York Centre for Asian Research Annual General Meeting 5 September 2018 Room 280N, York Lanes, York University
Agenda 1) Director’s Welcome 2) Approval of Agenda for 5 September 2018 3)Review and approval of 2017 Annual General Meeting Minutes 4) Report on Key Accomplishments for 2017–2018 5) Governance | Nomination and vote on new faculty member for the Executive Committee, 2018–2019 6) Financial Report | 2017–2018 fiscal statements of operation and 2018– 2019 budgets 7) Report on, and discussion of, Plans and Priorities for 2018–2019 8) Other Business
Internal Board • Vice ‐ President, Research & Innovation • Associate Vice President Research • Dean, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (or designate) • Dean, Faculty of Environmental Studies (or designate) • Dean, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (or designate) • Principal, Glendon College (or designate) • Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies (or designate) • Associate Vice ‐ President, International
Internal Board What happened at the annual Internal Board Meeting? • Highlights • Challenges • Budget
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2017 – 2018 Governance Intellectual Exchange Research Support Graduate Training Knowledge Mobilization
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2017 – 2018 Governance
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2017 – 2018 Membership YCAR Associates and Visitors: Faculty Associates: 71 Graduate Associates: 95 External Research Associates: 37 Emeriti Faculty Associates: 6 Visiting Scholars: 3 Postdoctoral Fellows or Visitors: 4 New Associates and Visitors: Faculty Associates: 6 Graduate Associates: 16 External Research Associates: 5 Visiting Scholars: 3 Postdoctoral Fellows or Visitors: 3
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2017 – 2018 YCAR Membership by Faculty Faculty Associates Graduate Associates AMPD (4) AMPD (4) Education (2) Education (1) Environmental Studies (2) Environmental Studies (7) Glendon College (2) Glendon College (1) Health (2) LA&PS (77) LA&PS (55) Osgoode Hall Law School (3) Schulich (3) Schulich (2) Science (1)
Executive Committee, 2017 – 2018 Abidin Kusno , 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 B. Frolic/E. Caprioni , Asian Business & Management Programme Joan Judge, History Shobna Nijhawan , DLLL representative Laura Schoenberger, Graduate Associate representative, Geography Christine Nguyen , Graduate Associate representative, Humanities Harshita Yalamarty , Graduate Associate representative, GFWS
Executive Committee, 2017 – 2018 Joan Judge Shobna Nijhawan Thank you to our departing members for their enthusiasm and support of the Centre and its activities.
Nomination to Executive Committee for 2018 – 2019; new DLLL representative Xueqing Xu Wendy S. Wong DLLL, LA&PS Design, AMPD
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2017 – 2018 Intellectual Exchange
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2017 – 2018 YCAR organized or co ‐ organized 48 activities in 2017 – 2018
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2017 – 2018 LECTURE SERIES Emerging Asian Urbanisms Emerging Asian Urbanisms Organizer: Nabeel Ahmed Organizer: Nabeel Ahmed (Environmental Studies) (Environmental Studies) * Continues in 2018–2019 * Continues in 2018–2019 Gender, Migration and Gender, Migration and Contemporary Contemporary (Im)mobilities in Asia (Im)mobilities in Asia Organizer: Jolin Joseph Organizer: Jolin Joseph (Gender, Feminist & Women's (Gender, Feminist & Women's Studies) Studies) Transformative Politics in Transformative Politics in South Korea: Democracy, South Korea: Democracy, Resistance and the Future Resistance and the Future of Progressive Politics of Progressive Politics Organizer: Laam Hae (Politics) Organizer: Laam Hae (Politics)
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2017 – 2018 Workshops and Conferences Asian Connections: Linking Mobilities of Capital & Labour in Theory & Practice (11–12 May 2017) Organizers: Preet Aulakh (Schulich), Philip Kelly (Geography) Retrospect and Prospect: International Symposium on Chinese Canadian Literature (19–21 May 2017) Organizers: Xueqing Xu (DLLL), Jessica Li (DLLL) Tamil Studies Symposium: Transnational Configurations of Tamil Identity (8–9 September 2017) Organizer: A. Nedra Rodrigo (Humanities) Canada ‐ India Symposium ( 6 October 2017) Organizer: Nivedita Das Kundu
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2017 – 2018 Workshops and Conferences Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies 2017 Conference: People In and Out of Place (26 – 28 October 2017) Organizers: York University organizing committee Unsettling Canada at 150: Memory Discourses in Transnational Contexts (3 November 2017) Organizers: Michael Nijhawan (Sociology), Daphne Winland (Anthropology), Jenny Wustenberg (Politics) Bengali Diaspora in Canada: Current Research Trends and Future Pathways (1 December 2017) Organizers: Marshia Akbar (BMRC ‐ IRMU), Sutama Ghosh (Ryerson) Changes and Adaptations: Chinese Media & its Global Development (15 March 2018) Organizers: Tokunbo Ojo (ComCult), Lianrui Jia (ComCult)
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2017 – 2018 Other Events Plus 30+ other events. The Annual Report contains a full list!
