Chang’s first foray into playwrighting delves into what it means to be a daughter and son in a Chinese Canadian family Inspired by her undergraduate research on son preference and daughter discrimination among Chinese Canadians, Lauren Chang’s first foray into playwriting and directing is an opportunity for attendees to reflect on their experiences in their […]
Congratulations to our Graduate Associates who have defended in the past few months and good luck with your future endeavours! Joseph Fiumara | MA | Cinema and Media Studies | A Series of Miracles: Kyoto Animation’s Empathic Anime Arianto Sangadji | PhD | Geography | State and Capital Accumulation: Mining Industry in Indonesia Cailleah Scottt-Grimes | […]
The York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) invites York faculty members or teaching assistants to nominate exceptional undergraduate student papers for the YCAR Undergraduate Asia Essay Awards. A small monetary award of $200 is available for one recipient in each category: Geographic Asia and Asian Diaspora. The winning papers will be published online as part […]
YCAR is pleased to support the South Asian Film Festival 2021—“Stories of, by and from South Asia” This FREE, virtual Film Festival is aimed at amplifying South Asian culture and activism to create meaningful dialogues and intercultural awareness. We see these films as important resources for students, researchers, faculties and general film enthusiasts to learn […]
In this latest Asia Research Brief, Yuka Nakamura (School of Kinesiology and Health Science) examines identity formation within the North American Chinese Invitational Volleyball Tournament (NACIVT). In contrast to its origins in the exclusion of Asians from mainstream physical activity spaces, the NACIVT in recent times is regularly described by its participants, either in jest […]
Congratulations our Faculty Associates who were awarded funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada as part of the Partnership Engage Grants COVID-19 Special Initiative Tania Das Gupta (School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies) | COVID 19: COVID-19 and Punjabi MigrationPartner organization: Punjabi Community Health Services Guida Man (Sociology) | COVID-19: […]
Dear YCAR Associates, It is with a heavy heart that I am writing to you that our dear colleague, Lisa Drummond, passed away yesterday after a long illness. Lisa was a long-time YCAR Faculty Associate, Associate Professor in the Urban Studies Program in the Department of Social Science and a member of the Graduate Program […]
In this latest Asia Research Brief, Jennifer Hyndman (Social Science and Geography, York University), Amarnath Amarasingam (Religion, Queen’s University) and Gayathri Naganathan (Surgery, University of Toronto) examine how the state can often frame diaspora political engagement in terms of violent nationalisms, extremism and threat. Focusing on the Tamil community in Canada, the researchers propose a […]
Xin Liu received Canada-China Initiatives Fund support in 2020 for his master’s project, ‘Upstream’, a 20-minute docufiction film that explores the identity struggle of Chinese Permanent Residents in Canada and their immutable yearnings to return home. In summer 2020, he drove to British Columbia to document the schools of salmon that find their way back […]
Event recordings: selected presentations from the June workshop are now available here. keynote address, “The White Elephant in the Room: The History and Present of Anti-Asian Racism” by Henry Yu (UBC) is available here. Since the COVID-19 outbreak began in early 2020, there have been a growing number of attacks towards people of Asian (especially […]