During the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies convocation morning ceremony, held on June 15, Olive Senior, an award-winning Canadian writer and public intellectual of Jamaican heritage received an honorary doctor of laws from York University. Senior addressed convocation sharing one lesson she learned early in life that has sustained her throughout life. “Like […]
Pandemic lockdowns and restrictions, Zoom lectures, protests, occupations and the war in the Ukraine all served as a backdrop for the convocation address delivered by publishing legend Anna Porter to graduands of the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies during York University’s Convocation ceremony on June 15. Porter, who was on the York University […]
More than 40 research projects at York University will receive a boost of $16 million in funding from the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), including close to $10 million in Partnership Grants for long-term research projects in anti-homelessness, global health, 2SLGBTQ+ poverty and Indigenous rights and reconciliation. The funding was announced […]
A total of three undergraduate students at York University earned the Governor General’s Silver Medal, an award that recognizes the outstanding scholastic achievements of undergraduate students in Canada. Receiving the medals are changemakers Samuel Isaac Dreyzin, Robert Alexander Khatib and Rosie Giannone. Recipients are selected based on their academic averages. “It is a special pleasure […]
Three York University graduates received this year’s Governor General Gold Medals, which recognize the outstanding scholastic achievements of graduate students in Canada. The 2022 recipients are Signy Lynch, Ilana Shiff and Allison Taylor. “We are incredibly proud of our talented York graduate students who have won the Governor General’s Academic Gold Medals this year. They […]
The pandemic has created greater divisions between people who are trusting and those who are distrustful, and those divisions fall along socioeconomic lines, exacerbating social inequalities. “Some Canadians have become more trusting, while others have become less trusting since the start of the pandemic,” says Faculty of Liberal Arts& Professional Studies Professor Cary Wu. “Crises, […]
The workshop was co-organized by Natalie Coulter, assistant professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, and the director of IRDL, and Alex Borkowski, PhD candidate in Communication & Culture. The workshop sought to increase awareness of the potential risks of online harassment and share resources for support should such issues arise. The workshop was […]
Knopf Canada, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada, announces the launch of a new publishing program, Alchemy, under the editorial direction of acclaimed poet, novelist and essayist Dionne Brand. Alchemy’s publishing program will release two to three titles each year. It will also be anchored in an annual publication, The Alchemy Lectures, and a signature […]
By Victoria Stacey After a long career with York University and many contributions to community organizations and trade unions, Professor Carla Lipsig-Mummé will be retiring from the Department of Social Science in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) this month. Lipsig-Mummé began her working life as a union organizer of garment workers […]
Ernest Leung, a master’s student of the Joint Graduate Program in communication and culture at York University and Toronto Metropolitan University, is the inaugural recipient of the Global Hong Kong Essay and Creative Project Award. Leung received the award for his paper, “Humour and Political Resistance: Dayo Wong’s Stand-Up Comedy in Hong Kong,” which will be published […]