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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Welcome to YCAR’s new associates!
15-02-2024
A warm welcome to our Associates from the YCAR family! Kim Lynette Abella | York AlumnaBurcu Boran, Linguistics and Applied LinguisticsSamantha Boyd, Social AnthropologyGriffin Cahill, Linguistics and Applied LinguisticsYu Chen,...