A warm YCAR welcome to Chusak Wittayapak! Professor Wittayapak is a visiting researcher at YCAR until July 2017. He is working with Peter Vandergeest (Geography) on the New Directions in Environment Governance project. Professor Wittayapak is a university lecturer at Thailand’s Chiang Mai University within the faculty of Social Science. Professor Wittayapak’s scholarly research has focused on forestry […]
Hong Saihwa Hong (Hong Sehwa), one of the most prominent figures in progressive movement in South Korea, will speak at York University on 19 April 2017. An educator, author and journalist, Hong received a Baccalaureate in Political Science and International Relations from Seoul National University (1977). His membership of the Preparation Committee for Nam-Chosun People’s […]
The Capitalist Unconscious: From Korean Unification to Transnational Korea, Professor Park’s (Sociology) recent book published by Columbia University Press, has been accorded Honourable Mention status in this year’s James B. Palais Book Prize competition, adjudicated by the Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) of the Association for Asian Studies. Based on extensive archival and ethnographic research in […]
“The Emotions of Migration and Children’s Migration across Asia” is currently under-review as a special issue in Children's Geographies, after the concept note was accepted in 2016. The proposed special issue is based on “Emotions of Migration: Young people's experiences within Asia,” a workshop organized at YCAR in 2014 by Professor Chakraborty (Children's Studies). It […]
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 […]