Asia and Asian Diaspora Events
Summer and Fall 2011

Japanese Literature Today
Readings (in Japanese and English translation) and commentary by four of Japan’s leading literary figures including; haiku poet Minoru Ozawa; novelists Hiromi Kawakami and Hideo Furukawa, and translator/essayist Motoyuki Shibata. For other events celebrating the launch of the journal Monkey Business, click here.
Monday, 12 September 2011 | 12:30 to 2:30pm | Harry Crowe Room | 109 Atkinson | York University

Fear of Extinction: Environmental Protection as Political Metaphor among China's Ethnic Minorities
Nimrod Baranovitch (East Asian Studies, Haifa University, Israel)
21 September 2011 | 1-3pm | 626 YRT | York University

YCAR Welcome Back event and Celebration of Publications
27 September 2011 | 3 to 5pm | 280N York Lanes | York University

Worker’s’ Trauma through Failed Solidarity: Lessons from a Korean Car Industry
Su-Dol Kang (Koryo University)
5 October 2011 | 2:30-4:30pm | 280A York Lanes | York University

Taiwan FilmFest at York University
3-7 October 2011 | York University  

Critical Political Ecologies: Shifting Contours of Environmental Knowledges and Governance
12-13 October 2011 | York University

Launch of Sino-Canadian Relations in the 21st Century (Huhua Cao and Vivienne Poy, eds., University of Ottawa Press, 2011)
Co-hosted by YCAR and the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library at the University of Toronto
18 October 2011 | University of Toronto