic urban life, but it has also created a space for the formation of new urban politics that is profoundly egoistic and violent.

Mon 17 March

12:30 - 2:00 pm

CENTRE FOR CHINESE RESEARCH

"The Political Economy of Knowledge in Two Rural Industries: Handicraft Papermaking and Village Factories in Jiajiang County, Sichuan"

by Jacob Eyferth, Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers University

Tues 18 March

4:00 - 5:30 PM

CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH

"The Electric Power Industry in prewar Japan"

Professor Tetsuyo Umemoto (Momoyama Gakuin University, Japan)

The first electric power company in Japan was founded in 1886, and after the First World War it became one of the leading industries. In the middle of 1920's five big electric companies controlled the electric power industry. After the cartel of the industry was formed in 1932, the war regime was established and the government nationalized the electric power industry in 1938. This talk outlines the process and the cause of the nationalization.

Tues 18 March

12:00 - 1:15 pm

INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCH

"Key Issues for Sustainable Development in Southeast Asia"

By Dr. Peter Vandergeest, Director, York Centre for Asian Studies York University

Dr. Vandergeest will map out key development processes in rural Southeast Asia today, and examine these in relation to the proliferation of new regulatory practices designed to ensure sustainability. These emergent enabling regulatory practices, which include community-based natural resource management, codes of conduct, and certification schemes, all aim to replace coercive top-down regulation with collective and individual self-regulation, but with many unintended effects.

Dr. Vandergeest is a candidate for the Tier II Canada Research Chair in Contemporary Social Change and Sustainable Development in Southeast Asia.

Wed 19 March

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

CENTRE FOR INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA RESEARCH

"Contesting Histories and Reconstructing Identities: the Meenas of Jaipur in Colonial and Modern India"

by Professor Nandini Sinha Kapur, Department of History, Delhi University

Wed 19 March

12:30 - 2:00 pm

CENTRE FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA RESEARCH

"Decentralisation and Grassroots Democracy in a Country in Transition"

by Lao Mong Hay, Center for Social Development (CSD) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and Visiting Scholar in ASEAN Studies, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto

Cambodia is a country in transition from communism to democracy. Over the last ten years efforts have been made by the government and the civil society to embed grassroots democracy through training of grassroots people and officials, the creation of village development committees, the devolution of powers to the communes and, lately, an election of commune councils. But these elected local authorities have yet to free themselves further from the central government's control and power politics inherited from the communist days in order to better meet the needs and aspirations of the grassroots people.

Thurs 20 March

12:30 - 2:00 pm

CENTRE FOR INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA RESEARCH

"The Agni-Pariksa" Episode in Multiple Ramayanas

By Nicki Magnolo, Asian Studies, UBC

Thurs 20 March

12:00 - 1:15 pm

INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCH

"Studying Southeast Asia after the Cold War"

By Dr. Ariel Heryanto, Lecturer, Melbourne Institute of Asian Languages and Societies, The University of Melbourne

Dr. Heryanto is a candidate for the Tier II Canada Research Chair in Contemporary Social Change and Sustainable Development in Southeast Asia.

Is it merely accidental that Southeast Asia has been more dynamic than ever before, and inter-Asia studies by locals has been on the rise, when Southeast Asian studies in many of its formerly established centres in the US and Australia have been in crisis? Is it purely accidental that Indonesia's cultural innovation is currently flourishing, when the country's political and economic institutions are close to bankruptcy?

This talk will look at some of the recent shifts in the study of the region, and highlight some of the recent challenges. It will consider the emergence of locally-based intellectual and cultural networks in Southeast Asia, selected areas of their strength, and the importance of continuing engagement with their counterparts outside Asia. In serious attempts to articulate renewed identities of "Asianness", the new generation of Asian intellectuals seem to go well beyond the earlier project of indigenizing the social sciences, or the "Asian values" paradigm.

Tues 25 March

2:00 - 3:30 pm

CENTRE FOR INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA RESEARCH

Ramayana Exhibition lecture series

"The 'Radio-Active' Gita Ramayana: Home and Abroad"

by Dr. Vidyut Aklujkar , Asian Studies, UBC

Prof. Aklujkar serves on the editorial board of the Marathi quarterly publication, Ekta (Toronto) and is a professor of Hindi at the University of British Columbia. This is the second lecture in the 'Viewing the Ramayana' exhibition and lecture series. This exhibition of Ramayana performance photographs, painting, scroll and artifacts is now on (March 3-27) in the lobby of the C.K. Choi Building at UBC.

Tues 25 March

4:00 - 5:30 pm

CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH

"The Japanese Language Before the Advent of 'National Language': Mori Arinori and Baba Tatsui on the Japanese Language"

by Yeounsuk Lee, Hitotsubashi University

THE CENTRE FOR INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA RESEARCH

Viewing the Ramayana

Join us for an exhibition of photographs, paintings, artifacts and scrolls that illustrate the Ramayana. A Sanskrit epic, the Ramayana is one of the most important literary and oral texts of South and South East Asia. Seminars will be held every Thursday throughout March from 12:30-2:00 pm on various aspects of the Ramayana (topics to be announced). The exhibit will conclude with the screening of an animated version of the Ramayana epic on March 27 at the Institute of Asian Research.

For more information, please contact Amandeep Mann at amanmann2@hotmail.com or Daniel Winks at danielwinks@yahoo.com

Thurs 27 March

1:00 - 3:00 pm

CENTRE FOR INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA RESEARCH

Film: Screening of Animated Japanese Ramayana

Mon 28 March

12:30 - 2:00 pm

CENTRE FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA RESEARCH

"Government through Community in the Age of Neoliberalism"

by Tania Li, Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University

Professor Li's talk will explore how and why community, participation, civil society, social movements, networks and partnerships have become central to the exercise of governmental rationality and trusteeship in contemporary development agendas, and will reflect on the relationship between governmentality and politics.

Tues 1 April

4:00 - 5:30 pm

CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH

"Strategic Behavior and Corporate Growth of Japanese and Korean Firms: Focusing on the Diversification Strategy until the beginning of 1990"

by Professor Heesuk Ahn, Department of Business Administration, University of Marketing and Distribution Sciences, Japan

This talk looks at companies that carry out their growing needs by beginning new businesses, which is a kind of a corporate project materialized by a diversification strategy. This seminar will consider cases of implementing the diversification strategy in both Japanese and Korean firms. It will also discuss some characteristics of the diversification strategy adopted by Japanese and Korean firms such as Canon, Ajinomoto, Miwon, and Anam.

