Celebrating Lunar New Year 2024
08-03-2024
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...
Virtual Filipino and Indonesia language courses open to Canadian grad students
07-03-2024
YCAR is pleased to be a part of the Canadian Southeast Asian Studies Initiative / Initiative canadienne pour l’étude du sud-est asiatique (CSEASI/ICESEA), which is offering synchronous online language courses...
13 February 2024 YCAR Update
16-02-2024
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...
Hong Kong studies and comics scholar visits YCAR this month
16-02-2024
YCAR is happy to welcome Kin-Wai Amelia Chu to York as a visiting scholar. Dr Chu is a postdoctoral researcher funded by Research Foundation-Flanders and based at Ghent University. Her...
Impact of forced cremation policy in Sri Lanka focus of Sivalingam award recipient
16-02-2024
Nagaratnam Sivalingam was a pioneer and leader of the Tamil community in Canada, who dedicated his life to promoting both Tamil culture and issues of concern to the community. His...
Emerging scholars’ research on Hong Kong and the diaspora focus of 2023–24 lecture series
16-02-2024
York alumni and international scholars are sharing their research on Hong Kong and its diaspora as part of a lecture series this year. The Hong Kong Studies Group Lecture Series...
Aarushie Sharma and Ria Jhoanna Ducusin are 2023 recipients of the IDRC International Doctoral Research Award!
16-02-2024
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...
10 January 2024 YCAR Update
16-02-2024
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...
Winter lecture series focuses on knowledge in historical societies in East Asia
16-02-2024
Knowledge Production in East Asia is a lecture and seminar series organized by the Critical China Studies group at YCAR. Initiated in 2014, it invites leading international scholars to share...
Joddi Alden recipient of Excellence in Philippine Studies/ Filipinx Diaspora Studies Writing and Research-creation Award
16-02-2024
Her intersectional examination of commodification in the Asia-Pacific earned Joddi Alden an Excellence in Philippine Studies/ Filipinx Diaspora Studies writing and research-creation award. Alden, a YCAR Graduate Associate and doctoral...