York Centre for Asian Research Annual General Meeting 27 April 2017 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

York Centre for Asian Research Annual General Meeting 27 April 2017 Room 519, Kaneff Tower, York University

Agenda 1. Director’s Welcome 2. Approval of Agenda for 27 April 2017 3. Review and approval of 2016 AGM Minutes 4. Report on Key Accomplishments for 2016.2017 5. Financial Report 6. Governance 7. Plans and Priorities for 2017.2018 8. YCAR – The Next Five Years 9. Other Business

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 Governance

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 Graduate Associates Environmental Studies (2) Environmental Studies (9) Health (2) Glendon College (1) Glendon College (2) LA&PS (79) LA&PS (46) AMPD (5) AMPD (6) Schulich (2) Schulich (3) Osgoode Hall Law School (4) Education (1)

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 Alicia Turner Abidin Kusno Thank you, Alicia. Thank you, Abidin. You’ve Turnered this Centre around. Kusno body does it better.

YCAR Staff, 2016.2017 Alicia Filipowich Nadia Hasan Alex Felipe YCAR Coordinator Research Outreach Electronic Media Officer Coordinator

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

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 Intellectual Exchange

Report on Key Accomplishments for 2015.2016 YCAR organized or co ‐ organized 44 Events in 2016.2017

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 of Labour Politics in Korea | Yoonkyung Lee (University of Toronto), 2 Feb 2017 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) Elena Caprioni, PhD Program Director Bernie Frolic, PhD Li Chen (Lily) Executive Director Program Administrator

Report on Key Accomplishments for 2016.2017 Visitors and Postdocs Jonathan Tardif Chusak Wittayapak SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow Chiang Mai University CCGC project Shubhabrata Basu Indian Institute of Management Catherine St ‐ Hilaire Indore Università degli Studi di Milano Gayatri Menon Azin Premji University

Report on Key Accomplishments for 2016.2017 Research Support

Report on Key Accomplishments for 2016.2017 Grant Application Submissions with YCAR Support SSHRC Lucia Lo • Cheran Rudhramoorthy • Leslie Sanders • Other External Competitions Korea Foundation • Canadian Heritage, Canada 150 • Internal Opportunities Canada 150 at York University • Minor Research Grants • SSHRC Small Grants • LA&PS Research Events Fund • LA&PS Global Community & Engagement Events • Office of the Vice‐President, Research & Innovation • Schulich School of Business •