Four York University faculty members will celebrate the launch of their new books on Oct. 10 during an event hosted by the York Lanes Bookstore from 4 to 6 p.m. The four faculty authors launching their books at the event are: • Jody Berland, a professor in the Department of Humanities, Faculty of Liberal Arts […]
On Oct. 2, this year’s cohort of Dean’s Award for Research Excellence (DARE) winners will showcase the work completed in the summer of 2019 under the leadership of professors from the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS). Student participants will attend the DARE Research Poster Session and Celebration to present their research and […]
The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) held its annual awards ceremony on Sept. 12. The event celebrates excellence in teaching and research in the Faculty. This year’s award recipients demonstrated outstanding work in an array of disciplines. The Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching recognized three faculty members and one teaching assistant […]
A new volume of essays co-edited by Bernard Lightman, Humanities professor and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and Bennett Zon, professor of Music at Durham University, was released this month. “Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines” asks and answers critical questions about how the Victorians understood and re-fashioned disciplines. The volume […]
Racism and bigotry can begin in childhood. Through her research, psychology Professor Jennifer Steele seeks to understand how this happens. She’s interested in implicit racial biases – “implicit” referring to attitudes that can be activated without conscious awareness or intent – in childhood. She is also interested in the malleability of children’s biases. In […]
A team from York University’s Advanced Disaster, Emergency & Rapid Response Simulation (ADERSIM), led by Professors Adriano O. Solis and Ali Asgary from the School of Administrative Studies, has made a lasting impact on the City of Vaughan’s Fire & Rescue Service (VFRS) and future city planning. After receiving a grant from the Canadian […]
York University Associate Professor Eve Haque has been awarded a Distinguished Visiting Fellowship at the Graduate School of the City University of New York’s (CUNY’s) Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) for the Fall 2019 term. Haque is an associate professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional […]
The Indigenous Friends Association, an initiative designed by York University students to connect and support Indigenous youth, will receive funding of more than $350,000 from the Government of Canada under the Canada Service Corps program. The announcement was made at Skennen’kó:wa Gamig (the House of Great Peace) at York University’s Keele Campus on Aug. 1. The investment will equip […]
This year marks the 400-year anniversary of the first enslaved Africans arriving in the United States, a key event in the history of the transatlantic slave trade. The year 2019 has also been dubbed ‘The Year of Return’ by the Ghanaian government, and people of African descent have been invited to take part in […]
A new book released this month by Frances J. Latchford, York University associate professor of philosophy, questions the idea of knowing whether one’s bio-genealogy is integral to personal identity or a sense of family and belonging. Steeped in Blood: Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family (McGill-Queen’s University Press) explores what personal truths reside in biological […]