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York Centre for Asian Research Annual General Meeting 27 April 2017 Room 519, Kaneff Tower, York University Agenda 1. Directors Welcome 2. Approval of Agenda for 27 April 2017 3. Review and approval of 2016 AGM Minutes 4. Report on Key
York Centre for Asian Research
Annual General Meeting
27 April 2017 Room 519, Kaneff Tower, York University
Agenda
YCAR Mandate
YCAR is a community of scholars committed to understanding the changing historical and contemporary dynamics of places in Asia, of Asia’s place in the world, and of Asian communities in Canada and around the globe. The Centre encourages research that reflects a transnational, interdisciplinary, critical and engaged approach to scholarship. YCAR fosters intellectual exchange, provides research support, enriches student training and facilitates knowledge mobilization.
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2016.2017 Governance
Intellectual Exchange Research Support Graduate Training Knowledge Mobilization
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2016.2017
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2016.2017
Membership
YCAR Associates and Visitors: 208 Faculty Associates: 61 Graduate Associates: 100 External Research Associates: 34 Emeriti Faculty Associates: 6 Visiting Scholars: 5 Postdoctoral Fellows or Visitors: 2 New Associates and Visitors: Faculty Associates: 2 Graduate Associates: 23 External Research Associates: 7 Postdoctoral Fellows or Visitors: 2
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2016.2017
YCAR Membership by Faculty
Faculty Associates Environmental Studies (2) Health (2) Glendon College (2) LA&PS (46) AMPD (6) Schulich (3) Education (1) Graduate Associates Environmental Studies (9) Glendon College (1) LA&PS (79) AMPD (5) Schulich (2) Osgoode Hall Law School (4)
Executive Committee, 2016.2017
Philip Kelly, Director, Geography, LA&PS (ex‐officio) Laam Hae, Associate Director, GDAS Coordinator, Political Science, LA&PS Preet Aulakh, Schulich School of Business Soma Chatterjee, School of Social Work, LA&PS Bernie Frolic/Elena Caprioni, Asian Business and Management Programme Joan Judge, History, LA&PS Abidin Kusno, Environmental Studies Shobna Nijhawan, DLLL representative, LA&PS Alicia Turner, Humanities, LA&PS Laura Schoenberger, Graduate Associate representative, Geography, LA&PS Christine Nguyen, Graduate Associate representative, Humanities, LA&PS Harshita Yalamarty, Graduate Associate representative, GFWS, LA&PS Alicia Filipowich, YCAR Coordinator and GDAS Administrator
Executive Committee, 2016.2017
Thank you, Alicia. You’ve Turnered this Centre around. Thank you, Abidin. Kusno body does it better. Alicia Turner Abidin Kusno
YCAR Staff, 2016.2017
Alicia Filipowich YCAR Coordinator Alex Felipe Electronic Media Coordinator Nadia Hasan Research Outreach Officer
Internal Board
External Advisory Council
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
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2016.2017
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2015.2016
LECTURE SERIES: Lived and Contemporary Queer Diasporic South Asian Literatures, Cultures, Arts and Spaces Organized by: Shobna Nijhawan (DLLL)
Dissolving Boundaries of Theatre, Spirit, Politics and Play: A Reading and Discussion with nisha ahuja 3 October 2016 ‘Simultaneously Revered and Reviled’: Third Gender Characters and the Diaspora in the work of Amitav Ghosh, Anand Mahadevan and Mahesh Dattani with Margaret Herrick 17 October 2016 Reading Queer India: Investigations into Productions of Difference with Anindo Hazra 27 February 2017 The Practice of Art with Vivek Shraya 6 M h 2017
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2016.2017
LECTURE SERIES: Korea in Asia
Organized by: Laam Hae (Political Science) and Janice Kim (History)
K‐pop, J‐pop and the Divergent Trajectories of South Korea and Japan, or Girls' Generation vs. AKB 48 John Lie, UC Berkeley, 23 Sept 2016 Decentering Citizenship: Gender, Labour and Migrant Rights in South Korea Hae Yeon Choo (University of Toronto), 24 Nov 2016 Unusual Suspects: Privatized Violence and Dispossessive Litigation in the Unmaking
Is a Progressive Leftist Party Possible in a Divided Nation? The Case of the Labor Party in South Korea | Saihwa Hong (Advisor, Labor Party of South Korea), 19 April 2017
LECTURE SERIES: Geotechnical Politics of Ocean Frontiers, Peace Research Lecture Series
Organized by: Venilla Rajaguru (STS)
