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The Humanities Graduate Student Association (HUGSA)

The Humanities Graduate Student Association (HUGSA) is a student-run club that represents the Humanities Graduate students. HUGSA aims to provide a space for our students to engage in discussions regarding topics within humanities and other disciplines. We also hope to help create a friendly social space for you to meet others in the program.

Interested to join HUGSA? Please email us at hugsayork@gmail.com.

Email: hugsayork@gmail.com

Connect on Social Media: Facebook, Youtube

In Office Visits: Vanier College, room 029, Graduate Office Lounge.

Please feel free to connect with us through the information above. We look forward to meeting you here. For more information regarding our executive team, please see “Meet Your Executive Team.” If you are interested in helping out HUGSA, please see the Opportunities, as well as the Conference Tab for more information.

Ali Ahmed (HUMA PhD Candidate)—Chief Troglodyte
Vanessa Moonilal (HUMA PhD Candidate)—Event Architect
Shreya Sangai (HUMA PhD Candidate)—TBA

Conference

a photo of people listening to a speaker at a conference

The Humanities Graduate Student Association, in collaboration with the Humanities Graduate department, is excited to announce our annual 2024 HUGSA Conference: Traces of the Human. Please see our Call for Proposals.

The category of the “human” has been, if not entirely sidelined and stepped over, certainly desiccated of all sense by the technological and social upheavals of recent centuries, most noticeably in late modernity. It has become necessary, considering the resurgence of global political violence, to re-investigate human identity, with the rights and responsibilities it entails.

The (replanned) conference is tentatively scheduled for the Fall reading week of 2024. We invite you to submit a title and proposal (max. 300 words), along with a brief bio, to aliaslan@yorku.ca by September 30.

York University Graduate Students’ Association (YUGSA)

The York University Graduate Students’ Association (YUGSA) works to improve the learning, teaching, and working environments for all graduate students at York University.

YUGSA Website

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The Graduate Program in Humanities at York is an exciting environment to pursue innovative, socially engaging, career-ready education. Contact our Graduate Program Assistant to learn more.