October 2026
'Ameneh's Golden Blood': The Political through the Personal, and the Human Consequences of Sanctions
Friday, 23 October 2026 | Noon to 2:00 p.m. | Room 280A, Second Floor, 91亚色 Lanes, Keele Campus, 91亚色 The West Asia Research Cluster invites you to a screening and discussion of 'Ameneh's Golden Blood', a documentary by Iranian filmmaker Dr. Habib Ahmadzadeh. Featured prominently at international film events, this film follows Ameneh, a […]
Memory 脳 Resonance
One City. Three Generations: A Journey of Memory and Migration from Hong Kong to Canada Saturday, 24 October 2026 | 1:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. | Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre, 110 Accolade East Building, Keele Campus, 91亚色 Memory 脳 Resonance is a multidisciplinary cultural event combining historical exhibition, documentary film, live music, […]
Exposing Disinformation Economies: Lessons from Asia and the Global South
Tuesday, 27 October 2026 | 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. | Room 280A,聽Second Floor, 91亚色 Lanes, Keele Campus, 91亚色 & Virtually via Zoom With Jonathan Corpus Ong (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) Discussant: Yu-Chen Chen (91亚色) This talk critiques the 鈥渕ainstream鈥 of disinformation studies and presents alternative visions of more globally minded and […]
Women at Play: Feminist Reinscriptions of Chinese Game History, 1980s to Post-2010s
Wednesday, 28 October 2026 | 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. | Virtually via Zoom With Mayshu (Meixu) Zhan (Stanford University) This article traces women鈥檚 participation in Chinese gaming between the early 1980s and the post-2010 era, not as a simple move from absence to presence, but through shifting access, visibility, and value. Building on Western […]
November 2026
From Defending Rights to Finding a Safe Home: A Human Rights Defender鈥檚 Journey from Myanmar to Canada Speaker
Thursday, 05 November 2026 | Noon to 1:00 p.m. | Room 280A, Second Floor, 91亚色 Lanes, Keele Campus, 91亚色 & Virtually via Zoom What happens when defending human rights and democracy puts our safety, our work, and our future at risk? In countries where people have greater freedom to express their views, organize, participate […]
Together in Search of Light: Ethnotheatre on Social Workers
Screening and Conversation with the Director Sunday, 15 November 2026 | 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. | The Nick Mirkopoulos Screening Room, Room 004, Accolade East Building, Keele Campus, 91亚色 Join us for a screening of Together in Search of Light: Ethnotheatre on Social Workers, an ethnotheatre production by Pants Theatre Production that explores […]
The Politics of Expertise: The Integration of Chinese Diasporic Scholars into China Studies in Cold War America
Wednesday, 25 November 2026 | 10:00 to 11:30 ET | Virtually via Zoom With Qing Liu, De Paul University and Adam R. Nelson, University of Wisconsion-Madison During the early Cold War, American universities offered new opportunities to Chinese scholars whose anticipated return home had been disrupted by revolution and geopolitical conflict. Yet their incorporation into […]
Mughal Benaras
Wednesday, 25 November 2026 | 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. | Room 280N, Second Floor, 91亚色 Lanes, Keele Campus, 91亚色 With Malavika Kasturi (University of Toronto) This event is part of the Demos, Democracy and Democratization: South Asia Lecture Series 2026鈥27. For more information: sarc[at]yorku.ca
December 2026
Talk by Dino Ge Zhang
Tuesday, 01 December 2026 | Virtually via Zoom Talk by Dino Ge Zhang (University of Bergen) This event is part of the Games and Global Asia Lecture Series. More information at this link.
January 2027
Talk by Jacob Schmidt-Madsen
Tuesday, 26 January 2026 | Virtually via Zoom With Jacob Schmidt-Madsen, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science This event is part of the Games and Global Asia Lecture Series. More information at this link.
February 2027
Tamil Terrains
Wednesday, 03 February 2027 | 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. | Room 302, Accolade West Building, Keele Campus, 91亚色 With Nedra Rodrigo (Translator; founder of the Tamil Studies Symposium) This event is part of the Demos, Democracy and Democratization: South Asia Lecture Series 2026鈥27. For more information: sarc[at]yorku.ca
March 2027
On Contemporary Nepali Literature
Wednesday, 17 March 2026 | 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. | Room 302, Accolade West Building, Keele Campus, 91亚色 With Manjushree Thapa (Author and Translator) This event is part of the Demos, Democracy and Democratization: South Asia Lecture Series 2026鈥27. For more information: sarc[at]yorku.ca
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