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Agenda York Centre for Asian Research Directors Welcome Annual General Meeting Approval of Agenda for 27 April 2016 27 April 2016 Review and approval of 2015 Annual General Meeting Minutes Room 519, Kaneff Tower, York University Report on Key
27 April 2016 Room 519, Kaneff Tower, York University
Director’s Welcome Approval of Agenda for 27 April 2016 Review and approval of 2015 Annual General Meeting Minutes Report on Key Accomplishments for 2015‐2016 Financial Report Governance Plans and Priorities for 2016‐2017 Other Business
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2015.2016
YCAR Associates and Visitors: 212 Faculty Associates: 68 Graduate Associates: 101 Undergraduate Associates:1 External Research Associates: 30 Emeriti Faculty Associates: 5 Visiting Scholars: 5 Postdoctoral Fellows or Visitors: 2 New Associates and Visitors: Faculty Associates: 8 Graduate Associates: 40 Undergraduate Associates:1 External Research Associates: 7 Postdoctoral Fellows or Visitors: 2 Report on Key Accomplishments for 2015.2016
Environmental Studies (2) Health (1) Glendon College (2) Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (53) School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design (6) Schulich School of Business (3) Education (1)
Environmental Studies (8) Health (1) Glendon College (1) Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (83) School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design (4) Schulich School of Business (1) Osgoode Hall Law School (3)
Philip Kelly, Director, Geography, LA&PS (ex‐officio) Janice C.H. Kim, Associate Director, GDAS Coordinator, History, LA&PS Kabita Chakraborty, Children’s Studies, LA&PS Sailaja Krishnamurti, Humanities, LA&PS Jessica Li, DLLL representative, LA&PS Alicia Turner, Humanities, LA&PS Lorna Wright, Schulich School of Business Qiang Zha, Education Catherine Cua, Graduate Associate representative, Études francophones, Glendon Yasin Kaya, Graduate Associate representative, Political Science, LA&PS Harshita Yalamarty, Graduate Associate representative, GFWS, LA&PS Alicia Filipowich, YCAR Coordinator and GDAS Administrator
Thank you, Janice, for being an Associate Director of historic proportions! Thank you, Lorna, for taking care of business! Thank you, Qiang, for always being a class act!
Thank you, Sailaja, for proving there is life after York! Thank you, Kabita, for putting the humour into the humanities! Thank you, Jessica, for being
and liaison with languages, literatures and linguistics!
designate)
Eva Busza Vice President, Knowledge and Research, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada Avvy Go Director, Metro Toronto Chinese & Southeast Asian Legal Clinic Tam Goossen Chair, Good Jobs for All Coalition; Vice‐President, Urban Alliance on Race Relations Caroline Mangosing Former Executive Director, Kapisanan Philippine Centre for Arts and Culture David Mulroney Canadian Ambassador to China, 2009‐2012; President, St Michael’s College, U of T Haroon Siddiqui Editorial Page Editor Emeritus and Columnist, Toronto Star Richard Stubbs Professor, Department of Political Science, McMaster University
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Organized by: Laam Hae (Political Science) and Hong Kal (Visual Arts)
Rostow’s Fingerprints, Park’s Boot Prints, Lee’s Rhetorical Imprint: Transnational Dimensions of South Korean and Singaporean Developmentalism in the 1960s‐1990s Jim Glassman, University of British Columbia Community Art in Korea: Dongdaemun Rooftop Paradise (DRP) Park Chan‐kook, Seoul Youth Hub Queer Worlding in the Urban Age Natalie Oswin, McGill University Developmentalism, Knowledge and Power Abidin Kusno, York University Graduate Student Panel: Rethinking the Developmental State in Asia Guillaume Dandurand, Social Anthropology; Yasin Kaya, Political Science; Kenneth Cardenas, Geography
Toronto Anniversary Events on Hong Kong Umbrella Movement
Wendy S. Wong, York University; Alex Yong Kang Chow, Student leader of HK Umbrella Movement, Former Secretary General of HKFS; Winnie Ng, Ryerson University; Gloria Fung, Canada‐Hong Kong Link
Taiwan's New Direction and where it takes the rest of us Michael Stainton (YCAR), Charles Burton (Brock University), Sheng Xue, journalist and Chinese exile leader. Organized by Wendy S. Wong (Design) and Michael Stainton (YCAR)
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Report on Key Accomplishments for 2015.2016
Youth, Diversity and Social Development in the Multicultural Metropolis Joint workshop between the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and York Centre for Asian Research (27‐28 May 2015)
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Organized by Philip Kelly (Geography)
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Canada-Philippines Alternative Transnational Economies (ATE) Team Meeting Organized by Philip Kelly (Geography)
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Fourth Critical Approaches to South Asia Studies Workshop Organized by the South Asia Research Group
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Unpacking and Rethinking Developmentalism through Transnational Korea Organized by Laam Hae (Political Science) and Hong Kal (Visual Arts) Brown Canada 2020 Summit Organized by the Council of Agencies Serving South Asians (CASSA) Co‐sponsored by YCAR Dissertation Workshop for MA and PhD students Organized by Shobna Nijhawan
