In our latest Asia Research Brief, “Understanding Knowledge Culture in Late Imperial China,” Lianbin Dai (YCAR CCKF Postdoctoral Fellow) tackles conventional understandings of Neo-Confucian activists. […]
Photos from the second annual Luk Memorial Lecture: Hong Kong & the Gold Mountain Dream Keynote Speaker: Elizabeth Sinn (Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities […]
In our latest Asia Research Brief, “Languages of Wisdom: Multi-lingual Poetry in the Guru Granth Sahib,” Amardeep Kaur (Geography) explores the vernacular pluralism of the […]
The York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) is pleased to announce the establishment of the Penny and John Van Esterik Award for Graduate Research on […]
CCSEAS Newsletter – Spring 2018 Call for Submissions – Deadline: April 30th, 2018 The Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies (CCSEAS) is currently looking for submissions […]
YCAR’s AGM, scheduled for next Wednesday, 25 April 2018, has been postponed until further notice. The meeting will be rescheduled post-strike to ensure we can […]
York Centre for Asian Research faculty associates and Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) teachers and staff launched the final products of the Philippine Arts […]
YCAR is accepting the first round of proposals for activities from our Associates for the 2018-2019 academic year. Activities can include: 1. Lecture Series 2. […]
26-27 February 2018, University of Yangon This research workshop on “Salween Thanlwin Nu Studies” (“Salween Studies”) built on the work and momentum of previous Salween […]
Professor Albert Schrauwers (Anthropology) launched Lobo: Annals of Sulawesi Research, an Indonesian-language open-access journal that features English‐language social science research translated to Indonesian and peer-reviewed […]
On 30 November 2017, Taiwanese human rights lawyer Stephen Lee gave a talk at York University on “National Independence Movements & International Human Rights Law: […]
Our latest Asia Colloquia Paper is based on a talk by Po King Choi given at the inaugural Bernard H. K. Luk Memorial Lecture on […]
Undergraduate Asia and Asian Diaspora Essay Awards
For a little more than a decade (2003 to 2015), there was a small bump in the numbers of North Koreans in Canada, many of […]
The York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) is accepting applications for graduate awards for students conducting research related to Asia or Asian diasporas. The Centre […]
Professor Lily Cho (English) launched www.masscapture.ca in December 2017, a website presenting analyses of a digitized collection of Chinese Canadian head tax certificates known as […]
In our latest Asia Research Brief, “International Education: An Untapped Archive of Canadian Nation Formation,” Soma Chatterjee (Social Work) highlights key directions in her ongoing […]
Baohua Wang (Communication University of China, Beijing), joined YCAR as visiting scholar in October 2017. He is currently working with Qiang Zha (Faculty of Education) focusing […]
Wardah Behzad (Politics) was named the winner of the 2017 York Centre for Asian Research Undergraduate Essay Award. Shobna Nijhawan (DLLL) nominated Behzad’s essay, “A […]
Patrick Alcedo (Dance) was awarded the National Bank Best First Feature Film Award and the Centennial Best Canadian Film Award at the 2017 Toronto Reel Asian […]
Professor Vivek Kumar (Jawaharlal Nehru University) will deliver the Inaugural Dr. Ambedkar Memorial Lecture at York on 15 November 2017. The event at York is […]
Ruth Pison, Professor of English and Comparative Literature (University of the Philippines, Diliman) joined YCAR as a Research Collaboration Fellow this October. Dr. Pison’s research on […]
On 26 October, Southeast Asian dignitaries and scholars will visit York to participate in the Common Fears and Hopes: ASEAN and Canada at 50 Roundtable. […]
York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) faculty associates and Emeriti Professors of Anthropology, Judith Nagata and Penny Van Esterik, will be honoured at the 33rd […]
Over the last ten years, activists, scholars and development agencies have been discussing large scale land grabs—a major wave of cross-border land acquisitions set off […]
Political turmoil and state violence has created difficult challenges for grassroots movements in Duterte’s Philippines. York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) Graduate Associates, Kenneth Cardenas, […]
