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Visit to YCAR of Vice President of the Association for Canadian Studies in China

22-11-2014

John West, Qiang Zha, Fachun Du, Elena Caprioni, Philip Kelly, Bernie Frolic Dr. Fachun Du of Yunnan Agricultural University visited YCAR earlier this month. His research...

Associate Publication | Saving Buddhism by Alicia Turner

21-11-2014

Alicia Turner’s new book, Saving Buddhism has just been published by University of Hawai’i Press. Saving Buddhism explores the dissonance between the goals of the colonial state and the Buddhist...

Four decades of dramatic historical change in China through the prism of textbooks

20-11-2014

Historian Peter Zarrow examined four decades of dramatic historical change in China through the prism of textbooks in a talk at York University earlier this month. Professor Zarrow, from the...

Hagen Koo presents second lecture in Korea speaker series

14-11-2014

YCAR welcomed Dr. Hagen Koo to York University earlier this month as part of the Centre’s Heterogeneity and Korean Identity in the Twentieth-First Century speaker series. Dr. Koo, from the...

Malathi de Alwis gives 2014 Asia Lecture

12-11-2014

Lt-Rt: Doris Sung, Gunjan Sondhi, Janice Kim, Harini Sivalingam, Philip Kelly, Arun Nedra Rodrigo, Malathi de Alwis, Jennifer Hyndman, Sailaja Kirshnamurti          ...

Goossen and Hazra co-edited anthology at INSPIRE Toronto Book Fair on Nov. 16

11-11-2014

The recently-published Human Rights and the Arts in Global Asia: An Anthology, co-edited by Theodore (Ted) Goossen (Humanities, YCAR) and Anindo Hazra (English, YCAR) will be featured in the INSPIRE...

Korean War and its afterlives at this year’s Reel Asian Film Festival

10-11-2014

Janice C.H. Kim (History) will be at the AGO Jackman Hall, Wednesday November 12, 2014 at 1:00 pm, to serve as discussant following screenings of three documentaries concerning the Korean...

Dong-choon Kim on the rise of family-centricism in 1950s South Korea

08-11-2014

Dong-choon Kim, Janice C.H. Kim YCAR was pleased to host Dr. Dong-choon Kim as the first speaker in the Heterogeneity and Korean Identity in the Twentieth-First...

Inaugural CAPES lecture focuses on race, territory and agro-capitalism in Burma

05-11-2014

Kevin M. Woods was the inaugural speaker in the Critical Asian Political Ecologies Seminars series. In “Race and Territorial Politics in Making Agro-capitalism in Asia's “final frontier” in Burma,” Woods...

Call for Papers | Changing Asia in the Globalizing World | Abstracts due Nov. 20

04-11-2014

A reminder that the deadline for abstracts for the third YCAR International Graduate Student Conference is Thursday, 20 November 2014. CALL FOR PAPERS Changing Asia in the Globalizing World: Boundaries,...