Amy Choi is our 2023 Dr. Sangdeok Woo & Mrs. Kwisoon Lim Woo Memorial Graduate Award recipient

Congratulations to Amy Choi, the 2023 recipient of the Dr. Sangdeok Woo & Mrs. Kwisoon Lim Woo Memorial Graduate Award. A doctoral student in Sociology, Amy’s research interests include internalized racism, critical consciousness, public policy, anti-Asian racism, and the model minority stereotype. For her MA thesis, Amy examined the lack of critical consciousness of anti-Asian […]

Celebrating Lunar New Year 2024

The York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) supported York University's celebration of Lunar New Year Festival on February 14. It co-presented York's annual Chinese Culture Day event, organized by the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics. This annual event was a unique opportunity to showcase the rich culture and traditions of Chinese heritage and its […]

Hong Kong studies and comics scholar visits YCAR this month

YCAR is happy to welcome Kin-Wai Amelia Chu to York as a visiting scholar. Dr Chu is a postdoctoral researcher funded by Research Foundation-Flanders and based at Ghent University. Her research traverses Hong Kong studies and comics, and she has published articles scrutinising comics at the intersections of gender dynamics, nostalgia, culture and politics. With […]

Emerging scholars’ research on Hong Kong and the diaspora focus of 2023–24 lecture series

York alumni and international scholars are sharing their research on Hong Kong and its diaspora as part of a lecture series this year. The Hong Kong Studies Group Lecture Series aims to review, highlight and acknowledge the new knowledge that emerging scholars are contributing to the field of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Diaspora Studies, […]

10 January 2024 YCAR Update

Graduate Associate Mengzhu Fu organized a well-attended hybrid international symposium in November that brought Māori and Asian activists and scholars from Aotearoa New Zealand with Tkaronto-based activists and scholars to address challenges and praxis of solidarity building. Speakers included: Sina Brown-Davis, Dr Arama Rata, Tāwhana Chadwick, Kirsty Fong, and Dr Mahdis Azarmandi. Decolonial Anti-fascism Symposium: […]

Joddi Alden recipient of Excellence in Philippine Studies/ Filipinx Diaspora Studies Writing and Research-creation Award

Her intersectional examination of commodification in the Asia-Pacific earned Joddi Alden an Excellence in Philippine Studies/ Filipinx Diaspora Studies writing and research-creation award. Alden, a YCAR Graduate Associate and doctoral student in Sociology, is a recipient in the PhD papers category. Her paper—Capitalism’s Race: An Intersectional Examination of Commodification in the Asia-Pacific—examines gendered and racialized […]

Welcome to YCAR’s new associates!

A warm welcome to our Associates from the YCAR family! Kim Lynette Abella | York Alumna Burcu Boran, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Samantha Boyd, Social Anthropology Griffin Cahill, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Yu Chen, Economics Daisy Rose Cortez, Development Studies Thinh Dao, Economics Peter Duker, YCAR Alumnus and University of Guelph Sobia Kiran, Humanities Genevieve […]