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...
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,...
Winter lecture series focuses on the South Asian Studies classroom
15-02-2024
Embedded in the field of South Asian Studies, this YCAR-supported series engages with the methodologies and epistemologies of researchers, educators and artists as they reflect on their pedagogies, commitments, responsibilities...
Areej Alshammiry is our 2023 Albert CW Chan Foundation Award recipient!
15-02-2024
Congratulations to Areej Alshammiry, the 2023 recipient of the 2023 Albert CW Chan Foundation Award. A doctoral student in Sociology, Areej is a Vanier Scholar whose research explores state violence...
A Serious Wedding (जे सी बी रवनवा) is new ethnofiction film by Graduate Associate Rajat Nayyar
09-11-2023
A Serious Wedding (जे सी बी रवनवा) is Graduate Associate Rajat Nayyar's (Theatre and Performance Studies) new Bhojpuri ethnofiction film about a radical love story between a young man and...
Multidisciplinary contemporary artist Leeroy New inspires York artists and scholars
11-10-2023
Leeroy New: group photo. YCAR photograph. Internationally acclaimed Filipino contemporary artist Leeroy New visited the School of Arts, Media, Performance and Design (AMPD) and the Philippine Studies Group (PSG) at...
YCAR awards to support graduate student research and fieldwork | Oct. 30 deadline
25-09-2023
The York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) is accepting applications for awards for students whose research relates to Asia or Asian diasporas. Awards to support research and fieldwork travel...
New YCAR-hosted project explores "slow violence" in Mekong region
17-09-2023
Congratulations to Faculty Associates Nga Dao (Social Science) and Vanessa Lamb (Social Science) on their receipt of a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant for their project on slow violence and water...