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2017 Annual General Meeting

11-04-2017

YCAR invites its membership to the 2017 Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 27 April 2017. We will be reviewing our activities over the past year, making plans for the year...

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11-04-2017

A warm YCAR welcome to Chusak Wittayapak! Professor Wittayapak is a visiting researcher at YCAR until July 2017. He is working with Peter Vandergeest (Geography) on the New Directions in Environment Governance...

Hong Saihwa to speak at York University on April 19th

10-04-2017

Hong Saihwa Hong (Hong Sehwa), one of the most prominent figures in progressive movement in South Korea, will speak at York University on 19 April 2017. An educator, author and...

YCAR Associate | Hyun Ok Park

03-04-2017

The Capitalist Unconscious: From Korean Unification to Transnational Korea, Professor Park’s (Sociology) recent book published by Columbia University Press, has been accorded Honourable Mention status in this year’s James B....

YCAR Associate | Kabita Chakraborty

01-04-2017

“The Emotions of Migration and Children’s Migration across Asia” is currently under-review as a special issue in Children's Geographies, after the concept note was accepted in 2016. The proposed special...

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...