The series is designed to introduce students and faculty to recently published and emerging research on North and South Korea and their relations with their Northeast Asian neighbours, such as China and Japan. Over the last decades, the number of Korean studies specialists at 91亚色 and in the Toronto area has grown exponentially from a few faculty members to a few dozen, says Kim. The series hopes to highlight this change and offer a forum for researchers, students and the local Korean-Canadian community.

The first year of the series will focus on 20th-century Korean history, with scholars speaking on imperialism, the Second World War, the Korean War, forced migration and the social issues associated with the formation of the DPRK and the ROK.

Takashi Fujitani will present the first lecture of the series Monday, Nov. 26 at 3pm at 280A 91亚色 Lanes, Keele campus. His talk, co-presented with the Department of History, examines 鈥淩eflections on Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II鈥�. Fujitani is the Dr. David Chu Professor and Director in Asia Pacific Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan (1998) and co-editor of Perilous Memories: The Asia Pacific War(s) (2001). His most recent book Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II (2011) will form the basis for this lecture.

Fujitani will reflect on his reinterpretation of nationalism, racism and wartime mobilization during the Asia-Pacific war. He uses parallel case studies of Koreans recruited or drafted into the Japanese military and of Japanese Americans mobilized to serve in the US Army, to examine how the US and Japanese empires struggled to manage racialized populations while waging total war. He demonstrates that the United States and Japan became increasingly alike over the course of the war, perhaps most tellingly in their common attempts to disavow racism even as they reproduced it in new ways and forms.

Kim will discuss her research on everyday life in Pusan as a refugee capital Feb. 7, 2013 when she delivers her talk, 鈥淩efuge, Relief, and Resettlement in the Temporary Capital Pusan, 1950-1953鈥�. She will focus in on the most salient characteristics of wartime Pusan: overwhelming poverty, increasing marketization that was predominantly illegal or informal and its role as a US military base.

The final speaker in the series is Andre Schmid, a professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. His current research interests include the history of the cultural Cold War in post-Korean War peninsula, as well as early 20th century peasant movements. He is the author of Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919 (Columbia University Press), winner of the Association of Asian Studies John Whitney Hall award, and has published in journals such as Journal of Asian Studies, South Atlantic Quarterly and Yoksa munje yon'gu. In his talk, Schmid will examine the reconstruction of North Korea and the role of socialist living. The date of this talk in late March 2013 is to be confirmed.

The second year (2013-2014) of the series will concentrate on issues of labour, migration, mobility and cultural change experienced at the turn of the 21st century. The 91亚色 Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) hopes to turn the series into a larger project inviting international scholars by 2014, says Kim.

For more information about the YCAR Korea Speaker Series, contact the 91亚色 Centre for Asian Research at ycar@yorku.ca.

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Dynamic and contemporary, the works were given by 37 of the society's members. They include watercolours, oil and acrylic paintings, photographs and drawings representing a wide variety of subject matter and styles.

Above: A Harmony in Grey and Yellow, 1897 by Mary Augusta Hiester Reid, OSA. Oil on canvas, 34.3 x 90.2 centimetres. Government of Ontario Art Collection, Archives of Ontario 619739.

The OSA has a long and impressive history of encouraging, supporting and promoting the province鈥檚 visual arts community. Founded in Toronto in 1872 by seven artists, the society鈥檚 goal was to provide better public access to art and art education. Its first exhibition was held in 1873 and featured 252 works by 22 artists. More than 5,000 people attended the inaugural exhibition.

A strong link between the society and the provincial government was formed at the 1873 exhibition when the government made some of its first art purchases there. Well over 200 years later, works from the OSA are finding homes in the Government of Ontario Art Collection.

Gifted is curated by the Archives of Ontario鈥檚 Outreach Officer Stewart Boden, and runs until Oct. 12 in the Helen McClung Exhibit Area at the Archives of Ontario building on 91亚色's Keele campus.

