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Congratulations to ABMP, co-finalist for CCBC Award

We are excited to share that the Asian Business and Management Program, in partnership with York University - Faculty of Science, has been selected as a finalist for the Canada China Business Council's 9th Canada China Business Excellence Awards in the Academic Collaboration category! Check out the full list of finalists at this link.

Panel on Bangladesh’s uprising launches series on South Asia

A panel featuring experts Bangladesh experts Dina M. Siddiqi (New York University) and Saad Hammadi (Balsillie School of International Affairs) will launch a series focusing on contemporary South Asia. The 18 September panel will focus on the massive student-led movement that ended the 15-year authoritarian rule of Bangladesh's former Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina. This is […]

John Laurier Van Esterik (1943–2024)

A long-time associate of YCAR, Professor John Laurier Van Esterik (1943–2024) passed away under the compassionate care of Hospice Wellington on 29 June 2024, after a long battle with cancer. Born and raised in Toronto, he was the son of Jack and Marjorie Van Esterik. He will be greatly missed by Penny (nee Fair) his […]

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 […]

13 February 2024 YCAR Update

YCAR was pleased to host Rapplers’ Jodesz Gavilan as part of the Philippine Studies Group’s activities. Ms Gavilan is the 2023 Marshall McLuhan Fellow - Philippines. She spoke on the evolving role of journalists in covering human rights stories in the Philippines. When speaking of her experiences, the investigative journalist, researcher and podcast host said: […]

Aarushie Sharma and Ria Jhoanna Ducusin are 2023 recipients of the IDRC International Doctoral Research Award!

Congratulations to our YCAR Graduate Associates Aarushie Sharma (Social Anthropology) and Ria Jhoanna Ducusin (Geography) who are 2023 recipients of a IDRC International Doctoral Research Award! Aarushie's research is an ethnographic study of toilet politics and the infrastructure of sewage in Delhi. Ria is examining how ecological conditions and socio-political relations create and shape flooding […]

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: […]

Congratulations to our YRC recipients

Earlier this week, York University announced the new York Research Chairs (YRC), and two YCAR Faculty Associates are on this list of appointments that showcases York’s research excellence: Taien Ng-Chan (Cinema and Media Arts), appointed as York Research Chair in Marginal & Emergent Media, and Cary Wu (Sociology) as York Research Chair in Political Sociology […]

Opportunity for incoming Master’s student interested in adaptive cycles

The Velomobility for Disability project is seeking a domestic student to begin in September 2023 who wishes to complete a master’s thesis in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University and conduct fieldwork focused on the design, fabrication and trade of adaptive cycles used by persons with a disability. This opportunity is open […]

Research & Research Creation Funding and Publication Support Opportunities

Deadline: Tuesday, 25 July 2023 York University faculty members engaged in research and research creation broadly related to Philippines and/or its diasporas are invited to submit an application for research/creation funding and/or publication support. The Philippine Studies Group at the York Centre for Asian Research is offering up to five minor research grants of up […]