On 26 October, Southeast Asian dignitaries and scholars will visit York to participate in the Common Fears and Hopes: ASEAN and Canada at 50 Roundtable. As one of the featured events in this week’s Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies (CCSEAS) Conference, the roundtable is convened to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Association of […]
York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) faculty associates and Emeriti Professors of Anthropology, Judith Nagata and Penny Van Esterik, will be honoured at the 33rd Biennial Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies (CCSEAS) conference to be held on 26 to 28 October 2017 at York. The panels honouring Professors Nagata and Van Esterik will take place on […]
Over the last ten years, activists, scholars and development agencies have been discussing large scale land grabs—a major wave of cross-border land acquisitions set off by the 2007/08 food price crisis and financial crisis. Co-edited by York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) Associates, Peter Vandergeest and Laura Schoenberger (Geography), a special issue of the Journal […]
Political turmoil and state violence has created difficult challenges for grassroots movements in Duterte’s Philippines. York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) Graduate Associates, Kenneth Cardenas, C.J. Chanco and Chaya Ocampo Go (Geography), created the Kutitap Video Podcast series to document firsthand accounts from frontline workers on the ground in the Philippines. “The videos intend to […]
YCAR welcomes Ly Quoc Dang (Can Tho University, Vietnam) and Piti Srivongchai (Khon Kaen University, Thailand) who joined the Centre as Graduate Fellows of the Urban Climate Resilience in Southeast Asia Partnership (UCRSEA). Ly Quoc Dang is from Soc Trang Province, Vietnam. He is of the Khmer Ethnicity Group and his community is right next to the sea where it is most vulnerable to climate […]
Historian of late imperial China (1368 – 1911), Lianbin Dai, joined the York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) earlier this month as the 2017 Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation (CCKF) Postdoctoral Fellow. During his tenure at YCAR, Dr. Dai will work on his manuscript, Learning to Be Learned: Scholarly Reading and Knowledge in the Late Imperial Chinese […]
Professor Patrick Alcedo was presented the “Pinoy of the Year” award at the Golden Balangay Award Ceremony on 9 September 2017 in Toronto. Alcedo is a Professor of Dance and a Faculty Associate of the York Centre for Asian Research. He was nominated for the award as part of a nationwide call for outstanding Filipinos in Canada. The […]
Twelve York graduate students won the York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) awards for research on Asia or Asian diasporas. Selected through a competitive application process, the YCAR graduate associates who won the awards represent multiple disciplines and areas of research. Find out more about their work below. Albert C.W. Chan Foundation Award Winner Amardeep […]
The theme of this year’s Tamil Studies Symposium, Transnational Configurations of Tamil Identities, will create a space for interdisciplinary discussions on how transnational Tamil identities have been documented historically and politically, and performed culturally and artistically. What is particularly unique about this year’s symposium is that it will provide a forum for discussions across multiple […]
Buddhism is commonly understood as a religion of peace and tolerance. However, as Alicia Turner points out, Buddhist nationalism has led to egregious violence against religious minorities, such as the anti-Muslim attacks in Burma (also known as Myanmar). Turner is a Faculty Associate at the York Centre for Asian Research and Associate Professor of Humanities […]