Tuesday, 26 September 2023 | 14:30 to 16:00 EDT | Vari Hall D | York University Artist Talk with Leeroy New, multidisciplinary artist Leeroy New (b. 1986, General Santos City) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice manifests in large-scale immersive environments, costuming, collaborative performances and video works driven by concepts of world building, myth-making, and […]
Wednesday, 27 September 2023 | 15:30 to 17:00 EDT | Location TBC, York University With Benjamin Schonthal, University of Otago Although they are often imagined as rarified systems of clerical rules, the legal practices of Buddhist monks cannot and should not be understood outside of the broader legal ‘multiverse’ in which they exist. From the earliest periods […]
We warmly invite all York students and faculty interested in Asia/Diasporas to YCAR’s annual Welcome (Back) event. Drop by the Centre between 13:30 and 15:00 EDT on Thursday, 28 September 2023 for refreshments and snacks, meet with members of our research community, and learn more about what is happening in YCAR in the year ahead. […]
Thursday, 28 September 2023 | 18:00 to 21:00 EDT | 102 Ross North Building (Nat Taylor Cinema), Keele Campus, York University OPIRG York is excited to present “The Seeds of Vandana Shiva”, a feature-length documentary that presents the remarkable life story of the Gandhian eco-activist and agro-ecologist, Vandana Shiva. A world-renowned environmental thinker, activist, feminist, […]
Monday, 2 October 2023 | 10:00 to 12:00 EDT | Room 519, Fifth Floor, Kaneff Tower, York University Critical Sociology (Sage London) invites you to an international symposium on: Rescaling Urban Poverty: Homelessness, State Restructuring and City Politics in Japan Symposium keynote by Mahito Hayashi (Kinjo Gakuin University, Japan) Hayashi argues that urban class relations today […]
Monday, 02 October 2023 | Noon to 14:00 EDT | Room 280N, Second Floor, York Lanes, York University With Neri Colmenares, veteran human right lawyer and activist Neri Colmenares, 62, is a veteran human rights lawyer and activist who was detained for four years when the Philippines was under Martial Law. In 2018, he filed […]
Wednesday, 04 October 2023 | 13:00 to 14:00 EDT | Common Area, Eighth Floor, Kaneff Tower, York University The Hong Kong Studies Group (HKSG) welcomes York faculty, undergraduate and graduate students to its second Meet and Greet on Wednesday, 4 October 2023. To continue to grow a vibrant community of graduate students and faculty on […]
Wednesday, 4 October 2023 | 14:30 to 15:30 EDT | Room 626, Sixth Floor, Kaneff Tower | York University With Amardeep Kaur, University of Toronto In this talk, the speaker will provide an overview of the Hong Kong-Canadian astronaut family and her transnational circular migration. The presentation will include her reflections on teaching a […]
Thursday, 12 October 2023 | 15:00 to 16:30 EDT | Room 519, Fifth Floor, Kaneff Tower, York University and virtually via Zoom With Daniel A. Bell, Chair of Political Theory with the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong Discussants: Ruth Hayhoe | Professor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto; […]
Wednesday, 18 October 2023 | 11:30 to 13:30 EDT | Room 280N, Second Floor, York Lanes, York University With Ho-fung Hung (Johns Hopkins University) Discussant: Gregory Chin (Politics, York University) The recent rivalry between the US and China is more about the shifting balance of economic forces in global capitalism than about ideological differences. Since […]
Wednesday, 25 October 2023 | 14:00 to 16:00 EDT | Room 519, Fifth Floor, Kaneff Tower, York University Ricardo D. Trimillos, University of Hawai’i Homeplace is an important marker of Filipino identity in such contexts of population and geographic mobility as theorized by Cuba and Hummon (1993). Given Filipino geographical mobility, the depiction of homeplace in […]
Thursday, 26 October 2023 | 10:00 to 12:00 EDT | Room 857, Eighth Floor, Kaneff Tower, York University and virtually via Zoom With Wa Lone, University of Toronto Respondent: Napas Thein, University of Toronto This research paper examines neoclassical realism to analyze the evolving nature of China’s response to the 2021 military coup in Myanmar. […]
