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Broaden your mind with the Scholars' Hub @ Home Speaker Series

Do you enjoy hearing about the latest thought-provoking research? The Scholars’ Hub @ Home speaker series features discussions on a broad range of topics, with engaging lectures from some of York’s best minds. The Scholars’ Hub events are done in partnership with Vaughan Public Libraries, Markham Public Library, and Aurora Public Library. The Scholars' Hub @ Home series is brought to you by York Alumni Engagement. We invite students, alumni and all members of the community to join us. All sessions take place at 12 p.m. ET.

Latest Scholars' Hub

Elisha Lim, Assistant Professor of The Technological Humanities, Department of Humanities

This talk will give an overview of contemporary platform studies, which is the study of corporate platforms like Amazon, Google, Meta etc. While these studies only tend to look back at the past 10 or even 50 years, this presentation will explain why these modern digital solutions would benefit from 400-year old colonial insights.