root, branch, driftwood workshop series for Tamil-English translators, poets and writers
08-11-2022
SERIES 1: Saturdays 11 am-1pm EST | Nov 12, 19, 26 | 2022 SERIES 2: Saturdays 11am-1pm EST | Feb 4, 11, 18 | 2023CELEBRATION: April 2023 with the Tam Fam...
Locating the Indian Woman and LGBTQIA+ Online: Digital Activism in #Section377 and #Me
03-11-2022
YCAR alumna Nanditha Narayanamoorthy’s Asia Research Brief explores the relationship between technological platforms and gender minorities in Indian cyberspaces, which was the focus of her dissertation. Dr Narayanamoorthy is now...
Summer 2022 recipients of Canada-China Initiative Funding
02-11-2022
The summer 2022 recipients of Canada-China Initiative Funding engage in a variety of topics, ranging from Chinese Canadian prose fiction to Chinese international students in Canada. Congratulations to the recipients! Monique...
Videos | Crossing the Bridge Mackay Built: 150 years of Canada in East Asia and East Asia in Canada
01-11-2022
In June of 2022 a virtual symposium was held celebrating the connections built by George Leslie Mackay. Crossing the Bridge Mackay Built: 150 years of Canada in East Asia and...
YCAR Research Collaboration Fellowship: The Structural Determinants of Urbanization in India and China
13-09-2022
We are pleased to welcome Paramjit Singh to YCAR. Together with Cary Wu (Sociology), the pair are recipients of a YCAR Research Collaboration Fellowship. Their joint project looks at the...
Echo from the Archipelago: Connecting Indonesia and Canada through Traditional Music by Exploring Collective Memories in Canada
29-08-2022
The Echo from the Archipelago: Connecting Indonesia and Canada through Traditional Music by Exploring Collective Memories in Canada workshop was designed to develop a bridge between Indonesia and Canada through music...
Canada and China: A Fifty-Year Journey (New Book)
26-08-2022
Congratulations to B. Michael Frolic] (ABMP and Professor Emeritus, Politics) on the publication of his long-awaited new book, Canada and China: A Fifty-Year Journey (University of Toronto 2022). The book launch is...
Human Rights, Forced Labour and Sustainability in Global Fisheries: A Potential Canadian Contribution to Enhancing Decent Work in Fishing
24-08-2022
Faculty Associate Peter Vandergeest (Geography) co-authored a report released this summer that considers potential Canadian contributions to enhancing decent work in fishing. Commissioned by Oceana Canada, it draws from Vandergest’s...
Turning Land into Capital: Development and Dispossession in the Mekong Region (New Book)
22-08-2022
Faculty Associate Nga Dao (Social Science) and Research Associate Vanessa Lamb (University of Melbourne) have authored chapters in a long-anticipated edited collection on development and dispossession in the Mekong Region....
India’s Textile & Pharmaceutical Industries (New Book)
19-07-2022
Congratulations to Faculty Associate Preet Aulakh (Schulich School of Business) who is co-author with Raveendra Chittoor (University of Victoria) of a new book, Coping with Global Institutional Change: A Tale...