Baohua Wang joins YCAR as visiting scholar
11-12-2017
Baohua Wang (Communication University of China, Beijing), joined YCAR as visiting scholar in October 2017. He is currently working with Qiang Zha (Faculty of Education) focusing on media literacy and crisis...
Winner of 2017 YCAR Undergraduate Essay Award announced
29-11-2017
Wardah Behzad (Politics) was named the winner of the 2017 York Centre for Asian Research Undergraduate Essay Award. Shobna Nijhawan (DLLL) nominated Behzad’s essay, “A Spell to Empower Women: Religion,...
Patrick Alcedo's film wins awards at Reel Asian Film Festival
16-11-2017
Patrick Alcedo (Dance) was awarded the National Bank Best First Feature Film Award and the Centennial Best Canadian Film Award at the 2017 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival award ceremony....
YCAR to host Inaugural Dr. Ambedkar Memorial Lecture at York
14-11-2017
Professor Vivek Kumar (Jawaharlal Nehru University) will deliver the Inaugural Dr. Ambedkar Memorial Lecture at York on 15 November 2017. The event at York is part of a series of...
Ruth Pison joins YCAR as Research Collaboration Fellow
01-11-2017
Ruth Pison, Professor of English and Comparative Literature (University of the Philippines, Diliman) joined YCAR as a Research Collaboration Fellow this October. Dr. Pison's research on Philippine dance is informed by...
Dignitaries and scholars to discuss ASEAN-Canada relations at York roundtable
24-10-2017
On 26 October, Southeast Asian dignitaries and scholars will visit York to participate in the Common Fears and Hopes: ASEAN and Canada at 50 Roundtable. As one of the featured...
Judith Nagata and Penny Van Esterik to be honoured at CCSEAS Conference
10-10-2017
York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) faculty associates and Emeriti Professors of Anthropology, Judith Nagata and Penny Van Esterik, will be honoured at the 33rd Biennial Canadian Council for Southeast Asian...
Peter Vandergeest and Laura Schoenberger's special issue of Journal of Peasant Studies
05-10-2017
Over the last ten years, activists, scholars and development agencies have been discussing large scale land grabs—a major wave of cross-border land acquisitions set off by the 2007/08 food price...
YCAR Associates launch video podcast on frontline responses in Duterte’s Philippines
27-09-2017
Political turmoil and state violence has created difficult challenges for grassroots movements in Duterte’s Philippines. York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) Graduate Associates, Kenneth Cardenas, C.J. Chanco and Chaya Ocampo...
Graduate fellows of the Urban Climate Resilience in Southeast Asia Partnership join YCAR
26-09-2017
YCAR welcomes Ly Quoc Dang (Can Tho University, Vietnam) and Piti Srivongchai (Khon Kaen University, Thailand) who joined the Centre as Graduate Fellows of the Urban Climate Resilience in Southeast Asia Partnership (UCRSEA). Ly Quoc Dang is from Soc Trang...