Former students of the late Professor Barbara Godard have published a collection of her essays in the Routledge Key Thinkers on Translation Series, which presents the essential selected works – journal articles and book extracts of leading figures in the field of translation studies – in a single volume. A virtual book launch for Translation, Semiotics, […]
The School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA) held its fifth annual Municipalities of the Future Symposium in hybrid format on March 23. This year’s theme, “Municipalities, good governance and sustainability: Bringing progressive strategies to life,” featured insightful panels ranging from environmental sustainability and climate resilience to smart cities, ethics, human resources and procurement. […]
York University’s Resource Centre for Public Sociology in collaboration with Founders College, the African Studies program and Queen’s University’s Canada Research Chair in Youth and African Urban Futures, presents “(Dis)Content Futures?: The Politics of Insecurity and Inequality in Africa” on April 6 from 2 to 4 p.m. via Zoom. Recently, various African countries have experienced political instability, including new civil wars, terrorist […]
On March 8, author Silvia Moreno-Garcia visited the Canadian Writers in Person series at York to read from and talk about her novel Mexican Gothic. Mexican Gothic is a gothic novel that stages, through its feminist protagonist, a critique of colonialism and whiteness. While taking us on a horror-filled journey, it invites us to look at the […]
The nine-part webinar series titled “Exploring Ethics: Lessons from COVID-19 and Other Catastrophes” kicks off on Wednesday, April 6 and will run on select Wednesdays from 10 to 11 a.m. until June 2022. With nine speakers participating across multiple continents, collaborating universities of this joint project include York University, Roskilde University and Arkansas Tech University. […]
A special joint seminar between the Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) within the Faculty of Science and the Health and Society (HESO) program within the Department of Social Sciences at the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies takes place virtually on Tuesday, April 5 from 12:30 to 2 p.m. This is the […]
A book launch for Twice Migrated, Twice Displaced by Professor Tania Das Gupta at the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies will take place Thursday, March 24 at 12:30 p.m. The book explores the lives of twice-migrated Gulf South Asians who arrived in the Greater […]
In-person performances this March became unattainable for Vanier College Productions (VCP) as universities once again pivoted to online learning at the beginning of the year amid surging COVID cases. Virtual preparations and rehearsals for VCP’s 50th anniversary season production of Festival began in the fall. But as they looked ahead to opening their curtains, VCP converted all […]
If you love meeting talented writers and hearing them read from their published work, or just want to soak up a unique cultural experience, don’t miss the final instalment of the 2021-22 Canadian Writers in Person Lecture Series on March 22, featuring a reading from Louise B. Halfe/Sky Dancer’s fourth book of poetry, Burning in […]
Canadian musician, writer and artist Vivek Shraya will deliver the 2022 Kitty Lundy Memorial Lecture, exploring the theme of reinvention through collaboration. The lecture, titled “Collaboration as a Path to Reinvention,” will take place on March 28 at 6 p.m. It will be a hybrid event taking place virtually and in person with limited seating available. Shraya will examine […]