Through its Publication Support Fund, YCAR is pleased to support Nalini Persram’s forthcoming book, “Post-Revolutionary Reckoning in Yemen Under Saudi Arabian Bomb” (Palgrave 2022). The […]
Congratulations to our Graduate Associates who received Canada Graduate Scholarships as part of the Fall 2020 competition. The results were recently announced on the SSHRC […]
Congratulation to Eleanor Yang, recipient of the second Vivienne Poy Hakka Graduate Research Award. Eleanor is a master’s student in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies. […]
Three YCAR faculty-led research projects received funding earlier this fall through YCAR’s Canada-China Initiatives Fund. Founded in 2019, the Canada-China Initiatives Fund (CCIF) was created […]
In our latest Asia Research Brief, Robin Verrall (PhD, Political Science) explores how national identity is constructed and contested in visual media in Taiwan. He […]
The York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) invites course directors and teaching assistants to nominate exceptional (undergraduate or graduate) student papers or creative projects for […]
The Re[new}All online exhibition continues its online run! Opening in late September, the various exhibits (including work by YCAR Associates) are still accessible here: https://sensorium.ampd.yorku.ca/events/renewall/ […]
This Asia Research Brief, previously published in English, is now available in a Tagalog translation. Hazel Dizon (Geography) shares her research on a housing occupation […]
A photo series by Filipina nurses, personal support workers, and in-home caregivers, Matatag is an exhibit in the windows of A Space Gallery that runs […]
In this latest Asia Research Brief, Joseph Fiumara (Cinema and Media Studies) proposes that radical change is occurring within the anime industry and that this […]
In this latest Asia Research Brief, Harini Sivalingam (Socio-legal Studies) examines forced migration from the ground up, premised on the narratives of forced migrants and […]
Congratulations to our Graduate Associates who have recently completed their degrees. We wish you all the best in your future endeavours. Asma Atique, PhD, Osgoode […]
Congratulations to our Associates who received funding as part of the recently announced 2020 Insight and Partnership Grant competitions, funded by the Social Sciences and […]
By Zahra Nader (Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies) In Afghanistan, being a journalist is a challenging job; it is even harder to be a female […]
In this latest Asia Research Brief, Jillian Fulton-Melanson (Social Anthropology) asks how Arab identities are articulated, produced and managed by DJs of Arabic descent in […]
Earlier this month, York University virtually hosted the sixth Toronto Hakka Conference. Co-organized by the Hakka community in Toronto and the York Centre for Asian […]
We warmly welcome our new Associates to YCAR community! Farah Ahmad, School of Health Policy and ManagementMonique Attrux, EnglishJulia G. Bentley, Global Affairs CanadaMyla Chawla, […]
Congratulations to Eve Haque (Languages, Literatures and Linguistics), Jennifer Hyndman (EUC), Jean Michel Montsion (Multidisciplinary Studies, Glendon) and Cary Wu (Sociology) who were recognized for […]
As part of its research spotlight on Asia and the Diaspora this month, the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change profiled the research of its […]
The York Centre for Asian Research is pleased to host the Fourth Bernard H. K. Luk Memorial Lecture in Hong Kong Studies in June 2021 […]
We are seeking two York University undergraduate research assistants for summer 2021 RAY (Research at York) positions. The position descriptions are below. Interested students can […]
*The following piece was originally published in The Conversation on 15 April 2021. Anti-Asian racism has been present in Canada for centuries. It is deeply […]
YCAR is pleased to support the South Asian Film Festival 2021—“Stories of, by and from South Asia” This FREE, virtual Film Festival is aimed at […]
Corals Zheng (Environmental Studies) received funds from the Canada-China Initiatives Fund earlier this year for her graduate fieldwork. Chinatowns have traditionally offered cheap rents, affordable […]
We at York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) stand in solidarity with Asian-Americans and Asian-Canadians reeling from the violent shootings that took the lives of […]
Chang’s first foray into playwrighting delves into what it means to be a daughter and son in a Chinese Canadian family Inspired by her undergraduate […]
Congratulations to our Graduate Associates who have defended in the past few months and good luck with your future endeavours! Joseph Fiumara | MA | Cinema […]
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 […]
YCAR is pleased to support the South Asian Film Festival 2021—“Stories of, by and from South Asia” This FREE, virtual Film Festival is aimed at […]
YCAR is pleased to support the South Asian Film Festival 2021—“Stories of, by and from South Asia” This is a FREE, virtual Film Festival showcasing […]
In this latest Asia Research Brief, Yuka Nakamura (School of Kinesiology and Health Science) examines identity formation within the North American Chinese Invitational Volleyball Tournament […]
Congratulations our Faculty Associates who were awarded funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada as part of the Partnership Engage Grants […]
Dear YCAR Associates, It is with a heavy heart that I am writing to you that our dear colleague, Lisa Drummond, passed away yesterday after […]
In this latest Asia Research Brief, Jennifer Hyndman (Social Science and Geography, York University), Amarnath Amarasingam (Religion, Queen’s University) and Gayathri Naganathan (Surgery, University of […]
Xin Liu received Canada-China Initiatives Fund support in 2020 for his master’s project, ‘Upstream’, a 20-minute docufiction film that explores the identity struggle of Chinese […]
Event recordings: selected presentations from the June workshop are now available here. keynote address, “The White Elephant in the Room: The History and Present of […]
Dear colleagues and friends, As another year comes to an end, we accept what has passed and look forward to the new year for a […]
YCAR’s Professional Development Fund subsidizes relevant experiences for its Graduate Associates to present their scholarly or creative work. Amounts awarded will range from $50 to […]
Founded in 2019, the Canada-China Initiatives Fund (CCIF) was created to support scholarly exchanges and research on modern (i.e. post 1911) and contemporary China, Hong […]
