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 […]
Professor Michael Herren gave a lecture on April 20, 2017 at the University of Colorado at Boulder on “The Classical Canon in Late Late Antiquity: 550-750.”
The Culture & Expression program extends its heartiest congratulations to Sam Sanchinel and Emily Mastragostino for being nominated and showcasing their work at the 2017 York Undergraduate Research Fair. Their posters were based on work completed in CLTR 3100 Culture, Meaning and Form, and they were nominated by Professor Carolyn Steele.
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 […]
When Diana Cooper-Clark began her research about Jewish refugees escaping to Jamaica during the Second World War, she knew she was embarking on a virtually unknown story within the Holocaust narrative. The York University professor focused on Jews who took refuge in Jamaica’s Gibraltar Camp after finding an article referencing the subject, written in 1994 […]
Student Reflection This event was very insightful and the open dialogue about the racial repression of black people in the Americas resonated with me deeply. Being a black male who has faced many experiences of racial prejudice from law enforcement and both black and white Canadians, Compton gave me the opportunity to analyze these experiences […]