{"id":81974,"date":"2022-04-27T09:23:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T13:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=81974"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:20","slug":"carleton-experts-available-asian-heritage-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2022\/carleton-experts-available-asian-heritage-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Experts Available: Asian Heritage Month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Carleton Experts Available: Asian Heritage Month\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Asian Heritage Month is an opportunity to learn more about the experiences, leadership and achievements of Canadians of Asian descent and the ways they positively impact the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carleton experts are available to discuss a variety of topics related to Asian Heritage Month. Feel free to contact any of the experts below to set up a time to speak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rueban Balasubramaniam
\n<\/strong>Professor, Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email<\/strong>: RBalasubramaniam@cunet.carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Balasubramaniam\u2019s areas of interest are Malaysian law and politics. As well, he is also interested in the overlap between ethno-authoritarian legalism and politics and emerging similar patterns in liberal democracies, including Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He can discuss aspects of Canadian constitutional law that have migrated to authoritarian contexts, where judges have drawn inspiration from Canadian case law to try to control authoritarian regimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more on Balasubramaniam visit: https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/balasubramaniam-ratna-rueban\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xiaobei Chen
\n<\/strong>Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email: <\/strong>xiaobei.chen@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chen has spoken to journalists about approaches to fighting anti-Asian racism<\/a> in Canada and authored an article on the issues around model minority stereotypes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chen\u2019s research is focused on the theorizing of citizenship, governance, identity and cultural politics in Canadian and Chinese national and transnational contexts, the child and the construction of modernity, diaspora studies, governmentality, feminist theory, post-colonialism and pragmatism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more on Chen visit: https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/people\/chen-xiaobei\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laura Madokoro<\/strong>
\nProfessor, Department of History at Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email<\/strong>: LauraMadokoro@cunet.carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Madokoro\u2019s research explores various facets of the history of refugees and humanitarianism. She is especially interested in questions relating to settler colonialism, human rights and race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Madokoro is the author of Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War<\/em>, which documents the experience of Chinese refugees during the cold war and the politics of exclusion and humanitarianism among the white settler societies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She can discuss the Chinese diasporic experience as well as Japanese-Canadian experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more on Madokoro visit: https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/laura-madokoro\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeremy Paltiel<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>Professor, Department of Political Science at Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email: <\/strong>Jeremy.Paltiel@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paltiel\u2019s areas of expertise include the politics, government and foreign policies of Asia (China and Japan), development politics and Canada\u2013China relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more on Paltiel visit: https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/people\/paltiel-jeremy\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ming Tiampo<\/strong>
\nProfessor, School for Studies in Art and Culture at Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email: ming_tiampo@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tiampo is available to discuss Asian Canadian visual culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tiampo has published on Japanese modernism, war art in Japan, globalization and art, multiculturalism in Canada, and the connections between Inuit and Japanese prints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more on Tiampo visit: https:\/\/carleton.ca\/aah\/people\/tiampo-ming\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yanling Wang
\n<\/strong>Professor, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email: yanling.wang@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wang\u2019s expertise lies in international trade and investment, but she is happy to discuss her own personal experiences, including her assent as an Asian woman in a male-dominated field with English being her second language, and her experience raising children of Asian heritage in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to her academic research, Wang has served as the president for Canadian Women Economists Network, the president for the Chinese Economists Society, the Chair of Regent for the Chinese Economists Society, and a committee member for Canadian Women Economists Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more on Wang visit: https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/people\/yanling-wang\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\nCarleton University
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