New Asia Research Brief analyzes farmer suicides in India
07-03-2014
Analyzing Farmer Suicides in India is the latest addition to YCAR's Asia Research Brief series. It can be accessed here. The Brief, by Raju Das (Geography) and Mohana Kumar S....
Chinese Women's History: Local or Global? is new addition to Asia Research Brief series
27-02-2014
Chinese Women's History: Local or Global? by Professor Joan Judge (Department of History) is the latest addition to the YCAR Asia Research Briefs series. Dr. Judge's ARB related to her recent...
Associate Publication: Pietro Giordan
24-02-2014
YCAR Faculty Associate Pietro Giordan (Chair, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics) is the author of the recently published Drifting Lightly Over the Troubled Waters of Modernity: Irony and Exoticism in Shen...
Philip Kelly report on Filipino youth in Canada published by IRPP
20-02-2014
Philip Kelly (Department of Geography) is the author of "Understanding Intergenerational Social Mobility: Filipino Youth in Canada', a study published by the Institute for Research on Public Policy on 18...
Vanessa Lamb receives ASEAN-Canada Junior Fellowship
29-01-2014
YCAR Graduate Associate Vanessa Lamb (Department of Geography), who recently defended her thesis, is the recipient of a 2013-2014 ASEAN-Canada Junior Fellowship, offered by the ASEAN-Canada Research Partnership, with the...
Ilan Kapoor is next speaker in Migration Matters series at York
29-01-2014
YCAR Faculty Associate Ilan Kapoor (Faculty Associate, Environmental Studies) will speak as part of the Migration Matters series in a 5 February 2014 seminar on ‘Celebrities: Humanitarians or Ideologues?’ The...
Janice Kim awarded funding for upcoming lecture series
29-01-2014
YCAR Associate Director Janice C.H. Kim (Department of History) has been awarded funding from The Korea Foundation to support a lecture series titled 'Heterogeneity and Korean Identity in the Twentieth-First...
Gregory Chin on China and if it poses a risk to the 2014 global economy (video)
29-01-2014
YCAR Faculty Associate Gregory Chin (Political Science) appeared on 'The Agenda with Steve Paikin' on 15 January 2014 to discuss if China poses a risk to the 2014 global economy....
YCAR accepting proposals for research workshops
29-01-2014
YCAR invites applications from its York Faculty or Graduate Associates who wish to organize a research workshop in the 2014-2015 academic year. Such workshops will usually involve 6 to 12...
Lynne Milgram will speak on informality and legality in the Philippines at February talk
29-01-2014
YCAR Research Associate Lynne Milgram (Department of Anthropology, OCADU), will give a talk titled "Remapping the Edge: Informality and Legality in a New Night Street Market, Baguio City, Philippines" on 7...