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...
2014 Asia Lecture with Malathi de Alwis now online
05-01-2015
YCAR’s 2014 Asia Lecture by Malathi de Alwis, Trauma, Memory, Forgetting, is now available to view online. Visit http://youtu.be/EHYCEiDnMAI to view the lecture. In post-war Sri Lanka, the battle for memory...
Asia Research Brief |Canada’s Live-in Caregiver Program
29-12-2014
Changes to the Canada’s Live-in Caregiver Program is the focus of the latest YCAR Asia Research Brief by Philip Kelly (Geography). On 30 November 2014, a series of sweeping changes...
Kalra shares research from new book on distinct musical genres, distinct religious identities
23-12-2014
Professor Virinder Kalra (University of Manchester) was at York to speak about his new book, Sacred and Secular Musics: A Postcolonial Approach, in mid-November 2014. Professor Kalra examined the way...
Asia Research Brief | Fishing for Political Control
22-12-2014
Andrew Song, YCAR first YCAR/ABMP Short-Term Postdoctoral Visitor in Asian Governance, has shared his post-doc research in an Asia Research Brief titled 'Fishing for Political Control: Tangled Lines of Fishing...