Dr. Kael Reid (they/she) is a Postdoctoral researcher at York University in Children, Childhood, and Youth Studies in the Department of Humanities. The title of their research project is called, “Teaching my Story in my Voice: Using songwriting and recording with refugee children to develop culturally relevant resources for Ontario service providers and educators.” Conducting […]
Longstanding York University community benefactors, Mark and Gail Appel, have announced a donation of $750,000 to support programs that foster deeper understandings of Jewish history and life, combat antisemitism and deter other forms of racism. Their gift will support important collaborations between the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies (CJS) and the Faculty of Liberal Arts […]
The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) and the Department of English will host Writer-in-Residence Karen Solie in conversation with internationally revered author Miriam Toews on April 17 from 7 to 9 p.m. As part of the conversation, Toews will read selections from her work which includes best-selling novels such as New York Times editors’ choice Fight Night (2021), Women Talking (2018), All […]
Students from the Japanese Studies Program in the Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics (DLLL) of the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) garnered top prizes at the 34th Canadian National Japanese Speech Contest (NJSC). NJSC contestants, who are the first-prize winners in each category of the year’s respective provincial Japanese speech contests, travelled from all across […]
Two dozen third-year Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) students were recognized for their academic improvement and commitment to excellence. The Aspiration Award was created in 2017 to help increase graduation rates by focusing on third-year students who have demonstrated academic improvement between their first and second years of study and face financial […]
When Professor Yvonne Su was asked to provide expert testimony at the refugee hearing for a gay Venezuelan man seeking asylum in the United States, she jumped at the opportunity. “My whole academic career led me to this point,” said Su of the request made earlier this year. “I’ve written journal articles, policy papers and […]
Marcello Musto is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and is the founding director of the Laboratory for Alternative Theories at York University. His research lab explores critiques and alternatives to capitalism, with a global outlook that covers various subjects and political perspectives. A SSHRC Insight Development Grant funded project, The Laboratory for Alternative Theories brings together […]
The Mackenzie-Papineau Memorial Fund – named after the leaders of a battalion of Canadian soldiers in the Spanish Civil War – has donated $1 million to create an endowed professorship that supports scholarship, research and teaching in modern Spanish history. The funding will also maintain and preserve popular existing course content in the Faculty of Liberal […]
A recently published book, Celestial Inclinations: A Life of Augustus (Oxford University Press, 2023), by Anne-Marie Lewis of the Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics provides an original perspective on the critical events that shaped the reign of Augustus, the first Roman emperor. Based on fresh assessments of historical, literary, astronomical, astrological and artistic sources for the years prior to and […]
As part of its ongoing Canadian Writers in Person series, York University hosted Griffin Poetry Prize Award-winner Liz Howard via web conference to talk about her latest collection of poetry, Letters In a Bruised Cosmos, on March 7. Howard, who earned a BSc at the University of Toronto and MFA at the University of Guelph, […]