Xiang’s talk, “The Intermediary Trap: International Labour Recruitment, Transnational Governance and State-Citizen Relations in China,” will take place Nov. 5 at 519 91��ɫ Research Tower, Keele campus. A reception will begin at 2:30pm, followed by the lecture at 3pm. Everyone is welcome to attend the event hosted by the 91��ɫ Centre of Asian Research (YCAR).

Xiang Biao

“Dr. Xiang is a young and exciting anthropologist working on migration in Asia. His work comprises detailed ethnographic studies in multiple contexts including India, China, Singapore, Korea, Japan and Australia. He epitomizes the 'open' and 'non-territorial' concept of Asia-as-region that we espouse at YCAR,” says Philip F. Kelly, YCAR director.

Xiang’s forthcoming book Making Order from Transnational Mobility (Princeton University Press) is the result of four years of field research across East Asia.

Beyond the appeal of Xiang's pan-Asian ethnographies, his work on the transnational governance regimes that regulate migration will also be of interest to a wide range of scholars at 91��ɫ, says Kelly.

Xiang’s lecture will trace how transnationally-linked commercial labor recruiters gain a dominant position in cultivating, facilitating and controlling migration.  These intermediaries render themselves indispensable both for migrating workers and for the states seeking to make order from migration.

The intermediary trap is more dynamic and complex than a simple “capture” by identifiable interest groups and is deeply implicated in changing state-citizen relations in China. Rooted in Chinese and other Asian states’ agenda to liberalize socioeconomic life without compromising sovereign power, the intermediary trap may become a worldwide phenomenon with the resurgence of state power alongside a continuing neoliberal hegemony beyond Asia.

Through its Asia Lecture Series, YCAR showcases some the best of scholarship on Asia and initiates discussion in both academic and non-academic communities about major issues relating to Asia in a global context.

For more information about YCAR, visit the YCAR website.

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91��ɫ’s Schulich School of Business has been ranked 20th in the world and number one in Canada in a global MBA survey conducted by ����貹�Բ���ó�� magazine, a Time Inc. business publication based in Mexico City.

It marks the third straight year Schulich has made the world’s top 20 in the ����貹�Բ���ó�� ranking. Schulich placed just behind Kellogg College at the University of Oxford, Stern School of Business at New 91��ɫ, and the University of Cambridge, and ahead of the University of California, Los Angeles, Carnegie Mellon University and the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina.

Dezsö J. Horváth

Harvard Business School once again placed first overall, with Stanford University taking second spot and the London School of Business finishing third. Schulich ranked ninth among business schools outside the United States and 12th among business schools in North America. 

The ����貹�Բ���ó�� Best Global MBAs ranking, established in 2006, rates leading MBA programs from around the world using a broad range of criteria, including academic quality, return on investment and global value. The survey employs a predominantly statistical-based methodology to rank business schools, with points awarded in key areas of measurement such as international scope and orientation, average GMAT, post-MBA average salary percentage increase and faculty research output.

“We’re pleased to once again be rated among the top 20 business schools in the world by a major global ranking this academic year,” said Schulich Dean Dezsö J. Horváth, who noted The Economist and the Aspen Institute recently ranked Schulich among the top 10 MBA programs in the world (Schulich placed ninth in The Economist‘s 2011 global ranking and second in the Aspen 2011 global ranking). “The ����貹�Բ���ó�� ranking is the premiere global survey conducted by a Latin American business publication and complements the other major global business school rankings conducted by business publications in the US and Europe.”

Horváth added that the ranking is also important to Schulich because of the school’s growing focus on the Latin American market, and on Mexico in particular.

In addition, Schulich graduate Fabiola Sicard (left), director of Latin Markets, Multicultural Banking at Scotiabank, and Krista Larson, director of Admissions & Recruitment at Schulich, are featured in an article in the current edition of  ����貹�Բ���ó�� magazine that highlights the benefits and advantages of pursuing a Schulich MBA.

Sicard (MBA ’06) is the recent winner of the 2012 Ohtli Award, the Mexican government’s highest honour for a civilian living outside of Mexico who has devoted part of his or her life and professional activities to “forging a new path” abroad for their fellow citizens. She is also one of the founders of LAMBA, the first association for Latin Americans with an MBA in Canada.

Last November, Schulich officially opened a satellite centre in Mexico City that, Horváth said, will help recruit students, provide career placement services to alumni, offer executive education programs, support the local Schulich alumni chapter and manage local media relations. 

For more information, visit the website.

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Assisted by Caroline Brett, Carley has edited and translated Leland’s original work De uiris illustribus, a kind of proto-Dictionary of National Biography, and has provided a lengthy introduction showing the importance of Leland’s work in the history of the English Reformation. Including the introduction, text and translation, John Leland: De uiris illustribus – On Famous Men, is over 1,000 pages long.

It was 1533, just after the coronation of Anne Boleyn, when Leland, equipped with an official letter from King Henry VIII, began his examinations of the English monastic libraries. He discovered a multitude of rare manuscripts and otherwise unattested texts in those crucial years before the monasteries were dissolved and their treasures scattered to the four winds, says Carley.

Leland kept lists of what he saw and continued his bio-bibliographical work until his fall into insanity in 1547, a matter of months after the death of his beloved king. He worked consistently on his De uiris illustribus, but the work was never completed and the manuscript was left in a chaotic state. Although there was a partial edition in the 18th century, it does not accurately reflect the information Leland was trying to convey, says Carley.

In his new edition, co-published by the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies and the , Carley has unravelled all the layers and has presented the text as Leland would have wished it to be.

As Professor David Wallace of the University of Pennsylvania, himself an expert on Leland, has written: “Leland has found the editor he deserves.”

Richard Ovenden, keeper of special collections and associate director of the Bodleian Libraries, says, "The manuscript of the de viris illustribus is an important source text for our understanding about British literary culture in the middle ages, but is also a major example of Renaissance scholarship."

's papers were first studied seriously in the 17th century and their survival in the Bodleian has allowed generations of scholars to consider his role in the preservation of information about Britain's medieval past. "James Carley’s edition and translation makes this important text available for modern scholars through a work of great erudition and meticulous research. The Bodleian has been delighted to work with him and with the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies in what we hope will be the first of many fruitful collaborations," says Ovenden.

“Leland’s book lists were compiled as the primary resources for the comprehensive dictionary of British writers in four books, De uiris illustribus,” says Carley. “This remarkable testament to medieval and early modern habits of book collecting, but also to history and national identity, lay incomplete at Leland’s death. My study shows just how richly illuminating the manuscript is, how complex its formation, and how significant the deletions and gaps. Leland was a survivor and knew how to manipulate his information to reflect the king’s evolving religious policies.”

Left: James Carley

A Distinguished Research Professor, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an Associate Fellow of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Carley is a specialist in Old and Middle English, the history of manuscripts, bibliography and the early Tudor period. He is considered the foremost authority on the libraries of King Henry VIII.

Carley’s previous works include: King Henry VIII’s Prayer Book: Facsimile and Commentary (2009), (2004), (2000), (1988; revised ed. 1996) and (1985). He is co-editor of " (2000), (1997) and (1993).

The launch will take place Wednesday, Sept. 29, from 5:30 to 7pm, at the Divinity School, Old Schools Quadrangle, Bodleian Library, Oxford, hosted by the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies and the Bodleian Libraries.

Author of A History of Christianity, , professor of the history of the church at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy, will speak at the reception. An accompanying exhibition, Armed with the King’s letter: John Leland and the Monastic Libraries of England, will run until Oct. 9 in the Bodleian Library Proscholium.

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