New YCAR Asia Research Brief: The Social Life of Flooding in Jakarta
31-01-2020
YCAR director Abidin Kusno’s (Environmental Studies) research on flooding in Jakarta, Indonesia is the focus of our latest Asia Research Brief. Kusno’s SSHRC-funded research builds on the insights of current...
Opportunity | Financial Coordinator, Asian Business and Management Program at YCAR
27-11-2019
Financial Coordinator, Asian Business and Management Program Employment Category: Part time (up to 24 hours) Department: ORU-YCAR/ABMP Classification: Administrative Band: 4 Posting Number: 100381 Job Start Date: 01-06-2020 Job End...
Emerging Asian Urbanisms' Call for Films
11-11-2019
The Emerging Asian Urbanism series at the York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) is hosting a film exchange workshop to spark discussion and peer review of unfinished or finished films....
New Asia Research Brief Examines the Management of Wetland Regions in Kerala, India
04-11-2019
Sanil Kumar's research focuses on the effective management of Indian wetland regions through the adoption of an integrated planning framework. His study site, the Kuttanad Wetland region, is one of...
New Book: Outward and Upward Mobilities: International Students in Canada, Their Families, and Structuring Institutions
24-09-2019
Ann Kim’s (Sociology, YCAR) new co-edited book investigates the connections between students and institutions. Outward and Upward Mobilities: International Students in Canada, Their Families, and Structuring Institutions (University of Toronto...
2019 Undergraduate Essay Award winners
11-09-2019
YCAR is pleased to announce our 2019 Undergraduate Essay Award winners: Harkit Bhandal and Safa Warsi. Safa is a fourth-year Psychology major who has spent time as a research assistant...
YCAR Recipients of the SSHRC Insight Grant competition
27-08-2019
Congratulations to the YCAR Associates who received funding from SSHRC as part of the 2018-19 Insight grant competition: Russ Patrick Alcedo (Dance) | Staged Identities: Documenting Folk Dance from the...
Conflict and Food Studies Group Launches
27-08-2019
This is the inaugural year for a new study group at York that focus on conflict and food. The Conflict and Food studies group is an inter-disciplinary, collaborative and knowledge-sharing...
Canada-China Initiatives Fund
07-06-2019
The York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) invites applications from York University faculty and graduate students for the inaugural Canada-China Initiatives Fund call for proposals. Founded in 2019, the Canada-China...
Deadline extension - 2019 CCSEAS conference - 15 April 2019
22-03-2019
2019 Conference of the Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies McGill University and University of Sherbrooke (Longueuil), Montreal, Quebec 24-26 October 2019 Call for Submissions: “Power in Southeast Asia” Deadline...