Nuclear Control Systems and Connections to Ocean Resources: Systemic Differences and Partnerships between Canada, China, the U.S. and Japan (30 September 2016) Speaker: CD Thomas Davis, Consultant & Trainer, Nuclear Reactor Control Systems; and Science for Peace Board Director, Canada 30 September 2016 Civil Science Practices in Ocean Disaster Management in Asia, Russia and N. America: Comparative perspectives Speaker: Dr. Danielle Stodilka, Scientist and Consultant on International Security and Crisis Management 11 November 2016 The Politics of Resource Development 1 February 2017 Speakers: Maxwell Wu (National Taiwan University), Kathy Young (York) Presented by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, Toronto The Geotechnical Politics of Ocean Frontiers: The Canadian North and the Indo‐Pacific: An Interdisciplinary Workshop on Peace & Security 28 April 2017 | York University
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2016.2017
Workshops and Conferences
Bearing Witness: Unspeakable Crimes, Invisible Atrocities Second Tamil Studies Symposium 6‐7 May 2016 Engaging Caste in Diaspora 12‐17 May 2016 Feminist Political Ecology Working Group Saturday, 19 November 2016 The Return of the Social in Contemporary Art Practices in Korea workshop 20 March 2017
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2016.2017
Other Events
Showcasing Canadian Scholarship on Gender in India 5-6 October 2016 | York University and the University of Guelph
transnational filipinx studies: Comparing the Filipino Diaspora in Canada and the United States through Community Engaged Research | 14 November 2016
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2016.2017
Other Events: Association for Asian Studies, Toronto
Research at the Interface of Activism and Academia in Southeast Asia | Workshop at the AAS Conference | 16 March 2017
Plans and Priorities for 2016.2017
Other Events
Bernard H.K. Luk Memorial Lecture in Hong Kong Studies: Should Chinese Language be Taught in Putonghua? Contested Identities in Post-1997 Hong Kong Dr Choi Po King CUHK
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2016.2017
Other Support
Asian Heritage Month Centre for Feminist Research Humanities Graduate Programme Abuse Never Becomes Us (ANBU), York University Department of Historical Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough Biotechnology, Bio‐Economies, Law, Translations and Cosmopolitics workshop BAYAN Canada Centre for Research on Language and Culture Contact The Tessellate Institute Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies Sikh Forum at York University Indo‐Canadian Workers’ Association People’s Voice newspaper Noor Cultural Centre Canadian Council of Muslim Women York Taiwanese Students’ Association University of Guelph Centre for Refugee Studies
Asian Business and Management Programme (ABMP)
Bernie Frolic, PhD Executive Director Elena Caprioni, PhD Program Director Li Chen (Lily) Program Administrator
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2016.2017
Visitors and Postdocs
Catherine St‐Hilaire Università degli Studi di Milano Jonathan Tardif SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow CCGC project Chusak Wittayapak Chiang Mai University Shubhabrata Basu Indian Institute of Management Indore Gayatri Menon Azin Premji University
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2016.2017
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2016.2017
Grant Application Submissions with YCAR Support
SSHRC
Other External Competitions
Internal Opportunities
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2016.2017
External Grants Currently Housed at YCAR
An Empire Dances Back: Nationalism, Postcoloniality and the Canadian Diaspora Through Philippine Folk Dance Traditions Early Researcher Award, Government of Ontario
Canada‐Philippines Alternative Transnational Economies Project Philip Kelly (Geography), SSHRC (2015‐) Canadian Conservation in Global Context: Intersections with Asia and Africa Robin Roth (Geography), SSHRC (2014‐) Eve‐Teasing: Young Women and Men Discuss Public Harassment in the Urban Slums of India Kabita Chakraborty (Children’s Studies), SSHRC (2014‐)
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2016.2017
External Grants Currently Housed at YCAR
Matching Policies, Institutions and Practices of Water Governance in the Salween‐ Thanlwin‐Nu River Basin: Towards Inclusive, Informed and Accountable Water Governance Vanessa Lamb (Melbourne), CGIAR (2014‐) New Directions in Environmental Governance: Remarking Public and Private Authority in Southeast Asian Resource Frontiers Peter Vandergeest (Geography), SSHRC (2014‐) Quotidian Concerns: Everyday Knowledge and the Rise of the Common Reader in China, 1860‐1940 Joan Judge (History), SSHRC (2013‐)
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2016.2017
External Grants Currently Housed at YCAR
Towards a History of the Publishing House Ganga Pustak Mala Shobna Nijhawan (DLLL) (2015‐) Mass Capture: Making Non‐Citizens and the Chinese Head Tax in Canada Lily Cho (English), SSHRC (2016‐) Neoliberal Industrialization, the Rural Periphery, & Uneven Development in India Raju Das (Geography), SSHRC (2016‐) Asian Urbanism and Environmental Politics: Nundation in Jakarta/Southeast Asia Abidin Kusno (Environmental Studies), SSHRC (2016‐)
