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 […]
YCAR’s Professional Development Fund subsidizes relevant experiences for its Graduate Associates to present their scholarly or creative work. Amounts awarded will range from $50 to $500 with the expectation that they will be used in conjunction with other awards. The next deadline is Monday, 30 January 2023 by 16:00 EST for activities taking place six […]
YCAR invites applications from 91ÑÇÉ« faculty and graduate students for the Canada-China Initiatives Fund call for proposals. Founded in 2019, the Canada-China Initiatives Fund (CCIF) was created to support scholarly exchanges and research on modern (i.e., post 1911) and contemporary China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan and their global outreach or Canada-China linkages, or […]
*Originally published in YFile, 15 November 2022 With the signing of a new international professional development agreement, the Asian Business and Management Program (ABMP) at 91ÑÇÉ« just launched a five-year virtual program to train officials from the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) Secretariat. “After a nearly three-year hiatus due […]
A new special issue of Comparative and International Education examines and exposes the connections and disconnections between actors in the domain of international education and for provoking questions about the lack of coherence among internationalization, Indigenization and equity priorities within Canadian institutions. The research for the issue’s seven papers is drawn from the YCAR-hosted RAIS […]
SERIES 1: Saturdays 11 am-1pm EST | Nov 12, 19, 26 | 2022 SERIES 2: Saturdays 11am-1pm EST | Feb 4, 11, 18 | 2023CELEBRATION: April 2023 with the Tam Fam Lit Jam trace: translating ‘x’ is part of a long-term culturally responsive, strength-based project organized by trace press to address structural and systemic racism within […]