New Directions in Environmental Governance
06-02-2015
The New Directions in Environmental Governance project team met together in January for the first project workshop. The team includes Canadian, Australian, Chinese and Thai researchers. The workshop was held...
Call for Papers | Youth, Diversity and Social Development in the Multicultural Metropolis
30-01-2015
Cities are sites of intense social, economic and cultural change, and youth are at the forefront of these transformations. Youth have distinctive experiences of: economic and labour market restructuring; innovative...
Publication | Workshop papers selected for special issue of Gender, Place and Culture
30-01-2015
Research presented in a summer 2014 workshop series co-hosted by YCAR will be published as a special issue in the journal Gender, Place and Culture. The Emotion of Migration was...
Media | Live-in Caregiver Program panel
26-01-2015
A recent Philippine Reporter article offers a detailed look at a panel that was organized at YCAR in December concerning the new set of regulations that have drastically changed the...
Application deadline approaching for awards offered by YCAR
23-01-2015
York University students who are engaged in research on Asia and/or Asian diaspora are invited to apply to several awards offered by YCAR. The deadline for all awards is 4pm...
Media | Wendy Wong on cartoons as indicator of freedom of speech
14-01-2015
Wendy Wong (Design) commented on creative works such as cartoons and posters as indicators of the freedom of speech found in a society during an interview Omni News on 9...
YCAR Professional Development Fund opportunity deadline approaching
13-01-2015
A reminder to YCAR Graduate Associates that the deadline for application to the YCAR Professional Development Fund is Monday, 19 January by 9am. The York Centre for Asian Research’s Professional...
Asia Research Brief | Global Asia’s Human Rights Challenges: The Prisms of the Arts
12-01-2015
The first 2015 edition of the Asia Research Briefs considers how creative expression impacts and extends human rights discourse. Global Asia’s Human Rights Challenges: The Prisms of the Arts can be...
Launching Human Rights and the Arts in Asia
09-01-2015
Lt-Rt: Volume editors and contributors Lily Cho (English), Arun Mukherjee (English), Susan Henders (Political Science), Anindo Hazra (English), Gordon Anderson (East Asian Studies), Theodore W. Goossen...
Call for Submissions | Tamil Studies Symposium
07-01-2015
Bearing Witness: Unspeakable Crimes, Invisible Atrocities York University, 6-7 May 2016 The most challenging paradox of the 21st Century may well be the saturation of our media with news of...