Members of the 91亚色 community are invited to view the exhibit. The Archives is open Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 5pm, Tuesday and Thursday to 8pm, and Saturday, from 10am to 4pm.

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She was nominated by 91亚色 linguistics Professor Sheila Embleton and given the award by Halifax MP Megan Leslie (BA Hons. '03). In 2010聽Leslie gave the first Varpu Lindstr枚m lecture, an annual event created in Lindstr枚m's honour.

Varpu Lindstr枚m

Professor Lindstr枚m died in Beaverton of brain cancer. She was 63.

91亚色 will lower the flag to half mast from聽July 6 at 9am to July 7 at 1pm in her memory.

A memorial service will be held聽July 6 at 2 pm at , 6150 Yonge Street. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to聽the , P.O. Box 278, 27 St. Clair Ave. E., Toronto, ON M4T 1L0. A private funeral has already been held.

Born in Helsinki, Finland in 1948, Lindstr枚m immigrated to Canada in 1963. Her mission to document the Finnish-Canadian聽experience began one summer while she worked as a Finnair public relations officer and heard old immigrants talk about how hard it was to carve out a new life in Ontario鈥檚 backwoods in the 1920s. Lindstr枚m, whose father had dragged her 鈥渒icking and screaming鈥� at 14 from Helsinki to Oshawa, could relate. 鈥淚 thought, my goodness, somebody should record this,鈥� she told magazine in a 2006 interview. So she did. The tapes inspired her BA, MA and PhD theses and launched her academic career at 91亚色 in an emerging new field 鈥� Canadian immigration history.

During her distinguished career as a professor and scholar at 91亚色, she specialized in North American social history, immigration and women鈥檚 studies, focusing primarily on the experience of Finnish immigrants to Canada. Her first book was based on her thesis: Defiant Sisters: A Social History of Finnish Immigrant Women in Canada, 1890-1930. She also published From Heroes to Enemies: Finns in Canada, 1937-1947.

Inspired by聽Defiant Sister, filmmaker Kelly Saxberg invited聽Lindstr枚m to聽be researcher and historical consultant for聽her 2004聽National Film Board documentary, . The critically acclaimed documentary was shown on national TV in Finland and at film festivals around the world, and won awards at Manitoba鈥檚 2006 Blizzards Awards.

Until the 75-minute film聽was released, few knew about the 2,800 young Finnish-Canadians returned to Russia in the 1930s with dreams of a starting a new society and ended up victims of Stalinist purges. 鈥淚t was not even a footnote in Canadian history books,鈥� Lindstr枚m told . From there, Lindstr枚m went on a quest to discover what happened to the families caught in the Karelia 鈥渇ever鈥�.

Lindstr枚m became known as a 鈥渕emory keeper鈥� in Finnish-Canadian communities. Over several decades, she amassed diaries, family correspondences, financial ledgers, war-relief funding and other organizational records about Finns who immigrated to Canada in the 1880s to early 1900s as a result of economic depression and war in Finland. She also collected sound recordings of oral histories, folk music, documentary films, and more than 1,000 books, almanacs and plays published by Finnish authors in North America. Her research into Karelia 鈥渇ever鈥� took her to Russia where she photocopied rare documents, such as two volumes of a Soviet register of Finnish war crimes, a list of persons found in the mass grave at Karhumaki, and Soviet lists of North American Finns who journeyed to Karelia to help build a socialist utopia. In May, she donated all this to 91亚色鈥檚 Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections.

Lindstr枚m started teaching history at Atkinson Faculty of Liberal & Professional Studies in 1984. In addition to teaching and research, she played a vital role in 91亚色鈥檚 administration. She was founding chair of 91亚色鈥檚 groundbreaking School of Women鈥檚 Studies, was chair of Atkinson鈥檚 History Department and coordinator of its Canadian Studies Program. While master of Atkinson, she helped the Atkinson Students' Association through a fractious period and they, in gratitude, established the Varpu Lindstr枚m Scholarship. She served as an elected Senate representative on 91亚色鈥檚 Board of Governors and on many University committees, and was acting director of the School of Social Work.

