Artist-researchers present exhibit on research harassment during Congress

Sarah Hancock, an artist-researcher and undergraduate student at York University’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design (AMPD), is using data to bring awareness to the harassment experienced by scholars when sharing their work in online spaces. Her work is part of an exhibit running through Congress 2023. When conceiving her artistic vision, Hancock […]

Greek Canadian Studies Conference to explore diversity

The York University Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF) Chair of Modern Greek History and the HHF Greek Canadian Archives at York University will host the second Greek Canadian Studies Conference, May 11 and 12, when it explores the theme “Diversity in Greekness.” Participants will discuss how Greekness has been conceptualized and enacted in the modern era, and […]

Congress 2023 screens Indigenous-focused films

A group of female directors will bring their Indigenous-focused films to York’s Keele Campus during Congress 2023 in late May. Both conference attendees and the general public will have the opportunity to see the works of Ange Loft, Martha Stiegman, Angele Alook and Paulette Moore free of charge as part of the conference’s community programming. They touch on a variety of […]

CJS event explores research gaps in study of Canadian Jewish life

Questions, not answers, about the lives of contemporary Jewish Canadians will be the topic of conversation for an esteemed guest panel at “What We Don’t Know About Canadian Jewish Life,” hosted by York University’s Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies (CJS) on Wednesday, May 17. What don’t we know about Jewish religious observance habits […]

York University receives largest-ever research funding grant from CFREF

York University, in partnership with Queen’s University, has been awarded a monumental grant of nearly $105.7 million from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF). The funding from the Government of Canada is the largest single federal grant ever awarded to York and is in support of Connected Minds: Neural and Machine Systems for a […]

LA&PS writer-in-residence hosts conversation with author Miriam Toews

The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) and the Department of English will host Writer-in-Residence Karen Solie in conversation with internationally revered author Miriam Toews on April 17 from 7 to 9 p.m. As part of the conversation, Toews will read selections from her work which includes best-selling novels such as New York Times editors’ choice Fight Night (2021), Women Talking (2018), All […]

LA&PS students victorious at National Japanese Speech Contest

Students from the Japanese Studies Program in the Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics (DLLL) of the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) garnered top prizes at the 34th Canadian National Japanese Speech Contest (NJSC). NJSC contestants, who are the first-prize winners in each category of the year’s respective provincial Japanese speech contests, travelled from all across […]

LA&PS students receive Aspiration Awards

Two dozen third-year Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) students were recognized for their academic improvement and commitment to excellence. The Aspiration Award was created in 2017 to help increase graduation rates by focusing on third-year students who have demonstrated academic improvement between their first and second years of study and face financial […]

Liz Howard ‘braids’ Anishinaabe knowledge with cosmology

As part of its ongoing Canadian Writers in Person series, York University hosted Griffin Poetry Prize Award-winner Liz Howard via web conference to talk about her latest collection of poetry, Letters In a Bruised Cosmos, on March 7. Howard, who earned a BSc at the University of Toronto and MFA at the University of Guelph, […]

Canadian Writers in Person: Casey Plett reflects on peace, calmness

On Feb. 14, author Casey Plett was the featured guest during a Canadian Writers in Person event at York via zoom to talk about her characters’ pursuit of calmness and peace in the collection of short stories Dream of a Woman. Her stories are about transgender characters trying to figure out how to live fulfilled lives as adults and […]