Impact of forced cremation policy in Sri Lanka focus of Sivalingam award recipient
16-02-2024
Nagaratnam Sivalingam was a pioneer and leader of the Tamil community in Canada, who dedicated his life to promoting both Tamil culture and issues of concern to the community. His...
Emerging scholars’ research on Hong Kong and the diaspora focus of 2023–24 lecture series
16-02-2024
York alumni and international scholars are sharing their research on Hong Kong and its diaspora as part of a lecture series this year. The Hong Kong Studies Group Lecture Series...
Aarushie Sharma and Ria Jhoanna Ducusin are 2023 recipients of the IDRC International Doctoral Research Award!
16-02-2024
Congratulations to our YCAR Graduate Associates Aarushie Sharma (Social Anthropology) and Ria Jhoanna Ducusin (Geography) who are 2023 recipients of a IDRC International Doctoral Research Award! Aarushie's research is an...
10 January 2024 YCAR Update
16-02-2024
Graduate Associate Mengzhu Fu organized a well-attended hybrid international symposium in November that brought Māori and Asian activists and scholars from Aotearoa New Zealand with Tkaronto-based activists and scholars to...
Winter lecture series focuses on knowledge in historical societies in East Asia
16-02-2024
Knowledge Production in East Asia is a lecture and seminar series organized by the Critical China Studies group at YCAR. Initiated in 2014, it invites leading international scholars to share...
Joddi Alden recipient of Excellence in Philippine Studies/ Filipinx Diaspora Studies Writing and Research-creation Award
16-02-2024
Her intersectional examination of commodification in the Asia-Pacific earned Joddi Alden an Excellence in Philippine Studies/ Filipinx Diaspora Studies writing and research-creation award. Alden, a YCAR Graduate Associate and doctoral...
Welcome to YCAR’s new associates!
15-02-2024
A warm welcome to our Associates from the YCAR family! Kim Lynette Abella | York AlumnaBurcu Boran, Linguistics and Applied LinguisticsSamantha Boyd, Social AnthropologyGriffin Cahill, Linguistics and Applied LinguisticsYu Chen,...
Winter lecture series focuses on the South Asian Studies classroom
15-02-2024
Embedded in the field of South Asian Studies, this YCAR-supported series engages with the methodologies and epistemologies of researchers, educators and artists as they reflect on their pedagogies, commitments, responsibilities...
Areej Alshammiry is our 2023 Albert CW Chan Foundation Award recipient!
15-02-2024
Congratulations to Areej Alshammiry, the 2023 recipient of the 2023 Albert CW Chan Foundation Award. A doctoral student in Sociology, Areej is a Vanier Scholar whose research explores state violence...
A Serious Wedding (जे सी बी रवनवा) is new ethnofiction film by Graduate Associate Rajat Nayyar
09-11-2023
A Serious Wedding (जे सी बी रवनवा) is Graduate Associate Rajat Nayyar's (Theatre and Performance Studies) new Bhojpuri ethnofiction film about a radical love story between a young man and...
