Dear colleagues and friends, As another year comes to an end, we accept what has passed and look forward to the new year for a better tomorrow. Looking back, 2020 has not been an easy year for all of us especially for those who have family, relatives and friends in Asia and all over the […]
YCAR’s Professional Development Fund subsidizes relevant experiences for its Graduate Associates to present their scholarly or creative work. Amounts awarded will range from $50 to $500 with the expectation that they will be used in conjunction with other awards. The next deadline is Monday, 1 February 2021 by 4pm for activities taking place six month before […]
Founded in 2019, the Canada-China Initiatives Fund (CCIF) was created to support scholarly exchanges and research on modern (i.e. post 1911) and contemporary China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, their global reach, their linkages with Canada, or the experiences of the diaspora communities. It was created thanks to the generous support of the Asian Business and […]
In this latest Asia Research Brief, Laam Hae (Politics) discusses her newly released co-edited volume, On the Margins of Urban South Korea: Core Location as Method and Praxis (University of Toronto Press, 2019). This book is the outcome of long-term collaborations among scholars trained in different disciplines, such as geography, anthropology, urban planning and politics. […]
Founded in 2019, the Canada-China Initiatives Fund (CCIF) was created to support scholarly exchanges and research on modern (i.e. post 1911) and contemporary China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, their global reach, their linkages with Canada, or the experiences of the diaspora communities. It was created thanks to the generous support of the Asian Business […]
We are pleased to announce that Eva Lu (Art History and Visual Culture) is the 2020 recipient of the Young-Rahn Woo Memorial Graduate Award. Eva is a second-year doctoral student who holds a BA in Visual Arts and Philosophy from the University of Western Ontario, and an MA in Modern Art from Columbia University. Eva […]
Congratulations to Xueqing Xu (DLLL) on the recent publication of two new edited books: Contemporary Short Stories about Women’s Lives in China Today and Marriage in China Today: Stories by Chinese Women Authors. Both are co-edited with Jennifer Jianghai Mei and published by The Edwin Mellen Press. The collections are translations from Chinese of short stories […]
Himani Bannerji (Sociology) is the author of the recently published The Ideological Condition: Selected Essays on History, Race and Gender. Published by Brill, it is part of the Historical Materialism Book Series (Volume: 212). The reader comprises many of Bannerji’s English writings over a long period of teaching and research in Canada and India. She […]
In this latest Asia Research Brief, Yukari Takai (History) examines the marriage and divorce practices among Japanese issei women and men in Hawai‘i from the 1880s to the 1910s. She focuses on three practices that are difficult to capture and previously little-studied: temporary marriage or karifūfu, wife sale and wife brokerage. Through her research she […]
YCAR is pleased to announce the latest recipients of YCAR publication support funding. The Fund is intended to assist in covering expenses that will enable or enhance the publication of research on Asia or Asian diasporas by YCAR Faculty Associates and Graduate Associates. Patrick Alcedo (Dance), Tania Das Gupta (Equity Studies) and A. Nedra Rodrigo […]