YCAR Faculty Associate Pietro Giordan (Chair, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics) is the author of the recently published Drifting Lightly Over the Troubled Waters of Modernity: Irony and Exoticism in Shen Congwen’s Fiction (Trans. Yang Ziqin). It was published in Chinese by Yunnan University Press (2013).
Philip Kelly (Department of Geography) is the author of “Understanding Intergenerational Social Mobility: Filipino Youth in Canada’, a study published by the Institute for Research on Public Policy on 18 February 2014. Using interviews with Filipino community leaders to supplement statistical data, Professor Kelly explores three factors that shape youth educational and employment trajectories. The […]
YCAR Graduate Associate Vanessa Lamb (Department of Geography), who recently defended her thesis, is the recipient of a 2013-2014 ASEAN-Canada Junior Fellowship, offered by the ASEAN-Canada Research Partnership, with the support of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada.
YCAR Faculty Associate Ilan Kapoor (Faculty Associate, Environmental Studies) will speak as part of the Migration Matters series in a 5 February 2014 seminar on ‘Celebrities: Humanitarians or Ideologues?’ The series is organized by the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University. For more information, visit: http://crs.yorku.ca/
YCAR Associate Director Janice C.H. Kim (Department of History) has been awarded funding from The Korea Foundation to support a lecture series titled ‘Heterogeneity and Korean Identity in the Twentieth-First Century’. The YCAR series will run in the 2014.2015 academic year and will focus on the works of both established senior and groundbreaking junior scholars […]
YCAR Faculty Associate Gregory Chin (Political Science) appeared on ‘The Agenda with Steve Paikin’ on 15 January 2014 to discuss if China poses a risk to the 2014 global economy. The video is available here: http://ww3.tvo.org/video/199339/china-slowing-tiger
YCAR invites applications from its York Faculty or Graduate Associates who wish to organize a research workshop in the 2014-2015 academic year. Such workshops will usually involve 6 to 12 researchers presenting an original piece of work written specifically for the workshop. The expectation is that workshops will generate a published output, usually in the […]
YCAR Research Associate Lynne Milgram (Department of Anthropology, OCADU), will give a talk titled “Remapping the Edge: Informality and Legality in a New Night Street Market, Baguio City, Philippines” on 7 February 2014 at the Munk Centre for Global Affairs. For more information, visit http://munkschool.utoronto.ca/ai/events/
YCAR Graduate Associate Farah Islam (Kinesiology & Health Studies) will discuss health research focusing on South Asians living in Canada as part of a seminar on Multicultural Health Research on 5 February 2014 at York University. For more information, visit http://grasp.student-org.yorku.ca/
YCAR welcomes applications from its Faculty Associates for the YCAR Research Collaboration Fellowship, which exists to support intensive collaborations between a Faculty Associate of the Centre and one of their research partners at another research institution. The fellowship allows a collaborator (usually from Asia) to visit Toronto for the specific purpose of working on a research […]