We look forward to receiving YCAR Associates’ applications for the following funding opportunities. The deadline for all opportunities is 01 May 2025. More information about all of our opportunities can be found on our website. Questions always welcome at ycar@yorku.ca.
YCAR offers funding for its associate in support of their publication efforts and in this academic year, we are pleased to have supported four new publications by our Faculty Associates: Mona Oikawa (Equity Studies), Joan Judge (History), Muyang Li (Sociology) and Nalini Persram (Social Science). Mona Oikawa (Equity Studies) is co-editor with Kirsten Emiko McAllister […]
YCAR offers the following essay awards and we encourage course directors and teaching assistants to nominate exceptional papers. The deadline for both awards is 25 April 2025. Global Hong Kong Essay and Creative Project Award More information at this link Undergraduate Asia and Asian Diaspora Essay Awards More information at this link
For those who want to contribute to relief efforts after March 2025 earthquake, below are two organizations that faculty and graduate students at York University know personally and will ensure that the funds go directly to those who need it most. Community Partners International (CPI) CPI is a long-trusted organization with teams and partners on […]
YCAR is pleased to announce the recipients of Research Collaboration Fellowships for the 2024–25 academic year. Ghazala Shahabuddin (Environmental Studies, Ashoka University, India) and Shubhra Gururani (Anthropology) received a fellowship for their project, ‘Re-wilding’ the Urban Periphery: An interdisciplinary study of the changing politics of nature in India’a National Capital Region (NCR). Recognizing the urgency […]
YCAR’s China Insights Fund (CIF) is driving new approaches to China studies at York University. Since its launch in 2019, CIF has funded a wide range of projects, from research on AI governance and creative forms of dissent to Toronto’s Chinatown and the effects of geopolitical tensions on Chinese professors in Canada. The CF is […]
Congratulations to Faculty Associates Korina Jocson (Education), Marissa Largo (Visual Arts), Katarina O’Briain (English), and Joel Ong (Computational Arts) who received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada through the Insight Development Grant program. Professor O’Briain’s project focuses on Manila in the Transoceanic Archive: The Poetics of Colonial Occupation, 1762-1764. Professors […]
Selected conference recordings from consenting participants who shared their research as part of the Beyond the Interface: Critical Perspectives of Sex Work and Sextech conference are now available virtually. YCAR was pleased to support this event, which was organized by the Critical Trafficking and Sex Work Studies Research Cluster. Learn more about their work at […]
Pia Ranada, the 2024 Marshall McLuhan Fellow, spoke at York University on February 26 on how building journalism around community can help it survive. Pia is the head of Community for Rappler. Previously, she was an investigative journalist and senior reporter for Rappler best known for her coverage of the Duterte administration when she was […]
The York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) invites applications for a one-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian or Asian Diaspora Studies beginning 01 September 2025. We seek a scholar whose research aligns with YCAR’s mandate and focuses on historical, modern, or contemporary Asia or Asian diasporas. Fellows will pursue a self-designed research project under the mentorship […]