The Philippine Studies Group at the 91ÑÇÉ« Centre for Asian Research welcomes ABS-CBN anchor Karmina Constantino to 91ÑÇÉ« on May 15 at 10 am. Karmina Constantino is a veteran television journalist in the Philippines and an anchor with the ABS-CBN News Channel. She is also the 2022-23 Marshall McLuhan Fellow and will visit 91ÑÇÉ« […]
Dr Kristian Saguin (Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of the Philippines Diliman) visited 91ÑÇÉ« between March 19th-22nd. Dr Saguin’s work engages with urban, agrarian and environmental studies in various sites in the Philippines. He has published political ecological and urban research that examines livelihoods, environmental practices, resource politics and urban life at the peri-urban fringes […]
The grant the Philippine Studies Group at 91ÑÇÉ« received made it possible for Leo Lorilla and Pamela Corales, core performing artists of Bayanihan: the National Dance Company of the Philippines and faculty members of the Philippine Women’s University (PWU) in Manila, to be artists-in-residents in the Department of Dance at 91ÑÇÉ« from 10 to […]
Lois Kamenitz (91ÑÇÉ« Centre for Asian Research) examines the role technology played during the COVID-19 pandemic in building social connections among older adults in Toronto, Ontario. Read more in our latest Asia Research Brief: /research/ycar/wp-content/uploads/sites/783/2023/03/YCAR_ARB0051_Kamenitz.pdf YCAR’s Asia Research Briefs provide short summaries of research by YCAR Associates. Their purpose is to share insights from academic […]
Filmmaker Zeesy Powers was attending a Royal Canadian Institute for Science lecture where she first heard about Professor Sapna Sharma’s research on the Omiwatari. Fast forward eight years and the documentary film on this unique climatic phenomenon will launch at 91ÑÇÉ«. Omiwatari, a Documentary Screening and Dialogue on the Cultural Losses of Climate Change, […]
On January 18, 2023, the Asian Business and Management Program (ABMP), the Department of Politics and the 91ÑÇÉ« Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) hosted a book launch event for Professor Emeritus B. Michael Frolic’s latest book, Canada and China: A Fifty-Year Journey (University of Toronto Press 2022). Presently ABMP’s Executive Director, Professor Frolic taught Soviet […]
The 2023 Conference of the Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies, to be held in Québec City, invites papers and panels on the theme of resilience in all its manifestations. We especially encourage proposals that address the question from inter-disciplinary and comparative perspectives. But as always, the conference scientific committee is also happy to receive […]
Proposal Submission Deadline: March 6, 2023 The Canadian South Asian Studies Association/Association canadienne d'études sud-asiatiques (CSASA-ACESA) is a scholarly association affiliated with the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. CSASA-ACESA will host its second Annual Meeting on May 27–28, 2023, at the Federation’s Annual Congress, Canada’s largest academic gathering (May 27–June 2, 2023) […]
Preet Aulakh (Schulich School of Business, 91ÑÇÉ«) examines how India’s textile and pharmaceutical industries coped with global institutional changes implemented by the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2005. His study provides useful insights for public policy choices in finding a balance between serving local and global markets, and between welfare and efficiency. Read more […]
~Originally published in YFile on 25 November 2023~ 91ÑÇÉ« and the government of the Philippines signed a historic donation agreement on Nov. 21 that provides 91ÑÇÉ« with a contribution of 5 million Philippine pesos ($115,000 CDN). The funding is the result of the strong academic and research collaborations between 91ÑÇÉ« and Philippine universities and […]