Asia Lectures at York University

We are relaunching the Asia Lecture in 2024, and this year's speaker will be announced in early Fall.

Earlier Lectures

Our Asia Lectures were published as part of YCAR's Asia Colloquia Papers' series.

• Poverty and the Imagination of a Future: The Story of Urban Slums in Delhi, India 
  Inaugural Asia Lecture 
  24 September 2009 
  Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University 
  Asia Colloquia Paper

• 40 Years with China: From the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations in 1970 to the Present Day 
  21 September 2010 
  B. Michael Frolic, York University 
  Asia Colloquia Paper

• The Intermediary Trap: International Labour Recruitment, Transnational Governance and State-Citizen Relations in China
  05 November 2012 
  Xiang Biao, University of Oxford 
  Asia Colloquia Paper

• Value Struggles: Waste Work and Urban Ecology in Delhi 
  08 October 2013 
  Vinay Gidwani, University of Minnesota
  Asia Colloquia Paper

• Vietnam, the Philippines, Guam and California: Connecting the Dots of US Military Empire  
  08 October 2015 
  Yen Le Espiritu, University of California, San Diego
  Asia Colloquia Paper

For further information, please contact YCAR at ycar[at]yorku.ca.