In this latest Asia Research Brief, Laam Hae (Politics) discusses her newly released co-edited volume, On the Margins of Urban South Korea: Core Location as […]
Founded in 2019, the Canada-China Initiatives Fund (CCIF) was created to support scholarly exchanges and research on modern (i.e. post 1911) and contemporary China, Hong […]
We are pleased to announce that Eva Lu (Art History and Visual Culture) is the 2020 recipient of the Young-Rahn Woo Memorial Graduate Award. Eva […]
Congratulations to Xueqing Xu (DLLL) on the recent publication of two new edited books: Contemporary Short Stories about Women’s Lives in China Today and Marriage […]
Himani Bannerji (Sociology) is the author of the recently published The Ideological Condition: Selected Essays on History, Race and Gender. Published by Brill, it is […]
In this latest Asia Research Brief, Yukari Takai (History) examines the marriage and divorce practices among Japanese issei women and men in Hawai‘i from the […]
YCAR is pleased to announce the latest recipients of YCAR publication support funding. The Fund is intended to assist in covering expenses that will enable […]
The York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) is pleased to announce the latest recipients of the Canada-China Initiatives Fund (CCIF). “The call for this third […]
Thank you to the YCAR Associates who joined us in support of a great cause—the prevention of blindness worldwide—and participated in the virtual 20/20 Orbis […]
We are pleased to welcome our new and returning Associates! • Lalaie Ameeriar, Anthropology• Lisa Davidson, Anthropology• Mehraneh Ebrahimi, English• Zhipeng Gao, Simon Fraser University• […]
In this latest Asia Research Brief, Zahra Nader (Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies) investigates whether the use of the Facebook […]
Faculty Associate Jack Leong (York University Libraries) delivered a seminar called “Perspectives on China” for the Later Life Learning Program at Innis College at the […]
YCAR offers or adjudicates nine awards to graduate students at York University on an annual basis. In 2020, 21 students received over $40,000 in support […]
Congratulations to Noa Nahmias (History), the 2020–21 recipient of the D. Kim Foundation for the History of Science and Technology in East Asia dissertation fellowship. […]
In this latest Asia Research Brief, Peter Vandergeest (Geography) gives an overview of the program of research on New Directions in Environmental Governance (NDEG) which […]
YCAR offers or adjudicates nine awards to graduate students at York University on an annual basis. In 2020, 21 students received over $40,000 in support […]
Congratulations to Ilan Kapoor (Environmental Studies) on his new book—Confronting Desire: Psychoanalysis and International Development (Cornell University Press, 2020). By applying psychoanalytic perspectives to key […]
Congratulations to Laam Hae (Politics) on her new co-edited book, On the Margins of Urban South Korea: Core Location as Method and Praxis (University of […]
Congratulations to our Faculty Associates who received Insight Development Grants (IDG) earlier this summer. Nga Dao (Social Science) | Principal Investigator | Territory and Politics […]
YCAR offers or adjudicates nine awards to graduate students at York University on an annual basis. In 2020, 21 students received over $40,000 in support […]
We’d like to introduce YorkSpace. This is the university’s open access repository platform that enables York community members to post, organize, disseminate and preserve their […]
In this latest Asia Research Brief, Ayyaz Mallick (Environmental Studies) summarizes his dissertation which aimed to understand the decline of Karachi, Pakistan’s vibrant labour movement […]
YCAR offers or adjudicates nine 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 […]
In this latest Asia Research Brief, York Alumni and YCAR External Associates Laura Schoenberger (Banting Fellow, University of Ottawa) and Vanessa Lamb (Geography, University of […]
Rajat Nayyar‘s (Theatre & Performance Studies) proposed dissertation is titled “Women’s Vocality, Radical Sociality: Re-Imagining Power, Folklore & Audiovisual Ethnography in Rural North India,” and looks […]
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 partner with the Emergent Futures CoLab, a laboratory for transdisciplinary experimentation and collaborative future-making. The collective of scholars and artists work […]
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, […]
The York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) recently received a $500,000 donation from the Honourable Dr Vivienne Poy to create an endowment to support student […]
Research Associate Colin McGuire was interviewed by Paul Bowman (Cardiff University) on Irish stick-fighting, Bruce Lee’s musicality, and Chinese Lion Dances for a Martial Arts Studies podcast. A summary […]
The Marxist Studies in a Global and Asian Perspective (MSGAP) blog—York Left Consortium: Reflections on Capitalism’s Half-Life—serves as an accessible location for written interventions of various […]
YCAR Graduate Associate Rohina Kabir, a graduate student in Interdisciplinary Studies, organized a virtual panel discussion focusing on the current situation of COVID-19 in Afghanistan in […]
New Voices in Asian Research We are pleased to introduce the two new papers in our New Voices in Asian Research paper series. Harkit Bhandal […]
Young-Rahn Woo Memorial Graduate Award The Woo family established the Young-Rahn Woo Memorial Graduate Award in honour of their wife and mother. It is open […]
The series of rapid developments around the COVID-19 pandemic this spring has forced YCAR’s Graduate Associates to adapt to changes that impact them as students, […]
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. […]
By Noa Nahmias I am a PhD candidate in History working on modern China. Despite having followed the impact of the novel coronavirus in China, […]
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 […]
Congratulations to our 2020 recipients of the YCAR Professional Development Fund. Fifteen students received funding in support of professional presentations at conferences and workshops in […]
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 […]
The Emerging Asian Urbanism series at the York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) is hosting a film exchange workshop to spark discussion and peer review […]
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 […]