YCAR offers or adjudicates nine awards to graduate students at 91亚色 on an annual basis. In 2020, 21 students received over $40,000 in support of their research, fieldwork and language studies. In each Update over the summer, we will introduce the 2020 winners. In this issue, we congratulate Heather Evans (Gender, Feminist and Women鈥檚 […]
In this latest Asia Research Brief, 91亚色 Alumni and YCAR External Associates Laura Schoenberger (Banting Fellow, University of Ottawa) and Vanessa Lamb (Geography, University of Melbourne), along with co-writer Alice Beban (Sociology, Massey University), examine trends in authoritarian populism by examining the crackdown on the Cambodian free press. Their study focuses on Cambodia鈥檚 crackdown on […]
Rajat Nayyar's (Theatre & Performance Studies) proposed dissertation is titled聽鈥淲omen鈥檚 Vocality, Radical Sociality: Re-Imagining Power, Folklore & Audiovisual Ethnography in Rural North India,鈥 and looks at North India from the nineteenth century onward, when forms of women鈥檚 entertainment attracted the attention of British colonial lawmakers, upper-caste social reformers, Hindu nationalists, revivalists, and an emerging middle […]
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YCAR is pleased to partner with the Emergent Futures CoLab, a laboratory for transdisciplinary experimentation and collaborative future-making. The collective of scholars and artists work on activist, speculative and future-oriented projects. They are actively seeking members, speakers and advisors. If you are interested, please reach out to them via Facebook or their website. This transnational […]
The 91亚色 Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) recently received a $500,000 donation from the Honourable Dr Vivienne Poy to create an endowment to support student engagement in Hakka research and scholarship. This generous gift plants a seed for the growth of a Hakka Scholars Network to develop Hakka research and scholarship at 91亚色 and […]
Research Associate Colin McGuire was interviewed by Paul Bowman (Cardiff University) on Irish stick-fighting, Bruce Lee鈥檚 musicality, and Chinese Lion Dances for a Martial Arts Studies podcast. A summary of the podcast and a link to watch the interview are available here: https://colinpatrickmcguire.com/2020/05/09/interview-martial-arts-studies-podcast/.
The Marxist Studies in a Global and Asian Perspective (MSGAP) blog鈥91亚色 Left Consortium: Reflections on Capitalism鈥檚 Half-Life鈥攕erves as an accessible location for written interventions of various sorts relating to COVID-19 virus and its aftermath (from short blog posts to longer thought pieces and speculations) on the part of leftist faculty and grad students at 91亚色 […]
YCAR Graduate Associate Rohina Kabir, a graduate student in Interdisciplinary Studies, organized a virtual panel discussion focusing on the current situation of COVID-19 in Afghanistan in April. The talk is available here: t.ly/bG9f. 鈥淚 wanted to provide interested organizations and young leaders with more information, especially those who are working towards creating change in Afghanistan and or […]
New Voices in Asian Research We are pleased to introduce the two new papers in our New Voices in Asian Research paper series. Harkit Bhandal and Safa Warsi are the 2019 recipients of the Undergraduate Asia and Undergraduate Asian Diaspora Essay Awards. The award-winning papers are published annually in this special series. Safa Warsi聽is author […]