Skip to main content Skip to local navigation
Home » Category: 'Latest News' (Page 7)

Latest News

Social Science & Communications Studies honour students with awards 2017

The Departments of Social Science and Communication Studies hosted their joint Student Awards Ceremony at the Underground on Nov. 22 to celebrate the accomplishments of outstanding students. Celebrated annually for the past 12 years, the event drew a crowd of more than 100 people to honour a group of students whose scholarly accomplishments were matched […]

Prof. emeritus Dalton Kehoe’s book highly rated by Forbes Magazine

Y-File – Tuesday July 26th, 2016 Professor emeritus Dalton Kehoe’s latest book, Mindful Management: The Neuroscience of Trust and Effective Workplace Leadership has recently been listed in the top five  management coaching books of the past year by Forbes Magazine. Kehoe formally retired as Senior Scholar of Communications Studies in 2008 after a 41-year career at York […]

Communication Studies hosts two-day event with Parisian sociologist and philosopher

Y-File – Thursday April 21st, 2016 Independent sociologist and philosopher Maurizio Lazzarato will be at York University’s Keele campus for a two-day event featuring a screening of his audiovisual project Assemblages(2010), made with artist Angela Melitopoulos, and his upcoming book, Wars and Capitalism, co-authored with Eric Alliez. The event on April 25 and 26 is […]

New co-edited book on Surveillance

Communication Studies faculty member Rob Heynen just published a co-edited book on surveillance: Expanding the Gaze: Gender and the Politics of Surveillance Edited by Emily van der Meulen and Robert Heynen University of Toronto Press, April 2016 Expanding the Gaze is a collection of important new empirical and theoretical works that demonstrate the significance of […]

Communication Studies Departmental Review Focus Groups

The Department is currently undergoing a University-mandated review of our Program.  Some of you may have received a request to fill in an online survey.  That part of the review of students’ views of the Department is now over (and thanks to all who filled it in), but there is another opportunity for you to […]

COMN Chair/PhD Students Defends Funding for Local News

On February 3, Communication Studies Chair, Professor David Skinner, along with PhD students in the York & Ryerson Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture -Amanda Oye, Margaret Reid, Joseph Turcotte and Emilia Zboralska – appeared before the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in Gatineau, Québec at the Commission’s review of the policy framework for local community television. The […]

COMN Studies & SOSC Celebrate Student Success

Student success was recently recognized at the annual Social Science & Communication Studies Awards Ceremony, where 43 students were honoured for their dedication and commitment, as well as for their inspiring work both in and out of the classroom. Held Nov. 19 at the Underground Restaurant, award recipients, professors, support staff, friends and family gathered […]

Departments of Social Science and Communication Studies hand out awards, celebrate student success 2016

Student success was recently recognized at the annual Social Science & Communication Studies Awards Ceremony, where 43 students were honoured for their dedication and commitment, as well as for their inspiring work both in and out of the classroom. Held Nov. 19 at the Underground Restaurant, award recipients, professors, support staff, friends and family gathered […]