Professor Ahn's major is Strategic Management. From 1988 he was at Keio University and graduated with with a MA and Phd. From 1996 to the present he has been a faculty member of the Department of Business Administration, University of Marketing and Distribution Sciences, Kobe. He is currently a visitor at CJR.

Wed 2 April

11:00 - 12:30 pm

THE CENTRE FOR INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA RESEARCH AND THE DEPT. OF ASIAN STUDIES

"Classical Ayurveda and Its Modern Practice: Study and Fieldwork of Ayurveda in India and in America"

by Prof. Kenneth G. Zysk, (Dept. of Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen)

April 2

2:00 pm-- 3:30 pm

THE CENTRE FOR INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA RESEARCH AND THE DEPT. OF ASIAN STUDIES

"The Use of Animals in the Sanskrit Traditions of Lovemaking, Conjugal Love and Medicine"

by Prof. Kenneth G. Zysk, (Dept. of Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen)

Asian Centre 604

Wed 2 April

3:30- 5:00 pm

CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH/DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY

"Japan: A Multicultural County? Evidence from the Field"

by David W. Edgington (Director CJR, and Associate Professor of Geography)

Despite being long thought of as immune to the globalizing effect of immigrant labour, Japan has experienced major increases in the numbers of foreign workers for nearly 20 years now. These migrants do not just come to work and then return home, but they bring families, and they form households with Japanese nationals. This presentation, based on recent field research in Japanese cities, discusses the historical debates over multiculturalism in Japan, recent statistics, and contemporary policies establshed by urban governments - from Sapporo to Tokyo, Kawasaki, Osaka, Hiroshima and Fukuoka - to address more diverse communities in the opening years of the 21st century.

Refreshments will be served after seminar

Thurs 3 April

3:30 – 5:00 pm

CENTRE FOR AUSTRALIAN STUDIES

(jointly with Interdisciplinary 19th Century Studies and the Department of Geography)

"Nature and Nation: Civics and Nature Study in Australia and other Settler Societies"

by Libby Robin, Research Fellow, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University, Canberra

Thurs 3 April

12:30 - 2:00 pm

CENTRE FOR KOREAN RESEARCH

Religion and Public Policy Speaker series:

"Religion and Ethnic Politics in Xinjiang: Public Policy, Identity, and the State"

By Dru Gladney,Professor of Asian Studies and Anthropology, The University of Hawaii.

Fri 4 April

4:00 - 5:30 pm

CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH

"Japan's First Shôgun (Who, By the Way, Did Not Exist)"

by Professor James E. Ketelaar, Professor of Modern Japanese History and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago

Friday April 4

12:30-1:30pm

Centre for Korean Research And Centre for Asian Legal Studies

"The National Security Law in the Korean Legal System"

The National Security Law, in place since 1948, is one of South Korea's most controversial laws. Its stated purpose is "to secure the security of the State and the subsistence and freedom of nationals". Critics have argued, however, that the Law has has functioned as little more than a legal tool to maintain authoritarian governments in South Korea. The UN Human Rights Committee has expressed a deep concern with the Law in terms of human rights violations. During the democratization of the country in the 1980's and 1990's, the Law underwent several significant revisions. However, the controversy has not yet ended. The history of the revision of the National Security Law shows how a law reflects changes in society under a civil law system. In addition, it is important to understand how the judicial process responded to social demands in dealing with political issues related to the Law. Of particular note in that regard is the tension between the Korean Supreme Court and the Korean Constitutional Court in terms of Constitutional review, a unique phenomenon that bears deeper examination. The Korean legislature, as one would expect in a civil law system, also plays a decisive role in the evolution of law in Korea. This presentation will serve as a forum to discuss the multiple dimensions of the National Security Law, and as a vehicle to better understand the contemporary Korean legal system. (Co-sponsored by the Centre for Asian Legal Studies and the Centre for Korean Research)
Mr. Tae-Ung Baik, LL.B. (Seoul National University), LL.M. (Notre Dame), is currently a Visiting Scholar in the East Asian Legal Studie Program, Harvard Law School, and J.S.D. candidate at Notre Dame Law School. Mr. Baik, who specializes in international human rights law, was a prisoner of conscience in Wonju Prison, Korea, for 6 years during the 1990's.

Thurs 10 April

4:00 - 5:30 pm

CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH

"The Battle for the Japanese Corporate Soul"

by Ronald Dore, London School of Economics and Political Science

Nowadays nobody has much good to say about Japanese-style management, the subject of popular business school courses in the 1980s and early 1990s. Big changes are taking place on paper, at least in the governance of Japanese corporations. They are acclaimed by reformers as improvements, designed to make corporations more efficient, their managers more honest and diligent on the one hand, more accountable to their shareholders on the other. They will make firms more like the nexus of contracts of the economic textbooks, and much less like the quasi-communities that they used to be. How far are the changes a response to real problems? Or an extension of the long-standing pursuit of admired Western, now called global, standards? Or the working through of the processes of individuation and rationalisation that constitute modernity.? Or reluctant conformity to the pressures of global markets? Or the result of shifts in political power as class structures and attitudes change with greater affluence? And will the changes have real effects or be primarily cosmetic? Will they actually make managers more honest and diligent? And will they profit owners at the expense of employees?

Fri 11 April

5:00 - 7:00 pm

CENTRE FOR CHINESE RESEARCH

"Always a Body to Trade: Toward a Theory of Collaboration in Wartime China and Contemporary Tibet"

By Professor Timothy Brook, Dept. of History, University of Toronto

Fri 11 April

3:30 - 5:00 pm

CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH

"End of the Academic Year Social Event; including a "Japanese Trivia Quiz: Faculty vs Grads"

Arranged by CJR's two Research Assistants: Jeff Alexander and Kei Enokido.

