October 2026
Exposing Disinformation Economies: Lessons from Asia and the Global South
Tuesday, 27 October 2026 | 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. | Room 280A, Second Floor, York Lanes, Keele Campus, York University & Virtually via Zoom With Jonathan Corpus Ong (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) Discussant: Yu-Chen Chen (York University) This talk critiques the “mainstream” of disinformation studies and presents alternative visions of more globally minded and […]
Women at Play: Feminist Reinscriptions of Chinese Game History, 1980s to Post-2010s
Wednesday, 28 October 2026 | 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. | Virtually via Zoom With Mayshu (Meixu) Zhan (Stanford University) This article traces women’s participation in Chinese gaming between the early 1980s and the post-2010 era, not as a simple move from absence to presence, but through shifting access, visibility, and value. Building on Western […]
Tendering Roots & Creative Community Care
A Hong Kong Studies Group Event Saturday, October 31, 2026 | 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM | Room 004 Dahdaleh Building, Keele Campus, York University This gathering centers on the idea of "New Roots." Through honest conversation, we will reflect on what it means to feel uprooted, find footing in a new place, and care […]
November 2026
From Defending Rights to Finding a Safe Home: A Human Rights Defender’s Journey from Myanmar to Canada Speaker
Thursday, 05 November 2026 | Noon to 1:00 p.m. | Room 280A, Second Floor, York Lanes, Keele Campus, York University & Virtually via Zoom What happens when defending human rights and democracy puts our safety, our work, and our future at risk? In countries where people have greater freedom to express their views, organize, participate […]
From Studio to Global Stage: Building a Sustainable International Art Practice
Thursday, November 12, 2026 | 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM | Room ACW 208 Accolade Building West, Keele Campus, York University Speaker: Professor Hung Keung, Department of Cultural and Creative Arts, The Education University of Hong Kong Synopsis: In this guest lecture, Professor Hung Keung reflects on the realities of developing and sustaining an artistic […]
Together in Search of Light: Ethnotheatre on Social Workers
Screening and Conversation with the Director Sunday, 15 November 2026 | 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. | The Nick Mirkopoulos Screening Room, Room 004, Accolade East Building, Keele Campus, York University Join us for a screening of Together in Search of Light: Ethnotheatre on Social Workers, an ethnotheatre production by Pants Theatre Production that explores […]
HKSG-2026 Meet & Greet (In-person), Grad-Circle Inauguration and Inaugural Talk (Hybrid)
A Hong Kong Studies Group Event Tuesday, 17 November 2026 | Time: 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM | Room 857, Eighth Floor, Kaneff Tower, Keele Campus, York University and virtually via Zoom Join us for the Hong Kong Studies Group Fall 2026 Meet & Greet starting at 12:30 PM! Connect with fellow researchers, faculty, and […]
The Politics of Expertise: The Integration of Chinese Diasporic Scholars into China Studies in Cold War America
Wednesday, 25 November 2026 | 10:00 to 11:30 ET | Virtually via Zoom With Qing Liu, De Paul University and Adam R. Nelson, University of Wisconsion-Madison During the early Cold War, American universities offered new opportunities to Chinese scholars whose anticipated return home had been disrupted by revolution and geopolitical conflict. Yet their incorporation into […]
Mughal Benaras
Wednesday, 25 November 2026 | 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. | Room 280N, Second Floor, York Lanes, Keele Campus, York University With Malavika Kasturi (University of Toronto) This event is part of the Demos, Democracy and Democratization: South Asia Lecture Series 2026–27. For more information: sarc[at]yorku.ca
December 2026
Talk by Dino Ge Zhang
Tuesday, 01 December 2026 | Virtually via Zoom Talk by Dino Ge Zhang (University of Bergen) This event is part of the Games and Global Asia Lecture Series. More information at this link.
Feeling Precarious: Bodies, Belonging, and Hong Kong Cinema
A joint event by the Hong Kong Studies Group of the York Centre for Asian Research and the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library Tuesday, December 18, 2026 | 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM | Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, 8th Floor, 130 St. George Street, Toronto Synopsis:Recent Hong Kong cinema has increasingly turned […]
January 2027
Talk by Jacob Schmidt-Madsen
Tuesday, 26 January 2026 | Virtually via Zoom With Jacob Schmidt-Madsen, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science This event is part of the Games and Global Asia Lecture Series. More information at this link.
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