The 37th Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies conference was held on 23–25 October 2025 in Victoria, B.C. The conference was organized by our amazing local organizing committee at the University of Victoria. YCAR has hosted the CCSEAS Secretariat since 2017 and support the organization of the biennial conference. This year’s keynote speakers (above) were: […]
At this economic symposium on 21 October 2025, the fifth such event organized by Canada-ASEAN Initiatives at YCAR, Canadian and Southeast Asian participants shared their perceptions of how tariff turbulence is incentivizing Canada and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to intensify their economic ties, but also how the two sides face practical challenges in translating […]
Congratulations to Graduate Associate Vedanth Govi (Social Anthropology) who received the Elizabeth Paterson Award, presented annually by the CBIE to an international student who has made significant contributions to the internationalization of their campus community. Read the YFile story at this link.
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 […]