Wine and cheese reception

Please RSVP Jeff Alexander at jwscott@interchange.ubc.ca by April 4th

Fri 9 May

12:00 - 1:30 pm

CENTRE FOR KOREAN RESEARCH

"Democratic Consolidation and the Presidential Election of 2002"

by Dr. Heng Lee, Department of Political Science, Inje University

CENTRE FOR KOREAN RESEARCH

Speaker series:100 Years of Korean-American History

by Dr. Wayne Patterson, Department of History, St. Norbert's College

Thurs 22 May

4:00 - 5:30 pm

INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCH

Roundtable Discussion on China

Professor Timothy Brooks, Department of HistoryUniversity of Toronto

Fri 30 May

12:30 - 1:30 pm

CENTRE FOR KOREAN RESEARCH

"North Korean Reform and Opening: Dual Strategy and Silli (practical) Socialism"

by Dr. Young-Chul Chung, Department of Sociology, Seoul National University

May 26 - June 9

Painting Exhibition

by Chitralekha Tagore

Chitralekha Tagore, the great grand-niece of Rabindranath Tagore, in keeping with tradition, seeks to express the universal & transcendent in art. However, she consciously avoids cultural symbols in non-representational forms, letting them express the sum- total of her experience, both Indian & Western. She had an early exposure to the arts from her father Subho Tagore, noted painter & collector in India. On completing her formal training at the Govt. Art College in Calcutta she moved to Canada and has since resided most of her life in BC, both rural and urban. Chitralekha has worked and exhibited internationally & currently divides her time between Canada & India. Her works have been acquired by several well-known collectors.

Tues 10 June

4:00 - 5:30 pm

CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH

Professor Joy Hendry, of Oxford-Brooks University, Oxford, England, will begiving a talk on Tuesday, June 10 from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m, at the Centre forJapanese Research in the Choi Building, Rm. 120. The tentative talk titleis: "Cultural Display: Japan's Place in the World". The talk incorporatesresearch done by Professor Hendry on theme parks in Japan, and the Japaneseworld of leisure. Professor Hendry is the author of several books onJapan, including: Understanding Japanese Society, Becoming Japanese: TheWorld of the Pre-School Child, and Wrapping Culture: Politeness,Presentation, and Power in Japan and Other Countries, and The OrientStrikes Back.

Friday 25 July
4:00 – 5:00 pm

“China in a Changing World”

by J. Stapleton Roy Ambassador

J. Stapleton Roy retired from the Foreign Service in January 2001 after a career spanning 45 years with the U.S. Department of State. A fluent Chinese speaker, Mr. Roy spent much of his career in East Asia, where his assignments included Bangkok (twice), Hong Kong, Taipei, Beijing (twice), Singapore, and Jakarta. He also specialized in Soviet affairs and served in Moscow at the height of the Cold War. Mr. Roy rose to become a three-time
ambassador, serving as the top U.S. envoy in Singapore (1984-86), the People’s Republic of China (1991-95), and Indonesia (1996-99). In 1996, he was promoted to the rank of Career Ambassador, the highest rank in the Foreign Service. Ambassador Roy’s final post with the State Department was as Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Research.

Wednesday 6 August

12:00PM – 1:30PM

CENTRE FOR KOREAN RESEARCH

“Ethical Attitudes of Koreans, Japanese, and Americans”
by Seong Dal Doh , The Academy of Korean Studies, Korea

AND

“The Neo-Confucian Intellectual Encounter with Christianity in the 18th Century”
by Chung Soon-woo, Academy of Korean Studies

Professor Doh will examine in-depth the ethical attitudes of Koreans, Japanese, and Americans and their cultural differences. Their ethical consciousness was investigated through 4 primary areas (structural characteristics, personal ethics, family ethics, and social ethics) and 11 secondary areas consisting of basic concepts of morals, principles for moral judgement, reasons for moral life, sources of moral beliefs, self-realization, sexual ethics, parents-children ethics, marriage couple ethics, views on social justice, and global ethics. Instead of evaluative diagnosis on three nations' ethical attitudes, this research focuses on comparison. This is because an evaluative diagnosis has a dangerous consequence of producing misunderstanding or lack of understanding of cultural differences. It is hoped that the result of this research will stimulate further interest and discussion on cultural aspects of ethical attitude and provide an opportunity to raise interest in the ethical consciousness of the world and increase efforts to elevate it.

Fri 5 September

1:30 - 2:30 pm

CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH

Annual General Meeting (Agenda to follow) Followed by a seminar.

Fri 5 September

2:30 - 4:00 pm

CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH

"Overlapping Lives: Cultural Sharing Among Five Groups of Japanese Canadian (Nikkei) Women"

by Dr.Yuko Shibata, Research Associate Centre for Japanese Research, IAR, UBC

This lecture explores cultural knowledge shared by five groups of Nikkei women: 1) the Issei, or prewar immigrants who migrated from Japan in the 1920s; 2) the Nisei, or daughters of the Issei; 3) the Sansei, or granddaughters of the Issei; 4) the Shin-Issei, or postwar immigrants who immigrated in the late 1950s to mid-1970s; and 5) the Shin-Nisei, or daughters of the Shin-Issei. It investigates the relationships between prewar and postwar immigrant women as well as between the generations within these groups based on the life histories and the narratives constructed by twenty-five Nikkei women from each generation. The narratives provide ethnographic sketches of each group and the cultural and interactional issues that reflected upon their experiences in both the Japanese Canadian and in the Canadian communities. Special attention is paid to how memories are fashioned, experiences related and interpreted, and ultimately how the cultural knowledge developed in these relationships has come to affect contemporary Japanese Canadian communities.

Curriculum Vitae: Yuko Shibata took an undergraduate (BA) degree and undertook graduate work (MA) in California. Since coming to UBC she has been involved in the Vancouver Japanese Canadian community. Her Phd research began with a study on those Japanese Canadian women who came to Canada in the mid-1970s. Dr. Shibata has written a number of articles on Japanese Canadians. As a lecturer, she also taught modern Japanese language in the Department of Asian Studies, UBC for many years. She recently she obtained her Doctorate in anthropology. Yuko Shibata is a research associate at the Centre for Japanese Research, IAR, the University of British Columbia.

