The Glendon Research and Innovation office invites undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students to exhibit their individual and group research projects at the Student Research Showcase during the annual Glendon Research Festival which will take place from April 2nd to April 4th, 2024. This call for participation invites proposals in English and French, research presentations can […]
Tools capable of extracting personal data from phones or computers are being used by 13 federal departments and agencies, according to contracts obtained under access to information legislation and shared with Radio-Canada. Radio-Canada has also learned those departments’ use of the tools did not undergo a privacy impact assessment as required by federal government directive. The tools in question […]
Sonya is a fourth-year student in the Honours Trilingual iBSc in Biology at Glendon, but also a disabled and mature student. She is a second-generation Italian-Canadian, a musician, an athlete, a hopeful activist, and an incredibly curious individual, who keeps herself occupied with a wide variety of interests. After graduating from her specialist arts high […]
This $700 Michael Drache ‘Big History, Big Ideas’ Prize recognises a student with an outstanding, investigative academic essay or digital project which focuses on the theme(s) of inequality, racism, social activism, LGBTQ activism, climate crisis, indigeneity, or global capitalism. Professor Dr. Jack Cécillon nominated Zipporah Davis paper “The Nk’Mip Winery: From Victims of Colonization to […]
By Ashley Goodfellow Craig, editor, YFile York University will lead a new initiative that aims to increase understanding of the impacts of populism on Canadian politics. Launched Sept. 27 at York’s Glendon Campus, the Observatory of Populism in Canada is a first-of-its-kind research endeavour that will work to generate, support and highlight empirical and theoretical research on populism’s […]
Interview by Xaneva Elorriaga George Jan Mendes is an Assistant Professor of gender and sexuality studies with the Department of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. Mendes holds a PhD in Social and Political Thought from York University, Canada (2019). From 2019 – 2022 Mendes was a postdoctoral fellow in studies of gender and race with […]
Written by Liliana Antonshyn and Alyssa Ramos, Research Apprenticeship Programme students at Glendon College, York University On March 29th, the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research held a collective discussion, led by Carol Devine and Yasmin Al-Sahili. Devine is a Community Scholar at the Dahdaleh Institute working on a framework for Planetary Health Advocacy. Al-Sahili worked on the […]
Celia Haig-Brown is a Euro-Canadian ethnographer committed to respectful and reciprocal research and practice. Her first book (1988), a retrospective ethnography of the Kamloops Indian Residential School, was based on interviews with former students. A new and updated edition, Tsqelmucwílc: The Kamloops Indian Residential School, Resistance and a Reckoning, with Indigenous collaborators, was launched on September 30, 2022 […]
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences is Canada’s largest gathering of academics, and one of the largest in the world. It’s a place to hold critical conversations of our time, hear from a diverse set of voices, share findings, refine ideas, and build partnerships to help shape the Canada of tomorrow. Congress 2023 will […]
Carmela Murdocca is the York Research Chair in Reparative and Racial Justice and Professor in the Department of Sociology at York University. She is appointed to graduate programs in Sociology, Socio-Legal Studies, and Social and Political Thought. Her research examines the intersections of racialization, criminalization and the social and legal politics of repair, redress and reparations. […]
