The Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies (LA&PS) 2018 Dean’s Award for Research Excellence (DARE) winners showcased their summer research projects at the DARE Poster Session on Sept. 20 in York University’s Second Student Centre. Attended by an audience of their peers, parents, faculty members and staff, the undergraduate student awardees delivered short […]
A new book edited by York University Professor Ali Asgary examines the complexity of population displacement. Resettlement Challenges for Displaced Populations and Refugees seeks to better understand population displacement challenges and the role that reconstruction, recovery knowledge and practice play. Ali Asgary According to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the total number of people […]
Hate crime laws in Canada are distressing, highly charged and complicated. Under the hate propaganda sections of the Criminal Code of Canada (Sections 318 to 320), it is illegal to advocate genocide and publicly incite hatred directed against “any section of the public distinguished by colour, race, religion, ethnic origin or sexual orientation, gender […]
Carla Lipsig-Mummé York University Professor Carla Lipsig-Mummé, of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, has been recognized for excellence in research by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Lipsig-Mummé is the recipient of the SSHRC’s prestigious Impact Award (Partnership Category). The awards were announced Oct. 3 at a […]
Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies Professors Lorne Foster and Les Jacobs are the co-editors of a new book, Racial Profiling And Human Rights In Canada: The New Legal Landscape (Irwin Law, 2018). Well-recognized as among the country’s leading scholars on racial profiling, Foster and Jacobs have conducted several large, empirical projects on […]
York University has received a major award that will be used to establish an initiative to develop the study of Korea in Eastern Canada as well as globally. The Academy of Korean Studies will fund the $1.1-million project over five years. The innovative and groundbreaking project, which encompasses education, research and institutional building activities, […]
Two of the six recent graduates who are winners of the Faculty of Graduate Studies (FGS) Thesis and Dissertation Prize are doctoral recipients from the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS). “The research conducted and presented by these wonderful graduates represents countless hours of hard work and dedication to their respective fields,” […]
Sarah Carter Award-winning author and Native Studies Professor Sarah Carter, from the University of Alberta, will deliver the 2018 Avie Bennett Historica Canada Public Lecture in Canadian History on Sept. 27. Carter’s talk, titled “Prairie Settler Suffragists and Indigenous People,” will draw from her upcoming book, Ours By Every Law of Right and Justice: […]
A series of events supported by York University will take place over two days and will highlight the work of Movement for Justice in El Barrio, a people of colour-led grassroots organization that has successfully prevented the displacement of racialized people in East Harlem. The organization has worked to strengthen supports for those (largely […]
York University Professor Hassan Qudrat-Ullah has authored a new book on sustainability in supply chain management. The book, titled Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Supply Chains (2018), is published by Springer. Hassan Qudrat-Ullah The book presents the latest tools, techniques and solutions that decision makers use to overcome the challenges faced by their sustainable supply […]