York University creative writing Professor Michael Helm has been nominated for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for his new novel After James (McClelland & Stewart). This is Helm’s third nomination for the prize; he was nominated in 2010 for Cities of Refuge and in 2004 for In the Place of Last Things. “Nominations and awards […]
Justice Murray Sinclair, senator and former chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, will examine what Canada can learn from indigenous societies around the world on Sept. 29 at the annual Avie Bennett Historica Canada Public Lecture in Canadian History. Sinclair’s talk, “Indigeneity, the World, and Canada” will address what non-Aboriginal Canadians […]
McLaughlin College will host two former congressmen to offer insight into the heated U.S. presidential election. On Sept. 26, former Republican U.S. representative Steven Kuykendall from California and former Democratic U.S. representative Martin Lancaster from North Carolina will speak at “Perspectives on the Upcoming U.S. Presidential Election,” part of McLaughlin’s popular Lunch Talk series. […]
The fourth conference by the Forum on Capital as Power, titled Capital as Power: Broadening the Vista, will be held Sept. 28 to 30 in 280N York Lanes on York University’s Keele campus. The conference is free and open to the public. All are welcome to attend. Existing theories of capitalism, both orthodox and unorthodox, […]
Professor Peter Constantinou, a faculty member in the School of Public Policy and Administration in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, was invited by the Legislature and the Legislative Library of the Government of the Northwest Territories to provide a public lecture on political acuity and leadership. The lecture, which took place […]
Canadian writers will visit York University to read from their works, share insights and spark discussion on the written word beginning Sept. 20 and running through to March 21, 2017. Ten authors are scheduled to present readings for the 18th annual Canadian Writers in Person Lecture Series, a popular event presented by the Faculty […]
Stephanie Stobbe, associate professor in the Department of Conflict Resolution Studies, Menno Simon College at the University of Winnipeg, arrived in Canada from Laos as a little girl with her family under the private sponsorship program as part of the IndoChinese Refugee Movement. On Friday, Sept. 9, Stobbe will visit York University to deliver […]
Fred Fletcher, professor emeritus, communication studies and political science in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies at York University has been awarded MacEwan University’s Medal of Excellence. The award was presented to Fletcher during MacEwan University’s convocation ceremonies for the Faculty of Fine Arts & Communications in recognition of his lifetime of […]
The government of the People’s Republic of China has decided that in order to ensure its ability to best develop their students to meet the challenges of a more modern economy and compete globally, they have to reform their universities. And to do so, they are looking to Canada. More specifically, they are […]
York University hosted and co-sponsored the 2016 Toronto Hakka Conference in support of the most diasporic of Chinese ethnic groups – the Hakka people. The July 1 to 3 conference, which attracted an international audience, was co-organized with the Hakka Conference Committee and the Department of Humanities in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & […]