11:30 to 13:00 EST | Wednesday, 01 February 2023 | Room 102, North Ross Building, York University Join us for a film screening and discussion of The Flip Side, Winner of “Best Short Documentary” at the DisOrient Asian American Film Festival. A documentary short of Daqi, a Chinese circus artist who leaves home at age 9 […]
Tuesday, 11 April 2023 | 17:00 to 19:00 EST | Room 280N, Second Floor, York Lanes, York University We Have Not Come Here To Die powerfully chronicles how a Dalit student and activist is driven to suicide after years of harassment and discrimination by both his university administration and right-wing Hindu supremacists. What transpired after […]
Friday, 10 February 2023 | 10:00 to 12:30 EST | Room 857, Eighth Floor, Kaneff Tower, York University and virtually via Zoom Speaker: Nick Cheesman, Australian National University A Political Lexicon is a critical inquiry into how words animate politics. Across 16 entries, the lexicon stages dialogues about political speech and action in Myanmar. It […]
Friday, 10 February 2023 | 14:00 EST | Virtually via Zoom Established scholars will explore some of the issues that have faced relating to conceptualizing, translating and researching at the intersection of different languages. They will share from their own research trajectories what has been the most challenges and the most rewarding. Moderated by Eve […]
Saturday, 11 February 2023 | 14:00 EST | Virtually via Zoom Ho Chi Minh wrote numerous essays throughout the 1920s about racial injustices against Black populations. Among his famous works of literature was La Race Noire (The Black Race) in 1925, a collection of 13 French essays on the topic. In 1924, Ho Chi Minh wrote […]
