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York Centre for Asian Research

2019 Annual General Meeting

24 April 2019 Room 519, Kaneff Tower, York University

Agenda

• Director’s Welcome
• Approval of Agenda for 24 April 2019
• Review and approval of 2018 Annual General Meeting Minutes
• Report on Key Accomplishments for 2018–2019
• Governance
• Nomination and vote on new faculty members for the Executive

Committee, 2019–20

• External Advisory Council
• Financial Report
• Report on, and discussion of, Plans and Priorities for 2019–2020
• Feedback on Associates’ thoughts on YCAR’s geographic area
• Other Business

Report on Key Accomplishments for 2018–2019 KORE

Report on Key Accomplishments for 2018–2019 KORE

EDUCATION: UNDERGRADUATE:

Minor degree Language certificate Experiential Learning GRADUATE: Awards and training Dissertation Workshop Graduate Summer School Postdoctoral Fellowship

INFRASTRUCTURE: Staff and KORE

CLUSTER 1 New Critical Korean Studies: Theory, Method, and Practice CLUSTER 3 Transcultural Pedagogy in Language and Culture CLUSTER 5 Resistant and Transformative Politics in Korea CLUSTER 4 North Korea: Translatoin and Literary, Cultural and Political Transformation in a Global Contex CLUSTER 2 Defining Korean Canadian Studies

Report on Key Accomplishments for 2018–2019 Canada‐Initiatives Fund

Founded in 2019, the Canada‐China Infinitives Fund (CCIF) was created to support scholarly exchanges and research on modern (i.e. post 1911) and contemporary China (including Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau) and their global reach or Canada‐China linkages, or the experiences of the Chinese‐Canadian community. It was created thanks to the generous support of the Schulich Executive Education Centre’s Asian Business and Management Program at York University. The number of funded projects will depend on submission but generally, more than two will be funded annually. The activities supported by the CCIF at YCAR will vary from year to year, but priority will be given to workshops or conferences at York that bring together researchers from York/ elsewhere that are focused on themes within the scope noted above. Other initiatives that can foster connections between York and institutions in China or in the Chinese‐ Canadian community are welcome. For more information/discussion: Please attend the meeting on Tuesday, April 30.

Report on Key Accomplishments for 2018–2019

Report on Key Accomplishments for 2018–2019

Research Support

Report on Key Accomplishments for 2018–2019

Grant Application Submissions with YCAR Support

External

Academy of Korean Studies GC Digital Research Institute Global Challenges Research Fund National Geographic SPARC‐Scheme for Promotion of Academic Research Collaboration SSHRC – IDG, IG, Connection

Internal

Minor Research Grant SSHRC Explore Event and Outreach Fund (LA&PS) Global Community & Engagement Events Fund (LA&PS) Senior Scholars’ Research Fund (LA&PS) Seed Grant for Collaborative research Initiatives (LA&PS) Office of the Vice‐President, Research & Innovation

Report on Key Accomplishments for 2018–2019

Projects and Programmes Housed at YCAR

YCAR housed 27 projects and programmes in 2018–2019.

Report on Key Accomplishments for 2018–2019

Projects and Programmes Housed at YCAR

YCAR organized or supported 62 events and other research dissemination activities in 2018–2019.

Report on Key Accomplishments for 2018–2019

Publication Support Fund

• Patrick Alcedo (Dance) – Dancing Manilenyos
• Laam Hae (Politics) – Developing Urban Korea: Core

Locations and Post‐Colonial Knowledges

• Jessica Li (DLLL) – Transcultural Negotiations:

Chinese Canadian Identities

• Jia Ma (DLLL) – Incorruptable Love: Biography of K. H.

Ting

• Radhika Mongia (Sociology) – Indian Migration and

Empire: A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State

• Geetha Sukumaran (Humanities) – Then There Were No

Witnesses: Poems of Ahilan

Report on Key Accomplishments for 2018–2019

Graduate Funding and Activities Award funding of $89,000 for 19 students in 2018– 2019 from from AMPD, LA&PS, Osgoode, Health Professional Development Funding: $4,781 to nine students from AMPD, Osgoode, LA&PS

2019 Award Recipients

Albert C.W. Chan Foundation Award Noa Nahmias

Graduate Programme in History

The Making of Popular Science: Visuals, Objects and Knowledge Production in Republican China ca. 1929–1952

2019 Award Recipients

Penny and John Van Esterik Award for Graduate Research on Southeast Asia Wendy Medina de Loera

Graduate Programme in Geography

Rural Livelihoods in Contemporary South Sulawesi

2019 Award Recipients

Vivienne Poy Asian Research Award Asma Atique

Graduate Programme in Law

Just Greening the Gulf: Environmental Justice for Migrant Workers in Abu Dhabi’s Eco‐city

Abinaya Gnanasekar

Graduate Programme in Development Studies

The Invisible Farmers of Indonesia: A Gendered Perspective in Agricultural Development

2019 Award Recipients

Vivienne Poy Asian Research Award Clarence Magpantay

Graduate Programme in Geography

The Call to the Filipino Diaspora: Alternative Development through Transnational Practices

Youn Joung Kim

Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies

The Construction and Representation of Militarized Sex Work in South Korea

2019 Award Recipients

Vivienne Poy Asian Research Award Cailleah Scott‐Grimes

Graduate Programme in Film

Between Us: Re‐imagining Family Rituals in Japan

Harshita Yalamarty

Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies

Saat Samundar Paar Main Tere Peeche (Across Seven Seas, I Followed You Here): Mobility, Marriage and Migration in the Indian Diaspora

