Andrea McKenzie This Remembrance Day marks the 100th anniversary of the ending of the First World War. In Canada, we often hear soldiers’ stories of war, but seldom remember the nurses. Yet every wounded or ill soldier in a Canadian hospital overseas was cared for by nurses. Without them, far fewer Canadian soldiers would […]
The Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian Studies program at York University will screen the short film Mar and host a Q-and-A with the film’s director, Luso-Canadian William Vitória, on Nov. 8 at 3 p.m. in the Nat Taylor Cinema. Mar (the sea) focuses on “saudade,” a feeling of longing and nostalgia for Portugal, which many people […]
An international conference will bring researchers interested in lusophone studies to York University Oct. 26 to 28 to promote interdisciplinary dialogue on language studies, social sciences and humanities. The conference, “Expressions of Lusofonia – International Conference (Expressões da Lusofonia – Encontro Internacional),” also marks 10 years for the Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian Studies program at […]
A new undergraduate degree program at York University that is dedicated to Indigenous Studies is already garnering praise from its inaugural cohort of students says the new program’s coordinator Professor Bonita Lawrence. Bonita Lawrence Lawrence and her colleagues thought it would be appropriate to host a formal launch of the Indigenous Studies Bachelor of […]
The Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies (LA&PS) 2018 Dean’s Award for Research Excellence (DARE) winners showcased their summer research projects at the DARE Poster Session on Sept. 20 in York University’s Second Student Centre. Attended by an audience of their peers, parents, faculty members and staff, the undergraduate student awardees delivered short […]
Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies Professors Lorne Foster and Les Jacobs are the co-editors of a new book, Racial Profiling And Human Rights In Canada: The New Legal Landscape (Irwin Law, 2018). Well-recognized as among the country’s leading scholars on racial profiling, Foster and Jacobs have conducted several large, empirical projects on […]
Sarah Carter Award-winning author and Native Studies Professor Sarah Carter, from the University of Alberta, will deliver the 2018 Avie Bennett Historica Canada Public Lecture in Canadian History on Sept. 27. Carter’s talk, titled “Prairie Settler Suffragists and Indigenous People,” will draw from her upcoming book, Ours By Every Law of Right and Justice: […]
Gilberto Fernandes A multi-faceted event at York University will celebrate the launch of City Builders, an exciting project that highlights the fascinating history of Toronto’s construction industry. The launch for “City Builders: A History of Immigrant Construction Workers in Post-war Toronto” takes place on Sept. 28 with two special events that showcase the […]
The first cohort of the Dean’s Award for Research Excellence (DARE) winners will showcase their exceptional work completed in the summer of 2018 and under the leadership of professors from the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies (LA&PS). Dozens of student participants will attend the Sept. 20 event to present their research posters […]
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 opportunity to attend the Canadian Writers in Person Lecture Series, which launches its 2018-19 season on Sept. 18. The series features 11 authors who will present their work, […]