Asian Business and Management Programme (ABMP) Elena Caprioni Program Director Bernie Frolic Li Chen (Lily) Program Executive Director Administrator
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2017 – 2018 Visitors and Postdocs Yookyoung Lim Lianbin Dai Architecture and Urban Research YCAR ‐ CCKF Postdoctoral Fellow Institute Ruth Pison Piti Srivongchai University of the Philippines Khon Kaen University Jonathan Tardif SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow Ly Quoc Dang CCGC project Chiang Mai University
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2017 – 2018 Research Support
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2017 – 2018 Grant Application Submissions with YCAR Support SSHRC Other External Academy of Korean Studies • Global Challenges Research Fund • Internal Opportunities Minor Research Grants • SSHRC Small Grants • LA&PS Research Events Fund • LA&PS Global Community & Engagement Events Fund • Office of the Vice ‐ President, Research & Innovation •
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2017 – 2018 Projects and Programmes Housed at YCAR YCAR housed 25 projects and programmes in 2017–2018 . The full list can be found in the Annual Report
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2017 – 2018 Publication Support Fund Publication Supported in 2017 ‐ 2018 Lobo Albert Schrauwers (Anthropology)
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2017 – 2018 Graduate Training
Report on Key Accomplishments for 2017 – 2018 Graduate Funding and Activities Funding for 38 students in 2017–2018 Awards: over $56,000 Professional Development Funding: $4,800
2018 Award Recipients Penny and John Van Esterik Award for Graduate Research on Southeast Asia Shelia Htoo Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies The Salween Peace Park: Reflection of Peace and Self ‐ determination, Environmental Integrity and Cultural Survival? New Award :0)
2018 Award Recipients Albert C.W. Chan Foundation Award Carly Thomas Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies Leveraging Culture in Environmental Education: A Comparative Analysis of Canadian and Chinese High School Students
2018 Award Recipients Vivienne Poy Asian Research Award Katherine Cheng Graduate Programme in Development Studies China in the Himalayas: A Case Study of Health Aid from Beijing to Kathmandu Hazel Dizon Graduate Programme in Geography The Occupy Movement, Property Rights and Housing Take ‐ overs in the Philippines
2018 Award Recipients Vivienne Poy Asian Research Award Chaya Ocampo Go Graduate Programme in Geography The Political Ecology of Disaster Response in the Philippines Lianrui Jia Graduate Programme in Communication & Culture Conflicts, Constrictions, Cooptation: Post ‐ WTO Internet and Telecommunication Development in China
2018 Award Recipients Vivienne Poy Asian Research Award Ayyaz Mallick Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies The (Un)Making of the Working Class in Karachi, 1980s to 2010s Jaspreet Ranauta Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies Environmental Justice, Punjab and the Sikh Diaspora in Canada
2018 Award Recipients Vivienne Poy Asian Research Award Aisha Siddika Graduate Programme in Development Studies The Feminist Political Ecology of Agriculture: Land Ownership and Women Farmers’ Experiences of Agriculture in Bangladesh Tasnuva Tanzim Graduate Programme in Development Studies Smallholder Farmers’ Perception and Experience: Effects of ICT on Livelihoods
2018 Award Recipients Vivienne Poy Asian Research Award Jie Wu Graduate Programme in Communication & Culture Storytelling and Participatory Action Research in Talimi Haq School: Building Networks of Transnational Solidarity Jing Xu Graduate Programme in Humanities The Politics of Memory: Interaction and Tension among the Haunting Ghosts of the Russian and the Japanese in Harbin
2018 Award Recipients Dr. Sangdeok Woo and Mrs. Kwisoon Lim Woo Memorial Graduate Award Min Ah Park Graduate Programme in English Confronting the Melodramatic Bluri Re ‐ (Defining) Forms in Korean ‐ Canadian Diasporic Literature
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