The fourth annual Critical Approaches to South Asian Studies explored the intersections of critical race and area studies.  After two days of presentations and discussions, […]

Professor Emeritus, Judith Nagata, recently published a new article titled “The Changing Perceptions of Waqf and Other Religious Endowments: Social, Cultural and Symbolic Capital in Penang”. […]

Doris Sung’s article “New Channels of Expression: Voices in Women’s Magazines in the Late Qing and Early Republican China” (translated as “Naistenlehdet, 1900-Luvun Alun Uudet […]

YCAR Faculty Associate, Jay Goulding, was interviewed for Fairchild Television’s feature story, “Ancient Philosophy – Taoist.”  Based on a talk presented at the Interdisciplinary Social Science […]

Alicia Turner‘s new article, “Myanmar: Contesting Conceptual Landscapes in the Politics of Buddhism”, published in the Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia, examines the rise of nationalist and […]

  Debating the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Perspectives from Canada, Asia and Latin America Tuesday March 15th | 10am – 11.30am| Room 519, Fifth floor, Kaneff Tower, […]

The York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) and the Graduate Program in Humanities are offering a dissertation workshop for MA and PhD students on March 24, […]

The newest addition to YCAR’s Asia Colloquia Paper series is now available online. Failing State or Fragmented Hegemony: The Political Economy of Change in Pakistan […]

  Taiwan’s 16 January 2016 election gave the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) control of both the Presidency and the Legislature for the first time. […]

 Congratulations to the 2016 YCAR Professional Development Fund Awardees Ten Graduate Associates have received support to present their scholarly work through YCAR’s 2016 Professional Development […]

YCAR associate, Kazi A. Rouf’s article, “Micro Financing Implementation and Expansion Strategies of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh”, has been published in the Global Journal of Management and […]

Young Muslim Women in India: Bollywood, Identity and Changing Youth Culture Tuesday, 19 January 2016 | 12:30pm | Common Area, Eighth Floor, Kaneff Tower Join […]

YCAR offers seven graduate awards for research, fieldwork and language acquisition. The application deadline for all awards is Monday, 8 February 2016 at 4pm. 

YCAR’s Professional Development Fund subsidizes its Graduate Associates’ travel costs to present their scholarly or creative work. Amounts awarded will range from $50 to $500 […]

Thank you to everyone who joined us for ‘Changing Policies, Changing Institutions, Changing Minds: The Filipino-Canadian Action Research Summit’ earlier this month.

Volunteers are needed for a workshop and photo exhibition on “Girls with Disabilities in the Global South”, scheduled for 15 January 2016 at York University. […]

Canadian Universities in China’s Transformation: An Untold Story is the forthcoming book edited by Ruth Hayhoe, Julia Pan and Qiang Zha (Faculty Associate, Education). Leading […]

YCAR Research Associate Kazi A. Rouf’s article on gender inequality and female labour in Bangladesh has been published in the International Journal of Research Studies […]

  Xuan Thuy Nguyen (YCAR Research Associate; Mount Saint Vincent University) is the author of the recently published The Journey to Inclusion (Sense Publishers).

The YCAR Publication Support Fund is intended to assist in covering expenses that will enable or enhance the publication of research on Asia or Asian […]

The Urban Climate Resilience in Southeast Asia Partnership (UCRSEA), located in the Asia Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of […]

YCAR offers seven graduate awards for research, fieldwork and language acquisition for its Graduate Associates and other graduate students enrolled at York University. The application […]

Artist and art director Park Chan-kook, artist and art director, visited York on 27 November to speak about art and the urban environment, with a focus […]

Kabita Chakraborty (Children’s Studies) is the author of Young Muslim Women in India: Bollywood, Identity and Changing Youth Culture, which has just been published by […]

YCAR was pleased to support the Engendering Transnational Voices: Studies in Family, Work, and Identity book launch on 30 September 2015. The publication, edited by […]

Abigail Anongos, Secretary General of the Cordillera People’s Alliance (CPA) was keynote speaker at a 7 November 2015 event in Toronto. Philippine Indigenous Peoples Under […]

Research Outreach Officer York Centre for Asian Research Limited Term until 31 May 2016 Part-time, 23 hours/week Reports to: YCAR Director Hourly Rate of Pay:  […]

YCAR Graduate Associates Noa Nahmias (History) and Jolin Joseph (Gender, Feminist & Women’s Studies) are two of six York students to receive a Vanier Canada […]

