Roberta Jamieson, president and CEO of Indspire, will engage in a conversation with Jesse Thistle, assistant professor in the Department of Equity Studies at York University and author of the best-selling memoir, From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way. This event will take place June 11 at 7 p.m. and it is free […]
This event has been cancelled. The demands on policing in Canada have never been greater. Gender and race issues, the globalization of money and money laundering, corruption and cybercrime are all pressing matters. They beg questions about democratic governance, accountability and control of police. Law and Disorder – a symposium to be presented by Osgoode Hall […]
For students in York University’s School of Administrative Studies, March 5 was a night of inspiration and career growth thanks to the alumni from their program. For the second consecutive year, the Connections speed mentoring and networking event was hosted by the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) Development Team, bringing alumni and […]
This event has been cancelled. A talk on the intersection of big data and childhood will be the focus of the 2020 Alexander F. Chamberlain Lecture, when the Children, Childhood and Youth Program (CCY) at York University presents guest speaker Valerie Steeves. Steeves, a full professor in the Department of Criminology, Faculty of Social Sciences […]
This event has been cancelled. A one-day workshop that brings together Turkish scholars to engage in a critical and in-depth discussion on the current authoritarian drive in Turkey will take place March 19 at York University’s Keele Campus. Presented by the Global Labour Research Centre (GLRC) and the Department of Politics, “Contested Reproduction of Turkey’s […]
A panel of highly distinguished speakers came together on March 4 to discuss and debate the question of whether there should be limits to freedom of speech at universities. Co-sponsored by the Office of the Head of McLaughlin College and the York Collegium for Practical Ethics, the panel included: Professor Lorna Marsden, president emerita, York […]
This event has been cancelled. York University’s Canadian Writers in Person Lecture Series will come to a close for the 2019-20 season with author David Bezmozgis as the final guest on March 17. He will read from his first story collection in more than a decade, Immigrant City, at 7 p.m. in 206 Accolade West […]
This event has been cancelled. Join students, staff and faculty for an on-campus screening of the first debate of Canada Reads 2020 and cheer on Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies Assistant Professor Jesse Thistle and his memoir From the Ashes. The screening of the debate will take place Monday, March 16 from 11 […]
York University’s Centre for Feminist Research (CFR) will host a lecture and workshop focused on the intersections between Islamophobia, race and anti-blackness as part of their Spotlight on Islamophobia series. The event, titled “Anti-Blackness, Islam and Islamophobia,” examines the complex histories and expressions of Islam in Africa and Muslims of African origin. The free three-hour […]
York University’s Department of Politics is inviting students, faculty, staff and members of the public to a talk about the application of the rule of law in the context of recent railway blockades in solidarity with the Hereditary Chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation. Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark will make a presentation, titled “The Rule of […]