YCAR offers or adjudicates 10 awards to graduate students at York University on an annual basis. In 2020, 21 students received over $40,000 in support […]

3 stories. 6 women. An interactive documentary film portraying what lived experiences of feminism in India look like. Virtually immerse in their art, stories and […]

YCAR Research Associate D. Mitra Barua is a 2020–21 Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Fellow in Buddhist Studies, administered by the American Council of […]

Congratulations to the YCAR Faculty Associates who received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) as part of the Fall […]

We are pleased to announce that Jean Michel Montsion (Multidisciplinary Studies) accepted the role of YCAR Associate Director and began his term on 1 July […]

Summer is here and it is an unusual one for many of us who have been accustomed to doing fieldwork during this season. It is […]

We are pleased to announce Tania Das Gupta (Equity Studies) as the 2020 recipient of the YCAR Research Collaboration Fellowship. Das Gupta and Sugandha Nagpal […]

YCAR is pleased to announce that Athena So is the 2020 recipient of the YCAR Undergraduate Asia Award. Athena wrote the winning paper—The Woman Question […]

Guillaume Dandurand (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sherbrooke) examines India’s attempts to reduce bureaucratic corruption within the systems used to distribute food rations to poor households […]

We are pleased to introduce the two new papers in our New Voices in Asian Research paper series. Harkit Bhandal and Safa Warsi are the […]

YCAR News | 2020 Graduate Award Recipients YCAR offers or adjudicates nine awards to graduate students at York University on an annual basis. In 2020, […]

For issue 33 of our Asia Research Briefs (ARBs) Hazel Dizon (Geography) shares her research on a housing occupation by thousands of urban poor near […]

In this Asia Research Brief, Guanglong Pang shares his research on the pursuit of international higher education (IHE) among both elite and non-elite Chinese families. […]

Elena Chou (Sociology) and Anna M. Agathangelou (Politics) are contributors to a recently-published collection—The Art of Global Power: Artwork and Popular Cultures as World-Making Practices—edited […]

Congratulations to Alicia Turner (Humanities) on her just published co-authored book, The Irish Buddhist: the Forgotten Monk who Faced Down the British Empire. It looks […]

“What is a disaster? Is it the howling winds and rains announced on the weather forecast? Or the vulnerabilities of those whose lives, homes and […]

Projects focusing on gender, urbanization and identity in the Greater China Region and in the diaspora in Canada received funding earlier this year from the […]

Call for Papers | Special Issue on Families, Communities, and Nation States in the COVID-19 Pandemic – Chinese Sociological Review Deadline: April 26 Chinese Sociological […]

The York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) invites York faculty members or teaching assistants to nominate exceptional undergraduate student papers for the YCAR Undergraduate Asia […]

Cary Wu (Sociology) received $176, 256 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to study issues of trust and how it affects prevention and control measures in relation […]

Congratulations to Preet S. Aulakh (Schulich School of Business) and Philip F. Kelly (Geography) on their new edited collection. Mobilities of Labour and Capital in […]

YCAR director Abidin Kusno’s (Environmental Studies) research on flooding in Jakarta, Indonesia is the focus of our latest Asia Research Brief. Kusno’s SSHRC-funded research builds […]

Financial Coordinator, Asian Business and Management Program Employment Category: Part time (up to 24 hours) Department: ORU-YCAR/ABMP Classification: Administrative     Band: 4 Posting Number: 100381 Job […]

Sanil Kumar‘s research focuses on the effective management of Indian wetland regions through the adoption of an integrated planning framework. His study site, the Kuttanad […]

YCAR is pleased to announce our 2019 Undergraduate Essay Award winners: Harkit Bhandal and Safa Warsi.  Safa is a fourth-year Psychology major who has spent […]

Congratulations to the YCAR Associates who received funding from SSHRC as part of the 2018-19 Insight grant competition: Russ Patrick Alcedo (Dance) | Staged Identities: […]

The York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) invites applications from York University faculty and graduate students for the inaugural Canada-China Initiatives Fund call for proposals. […]

Over one hundred people attended the “Real Jobs, Living Wages Forum” in Scarborough, Ontario last week (16 March 2019). There Bangladeshi community leaders and allies […]

The York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) invites York faculty members or teaching assistants to nominate exceptional undergraduate student papers for the YCAR Undergraduate Asia […]

Our latest Asia Colloquia Paper is based on Patrick Alcedo’s February 2016 lecture-performance, “An Empire Stages Back: Nationalism, Postcoloniality, and the Diaspora in Philippine Dance.” The lecture-performance […]

The Asian Business Management Program (SEEC-ABMP) was awarded Gold in Education Excellence by the Canada China Business Council at the Business Excellence Awards ceremony earlier […]

The York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) awarded funding to 21 graduate students to support research on Asia and Asian diasporas. The recipients were selected […]

*Please email your news and announcements to ycar@yorku.ca YCAR NEWS Welcome Back! YCAR welcomes all our associates back for the new academic year! We have an […]

Please email your news and announcements to ycar@yorku.ca YCAR NEWS || Associates Joan Judge (History) Joan Judge was awarded a York-Massey Visiting Scholarship to spend her […]

Sara Furhan (History) was interviewed by The Intercept about the challenges of her research on the Royal Medical College of Baghdad. The article discusses the […]

Ethel Tungohan Ethel Tungohan (Politics) was appointed Canada Research Chair of Canadian Migration Policy: Impacts and Activism. Her research will analyze discourses that have underpinned […]

Michael Nijhawan, Lily Cho: Faculty Associate Michael Nijhawan (Sociology) is co-editor of ‘Contesting Memory and Citizenship,’ a special journal issue of Citizenship Studies (Volume 22, […]

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.    […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]