The York Centre for Asian Research’s Professional Development Fund subsidizes its Graduate Associates’ travel costs to present their scholarly or creative work. Amounts awarded will […]

York News | Political science professor to organize field trip to North Korea YCAR Faculty Associate Thomas Klassen (Political Science) is coordinating a five-day field […]

A warm welcome (back) to YCAR is extended to the following Associates who are new or returning members. We look forward to their engagement in […]

YCAR is pleased to welcome Hue Le to YCAR as a visiting scholar. Dr. Hue is a senior researcher and lecturer from the Center for […]

In the summer of 2015, students from York University travelled to Thailand and South Korea for field-based courses in Geography and Political Science. In Encountering […]

Thank you to everyone who attended the 2015 Asia Lecture. Professor Yen Le Espiritu (University of California, San Diego) spoke on Vietnam, the Philippines, Guam and California: Connecting […]

Philippine and Chinese Geo-Political Interests Related to the South China Sea was the focus of an early October talk by Rommel Gavieta. Dr. Gavieta, a YCAR Research […]

YCAR is pleased to welcome Soohwan Song to the Centre as a Visiting Scholar for the 2015.2016 academic year. Mr. Song is Director of the […]

YCAR Graduate Associate Shazia Javed, who is in the MFA Film program, recently made a 10-minute video #WeSayKnow as part of a Directed Reading with […]

The new edited collection by York sociologists Guida Man (YCAR Faculty Associate) and Rina Cohen will be launched next week at York University.  Engendering Transnational […]

  YCAR is pleased to welcome Yavanna Puts as a visiting graduate associate for the 2015-2106 academic year. Yavanna is a masters student in Applied […]

Thomas Klassen (Political Science) is the co-author of a new guide aimed at helping students flourish in school and life. Klassen and Professor Emeritus John […]

A new article by Dr. Andrew Song is now available online from Political Geography. “Pawns, Pirates or Peacemakers: Fishing Boats in the inter-Korean Maritime Boundary […]

By Kevin Boiragi ‘Canadian Experience: Shaping Lives and Generations’ was co-organized by Bengali Information and Employment Services (BIES), and Kevin S. Boiragi, a YCAR Graduate […]

YCAR was rechartered by the York University Senate on 25 June 2015  for a five year period starting 1 July 2015.  In addition to this […]

Gregory Chin (Political Science), a leading international export on “emerging China,” was invited to speak at Ottawa City Hall on 11 June 2015 on The […]

YCAR welcomes Young nam Cho as a visiting scholar at the Centre this summer. Professor Cho is an Associate Professor of Japanese language education at […]

YCAR helped to strengthen York University’s connection with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) earlier this summer at a joint workshop held in Toronto. […]

 YCAR welcomed Deepak Mishra to York in May 2015. Dr. Mishra, a professor at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social […]

YCAR was pleased to host Yasunori Nakayama, Consular General of Japan, at York University on 6 May 2015. In his talk, Mr. Nakayama provided an […]

Youth, Diversity and Social Development in the Multicultural Metropolis, a joint York University – Chinese Academy of Social Sciences workshop, will juxtapose Canadian and Chinese research […]

The 1 May events were featured on the cover of the May issue of Monsoon Journal. The issue can be viewed at: http://monsoonjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/05_MJ_MAY_2015_WEB.pdf

YCAR was pleased to host Mr. Woonhyoung Woo at York in early April. Mr. Woo and his family have generously endowed two important awards for graduate students engaged […]

“Can you hear me?” is the recent work of Shazia Javed, a MFA Candidate in Film at York University. The 2 minute and 40 second […]

The YCAR Research Collaboration Fellowship exists to support intensive collaborations between a Faculty Associate of the Centre and one of their research partners at another […]

Following much dedicated hard work on the part of all members of the student team at Glendon College, the Japan Symposium was held on 31 […]

The second 2015 edition of the Asia Research Briefs investigate the ways in which Filipino-Canadian young adults construct positive individual and collective identities. Multiple Experiences of […]

Yi-Li Wu, Research Fellow, EASTmedicine Research Cluster, University of Westminster, visited YCAR earlier this month. In addition to a session with the Critical China Study Group, […]

Rethinking ‘South Asia’ in a New Imperial Age, a keynote lecture presented by Saadia Toor at the second Critical Approaches to South Asia Studies workshop, is now available online. […]

Cities are sites of intense social, economic and cultural change, and youth are at the forefront of these transformations. Youth have distinctive experiences of: economic […]

Research presented in a summer 2014 workshop series co-hosted by YCAR will be published as a special issue in the journal Gender, Place and Culture. […]

