News and Events 2017
Tokyo Humanities Webpage
Posted on Sunday 31 December 2017
The Tokyo Humanities project, founded at the start of 2017, is a useful resource, especially for East Asia section members.
EU-India Platform for Social Sciences and Humanities
Posted on Thursday 30 November 2017
The EU-India Platform for Social Sciences and Humanities (EqUIP) has pre-announced its first research funding call.
Call for Papers: India@70
Posted on Thursday 21 September 2017
The Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies and the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies at the University of Nottingham invites paper submissions for a one-day multidisciplinary conference.
Workshop: Global Mental and Physical Health in South Asia
Posted on Tuesday 11 July 2017
Dr Najma Siddiqi (Clinical Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry in the Mental Health and Addiction Research Group) is hosting a two day workshop with guests from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
N8 Agrifood Conference: Food Production for the Future
Posted on Tuesday 11 July 2017
This interactive conference led by eminent experts will address the specific challenges that need to be overcome to improve sustainability and food security globally.
Meeting the Global Research Challenges
Posted on Monday 10 July 2017
Interdisciplinary research teams from across the University have been successful in securing significant funding from the Global Challenges Research Fund.
Seminar: Migration Research Funding
Posted on Monday 3 July 2017
The York Migration Network would like to invite you to attend a migration-related research funding seminar.
'Hierarchies of Deservedness': Dividing Practices, Identity and the Rights of Non-Citizens in Malaysia
Posted on Monday 3 July 2017
In this seminar for the YARN brown bag seminar series, Alice Nah will tell us about her recent research. The seminar will be held from on July 3rd, from 1 to 2, ReCSS Training Room, YH/001B.
Launch of the IKnowFood website
Posted on Friday 30 June 2017
The IKnowFood project at the University of York would like to announce the launch of their new website.
World University Network (WUN) Research Mobility Programme
Posted on Friday 30 June 2017
The Global Engagement office is pleased to announce that applications for the 2017 Worldwide Universities Network's Research Mobility Programme are now open.
Re-centring the "Pariah": Caste, Tribe and Criminality in South Asia
Posted on Tuesday 27 June 2017
This two-day workshop will bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to reconsider the interconnected histories of caste, tribe and criminal pariahs across the colonial and postcolonial period.
Re-centring the ‘Pariah’: Caste, Tribe and Criminality in South Asia
Posted on Monday 26 June 2017
The ‘pariah’ has traditionally been considered a peripheral figure in South Asia. Initially employed as a derogatory term for Dalit communities in South India, the word gained currency within colonial administration to refer to other ostracized groups like the former criminal tribes or Adivasis. Yet scholarship has tended to examine the dynamics of such communities within distinct paradigms: Dalits and the village/democratic politics; Adivasis and resistance/development; criminal tribes and colonial penology/governmentality. This has obscured the transient, contingent and porous nature of pariah identities, and worked to reinforce the boundaries between categories of caste and tribe.
Music Beyond Borders
Posted on Friday 16 June 2017
Join Amrit Kaur Lohia, a sarangi player and vocalist in the genres of Punjabi folk, jazz and soul, as she explores ‘music beyond borders’.
Genders of Indian Music Exhibition
Posted on Friday 16 June 2017
This exhibition on the Genders of Indian Music is part of the Festival of Ideas (8 to 16 June).
Does Islam Need the Shariah? A Reply to a Christian Interrogation
Posted on Wednesday 31 May 2017
Shabbir Akhtar, author of Be Careful with Muhammad: Salman Rushdie Affair, and an expert on Islam, will speak about the sharia in BS/007 (Berrick Saul Building), 31 May, 6.15pm.
ECR and PhD Conference: 23rd May 2017
Posted on Tuesday 23 May 2017
YARN held a conference for Early Career Researchers (ECR) and PhD students on 23rd May 2017 in the Research Centre for Social Sciences (ReCSS), YH/001B.
South Asia Graduate Workshop, 22nd May
Posted on Monday 22 May 2017
The inaugural White Rose South Asia Network graduate workshop, addressing Futures Past: South Asia Now and Then, will be held at the University of Leeds from 9.30 to 17.30.
