We are excited to share that the Asian Business and Management Program, in partnership with York University - Faculty of Science, has been selected as a finalist for the Canada China Business Council's 9th Canada China Business Excellence Awards in the Academic Collaboration category! Check out the full list of finalists at this link.
A panel featuring experts Bangladesh experts Dina M. Siddiqi (New York University) and Saad Hammadi (Balsillie School of International Affairs) will launch a series focusing on contemporary South Asia. The 18 September panel will focus on the massive student-led movement that ended the 15-year authoritarian rule of Bangladesh's former Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina. This is […]
A long-time associate of YCAR, Professor John Laurier Van Esterik (1943–2024) passed away under the compassionate care of Hospice Wellington on 29 June 2024, after a long battle with cancer. Born and raised in Toronto, he was the son of Jack and Marjorie Van Esterik. He will be greatly missed by Penny (nee Fair) his […]
The York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) supported York University's celebration of Lunar New Year Festival on February 14. It co-presented York's annual Chinese Culture Day event, organized by the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics. This annual event was a unique opportunity to showcase the rich culture and traditions of Chinese heritage and its […]
YCAR was pleased to host Rapplers’ Jodesz Gavilan as part of the Philippine Studies Group’s activities. Ms Gavilan is the 2023 Marshall McLuhan Fellow - Philippines. She spoke on the evolving role of journalists in covering human rights stories in the Philippines. When speaking of her experiences, the investigative journalist, researcher and podcast host said: […]
Congratulations to our YCAR Graduate Associates Aarushie Sharma (Social Anthropology) and Ria Jhoanna Ducusin (Geography) who are 2023 recipients of a IDRC International Doctoral Research Award! Aarushie's research is an ethnographic study of toilet politics and the infrastructure of sewage in Delhi. Ria is examining how ecological conditions and socio-political relations create and shape flooding […]
Graduate Associate Mengzhu Fu organized a well-attended hybrid international symposium in November that brought Māori and Asian activists and scholars from Aotearoa New Zealand with Tkaronto-based activists and scholars to address challenges and praxis of solidarity building. Speakers included: Sina Brown-Davis, Dr Arama Rata, Tāwhana Chadwick, Kirsty Fong, and Dr Mahdis Azarmandi. Decolonial Anti-fascism Symposium: […]
Earlier this week, York University announced the new York Research Chairs (YRC), and two YCAR Faculty Associates are on this list of appointments that showcases York’s research excellence: Taien Ng-Chan (Cinema and Media Arts), appointed as York Research Chair in Marginal & Emergent Media, and Cary Wu (Sociology) as York Research Chair in Political Sociology […]
The Velomobility for Disability project is seeking a domestic student to begin in September 2023 who wishes to complete a master’s thesis in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University and conduct fieldwork focused on the design, fabrication and trade of adaptive cycles used by persons with a disability. This opportunity is open […]
Deadline: Tuesday, 25 July 2023 York University faculty members engaged in research and research creation broadly related to Philippines and/or its diasporas are invited to submit an application for research/creation funding and/or publication support. The Philippine Studies Group at the York Centre for Asian Research is offering up to five minor research grants of up […]