2019 Award Recipients

• Dr. Sangdeok Woo and Mrs. Kwisoon Lim Woo

Memorial Graduate Award

Ravneet Somal

Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology

The Feminist Movement in South Korea: Challenging Traditional Norms on Sexuality and Consent through the Reconstruction of Sex Education

Patricia Trudel

Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology

Han as a Transmissible Effect in the Korean Community

• f Toronto

2019 Award Recipients

Young‐Rahn Woo Memorial Graduate Award Jihong Kim

Graduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies

Understanding Cinema in Colonial Korea between 1919 and 1945

Helen Lee

Graduate Programme in Film

Paris to Pyongyang

2019 Award Recipients

• N. Sivalingam Award in Tamil Studies

Kharthika Mohanachandran

Graduate Programme in Social Work

Shaping the Tamil Narrative: A qualitative research study on how the identities of 1.5 and second‐generation Tamil youth in Toronto and Montreal are shaped by the effects of trauma, genocide and forced migration

Shalika Sivathasan

Graduate Programme in English

Reading across “The Global Refugee Crisis”

• f the Modern Age

2019 Award Recipients

Nirvan Bhavan Research Fellowship Roopali Rokade

Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies

Voices from the Margins: An Ethnographic Analysis

• f the Question of Commercial Surrogacy in India

2019 Award Recipients

David Wurfel Award Jana Borras

Graduate Programme in Sociology

The Precarious Experience of Filipino Live‐in Caregivers

Emerald Bandoles

Graduate Programme in Kinesiology and Health Science – Sociocultural Studies

Sport for Development: Addressing the Cultural an Geographical Gaps

2019 Award Recipients

YCAR Language Award

Min Ah Park Graduate Programme in English Language of Study: Korean Aida Afrazeh Graduate Programme in Geography Language of Study: Arabic Jenna Blower Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology Language of Study: Tagalog Abinaya Gnanasekar Graduate Programme in Development Studies Language of Study: Bahasa Indonesian Cailleah Scott‐Grimes Graduate Programme in Film Language of Study: Japanese

Report on Key Accomplishments for 2018–2019

Graduate Diploma in Asian Studies

▪ Students from the FES, AMPD, LA&PS and Health are currently enrolled ▪ Funding for the core course is confirmed for one more year 2018–2019 ▪ Total enrolment in Diploma: 53 ▪ Core course enrolment: 23 ▪ Completed Diploma requirements: 9 (By June 2019 graduation)

Governance

Report on Key Accomplishments for 2018–2019

Executive Committee, 2018–2019

Abidin Kusno, Director, Environmental Studies (ex‐officio) Laam Hae, Associate Director, GDAS Coordinator, Politics

• R. Patrick Alcedo, Dance

Preet Aulakh, Schulich School of Business Ranu Basu, Geography Soma Chatterjee, School of Social Work Wendy S. Wong, Design

• B. Frolic/E. Caprioni, Asian Business & Management Programme

Xueqing Xu, DLLL representative Hana Shams Ahmed, Graduate Associate representative, Social Anthropology Amardeep Kaur, Graduate Associate representative, Geography Rachel Wong, Graduate Associate representative, English

Executive Committee, 2018–2019

Thank you to our departing members for their enthusiasm and support of the Centre and its activities. Preet Aulakh Soma Chatterjee Wendy Wong

Nominations to Executive Committee for 2019–2020

Radhika Mongia Sociology, LA&PS Yuka Nakamura School of Kinesiology & Health Science, Health

YCAR External Advisory Council

LT‐RT (clockwise):

• Sonny Cho (Canada Korea

Business Council )

• Samira Kanji (Noor Cultural

Centre)

• Keith Lowe (Hakka

researcher and educator)

• Yuen Pau Woo (Canadian

Senator)

• Julie Nguyen (Canada

Vietnam Trade Council)

• Johnny Tan (Toronto

Global)

FINANCIAL REPORT

Plans and Priorities for 2019–2020

Rechartering

YCAR Deadlines

20‐Feb‐19 Deadline for initial revisions to questionnaire by AK/AF based

• n application requirements

1‐Mar‐19 Send draft questionnaire to Exec/key associates for comments 20‐Mar‐19 feedback from Exec on questionnaire at March meeting 1‐May‐19 Questionnaire sent out to Associates 1‐May‐19 Set dates for focus groups and book rooms 10‐Jun‐19 Deadline for questionnaire Jul/August 2019 Questionnaire follow‐up and focus group planning Jul/August 2019 AK meets with sponsoring Faculties and/or secures meetings with them 22‐Aug‐19 Email to Associates to sign up for focus groups Early September 2019 Focus groups May/September 2019 Compile survey, collect other data 20‐Sep‐19 Self‐Study complete based on questionnaires and focus groups 20‐Sep‐19 First draft of Application ready Late September 2019 First draft reviewed by Executive 16‐Oct‐19 Final report ready

Plans and Priorities for 2019–2020

Fundraising

• Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies
• Tamil Initiatives

Plans and Priorities for 2019–2020

YCAR‐CASS Initiative

Feedback – YCAR’s geographic areas

Orbis

We need you!

Saturday, 9 June 2019

Other Business

York Centre for Asian Research

Thank you very much for coming!