During the 2023 American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting in Los Angeles earlier this month, Basileus Zeno, a sessional assistant professor in the Department of Politics in Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS), received the Best 2022 APSA Paper award from the association’s Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Politics Section. Zeno […]
Giving voice to the tales of devastating loss, tragedy, hopes and aspirations, COVID in the House of Old (CIHO), curated by York University professor and historian Megan Davies, will exhibit at four Greater Toronto Area (GTA) locations this fall, starting at York University’s Keele Campus on Thursday, Sept. 14, from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m., […]
The Canadian Writers in Person Lecture Series, which launches its 2023-24 season on Sept. 19, offers the community an opportunity to meet talented award-winning writers, as well as hear them read and discuss their published work. Canadian Writers in Person is a for-credit course for students, but the associated lecture series is free and open […]
York University Assistant Professor Natasha Tusikov, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, has co-written a book about the new “datafied” world, and how control over knowledge has become its own ideology. The New Knowledge: Information, Data and the Remaking of Global Power (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) is a guide to and analysis of today’s […]
York University professors Joshua Fogel, Sara Horowitz, Ali Kazimi and Debra Pepler are among the latest Fellows to be elected to the ranks of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) – one of the country’s highest honours in the arts, social sciences and sciences – in recognition of their career achievements and their positive contributions to public life. “York University is […]
York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) welcomes its Fall 2023 writer-in-residence, the award-winning Canadian writer and York alumnus Shyam Selvadurai, with a reading from his new novel, Mansions of the Moon, on Sept. 13 at 1:30 p.m. in the McLaughlin Junior Common Room(MC 014). Born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Selvadurai moved to Toronto with his […]
As dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, I am thrilled to welcome our new and returning students to the 2023-24 academic year! The start of a new semester is always filled with great optimism, as we reflect on what the future might hold. There is no better time to be a […]
A long-time member of Atkinson College and the Department of Humanities, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies since 1977, Professor William (Bill) Westfall passed away peacefully on August 18. Bill was a passionate supporter of Canadian Studies at York and served for many years as the Coordinator of the Canadian Studies Program. The William […]
More than 30 projects led by York University researchers in the social sciences and humanities were awarded a combined total of $15,541,343 in federal funding from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Grants, Partnership Development Grants and Insight Grants. The funding, announced on Aug. 29 by the Randy Boissonnault, minister of employment, workforce […]
Directed by York University sociologist Christopher Kyriakides, Canada Research Chair in Citizenship, Social Justice and Ethno-Racialization, a University comparative research project will explore the complexities and challenges of racism faced by Syrian and Ethiopian refugees in Canada. The project is a community-led research partnership between York’s Centre for Refugee Studies and several organizations in the […]