The Federazione Canadese Italiana (FCI), York University’s one and only Italian student club, held its 11th Annual Masquerade Ball or Ballo in maschera at the Venetian Banquet Hall in Vaughan. The event took place Feb. 9 and celebrated and promoted Italian culture and in particular the Carnevale di Venezia. More than 250 York University […]
Black women resist the status quo to make significant socioeconomic contributions in the Francophone and Lusophone communities. The 2018 Business and Society Forum cast light upon these contributions with this year’s theme, “Black Women Resisting Social & Business Exclusion in France, Canada and Brazil.” The Centre for Feminist Research (CFR), in co-operation with CFR […]
The Global & Community Engagement (GCE) office in York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) hosted a symposium titled Internationalizing Higher Education: Strategies, Challenges, Trends and Pathways. The symposium addressed the hot topic of internationalizing the university experience for both domestic and international students. Issues raised at the Nov. 29 symposium […]
York University’s Keele Campus will be abuzz with educational events taking place Feb. 5 to 8 that have been organized for Refugee Awareness Week 2018. Syrian Response and Refugee Initiative (SRRI) Student Project Ambassador Humaima Ashfaque (right) and Rhoshni Khemraj (left) from Amnesty at York “Refugee Awareness Week is one of our most anticipated weeks […]
On Jan. 30, York’s Canadian Writers in Person course presented Soraya Peerbaye reading from her poetry collection Tell: Poems for a Girlhood. York teaching assistant Dana Patrascu-Kingsley sent the following report to YFile. Soraya Peerbaye came to the Canadian Writers in Person series to talk about her collection of poetry Tell: Poems for a Girlhood, which was shortlisted for […]
Filmmaker and York English Professor Julia Creet presents a screening of her film MUM on Feb. 1 at 12:30pm in the Nat Taylor Cinema, N102 Ross Building, Keele Campus. MUM is a documentary charting Creet’s private journey into her family history. Following a paper trail of memoirs, letters, and poems, Crett goes to Szkésféhevár, a […]
The Global Labour Speaker Series returns for 2018 with a panel discussion on “Precarity and the Nonprofit Sector: Views from Social Work” on Jan. 24 featuring John Shields, Ryerson University; Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard; and Lynn Eakin, policy analyst. It will take place from 1 to 3pm in Ross S802, York University, and is co-sponsored by the […]
A series of events to mark the 20th anniversary of the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University celebrates the theme “Feminist Times, Feminist Futures” and will kick off on Jan. 16. Titled “Embracing Intersectionality,” the first event in the series focuses on the groundbreaking feminist concept of intersectionality in order […]
An event to celebrate 11 recent publications from faculty in York University’s Department of Social Science, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LAPS), will take place on Thursday, Jan. 25 from 2 to 4pm. This event is open to the York University community and will take place in the Ross Building, South 752. Refreshments […]
Paul Yee will be the first author to speak in 2018 as part of the Canadian Writers in Person Lecture Series, organized by York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. Paul Yee Yee will discuss his 2015 novel A Superior Man on Jan. 16. Writer and author of more than 25 published books, […]