Prominent lawyers and advocates working with live-in caregivers in Toronto discussed changes to Canada’s caregiver program at a YCAR-hosted panel at York University in early December. These changes, announced by Chris Alexander, Minister for Citizenship and Immigration, in October 2014, created new categories and conditions for the granting of permanent residence and removed the requirement for […]
Thailand GEOG 4521 6.0: Field Studies in Human Geography In this course you will have the opportunity to learn about environment and development in the rural communities in Thailand. After pre-departure seminars covering issues related to diverse environment and development challenges facing Thai rural communities, we will depart for a three-week study trip to Thailand, […]
Dr. Fachun Du of Yunnan Agricultural University visited YCAR earlier this month. His research focuses on ecological resettlement, sedentarization of Tibetan nomads in the Qinghai Tibetan Plateau, urbanization and socio-economic development of ethnic minorities in China. He is also the Vice President of the Association for Canadian Studies in China.
Alicia Turner’s new book, Saving Buddhism has just been published by University of Hawai’i Press. Saving Buddhism explores the dissonance between the goals of the colonial state and the Buddhist worldview that animated Burmese Buddhism at the turn of the twentieth century. For many Burmese, the salient and ordering discourse was not nation or modernity […]
Historian Peter Zarrow examined four decades of dramatic historical change in China through the prism of textbooks in a talk at York University earlier this month. Professor Zarrow, from the University of Connecticut, is also adjunct research fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, where he worked for many years. His research deals […]
YCAR welcomed Dr. Hagen Koo to York University earlier this month as part of the Centre’s Heterogeneity and Korean Identity in the Twentieth-First Century speaker series. Dr. Koo, from the University of Hawai’I, Manoa, spoke on Korea’s global middle class.
Malathi de Alwis gave the 2014 Asia Lecture at York University on 4 November 2014, Trauma, Memory and Forgetting. 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 […]
The recently-published Human Rights and the Arts in Global Asia: An Anthology, co-edited by Theodore (Ted) Goossen (Humanities, YCAR) and Anindo Hazra (English, YCAR) will be featured in the INSPIRE Toronto Book Fair, at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, on Sunday 16 November, 2014, between 12 noon and 1 PM. The editors have selected readings […]
Janice C.H. Kim (History) will be at the AGO Jackman Hall, Wednesday November 12, 2014 at 1:00 pm, to serve as discussant following screenings of three documentaries concerning the Korean War and its afterlives at this year’s Reel Asian Film Festival. Leftover Daniel Yong | Canada 2014 | 18:30 |English, Korean with English Subtitles Leftover […]
YCAR was pleased to host Dr. Dong-choon Kim as the first speaker in the Heterogeneity and Korean Identity in the Twentieth-First Century speaker series at York University. The speaker series will focus on the works of both established senior and groundbreaking junior scholars in the fields of globalization, transnational labour and class in South Korea. […]