Jean Michel Montsion (International Studies, Glendon) was recently appointed to serve as a Senior Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. APF Canada is a not-for-profit organization focused on Canada's relations with Asia. Its mission is to be Canada's catalyst for engagement with Asia and Asia's bridge to Canada. Professor Montsion joins seven other […]
Patrick Alcedo is co-editor of Religious Festivals in Contemporary Southeast Asia, which was published in late 2016 by Ateneo de Manila University Press. Emphasizing the Philippines, essays in the edited collection explore embodied narratives in which the connections between religion and nationalism, globality and locality, tourism and politics are drawn. While religious festivals are expressions […]
Susan Henders (Faculty Associate, Political Science) and Mary Young (Research Associate) have co-edited a special issue of the Hague Journal of Diplomacy 11(4)(2016) on ‘Other Diplomacies’ of Non-state Actors: The Case of Canadian-Asian Relations, while Jean Michel Montsion (Faculty Associate, Political Science) as well as Henders and Young contributed articles to the collection, among other […]
The York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) invites York faculty members or teaching assistants to nominate exceptional undergraduate student papers for our inaugural YCAR Undergraduate Asia Essay Awards. A small monetary award of $100 is available for one recipient in each category: Geographic Asia and Asian Diaspora. The winning papers will be published online as […]
YCAR Graduate Associate Jacqueline Ristola’s (Cinema and Media Studies) first paper has been published in Animation Studies, an open access online journal by the Society for Animation Studies. In “Recreating Reality: The Documentary Genre with Waltz With Bashir and Persepolis,” she examines how animated documentaries assert their documentary genre classification through marketing and other materials […]
Deadline: Friday, 28 April 2017 Discipline: Social Sciences and Humanities Fellowship location: York University, Toronto, Canada Eligibility Emerging scholars who are Canadian citizens or Permanent Residents, who have received a PhD degree within the last five years, and who do not hold full-time salaried positions may apply for this CCK Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Current doctoral […]
Tamil migrations have moved across multiple continents in the present, and maintained an interconnectivity often borne through shared linguistic, cultural, economic and political links. These crossings begin from the earliest recorded movements through to colonial and economic migrations, indentured labor, and include forced displacements due to conflict. A critical study of transnational Tamil identity must […]
Faculty Associate Abidin Kusno’s (Environmental Studies) new book, Visual Cultures of the Ethnic Chinese in Indonesia (Roman & Littlefield International, 2016), explores how visual representations shaped and were shaped by how the ethnic Chinese confronted the period of economic dislocation and radical social change during Dutch colonialism and the nationalist struggles in the decolonized Indonesia […]
Professor Raju Das’ new book, Marxist Class Theory for a Skeptical World (Brill 2016), is a critique of some of the influential radical theories of class, and presents an alternative approach to it. The book critically discusses analytical Marxist and Post-structuralist Marxist theories of class, and offers an alternative approach that is rooted in the […]
In celebration of Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation, York University will host an international symposium exploring the theme “Retrospect and Prospect” in Chinese Canadian literature and media. The Symposium invites scholars in Canada and abroad from different disciplines and using various theoretical methodologies and cross-cultural approaches to submit proposals. The Symposium aims to examine how […]