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Emile Dirks

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Banner Image: Tiananmen, Beijing (2017)
Emile Dirks is a PhD candidate in the University of Toronto's Department of Political Science. Raised in London's Old South, Emile attended elementary school at Wortley Road and Mountsfield, and high school at South Secondary.
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Emile's research explores the policing of "key populations" viewed by China's Ministry of Public Security as threats to social stability, including users of drugs, religious practitioners, petitioners, and people with criminal records. Through his work, Emile investigates the intersection of crime control and political repression in contemporary China. His research on a police DNA collection program targeting tens of millions of men and boys across China was the basis for reports by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute and The New York Times.

Previously, Emile served as a research associate at the London School of Economics' former International Drug Policy Unit, where he built a bilingual English-Chinese open access database on drug use, judicial sentencing, and detention in China. Emile was also a visiting scholar at Yunnan University's School of Public Administration, where he examined community-based drug harm reduction and HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention programs in southwest China.

Emile's writing on domestic Chinese politics and state repression have appeared in Foreign Policy, The New York Times, VICE, The Diplomat, Jamestown, The Globe and Mail, East Asia Forum, and the Canadian International Council's Behind the Headlines. He can be reached on Twitter.

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CURATORIAL ADVISORS:  Jamelie Hassan & Ron Benner
WEB DESIGN: Tariq Hassan Gordon & Jade Williamson 
 
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: Andreas Buchwaldt, Charlotte Egan, ​Shelley Kopp, Olivia Mossuto, Mackenzie Smith, Jade Williamson
EMBASSY CULTURAL HOUSE ADVISORY CIRCLE:
Samer Abdelnour, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner and Lucas Stenning 
OUR STORY
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Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. Other former members of the board were: Debrann Eastabrook, Henry Eastabrook, Sharron Forrest, Wyn Geleynse, Janice Gurney, Jean Hay (1929 - 2008), Doug Mitchell, Kim Moodie, Gerard Pas, Peter Rist, Wanda Sawicki, Jean Spence and Jennie White.

In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website. 

​London, Ontario is on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties.

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