History Professor Alejandro G. Sinner and his summer study abroad students won first prize for best poster at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA). Sinner, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History, and his students from the study abroad course Roman Spain: Archaeology & […]
York Professors Lorne Foster and Les Jacobs, along with York’s Centre for Human Rights (CHR), are the primary organizers of the upcoming Racial Profiling Policy Dialogue sponsored by CHR, the School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA), the Institute for Social Research (ISR) and the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC). Foster and Jacobs are well […]
Political science Professor Karen Murray, who also is appointed to the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, is in the United States for the winter term holding a Killam Visiting Professorship in Canadian Studies at Bridgewater State University (BSU) in Bridgewater, Mass. Established in 2006, this Killam Professorship is the only endowed chair in […]
Professor Patricia Keeney is off to Capri, Italy in April for the launch of “Felicia and the Birds,” a children’s book just released in Europe carrying an English translation done by her. While there, she will also be reading from some of her own work. Full Story
A two-day interdisciplinary conference interrogating historical understandings in humanities will be presented Feb. 19 and 20 by the Humanities Graduate Student Association (HuGSA) and the Graduate Program in Humanities at York University. “Now and Then: Historical Understandings in the Humanities” will take place at Black Creek Pioneer Village and will explore the critical questions arising […]
Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian Studies at York (DLLL), together with Camões Institute and the Portuguese section at the University of Toronto, will host the Mostra of Portuguese Cinema in February and March. The Mostra includes several film screenings from renowned film directors, mainly from Portugal, as well as a panel to pay tribute to Manoel de […]
The School of Administrative Studies (SAS) in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies at York University has won first place at the Government/Academe Level in the 2015 Tax Preparation Assistance Program of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario (CPA Ontario). Full Story
York’s Centre for Research on Latin America & the Caribbean (CERLAC) and the Global Labour Research Centre (GLRC) will co-sponsor a public talk with Ruth Milkman, professor of sociology, CUNY Graduate Centre, and research director at the Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education & Labor Studies. The talk, titled “Occupiers and Dreamers: Insiders and […]
Sociology Professor Suzanne Cook, a member of York University’s Centre for Aging Research & Education (YU-CARE), is launching the Redirection Story Contest in conjunction with her research on the increasing trend of older adults opting to change careers instead of retiring. Full Story
Appearing at regular intervals in YFile, “Open Your Mind” is a series of articles offering insight into the different ways York University professors, researchers and graduate students champion fresh ways of thinking in their research and teaching practices. Their approaches, grounded in a desire to seek the unexpected, are charting new courses for future generations. […]