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Vietnam, the Philippines, Guam, and California: Connecting the Dots of US Military Empire 2015 Asia Lecture with Yen Le Espiritu,
University of California at San Diego
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Girls with Disabilities in the Global South: A Transnational Politics of Activism: Panel and Photo Exhibition Organized by Xuan Thuy Nguyen (Research Associate)
Encountering Asia: Undergraduate Experiences from York University Study Abroad Courses in Thailand and South Korea Organized by Peter Vandergeest (Geography)
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Debating the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Perspectives from Canada, Asia and Latin America With Gus Van Harten (Osgoode Hall Law School), Lorna Wright (Schulich School of Business) and Ricardo Grinspun (Department of Economics; International Development Studies program)
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Navi Pillay Former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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An Empire Stages Back: Nationalism, Postcoloniality and the Diaspora in Philippine Dance Organized by Patrick Alcedo (Dance) Report on Key Accomplishments for 2015‐2016
The Past, Present and Future of Korean Politics: The April 13th Korean Parliamentary Election, by Mr Soohwan Song, YCAR Visiting Scholar and Director of the Korean National Assembly Secretariat
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Bernie Frolic, PhD Executive Director Elena Caprioni, PhD Program Director Li Chen (Lily) Program Administrator Lin Wang Budget Assistant
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Ramdhony Reshmi, School of Indian Studies ‐ Mahatma Gandhi, Mauritius Hue Le, Vietnam National University Deepak Mishra, Jawaharlal Nehru University Soohwan Song, Director, Korean National Assembly Jonathan Tardif, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, CCGC project Ethel Tungohan, Postdoctoral Research Fellow Muchu Zhang, Beijing Normal University
Session with Visiting Scholar Deepak Mishra
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SSHRC
Other External Competitions
Practitioners in the Mekong Basin Fellowship Opportunity Internal Opportunities
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Agency Data on Migration Pilot Project (ADMIG) Ann Kim (Sociology) A Global Political Ecology of Conservation Practice in Canada's National Parks: A Comparative Investigation Robin Roth (Geography) An Empire Dances Back: Nationalism, Postcoloniality and the Canadian Diaspora Through Philippine Folk Dance Traditions
Buddhism across Boundaries: Subaltern, Plebeian and Peripheral Networks in Colonial Southeast Asia Alicia Turner (Humanities)
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Canada‐Philippines Alternative Transnational Economies (ATE) Philip Kelly (Geography) Constellations, Confrontations, and Aspirations: Reflections on Diaspora and Transnationalism through the Lens of Youth Formations Michael Nijhawan (Sociology) Critical China Studies Reading Group Joshua Fogel (History), Joan Judge (History) Cultural Translation and Chinese‐Canadian Studies Jessica Li (DLLL) Ecologies on the Edge research program Peter Vandergeest (Geography), Shubhra Gururani (Anthropology) Report on Key Accomplishments for 2015.2016
Eve‐Teasing: Young Women and Men Discuss Public Harassment in the Urban Slums of India Kabita Chakraborty (Children’s Studies) Matching policies, institutions and practices of water governance in the Salween‐ Thanlwin‐Nu River Basin Vanessa Lamb (Research Associate) New Directions in Environmental Governance Peter Vandergest (Geography) Predicaments of a "Post‐Conflict" Generation: A Comparative Study of Sikh and Ahmadiyya Diaspora Formations Michael Nijhawan (Sociology)
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Quotidian Concerns: Everyday Knowledge and the Rise of the Common Reader in China, 1860‐1940 Joan Judge (History) Resisting inequality/enabling inclusion: An India‐Canada comparison Nancy Mandell (Sociology) Report on Key Accomplishments for 2015.2016
Publications Supported in the Past
Retirement in Japan and South Korea: The Past, the Present and the Future of Mandatory Reti rement (Routledge 2015) Masa Higo and Thomas R. Klassen (Political Science) Young Muslim Women in India: Bollywood, Identity and Changing Lives (Routledge 2015) Kabita Chakraborty (Children’s Studies) Civil Society in Asia: In Search of Democracy and Development in Bangladesh (Ashgate 2015) Fahimul Quadir (Development Studies) with Yutaka Tsujinaka, editors Engendering Transnational Voices (WLU Press 2015) Guida Man (Sociology) and Rina Cohen, editors
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Report on Key Accomplishments for 2015.2016
Graduate Programme in Education Internationalization and Chinese Undergraduate Music Programs: Dialogue of Civilizations for Cultural Understanding through Conscientization
Graduate Programme in History Systemic Violence in Sri Lanka: The Tamil Immigrant Experience