Followed by wine and cheese reception, C.K. Choi Building foyer

Wed 10 Sept

4:00 - 5:30 pm

CENTRE FOR KOREAN RESEARCH

"Korean Studies in Russia"

by Victor Kozhemyako, High College of Korean Studies, Far Eastern National University, Vladivostok, Russia

Thurs 18 Sept

9:00 -11:00 am

CENTRE FOR CHINESE RESEARCH AND
CENTRE FOR INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA RESEARCH

Asian Drama: Indian Perceptions of Asia

"The Boxer Uprising: An Indian Soldier's Account of China and the World in 1900-1901"

by Anand Yang, Director, Jackson School of International Studies, U. of Washington, Seattle

"Eighteenth-Century Indian Views of West and Central Asia"
By Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Professor of Indian History and Culture, The Oriental Institute, Oxford, UK

Mon 22 Sept

Doors Open: 5:30pm

Event: 6pm - 10:30pm

CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH

JAPANESE MOVIE NIGHT
"All About Our House"
Director: Koki Mitani
"After Life"
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda

This event is one of the 75th Anniversary Events of Japan-Canada Diplomatic Relations.
Sponsors :
EMBASSY OF JAPAN IN CANADA
CONSULATE GENERAL OF JAPAN IN VANCOUVER
CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH, UBC
Media Sponsors:
ICAS NIKKEI TV,
VANCOUVER SHINPO
For further information: 604-822-4688 (CJR) 604-822-3456 (SUB)

Tues 23 Sept

12:30 - 1:30 pm

THE CENTRE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND THE PROGRAM ON CANADA-ASIA POLICY STUDIES

"The Promise and Limits of Collaborative Human Security"

by Professor Sorpong Peou Sophia University

Sorpong Peou (Ph.D. York) is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Sophia University in Tokyo. There he is a member of the core group at the Centre of Excellence funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education. He has written on UN peacekeeping and peacebuilding as well as regional security in Pacific Asia. One of the book projects he has been working on over the past several years is "Security Studies on Pacific Asia Today".

Wed 24 Sept

12:30 - 2:00 pm

"Petroleum Paradox: Natural Resource and Development in Indonesia in 1967-1997."

by Francisia Seda, Department of Sociology, University of Indonesia, and Director of the Women and Election Division of CETRO (Center for Electoral Reform), Jakarta.

Fri 26 Sept

4:00 - 5:30 pm

CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH

"Hegemony and the Cycles of Japanese History"

by Professor Bill Wray, Dept. of History, UBC

This presentation argues that over the past 500 years Japan's history has followed a long structural pattern of cycles. The patterns repeated in these cycles have been systemic crises within Japan, political transformations and subsequent links to hegemonic powers, namely, the Dutch, British, and Americans. I argue that the key feature that perpetuates the cycle is the character of the compromise inherent in each political transformation. Developments that might have modified or broken the cycle, particularly involving policies toward China, have been abortive. The paper also addresses the issue of where Japan currently sits in the cyclical pattern. It suggests that if the cycle continues, Japan may undergo a systemic crisis and the ties to America will decline in importance. If the cycle is broken, Japan's political and governmental systems may revert to pre-Tokugawa patterns.

William Wray has taught Japanese history at UBC since 1978, before which he taught at Harvard University for three years. He has specialized in the history of the Japanese shipping history, publishing "Mitsubishi and the NYK: Business Strategy in the Japanese Shipping, 1870-1914". He has written numerous articles on global history. He is working on several more books on the NYK.

Fri 10 Oct

4:00-5:30 pm

CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH

"Discovering the Japanese Alps: Meiji Mountaineering and the Quest for Geographical Enlightenment"

by Professor Karen Wigen, Dept. of History, Stanford University

At the turn of the twentieth century, the Japanese Alps were "discovered" to great fanfare, both as a unified landscape and as a locus for symbolic investment. Shiga Shigetaka's On Japanese Landscape (1894) impressed readers with the need to climb Japan's glorious peaks, while Kojima Usui's four-volume opus, Japan Alps (1910 1915), documented the findings of the author's own extensive alpine forays. Drawing on cultural legacies from Asia as well as Europe, both authors worked to recast Japan's highlands as a resource for geography education, in the service of modernizing Japanese youth.

Tue 14 Oct

12:30-2:00pm

Centre for Australasian Research

"Immigration and Internal Migration: Australian and Canadian Perspectives on an American Dilemma"

by David Ley, Dept. of Geography, UBC

Wed 15 Oct

12:30 - 2:00 pm

CENTRE FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA RESEARCH

"The Bali Bombing: One Year Later"

by Irman G. Lanti, Doctoral Candidate, UBC Department of Political Science, and Researcher, Centre for Information and Development Studies, Jakarta.

This talk will highlight developments in Indonesia's fight against terrorism since the bombing of entertainment spots in Bali on October 12 of last year, particularly inroads made by security forces in breaking down terrorist networks, and as well the setbacks caused by the more recent bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta. Analysis will focus on changes that have taken place within Indonesian politics, as well as the remaining sense of recalcitrance against more stringent security measures. Finally, the talk will also address the need to rethink current perceptions of Islam in Indonesia, as signified by such typologies as literal-liberal, political-cultural, fundamentalist-moderate, and will propose a new typology of constitutional-anticonstitutional as a more useful way of examining Indonesian Islam today.

Thurs 16 Oct

2:00 - 3:30 pm

CENTRE FOR KOREAN RESEARCH

"Japan's Colonization of Korea--a Visual Record"

by Norman Thorpe

Norman Thorpe has assembled a powerful collection of photographs, historic post cards, and other visual images that show scenes from the Japanese occupation. Many of us have a basic familiarity with Japan's colonization of Korea, but these pictures will prove a whole new understanding of the Japanese takeover, the breadth of Japan's influence in Korea, and the depth of its cultural imperialism. While studying the Japanese occupation, most of us have had little exposure to pictures such as these because, after liberation, Koreans destroyed many of them as distasteful reminders of a painful past. Norman Thorpe is an adjunct faculty member of Whitwroth College, in Spokane, Washington. He has been researching Korean historic photographs for more
than a decade.

Fri 17 Oct

4:00 - 5:30 pm

CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH

"From the Heart of Japan to the Heartbeat of the World: The Transmission of Taiko Tradition and Identities from Sado Island"

by Professor Millie Creighton, Dept. of Anthropology & Sociology, UBC

Millie Creighton (Ph.D. Washington, 1988) teaches courses on Japanese culture and society. Her publications include: "May the Saru River Flow: The Nibutani Dam and the Resurging Tide of the Ainu Identity Movement" (2003). Millie has recently been elected an officer of the East Asia Section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). The AAA is the largest organization of professional anthropologists in the world (about 7,000 or 8,000 members) and the East Asia Section is that subdivision focusing on all of East Asia.

