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...
YCAR Professional Development Fund Awardees for 2020
06-04-2020
Congratulations to our 2020 recipients of the YCAR Professional Development Fund. Fifteen students received funding in support of professional presentations at conferences and workshops in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany...
Latest CCIF-funded projects focus on gender, urbanization and identity in the Greater China Region, the diaspora in Canada
02-04-2020
Projects focusing on gender, urbanization and identity in the Greater China Region and in the diaspora in Canada received funding earlier this year from the Canada-China Initiative Fund at the...
Call for Papers | Special Issue on Families, Communities, and Nation States in the COVID-19 Pandemic
01-04-2020
Call for Papers | Special Issue on Families, Communities, and Nation States in the COVID-19 Pandemic – Chinese Sociological Review Deadline: April 26 Chinese Sociological Review (CSR) is accepting proposals...
Undergraduate Asia Essay Awards Nominations Open Until 30 April 2020
24-03-2020
The York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) invites York faculty members or teaching assistants to nominate exceptional undergraduate student papers for the YCAR Undergraduate Asia Essay Awards. A small monetary...
YCAR Faculty Associate Cary Wu One of Three York researchers to receive COVID-19 research funding
19-03-2020
Cary Wu (Sociology) received $176, 256 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to study issues of trust and how it affects prevention and control measures in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. Congratulations...
New Book: Mobilities of Labour and Capital in Asia
11-02-2020
Congratulations to Preet S. Aulakh (Schulich School of Business) and Philip F. Kelly (Geography) on their new edited collection. Mobilities of Labour and Capital in Asia, published by Cambridge University...
New YCAR Asia Research Brief: The Social Life of Flooding in Jakarta
31-01-2020
YCAR director Abidin Kusno’s (Environmental Studies) research on flooding in Jakarta, Indonesia is the focus of our latest Asia Research Brief. Kusno’s SSHRC-funded research builds on the insights of current...
