Dramatic artists consider meaning of diasporic community at York’s Chinese Culture Day

Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics (DLLL) hosted the annual Chinese Culture Day event to celebrate Chinese artistry during the Lunar New Year festival on Jan. 24. The event featured a keynote public lecture, “China and China Diaspora: Interrogating Identities in Sinophone Theatre Performances,” delivered by Kwok-kan Tam, English Chair and dean of the School of […]

The countdown to Congress 2023 is on

A celebration featuring speeches, performances and community connections on Jan. 25 marked the official launch of York University’s Countdown to Congress 2023. The event drew the community together ahead of York hosting the largest academic gathering in Canada, in partnership with the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences this spring. The launch previewed how […]

York Libraries hosts edit-a-thon to improve digital coverage of Black excellence

A joint campaign that seeks to address gaps in Black content on Wikipedia and Wikidata will run throughout February and will feature an in-person edit-a-thon session at York University Libraries on Feb. 15. The Black Histories Wikipedia and Wikidata Edit-a-thon is a collaboration between York University, University of Toronto, Toronto Metropolitan University and the Toronto Public […]

Rishma Dunlop Reading Series presents ‘Meet the Presses’

The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) continues to create opportunities for aspiring authors to mingle with publishing veterans, as Writer-in-Residence Karen Solie hosts three accomplished editors and publishers in discussion on Feb. 15. Solie will moderate “Meet the Presses: submitting, editing, and publishing creative work,” part of the Rishma Dunlop Reading Series, with three talented individuals at […]

CIFAL York to bring youth leaders, changemakers together to create SDG action plans at Congress

Congress 2023, hosted by York University and the Federation for Humanities and Social Sciences, is coming to campus in May and CIFAL York is leading an event that will start new conversations on achieving social and environmental justice. The event’s theme, Reckonings and Re-Imaginings, explores ways of changing belief systems and imagining a radically different world that is safe, equitable […]

New LA&PS writer-in-residence to read from poetry collection at inaugural event

The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) and the Department of English will host award-winning Canadian poet and 2022-23 Writer-in-Residence Karen Solie, as she reads new and selected works on Feb. 2 from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. As a part of the inaugural reading event by Solie as the Faculty’s first writer-in-residence, attendees […]

‘Pandemic urbanism’ among topics examined at sociology research presentation event

Professors S. Harris Ali, from Faculty of LA&PS Department of Sociology, and Roger Keil, of the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, are co-authors, with Creighton Connolly, of Pandemic Urbanism: Infectious Diseases on a Planet of Cities (Wiley, 2023) to be featured at a sociology research presentation on Jan. 25 from noon to 2 p.m. The event will focus […]

Moving Forward webinars create opportunities to educate, empower communities

The interactive Moving Forward webinar series is a part of a growing effort to bring the unique voices of Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) alumni to comment on important topics. Launched in September 2020, Moving Forward invites students, alumni, faculty, staff and others into meaningful conversations about how to move forward in uncertain times like the […]

Canadian Writers in Person series organizers offer best reads for 2022

York University Humanities Professors Leslie Saunders and Gail Vanstone, together with Dana Patrascu-Kingsley, a contract faculty member in the Department of English, offer their list for the best books to read over the holiday break and beyond. When YFile contacted the three organizers behind York University’s acclaimed Canadian Writers in Person (CWIP) series about their picks for the best books of […]

LA&PS Black inclusion advisor hosts Black graduate evening social

Paul Lawrie, associate professor of Afro-American history and Black inclusion advisor at York University, hosted the event for Black graduate students in November with the goal of conceptualizing a more diverse University. Earlier this year, Lawrie began his term as the Black inclusion advisor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS). Lawrie […]