Tues 21 Oct

12:30 - 2:00 pm

CENTRE FOR CHINESE RESEARCH

"The Origins of Chinese Civilization and its Early Development"

by Professor Yan Wenming

Wed 22 Oct

4:00 - 5:30 pm

CENTRE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATATIONS AND CENTRE FOR CHINESE RESEARCH

"Perspectives on Security and Defence in the South Pacific Region and
Southeast Asia"
by Rear Admiral Peter McHaffie, Chief of the Royal New Zealand Navy

Rear Admiral McHaffie joined the Royal New Zealand as an Officer Cadet in 1967. He was appointed Chief of Navy in April 2000. The New Zealand Navy aims to be "the best small-nation navy in the world". Its routine operations stretch across the South Pacific and Southeast Asian regions, while its international peacekeeping and regional secutity assignments have taken its ships and naval personnel to East Timor, Bougainville, the Persian Gulf, the Balkans, the Sinai, Angola and Cambodia. Admiral McHaffie spent a year in Canada in 1992-93 attending the National Defence College in Kingston. His appearance at UBC is part of an official visit to Canada, and this session
will focus on the evolving military, political and security situation in the South Pacific region and in Southeast Asia.

Fri 24 Oct/ Sat 25 Oct

Fri: 5:30 PM

Sat: 9:00am - 1:00pm

CENTRE FOR CHINESE RESEARCH

"CCR CONFERENCE: CHINA GLOBALIZING?PEOPLE, BELIEFS, AND IDEAS"

Open to the UBC and China Studies community. Those interested in attending the lunch on either Friday or Saturday, please RSVP by 17 Oct. to Tim cheek at t.cheek@ubc.ca.
China Globalizing is a two day conference that brings together scholars from
UBC, Toronto, China, and the US to look at three aspects of globalization
and China: the movement of people, beliefs, and ideas. There will be a public lecture by Professor Timothy Brook (University of Toronto) on the Friday evening. Dr. Brook will speak on: Chinese Lineages of the Absolutist State. Dr. Brook will join the faculty of UBC next year as the new principal of St. Johns College.

Mon 27 Oct

3:00 - 5:00pm

CENTRE FOR CHINESE RESEARCH AND THE DEPARTMENT OF ASIAN STUDIES

"EFFORTLESS ACTION: Wu Wei as Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China"

By Ted Slingerland, USC

Ted Slingerland is an Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Religion at the University of Southern California. He has recently published a new translation of the Analects of Confucius, as well as a book with the same title as this talk. All welcome!!!

Thurs 30 Oct

12:30 - 2:00 pm

THE LIU CENTRE FOR GLOBAL STUDIES AND THE INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCH

"Women and National Reconstruction in Rwanda"

by Erin Baines, (UBC) Les Femmes aux Mille Bras

Erin Baines is the Research Director of the Conflict and Development Programme at the Liu Institute for Global Issues. Her research interests include the politics of humanitarian and forced displacement and impact on gender and youth. The seminar takes place in the Board Room of the Liu Institute for Global Issues from 12:30-2:00. It is open to all, bring your brown bag lunch.

Fri 31 Oct

12:30 - 2:00 pm

CENTRE FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA RESEARCH

"Gloria and the Media: Some Current Developments in Philippine
Politics"

by Luz Rimban, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, Manila, and 2003 McLuhan Fellow at the University of Toronto.

A multiple recipient of the Ongpin Award for Excellence in Journalism, Luz Rimban manages the broadcast desk at the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism. She will be giving an update on recent developments in Philippine politics and discussing the role of the media in shaping the political discourse in the Philippines.

Mon 3 Nov

12:00 - 1:30 pm

CENTRE FOR INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA RESEARCH

"Clinical Theodicies: The Enchanted World of Clinical Conception in India"

By Aditya Bhardwaj

Aditya Bhardwaj is a candidate for Asa and Kashmir Johal Chair in India Research. Aditya Bharadwaj, a social anthropologist, completed his PhD at University
of Bristol in September 2001 and is currently a research fellow at Cardiff University. His principal research interest is in the area of New Reproductive, Genetic and Stem Cell Technologies and their rapid spread in India. Aditya has published in peer reviewed journals such as Social Science and Medicine, Anthropology and Medicine, Health, Risk and Society and has contributed chapters in University of California Press edited collections. He is currently writing his first solo-authored book titled
Conceptions: Infertility and Technologies of Procreation in India and co-authoring a
book on aspects of New Genetics and Kinship. He referees for international journals Social Science and Medicine and Medical Anthropology.

Mon 3 Nov

5:00pm

CENTRE FOR INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA RESEARCH AND GREEN COLLEGE

"The Pre-History of Orientalism: European Views of Indian Religion, 1500-1800"

by Sanjay SubrahmayamChair in Indian History and Culture, Oriental Institute, Oxford University

Mon 3 Nov

4:00 - 5:30 pm

CENTRE FOR CHINESE RESEARCH

" Religion in China Today (Cambridge, 2003): An Introduction to the Book"

by Dr. Daniel L. Overmyer, Professor Emeritus, Centre for Chinese Research and the Department of Asian Studies, UBC

This book, which was first published as a special issue of the British journal, The China Quarterly, (No. 174; June 2003), contains eleven chapters on the current situation of different religious traditions in China, including the rituals and beliefs of local communities in four different areas, Buddhism, Daoism, Islam,Protestant and Roman Catholic Christianity, and popular healing sects like the Falun dafa. After the Introduction, the first article is on government regulation of religion. One of the
articles is about Taiwan. The authors are among the best in the world on their topics. The book is intended for non-specialists interested in contemporary China.

Wed 5 Nov

12:00 - 1:30 pm

INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCH AND THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY

"The Politics of Voice: Colonial Modernity andClassical Music in South India"

by Amanda Weidman

A. Wiedman is a candidate for Asa and Kashmir Johal Chair in India Research. Amanda Weidman received her PhD in anthropology at Columbia University in 2001. She currently teaches in the anthropology department at George Washington University in Washington, DC. She has done research on classical and popular music in South India, and is also a performer of South Indian (Karnatic) classical music. She is currently at work on a book entitled "Modernity's Voices: Classical Music and its Subjects in South India.

Wed 5 Nov

12:30 - 2:00 pm

THE LIU INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL STUDIES AND THE INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCH

"After Violence: Cooperative Power and Sustainable Societies-The Impact of Anti-Terrorism Measures on Civil Liberties in Indonesia"

By Abdi Suyaningati from YAPPIKA (The Civil Society Alliance for Democracy) and Rachland Nashidik from Imparisal (The Indonesian Human Rights Monitor)

About 80 violent conflicts that have been tearing apart societies have come to an end during the last decade, but have conflict-affected societies moved away from violence? These seminars look at locally based attempts to turn away from violence to build more inclusive communities and societies. Covering a wide range of contexts and initiatives, the seminars discuss the different types of violence and their social production. They also explore obstacles, setbacks and progresses in moving away from violence and
other coercive forms of power.

