A new book by Andrea Davis, associate professor in York University’s Department of Humanities, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, will launch at a celebratory event on April 21 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Artscape Wychwood Barns in Toronto. In Horizon, Sea, Sound: Caribbean and African Women’s Cultural Critiques of Nation, Davis imagines new reciprocal relationships beyond […]
Borderless Higher Education for Refugees: Lessons from the Dadaab Refugee Camps, co-edited by Professor Emerita and Senior Scholar Wenona Giles at York University’s Department of Anthropology,earned the Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Award from the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES). Giles, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Resident Research Associate at the Centre for […]
The Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies will co-sponsor a conversation about Holocaust literature with experts in the field on April 28 at 7:30 p.m. The virtual event, Holocaust Literature: A Canadian Perspective, will bring together Canadian scholars Catherine Khordoc, Goldie Morgentaler, Ruth Panofsky and Lucas Wilson to discuss the recent Canadian Jewish Studies publication, Canadian […]
York University will host the 2023 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the largest academic gathering in Canada, in partnership with the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. On April 13, the theme for Congress 2023 was announced as “Reckonings and Re-imaginings,” which will guide the direction of discussions and knowledge sharing at […]
LA&PS Professor Mohamed Sesay is the winner of the International Studies Association’s Lee Ann Fujii Book Award for 2021 for his new book Domination Through Law: The Internationalization of Legal Norms in Postcolonial Africa. Lee Ann Fuji was associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto (Mississauga) and a member of the School of Social Science […]
Founders College presents the “Speaking Diasporas: Interrogating Inter-generational Diasporas” conference virtually on April 19 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The conference will explore humans being called to and oriented towards home. “Nostos,” finding home, appears to be among the deepest of human needs: a commonly shared emotion of returning to a place left behind […]
The Multimedia Language Centre (MLC) hosted the second online workshop of the Language Learning Workshop Series on April 1, with a focus on incorporating language learning in making YouTube channels, songs, TV shows and movies. The workshop “Unlocking the Power of Unfocused and Implicit Learning” was hosted by Gang Pan, assistant professor in the Department […]
Associate Professor Zulfikar Hirji at the Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies is one of four life stories featured in the contemporary hybrid opera-film BOUND presented by Against the Grain Theatre (AtG). Aiming to use the power of storytelling and music to address the many barriers Canadian newcomers and marginalized people face […]
Former students of the late Professor Barbara Godard have published a collection of her essays in the Routledge Key Thinkers on Translation Series, which presents the essential selected works – journal articles and book extracts of leading figures in the field of translation studies – in a single volume. A virtual book launch for Translation, Semiotics, […]
The School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA) held its fifth annual Municipalities of the Future Symposium in hybrid format on March 23. This year’s theme, “Municipalities, good governance and sustainability: Bringing progressive strategies to life,” featured insightful panels ranging from environmental sustainability and climate resilience to smart cities, ethics, human resources and procurement. […]