Tea Circle in the Wake of Myanmar’s Coup: Supporting Public Scholarship and Building Intellectual Networks
Tea Circle is a Burma/Myanmar blog founded in 2015 and housed at the Asian Institute since 2018. Following the military coup in Myanmar in February...
Czech Election Debrief – A Conversation with Two Experts
Pavel Pšeja, PhD, is a university lecturer and translator working in several fields. He currently lectures in three universities in the Czech Republic (Masaryk University...
A Self-Help Approach: Urban Design in Accra’s Informal Settlements
Urban design, which deals with the production of public spaces, traditionally uses a top-down approach. However, urban design often does not work in urban informal...
Public Perceptions of Citizenship and Migration in Japan
Is migration a plausible option in combating aging and shrinking populations in countries with a strong emphasis on ethnic homogeneity? What kind of policies would...
MPP/MGA Dual Degree Information Session – joint with Sciences Po
Come learn all you need to know about this amazing dual degree program offered in partnership with U of T, Munk School, Master of Global...
Book Launch: Flora! A Woman in a Man’s World
Flora MacDonald was Canada’s first female foreign minister, and among the first women to seek the leadership of a major political party. She served in...
MGA attends the Idealist Fair 2021
Do you see yourself in a world-changing role? Could grad school be the next step to get there? Get your questions answered and explore some...
“Japan’s Aging Peace: Pacifism and Militarism in the Twenty-First Century” – Book Talk by Tom Le
This talk challenges the conventional “normal nation” narrative in international relations scholarship by explaining why Japan has not remilitarized despite the changing international context. By...
Platform Capitalism and Platform Labor: Gender, Precarity, and Resistance
You are cordially invited to the second part of conference, “Platform capitalism and platform labor,” featuring Juliet Schor (Boston College) and Ya-Wen Lei (Harvard University)....
‘A L’Immortalité’: Power, Propaganda, and the Académie royale des sciences under the Sun King
How did images function within the early Académie royale des sciences? During the Academy’s formative period, from its inauguration in 1666 to the death of...
Representations of the Buddha in Persian Literary Culture
This presentation seeks to shed light on the presence and influence of Buddhism in the Persianate world until the 14th century. In order to better...
Overcoming Challenges in the Research Environment in China
This panel discussion will focus on guidance and advice for late-stage graduate students who are experiencing challenges accessing archives, conducting interviews, or who otherwise face...
Navigating the Age of Disruption
On November 1 at 5pm (PST)/8pm (EST)/Nov 2 at 9am (JST), the Center for Japanese Research at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs...
MGA & MPP attends McGill Graduate Online Fair 2021
Visit the McGill Graduate Online Fair and connect with the Admissions Officer from the Munk school of Global Affairs & Public Policy. Learn more about...
“One China” Contention and Taiwan’s Future
Beijing and Taipei have long disputed ideas of “one China.” The nature of their contentions has also varied across time. What is certain now is...
Indigenous-Municipal Relations in Canada: Where Do We Stand?
With close to half of Indigenous Peoples living in urban areas, ensuring strong, deep Indigenous-municipal relationships across Canada is vital. Yet, Canadian municipalities are often...
Seeing China and the Asia-Pacific from India
With their shared and yet diverged colonial and postcolonial experiences, both China and India have embarked on their own modernizing and state-building projects after World...
The Munk School Professional Masters Degree Programs Virtual Open House
We are inviting you to our annual Open House for our 2-year professional master degree programs at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public...
Book Launch: Populist Moments and Extractivist States in Venezuela and Ecuador: The People’s Oil?
Join us as we discuss the intersection of extractivism, populism, and accountability in Latin American politics with co-authors Donald Kingsbury and Teresa Kramarz. Although populist...
Development Charges and Housing Affordability: A False Dichotomy?
Over the past 30 years, Ontario’s municipalities have relied on development charges to recover growth-related capital costs. At the same time, critics have argued that...
MGA attends MIA/ (Hertie School) / MGA (MUNK) Dual Degree Student Panel Q & A
Meet current students in the MIA/MGA dual degree with the Munk School of Global Affairs. Thinking of applying to our dual degree with the Munk...
Plumbing the Depths: The Moscow Canal as Cultural Icon & Atypical Gulag Site
This presentation will trace the history of the construction of the Moscow Canal by forced labor. Building on this foundation we will then explore the...
MGA/MBA Combined program Admissions Information Session
MGA/MGA Admissions Information Session Come join us and learn about this incredible combined program with the Master of Global Affairs at U of T and...
Material Culture Wars: Lessons from Italy
More than seven decades after the collapse of Mussolini’s regime, the physical and iconographic traces of Italian Fascism – monuments, buildings, inscriptions, artworks – remain...
Divided By the Wall: Progressive and Conservative Immigration Politics at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Why is immigration a controversial topic in the United States? Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork spanning 2010 to 2016, I begin to answer this question by...