Dr. Arik Senderovich is an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at the School of Information Technologies (ITEC) at York University. He is also a Research Fellow at the TD-MDAL (Rotman School of Management) where he supervises student projects and organizes professional events. Arik’s research is mainly in the fields of artificial intelligence and process mining, where he […]
A joint campaign that seeks to address gaps in Black content on Wikipedia and Wikidata will run throughout February and will feature an in-person edit-a-thon session at York University Libraries on Feb. 15. The Black Histories Wikipedia and Wikidata Edit-a-thon is a collaboration between York University, University of Toronto, Toronto Metropolitan University and the Toronto Public […]
The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) continues to create opportunities for aspiring authors to mingle with publishing veterans, as Writer-in-Residence Karen Solie hosts three accomplished editors and publishers in discussion on Feb. 15. Solie will moderate “Meet the Presses: submitting, editing, and publishing creative work,” part of the Rishma Dunlop Reading Series, with three talented individuals at […]
Jacob Beck, associate professor and York Research Chair in Philosophy, won a US$60,000 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in recognition of the novel research carried out in his project “Minds without Language,” which closely examines the process of human thought. As stated in its press release on Jan. 10, the NEH launched […]
Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) Professors Anna M. Agathangelou and Annie Bunting co-led and co-organized an international conference in November 2021 that led to the recently completed survivor-centred Kinshasa Declaration. “Kinshasa Declaration,” a collaboratively developed, survivor-centred document on the right to reparation and co-creation for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in conflict situations. The Kinshasa Declaration […]
Congress 2023, hosted by York University and the Federation for Humanities and Social Sciences, is coming to campus in May and CIFAL York is leading an event that will start new conversations on achieving social and environmental justice. The event’s theme, Reckonings and Re-Imaginings, explores ways of changing belief systems and imagining a radically different world that is safe, equitable […]
The novel We Spread explores ideas about aging and living in a long-term care facility and it’s told through the perspective of an elderly woman named Penny. The author discussed the book during his presentation for York’s acclaimed Canadian Writers in Person series. Iain Reid, author of I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2016) and Foe (2018), as well as two memoirs, One […]
The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) and the Department of English will host award-winning Canadian poet and 2022-23 Writer-in-Residence Karen Solie, as she reads new and selected works on Feb. 2 from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. As a part of the inaugural reading event by Solie as the Faculty’s first writer-in-residence, attendees […]
Dr. Leila Pourtavaf holds a PhD from the Department of History at the University of Toronto, and was most recently a visiting assistant professor at NYU’s Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. Since joining the History department at LA&PS in 2020, she has been awarded a Connection Grant for her project Cosmopolitan Harem which looks at the social, […]
Matt Bucemi, an assistant professor in book publishing at LA&PS, created the First Novel Prize in conjunction with Toronto-based Invisible Publishing to advance first-time novelists and provide hands-on experience for publishing students. Recognizing Invisible Publishing’s status as a fan-favourite publishing house, Bucemi partnered with their local team to push a call for manuscripts to fledgling […]