YCAR was rechartered by the York University Senate on 25 June 2015 for a five year period starting 1 July 2015. In addition to this news, I would like to update you on a few other governance issues relating to the Centre. We have a slightly new Executive Committee this coming year. The Faculty Associates […]
Gregory Chin (Political Science), a leading international export on “emerging China,” was invited to speak at Ottawa City Hall on 11 June 2015 on The Rise of the New China-Led International Institutions, and What They Mean for the Global Order. Professor Chin discussed China’s motivations for creating the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, BRICS New Development Bank, […]
YCAR welcomes Young nam Cho as a visiting scholar at the Centre this summer. Professor Cho is an Associate Professor of Japanese language education at Korea University. Her research encompasses areas such as Discourse Analysis of Japanese and Korean, acquisition research of Japanese as a second language, and Japanese immersion education. During her visit, she […]
YCAR helped to strengthen York University’s connection with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) earlier this summer at a joint workshop held in Toronto. The two-day workshop, Youth, Diversity and Social Development in the Multicultural Metropolis, featured presentations by YCAR and CASS scholars. “Cities are sites of intense social, economic and cultural change, and […]
YCAR welcomed Deepak Mishra to York in May 2015. Dr. Mishra, a professor at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University was in Toronto to work with collaborator Raju Das (Geography) on their Geographically Uneven Development in an Under-developed State of India: A Study of Odisha […]
YCAR was pleased to host Yasunori Nakayama, Consular General of Japan, at York University on 6 May 2015. In his talk, Mr. Nakayama provided an overview of Japan’s post-war security policies. After the event, he had the opportunity to view the sakura (cherry) trees in bloom on campus. The Department of Political Science co-hosted Mr. […]
Youth, Diversity and Social Development in the Multicultural Metropolis, a joint York University – Chinese Academy of Social Sciences workshop, will juxtapose Canadian and Chinese research and thereby develop some comparative insights into our respective ways of defining problems, posing questions and conducting research into questions of youth, diversity and social development in urban settings. The […]
The 1 May events were featured on the cover of the May issue of Monsoon Journal. The issue can be viewed at: http://monsoonjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/05_MJ_MAY_2015_WEB.pdf
YCAR was pleased to host Mr. Woonhyoung Woo at York in early April. Mr. Woo and his family have generously endowed two important awards for graduate students engaged in research on Korea and its diaspora. The Dr. Sangdeok Woo and Mrs. Kwisoon Lim Woo Graduate Award supports graduate students undertaking research on the topics of Korean history, culture or society. […]
“Can you hear me?” is the recent work of Shazia Javed, a MFA Candidate in Film at York University. The 2 minute and 40 second short film was made in the context of the present day socio-political environment with regards to the choices (or lack of) that Muslim women have in what they wear. Javed […]