A Third Gender: Beautiful Youths in Japanese Prints May 7, 2016 to November 27, 2016 Royal Ontario Museum Curated by Asato Ikeda, Bishop White Postdoctoral Fellow of Japanese Art and Assistant Professor of Art History, Fordhum University The exhibition, A Third Gender, explores the complex system of sexual desire and social expectation from 1603 […]
On April 7, 2016, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, delivered the annual N. Sivalingam Memorial Lecture on the topic of "Accountability and Justice for International Crimes: Challenges and Achievements". Pillay drew on her experiences and expertise with the UN and as a judge in an international criminal tribunal to highlight how international legal […]
YCAR Research Associate, Thuy Nguyen, will present her work at a public talk on disability and social justice at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax. The event, Re-imagining disability and social justice: A transnational conversation, is sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada under the Monitoring Educational Rights for Girls with Disabilities (MRGD) […]
Guida Man, YCAR Faculty Associate and Associate Professor of Sociology at York University, was interviewed by the Toronto Star about the video on the Chinese "marriage market" released by the Japan-based skincare company, SK-II. The video went viral over the last week with nearly 2 million views. In her comments, Man pointed to the social and […]
Soohwan Song, Director of the Korean National Assembly Secretariat and visiting scholar at YCAR, recently published a study in the Korea Law Review examining Canada's Student Vote Program and the potential benefits of introducing a similar program in Korea. The study reflects on the possibility of reversing the trend of low voter turnout among younger Koreans by providing a […]
YCAR Faculty Associate, Professor Gregory Chin, met with Consul Chen Zhishan, Vice Consul Liu Yuanyuan and Vice Consul Ye Yi on 12 April 2016 at York University to discuss the preparations for China’s Presidency of the G20 Hangzhou Summit taking place in September 2016. For Dr. Chin’s related research see: http://globalsummitry.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/03/26/global.guw002
YCAR faculty associate, Qiang Zha's collaborative research with Ruth Hayhoe (OISE, University of Toronto) and Julia Pan (OISE, University of Toronto) looks at Canada's largely forgotten role in the development of Chinese universities in the 1980s and 1990s. See their co-authored Asia Research Brief for an overview of their research and their upcoming edited collection, […]
Professor Joan Judge was nominated for the 2016 Ferguson prize for her book, Republican Lens: Gender, Visuality, and Experience in the Early Chinese Periodical Press. The book contributes a rich look into commercial culture in the early days of China's republic. See the YFILE story about her nomination here.
Gregory T. Chin and Hugo Dobson's recently published article on China & the upcoming G20 Hangzhou Summit looks at real trends and patterns in China's global behaviour and the G20 process. The authors argue that "as a result of taking on the G20 presidency, China is stepping up to some aspects of global leadership and elements of […]
Bernard Hung-Kay Luk, 1946-2016 York University Professor of History Bernard Luk, author of numerous publications on modern East Asia, China, and Hong Kong, passed away at Sunnybrook Hospital on March 23 after suffering a stroke. He was a beloved teacher and colleague. After receiving his PhD in History from Indiana University in 1977, Bernard Luk […]