September 2026
Between Us: Storytelling as Art, Politics and History
Sixth Tamil Studies Symposium 25–26 September 2026 Across Tamil geographies, storytelling has taken a myriad of shapes in spoken, dance, musical, visual and literary traditions: in folktales, proverbs and ritual forms; in the music of labour, joy and grief; in poems weaving human beings and ecologies; in reminiscences and reproduction of food practices; and in […]
Meet and Greet, West Asia Research Cluster
Friday, 25 September 2026 | 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. | Room 626, Sixth Floor, Kaneff Tower, Keele Campus, York University The West Asia Research Cluster at York University welcomes you to a new academic school year. Get to know faculty, students and colleagues interested in West-Asia focused research and learn more about the cluster […]
Navigating Geopolitics and Global Threats: Journalism’s Evolving Role in Preserving Democracy
Monday, 28 September 2026 | 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. | Room 102, Accolade East Building, Keele Campus, York University With Carmela Fonbuena, investigative journalist and 2026 Marshall McLuhan Fellow for Excellence in Journalism The presentation will discuss the critical role of journalism amid great power competition, focusing on its function to protect the integrity of information […]
Damage Without Defeat: Distributed Resilience and the Limits of Coercion Against Iran
Wednesday, 30 September 2026 | 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. | Room 626, Sixth Floor, Kaneff Tower, Keele Campus, York University and virtually via Zoom With Dr Abdulqadir Al-Emad, York University Dr Abdulqadir Al-Emad will examine why the United States and Israel, despite inflicting major damage on Iran, have not converted destruction into decisive political […]
Hong Kong: A City of Law
Ninth Bernard H.K. Luk Memorial Lecture in Hong Kong Studies Wednesday, 30 September, 2026 | 3:00 p.m to 5:00 p.m. | Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, University of Toronto Libraries With Laikwan Pang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Discussant: Lynette Ong, University of Toronto Hong Kong has long been hailed as a city defined […]
October 2026
Staying in Trouble
2026 Workshop for Graduate Student Scholars of Hong Kong and its Diasporas Thursday, 01 October 2026 | 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. | Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, University of Toronto Laikwan Pang, the Choh Ming Li Professor of Cultural Studies and Head of the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at The Chinese […]
Talk by Yichen Rao
Wednesday, 07 October 2026 | Virtually via Zoom With Yichen Rao (Utrecht University; Inclusive AI Lab) This event is part of the Games and Global Asia Lecture Series. More information at this link.
Hunger and Famine
Wednesday, 07 October 2026 | Room 519, Fifth Floor, Kaneff Tower, Keele Campus, York University With Janam Mukherjee (Toronto Metropolitan University) This event is part of the Demos, Democracy and Democratization: South Asia Lecture Series 2026–27. For more information: sarc[at]yorku.ca
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 Anusha Rao (University of Toronto) and Suhas Mahesh (Independent Translator) This event is part of the Demos, Democracy and Democratization: South Asia Lecture Series 2026–27. For more information: sarc[at]yorku.ca
Talk by Mayshu (Meixu) Zhan
Wednesday, 28 October 2026 | Virtually via Zoom With Mayshu (Meixu) Zhan (Stanford University) This event is part of the Games and Global Asia Lecture Series. More information at this link.
November 2026
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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