Kevin M. Woods was the inaugural speaker in the Critical Asian Political Ecologies Seminars series. In “Race and Territorial Politics in Making Agro-capitalism in Asia’s “final frontier” in Burma,” Woods discussed how the making of agro-capitalism in Burma during this current neoliberal reform period is borne through violent regional histories defined by contested and racialized […]
A reminder that the deadline for abstracts for the third YCAR International Graduate Student Conference is Thursday, 20 November 2014. CALL FOR PAPERS Changing Asia in the Globalizing World: Boundaries, Identity, and Transnationalism York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) Third International Graduate Student Conference May 1-2, 2015 York University, Glendon Campus, Toronto, Canada The concept […]
Since 2010 the Filipino Youth Transitions in Canada (FYTIC) project at YCAR has been examining social mobility among Filipino youth in Canada. The project’s finding suggest that a combination of factors have resulted in relatively poor educational and employment outcomes for Filipino youth who arrived in Canada as children, or who were born here. These […]
Wendy S. Wong (Design), Bernard H.K. Luk (History) and Susan J. Henders (Political Science) shared their insights on Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution and what’s next as part of a panel discussion and forum hosted by YCAR in October. The speakers discussed the recent student protests and their impacts as well as considering the next phases […]
Emma Dalton and her York colleague Kabita Chakraborty discussed the preliminary findings of their research project earlier this month at YCAR in a talk titled “Fitness freaks, ‘young looking’ and love matches: Finding a partner on the world’s largest matchmaking service shaadi.com.” Dr. Dalton is the second YCAR Research Fellow. She spent two months in Canada working with Dr. […]
YCAR recently hosted Dr. Devanto S. Pramoto from Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia His talk addressed the progress of Indonesian education in relation to development. He considered whether regional differentials in educational enrollment are related to indicators of economic development and examined the inter-generational transmission of educational attainment between parents and their children. His study also examined the role of […]
York University Professors Tania Ahmad and Zulfikar Hirji, both of anthropology, and film Professor Ali Kazmi will lead a discussion on “Women in Dance in Muslim Societies” at the new Aga Khan Museum in Toronto. The panel discussion is part of the museum’s inaugural season and its contemporary exhibition, performances and lectures focusing on Pakistan. […]
York alumni couple has established the first-ever graduate award in Tamil studies in memory of a pioneer and leader of the Tamil community in Canada. Harini Sivalingam (LLB ’05) and husband Gary Anandasangaree (LLB ’05), lawyers and graduates of Osgoode Hall Law School, created the N. Sivalingam Award in Tamil Studies with an endowed gift. […]
Speakers from Canada, the United States, Australia, the Netherlands and Thailand will share their expertise and experience on resource extraction, forestry, fisheries, agriculture and urban ecologies in Southeast Asia as a part of a year-long lecture series at the York Centre for Asian Research. Critical Asian Political Ecologies Seminars (CAPES) will feature seminars on agro-capitalism […]
The Emotions of Migration workshop series is a two part event which tackled transnational affect and the varied emotions of migration, within the context of a rapidly globalizing Asia. The first part of the series took place at the University of Malaya on 8-9 august, and reviewed the experiences of women who migrate for work […]