YCAR Events

South Asia Doc Fest 2024

27 September 2024 to 28 March 2025 | Virtual YCAR is pleased to co-present the 2024 South Asian Doc Fest. The Festival films: • Trembling Mountain (Nepal, 2016, dir. Kesang Tseten) | 27–30 September 2024 • Shepherdess of the Glaciers (India, 2016, Dirs. Stanzin Dorjai Gya/ Christine Mordelet | 25–28 October 2024 • Bamboo Stories […]

27 Sep - 28 Mar

Virtual

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Climate Change in Singapore: Conversations on Sustainable Futures, Knowledge Mobilizations and Transnational Initiatives

Tuesday, 08 October 2024 | 20:00 PSTTuesday, 08 October 2024 | 23:00 EDTWednesday, 09 October 2024 | 11:00 (Singapore)  Want to learn more about Climate Change in Singapore? Join us as the Critical Malaya Studies Initiative and the Asia Pacific Foundation bring together scholars and policy experts from Singapore to explore exciting opportunities for collaboration on climate change and […]

08 Oct

23:00 GMT - 00:00 GMT

Virtually via Zoom

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Algorithm-Human Interactions in a Revolutionary Situation: Hidden & Public Transcripts of Digital Resistance in Myanmar

Wednesday, 09 October 2024 | 09:00 to 11:00 EDT | Room 857, Eighth Floor, Kaneff Tower, Keele Campus, York University and virtually via Zoom With Thiha Wint Aung Respondent: Elisha Lim, York University This paper explores the dynamic interplay between human agency and AI-driven technologies within the context of Myanmar’s socio-political upheaval, particularly following the […]

09 Oct

09:00 GMT - 23:00 GMT

Room 857, Eighth Floor, Kaneff Tower, Keele Campus, York University and virtually via Zoom

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The War for Chinese Talent in America

Thursday, 10 October 2024 | 14:30 to 16:00 EDT | Room 280A, Second Floor, York Lanes, Keele Campus, York University  With David Zweig (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Since the mid-1990s, China’s party/state has vigorously used an extensive array of programs and incentives to persuade ethnic Chinese living in America to transfer their […]

10 Oct

14:00 GMT - 16:00 GMT

Room 280A, Second Floor, York Lanes, Keele Campus, York University

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DEI: The Good, The Bad & The Performative

Thursday, 10 October 2024 | 2:30 p.m. | Founders Assembly Hall, 152 Founders College, Keele Campus, York University YCAR is please to co-present the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies’ Annual Lecture, featuring a roundtable on the possibilities and limitations of institutionalized Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives. The roundtable will explore various fields such […]

10 Oct

14:00 GMT - 16:00 GMT

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Redefining Manhood: Navigating Success, Identity, and Mental Health Among Young Muslim Men of Color in Canada  

Monday, 21 October 2024 | 11:00 to 13:00 EDT | Collaborative Digital Research Space, Room 3230, Maanjiwe nendamowinan Building | University of Toronto Mississauga | 3359 Mississauga Road With Mustahid Husain, University of Toronto; YCAR Research Associate The event delves into the complexities of masculinity, mental health and cultural identity among young Bangladeshi-Canadian men. The […]

21 Oct

11:00 GMT - 13:00 GMT

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Strengthening Canada-ASEAN Economic Security and Resilience

Tuesday, 22 October 2024 | 13:00 to 17:00 EDT | Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, 55 Laurier Avenue East, Ottawa Join us to explore what more Canada and ASEAN countries can do to foster economic security and resilience, closer collaboration between government and industry, and better integrate supply chains, digital and other services. […]

22 Oct

13:00 GMT - 17:00 GMT

Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, 55 Laurier Avenue East, Ottawa

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The Postdevelopmental State: Dilemmas of Economic Democratization in Contemporary South Korea

Tuesday, 22 October 2024 | 14:00 to 16:00 EDT | Room 208N, North House, 1 Devonshire Place, University of Toronto WithJamie Doucette, University of Manchester  Over the last 25 years, South Korea has witnessed growing inequality through non-standard employment, mushrooming real estate prices, and the growth of its super-conglomerates. That this expansion has taken place […]

22 Oct

14:00 GMT - 16:00 GMT

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Matter and Memory: the Formation and Reformation of Pagoda Trusts in Burma

Wednesday, 23 October 2024 | 09:00 to 11:00 EDT | Room 857, Eighth Floor, Kaneff Tower, Keele Campus, York University and virtually via Zoom With Peter Alexander, York University Respondent: Elizabeth (Izzy) Rhoads, Lund University Under British colonial rule in the late 19th century, Buddhists in colonial Burma began establishing Pagoda Trusts to protect and […]

23 Oct

09:00 GMT - 11:00 GMT

Room 857, Eighth Floor, Kaneff Tower, Keele Campus, York University and virtually via Zoom

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In the Shadow of the Mill: Deindustrialization, Urban Politics and Emotions in 20th Century Ahmedabad

Wednesday, 23 October 2024 | 14:00 to 16:30 EDT | Room 305, Third Floor, York Lanes, Keele Campus, York University | In person With Rukmini Barua, Department of History, York UniversityDiscussant: Raju Das, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University The 1980s marked a watershed moment in the history of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. […]

23 Oct

14:00 GMT - 16:00 GMT

Room 305, Third Floor, York Lanes, Keele Campus, York University

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Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Infectious Disease Politic in China

Wednesday, 31 October 2024 | 14:00 to 16:00 EST | Room 305, Third Floor, York Lanes, Keele Campus, York University With Yan Long (University of California, Berkeley) Discussants: Anna M Agathangelou, Department of Politics, York University Eric Mykhalovskiy, Department of Sociology, York University Judith Taylor, Department of Sociology and Women and Gender Studies Institute, University […]

31 Oct

14:00 GMT - 16:00 GMT

Room 305, Third Floor, York Lanes, Keele Campus, York University and virtually via Zoom

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Hong Kong History and Border History

Monday, 11 November 2024 | 17:00 to 19:00 EST | Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library | Eighth Floor, 130 St. George Street, Toronto With Denise Y. Ho, Georgetown University How does one come to the study of Hong Kong?  What can Hong Kong contribute to the study of border history, Chinese history, and global […]

11 Nov

17:00 GMT - 19:00 GMT

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