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2016.2017
Publication Support Fund
Publications Supported in the Past Year Hindi Publishing in Colonial Lucknow. Gender, Genres and Visuality in the Creation of a Literary Canon. Oxford University Press Shobna Nijhawan (DLLL) Developing Urban Korea: Core Locations and Post‐Colonial
Laam Hae (Political Science)
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2016.2017
Space at YCAR Projects: 5 Graduate Associates: 18 Research Associates: 3 Faculty based at YCAR: 5
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2016.2017
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2016.2017
Graduate Funding and Activities Funding for 44 students in 2016.2017: Awards: $37,000 Professional Development Funding: $3,000 Association of Asian Studies: $1,500
2017 Award Recipients
Albert C.W. Chan Foundation Fellowship
Amardeep Kaur
Graduate Programme in Geography Subaltern Cosmopolitanisms: Place-making and Translocal Spaces in Sikh Diaspora across Hong Kong, Vancouver and Toronto
2017 Award Recipients
Thrmiga Sathiyamoorthy
Graduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies Concept Mapping of Facilitators of Social Inclusion among Tamil Elders
2017 Award Recipients
Vivienne Poy Asian Research Award
Sangyoo Lee
Graduate Programme in Social Work How the concept of Canadian multiculturalism based on National Narratives generates Social Exclusion of Korean and other East Asian Immigrant Youth in Toronto
Mohammad Hasan
Osgoode Hall Law School Mining Conflict, Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Justice: The Case of Phulbari Coal Project in Bangladesh
2017 Award Recipients
Vivienne Poy Asian Research Award
Rupinder Minhas
Graduate Programme in Geography Socio‐spatial Inequalities, People's Resistance, and Left‐ leaning Political Parties: An Indian Case Study
Kimberly Roberts
Graduate Programme in Geography Forest Governance and Land Use Changes in the Shan State of Myanmar
2017 Award Recipients
Vivienne Poy Asian Research Award
Robin Verrall
Graduate Programme in Political Science Taiwanese National Identity in the Sunflower Movement: Verbal and Visual Dimensions of Nationalism from Below
2017 Award Recipients
Memorial Graduate Award
Meghna George
Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology Virtual Networks: Exploring Intimacy and Belonging within Online Dating Applications for Sexual Minorities in Korea
2016 Award Recipients
Young‐Rahn Woo Memorial Graduate Award
Yoon Jin Jung
Graduate Programme in Visual Arts Wall of Walls
2017 Award Recipients
YCAR Language Award
Jillian Fulton Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology Language of Study: Arabic Sarah Allen Graduate Programme in Geography Language of Study: Vietnamese Kyle Gibson Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies Language of Study: Korean Kimberly Roberts Graduate Programme in Geography Language of Study: Burmese Amardeep Kaur Graduate Programme in Geography Language of Study: Gurmukhi-Punjabi
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2016.2017
Graduate Diploma in Asian Studies
enrolled
2016.2017
graduation) GDAS Coordinator and 2017 Core Course Instructor: Laam Hae (Political Science)
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2016.2017
Website Visits
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Website Visits
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Social Media
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Social Media
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Social Media
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2016.2017
Knowledge Mobilization: Asia Research Briefs
Social Life and Shifting Meaning of Collected Objects: Japanese Ceramics of Sir William Cornelius Van Horne (1843–1915) Akiko Takesue The Socio‐ecological Implications of US Food Aid in the South Korean “Miracle” Kyle Gibson 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
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2015.2016
Knowledge Mobilization: Asia Colloquia Papers
Vietnam, the Philippines, Guam and California: Connecting the Dots of U.S. Military Empire
Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2016.2017
Knowledge Mobilization: Book Launches
Canadian Universities in China’s Transformation: An Untold Story edited by Ruth Hayhoe, Julia Pan and Qiang Zha
23 September 2016, OISE/U of T Library
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2016.2017
Outreach and Collaboration with Other Organizations
Kong Library, UT
Settlement
University of Toronto Scarborough
Rights in the Philippines‐Canada
rights organization
Association
Women
