Congratulations to our Faculty Associates who received Insight Development Grants (IDG) earlier this summer. Nga Dao (Social Science) | Principal Investigator | Territory and Politics of Resources: Everyday Lives and Landscapes in the Northwest Vietnam Ena Dua (Equity Studies) | Co-investigator | Disability Wikibase: Modelling and Implementing an Intelligent Bilingual Knowledge Network, through Mapping Disability […]
YCAR offers or adjudicates nine awards to graduate students at York University on an annual basis. In 2020, 21 students received over $40,000 in support of their research, fieldwork and language studies. In each Update over the summer, we will introduce the 2020 winners. In this issue, we congratulate Meera Kanageswaran (Dance), this year’s […]
We’d like to introduce YorkSpace. This is the university’s open access repository platform that enables York community members to post, organize, disseminate and preserve their scholarly outputs online in an institutional context. It is open to York University staff, faculty, librarians, and affiliated researchers. To submit your personal work: Log into YorkSpace, select the collection […]
In this latest Asia Research Brief, Ayyaz Mallick (Environmental Studies) summarizes his dissertation which aimed to understand the decline of Karachi, Pakistan’s vibrant labour movement and the proliferation of exclusivist ethnic politics in the post-1970s era. He mobilizes Marxist dialectics to delve into the polarized contemporary theoretico-political debates that pit “class” against “identity politics,” “Marxism” […]
YCAR offers or adjudicates nine awards to graduate students at York University on an annual basis. In 2020, 21 students received over $40,000 in support of their research, fieldwork and language studies. In each Update over the summer, we will introduce the 2020 winners. In this issue, we congratulate Yasir Hameed, the 2020 recipient […]
3 stories. 6 women. An interactive documentary film portraying what lived experiences of feminism in India look like. Virtually immerse in their art, stories and experiences on 30 July 2020. Congrats to Deepa Venkatesan (Communication & Culture) on her new interactive documentary film titled “F se Feminism” (“F stands for Feminism”). She has spent the […]
YCAR Research Associate D. Mitra Barua is a 2020–21 Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Fellow in Buddhist Studies, administered by the American Council of Learned Societies. Congratulations Mitra! He is currently working on a monograph project provisionally entitled Staging Bengali Buddhism with Transnational Connections. Broadly, focusing on the Bangladesh-India-Myanmar border region, Mitra investigates how […]
Congratulations to the YCAR Faculty Associates who received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) as part of the Fall 2019 Insight competition. Russell Belk (Schulich) | Co-investigator | Consuming Cryptocurrencies: The Consumer Journey Blockchain Lily Cho (English) | Principal Investigator | Asian Values: Fictions of Finance in Postcolonial and […]
We are pleased to announce that Jean Michel Montsion (Multidisciplinary Studies) accepted the role of YCAR Associate Director and began his term on 1 July 2020. He will also serve as Coordinator for the Graduate Diploma in Asian Studies. He replaces Laam Hae (Politics) who has served in these roles for the past five years. […]
Summer is here and it is an unusual one for many of us who have been accustomed to doing fieldwork during this season. It is a big challenge for most of us who rely on our intellectual and emotional connections with people in geographical Asia. We nevertheless hope everyone is coping and adjusting well. YCAR […]