Wed 5 Nov

4:30 - 6:00 pm

THE CENTRE FOR CHINESE RESEARCH

"China's complete push for global trade: port system development and the role of COSCO"

By Dr. Claude Comtois, Professor Department of Geography, Centre for East Asian Studies, Centre for Research on Transportation, University of Montreal

In the extensive scientific literature in transport geography, one essential theme appears neglected: the strategies of firms in restructuring tranportation systems. This restructuration by major corporations parallel to government divestiture of transport infrustructure has far reaching implications for managing transport networks. The concentration of flows, of intermodal activities in selected hubs is raising serious issues for port development. This paper provides an analysis and original insight of the conditions and impacts of COSCO's strategies in restructuring the Chinese maritime space at the dawn of the third millennium.

Thurs 6 Nov

12:30 - 2:00 pm

THE LIU CENTRE FOR GLOBAL STUDIES AND THE INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCH

"After Violence: Cooperative Power and Sustainable Societies- Civil Society Revisited: Travels in Latin America and China."

By John Friedmann (formerly UCLA, UBC)

About 80 violent conflicts that have been tearing apart societies have come to an end during the last decade, but have conflict-affected societies moved away from violence. These seminars look at locally based attempts to turn away from violence to build more inclusive communities and societies. Covering a wide range of contexts and initiatives, the seminars discuss the different types of violence and their social production. They also explore obstacles, setbacks and progresses in moving away from violence.

Thu-Fri 6 & 7 Nov

9:00 am-5:00 pm

CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH

Conference on "Dimensions of Japanese Ethnicity Within and Without, 1543-1945"

by Tessa Morris-Suzuki (Australian National University)

November 6 (Thursday):
Keynote speaker presentation: 9:15-10:15
"Subjects and Citizens: Nationality in the Prewar Japanese Empire"
Session 1: 10:30-12:00
Diaspora and Ethnicity Inside and Outside
Session 2: 13:30-16:30 (conducted in both Japanese and English)
Ethnic Perceptions, Castaways, and Worldview
November 7 (Friday):
Session 3: 9:00-10:30
Arts, Culture, and Ethnicity
Session 4: 10:45-12:45 (conducted in both Japanese and English)
Prewar Japan From Without
Session 5: 14:30-16:00
Koreans and Japanese in Early Modern Times

Everyone Is Welcome!

Wed 12 Nov

12:30 - 2:00 pm

CENTRE FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA RESEARCH

"Globalization in a Pill: Understanding Addictive Thai Modernity through Opium, Methamphetamine and 3,000 Killings"

By Craig Candler, Doctoral Candidate, UBC Department of Anthropology/Sociology

On February 1, 2003 the Thai government began a major crackdown on the trade and use of illegal drugs. Yaa Baa (methamphetamine) was especially targeted. Over the next three months several thousand Thais were shot and killed. This massively violent war on drugs was hugely popular inside Thailand and has received almost no mention outside of it. Understanding the significance of this violent turn in Thai politics requires us to consider the interwoven histories and technologies of development, globalization, drug use, and drug suppression in northern Thailand, from opium through yaa baa. Based on interviews and experiences in rural northern Thailand during the killings, I argue that the little pink yaa baa pills crystallize notions of a dangerously consumptive and addictive modernity embedded in Thailand's ambiguous experience of globalization. Because yaa baa gives a tangible shape and substance to Thai fears of addictive modernity, the Thai government, and, it seems, the Thai people, are able to justify the killing of thousands in defense against it, likely at great cost to the democratic and constitutional future of Thailand.

Thurs 13 Nov

12:30 - 2:00 pm

CENTRE FOR INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA RESEARCH

By Derek Johnson

Derek Johnson is a candidate for Asa and Kashmir Johal Chair in India Research

CENTRE FOR INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA RESEARCH

by Professor V. Narayana Rao, Professor of Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison,

"Political Thought and Statecraft in Pre-Colonial India"

Mon 17 Nov

11:30 - 1:00 pm

CENTRE FOR CHINESE RESEARCH AND THE DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

"Local Knowledge and Disciplinary Knowledge: On Contemporary China and Political Science"

A brown bag lunch talk with Professor Frederick C. Teiwes, University of Sydney For more details contact: Fred Cutler (Political Science) cutler@politics.ubc.ca or Tim Cheek (CCR) t.cheek@ubc.ca

Mon 17 Nov

12:30 - 2:00 pm

CENTRE FOR AUSTRALASIAN RESEARCH

"Australia and Canada: The Asian Financial Crisis and Beyond"

by David W. Edgington, Dept. of Geography, UBC

Asian Centre

Room 604

Mon 17 Nov

12:00 - 1:30 pm

CENTRE FOR INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA RESEARCH

By Gautam Ghosh

Gautam Ghosh is a candidate for Asa and Kashmir Johal Chair in India Research

Mon 17 Nov

4:00 pm-5:30 pm

CENTRE FOR CHINESE RESEARCH

"The 1976 Tiananmen Crisis Revisited: A New Interpretation of a Misunderstood Seminal Event"

By Professor Fred Teiwes, Political Science, University of Sydney

Tue 18 Nov

12:30-2:00 pm

Centre for Australasian Research

"The Asian Financial Crisis and Beyond"
Australia and Canada

by David W. Edgington, Dept. of Geography, UBC

Sat 22 Nov

All Day

CENTRE FOR INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA RESEARCH

"Changing Faces of Islam".
Programme:

10.00am: Introductory remarks: Ashok Kotwal, Director, CISAR
10.15am: Sanjay Subrahmanyam (Oxford and CISAR): Two Views of Indo-Islamic Interaction in the Late Mughal Period
11.15am: S.R. Sarma (Asian Studies, UBC): Intellectual Exchanges between the Persian and Sanskrit Traditions in Mughal India
12.15pm: Lunch
2.00pm: Chitralekha Zutshi (College of William and Mary): Rethinking Kashmiri Islam
3.00pm: Taj Hashmi (Asian Studies, UBC): Failure of the 'Welfare State', Islamic Resurgence and Political Legitimacy in Bangladesh
4.00pm: Coffee Break
4.15pm: Haider Nizamani (Political Science, UBC): Islam and the Changing World Order: People's Perceptions from PakistanCISAR will be hosting a lunch. Please RSVP to kotwal@econ.ubc.ca before November 15th.