YCAR welcomes Ly Quoc Dang (Can Tho University, Vietnam) and Piti Srivongchai (Khon Kaen University, Thailand) who joined the Centre as Graduate Fellows of the Urban Climate Resilience in Southeast Asia Partnership (UCRSEA). Ly Quoc […]
Historian of late imperial China (1368 – 1911), Lianbin Dai, joined the York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) earlier this month as the 2017 Chiang […]
Professor Patrick Alcedo was presented the “Pinoy of the Year” award at the Golden Balangay Award Ceremony on 9 September 2017 in Toronto. Alcedo is a Professor of […]
Twelve York graduate students won the York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) awards for research on Asia or Asian diasporas. Selected through a competitive application […]
The theme of this year’s Tamil Studies Symposium, Transnational Configurations of Tamil Identities, will create a space for interdisciplinary discussions on how transnational Tamil identities […]
Buddhism is commonly understood as a religion of peace and tolerance. However, as Alicia Turner points out, Buddhist nationalism has led to egregious violence against […]
Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies (CCSEAS) is is currently looking for submissions for its Fall Issue Newsletter. The newsletter will be published in September/October […]
The late Professor Bernard HK Luk (History) was a central figure forging new directions in international research on Hong Kong. His legacy in shaping the […]
YCAR faculty associate, Janet T. Landa (Economics) recently published a new book, Economic Success of Chinese Merchants in Southeast Asia: Identity, Ethnic Cooperation and Conflict: […]
Fareeha Alavi and Srijoni Rahman, the inaugural recipients of YCAR’s undergraduate essay awards, were nominated by their professors, Nishant Upadhyay, Sailaja Krishnamurti and Shobna Nijhawan […]
How do activism and academia shape one another? YCAR associates, Philip Kelly, Ethel Tungohan and Chaya Ocampo Go, together with Elisabeth Kramer (University of Sydney), Jason […]
This past April Toronto’s Cantonese language television station, Fairchild TV, interviewed Dr Choi Po King who was our guest lecturer for the inaugural Bernard H.K. […]
In their co-authored article, Perceptions and Practices of Investment: China’s Hydropower Investments in Mainland Southeast Asia, Vanessa Lamb and Nga Dao examine how xenophobia impacts […]
The YCAR community welcomes Abidin Kusno as he begins his term as the Centre’s new director on 1 July 2017. Abidin Kusno joined York as […]
York welcomes Nancy Peluso, Henry J. Vaux Distinguished Professor of Forest Policy at the University of California, Berkeley to York this Friday. Professor Peluso will […]
On Thursday, 25 May 2017 YCAR celebrated Asian Heritage Month with an event centred around Tamil culture. This event was attended by hundreds of students […]
YCAR Associates Wendy Wong and Michael Stainton attended the Canada Hong Kong Link event “Hong Kong: Twenty Years after the Handover” on Saturday May 6, […]
The Bernard Luk Memorial Lecture in Hong Kong Studies is an annual event organized by the York Centre for Asian Research. The lecture provides an historical or […]
The workshop, held on Friday 28 April 2017, explored the politics of constructing ‘peace’ and attaining ‘security’ through the interdisciplinary analytical framework of Frontier Studies. […]
Congratulations to Associate Professor Patrick Alcedo (Dance) on the completion of his new film! Synopsis: A tribute to millions of Filipino foreign domestic workers, A […]
October 27 – 28, 2017 || York University, Toronto, Canada The 33rd Biennial CCSEAS conference theme—‘People In and Out of Place’—represents a long standing and […]
Canada-China Relations: Looking Back, Looking Forward. A festschrift for Professor Bernie Frolic. On Tuesday 4 April 2017 YCAR hosted a festschrift for Professor Bernie Frolic. […]
Dr Choi Po King of the Chinese University of Hong Kong will give the inaugural Bernard H.K. Luk Memorial Lecture in Hong Kong Studies on […]
The Honourable Peggy Mason, former Canadian Ambassador and current President of the Rideau Institute, will give the keynote address at an upcoming interdisciplinary workshop on […]
YCAR invites its membership to the 2017 Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 27 April 2017. We will be reviewing our activities over the past year, […]
