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Congratulations to 2020 Graduate Award Recipient Jenna Blower

01-06-2020

YCAR News | 2020 Graduate Award Recipients YCAR offers or adjudicates nine awards to graduate students at York University on an annual basis. In 2020, 21 students received over $40,000...

YCAR receives $500,000 to support engagement in Hakka research

28-05-2020

The York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) recently received a $500,000 donation from the Honourable Dr Vivienne Poy to create an endowment to support student engagement in Hakka research and...

Irish stick-fighting, Bruce Lee’s musicality, and Chinese Lion Dances with Colin McGuire

23-05-2020

Research Associate Colin McGuire was interviewed by Paul Bowman (Cardiff University) on Irish stick-fighting, Bruce Lee’s musicality, and Chinese Lion Dances for a Martial Arts Studies podcast. A summary of the podcast and a...

Launch of York Left Consortium: Reflections on Capitalism’s Half-Life

22-05-2020

The Marxist Studies in a Global and Asian Perspective (MSGAP) blog—York Left Consortium: Reflections on Capitalism’s Half-Life—serves as an accessible location for written interventions of various sorts relating to COVID-19 virus...

Graduate Associate-organized virtual panel focuses on COVID-19 and Afghanistan

21-05-2020

YCAR Graduate Associate Rohina Kabir, a graduate student in Interdisciplinary Studies, organized a virtual panel discussion focusing on the current situation of COVID-19 in Afghanistan in April. The talk is available...

New Voices in Asian Research

19-05-2020

New Voices in Asian Research We are pleased to introduce the two new papers in our New Voices in Asian Research paper series. Harkit Bhandal and Safa Warsi are the...

Award for Research into Korean Language or Culture: 25 Sept Deadline

18-05-2020

Young-Rahn Woo Memorial Graduate Award The Woo family established the Young-Rahn Woo Memorial Graduate Award in honour of their wife and mother. It is open to York University graduate students...

Our Graduate Associates talk about the impacts of COVID-19

13-05-2020

The series of rapid developments around the COVID-19 pandemic this spring has forced YCAR’s Graduate Associates to adapt to changes that impact them as students, researchers and educators. We reached...

Asia Research Brief #33: The 2017 Housing Occupation in the Philippines

11-05-2020

For issue 33 of our Asia Research Briefs (ARBs) Hazel Dizon (Geography) shares her research on a housing occupation by thousands of urban poor near Manila in March 2017 who...

Asia Research Brief #32: Chinese International Students and Social Stratification

04-05-2020

In this Asia Research Brief, Guanglong Pang shares his research on the pursuit of international higher education (IHE) among both elite and non-elite Chinese families. Greater access challenged the old...