Our latest Asia Colloquia Paper is based on Patrick Alcedo’s February 2016 lecture-performance, “An Empire Stages Back: Nationalism, Postcoloniality, and the Diaspora in Philippine Dance.” The lecture-performance was a staging of how Filipino cultural productions respond to empire through dance and film. This lecture-performance mapped out histories of colonialism and imperialism in the Philippines and the Filipino […]
The Asian Business Management Program (SEEC-ABMP) was awarded Gold in Education Excellence by the Canada China Business Council at the Business Excellence Awards ceremony earlier this month. The Canada China Business Excellence Awards are given biennially and recognize companies that have achieved excellent results in their business dealings and/or investment in China. The winners honoured have, […]
The York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) awarded funding to 21 graduate students to support research on Asia and Asian diasporas. The recipients were selected through a competitive application process and they represent multiple disciplines and areas of research including imperialism, environmental justice, immigrant and refugee experiences, art history, humanitarian aid, housing, disaster response, information […]
*Please email your news and announcements to ycar@yorku.ca YCAR NEWS Welcome Back! YCAR welcomes all our associates back for the new academic year! We have an exciting calendar of events this year with speakers working on a diverse range of topics and geographical areas in Asia and Asian diasporas. The new academic year is also a […]
Please email your news and announcements to ycar@yorku.ca YCAR NEWS || Associates Joan Judge (History) Joan Judge was awarded a York-Massey Visiting Scholarship to spend her 2018–19 sabbatical at Massey College, an independent college situated on the University of Toronto campus. During her tenure at Massey, Joan will finalize her SSHRC-funded book project, In Search of […]
Sara Furhan (History) was interviewed by The Intercept about the challenges of her research on the Royal Medical College of Baghdad. The article discusses the challenges Sara and other researchers face as a result of the destruction of archives in Iraq after the 2003 U.S. invasion and brings into focus questions of ownership, protection and […]
Ethel Tungohan Ethel Tungohan (Politics) was appointed Canada Research Chair of Canadian Migration Policy: Impacts and Activism. Her research will analyze discourses that have underpinned the Canadian government’s policies towards temporary foreign workers from 1973 until 2017 and the nature of these policies and their effects on different groups of temporary foreign workers. Ethel will […]
Michael Nijhawan, Lily Cho: Faculty Associate Michael Nijhawan (Sociology) is co-editor of ‘Contesting Memory and Citizenship,’ a special journal issue of Citizenship Studies (Volume 22, Issue 4) published earlier this spring. He also co-wrote the issue’s introduction, which looks at how the past continues to inform debates on Canadian identity in relation to the legacy […]
YCAR Associate, Wendy Alejandra Medina De Loera (Doctoral student, Geography) presented a digital collection of archival materials from the David Wurfel fonds for the Digital Humanities and Social Sciences for Teaching and Learning project in May 2018. Her presentation, “The Making of a Digital Archive, By a Non-archivist: The David Wurfel Fonds,” highlighted over 200 […]
In our latest Asia Research Brief, “Understanding Knowledge Culture in Late Imperial China,” Lianbin Dai (YCAR CCKF Postdoctoral Fellow) tackles conventional understandings of Neo-Confucian activists. Dai proposes a shift away from dichotomous frameworks that separate moral cultivation from statecraft. He suggests that statecraft knowledge and skills were an important part of Neo-Confucian ideals of self-cultivation. […]