Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies (CCSEAS) is is currently looking for submissions for its Fall Issue Newsletter. The newsletter will be published in September/October 2017. CCSEAS is an association of scholars, students, policymakers and activists with an interest in the academic study of Southeast Asia and its connections to the rest of the world. […]
The late Professor Bernard HK Luk (History) was a central figure forging new directions in international research on Hong Kong. His legacy in shaping the emerging field of Hong Kong studies will be commemorated annually with the Bernard Luk Memorial Lecture in Hong Kong Studies organized by the York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR). Professor Luk […]
YCAR faculty associate, Janet T. Landa (Economics) recently published a new book, Economic Success of Chinese Merchants in Southeast Asia: Identity, Ethnic Cooperation and Conflict: Integrating the Social Sciences with Evolutionary Biology. The book focuses on the role of Chinese middlemen groups in facilitating trade and specialization in Southeast Asia. Professor Landa brings to light […]
Fareeha Alavi and Srijoni Rahman, the inaugural recipients of YCAR’s undergraduate essay awards, were nominated by their professors, Nishant Upadhyay, Sailaja Krishnamurti and Shobna Nijhawan for the exceptional essays submitted in their courses. Fareeha Alavi’s paper, “The Making of Bangladesh”, won the essay prize in the category of geographic Asia. Alavi’s essay was the product […]
How do activism and academia shape one another? YCAR associates, Philip Kelly, Ethel Tungohan and Chaya Ocampo Go, together with Elisabeth Kramer (University of Sydney), Jason Morris-Jung (SIM University) and Dominique Caouette (Université de Montréal), organized a special section of the July 2017 issue of Critical Asian Studies to reflect on this question. The special section represents […]
This past April Toronto’s Cantonese language television station, Fairchild TV, interviewed Dr Choi Po King who was our guest lecturer for the inaugural Bernard H.K. Luk Memorial Lecture in Hong Kong Studies. The documentary they produced can be viewed below, or by clicking HERE. CLICK HERE to view Dr Choi Po King‘s English language lecture […]
In their co-authored article, Perceptions and Practices of Investment: China’s Hydropower Investments in Mainland Southeast Asia, Vanessa Lamb and Nga Dao examine how xenophobia impacts perceptions of Chinese investments in Vietnam and Myanmar. The authors urge scholars to analyze Chinese investments in the area in relation to local governance and to move away from a […]
The YCAR community welcomes Abidin Kusno as he begins his term as the Centre’s new director on 1 July 2017. Abidin Kusno joined York as a Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies in 2015, and has served on YCAR’s executive committee. Before his arrival at York, he was the Canada Research Chair in Asian […]
York welcomes Nancy Peluso, Henry J. Vaux Distinguished Professor of Forest Policy at the University of California, Berkeley to York this Friday. Professor Peluso will speak about her research on small-scale gold mining in West Kalimantan, Indonesia and how it has confronted and been entangled with other aspects of agrarian change. “Gold Mining and Agrarian […]
On Thursday, 25 May 2017 YCAR celebrated Asian Heritage Month with an event centred around Tamil culture. This event was attended by hundreds of students from nine high schools in the GTA. Below are audio recordings and photos: https://youtu.be/MjPMEnQ02w4 […]