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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Philippine Studies Group at the York Centre for Asian Research welcomes ABS-CBN anchor Karmina Constantino to York University on May 15 at 10 am. Karmina Constantino is a veteran television journalist in the Philippines and an anchor with the ABS-CBN News Channel. She is also the 2022-23 Marshall McLuhan Fellow and will visit York […]
Dr Kristian Saguin (Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of the Philippines Diliman) visited York between March 19th-22nd. Dr Saguin’s work engages with urban, agrarian and environmental studies in various sites in the Philippines. He has published political ecological and urban research that examines livelihoods, environmental practices, resource politics and urban life at the peri-urban fringes […]
The grant the Philippine Studies Group at York received made it possible for Leo Lorilla and Pamela Corales, core performing artists of Bayanihan: the National Dance Company of the Philippines and faculty members of the Philippine Women’s University (PWU) in Manila, to be artists-in-residents in the Department of Dance at York University from 10 to […]