In 2006, she was named a University Professor. Lindstr枚m鈥檚 personal qualities of quiet determination and selflessness made her a mentor and inspiration to so many, said her nominator, Rhonda Lenton, then Atkinson dean. At the core of all her activities was 鈥渉er profound respect for human dignity, equity and learning.鈥�

Lindstr枚m leaves聽sons Allan Best (BA 97) and Martin Best, and husband Borje V盲h盲m盲ki.

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The film by Osgoode grad Chris Hope (JD 鈥�04) offers a moving account of Japanese Canadian detention during the Second World War,聽as seen through the eyes of his grandmother, Nancy Okura.听 Hope spent more than ten years working on the film, which he also produced. Osgoode alumnus Anwar Deeb (JD 鈥�04) composed the film鈥檚 original music.

Right: Osgoode Hall Law School grad Chris Hope with his grandmother, Nancy Okura.

"Most people my age have the beginning of a pension," said Hope, whose day job is as director of business and legal affairs for Alliance Films Inc.听 "I have a film; a massive debt, and, thankfully, a very patient wife."

Hope was able to attract community support to raise about 25 per cent of the overall budget, which allowed him to complete the film by the April 1 gala date.听 The film is now ready for distribution and broadcast.

His goal is to screen the film in schools across Canada. "The Japanese Canadian Internment story is one in which Canadians are painfully under-versed,鈥� he said. 鈥淗opefully, by presenting it in the first person with my grandmother, it will resonate on a more personal level than the few paragraphs in a history textbook that most of us experienced, and probably quickly forgot."

Hope says the universal message contained in his film is that everyone needs to take the time to learn the history of those closest to them, and not hesitate in the sharing that history.

鈥淏y openly discussing such stories, we may collectively learn from our past, regardless of racial, cultural, religious or political boundaries,鈥� he said. 鈥淜nowledge and familiarity with 鈥榯he other鈥� is the enemy of discrimination, so it is critical that that knowledge is constantly nurtured and encouraged."

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Environmental studies PhD candidate Andrew Mark knows what鈥檚 it鈥檚 like to have a long commute to campus, but he tries to use this time productively by thinking about and listening to podcasts.

In fact, he likes podcasts so much, he and a fellow student have created a podcast series he hopes other 91亚色 commuters will find intriguing and thought-provoking.

This week, Mark and Amanda Di Battista, also an environmental studies PhD candidate at 91亚色, will launch CoHearence, a new podcast series exploring the connections between the environment and history and culture.

The first episode will explore mourning,聽loss and the environment聽

On Thursday, Feb. 9, 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Environmental Studies (FES) will host a screening and discussion based on the first episode of CoHearence as part of the FES Lecture Series at 12:45pm at 141 Health, Nursing & Environmental Studies building. Mark and Di Battista, along with other participants from the episode, will be on hand for a Q&A period.

Funded by (Network in Canadian History & Environment) and the Faculty of Environmental Studies (FES), CoHearence is a six-part, monthly audio program free to the general public. Part one of the pilot podcast is 鈥淢elancholy, Mourning and Environmental Thought: Making Loss the Centre鈥� and it looks at the loss involved in today鈥檚 changing environment.

