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Resource Centre for Public Sociology in collaboration with Founders College explore the politics of insecurity and inequality in Africa

York University’s Resource Centre for Public Sociology in collaboration with Founders College, the African Studies program and Queen’s University’s Canada Research Chair in Youth and African Urban Futures, presents “(Dis)Content Futures?: The Politics of Insecurity and Inequality in Africa” on April 6 from 2 to 4 p.m. via Zoom. Recently, various African countries have experienced political instability, including new civil wars, terrorist […]

LA&PS alumna donates $25,000 toward advancing women in higher education

York University bachelor of commerce alumna Lucy Iacovelli is supporting female students at the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) with a $25,000 donation to the Advancing YU program’s mentoring stream, Advancing Women Students program. This donation will provide 25 Advancing YU participants with $1,000 in financial support to help lift economic barriers […]

Silvia Moreno-Garcia talks about the gothic’s relationship to the ‘racial other’

On March 8, author Silvia Moreno-Garcia visited the Canadian Writers in Person series at York to read from and talk about her novel Mexican Gothic. