CFP | Anti-Asian Racism during COVID-19: An Interdisciplinary Approach workshop
22-12-2020
Event recordings: selected presentations from the June workshop are now available here.keynote address, "The White Elephant in the Room: The History and Present of Anti-Asian Racism" by Henry Yu (UBC)...
Seasons Greetings!
22-12-2020
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...
Opportunity | YCAR Professional Development Fund
08-12-2020
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...
Opportunity | Canada-China Initiatives Fund | Deadline: Jan. 22
07-12-2020
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...
Asia Research Brief #40 | On the Margins of Urban South Korea: Core Location as Method and Praxis
01-12-2020
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...
Opportunity | Canada-China Initiatives Fund —Deadline: 22 January 2021
25-11-2020
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...
New media art researcher is 2020 Young-Rahn Woo Memorial Graduate Award recipient
23-11-2020
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...
New Books: Xueqing Xu (DLLL) on Women's Lives in China
19-11-2020
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...
New Book: The Ideological Condition: Selected Essays on History, Race and Gender
06-11-2020
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...
Asia Research Brief #39: Gendered World of Issei Women and Men in Japanese Hawai‘i, 1880s–1910s
04-11-2020
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...