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 […]
The annual School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA) Student, Alumni and Community Recognition Awards ceremony was held on Nov. 24. John Riches, a graduate of the Master of Public Policy, Administration and Law (MPPAL) program, Durham Region paramedics deputy chief, and last year’s recipient of the Foster-Greene Award for Excellence in Public Policy, Administration and […]
“What is refuge? How do we understand refuge and create it for ourselves and communities?” These were the questions posed to award-winning writers Billy-Ray Belcourt and David Chariandy at the second annual Smyth Dialogues. The event, which took place Nov. 1, was hosted by the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) and moderated by […]
The School of Social Work at York University invites all who can attend to the event “Detransition: Connecting research, practice, and lived experiences” on Nov. 21. This all-day, in-person symposium is intended for researchers, program developers, clinicians, those with the lived experience of detransitioning, and their friends and family. Organized by Kinnon R. MacKinnon, assistant professor […]
This September marked the 50th anniversary of the Ugandan Asian expulsion and Canada’s resettlement of nearly 7,500 refugees – exiled by dictator Idi Amin – between 1972-74; it also marked the anniversary of the commencement of Amin’s mass murder of over 500,000 Ugandan Africans. In honour of those who endured these tragedies, the Ottawa International […]
In honour of Holocaust Education Week, The Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies, the Department of History and the Department of Humanities will host the talk “Greek Jewry, The Holocaust, and Public Reckoning Today” on Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. online. Featuring a presentation by Sakis Gekas, associate professor in York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & […]
Author Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia visited York University on Oct. 25 to talk about her novel The Son of the House (2021). Her talk was presented as part of the Canadian Writers in Person series. The Son of the House has received critical acclaim. The book was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2021, a finalist for the Nigeria Prize […]
Dennis Pilon, associate professor of politics at York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS), will give a public talk on Nov. 17 to explain some of the myths in public debates about voting system reform in Canada. The Canada Watch Fall 2022 Launch & Talk, titled “Myths, damn myths, & voting system […]
The Alchemy Lecture, hosted by the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS), seeks to harness the spirit of this ancient endeavour to foster new ways of thinking about the most pressing issues of our times. In its original form, alchemy focused on combining different elements to yield a compound that would inspire change […]
As part of the Canadian Writers in Person series at York, Sheung-King gave a virtual talk followed by a Q-and-A session about his novel You Are Eating An Orange. You Are Naked, which was a finalist for the 2021 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction and for the 2021 Amazon First Novel Award. Sheung-King talked about […]