Hagen Koo presents second lecture in Korea speaker series
14-11-2014
YCAR welcomed Dr. Hagen Koo to York University earlier this month as part of the Centre’s Heterogeneity and Korean Identity in the Twentieth-First Century speaker series. Dr. Koo, from the...
Malathi de Alwis gives 2014 Asia Lecture
12-11-2014
Lt-Rt: Doris Sung, Gunjan Sondhi, Janice Kim, Harini Sivalingam, Philip Kelly, Arun Nedra Rodrigo, Malathi de Alwis, Jennifer Hyndman, Sailaja Kirshnamurti ...
Goossen and Hazra co-edited anthology at INSPIRE Toronto Book Fair on Nov. 16
11-11-2014
The recently-published Human Rights and the Arts in Global Asia: An Anthology, co-edited by Theodore (Ted) Goossen (Humanities, YCAR) and Anindo Hazra (English, YCAR) will be featured in the INSPIRE...
Korean War and its afterlives at this year’s Reel Asian Film Festival
10-11-2014
Janice C.H. Kim (History) will be at the AGO Jackman Hall, Wednesday November 12, 2014 at 1:00 pm, to serve as discussant following screenings of three documentaries concerning the Korean...
Dong-choon Kim on the rise of family-centricism in 1950s South Korea
08-11-2014
Dong-choon Kim, Janice C.H. Kim YCAR was pleased to host Dr. Dong-choon Kim as the first speaker in the Heterogeneity and Korean Identity in the Twentieth-First...
Inaugural CAPES lecture focuses on race, territory and agro-capitalism in Burma
05-11-2014
Kevin M. Woods was the inaugural speaker in the Critical Asian Political Ecologies Seminars series. In “Race and Territorial Politics in Making Agro-capitalism in Asia's “final frontier” in Burma,” Woods...
Call for Papers | Changing Asia in the Globalizing World | Abstracts due Nov. 20
04-11-2014
A reminder that the deadline for abstracts for the third YCAR International Graduate Student Conference is Thursday, 20 November 2014. CALL FOR PAPERS Changing Asia in the Globalizing World: Boundaries,...
FYTIC project results shared at Ontario Human Capital Research and Innovation Fund symposium
03-11-2014
Christopher Sorio (Vice-Chair Migrante Canada); Ricky Esguerra (Community Alliance for Social Justice); Alex Felipe (MA Candidate, Department of Geography and YCAR Graduate Associate); Philip Kelly (Department...
York researchers share insights on Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution
02-11-2014
Wendy S. Wong (Design), Bernard H.K. Luk (History) and Susan J. Henders (Political Science) shared their insights on Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution and what’s next as part of a panel...
Dalton and Chakraborty present preliminary findings on Indian matrimonial web site research
30-10-2014
Emma Dalton, Philip F. Kelly, Kabita Chakraborty Emma Dalton and her York colleague Kabita Chakraborty discussed the preliminary findings of their research project earlier this month at YCAR...