Two Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) competitions are now accepting entries: the Fall/Winter 2021-22 LA&PS Writing Prize and the LA&PS Digital Composition Prize. The LA&PS Writing Prize is accepting nominations from course directors in LA&PS until June 13. With the exclusion of creative writing, course directors can nominate any LA&PS Fall/Winter 2021-22 course assignment into one […]
NASS 7: Schelling and Philosophies of Life will be hosted at York University in a hybrid format, with an in-person meeting from May 24 to 26 in the Accolade East building at the Keele Campus and in an online meeting from May 30 to June 1. The North American Schelling Society (NASS) hosts a conference every other […]
A two-week summer school program will offer an opportunity to explore the secretive country’s literature, arts and propaganda. News about North Korea often focuses on the country’s politics and military, as do programs and courses offered at the post-secondary level, but there is much to learn about its art, music and culture, says LA&PA public […]
As families get ready to celebrate mothers this Mother’s Day with most COVID-19 pandemic related public health restrictions lifted, one York University motherhood expert says the pandemic has acted as a beacon to expose longstanding cracks in systems of caregiving, women’s rights and gender equality. With the pandemic in its sixth wave, we are seeing […]
A new book by Andrea Davis, associate professor in York University’s Department of Humanities, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, will launch at a celebratory event on April 21 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Artscape Wychwood Barns in Toronto. In Horizon, Sea, Sound: Caribbean and African Women’s Cultural Critiques of Nation, Davis imagines new reciprocal relationships beyond […]
The Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies will co-sponsor a conversation about Holocaust literature with experts in the field on April 28 at 7:30 p.m. The virtual event, Holocaust Literature: A Canadian Perspective, will bring together Canadian scholars Catherine Khordoc, Goldie Morgentaler, Ruth Panofsky and Lucas Wilson to discuss the recent Canadian Jewish Studies publication, Canadian […]
York University will host the 2023 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the largest academic gathering in Canada, in partnership with the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. On April 13, the theme for Congress 2023 was announced as “Reckonings and Re-imaginings,” which will guide the direction of discussions and knowledge sharing at […]
Founders College presents the “Speaking Diasporas: Interrogating Inter-generational Diasporas” conference virtually on April 19 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The conference will explore humans being called to and oriented towards home. “Nostos,” finding home, appears to be among the deepest of human needs: a commonly shared emotion of returning to a place left behind […]
The Multimedia Language Centre (MLC) hosted the second online workshop of the Language Learning Workshop Series on April 1, with a focus on incorporating language learning in making YouTube channels, songs, TV shows and movies. The workshop “Unlocking the Power of Unfocused and Implicit Learning” was hosted by Gang Pan, assistant professor in the Department […]
Associate Professor Zulfikar Hirji at the Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies is one of four life stories featured in the contemporary hybrid opera-film BOUND presented by Against the Grain Theatre (AtG). Aiming to use the power of storytelling and music to address the many barriers Canadian newcomers and marginalized people face […]