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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

This is a special in-person event at the Unionville Library in Markham

Farshid Shams, Associate Professor of Strategy and Organization Studies, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies

Join us at Unionville Public Library at 7 p.m. for an in-person presentation that draws on a recent study examining the routine activities of social workers in an Ontario-based mental health and addiction counselling organization. It explores how these frontline practitioners make sense of who they are as they navigate restrictive organizational requirements while striving to maintain their professional autonomy.

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Ilan Kapoor, Professor of Critical Development Studies, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change

This discussion will address the political, economic and psychosocial factors explaining the Trump regime’s recent trade and land grab moves against the likes of Canada, Ukraine, Gaza, Greenland, and the Panama Canal. Professor Kapoor will also assess the likelihood of their success/failure.

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Sachil Singh, Assistant Professor, School of Kinesiology and Health Science, Faculty of Health

The dominant social and scholarly view is that race is a social determinant of health. By offering a number of examples pertaining to the treatment of race in healthcare, this talk examines if this is indeed the case.

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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.

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