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YCAR Associate | Kabita Chakraborty

鈥淭he Emotions of Migration and Children鈥檚 Migration across Asia鈥 is currently under-review as a special issue in Children's Geographies, after the concept note was accepted in 2016. The proposed special issue is based on 鈥淓motions of Migration: Young people's experiences within Asia,鈥 a workshop organized at YCAR in 2014 by Professor Chakraborty (Children's Studies). It […]

YCAR Associate | Jean Michel Montsion

Jean Michel Montsion (International Studies, Glendon) was recently appointed to serve as a Senior Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. APF Canada is a not-for-profit organization focused on Canada's relations with Asia. Its mission is to be Canada's catalyst for engagement with Asia and Asia's bridge to Canada. Professor Montsion joins seven other […]

YCAR Associate | R. Patrick Alcedo

Patrick Alcedo is co-editor of Religious Festivals in Contemporary Southeast Asia, which was published in late 2016 by Ateneo de Manila University Press. Emphasizing the Philippines, essays in the edited collection explore embodied narratives in which the connections between religion and nationalism, globality and locality, tourism and politics are drawn. While religious festivals are expressions […]

YCAR Associates | Susan Henders and Mary Young

Susan Henders (Faculty Associate, Political Science) and Mary Young (Research Associate) have co-edited a special issue of the Hague Journal of Diplomacy 11(4)(2016) on 鈥極ther Diplomacies鈥 of Non-state Actors: The Case of Canadian-Asian Relations, while Jean Michel Montsion (Faculty Associate, Political Science) as well as Henders and Young contributed articles to the collection, among other […]

YCAR welcomes submissions for Undergraduate Asia and Asian Diaspora Essay Awards

The 91亚色 Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) invites 91亚色 faculty members or teaching assistants to nominate exceptional undergraduate student papers for our inaugural YCAR Undergraduate Asia Essay Awards. A small monetary award of $100 is available for one recipient in each category: Geographic Asia and Asian Diaspora. The winning papers will be published online as […]

YCAR Associate | Jacqueline Ristola

YCAR Graduate Associate Jacqueline Ristola鈥檚 (Cinema and Media Studies) first paper has been published in Animation Studies, an open access online journal by the Society for Animation Studies. In 鈥淩ecreating Reality: The Documentary Genre with Waltz With Bashir and Persepolis,鈥 she examines how animated documentaries assert their documentary genre classification through marketing and other materials […]

CCK Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Chinese Studies, 2017-2018

Deadline: Friday, 28 April 2017 Discipline: Social Sciences and Humanities Fellowship location: 91亚色, Toronto, Canada Eligibility Emerging scholars who are Canadian citizens or Permanent Residents, who have received a PhD degree within the last five years, and who do not hold full-time salaried positions may apply for this CCK Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Current doctoral […]

Call for submissions | Transnational Configurations of Tamil Identities: Tamil Studies Symposium 2017

Tamil migrations have moved across multiple continents in the present, and maintained an interconnectivity often borne through shared linguistic, cultural, economic and political links. These crossings begin from the earliest recorded movements through to colonial and economic migrations, indentured labor, and include forced displacements due to conflict. A critical study of transnational Tamil identity must […]

YCAR Associate | New book by Kusno on Visual Cultures of the Ethnic Chinese in Indonesia

Faculty Associate Abidin Kusno鈥檚 (Environmental Studies) new book, Visual Cultures of the Ethnic Chinese in Indonesia (Roman & Littlefield International, 2016), explores how visual representations shaped and were shaped by how the ethnic Chinese confronted the period of economic dislocation and radical social change during Dutch colonialism and the nationalist struggles in the decolonized Indonesia […]

YCAR Associate | Marxist Class Theory for a Skeptical World is new book by Raju Das

Professor Raju Das鈥 new book, Marxist Class Theory for a Skeptical World (Brill 2016), is a critique of some of the influential radical theories of class, and presents an alternative approach to it. The book critically discusses analytical Marxist and Post-structuralist Marxist theories of class, and offers an alternative approach that is rooted in the […]