Wendy Wong (Design) commented on creative works such as cartoons and posters as indicators of the freedom of speech found in a society during an interview Omni News on 9 January 2015. The story, aired in Cantonese, included reactions of the Chinese community in the GTA on the Paris shootings at the Charlie Hebdo office. […]
A reminder to YCAR Graduate Associates that the deadline for application to the YCAR Professional Development Fund is Monday, 19 January by 9am. The York Centre for Asian Research’s Professional Development Fund subsidizes its Graduate Associates’ travel costs to present their scholarly or creative work. Amounts awarded will range from $50 to $500 with the […]
The first 2015 edition of the Asia Research Briefs considers how creative expression impacts and extends human rights discourse. Global Asia’s Human Rights Challenges: The Prisms of the Arts can be accessed on the Asia Research Briefs page. The essays and translations of literary and dramatic works—published in Human Rights and the Arts: Perspectives on Global […]
Thanks to everyone who attended the launch of Human Rights and the Arts: Perspectives on Global Asia and Human Rights and the Arts: An Anthology on 8 January 2015.
Bearing Witness: Unspeakable Crimes, Invisible Atrocities York University, 6-7 May 2016 The most challenging paradox of the 21st Century may well be the saturation of our media with news of atrocities, even as many conflicts around the world are described as ‘wars without witnesses’. While news reports from ‘embedded’ journalists or social media prompt social […]
YCAR’s 2014 Asia Lecture by Malathi de Alwis, Trauma, Memory, Forgetting, is now available to view online. Visit http://youtu.be/EHYCEiDnMAI to view the lecture. In post-war Sri Lanka, the battle for memory and forgetting plays a central role in the state’s fraught relationship with its Tamil population who have borne the brunt of a three-decade long war. […]
Changes to the Canada’s Live-in Caregiver Program is the focus of the latest YCAR Asia Research Brief by Philip Kelly (Geography). On 30 November 2014, a series of sweeping changes to the program took effect. Renamed the Caregiver Program, it introduces two pathways to permanent residence – one for those who care for children, and […]
Professor Virinder Kalra (University of Manchester) was at York to speak about his new book, Sacred and Secular Musics: A Postcolonial Approach, in mid-November 2014. Professor Kalra examined the way in which the label ‘Classical’ comes to define a certain form of secular music in Europe and South Asia, a hierarchy of musical forms is […]
Andrew Song, YCAR first YCAR/ABMP Short-Term Postdoctoral Visitor in Asian Governance, has shared his post-doc research in an Asia Research Brief titled ‘Fishing for Political Control: Tangled Lines of Fishing Activity and Korean Maritime Boundary Disputes’. Song considers state strategies for the governance of fishing activities that assist military-political objectives — in other words, the […]
The latest addition to YCAR’s Asia Research Briefs series is by Kabita Chakraborty (Humanities / Children’s Studies) and is titled “Oil Palm Plantations, Migration and Indian Youth Culture in Contemporary Malaysia”. Click here to read the Brief. All of the YCAR Asia Research Briefs can be accessed here.