Humanities PhD Candidate Joseph Smith aimed to inspire kids with the superhero movie Black Panther. In the Jane-Finch community, Smith runs a weekly after school program for teens called Generation Chosen with his best friend Dwayne Brown. They entered Generation Chosen into a contest by Toronto’s Black Business and Professional Association (BPPA) and won. The […]
Volume 1, Issue 1 Culture is an undergraduate humanities/interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal created by the efforts of the Humanities Student Association, and the Humanities department at York University. We welcome any papers from the humanities disciplines (humanities, philosophy, history, english, gender and sexuality studies, etc.) regarding culture in its many forms. Selected papers will be published […]
On the evening of Wednesday, July 19 at the Nat Taylor Cinema located on York University’s Keele campus, the 50th anniversary of a pivotal sporting event will be re-visited in the film Nigaanibatowaad: FrontRunners (2007). The event is sponsored by the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) at York University. It’s a must-see film for anyone who […]
CBC Radio’s Tom Powers interviewed professor Ted Goosen, a professor in Humanities, who has helped translate several of the Japanese works of Haruki Murakami, one of the world’s best-known writers, including his recently published story collection, Men Without Women. In Japan, Murakami fans line up at bookstores when his novels are released. One million copies of his novel 1Q84 […]
More than 300 scholars of children’s literature and childhood studies will converge on York University’s Keele campus to attend the 23rd Biennial Congress of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL), July 29 to August 2. This is only the third time that this prestigious international conference has been held in North America […]
Four exceptional faculty members will be presented with teaching awards during York University’s Spring Convocation ceremonies. The recipients have demonstrated exceptional and innovative teaching methods will be honoured with the annual President’s University-Wide Teaching Awards. Award recipients were selected by the Senate Committee on Awards for their significant contribution to enhancing the quality of learning […]
A new Toronto Star article features our grad Angela Esguerra, who is marketing and advertising manager for Sporting Life in Toronto. The article says that although she graduated at the height of the recession in 2008, she remained confident that her degree would pay off. “What I learned from my degree definitely helped me in […]
LA&PS Grad Amanda Parris hosted a panel discussion of Black women discussing Black history in Canada that featured Professor Andrea Davis, which was broadcast live on Facebook. The discussion covered topics that included: How much do we know about black history in Canada? Who were the key figures? What do we lose when we don’t include black stories in our […]
International student, Maevia Griffiths, shares her story of buying an old Volkswagen camper van with a friend and travelling for 10 months from Switzerland, through Eastern Europe, through the Balkans, through Turkey to the Middle East in Iran and all the way back. Her short-film captures these different cultures through the interviews of 23 children […]