Skip to main content Skip to local navigation
Home » YCAR News

YCAR News

YCAR Associate | Jean Michel Montsion

31-03-2017

Jean Michel Montsion (International Studies, Glendon) was recently appointed to serve as a Senior Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. APF Canada is a not-for-profit organization focused on...

YCAR Associate | R. Patrick Alcedo

29-03-2017

Patrick Alcedo is co-editor of Religious Festivals in Contemporary Southeast Asia, which was published in late 2016 by Ateneo de Manila University Press. Emphasizing the Philippines, essays in the edited...

YCAR Associates | Susan Henders and Mary Young

27-03-2017

Susan Henders (Faculty Associate, Political Science) and Mary Young (Research Associate) have co-edited a special issue of the Hague Journal of Diplomacy 11(4)(2016) on ‘Other Diplomacies’ of Non-state Actors: The...

YCAR welcomes submissions for Undergraduate Asia and Asian Diaspora Essay Awards

24-03-2017

The York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) invites York faculty members or teaching assistants to nominate exceptional undergraduate student papers for our inaugural YCAR Undergraduate Asia Essay Awards. A small...

YCAR Associate | Jacqueline Ristola

24-03-2017

YCAR Graduate Associate Jacqueline Ristola’s (Cinema and Media Studies) first paper has been published in Animation Studies, an open access online journal by the Society for Animation Studies. In “Recreating...

CCK Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Chinese Studies, 2017-2018

23-03-2017

Deadline: Friday, 28 April 2017 Discipline: Social Sciences and Humanities Fellowship location: York University, Toronto, Canada Eligibility Emerging scholars who are Canadian citizens or Permanent Residents, who have received a...

YCAR is offering 10 awards to cover AAS membership and 2017 conference registration fee

27-01-2017

The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Conference will be held in Toronto at the Sheraton Centre on 16-19 March 2017. For York University students who are not presenting research at...

Transnational Configurations of Tamil Identities (submissions deadline 10 February 2017)

16-12-2016

Transnational Configurations of Tamil Identities Tamil Studies Symposium 2017 York University New Submissions Deadline: 10 February 2017 Tamil migrations have moved across multiple continents in the present, and maintained an...

Call for Papers: The Geotechnical Politics of Ocean Frontiers: The Canadian North and the Indo-Pacific

14-12-2016

27-28 April 2017, York University Abstract submission deadline: Wednesday, 15 February 2017 Context: Ocean frontier politics is part of the earthly politics of deploying science, technology and international law to...

Social Life and Shifting Meaning of Collected Objects: Japanese Ceramics of Sir William Cornelius Van Horne (1843–1915)

09-12-2016

The newest addition to YCAR's Asia Research Brief's series is From Japan to Canadian Museum Storage: Shifting Meaning of Objects from the Japanese Ceramics Collection of William Cornelius Van Horne...