2004 Seminar Schedule
For more information please call (604)
822-4688
or email iar@interchange.ubc.ca
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Institute
of Asian Research 2004 Seminar Schedule |
For more information please call (604)
822-4688 |
Seminars are sponsored by: CAS - Centre
for Australian Studies | CAPRI - Canada Asia Pacific Research Initiatives |
CCR - Centre for Chinese Research | CISAR - Centre for India & South Asian
Research | CJR - Centre for Japanese Research | CKR - Centre for Korean Research
| CPIRD - China Program for Integrated Research Development | CSEAR - Centre
for Southeast Asia Research | PICSA - Program in Inter-Cultural Studies in Asia.
Sessions are typically held in the C.K. Choi Building.
date&time |
MAY SEMINARS |
location |
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Tues 4 May 12:30-1:30 pm |
CENTRE FOR AUSTRALASIAN RESEARCH The Subject of Australia Note: this is an off-Institute event taking place at the Faculty Conference
Room, Faculty of Law, UBC The argument of my paper is that liberal democracy
in Australia is in serious danger from two convergent forces. The superficially
lesser threat is public cynicism, and an increasing derisive disbelief
in politicians. Nothing is more supportive of authoritarian government,
however. As Zizek remarks, the former Communist regimes relied on the
jaded public perception that the Party and the nomenklatura had long abandoned
the ideals of Marxism-Leninism, and regarded any sign of enthusiasm for
a return to those ideals with suspicion. The Australian government has
come to rely, to get away with its deceptions, concealments and half-truths,
on the ordinary citizen's acceptance that little else is to be expected
of politicians. Second, the notion of balance seems to have been abandoned
in the public sphere. The notion of an independent public service has
all but gone, so that political loyalty and a willingness to collude in
governmental 'deniability' by not providing unwelcome information has
become a qualification for high administrative office. Attacks on the
judiciary by the government are now common whenever decisions with which
the government disagrees are handed down. The federal High Court, and
the boards of museums and the public broadcaster are openly packed with
government loyalists and potentially critical institutions like universities
are de-funded to the point where they are forced into vocational education
for purposes of survival. Criticism itself is dismissed by government
and its allies in the media as 'elitism'. |
Faculty Conference Room, Faculty of Law, UBC |
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7-8 May |
INSTITUTE FOR EUROPEAN STUDIES AND CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH PRESENT: Towards an Alternative Tricontinental Partnership?: Responses to
Global Issues in EU, Japanese, and Canadian Policy-Making In the late 1990s, Japan, Canada and the European Union haveincreasingly coalesced around two common priorities: (1) the preservation of diverse socio-economic models in the face ofglobalization, and (2) the strengthening of international norms inresponse to global problems. This emerging cooperation is breaking newground in dominant constellations of international relations. It standsin great contrast to earlier decades, when the EU primarily saw Japanas a mercantilistic threat and Japan saw the EU as protectionist andintrovert, while Canada pursued separate priorities. This workshop willbegin to explore this convergence in policies to lay out a plan for alonger project in the coming years. Friday, May 7 Saturday, May 8 10:45 - 12:15 SESSION 3: The Politics of Cultural Diversity (UNESCO
Treaty) 2:00 - 3:30 SESSION 4: International Criminal Court & Human Security 3:45 - 5:30 CONCLUDING SESSION: Where to Now?Project-planning, publication
plan |
C.K. Choi Bldg. #120 |
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Friday 14 May 1:00 - 5:30 pm |
CENTRE FOR CHINESE RESEARCH WORKSHOP ON CHINESE WOMEN AND GIRLS 1:00 - 3:00 p.m: Panel One: Missing Girls 3:00 - 3.30pm: Coffee / tea break. 3.30 - 5.30pm: Panel Two: Marriage Variations: Old and New |
C.K. Choi Building Room #120 |
Seminars in: 1998 / 1999 / 2000 / 2001 / 2002 / 2003 / 2004 / 2005 / 2006 / 2007