A warm YCAR welcome to Chusak Wittayapak! Professor Wittayapak is a visiting researcher at YCAR until July 2017. He is working with Peter Vandergeest (Geography) on the […]
Hong Saihwa Hong (Hong Sehwa), one of the most prominent figures in progressive movement in South Korea, will speak at York University on 19 April […]
The Capitalist Unconscious: From Korean Unification to Transnational Korea, Professor Park’s (Sociology) recent book published by Columbia University Press, has been accorded Honourable Mention status […]
“The Emotions of Migration and Children’s Migration across Asia” is currently under-review as a special issue in Children’s Geographies, after the concept note was accepted […]
Jean Michel Montsion (International Studies, Glendon) was recently appointed to serve as a Senior Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. APF Canada is […]
Patrick Alcedo is co-editor of Religious Festivals in Contemporary Southeast Asia, which was published in late 2016 by Ateneo de Manila University Press. Emphasizing the […]
Susan Henders (Faculty Associate, Political Science) and Mary Young (Research Associate) have co-edited a special issue of the Hague Journal of Diplomacy 11(4)(2016) on ‘Other […]
The York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) invites York faculty members or teaching assistants to nominate exceptional undergraduate student papers for our inaugural YCAR Undergraduate […]
YCAR Graduate Associate Jacqueline Ristola’s (Cinema and Media Studies) first paper has been published in Animation Studies, an open access online journal by the Society […]
Deadline: Friday, 28 April 2017 Discipline: Social Sciences and Humanities Fellowship location: York University, Toronto, Canada Eligibility Emerging scholars who are Canadian citizens or Permanent […]
The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Conference will be held in Toronto at the Sheraton Centre on 16-19 March 2017. For York University students who […]
Transnational Configurations of Tamil Identities Tamil Studies Symposium 2017 York University New Submissions Deadline: 10 February 2017 Tamil migrations have moved across multiple continents in […]
27-28 April 2017, York University Abstract submission deadline: Wednesday, 15 February 2017 Context: Ocean frontier politics is part of the earthly politics of deploying science, […]
The newest addition to YCAR’s Asia Research Brief’s series is From Japan to Canadian Museum Storage: Shifting Meaning of Objects from the Japanese Ceramics Collection […]
On 19 November 2016, YCAR Graduate Associates Kimberly Roberts and Sarah Allen (Geography) organized a cross-university workshop on Feminist Political Ecology Methods. The workshop brought […]
Tamil migrations have moved across multiple continents in the present, and maintained an interconnectivity often borne through shared linguistic, cultural, economic and political links. These […]
Faculty Associate Abidin Kusno’s (Environmental Studies) new book, Visual Cultures of the Ethnic Chinese in Indonesia (Roman & Littlefield International, 2016), explores how visual representations […]
*** The submissions deadline has been EXTENDED to 13 January 2017 *** Organized by: The York Centre for Asian Research, York University, Toronto Southeast Asia […]
On Monday 14 November 2016 YCAR co-sponsored the Transnational Filipinx Studies workshop which brought together scholars and community members from both the United States and […]
FOR AUDIO of the talk: CLICK HERE ***The below was originally published in The Excalibur (10 November 2016)*** by Kanchi Uttamchandani | Assistant News Editor […]
*New Opportunities* CCK Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Chinese Studies, 2017-2018 (28 April 2017 deadline) * * * * * The Centre provides funding for research activities […]
To listen to an audio recording from Dr. Anand Teltumbde’s talk on 18 November: CLICK HERE Dr. Anand Teltumbde, a well-known human rights activist, writer […]
Professor Raju Das’ new book, Marxist Class Theory for a Skeptical World (Brill 2016), is a critique of some of the influential radical theories of […]
In celebration of Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation, York University will host an international symposium exploring the theme “Retrospect and Prospect” in Chinese Canadian literature […]