A recent Philippine Reporter article offers a detailed look at a panel that was organized at YCAR in December concerning the new set of regulations […]

York University students who are engaged in research on Asia and/or Asian diaspora are invited to apply to several awards offered by YCAR. The deadline […]

Wendy Wong (Design) commented on creative works such as cartoons and posters as indicators of the freedom of speech found in a society during an […]

A reminder to YCAR Graduate Associates that the deadline for application to the YCAR Professional Development Fund is Monday, 19 January by 9am. The York […]

The first 2015 edition of the Asia Research Briefs considers how creative expression impacts and extends human rights discourse. Global Asia’s Human Rights Challenges: The […]

Thanks to everyone who attended the launch of Human Rights and the Arts: Perspectives on Global Asia and Human Rights and the Arts: An Anthology […]

Bearing Witness: Unspeakable Crimes, Invisible Atrocities York University, 6-7 May 2016 The most challenging paradox of the 21st Century may well be the saturation of […]

YCAR’s 2014 Asia Lecture by Malathi de Alwis, Trauma, Memory, Forgetting, is now available to view online. Visit http://youtu.be/EHYCEiDnMAI  to view the lecture. In post-war Sri […]

Changes to the Canada’s Live-in Caregiver Program is the focus of the latest YCAR Asia Research Brief by Philip Kelly (Geography). On 30 November 2014, […]

Professor Virinder Kalra (University of Manchester) was at York to speak about his new book, Sacred and Secular Musics: A Postcolonial Approach, in mid-November 2014. […]

Andrew Song, YCAR first YCAR/ABMP Short-Term Postdoctoral Visitor in Asian Governance, has shared his post-doc research in an Asia Research Brief titled ‘Fishing for Political […]

The latest addition to YCAR’s Asia Research Briefs series is by Kabita Chakraborty (Humanities / Children’s Studies) and is titled “Oil Palm Plantations, Migration and […]

Prominent lawyers and advocates working with live-in caregivers in Toronto discussed changes to Canada’s caregiver program at a YCAR-hosted panel at York University in early December. […]

Thailand GEOG 4521 6.0: Field Studies in Human Geography In this course you will have the opportunity to learn about environment and development in the […]

Dr. Fachun Du of Yunnan Agricultural University visited YCAR earlier this month. His research focuses on ecological resettlement, sedentarization of Tibetan nomads in the Qinghai […]

Alicia Turner’s new book, Saving Buddhism has just been published by University of Hawai’i Press. Saving Buddhism explores the dissonance between the goals of the […]

Historian Peter Zarrow examined four decades of dramatic historical change in China through the prism of textbooks in a talk at York University earlier this […]

YCAR welcomed Dr. Hagen Koo to York University earlier this month as part of the Centre’s Heterogeneity and Korean Identity in the Twentieth-First Century speaker […]

                Malathi de Alwis gave the 2014 Asia Lecture at York University on 4 November 2014, Trauma, Memory […]

The recently-published Human Rights and the Arts in Global Asia: An Anthology, co-edited by Theodore (Ted) Goossen (Humanities, YCAR) and Anindo Hazra (English, YCAR) will […]

The recently-published Human Rights and the Arts in Global Asia: An Anthology, co-edited by Theodore (Ted) Goossen (Humanities, YCAR) and Anindo Hazra (English, YCAR) will […]

Janice C.H. Kim (History) will be at the AGO Jackman Hall, Wednesday November 12, 2014 at 1:00 pm, to serve as discussant following screenings of […]

YCAR was pleased to host Dr. Dong-choon Kim as the first speaker in the Heterogeneity and Korean Identity in the Twentieth-First Century speaker series at […]

A reminder that the deadline for abstracts for the third YCAR International Graduate Student Conference is Thursday, 20 November 2014. CALL FOR PAPERS Changing Asia […]

Since 2010 the Filipino Youth Transitions in Canada (FYTIC) project at YCAR has been examining social mobility among Filipino youth in Canada. The project’s finding […]

Wendy S. Wong (Design), Bernard H.K. Luk (History) and Susan J. Henders (Political Science) shared their insights on Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution and what’s next […]

Emma Dalton and her York colleague Kabita Chakraborty discussed the preliminary findings of their research project earlier this month at YCAR in a talk titled “Fitness freaks, […]

Emma Dalton and her York colleague Kabita Chakraborty discussed the preliminary findings of their research project earlier this month at YCAR in a talk titled “Fitness freaks, […]