The McLaughlin College Lunch Talk series will continue on Oct. 25 with a presentation by Jennifer Brant, co-editor of Forever Loved: Exposing the Hidden Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada. The presentation, titled “Bringing Honour to Our ‘Sisters in Spirit’”, takes place from noon to 1:30 pm in the […]
For the second year, York University’s Israel & Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies will host the Canadian Jewish Literary Awards, taking place Oct. 30 at 2pm in the Tribute Communities Recital Hall, Accolade East Building. Eight outstanding books have been selected to receive Canadian Jewish Literary Awards for 2016 and will be honoured […]
As part of its annual tradition, York University’s School of Public Policy & Administration (SPPA) brings together its students and alumni in the Ontario Public Service (OPS) for a morning of stimulating discussion on the contemporary challenges facing public policy-makers and administrators. The 2016 breakfast took place on Oct. 4 and was co-hosted by […]
More than 50 accounting and finance professors and graduate students converged at the third Ontario Universities Accounting & Finance Symposium. Representatives came from 11 universities across Ontario, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The event, which took place Oct. […]
Fourth-year Social & Political Thought PhD student Lisa Sloniowski has won the fourth annual Library Juice Press Annual Paper Contest for her paper “Affective Labor, Resistance, and the Academic Librarian.” The paper, which emerged from her course work, was originally written for a History and Development of Feminist Theory course with Professor Meg Luxton. […]
Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian Studies together with Children’s Studies will present special guest Danuta Wojciechowska, an educator, designer and illustrator of children’s books, on Monday, Oct. 17. Wojciechowska will deliver a talk from 9:30 to 10:20am in 0001 TEL/DB, drawing on her diverse career. Currently based in Lisbon, Portugal, Wojciechowska is the founder and creative […]
The Global Labour Research Centre (York University), the Socialist Project, and the Centre for Social Justice will host a talk on “Understanding the ‘Gig Economy’: the Political Economy of Platform Capitalism” on Oct. 17 from 12:30 to 2pm. The event features Ursula Huws, professor of labour and globalisation, at the University of Hertfordshire. She will discuss […]
Decades of groundbreaking and transformative contributions to gender studies have earned Lorraine Code, Distinguished Research Professor Emerita of philosophy at York University, the prestigious Ursula Franklin Award in Gender Studies. Presented by the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), the biennial award recognizes “significant contributions by a Canadian scholar in the humanities and social sciences […]
CERLAC Director and Associate Professor of Anthropology Carlota McAllister has been awarded a Faculty Fellowship at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University. She will spend the 2016-17 academic year as a Visiting Scholar at the center. Each year, the cohort of Warren Center Fellows participate in a themed […]
A York University graduate student was selected as a “prominent young leader” and invited to contribute to the Young Bled Strategic Forum (YBSF), part of the Bled Strategic Forum (BSF), in Slovenia on Sept. 4 and 5. Kristen Csenkey, a PhD candidate in social anthropology, was the only Canadian representative at YSBF. She collaborated with […]