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Agenda York Centre for Asian Research Director’s 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 Accomplishments for 2015 ‐ 2016 Financial Report Governance Plans and Priorities for 2016 ‐ 2017 Other Business 1

Report on Key Accomplishments for YCAR Mandate 2015.2016 Governance YCAR is a community of scholars committed to understanding the changing historical and contemporary dynamics of places in Intellectual Asia, of Asia’s place in the world, and of Asian communities in Canada and around the globe. The Centre encourages research Exchange that reflects a transnational, interdisciplinary, critical and engaged approach to scholarship. Research Support YCAR fosters intellectual exchange , provides research Graduate Training support , enriches student training and facilitates knowledge mobilization . Knowledge Mobilization 2

Report on Key Accomplishments for 2015.2016 Report on Key Accomplishments for 2015.2016 Membership YCAR Membership by Faculty YCAR Associates and Visitors: 212 Graduate and Faculty Associates: 68 Faculty Associates Undergraduate Associates Graduate Associates: 101 Environmental Studies (2) Environmental Studies (8) Undergraduate Associates:1 Health (1) Health (1) External Research Associates: 30 Glendon College (2) Glendon College (1) Emeriti Faculty Associates: 5 Liberal Arts & Professional Studies Liberal Arts & Professional Studies Visiting Scholars: 5 (53) (83) Postdoctoral Fellows or Visitors: 2 School of the Arts, Media, School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design (6) Performance and Design (4) New Associates and Visitors: Schulich School of Business (3) Schulich School of Business (1) Faculty Associates: 8 Education (1) Osgoode Hall Law School (3) Graduate Associates: 40 Undergraduate Associates:1 External Research Associates: 7 Postdoctoral Fellows or Visitors: 2 3

Executive Committee, 2015.2016 Report on Key Accomplishments for 2015.2016 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 Governance 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 4

Executive Committee, 2015.2016 Executive Committee, 2015.2016 Thank you, Janice, for being Thank you, Lorna, for Thank you, Qiang, Thank you, Sailaja, Thank you, Kabita, for Thank you, an Associate Director of taking care of business! for always being a for proving there is putting the humour into Jessica, for being historic proportions! class act! life after York! the humanities! our link, legation and liaison with languages, literatures and linguistics! 5

Internal Board External Advisory Council • Vice‐President, Research & Innovation Eva Busza Vice President, Knowledge and Research, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada • Associate Vice President Research Avvy Go • Dean, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (or Director, Metro Toronto Chinese & Southeast Asian Legal Clinic Tam Goossen designate) • Dean, Faculty of Environmental Studies (or designate) Chair, Good Jobs for All Coalition; Vice ‐ President, Urban Alliance on Race Relations Caroline Mangosing • Dean, School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Former Executive Director, Kapisanan Philippine Centre for Arts and Culture Design (or designate) David Mulroney Canadian Ambassador to China, 2009 ‐ 2012; President, St Michael’s College, U of T • Principal, Glendon College (or designate) Haroon Siddiqui • Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies (or designate) Editorial Page Editor Emeritus and Columnist, Toronto Star Richard Stubbs • Associate Vice‐President, International Professor, Department of Political Science, McMaster University 6

Report on Key Accomplishments for 2015.2016 Report on Key Accomplishments for 2015.2016 YCAR organized or co ‐ organized 58 Events Intellectual Exchange in 2015.2016 7

Report on Key Accomplishments for 2015.2016 Report on Key Accomplishments for 2015.2016 LECTURE SERIES: LECTURE SERIES: Developmentalism in Transnational Asia What’s On in the Greater China Region Rostow’s Fingerprints, Park’s Boot Prints, Lee’s Rhetorical Toronto Anniversary Events on Hong Kong Umbrella Movement Imprint: Transnational Dimensions of South Korean and Singaporean Developmentalism in the 1960s ‐ 1990s Panel Discussion on Umbrella Movement and screening of Karl (2015) Jim Glassman , University of British Columbia • Wendy S. Wong , York University; Alex Yong Kang Chow , Student leader of HK Umbrella Movement, Former Secretary General of HKFS; Winnie Ng , Ryerson Community Art in Korea: Dongdaemun Rooftop Paradise (DRP) University; Gloria Fung , Canada‐Hong Kong Link Park Chan ‐ kook , Seoul Youth Hub Queer Worlding in the Urban Age Photo Exhibition – “Let Flowers Blossom Everywhere” • Natalie Oswin , McGill University "We can certainly change something": • Developmentalism, Knowledge and Power Taiwan's New Direction and where it takes Abidin Kusno , York University the rest of us Michael Stainton (YCAR), Charles Burton Graduate Student Panel: Rethinking the Developmental State in (Brock University), Sheng Xue , journalist and Asia Organized by: Laam Hae (Political Science) and Chinese exile leader. Guillaume Dandurand , Social Anthropology ; Yasin Kaya , Political Hong Kal (Visual Arts) Science; Kenneth Cardenas , Geography Organized by Wendy S. Wong (Design) and Michael Stainton (YCAR) 8

Report on Key Accomplishments for 2015.2016 Report on Key Accomplishments for 2015.2016 Workshops and Conferences Workshops and Conferences Changing Asia in the Globalizing World: Boundaries, Identity and Transnationalism 1‐2 May 2015 Glendon College 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) 9

Report on Key Accomplishments for 2015.2016 Report on Key Accomplishments for 2015.2016 Workshops and Conferences Workshops and Conferences Filipino-Canadian Action Research Summit Canada-Philippines Alternative Transnational Economies (ATE) Team Meeting Organized by Philip Kelly (Geography) Organized by Philip Kelly (Geography) 10

Report on Key Accomplishments for 2015.2016 Report on Key Accomplishments for 2015.2016 Workshops and Conferences Workshops and Conferences 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 Fourth Critical Approaches to South Dissertation Workshop for MA and PhD students Asia Studies Workshop Organized by Shobna Nijhawan Organized by the South Asia Research Group 11

Report on Key Accomplishments for 2015.2016 Report on Key Accomplishments for 2015.2016 Asia Lecture Other Events Encountering Asia: Undergraduate Vietnam, Experiences from the Philippines, Guam, York University and California: Study Abroad Connecting the Dots of Courses in Thailand US Military Empire and South Korea 2015 Asia Lecture with Organized by Peter Vandergeest Yen Le Espiritu, (Geography) University of California at San Diego Girls with Disabilities in the Global South: A Transnational Politics of Activism: Panel and Photo Exhibition Organized by Xuan Thuy Nguyen (Research Associate) 12

Report on Key Accomplishments for 2015.2016 Report on Key Accomplishments for 2015.2016 Other Events Other Events N. Sivalingam Memorial Lecture in Tamil Studies Navi Pillay Former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights 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) 13

Report on Key Accomplishments for 2015 ‐ 2016 Report on Key Accomplishments for 2015.2016 Other Events Other Events An Empire Stages Back: Nationalism, Postcoloniality and the Diaspora in Philippine Dance Organized by Patrick Alcedo (Dance) 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 14

Report on Key Accomplishments for 2015 ‐ 2016 Asian Business and Management Other Support Programme (ABMP) Asian Heritage Month Bengali Information and Employment Services (BIES) Centre for Feminist Research Lin Wang Elena Caprioni, PhD Budget Assistant Program Director Council of Agencies Serving South Asians Li Chen (Lily) Bernie Frolic, PhD Program Administrator Executive Director Humanities Graduate Programme International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines, Canadian Chapter 15