Professor Turner (Humanities) was invited to present her research on religious difference and indifference in colonial Burma at the Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at […]
Organized by YCAR Faculty Associates Anna Agathangelou (Political Science) and Bernard Lightman (Humanities), Found in Translation: Cosmopolitics and The Value of Biotech will explore the […]
Asia Research Briefs provide short summaries of research by YCAR Associates. Their purpose is to share insights from academic research that are otherwise not widely […]
In our latest Asia Research Brief, Kyle Gibson draws on his doctoral research to examine the relationship between US Food Aid and the South Korean “miracle”. […]
The Graduate Diploma in Asian Studies (GDAS) is a one-of-a-kind diploma tailored specifically for students conducting their graduate research in Asia and Asian Diasporas. Find […]
Yuk-Kuen Annie Cheung (Research Associate) examines Kim Jong-un’s recent behaviour for insight into how North Korea is conducting its foreign policy in an editorial titled […]
Nadia Z. Hasan, Omme-Salma Rahemtullah, and Nishant Upadhyay are co-authors of “Feminisms, Collaborations, Friendships: A Conversation,” published as part of a special issue of Feminist […]
Researcher and YCAR Alumnus Sai Latt has two new articles published in The Irrawaddy, a respected publication founded in 1993 by a group of Burmese […]
On September 1, 2016, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau witnessed the signature of 56 new contracts and agreements between Canadian and Chinese companies and institutions during […]
Professor Emeritus Trichy Sankaran (Music) was honoured as a Rhythmfest Legend of Rhythm at this year’s festival in August. An Indian percussionist, one of the foremost virtuosos […]
Policy Options invited Qiang Zha (Education) to write a piece on Canada-China education relations, as part of a special series of articles on Canada-China relations […]
Harini Sivlaingam (Socio-legal Studies) was co-organizer of a public symposium to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the rescue of Tamil refugees off the coast of […]
Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund recognized York alumnus Dr Nga Dao (Development Studies and YCAR Research Associate ) as one of its 15 ‘Hotspot Heroes’ for […]
May 12th-13th 2017 York University Toronto, Canada Deadline for Paper Proposals: October 31, 2016 Capitalist development in all parts of the world has always been […]
The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is now accepting proposals for panels, roundtables, workshops, and individual papers for its 2017 conference to be held in Toronto. […]
Thomas Klassen co-organized The Second Annual International Symposium on Aging and Old-Age in Asia-Pacific held at Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand on June 30-July 2, 2016. […]
YCAR external associate, Nivedita Das Kundu, published two books this year on socio-economic issues in China and India. India’s Emerging Partnerships with Eurasia – Strategies of New […]
Congratulations to all the YCAR graduate associates who defended their dissertations in 2015-16! Nadia Z. Hasan (Political Science), Unscripting Piety: Muslim Women, Pakistani Nationalism, and […]
17 working papers from the Challenges of Agrarian Transition in Southeast Asia (ChATSEA) project are now available on the University of Toronto’s T-space. ChATSEA is a […]
YCAR Postdoctoral Fellow, Jonathan Tardif, explores the complex, political and multilevel nature of ecotourism in his latest co-authored book chapter with Bruno Sarrasin, “La conquête territoriale […]
YCAR Graduate Associate, Shazia Javed (Film), was interviewed by the Times of India about her latest film project on the vulnerability of Muslim women in […]
YCAR faculty associate and Assistant Professor in Children’s Studies, Kabita Chakraborty, wins the 2016 President’s University-Wide Teaching Award in the category of full-time faculty. The […]
YCAR is pleased to support the launch of the Tessellate Institute‘s Neglected Voices Curriculum Pack. Based on the stories of Muslim youth, the curriculum pack […]
Our new YouTube channel offers audio and video recordings of a selection of lectures, roundtables and presentations organized by the YCAR community. Presenters include YCAR […]
Based on YCAR’s 2015 Asia Lecture, our latest Asia Colloquia Paper by Yen Le Espiritu examines how military colonialism in the Asia Pacific region enabled the construction […]