YCAR’s Professional Development Fund subsidizes relevant experiences for its Graduate Associates to present their scholarly or creative work. Amounts awarded will range from $50 to $500 with the expectation that they will be used in conjunction with other awards. The next deadline is Monday, 30 January 2023 by 16:00 EST for activities taking place six […]
YCAR invites applications from York University faculty and graduate students for the Canada-China Initiatives Fund call for proposals. Founded in 2019, the Canada-China Initiatives Fund (CCIF) was created to support scholarly exchanges and research on modern (i.e., post 1911) and contemporary China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan and their global outreach or Canada-China linkages, or […]
*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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]