Mon 24 Nov

12:30-2:00 pm

Centre for Australasian Research

Title TBA

by Marilyn Lake, Dept. of History, La Trobe University

Mon 24 Nov

5:00 - 6:30 pm

CENTRE FOR AUSTRALASIAN RESEARCH

"White Man's Country: A National Response to a Trans-National Conversation" 'Challenging Nations Speakers Series'.

By Dr. Marilyn Lake (History, La Trobe University) (discussant: Professor Sneja Gunew, Women's Studies and Gender Relations, UBC).

Wed 26 Nov

12:00 - 1:30 pm

THE CENTRE FOR CHINESE RESEARCH

"Intermodality, Landbridge and Hub Location in China"

By Dr. Claude Comtois, Professor Department of Geography, Centre for East Asian Studies, Centre for Research on Transportation, University of Montreal

Containerisation and the increasing size of ships have an impact on the organisation of maritime and continental space. Henceforth, the geographical space is influenced by international carriers and global terminal operators. In this conference, we will explain the contemporary conditions for the development of intermodality and the emergence of multi-modal platforms. We first present how global processes generate a hierarchy of ports of call, notably in Asia. We then evaluate the role and function of continental landbridges and the potential of China's railway network. This will permit to raise issues concerning the strategies, methods and impacts required for China's railway sector. We conclude by examining the reconstruction of China's economic space and the potential for new local dynamics in an environment of changes.

Wed 26 Nov

4:00 - 5:30 pm

CENTRE FOR INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA RESEARCH

"Dowry Inflation in India: a Theoretical Perspective"

By Professor Siwan Anderson, Department of Economics, UBC

Thurs 27 Nov

12:30 - 2:00 pm

CENTRE FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA RESEARCH

"The Chinese Kongsi of West Borneo: Democratic Governance during Late Colonialism"

By Wang Tai Peng, Asia Inc.

Wang Tai Peng, journalist and scholar of Southeast Asian Chinese history will present arguments from his book "The Origins of Chinese Kongsi", which support the idea that the kongsi, a socio-economic organizational structure, served as a mechanism for governance among Southeast Asian Chinese in the late colonial period, or, in the words of Prof. Wang Gungwu in his preface to the book, "demonstrate that this Chinese Kongsi is the most ingenious type of brotherhood-partnership structure to be used as a system of government anywhere in the world."

Fri 28 Nov

4:00-5:30 pm

CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH

"The problem of psychiatric casualties among Japanese soldiers during the Asia-Pacific War"

by Janice Matsumura Dept. of History, SFU

Mon 8 Dec

1.30 - 3.00.pm

CENTRE FOR AUSTRALASIAN RESEARCH AND CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH

"Australia's trade and security policies, and East Asian regionalism"

by Peter Drysdale, Professor of Economics, Australia-Japan Research Centre, Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government, Australia National University.

Tues 16 Dec

11:30 - 1:00 pm

CENTRE FOR KOREAN RESEARCH

"Traditional Korean Costumes, Up to the Present and Prospects for the Future---Focusing on the Internationalization of the Traditional Korean Costume by accentuating its distinctiveness and beauty."

by Baik Young Ja, Professor, Dept. of Home economics, Korea National Open University

How do we accomplish the "Internationalization" of the Traditional Korean Costume- by establishing a database based upon information collected about world fashion trends (such as in Korea, Europe, North America, etc) which will make possible a deeper analysis and understanding of the aesthetic features as well as practicality and distinctive forms of the traditional Korean costume. A Study of the interrelationship between Mongolian & Korean costumes-Focusing of the Yan Era - by Choi Hai Yul, Professor, Dept. of Beauty Fashion Design, Sorabol College The purpose of this study is to correctly understand how Mongolian women's costumes, which had a close connection with Korean costumes, have come to adopt the shape they have. Mongol costumes with 'Nomadic' factors are trousers and jackets, with long deel for horse riding and the Nomadic life. Men's and women's costumes were alike for protection against the cold. Costumes with 'Foreign' factors are divided into two kinds: foreign culture applied to Mongolian costumes (for example, Koryo-yang), and transformation in costumes to adjust to environmental differences over the vast territory which is Mongolia. Also, influence from Ch'ing costumes is found in Mongolian women's costumes, which resemble in appearance Chosun women's costumes.

Tues 6 Jan

12:00 - 1:30 pm

CENTRE FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA RESEARCH, CENTRE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AND INSTITUTE FOR EUROPEAN STUDIES

"Reflections on East Timor After Independence: Government and Opposition: An Opposition Leader's Perspective"

br Fernando de Araujo, Opposition Leader of National Coalition Platform andFormer Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs

Fernando de Araujo is currently a Member of Parliament in East Timor, Leaderof the Opposition Platform, and founder of an alternative press, Vox Populi.In 2001, he was elected as the President of Partido Democratico, the party which won the second largest number of votes in the August 2001 national elections for the Constituent Assembly. During the Second Transitional Administration, he became a Cabinet Member, as Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs. He has been extensively involved as founding member of several civil society institutions such as Fundacao Haburas (an environmental organization), Talitakum (a weekly magazine), and most recently Vox Populi. Mr. De Araujo will discuss the obstacles and challenges faced by East Timorese and the current government. Why is Parliament considered to be inefficient? What are the problems at the local government level? Mr. de Araujo will discuss the importance of a strong and healthy opposition in the democratization process. He will also look at some economic problems that East Timor faces, in particular the conditions in the villages and districts. He will also address some aspects of the role of different players in civil society, including student and youth organizations, environmental NGOs, and the alternative press.

Jan. 5 to Jan 15, 2004 (Sundays Closed )

