Welcome to our new YCAR Associate Director/GDAS Coordinator
17-07-2020
We are pleased to announce that Jean Michel Montsion (Multidisciplinary Studies) accepted the role of YCAR Associate Director and began his term on 1 July 2020. He will also serve...
Summer 2020 message from YCAR Director Abidin Kusno
16-07-2020
Summer is here and it is an unusual one for many of us who have been accustomed to doing fieldwork during this season. It is a big challenge for most...
Asia Research Brief #35 | Understanding trends in authoritarian populism by examining the crackdown on the Cambodian free press
02-07-2020
In this latest Asia Research Brief, York Alumni and YCAR External Associates Laura Schoenberger (Banting Fellow, University of Ottawa) and Vanessa Lamb (Geography, University of Melbourne), along with co-writer Alice...
Congratulations to Graduate Associate Rajat Nayyar (Theatre & Performance Studies), who is one of four York recipients of the prestigious Vanier Scholarship
29-06-2020
Rajat Nayyar's (Theatre & Performance Studies) proposed dissertation is titled “Women’s Vocality, Radical Sociality: Re-Imagining Power, Folklore & Audiovisual Ethnography in Rural North India,” and looks at North India from the...
YCAR Collaboration Fellowship awardees to focus on the impact of COVID-19 on Punjabi migration
25-06-2020
We are pleased to announce Tania Das Gupta (Equity Studies) as the 2020 recipient of the YCAR Research Collaboration Fellowship. Das Gupta and Sugandha Nagpal (O.P. Jindal Global University) received...
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24-06-2020
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Emergent Futures CoLab
23-06-2020
YCAR is pleased to partner with the Emergent Futures CoLab, a laboratory for transdisciplinary experimentation and collaborative future-making. The collective of scholars and artists work on activist, speculative and future-oriented...
YCAR Undergraduate Asia Award 2020 recipient: Athena So
11-06-2020
YCAR is pleased to announce that Athena So is the 2020 recipient of the YCAR Undergraduate Asia Award. Athena wrote the winning paper—The Woman Question with Minister of Women’s Affairs,...
Asia Research Brief #34 | Digitizing Ration Cards: Curbing Corruption or Securing Food Security for All?
08-06-2020
Guillaume Dandurand (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sherbrooke) examines India's attempts to reduce bureaucratic corruption within the systems used to distribute food rations to poor households across the country through the...
New Voices in Asian Research
04-06-2020
We are pleased to introduce the two new papers in our New Voices in Asian Research paper series. Harkit Bhandal and Safa Warsi are the 2019 recipients of the Undergraduate...