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Report on Key Accomplishments for 2016.2017
Outreach and Collaboration with Other Organizations
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2016.2017
Outreach and Collaboration with Other Organizations
GOVERNANCE
Nominations to Executive Committee for 2017.2018
Ranu Basu Geography, LA&PS
Dance, AMPD
Plans and Priorities for 2017.2018
Plans and Priorities for 2017.2018
Lecture Series Emerging Asian Urbanisms Nabeel Ahmed (FES) Kutitap: Transnational Dialogue and Solidarity‐ Building Series on Duterte’s Philippines Alitaptap Collective TBC York Political Ecology Working Group: Peter Vandergeest and Shubhra Gururani
Plans and Priorities for 2017.2018
Lecture Series
South and Central Asia Project Workshops Sergei Plekhanov (Political Science) Gender, Migration and Contemporary (Im)mobilities in Asia Jolin Joseph (GFWS) Transformative Politics in South Korea: Democracy, Resistance and the Future of Progressive Politics Laam Hae (Political Science)
Plans and Priorities for 2017.2018
Workshops and Conferences
Asian Connections: Linking Mobilities of Capital and Labour in Theory and Practice Preet Aulakh (Schulich) and Philip Kelly (Geography) 11‐12 May 2017 Philippine Arts and Social Studies in the Ontario Curriculum (PASSOC) Patrick Alcedo (Dance), Philip Kelly (Geography), Ethel Tungohan (Political Science and Social Science) June 2017 Retrospect and Prospect: Symposium on Chinese Canadian Literature and Media Organized by Xueqing Xu (DLLL), Hua Laura Wu (Western) and Jessica Li (DLLL) 20‐21 July 2017 Asian Canadian Youth Experiences of Cultural Identity: An Interdisciplinary Exploration Nazilla Khanlou (Health) Summer 2017
Plans and Priorities for 2017.2018
Workshops and Conferences
Bengali Diaspora in Canada: The Stock of Existing Knowledge and Emerging Research Directions Marshia Akbar and Sutama Ghosh (Ryerson) November 2017 Transnational Configurations of Tamil Identities: Tamil Studies Symposium Dates: 8‐9 September 2017; other dates for outreach throughout the year Tamils in Canada Book Workshop; Sivalingam Lecture in Tamil Studies Sixth Critical South Asian Studies Workshop South Asia Research Group 8‐10 March 2018 CASS‐York Workshop Beijing, August 28‐29, 2017
Plans and Priorities for 2017.2018
Workshops and Conferences
Plans and Priorities for 2017.2018
Community Engagement
Decolonial Solidarities 2: Exploring Accountability, Solidarity, and Action within and between Indigenous and non‐Indigenous Racialized Peoples South Asia Research Group January 2018
Plans and Priorities for 2017.2018
Other Events
Jin‐me Yoon Talk Proposed by: Hong Kal (Visual Arts) Screening of ‘The Seed’ Proposed by: Shobna Nijhawan (DLLL) Launch Panel ‐ Journal of Peasant Studies, the first Special Issue to focus on Southeast Asia in 30 years Proposed by: Laura Schoenberger and Peter Vandergeest (Geography) Critical China Studies programme Proposed by: Joshua Fogel and Joan Judge (History)
Plans and Priorities for 2017.2018
Visitors and Postdocs
Ruth Pison, University of the Philippines, YCAR Research Collaboration Fellow YCAR Research Collaboration Fellow: TBC (due May 29th) Jonathan Tardif SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, CCGC project CCK Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Chinese Studies: TBC
Plans and Priorities for 2017.2018
Visitors and Postdocs
Shubhabrata Basu Indian Institute of Management Indore Sandhya Rao Mehta Department of English Language and Literature, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. Sangeeta Thapliyal Chair, Centre for Inner Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University Wang Baohua Deputy Director, Co‐innovation Center, Communication University of China, Beijing
Plans and Priorities for 2017.2018
Grant Application Development and Submission This woman can work
with your grant applications: Budget Justification Knowledge Mobilization Team Coordination Documentation Internal Signatures Matching Funds
Plans and Priorities for 2017.2018
Funding Opportunities for Associates
Associates and their research colleagues)
Plans and Priorities for 2017.2018
Student Training and Awards
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 continue as GDAS Coordinator and core course director.
Plans and Priorities for 2017.2018
Fundraising Fundraising can support:
Funding can involve:
YCAR ‐ The Next Five Years What is working well at YCAR? What is not worth our time and effort? Are there strategic priorities we should emphasize? Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions? Feedback?
Other Business
York Centre for Asian Research
And please join us this afternoon: Should Chinese Language be Taught in Putonghua? Contested Identities in the Linguistic Arena in Post-1997 Hong Kong Schulich Executive Dining Room, 2.30pm