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Aarushie Sharma and Ria Jhoanna Ducusin are 2023 recipients of the IDRC International Doctoral Research Award!

Congratulations to our YCAR Graduate Associates Aarushie Sharma (Social Anthropology) and Ria Jhoanna Ducusin (Geography) who are 2023 recipients of a IDRC International Doctoral Research Award! Aarushie's research is an ethnographic study of toilet politics and the infrastructure of sewage in Delhi. Ria is examining how ecological conditions and socio-political relations create and shape flooding […]

10 January 2024 YCAR Update

Graduate Associate Mengzhu Fu organized a well-attended hybrid international symposium in November that brought Māori and Asian activists and scholars from Aotearoa New Zealand with Tkaronto-based activists and scholars to address challenges and praxis of solidarity building. Speakers included: Sina Brown-Davis, Dr Arama Rata, Tāwhana Chadwick, Kirsty Fong, and Dr Mahdis Azarmandi. Decolonial Anti-fascism Symposium: […]

Congratulations to our YRC recipients

Earlier this week, 91��ɫ announced the new 91��ɫ Research Chairs (YRC), and two YCAR Faculty Associates are on this list of appointments that showcases 91��ɫ’s research excellence: Taien Ng-Chan (Cinema and Media Arts), appointed as 91��ɫ Research Chair in Marginal & Emergent Media, and Cary Wu (Sociology) as 91��ɫ Research Chair in Political Sociology […]

Opportunity for incoming Master’s student interested in adaptive cycles

The Velomobility for Disability project is seeking a domestic student to begin in September 2023 who wishes to complete a master’s thesis in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, 91��ɫ and conduct fieldwork focused on the design, fabrication and trade of adaptive cycles used by persons with a disability. This opportunity is open […]

Research & Research Creation Funding and Publication Support Opportunities

Deadline: Tuesday, 25 July 2023 91��ɫ faculty members engaged in research and research creation broadly related to Philippines and/or its diasporas are invited to submit an application for research/creation funding and/or publication support. The Philippine Studies Group at the 91��ɫ Centre for Asian Research is offering up to five minor research grants of up […]

We welcome ABS-CBN anchor Karmina Constantino to 91��ɫ on May 15 at 10 am.

The Philippine Studies Group at the 91��ɫ Centre for Asian Research welcomes ABS-CBN anchor Karmina Constantino to 91��ɫ 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 91��ɫ […]

Dr Kristian Saguin Visits 91��ɫ

Dr Kristian Saguin (Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of the Philippines Diliman) visited 91��ɫ 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 […]

Artist-in-Residency | Leo Lorilla and Pamela Corales

The grant the Philippine Studies Group at 91��ɫ 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 91��ɫ from 10 to […]

Asia Research Brief 51 | Technology and its role in building social connections among older adults

Lois Kamenitz (91��ɫ 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 […]

Omiwatari screening for World Water Day

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 91��ɫ. Omiwatari, a Documentary Screening and Dialogue on the Cultural Losses of Climate Change, […]