YCAR supports the following ongoing programmes and intitiatives (listed alphabetically)

Programmes

Asian Business and Management Program (ABMP)
Executive Director: Bernard M. Frolic
Training Director: Elena Caprioni
Website: https://abmp.info.yorku.ca

Korean Office for Research and Education (KORE)
Director: Hyun Ok Park (Sociology)
Deputy Director: Mihyon Jeon (Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics)
Funding: Academy of Korean Studies
Website: kore.info.yorku.ca

Maternal Mortality, BIPOC Women and COVID-19
Principal Investigator: Lalaie Ameeriar
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Mediating Contagion: International Students Negotiating Media, Policy and Institutional Responses to COVID-19
Principal Investigator: Ethel Tungohan (Politics)
Funding: SSHRC Explore Grant, York University
Website: https://ycar.apps01.yorku.ca/mediating-contagion/

Navigating Information and Race in the Era of COVID-19
Principal Investigator: Jack Leong (Libraries)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Neoliberal Industrialization, the Rural Periphery, and Uneven Development in India
Principal Investigator: Raju Das (Geography)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Website: https://ycar.apps01.yorku.ca/neoliberal-industrialization/

Resisting the Birth of Buddhist Identity: Gender, Colonial Secularism and Practices of Connection in Burma
Principal Investigator: Alicia Turner (Humanities)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Website: https://ycar.apps01.yorku.ca/resisting-the-birth-of-buddhist-identity/

Sailing with the French: Labour, Trade, and Mobility in the 18th-century Indian Ocean
Principal Investigator: Margaret Schotte (History)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Website: https://www.yorku.ca/laps/dare-project-posting/sailing-with-the-french-labour-trade-and-mobility-in-the-18th-century-indian-ocean/

Staged Identities: Documenting Folk Dance from the Philippines to Canada
Principal Investigator: Russ Patrick Alcedo (Dance)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Website: https://ycar.apps01.yorku.ca/programmes-projects-staged-identities/

Sweatshops at Sea: Labour Reform in the Thai Seafood Supply Chain via Hybrid Global Governance
Co-investigator: Peter Vandergeest (Geography)
Funding: Formas
Website: https://www.slu.se/en/departments/urban-rural-development/research/rural-development/ongoing-projects/sweatshops/

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Initiatives

Bernard H.K. Luk Memorial Lecture in Hong Kong Studies
Website: ycar.apps01.yorku.ca/bernard-luk-memorial-lecture

Canada-ASEAN Initiatives
Project Director: Julie Nguyen (EAC member)
Website: www.canada-asean.org

Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies Secretariat
Website: ccseas.ca

Designs on Pots: Ban Chiang and the Politics of Heritage in Thailand
Directors: Penny B. Van Esterik (Anthropology)
Website: http://ycar.apps01.yorku.ca/banchiangpots/

Emergent Futures CoLab
Co-founder Rajat Nayyar (doctoral student in Theatre & Performance Studies)
Website: https://ycar.apps01.yorku.ca/emergent-futures-colab/

Hakka Scholars Network
Funding: Endowed gift of the Honourable Dr Vivienne Poy
Website: http://ycar.apps01.yorku.ca/hakka-scholars-network/

Marxist Studies in Global and Asian Perspectives
Organizers: Raju Das (Geography) and Robert Latham (Politics)
Website: https://marxiststudies.blog.yorku.ca

The Mindfulness in Motion Lab (MinML) 
Project Directors: Shyam Ranganathan (Philosophy) and Priya Thomas (YCAR External Research Associate)

Tempat Pertemuan untuk Para Cendekiawan Sulawesi (LOBO)
Editor: Albert Schrauwers (Anthropology)
Funding: York Centre for Asian Research
Website: https://lobo.apps01.yorku.ca/

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For completed programmes and projects, visit our Archive page.