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YCAR accepting applications for three different awards
The York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) will be accepting applications for three awards offered in the winter 2011 term – the Vivienne Poy Asian ...
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York Centre for Asian Research honours five grad students
Five students were honoured recently for their research on Asia or the Asian diaspora by the York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR). For York PhD candidate ...
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Lecture looks at issues surrounding environmental protection in China
Although environmental protection is considered a strategic issue in China today, how it is discussed and perceived can vary from one ethnic minority to another. ...
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Celebrate Research Month this February
Research Month this February will celebrate the achievements and diversity of York University’s research community. Every Wednesday throughout the month, Vari Hall Rotunda will play host ...
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Professor Susan Henders talks about her role as an observer for Taiwan election
Several international observers were asked to oversee the January Taiwan presidential election to ensure freedom and fairness in what was predicted to be an extremely ...
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Playwright and filmmaker to discuss the themes of his work
Indian playwright, director and filmmaker Mahesh Dattani will give an afternoon reading of two plays along with a discussion about the representation of gender hierarchies ...
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The University recruits a new Canada Research Chair and gains a renewed...
York University welcomes the appointment of Christian Haas as its new Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Arctic Sea Ice Geophysics and the renewal of a ...
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Call for papers for YCAR graduate student conference
Graduate associates of the York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) are calling for papers that seek to rethink and reconstruct the conventional framework of "Asia" ...
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University of Oxford social anthropologist to give Asia Lecture
Xiang Biao, a lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Oxford, will deliver the annual 2012 Asia Lecture in November. Xiang’s talk, “The Intermediary Trap: ...
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YCAR’s 2013 Asia Lecture looks at value and waste in capitalist society
The York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) 2013 Asia Lecture will feature geography and global studies Professor Vinay Gidwani of the University of Minnesota talking ...
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