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Author Saidiya Hartman presented a talk at York University on April 5 during a launch event for her new book Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

Author Saidiya Hartman presented a talk at York University on April 5 during a launch event for her new book Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval. The event was presented by the Department of Humanities, Social & Political Thought, the Department of Visual Art & Art History and the LA&PS Research Events Fund, […]

Classical Studies Research Symposium – April 23, 2019

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What To Do With Your Humanities Degree

Humanities Student Association event (pdf)  

Focus groups on Black youth experience expose failures of multicultural policy

  Imagine having your university classmates assume that you sell illegal drugs in between classes, missing out on job opportunities solely due to your home address or having a beverage thrown at you from a moving car. These are the searing experiences of Black youth recounted in a research paper by Faculty of Liberal Arts […]

Students from Jane and Finch find a fresh perspective at York University

It would take more than a winter storm to keep a group of enthusiastic students from Westview Centennial Secondary School from attending class. The Grade 9 through 12 students travelled from Toronto’s Jane and Finch neighbourhood during the Feb. 27 snowstorm to audit a lecture in the humanities called “Cultures of Resistance in the Americas: […]

York China Day Event

Please follow the link below for more information. York China Day Poster 2019 Toronto Kites and Leaves

Black Activists: Quiet and Gentle Canadians?

In 1971, the Yale professor Robin Winks wrote that Black Canadians wanted “nothing more than to be accepted as quiet Canadians.” In The Blacks in Canada, Winks claimed that Black Canadians were “unlikely to organize militant, noisy, pushy protests.” He considered Daniel Hill, the first full-time director of the Ontario Human Rights Commission in 1962, […]

Experience Virtual Reality: Biidaaban: First Light Installation & Artist Talk

Exhibition — Biidaaban: First Light Biidaaban: First Light and Other Works — Artist Talk

Religious Studies on Tap Jan. 31

The first Religious Studies faculty and student gathering of 2019 will take place next Thursday (Jan. 31) with the inaugural Religious Studies on Tap series. Come out for a talk on Religion and Music with special guest Brent Hagerman, who will speak on “Punk Prayers, Jazz Churches, Beatles Pilgrimages and Reggae Prophets: The Intersection of […]

2019 CCY Career Seminar

The Children, Childhood and Youth Program proudly presents The 2019 Career Workshop on February 4, 2019 in 001 Vanier College. Please see all details by following the link below. 2019CareerWorkshop