October 2026
Under Watch: Surveillance of Muslims on Canadian Campuses
Saturday, 17 October 2026 | 6:30 p.m. | York University This roundtable brings together faculty, students and journalists to examine the conditions of Muslim life on Canadian campuses, with particular attention to surveillance, discipline and the realities of subversion and resistance. Moderated by Amira Elghawaby. Registration is required and seating is limited. Please register using […]
Anti-Asian Racism and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 | 2:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. | Room 519, Fifth Floor, Kaneff Tower, Keele Campus, York University With: The co-authors of Anti-Asian Racism and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada join us for a timely and compelling examination of the surge in anti‑Asian racism during and after the pandemic. Drawing on historical analysis, empirical […]
How to Love in Sanskrit
Wednesday, 21 October 2026 | 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. | Room 302, Accolade West Building, Keele Campus, York University and virtually via Zoom Anusha Rao (New York University) and Suhas Mahesh (Independent Translator) A conversation about classical poetry in translation. Anusha Rao currently teaches South Asian Religions at New York University. She holds a PhD […]
'Ameneh's Golden Blood': The Political through the Personal, and the Human Consequences of Sanctions
Friday, 23 October 2026 | Noon to 2:00 p.m. | Room 280A, Second Floor, York Lanes, Keele Campus, York University The West Asia Research Cluster invites you to a screening and discussion of 'Ameneh's Golden Blood', a documentary by Iranian filmmaker Dr. Habib Ahmadzadeh. Featured prominently at international film events, this film follows Ameneh, a […]
Memory × Resonance
One City. Three Generations: A Journey of Memory and Migration from Hong Kong to Canada Saturday, 24 October 2026 | 1:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. | Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre, 110 Accolade East Building, Keele Campus, York University Memory × Resonance is a multidisciplinary cultural event combining historical exhibition, documentary film, live music, […]
Exposing Disinformation Economies: Lessons from Asia and the Global South
Tuesday, 27 October 2026 | 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. | Room 280A, Second Floor, York Lanes, Keele Campus, York University & Virtually via Zoom With Jonathan Corpus Ong (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) Discussant: Yu-Chen Chen (York University) This talk critiques the “mainstream” of disinformation studies and presents alternative visions of more globally minded and […]
Women at Play: Feminist Reinscriptions of Chinese Game History, 1980s to Post-2010s
Wednesday, 28 October 2026 | 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. | Virtually via Zoom With Mayshu (Meixu) Zhan (Stanford University) This article traces women’s participation in Chinese gaming between the early 1980s and the post-2010 era, not as a simple move from absence to presence, but through shifting access, visibility, and value. Building on Western […]
November 2026
From Defending Rights to Finding a Safe Home: A Human Rights Defender’s Journey from Myanmar to Canada Speaker
Thursday, 05 November 2026 | Noon to 1:00 p.m. | Room 280A, Second Floor, York Lanes, Keele Campus, York University & Virtually via Zoom What happens when defending human rights and democracy puts our safety, our work, and our future at risk? In countries where people have greater freedom to express their views, organize, participate […]
Together in Search of Light: Ethnotheatre on Social Workers
Screening and Conversation with the Director Sunday, 15 November 2026 | 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. | The Nick Mirkopoulos Screening Room, Room 004, Accolade East Building, Keele Campus, York University Join us for a screening of Together in Search of Light: Ethnotheatre on Social Workers, an ethnotheatre production by Pants Theatre Production that explores […]
The Politics of Expertise: The Integration of Chinese Diasporic Scholars into China Studies in Cold War America
Wednesday, 25 November 2026 | 10:00 to 11:30 ET | Virtually via Zoom With Qing Liu, De Paul University and Adam R. Nelson, University of Wisconsion-Madison During the early Cold War, American universities offered new opportunities to Chinese scholars whose anticipated return home had been disrupted by revolution and geopolitical conflict. Yet their incorporation into […]
Mughal Benaras
Wednesday, 25 November 2026 | 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. | Room 280N, Second Floor, York Lanes, Keele Campus, York University With Malavika Kasturi (University of Toronto) This event is part of the Demos, Democracy and Democratization: South Asia Lecture Series 2026–27. For more information: sarc[at]yorku.ca
December 2026
Talk by Dino Ge Zhang
Tuesday, 01 December 2026 | Virtually via Zoom Talk by Dino Ge Zhang (University of Bergen) This event is part of the Games and Global Asia Lecture Series. More information at this link.
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