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November 2026

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 […]
15 Nov
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
  • Hong Kong Studies Group

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 Register using this link 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. […]
25 Nov
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
  • China Studies Group

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
25 Nov
2:30 PM - 5:30 PM
December 2026

Feeling Precarious: Bodies, Belonging and Hong Kong Cinema

Tuesday, 15 December 2026 | 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. | Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, Eighth Floor, 130 St. George Street, University of Toronto Recent Hong Kong cinema has increasingly turned to figures of precarious life—refugees, migrants, low-income workers, sexual minorities and others whose identities remain marginalized in the city. This talk uses […]
15 Dec
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Hong Kong Studies Group
January 2027
February 2027

Tamil Terrains

Wednesday, 03 February 2027 | 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. | Room 302, Accolade West Building, Keele Campus, York University With Nedra Rodrigo (Translator; founder of the Tamil Studies Symposium) This event is part of the Demos, Democracy and Democratization: South Asia Lecture Series 2026–27. For more information: sarc[at]yorku.ca
03 Feb
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • South Asia Research Collective
March 2027

On Contemporary Nepali Literature

Wednesday, 17 March 2026 | 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. | Room 302, Accolade West Building, Keele Campus, York University With Manjushree Thapa (Author and Translator) This event is part of the Demos, Democracy and Democratization: South Asia Lecture Series 2026–27. For more information: sarc[at]yorku.ca
17 Mar
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • South Asia Research Collective
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