Cohearance will also look at protests and the environment

For anyone not familiar with podcasts, they are similar to radio broadcasts with a difference in the delivery system. Instead of tuning in via radio, listeners download episodes digitally and listen to them through a computer or personal media device, such as an iPod or cellphone. 鈥淲e think [podcasting] is ideally suited to talking about complex environmental issues,鈥� says Di Battista. Mark agrees, saying 鈥淲e hope this medium can create a new venue for information dissemination, beyond the written word, the lecture, the conference or an advising session.鈥�

Di Battista says her goal in creating CoHearence is to 鈥渇acilitate interesting discussion about the relationship between culture and environment. We work really hard to make each episode interesting both to those within the academy and the general public.鈥�

Mark hopes the project will also reach an audience outside of the University. 鈥淥ur primary objective is to improve the interdisciplinary discussion happening within our Faculty. We can [also] create narratives that are engaging to people outside of our community. For example, not only does our Faculty have theoretical ideas about the G20 protests, but we also have lived knowledge of those events.鈥�

Each podcast episode will highlight current FES research. Di Battista says the reason for choosing melancholy and mourning as the topic for the first podcast is that 鈥渋n the wake of the huge amount of environmental loss we talk, teach and learn about each day here in [FES], thinking about the ways that we might deal with the grief and anger that come out of those experiences seemed like a great place to start.鈥�

Subsequent episodes will address a range of topics, including food justice, protest and resistance, and even highlights from the held last October at the Gladstone Hotel.

Di Battista and Mark hope that series will endure on the airwaves for a long time. To help ensure this, they are offering workshops on podcasting through the (CAP) program so future generations of FES students may continue to produce CoHearence. 鈥淧eople will discover and rediscover the series as a document of our times,鈥� says Mark. 鈥淭hey might listen to our shows to hear about the topics or merely to come to know the people we interview better.鈥�

CoHearence is available now on as a part of Sean Kheraj鈥檚 established podcast called Nature鈥檚 Past. It is also available on the website, which currently features a short preview video.

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Organized by 91亚色鈥檚 聽in cooperation with the at Osgoode Hall Law School, the series explores the current European financial crisis from the perspectives of financial and economic history, political theory and European integration.听

On Jan. 11, 91亚色 political scientist Leo Panitch (left) gives a talk, 鈥淎merican Crisis/Global Crisis: Can the empire of globalization contain the spirits it has called up from the deep?鈥� in 626 91亚色 Research Tower, from 12:30 to 2pm. Panitch is Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy and a distinguished research professor of political science at 91亚色. He is also the author of Global Capitalism and American Empire.听

On Jan. 18, Kurt H眉bner (right), European studies professor at the University of British Columbia, speaks about 鈥淭he Euro 鈥� Past, Present and Future?鈥� in 2003 Ignat Kaneff Building, Osgoode Hall Law School, from 2:30 to 4pm. H眉bner is chair of German & European Studies, and director of the Institute for European Studies at UBC, and holds the Jean Monnet Chair for European Integration and Global Political Economy. His most recent book is Europe, Canada and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement. In 2012, his book, Global Currency Conflicts and Cooperation, will be released.

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Left: Anne Russon

A leading primatologist, Russon works on the psychological abilities of great apes. She is one of the few researchers who study non-human cognition in the field and she discovered that orangutans are capable of imitation. Russon has disseminated her findings through numerous co-authored papers, book chapters and lectures. Her work has received major research grants from the Indianapolis Zoo, the Leakey Foundation and the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada. Her findings have been widely covered in scientific and popular media. She聽has also served as scientific adviser for several foundations, national parks and documentaries.

Right: Bettina Bradbury

A nationally recognized scholar, Bradbury is a leading feminist historian of family. She has recently published Wife to Widow: Lives, Laws and Politic in Nineteenth Century Montreal. This book uses an impressive quantitative methodology and analyzes a wide range of sources to show how Montreal couples opted for diverse forms of 鈥渃ompanionate patriarchy鈥� within their marriages, depending on their social class and cultural heritage. 聽Bradbury's work is the culmination of years of federally-funded research. Her peers have described her work as 鈥済roundbreaking鈥� and as 鈥渁 fine example of how to get at and illuminate the lives and experiences of ordinary folk.鈥�

The awards ceremony was organized by Glendon Research Services and took place聽on Nov. 30.

