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...
Graduate Life During COVID-19: The New Normal?
27-04-2020
By Noa Nahmias I am a PhD candidate in History working on modern China. Despite having followed the impact of the novel coronavirus in China, I was caught off-guard when...
New Articles by YCAR Associates
22-04-2020
Elena Chou (Sociology) and Anna M. Agathangelou (Politics) are contributors to a recently-published collection—The Art of Global Power: Artwork and Popular Cultures as World-Making Practices—edited by Emily Merson (University of...
New Book | The Irish Buddhist: the Forgotten Monk who Faced Down the British Empire
20-04-2020
Congratulations to Alicia Turner (Humanities) on her just published co-authored book, The Irish Buddhist: the Forgotten Monk who Faced Down the British Empire. It looks at the extraordinary life of...
Disasters and Village Heroes (short documentary)
08-04-2020
"What is a disaster? Is it the howling winds and rains announced on the weather forecast? Or the vulnerabilities of those whose lives, homes and livelihoods are repeatedly destroyed?" YCAR...
