The YCAR Research Collaboration Fellowship exists to support intensive collaborations between a Faculty Associate of the Centre and one of their research partners at another research institution (university, NGO etc). The fellowship allows a collaborator (usually from Asia) to visit Toronto for the specific purpose of working on a research proposal, project or publication. The […]
Following much dedicated hard work on the part of all members of the student team at Glendon College, the Japan Symposium was held on 31 March 2015 and was most definitely a success by all measures. Given the York University labour disruption, turnout was unexpectedly high, numbered at around 120 attendees including members of the […]
The second 2015 edition of the Asia Research Briefs investigate the ways in which Filipino-Canadian young adults construct positive individual and collective identities. Multiple Experiences of Filipino Young Adults: Identity, Community and Social Justice can be accessed on the Asia Research Briefs page. Five themes emerged from her research: migration patterns, racism and discrimination, gender roles […]
Yi-Li Wu, Research Fellow, EASTmedicine Research Cluster, University of Westminster, visited YCAR earlier this month. In addition to a session with the Critical China Study Group, she presented her current research on society, gender and medicine in China and Korea. Her talk, How did Chinese Gynecology become Korean? A Comparative Case Study of “Women’s Diseases” in […]
Rethinking ‘South Asia’ in a New Imperial Age, a keynote lecture presented by Saadia Toor at the second Critical Approaches to South Asia Studies workshop, is now available online. The video can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrlO-jf-9k4&feature=youtu.be Dr Toor is Associate Professor of Sociology at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. She has written extensively on issues of […]
The New Directions in Environmental Governance project team met together in January for the first project workshop. The team includes Canadian, Australian, Chinese and Thai researchers. The workshop was held in Waterloo at the Balsillie School of International Affairs on 16-17 January 2015 and organized by Derek Hall (Wilfrid Laurier University). The project is funded […]
Cities are sites of intense social, economic and cultural change, and youth are at the forefront of these transformations. Youth have distinctive experiences of: economic and labour market restructuring; innovative forms of connectedness through social media; new family structures; changing forms of social belonging; cultural creativity and experimentation; and transformations in urban space. Major metropolitan […]
Research presented in a summer 2014 workshop series co-hosted by YCAR will be published as a special issue in the journal Gender, Place and Culture. The Emotion of Migration was a two-part workshop series investigating the transnational affect and the emotions of migration within and throughout Asia. It was organized by Kabita Chakraborty (Children’s Studies, […]
A recent Philippine Reporter article offers a detailed look at a panel that was organized at YCAR in December concerning the new set of regulations that have drastically changed the Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP) in Canada. The panel, Assessing the Changes to the Live-in Caregiver Program: Improving Security or Deepening Precariousness?, was organized by Philip […]
York University students who are engaged in research on Asia and/or Asian diaspora are invited to apply to several awards offered by YCAR. The deadline for all awards is 4pm on Monday, 9 February 2015. Sivalingam Award in Tamil Studies Tamil language, history, culture, society or the Tamil diaspora (comparative research is also eligible) Dr. […]