The Advising Community of Practice and Peer Leader Community of Practice has selected Mona Frial-Brown, manager of student success and access programs in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS), to receive the 2022 Lynda Tam Guiding Light and Legacy Award. This annual award was established in honour of Lynda Tam, a long-serving […]
Together with the executive committee, Jack Leong, associate dean of research and open scholarship at York University Libraries organized the conference for the Canadian Comparative Literature Association/L’Association Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (CCLA/ACLC). The event featured presentations from York faculty and graduate students. This year’s theme was “Divergence and Convergence of Comparative Literature” and the event […]
This year, the Law and Society Association (LSA) honored 21 scholars, including York University Professor Annie Bunting, as part of its 2022 Annual Awards. Bunting is a professor in the Law & Society program at York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, researching and teaching in the areas of gender justice and international human rights. […]
LA&PS Professors Ian Roberge and Thomas Klassen co-organized and co-hosted the conference Asymmetric Neighbours and International Relations: Living in the Shadow of Elephants alongside Professor Nara Park of Yonsei University on June 20 and 21. The two-day event explored how smaller nations sharing a border with a larger country survive in the shadow of their more powerful neighbour. This timely conference, […]
David Miller, lawyer, professor, international environmental activist and the former mayor of Toronto, delivered a passionate address to graduands of the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies after receiving an honorary doctor of laws degree from York University during the June 16 afternoon convocation ceremony. In his remarks, he focused on the ways that […]
During the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies convocation morning ceremony, held on June 15, Olive Senior, an award-winning Canadian writer and public intellectual of Jamaican heritage received an honorary doctor of laws from York University. Senior addressed convocation sharing one lesson she learned early in life that has sustained her throughout life. “Like […]
Pandemic lockdowns and restrictions, Zoom lectures, protests, occupations and the war in the Ukraine all served as a backdrop for the convocation address delivered by publishing legend Anna Porter to graduands of the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies during York University’s Convocation ceremony on June 15. Porter, who was on the York University […]
York University faculty and staff were recognized for their support of students with disabilities at the fourth annual Student Accessibility Services End-of-Year Celebration. The celebration, emceed by York psychology student Michelle Thomas, focused on the theme of interconnectedness, and 15 recipients were awarded for their collaboration, student focus, care and innovation. “Our end-of-year celebration is a […]
Paul Lovejoy, Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of History at York’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, and Melchisedek Chetima, assistant professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal and former York University Banting Fellow, will chair an international conference in Cameroon on Islamic Protest, Terrorism and (In)Security in Africa. The conference scheduled between June 1 […]
McLaughlin College is one of this year’s Human Rights Watch Film Festival (HRWFF) community partners. The festival will hold screenings of five documentaries and will take place at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema from May 26 to 29. The five documentaries are: The Klabona Keepers The Klabona Keepers is an intimate portrait of the dynamic Indigenous […]