Source: Teaching Commons @ York - Blog 117 Inhabited Pedagogies: Reports from the Field By Lisa Endersby and Natasha May On March 14, 2019, three colleagues from the Teaching Commons attended a session titled Inhabited Pedagogy: A Cross-Disciplinary Teaching Workshop. This session was an opportunity to learn more about the various ways that faculty and […]
Dear Colleagues: This past Friday, 22 February, I was at Queen's Park to applaud as our colleagues, Gilberto Fernandes, Carolyn Podruchny, Alan Corbiere and Anong Beam were awarded the prestigious Lieutenant Governor's Ontario Heritage Award for Excellence in Conservation. It is truly an honour that members our department received two awards for two very different […]
Article Credit: Greek Reporter Canada Hundreds of rare photographs and documents relating to the Greek immigrant experience in Canada have been collected by a small group of researchers at the University of York in Toronto. The Greek-Canadian History Project (GCHP), led by Dr. Sakis Gekas and Christopher Grafos, is an initiative designed to identify, acquire, […]
Dear Colleagues: It gives me great pleasure to announce a new publication this time featuring José Curto and Carlos Liberato, a PhD candidate at our department. It is a special issue of an online Brazilian historical journal dealing with aspects of slavery and society in Lusaphone spaces that are largely under-represented in the historical literature. […]
I am delighted to report that David Koffman's much anticipated book, The Jews' Indian: Colonialism, Pluralism and Belonging in America (Rutgers), is now out. Below please find a summery and table of contents. Please join me in congratulating our colleague on this great achievement. Read the full YFile Article here. Thabit _________________________ The Jews’ Indian […]
Dear Colleagues: I came in today to find a brand new book in my mailbox: The Youth of Early Modern Women (Amsterdam U. Press), edited by our very own Libby Cohen along with Margaret Reeves. You can find the table of contents and the Introduction here. I'll also include the publisher's description below. Please join […]
Dear Colleagues: What better way to start 2019 than with an announcement that yet another of our colleagues has published a new book? This time the culprit is Adrian Shubert who has published a co-edited volume on Public Humanities and the Spanish Civil War (Palgrave MacMillan). The details are below. Please join me in congratulating […]
The below is taken from the Canterbury Christ Church University website. CANTERBURY PILGRIMS AND ANGLO-SAXON CEMETERIES Next week will be more meetings than events, but it is great to know that preparations for Becket 2020 are continuing to develop on a wide range of fronts. Among these will be the conference at Canterbury Cathedral in […]