York University Professor Nergis Canefe has been selected for a second consecutive year for a fellowship at the Institute of Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, Austria – a prestigious institution of advanced study focusing on intellectual exchange across disciplines, between academia and society, and among regions that now embrace the global south and north. Canefe is a […]
In honour of Holocaust Education Week, The Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies, the Department of History and the Department of Humanities will host the talk “Greek Jewry, The Holocaust, and Public Reckoning Today” on Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. online. Featuring a presentation by Sakis Gekas, associate professor in York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & […]
Author Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia visited York University on Oct. 25 to talk about her novel The Son of the House (2021). Her talk was presented as part of the Canadian Writers in Person series. The Son of the House has received critical acclaim. The book was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2021, a finalist for the Nigeria Prize […]
Date: November 17, 2022Time: 6 – 8 p.m.Location: Executive Learning Centre, Private Dining Room, Schulich School of BusinessType: In-person event The LA&PS Black Grad Social is an opportunity to build community, connections and networks between black graduate students, staff and faculty. Join us for dinner and discussions on the past, present and future status of the […]
Dr. Gerson Scheidweiler holds a PhD in communication from the University of Brasilia and is a recipient of the LA&PS Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (2021-2022). His research is supervised by Professor Yvonne Su from the Department of Equity Studies, LA&PS. Dr. Scheidweiler’s research aims to contribute towards evidence-informed policy by helping international funders and local governments […]
Dennis Pilon, associate professor of politics at York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS), will give a public talk on Nov. 17 to explain some of the myths in public debates about voting system reform in Canada. The Canada Watch Fall 2022 Launch & Talk, titled “Myths, damn myths, & voting system […]
The Alchemy Lecture, hosted by the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS), seeks to harness the spirit of this ancient endeavour to foster new ways of thinking about the most pressing issues of our times. In its original form, alchemy focused on combining different elements to yield a compound that would inspire change […]
As part of the Canadian Writers in Person series at York, Sheung-King gave a virtual talk followed by a Q-and-A session about his novel You Are Eating An Orange. You Are Naked, which was a finalist for the 2021 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction and for the 2021 Amazon First Novel Award. Sheung-King talked about […]
Charles Wheelan, the author of Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science, will present his talk at York University on Nov. 3 as part of the Introductory Economics (Econ 1000 &1010) enrichment seminar, hosted by the Department of Economics, York University. The talk will run from 4 to 5:15 p.m. in Curtis Lecture Hall I, and all are welcome […]
A sample of documents that represent “Black and Women’s Voices” is now available in digitized format from the Resource Centre collections of York’s Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC). A sampling of “Indigenous Voices” will follow soon (https://vitacollections.ca/cerlacresourcecentre/search). The digitized materials form part of an equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) project supported by […]