Chinese Visual Festival, May 2nd-11th 2017
Posted on Thursday 11 May 2017
The 7th edition of the Chinese Visual Festival will be running May 2nd-11th at BFI Southbank, DocHouse, and King's College London.
YARN Network Meeting: 3rd May 2017
Posted on Wednesday 3 May 2017
We held a one day workshop across YARN on Wednesday May 3rd. This workshop showcased international research collaborations and informed on changes in funding opportunities (with input from the Research Office) and institutional agreements (with input from the International Office).
Funding for Institutional Links
Posted on Wednesday 3 May 2017
Funding opportunities are available from a range of sources to enable researchers of different career stages to form links with international institutions.
YARN at York Festival of Ideas
Posted on Wednesday 3 May 2017
York Festival of Ideas 2017 runs from 8th June to 16th June. There are several events which may of interest to YARN members.
Documentary screenings: 'The True Cost' and 'Plastic China'
Posted on Tuesday 2 May 2017
Sponsored by GSA Community Fund, we are delighted to present two groundbreaking award-winning documentaries in V/N/045 Lecture Theatre, Heslington West, University of York.
Call for papers: British Postgraduate Network for Chinese Studies (BPCS) conference 2017.
Posted on Sunday 16 April 2017
We are happy to announce BPCS’s annual conference to be held 14-15 June 2017 at the University of Sheffield. For all Postgraduate students in Chinese studies or China-related topics, this conference is your chance to present in front of your student peers!
Writing Statehood into Existence: Explanatory International Relations, the War against ISIS & Discourses on Kurdish National Self-determination: a talk by Dr Hannes Černy
Posted on Monday 3 April 2017
There is a disconcerting tendency in explanatory IR scholarship to represent ethnic groups and nations in modernist and groupist terms and to analytically equate them with states. This normative essentialist portrayal, it is argued in this talk, contributes to the reification and substantialization of the strategic essentialisms of ethno-nationalist elites, and legitimizes those elites’ claim to national coherence and territorial control as well as their authority to speak on behalf of the nation, thus often rendering scholars co-protagonists in the ethno-national conflicts they set out to describe.
YARN makes the news
Posted on Tuesday 28 March 2017
YARN member Claire Smith spoke to the Guardian newspaper about travelling to post-conflict Nepal for a piece on post-Brexit holiday destinations.
Development of rural bio-refineries in North India: Stopping the Punjab choking Delhi
Posted on Monday 27 March 2017
The purpose of this joint University of York GCRF IAA Meeting and Departmental Seminar is to explore the potential development of rural biorefineries in North India using advances in biotechnology, green chemistry and environmental sensing that offer viable alternatives to the burning of agricultural residues.
Human Rights and ASEAN: Advancing Regional Mechanisms and Civil Society
Posted on Friday 24 March 2017
We are pleased to welcome Mr Rafendi Djamin to York, to give this talk. It will take place on Friday 24th March, in the Dawson room at Heslington Hall (H/G17), 12:30 - 13:30.
Bloodshot: The dreams and nightmares of East Timor
Posted on Monday 13 March 2017
Date and time: Monday 13 March at 17:15 Location: The Digital Cinema, TFTV, Campus East Director: Peter Gordon
Seminar: Resilience in Food Systems - Towards a Research Agenda
Posted on Thursday 9 March 2017
For our next event we are delighted to hear from Professor Bob Doherty (York Management School) on the IKnowFood Global Food Security funded research project. His talk is titled ‘Resilience in Food Systems - Towards a Research Agenda’.
British Association for Chinese Studies - 2017 Early Career Researcher Prize
Posted on Wednesday 1 March 2017
The British Association for Chinese Studies (BACS) invites early career researchers to submit an original research paper for consideration for the 2017 BACS Early Career Researcher Prize. The research paper can be on any arts, humanities or social sciences topic on traditional or modern China, broadly conceived. All submissions must involve original research on China or Chinese language sources, and engage with relevant academic literature in Chinese Studies.
Newton Fellowships to bring ECRs to York
Posted on Wednesday 1 March 2017
This scheme is still open, with a deadline of 22 March. It enables post-docs to come to the UK with a view to develop international collaborations. It would be great if you could give another boost to the scheme via your internal networks.
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