York tapped to enhance China’s international outreach on climate change

*Originally published in YFile, 15 November 2022 With the signing of a new international professional development agreement, the Asian Business and Management Program (ABMP) at York University just launched a five-year virtual program to train officials from the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) Secretariat. “After a nearly three-year hiatus due […]

International Students from Asia in Canada’s Post-Secondary Institutions: Disconnections and Connections

A new special issue of Comparative and International Education examines and exposes the connections and disconnections between actors in the domain of international education and for provoking questions about the lack of coherence among internationalization, Indigenization and equity priorities within Canadian institutions. The research for the issue’s seven papers is drawn from the YCAR-hosted RAIS […]

root, branch, driftwood workshop series for Tamil-English translators, poets and writers

SERIES 1: Saturdays 11 am-1pm EST | Nov 12, 19, 26 | 2022 SERIES 2: Saturdays 11am-1pm EST | Feb 4, 11, 18 | 2023CELEBRATION: April 2023 with the Tam Fam Lit Jam trace: translating ‘x’ is part of a long-term culturally responsive, strength-based project organized by trace press to address structural and systemic racism within […]

Locating the Indian Woman and LGBTQIA+ Online: Digital Activism in #Section377 and #Me

YCAR alumna Nanditha Narayanamoorthy’s Asia Research Brief explores the relationship between technological platforms and gender minorities in Indian cyberspaces, which was the focus of her dissertation. Dr Narayanamoorthy is now a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Information, Technology and Public Life in the School of Information and Library Sciences, University of North Carolina at […]

Summer 2022 recipients of Canada-China Initiative Funding

The summer 2022 recipients of Canada-China Initiative Funding engage in a variety of topics, ranging from Chinese Canadian prose fiction to Chinese international students in Canada. Congratulations to the recipients! Monique Attrux (English) received funding for her dissertation project, Writing Chinese: Diasporic Entanglements in Chinese Canadian English Prose Fiction. The project examines language—as a form, theme, […]

Videos | Crossing the Bridge Mackay Built: 150 years of Canada in East Asia and East Asia in Canada

In June of 2022 a virtual symposium was held celebrating the connections built by George Leslie Mackay. Crossing the Bridge Mackay Built: 150 years of Canada in East Asia and East Asia in Canada Virtual Symposium Sponsored by the Canadian Mackay Committee Co-organizers: The Knox College Centre for Asian-Canadian Theology and Ministry and the York […]

YCAR Research Collaboration Fellowship: The Structural Determinants of Urbanization in India and China

We are pleased to welcome Paramjit Singh to YCAR. Together with Cary Wu (Sociology), the pair are recipients of a YCAR Research Collaboration Fellowship. Their joint project looks at the structural determinants of urbanization in India and China. Based on preliminary research, they have identified the gap as arising from the differences in the path […]

Echo from the Archipelago: Connecting Indonesia and Canada through Traditional Music by Exploring Collective Memories in Canada

The Echo from the Archipelago: Connecting Indonesia and Canada through Traditional Music by Exploring Collective Memories in Canada workshop was designed to develop a bridge between Indonesia and Canada through music as interpreted by the Indonesian Diaspora in Toronto, and an attempt to trace a collective memory between musicians from Indonesia in Canada and diaspora members. […]

Canada and China: A Fifty-Year Journey (New Book)

Congratulations to B. Michael Frolic] (ABMP and Professor Emeritus, Politics) on the publication of his long-awaited new book, Canada and China: A Fifty-Year Journey (University of Toronto 2022). The book launch is scheduled for Fall 2022.  Description: Presenting a thorough record of Canada’s diplomatic ties with China, Canada and China recounts ten stories regarding China policy decisions […]

Human Rights, Forced Labour and Sustainability in Global Fisheries: A Potential Canadian Contribution to Enhancing Decent Work in Fishing

Faculty Associate Peter Vandergeest (Geography) co-authored a report released this summer that considers potential Canadian contributions to enhancing decent work in fishing. Commissioned by Oceana Canada, it draws from Vandergest’s SSHRC-funded research for the Work at Sea project. Co-author Melissa Marschke is also the grant’s co-investigator along with third author Trevor Swerdfager, a Practitioner-in-Residence at […]