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Opportunity | YCAR/ABMP Short-Term Postdoctoral Visitor in Asian Governance

The 91亚色 Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) invites applications for a short-term (four month) post-doctoral fellowship in Asian Governance. The successful applicant will have completed a PhD within the last four years and will be developing a research and publication program related to contemporary local, national or transnational governance in Asia. 鈥楪overnance鈥 is taken to […]

Korean identity in the 21st century is focus of new YCAR speaker series

Established senior and groundbreaking junior scholars will share their expertise and experience in the fields of globalization, transnational labour and class in South Korea as part of a year-long lecture series at 91亚色. This series, entitled 鈥淗eterogeneity and Korean Identity in the Twenty-First Century鈥, will feature lectures on the rise of family-centrism in 1950s […]

Associate News | Colin McGuire recipient of two paper prizes

The Canadian Society for Traditional Music has recognized Colin McGuire鈥檚 research and awarded him the CSTM/SCTM Student Paper Prize for the best paper presented by a student at the organization鈥檚 annual meeting. His paper, 鈥楾he Rhythm of Combat: Understanding the Role of Music in Performances of Traditional Chinese Martial Arts and Lion Dance鈥, draws on […]

Associate Publication | Robin Roth and Sai Latt

A new journal article by Sai Latt (YCAR alumni and Research Director, Pyidaungsu Institute for Peace & Dialogue) and Robin Roth (Geography) has been published (online) by the Journal of Agrarian Change. 鈥淎grarian Change and Ethnic Politics: Restructuring of Hmong and Shan Labour and Agricultural Production in Northern Thailand鈥 examines how the discursive construction of […]

Associate News | Patrick Alcedo receives Ontario Early Researcher Award

Russ Patrick Alcedo (Dance) is one of four 91亚色 professors to be awarded an Ontario Early Researcher Awards valued at $140,000. The Early Researcher Awards program helps recently appointed researchers make new discoveries while creating jobs for graduate and undergraduate students, postdoctoral fellows and research assistants. Dr. Alcedo聽investigates the pivotal role that Philippine folk dance […]

Associate News | R. Patrick Alcedo receives Selma Jeanne Cohen Award for Dance and Dance Studies

The Fulbright Association has recognized R. Patrick Alcedo (Dance) with a聽Selma Jeanne Cohen Award for Dance and Dance Studies. The Selma Jeanne Cohen Fund for International Scholarship on Dance honours the pioneering and seminal contributions of preeminent dance historian Selma Jeanne Cohen. Dr. Alcedo will present the lecture as part of the Fulbright Association 37th […]

Associate Publications | Gregory Chin comments on China in Africa, Renminbi internationalization

Gregory Chin (Political Science) is the author of two recent blog contributions on China in Africa and Renminbi internationalization. China鈥檚 Challenge in Africa: Avoid Blame of Neo-Colonialism was posted as part of the MacMillan Center鈥檚 YaleGlobal Online (Yale Unviersity) and considers how China has modified its south-south narrative for Africa and recognized the continent as […]

Media | Gregory Chin on new BRICS development bank and reserve currency fund

Gregory Chin (Political Science) was quoted in a Toronto Star article on the $50 billion (U.S.) development bank聽established by the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa 鈥 collectively known as the BRICS nations. The historic accord also created a聽$100 billion reserve fund which member states can use to support their currencies in […]

Call | Outward and upward mobilities: International students, their families, and structuring institutions

Call for papers for an edited collection Outward and upward mobilities: International students, their families, and structuring institutions (Working title of edited book, July 2014) Editors: Ann H. Kim, Sociology, and Min-Jung Kwak, Geography, 91亚色 Education has long been the route to social mobility, and educational qualifications persist as a legitimized marker of social […]