Twenty-one students receive YCAR graduate awards for research on Asia and Asian diaspora
22-10-2018
The York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) awarded funding to 21 graduate students to support research on Asia and Asian diasporas. The recipients were selected through a competitive application process...
YCAR Update for 11 September 2011
14-09-2018
*Please email your news and announcements to ycar@yorku.ca YCAR NEWS Welcome Back! YCAR welcomes all our associates back for the new academic year! We have an exciting calendar of events this...
YCAR Update for 22 August 2018
22-08-2018
Please email your news and announcements to ycar@yorku.ca YCAR NEWS || Associates Joan Judge (History) Joan Judge was awarded a York-Massey Visiting Scholarship to spend her 2018–19 sabbatical at Massey College,...
YCAR Associates in the Media
11-07-2018
Sara Furhan (History) was interviewed by The Intercept about the challenges of her research on the Royal Medical College of Baghdad. The article discusses the challenges Sara and other researchers...
Congratulations to Ethel Tungohan and Ei Phyu Smith!
06-07-2018
Ethel Tungohan Ethel Tungohan (Politics) was appointed Canada Research Chair of Canadian Migration Policy: Impacts and Activism. Her research will analyze discourses that have underpinned the Canadian government’s policies towards...
New Writing From Our Associates
02-07-2018
Michael Nijhawan, Lily Cho: Faculty Associate Michael Nijhawan (Sociology) is co-editor of ‘Contesting Memory and Citizenship,’ a special journal issue of Citizenship Studies (Volume 22, Issue 4) published earlier this...
The Digital Humanities & Social Sciences for Teaching & Learning Showcase: The David Wurfel Fonds
29-06-2018
YCAR Associate, Wendy Alejandra Medina De Loera (Doctoral student, Geography) presented a digital collection of archival materials from the David Wurfel fonds for the Digital Humanities and Social Sciences for...
New Asia Research Brief | Understanding Knowledge Culture in Late Imperial China
30-05-2018
Lianbin Dai, YCAR CCKF Postdoctoral Fellow In our latest Asia Research Brief, “Understanding Knowledge Culture in Late Imperial China,” Lianbin Dai (YCAR CCKF Postdoctoral Fellow) tackles...
Photos from the Second Annual Luk Memorial Lecture
16-05-2018
Photos from the second annual Luk Memorial Lecture: Hong Kong & the Gold Mountain Dream Keynote Speaker: Elizabeth Sinn (Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Hong Kong...
New Asia Research Brief | Languages of Wisdom: Multi-lingual Poetry in the Guru Granth Sahib
14-05-2018
In our latest Asia Research Brief, “Languages of Wisdom: Multi-lingual Poetry in the Guru Granth Sahib,” Amardeep Kaur (Geography) explores the vernacular pluralism of the sacred text of Sikhi. She...