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Published by the University of Alabama Press, Haints (see YFile, Sept. 14) examines the work of contemporary American authors who draw on the gothic tradition in their fiction, not as frivolous or supernatural entertainments, but to explore and memorialize the ghosts of their heritage.

The launch will take place Oct. 26, from 3 to 5pm, in the Founders Senior Common Room, 305 Founders College, Keele campus. Everyone is welcome to attend. Refreshments will be provided.

Ghosts, Redding argues, serve as lasting witnesses to the legacies of slaves and indigenous peoples whose stories were lost in the remembrance or mistranslation of history. No matter how much Americans willingly or unwillingly repress the truth of their ancestry, their ghosts remain unburied and restless.

Left: Art Redding

Redding, a professor in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, currently teaches Contemporary American Gothic. He has written about various American literary and cultural figures, from Emma Goldman to Kathy Acker.听He is the author of Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers: Culture and Politics of the Early Cold War (University Press of Mississippi, 2008) and Raids on Human Consciousness: Writing, Anarchism, and Violence (University of South Carolina Press, 1998).

The event is sponsored by the 91亚色 Bookstore and Founders College.

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But it wasn鈥檛 until 2006, a year after he was appointed director of the Dulwich Gallery, that Dejardin had a chance to visit Canada and view first-hand the works of Tom Thomson, J.E.H. MacDonald, Arthur Lismer, Frederick Varley, Frank Johnston, Franklin Carmichael, A.Y. Jackson and Lawren Harris. (Thomson is associated with the group but was never an official member.)

Then two years later, the doors began to open, thanks to Canadian art patron David Thomson, who introduced Dejardin to the two Canadians who would become his co-curators for the European tour: Katerina Atanassova, chief curator of the McMichael Collection, and Anna Hudson, professor of Canadian art & curatorial studies at 91亚色 [Faculty of Fine Arts].

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The next instalment of the series will be delivered by , a professor in 91亚色's Faculty of Environmental Studies and . The lecture will take place Monday, March 21,聽in 001 Vanier College聽from 6 to 7pm.

Sandilands is the author of numerous publications in environmental literature, history and cultural studies, including writings on national parts, queer and feminist ecologies, ecocriticism and environmental public cultures.

Sandilands' lecture,聽titled "A State of Nature? National Parks and Canadian National Identity", places a different kind of lens on Canada's national聽parks. Anyone who has ever visited one and wondered why there are so many rules, trails and signs in the "wilderness" should consider coming to this free public lecture.

Above: Cate Sandilands聽and the聽unnatural signage in the Bruce Peninsula National Park

"Canadian national parks are often referred to as 'national treasures', part of a public understanding of heritage that view them as a sort of repository of the essence of Canada. In this view, parks 'preserve' a nature that is the origin of the nation, a key part of our collective identity as Canadians," says Sandilands.

"In fact, national parks are deeply political creations. They 'organize' nature in specific ways, and have served a variety of economic and other agendas since the first Canadian national park 鈥� Rocky Mountains Park, now Banff 鈥� was established in 1887," she says.

"This presentation will consider the politics of national parks over the last 125 years, with a particular focus on the dynamics of 'national natures' as they are a part of different economic, political and ideological trajectories for Canadian identity," says Sandilands. "Thinking about parks solely as sites of preservation obscures a far more interesting history."

The Canada Like You鈥檝e Never Heard it Before Lecture Series series聽showcases the breadth and depth of Canadian scholarship and research at 91亚色. The series聽was organized by Jon Sufrin,聽coordinator of the Canadian Studies Program.听This academic year,聽several senior faculty and two Canada Research Chairs have聽delivered presentations.

Sponsors of the series include: the Dean's Office,聽Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies; Stong College; Vanier College; Winters College; New College; Calumet College; Founders College; Students for Canadian Studies; and the Canadian Studies Program.

For upcoming lectures and speaker bios, visit the Canada Like You鈥檝e Never Heard it Before Lecture Series website.

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