12pm - 5pm

Japan Foundation and the Centre for Japanese Research

"The World Heritage in Japan Photo Exhibition: An Introduction to The World Heritage"
Mankind has built great civilizations, a plentitude of unique cultures, and in the wake of four million years of natural history we find ourselves today immersed in a cultural and natural heritage with no apparent bounds or limits. But the doings of men have often interfered with nature, sometimes even causing its ruin. It is our charge to preserve the great heritage of nature, as well as the cultures of humankind. The World Heritage Convention is a document adopted in 1972 by a general session of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) in Paris. Its aims are to preserve for future generations cultural and natural legacies of world with conspicuous and universal value. As of January 2002, Japan and 167 other countries had signed the convention. By signing, these countries pledged to the world that they will preserve the legacies within their lands for future generations, and with this pledge they accept the obligation and responsibility to cooperate with other countries in protecting common World Heritage legacies of mankind. Today there are 721 World Heritage sites in 124 nations (as of January 2002). In 1993, the Shirakami-Sanchi Mountain Range, Yaku shima Island, Himeji-jo Castle, and the Buddhist monuments of the Horyu-ji Temple Area were registered as Japans first World Heritages. In the years since, Genbaku Dome, Itsukushima-jinja Shrine, the historic monuments of Ancient Nara, the historic monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto-city, Uji-city and Otsu-city), the Gassho zukurivillages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama, the Shrines and Temples of Nikko and Gusuku Site and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu that include Shuri-jo Castle among others have all been added to the list at the end of 2000. Kazuyoshi Miyoshi, Photographer: Kazuyoshi Miyoshi is a contemporary Japanese photographer renowned for his photography of nature and historic monuments. The World Heritage in Japan (Nippon no Sekai Isan) is one of many books he published in recent years. In 1998, he was commissioned by UNESCO to photograph all of the world heritage monuments and sites in Japan and in 1999, purchased by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, these photographs of Miyoshi have been exhibited throughout the world as the World Heritage in Japan Photo Exhibition managed by the Japan Foundation. 56 pieces of Kazuyoshi Miyoshis photographs will be on view at Asian Centre, UBC in January.
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Tues 13 Jan

12:30 - 2:00 pm

CENTRE FOR AUSTRALASIAN RESEARCH

"The Pacific Solution? What is next for Australian Refugee Law"

By Catherine Davergne, Legal Studies, UBC

Fri 16 Jan

4:00 - 5:30 pm

THE CENTRE FOR KOREAN RESEARCH

"A New Approach To Understanding Korean Ecological Literature"

by Dr. Yim Young-Chun, Visiting Scholar, Centre for Korean Research, UBCDepartment of Korean Language and Literature, Chosun University, Kwangju, ROK

Traditional western humanism is based on Hellenism, while Christianity is rooted in Hebraism. Nowadays, the environmental crisis and ecological destruction are becoming the focus of much attention. So these issues have influence on literary criticism. For this reason, it is necessary to discuss these issues from the contrastive viewpoint of Hellenism and Hebraism.I believe that that the Hellenistic view of the world is responsible for the destruction of the environment, and the idea of control over the nature given in the Bible (O.T.Genesis) is not itself a cause of this issue. And I hope this understanding will lead us to a deeper understanding of ecological literature overall.

Mon 19 Jan

12:00 - 1:30 pm

CENTRE FOR CHINESE RESEARCH

"The Qing Creation of The Province"

By Professor Kent Guy, Department of History, University of Washington.

Professor Guy will report on his study of the development of provincial government in the early Qing. The Qing succeeded as an empire in large part because they built an administrative layer between the court and the local level. There were officials termed "governors" in earlier dynasties, but the Qing governors had more responsibility for the functioning of local administration. The research is partly an institutional history, partly a prosopography of the 500 or so governors who served between 1700 and 1800.

Wed 21 Jan

3:30 - 5:00 pm

CENTRE FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA RESEARCH & UBC DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY

"Issues of Malay Urbanity: Colonial Constructions / Indigenous Constructions"

by Dr. Terry McGee, UBC Department of Geography and Institute of Asian Research

This presentation presents a synopsis of one chapter of a book I am currently writing, tentatively entitled RECONSTRUCTING THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN CITY. Using the example of the construction of the ideas of Malay rurality/urbanity in Malaya during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the paper shows how these ideas have powerfully influenced public policy in the period since 1957. Utilising a review of historical data, this presentation attempts to show that this expatriate constructions of Malays as rural people subverted a strong indigenous tradition of urbanity among Malays. This is further supported by a case study of Malays in Kuala Lumpur City.The conclusion reviews developments in Malay urbanization in the period since 1970 showing that the proportion of Malays living in urban areas has increased rapidly. By 2000 the majority of Malays are now living in urban areas and this development both asserts the ongoing continuity of an urban tradition that has never been lost and new indigenous constructions of Malay urbanity.

Thurs 22 Jan

12:00 - 4:00 pm

CENTRE FOR CHINESE RESEARCH

"Disorder in Late Imperial China"

Chaired by Dr. Alison Bailey

Tues 27 Jan

7:00 pm

CENTRE FOR KOREAN RESEARCH AND DEPT. OF ASIAN STUDIES

Koryô Kayo: Korean Songs from the Koryô Period"

by Kevin O'Rourke

Koryô kayo are songs from the Koryô period (918-1392) that give direct expression to a broad cross-section of the Korean people. By turns earthy, passionate, wistful, and celebratory, they offer a stark contrast to the more formal and conceptual verse written in Chinese by Korean scholar-bureaucrats. One such song, "Kashiri," is a precursor of modern Korea's best-loved poem, "Azaleas."Scholar, poet, and raconteur, Kevin O'Rourke is our leading all-around translator of Korean literature into English, with numerous volumes of translations to his credit. A native of Ireland, he has lived in Korea since 1964. He obtained a Ph.D. at Yonsei University in Seoul and teaches at Kyunghee University.

Thurs 29 Jan

11:00 - 2:00 pm

INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCH

LUNAR NEW YEAR

Celebrate the year of the monkey! Join the Institute of Asian Research at the C.K Choi Building for a new year celebration. Enjoy foods, music, crafts and dance on Thursday 29 January from 11:00-2:00 pm.

Fri 30 Jan

12:00 - 1:30 pm

CENTRE FOR CHINESE RESEARCH AND CENTRE FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA RESEARCH

Women and Development Lecture Series:
"Supporting Marginalized Women Exporters in the Asia-Pacific Region"

by Heather Gibb, The North-South Institute

Studies on gender and trade suggest that while women's economic activities may benefit from trade liberalization, a "gender neutral" approach to trade policy may fail to capture the different capacities and needs of women producers. Many women's enterprises are very small (0-5 employees), and concentrated in traditional, vulnerable sectors (handicrafts, garments and textiles, food products). Many women producers face constraints in access to ICT; training; market information; advice on product design and development; export networks, and finance. In addition, their businesses may be too small, or too weakly linked with mainstream organizations to be aware of, or eligible for national or international export facilitation programsThe presentation will describe a project currently under way in APEC's (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum) Committee on Trade and Investment. It focuses on strategies by which very small women producers, among the most marginalized of groups, could better take advantage of international markets.Heather Gibb is a senior researcher at The North-South Institute, an independent research institute based in Ottawa, Canada, that addresses relations between industrialized and developing countries.