Graduate Programme in Geography Urban water security: Responding to an Urbanizing Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Graduate Programme in Dance Embodied Indigeneity: Translating Indigenous Dance to the Contemporary Dance Stage in the Philippines
Graduate Programme in Geography Gher: Climate Change Adaptation model poses Vulnerabilities in Joymoni Village, Mongla, Bangladesh
Osgoode Hall Law School Mining Conflict, Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Justice: The Case of Phulbari Coal Project in Bangladesh
Graduate Programme in History Social Marginalization in Shanghai’s International Community, 1880‐1919
Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology Tracing Conceptions of Nature: Environmentalism Nuclear Refugees and Subjectivity in Post‐Fukushima Japan
Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies Feeling Thailand: An Examination of Affective Tourist Economies through the Lens of Fire Dance in Southern Thailand
Graduate Programme in Science and Technology Studies Inventing Islands in Disputed Seas: The South China Sea Case
Graduate Programme in Humanities Seeing the Past in the Present: The Political Economy of “Colonial” Architecture Heritages in “Postcolonial” Cites of Northeast China
Graduate Programme in Geography Forest Governance and Land Use Changes in the Shan State of Myanmar
Graduate Programme in History The Distinctive Operation of the People’s Courts in North Korea during the North Korean Revolution – 1945‐1950
Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies Food Regimes, Ecology and the South Korean “Miracle”
Graduate Programme in Geography Regimes of Accumulation and Transnational Developmentalism: An Economic Geography of Mutual Benefit in South Korea and India
Graduate Programme in Geography Language of Study: Vietnamese
Faculty of Environmental Studies Language of Study: Hindi
Graduate Programme in History Language of Study: Mandarin
Graduate Programme in Geography Language of Study: Vietnamese
Graduate Programme in Geography Language of Study: Burmese
Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology Language of Study: Japanese
Graduate Programme in Geography Language of Study: Lao
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and LA&PS are currently enrolled
2015.2016
GDAS Coordinator: Janice C.H. Kim (History) 2016 Core Course Instructor: Janice C.H. Kim
The Tessellate Institute produced a series
youth, identity formation, and marginalization titled Neglected Voices. This initiative seeks to create a curriculum pack that would accompany those videos and be used as educational modules in the public school system. It is currently in progress and expected to be completed by Summer 2016. The launch event for the curriculum pack is sponsored by YCAR and the Faculty of Education, York University.
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How Canada Contributed to China’s Remarkable Transformation Through University Partnerships and Knowledge Diplomacy ‐ Ruth Hayhoe, Julia Pan and Qiang Zha Invisible Newcomers: Experiences of Unaccompanied Children in Canada ‐ Ishrat Zakia Sultana Contemporary Tamil Poems from Sri Lanka: Regional Sensibility and Mainstream Trauma Theory ‐ Geetha Sukumaran Retiring Immigrants: Korean Seniors’ Lives After Migration to Canada ‐ Ann H. Kim China’s Bold Economic Statecraft ‐ Gregory Chin Revolutionizing Chinese Psychology in the Maoist Era ‐ Zhipeng Gao Reading Hindu Religion in South Asian Comics and Graphic Novels ‐ Sailaja Krishnamurti
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Editor: Susan Henders (Political Science)
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Engendering Transnational Voices: Studies in Family, Work, and Identity Guida Man and Rina Cohen, editors
Young Muslim Women in India: Bollywood, Identity and Changing Youth Culture Kabita Chakraborty, author
Gender, Visuality and Experience in the Early Chinese Periodical Press: Round Table and Book Launch Joan Judge, author
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Ryerson University
Rights in the Philippines‐Canada
Preet S. Aulakh Professor of Strategy and International Business Pierre Lassonde Chair in International Business Schulich School of Business Soma Chatterjee Assistant Professor, School of Social Work Joan Judge Professor, Department of History Abidin Kusno Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies
To be Associate Director and GDAS Coordinator (and GDAS Core Course Instructor)
To be DLLL Rep on the YCAR Exec
Current Text The academic Associate Director will assist the Director in her/his work. S/he will also serve as the Director’s deputy in the absence of the Director. The Executive Committee will appoint the Associate Director, with advice from the Director. Proposed Changes YCAR has two Associate Directors, who assist the Director. The Associate Director (ABMP) is, ex officio, the Executive Director of the Asia Business and Management Program (ABMP), and his/her responsibility is to ensure close cooperation and coordination between the ABMP and the Centre. The Associate Director (Graduate) is
responsibility is to administer the diploma program. The Executive Committee will appoint the Associate Director (Graduate), with advice from the Director. Both Associate Directors will be voting members of the YCAR Executive Committee.
