While the scale of flight from Lebanon may be unprecedented in Canadian memory, massive displacements of people, whether by evacuation or exile, have been a constant throughout history, reported the Toronto Star July 23. The first mass exile for which we have evidence, says Maynard Maidman, a professor of ancient Middle Eastern history at York, […]
York University researchers have been awarded almost $3 million in funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Thirty-four projects at York received funding in the latest round of SSHRC’s Standard Research Grants program, announced June 15 at McGill University. In all, 969 projects will be funded at 92 institutions across […]
Interest in Yiddish education is dwindling and the 1,000-year-old language and culture is no longer widely esteemed, reported Canadian Jewish News June 15. That was the conclusion reached by panellists at the closing panel of the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies’ (ACJS) conference, “The Futures of Yiddish Education and Culture in Canada”. Yiddish was once […]
Four professors in the Faculty of Arts at York University have received the Faculty of Arts Fellowship for the 2006-2007 academic year. The recipients of the 2006 Fellowship Awards, announced April 18, are Professor Marcus Boon (Department of English), Professor Craig Heron (Department of History), Professor Huaxiong Huang (Department of Mathematics & Statistics) and Professor Ananya […]
Armed with his recently-awarded Walter Gordon Fellowship, Osgoode Hall Law School Professor C. Douglas Hay (right) will spend a year pursuing his primary research which has dealt with the history of criminal procedure, punishment, and crime in England and Canada. Hay is also an accomplished expert in the comparative history of labour law. The prestigious Walter Gordon […]
The Graduate History Student Association (GHSA) at York is hosting its 10th annual New Frontiers conference from Thursday to Saturday, Feb. 16-18, in Founders College. The conference consists of six panels each consisting of three concurrent session. Session topics include: politics of religion; examining the classroom; constructing Aboriginal identity; war & public memory; sport & […]
The Graduate History Student Association (GHSA) at York is hosting its 10th annual New Frontiers conference from Thursday to Saturday, Feb. 16-18, in Founders College. The conference consists of six panels each consisting of three concurrent session. Session topics include: politics of religion; examining the classroom; constructing Aboriginal identity; war & public memory; sport & […]
Black history is recorded in church registers, the letters and diaries of African slaves and in the history of the small Ontario towns to which they fled, says York University professor Paul Lovejoy (right), director of a centre which is digitally preserving these compelling documents. The Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the Black Diaspora is […]