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Fourth Bernard H. K. Luk Memorial Lecture in Hong Kong Studies & Hong Kong Beyond Hong Kong symposium [June 2021]

Opportunities | YCAR-hosted research projects seeking undergraduate Research Assistants for summer 2021 | Deadline: April 30

April Schedule | South Asian Documentary Film Festival 2021

Sister, Brother: A Performance & Workshop

South Asian Documentary Film Festival 2021: Stories of, by and from South Asia | March 12-July 23

In memory of our colleague Lisa Drummond

“Upstream,” a docufiction film by Xin Liu

Asia Research Brief #39: Gendered World of Issei Women and Men in Japanese Hawai‘i, 1880s–1910s

2020 Graduate Award Recipient: Heather Evans

Asia Research Brief #35 | Understanding trends in authoritarian populism by examining the crackdown on the Cambodian free press

Congratulations to Graduate Associate Rajat Nayyar (Theatre & Performance Studies), who is one of four York recipients of the prestigious Vanier Scholarship

Emergent Futures CoLab

YCAR receives $500,000 to support engagement in Hakka research

Irish stick-fighting, Bruce Lee’s musicality, and Chinese Lion Dances with Colin McGuire

Launch of York Left Consortium: Reflections on Capitalism’s Half-Life

Graduate Associate-organized virtual panel focuses on COVID-19 and Afghanistan

New Voices in Asian Research

Award for Research into Korean Language or Culture: 25 Sept Deadline

YCAR Professional Development Fund Awardees for 2020

Emerging Asian Urbanisms’ Call for Films

New Book: Outward and Upward Mobilities: International Students in Canada, Their Families, and Structuring Institutions

Deadline extension – 2019 CCSEAS conference – 15 April 2019

YCAR Professional Development Fund for Graduate Associates – apply by 18 January 2019

Graduate Awards offered by YCAR – apply by 11 February 2019

Dignitaries and scholars to discuss ASEAN-Canada relations at York roundtable

Congratulations to the 2017 YCAR Graduate Award Winners!

Interdisciplinary symposium will explore transnational Tamil identities

Annual YCAR lecture commemorates esteemed Hong Kong historian, Bernard Luk

Janet T. Landa publishes book on Chinese merchants in Southeast Asia

2016 Undergraduate Essay Award Winners

Critical Asian Studies Special Section on Academia and Activism in Southeast Asia

Inaugural Bernard H.K. Luk Memorial Lecture in Hong Kong Studies

The Geotechnical Politics of Ocean Frontiers workshop

2017 Annual General Meeting

Hong Saihwa to speak at York University on April 19th

YCAR Associate | Hyun Ok Park

YCAR Associate | Kabita Chakraborty

YCAR Associate | Jean Michel Montsion

YCAR Associate | R. Patrick Alcedo

YCAR Associates | Susan Henders and Mary Young

YCAR welcomes submissions for Undergraduate Asia and Asian Diaspora Essay Awards

YCAR Associate | Jacqueline Ristola

CCK Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Chinese Studies, 2017-2018

Call for submissions | Transnational Configurations of Tamil Identities: Tamil Studies Symposium 2017

YCAR Associate | New book by Kusno on Visual Cultures of the Ethnic Chinese in Indonesia

YCAR Associate | Marxist Class Theory for a Skeptical World is new book by Raju Das

Call for Papers | Retrospect and Prospect: International Symposium on Chinese Canadian Literature and Media

YCAR Associate | Alicia Turner on religious difference and indifference in colonial Burma

Found in Translation: Cosmopolitics and The Value of Biotech

Asia Research Brief | The Socio-ecological Implications of US Food Aid in the South Korean “Miracle”

YCAR Associate | Cheung on North Korea and its foreign policy

Women’s friendships focus of new article co-authored by YCAR alumni

YCAR Associate | Sai Latt on peace and reconciliation in Myanmar

ABMP signs C$5 million MOU with Beijing Institute of Education for education training programs

YCAR Associate | Sankaran honoured as Legend of Rhythm

York profs on China and this month’s G20 meeting

Marking the 30th anniversary of the rescue of Tamil refugees off the coast of Newfoundland

Nga Dao recognized as ‘Hotspot Hero’ for outstanding conservation effort

Call for Papers | Asian Connections: Linking Mobilities of Capital and Labour in Theory and Practice

Call for Papers | Asian Connections: Linking Mobilities of Capital and Labour in Theory and Practice

2016 Meet and Greet

Call for Papers | Association for Asian Studies

The Second Annual International Symposium on Aging and Old-Age in Asia-Pacific

Associate Publications on Chinese and Indian Regional Economic Policies

Congratulations! 2015-16 Defended Dissertations

ChATSEA Working Papers Now Available on T-Space

Associate Publication on Ecotourism in Cambodia | La Conquête Territoriale par L’écotourisme: Le Cas de Chi Phat Dans les Cardamomes

Shazia Javed Speaks With The Times of India About Muslim Women, Divorce and the UCC

Kabita Chakraborty Wins Teaching Award

Launch of Curriculum Pack Based on Stories of Canadian Muslim Youth

Subscribe to YCAR’s New YouTube Channel

New Asia Colloquia Paper by Yen Le Espiritu | Vietnam, the Philippines, Guam and California: Connecting the Dots of U.S. Military Empire

Graduate Associate Publication | The Stethoscope: A Tool of Nurses’ Trade since the 1930s

Faculty Associate Publication | Integrative multiplicity through suburban realities

YCAR Associate Sashar Zarif’s dance theatre presents Sufi and Shamanic performance

New Asia Research Brief | Chinese Lion Dance as a Strategy of Resistance to Racial Discrimination

Philip Kelly reflects on YCAR’s Asian Heritage Month event in The Philippine Reporter

Ethel Tungohan presents findings on the Caregiver Program to parliamentary committee

YCAR Asian Heritage Month Event Featured in The Philippine Daily Inquirer

Ali Kazimi on Trudeau’s Apology for the Komogata Maru Incident

DEADLINE EXTENDED | Call for Papers: Gender Issues in India

Tamil Studies Symposium Program Now Available

Associate Publication | A ‘Just Hearing’: Reading Shyam Selvadurai’s The Hungry Ghosts as Counter to State Practice

Community Event | A Third Gender: Beautiful Youths in Japanese Prints

Photo gallery | 2016 N. Sivalingam Memorial Lecture with Navi Pillay

Thuy Nguyen to present on disability and social justice on panel in Halifax

Faculty Associate Guida Man interviewed by the Toronto Star on viral video about Chinese women

Visiting Scholar Publication | Study on Introducing Student Vote Program for Prospective Voters Under the Korean Public Official Election Act

Faculty Associate, Gregory Chin, Meets With the Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China

New Asia Research Brief | How Canada contributed to China’s remarkable transformation through university partnerships and knowledge diplomacy

Professor Joan Judge nominated for the 2016 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize

Faculty Associate Publication | China’s Presidency of the G20 Hangzhou: On Global Leadership and Strategy

Bernard Hung-Kay Luk, 1946-2016

Critical Approaches to South Asian Studies Workshop

Emeritus Faculty Associate Publication | The Changing Perceptions of Waqf and Other Religious Endowments: Social, Cultural and Symbolic Capital in Penang

Consul-General of Japan Yasunori Nakayama visits York

Graduate Associate Publication | New Channels of Expression: Voices in Women’s Magazines in the Late Qing and Early Republican China

Toronto Premiere | The Roots Remain

Mar 29 | YCAR graduate associates to showcase their research on the developmental state in Asia