YCAR is delighted to welcome Dr Harsha Anantharaman as the inaugural YCAR Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian Studies. From a large and exceptionally strong pool of applicants, the interview committee was pleased to make this recommendation. YCAR would like to thank Professors Ranu Basu, Laam Hae, Jennifer Hyndman, Joan Judge, Philip Kelly, Marissa Largo, and Muyang […]
The China Insights Fund granted funding to two student and one faculty members for their research that explores how China engages with the world. Congratulations to our 2025 awardees: Haoran Change, Christopher Stevens and Qiang Zha! Haoran Chang, Doctoral Candidate, Cinema and Media Studies Project: Making Taoist Game with Transnational Tai Chi Community between China […]
The Canadian Southeast Asian Studies Initiative (CSEASI) will fund graduate students to attend the Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies (CCSEAS) conference in Victoria, 23–25 October 2025. To be eligible, you should be a graduate student at one of the consortium universities studying Southeast Asia and/or its diasporas. You do not need to present a […]
Sophia Seung-Yoon Lee, our 2024–25 YCAR Research Collaboration Fellowship recipient with research collaborator Thomas R. Klassen (School of Public Policy and Administration) is in Toronto conduct the duo’s comparative study of the working conditions and social protection regulations for platform workers in South Korea and Canada. Professor Sophia Seung yoon Lee is a professor in […]
YCAR is pleased to welcome new members!
A recent York University graduate, Donna Akbari’s award-winning essay—The Weight of What We Carry: Shame as Survival in Two Histories of Oppression—explores how shame functions as a survival mechanism in Baluta by Daya Pawar and Coolie Woman by Gaiutra Bahadur. As an Iranian-Canadian and the daughter of immigrants, Donna found deep resonance in the themes […]
The 2025-26 CSEASI-ICESEA programs in Indonesian language and Filipino language are now open for enrollment. Indonesian & Filipino Classes are run both synchronously online and in-person at the University of Victoria. Full details for the Filipino language program are available online here; for Indonesian, you can find information for enrollment here. Tuition is $620/semester (domestic) + […]
A symposium on deepening security co-operation between Canada and the Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) took place in Ottawa on May 15, 2025. It was organized by the York Centre for Asian Research’s Canada-ASEAN Initiatives (CAI) and held at the University of Ottawa’s Telfer School of Management, with support from the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada […]
Faculty Associate Nga Dao (Social Science) launched her new book, The Everyday Politics of Resources, to an enthusiastic crowd at a 01 June 2025 event. Dao spoke about her book with Faculty Associate Vanessa Lamb (Social Science).
Congratulations to Ali Kazimi (Cinema and Media Arts) who is the 2025 Fire Horse Award honouree. He was presented with the $25,000 award at the fourth annual Award Ceremony and Fundraiser on 26 May 2025. The Fire Horse Award was established in 2021 in honour of festival founder Anita Lee, to recognize a trailblazer and […]