YCAR Associates Wendy Wong and Michael Stainton attended the Canada Hong Kong Link event “Hong Kong: Twenty Years after the Handover” on Saturday May 6, 2017. YCAR was recognized and thanked several times as one of the co-sponsors of this major event, featuring senior HK Democratic Party founder and legislator Martin Lee, respected Journalist Mak […]
The Bernard Luk Memorial Lecture in Hong Kong Studies is an annual event organized by the York Centre for Asian Research. The lecture provides an historical or contemporary analysis of Hong Kong as a distinct society, Hong Kong’s influence on the wider world, or, the experiences of the Hong Kong diaspora. The lecture was endowed by Dr Vivienne Poy in memory […]
The workshop, held on Friday 28 April 2017, explored the politics of constructing ‘peace’ and attaining ‘security’ through the interdisciplinary analytical framework of Frontier Studies. This workshop was organized by the Ocean Frontiers Working group under Science for Peace, Canada in collaboration with Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies and the York Centre for Asian Research […]
Congratulations to Associate Professor Patrick Alcedo (Dance) on the completion of his new film! Synopsis: A tribute to millions of Filipino foreign domestic workers, A Piece of Paradise is an intimate portrait of three Filipina women as they persevere to build their lives as immigrants and foreign domestic workers in Toronto, Canada. Norlyn, a personal […]
October 27 – 28, 2017 || York University, Toronto, Canada The 33rd Biennial CCSEAS conference theme—‘People In and Out of Place’—represents a long standing and yet often forgotten dynamic of a region known as the crossroads of different peoples, histories, cultures and politics. We welcome panels, roundtables and screen works to discuss the meaning of […]
Canada-China Relations: Looking Back, Looking Forward. A festschrift for Professor Bernie Frolic. On Tuesday 4 April 2017 YCAR hosted a festschrift for Professor Bernie Frolic. A roundtable of distinguished Canada-China scholars reflected upon the influence of Professor Frolic’s over 50 years of work in both academic and policy spheres. Below are audio and images from […]
The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Conference will be held in Toronto at the Sheraton Centre on 16-19 March 2017. For York University students who are not presenting research at the conference but would nevertheless benefit from attending, the York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) is offering 10 awards to cover AAS membership and the […]
Transnational Configurations of Tamil Identities Tamil Studies Symposium 2017 York University New Submissions Deadline: 10 February 2017 Tamil migrations have moved across multiple continents in the present, and maintained an interconnectivity often borne through shared linguistic, cultural, economic and political links. These crossings begin from the earliest recorded movements through to colonial and economic migrations, […]
27-28 April 2017, York University Abstract submission deadline: Wednesday, 15 February 2017 Context: Ocean frontier politics is part of the earthly politics of deploying science, technology and international law to construct maritime boundaries. This techno-politics includes ways and means of asserting a nation’s freedom of navigation, and making national claims of exploratory rights in the […]
The newest addition to YCAR’s Asia Research Brief’s series is From Japan to Canadian Museum Storage: Shifting Meaning of Objects from the Japanese Ceramics Collection of William Cornelius Van Horne (1843– 1915) by Akiko Takesue. You can access the ARB here: https://yorku.ca/research/ycar/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Takesue.pdf Dr. Takesue, a YCAR alumnus who completed her PhD in Art History and […]