Book Launch: Innovation in Real Places: Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World
For the last few decades, the dominant growth model has been to focus on technological innovation. Yet, while a small number of cities and regions...
Centre for South Asian Studies Graduate Symposium
The first ever graduate symposium in contemporary South Asian Studies at the University of Toronto was conceived of as a platform for students engaging in...
Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam
Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam (Duke University Press, 2021) examines the afterlife of the Vietnam War, and its continued...
Munk One Open House Series 2021 – Session #4: Student Life at Munk One
Community is at the heart of the Munk One Program. The smallest of the One programs, learn how Munk One students benefit from small class...
A Conversation with Bob Rae
The Bill Graham Centre presents: A Conversation with Bob Rae Join Canada’s Ambassador to the UN to discuss events in Myanmar and other global hotspots....
Local Implications of a National Housing Strategy: The Case of Toronto
Canada is facing a distinctly urban housing crisis. After decades of relative disengagement, federal and provincial governments are now working to manage the housing crisis....
Ageing and Later Life Caregiving Arrangements in Urban India
This lecture will be examining how ageing experiences, intergenerational relationships, and eldercare are shaped in a globalized India. Although, the law emphasizes on the role...
The Secret Pleasures of a Migrant Dictionary
This paper will look at a tiny portion of Benyamin’s Aadujeevitham (Goat Days, trans. Joseph Koyipally) commercially the most successful of Malayalam novels and a...
The End of Travel: Time to Revisit Mass Tourism
Long before COVID-19 choked off flights, the planet was suffocating from the rise of mass tourism and the decline of travel. Post-pandemic, we need a...
The Waiting Dissolve: Abrar Alvi’s Sahib Bibi aur Ghulam (1962)
Black and white Hindi cinema–from the time of independence (1947) to the emergence of colour (early 1960s)–can be studied for a distinct and fully-realized aesthetic...
Panel Discussion: The Manipal Centre for Humanities Meets the Centre for South Asian Studies
The Manipal Centre for Humanities is one of two Centres of Excellence under the Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE)–MAHE itself was one of the...
Collectors, Selectors, KEEPERS, and MCs: Black Feminist Sonic World-Making
We gather together to amplify our understanding of hip hop as a form of Black Feminist Sonic World-Making. akua naru, Azmera Hammouri-Davis, and Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo...
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...
Hungary’s Efforts to Leave the Axis Camp: Secret Diplomacy and Strategies for a ‘Low Price Defeat’ (1943–1944)
The lecture will provide an overview of Hungarian policies directed at leaving the Axis camp during the Second World War. After an introductory part on...
Estranged Memory: Holocaust Remembrance and the Attitudes to Jews in Ukrainian Society after 1991
This talk will address the complex issue of memory of the Holocaust in Ukrainian society after the fall of communism. After a brief overview on...
Built For All: How Do We Build Back Better
Built for All, a report by the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth and the Centre for Public Impact, examines the prospects and challenges for building...
The 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize: Trade Wars are Class Wars
Join us for a conversation with the 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize Winners. While the U.S.-China trade war has been perceived mostly as projections of great...
Summer Institute: Advancing Anti-Corruption, Accountability and Transparency in the Global Pharmaceutical System
Background There is growing evidence about how corruption in the pharmaceutical system creates inequitable barriers to access to medicines through wastage, diversion, and exclusion. The...