Richard Last’s Banting research project, “The Occupational and Neighbourhood Settings of Early Christianity,” experiments with pulling the Jesus movement out of the private domain, where it tends to be confined in contemporary historiography of Christian origins. Academic descriptions of ancient churches as having originated almost exclusively from family-based networks seem to be caught up in […]
Klassen, Thomas R. and John A. Dwyer. How to Succeed at University and Get a Great Job! (UBC Press, 2015) Students can download a free copy of this E-Book on the York University Website. How to Succeed at University (and Get a Great Job!), written by York University professors Thomas R. Klassen and John A. […]
The Department of Humanities, the Centre for Feminist Research, and the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies collaborated to launch and celebrate Working Memory: Women and Work in World War II, edited by Humanities Professor Marlene Kadar and Jeanne Perreault on November 4, 2015. Working Memory speaks to the work women did during the […]
Congratulations to Professor Jody Berland on the success of her recent SSHRC Insight Grant. “Digital Animalities: Media Representations of Non-Human Life” ($300,250) The research project “Digital Animalities” explores how ubiquitous media are changing the meanings and possibilities of human-animal relations. Animals powerfully symbolize what humans value, accept, exclude, or fear in themselves and in the […]
On November 18, 2015, the Department of Humanities hosted its annual career day. Nine professionals—all with degrees in the humanities and alumni of York University—shared their stories from diverse and exciting industries including journalism, sales and advertising, business communication, law and social advocacy. Panelists agreed that the transferrable skills they developed as Humanities majors in […]
Professor K. Chakraborty’s new book “Young Muslim Women in India: Bollywood, Identity and Changing Youth Culture” has just been published by Routledge. The book details the changing lives of youth, particularly young women, living in slum communities (bustees) in Kolkata, India. Using young people’s own photos, art and narratives, the book explores how Muslim girls and […]
Three York University researchers have been awarded prestigious Banting Fellowships – Richard Last in the Department of Humanities and the Department of History, Mary Elizabeth (M.E.) Luka of the Sensorium Centre for Digital Arts & Technology in the School of Arts, Media, Performance & Design, and Heath MacMillan in the Department of Biology. [read more…]
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Congratulations to Tony Burke for the publication of his new book, Secret Scriptures Revealed: A New Introduction to the Christian Apocrypha published by SPCK in Europe with a North American edition from Eerdmans due in November, 2013.