*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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Since the COVID-19 outbreak began in early 2020, there have been a growing number of attacks towards people of Asian (especially Chinese) descent. The “Shadow […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]