If you love meeting talented writers and hearing them read from their published work, or just want to soak up a unique cultural experience, don’t miss the opportunity to attend the Canadian Writers in Person Lecture Series, which launches its 2018-19 season on Sept. 18. The series features 11 authors who will present their work, […]
EPIGRAPHY AND HISTORY IN ITALY AND THE WESTERN PROVINCES TEXTS AND METHODS Colloquium_November 23, 2018 N. BERNSTEIN Talk_Sept. 27, 2018 CAC TOUR with Dr. F. POWNALL_Sep. 28. 2018 ROMAN ROTH Lecture_Oct. 3, 2018
Ted Goossen Japanese-to-English translator and humanities Professor Ted Goossen is the recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette, an honour celebrating his achievements in promoting Japanese culture on a global scale. Upon the behest of Japanese Emperor Akihito, the Consul-General of Japan in Toronto Takako Ito conferred the honour […]
York University’s new Black Canadian Studies Certificate will launch in September for the upcoming 2018-19 academic year through the Department of Humanities in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies. Students enrolled in the certificate will study Black Canada through four humanities and fine arts approaches: cultural studies, history, literature and music. In its […]
York University has launched its new certificate program in Black Canadian Studies. Spoken word artist, MC and playwright Wendy ‘Motion’ Brathwaite was interviewed by CBC’s Here and Now host Gill Deacon. Motion talked about the new program, its genesis, and about her course — Griots to Emcees — being one of the required credits. “The lens of […]
Author Jamil Jivani on HUMA 1300 and his transformation
AP/HUMA 4306 6.0 Course Director: Christina Sharpe This fourth-year seminar combines creative texts—novels, music, and the visual arts—alongside slave narratives, nonfiction and theoretical works in an examination of questions of Transatlantic slavery, the imagination, and the idea of freedom. In Toni Morrison’s landmark novel Beloved, the character Baby Suggs tells the formerly enslaved and putatively […]
Professor Christina Sharpe, one of the most important contemporary scholars in Black Diaspora Thought and Cultures, has joined the Department of Humanities in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies at York University. Sharpe’s research in Black visual and performance arts, Black literatures and cultures, Black feminist theories and queer studies is widely recognized […]
CCCP Symposium_2018 From June 16-18th, CCY professor A. Emberly will be hosting a symposium for her SSHRC PDG – The Connecting Culture and Childhood Project. The symposium will welcome researchers and young people interested in exploring how musical arts practices support young people in connecting to their diverse cultural heritages. The symposium will welcome delegates […]
York University will honour a Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies professor for his outstanding research contributions to the University with a 2018 Distinguished Research Professorship. The title is given to active members of the academy in recognition of their scholarly achievements in research. Bernard Lightman, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Liberal Arts and […]