Plans and Priorities for 2016.2017
South and Central Asia Project Organized by Sergei Plekhanov (Political Science) Lived and Contemporary Queer Diasporic South Asian Literatures, Cultures, Arts and Spaces (Title TBC) Organized by Shobna Nijhawan (DLLL) Gender, Migration and Contemporary (Im)mobilities in Asia Organized by Jolin Joseph (Gender, Feminist & Women's Studies) Knowledge Production in East Asia Organized by Joan Judge (History) Korea in Asia Organized by the Korea Study Group
Plans and Priorities for 2016.2017
Bearing Witness: Unspeakable Crimes, Invisible Atrocities ‐ Tamil Studies and Research Workshop (May 2016) Organized by Nedra Rodrigo * Tamil Studies Programme Tamils in Canada (edited book workshop) (Fall 2016) Organized by Harini Sivalingam (Socio‐legal Studies) Symposium on Canadian Scholarship on Gender Issues in India (October 2016) Organized by Sharada Srinivasan, Kabita Chakraborty (Children’s Studies), Harshita Yalamarty (GFWS); co‐hosted by the Canada Research Chair in Gender, Justice and Development, University of Guelph Brown Canada Summit 2016 (December 2016) Organized by Council of Agencies Serving South Asians (CASSA)
Plans and Priorities for 2016.2017
The Geopolitics of Indo‐Pacific and Atlantic‐Arctic Frontiers: Comparative & Interdisciplinary Analysis of Policy, Politics, International Law, Science & Technology (February 2017) Organized by Venilla Rajaguru (Science and Technology Studies) 2017 Critical South Asian Studies Workshop (February 2017) Organized by the South Asia Research Group The Return of the Social in Contemporary Art Practices in Korea (March 2017) Organized by Hong Kal (Visual Arts) Role and problems of translation in East Asian scholarly research and literature (March 2017) Organized by Joshua Fogel (History) Plans and Priorities for 2016.2017
Korean Studies: Looking Back and Moving Forward (March 2017) Organized by Laam Hae (Political Science) Southeast Asia Workshop at the Association of Asian Studies Conference (March 2017) Organized by Alicia Turner (Humanities) Workshop on Comparative Development in Asia (April 2017) Organized by Preet Aulakh (Schulich) and Philip Kelly (Geography)
Plans and Priorities for 2016.2017
Plans and Priorities for 2016.2017
Plans and Priorities for 2016.2017
Zaheer (10 May 2016). Organized by Arun Mukherjee and Lily Cho (English)
Philip Kelly (Geography)
(Cinema and Media Studies)
Aparna Sindhoor. Organized by the South Asia Research Group
Peter Vandergeest and Laura Schoenberger (Geography)
Plans and Priorities for 2016.2017
Plans and Priorities for 2016.2017
Plans and Priorities for 2016.2017
Gayatri Ambika Menon, Azim Premji University and 2015.2016 YCAR Research Collaboration Fellow (working with Radhika Mongia, Sociology) Soohwan Song, Director of the Korean National Assembly Secretariat Jonathan Tardif, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, CCGC project
** Update on revised visa/permit conditions for visiting scholars**
Plans and Priorities for 2016.2017
Plans and Priorities for 2016.2017
Plans and Priorities for 2016.2017
Awards Albert C.W. Chan Foundation Fellowship David Wurfel Award for Philippine Studies
Vivienne Poy Asian Research Award YCAR Language Award Young‐Rahn Woo Memorial Graduate Award YCAR Undergraduate Essay Awards Graduate Diploma in Asian Studies Laam Hae (Political Science) will take over as GDAS Coordinator on 1 July 2016 and will direct the core course in Winter 2017. Plans and Priorities for 2016.2017
Plans and Priorities for 2016.2017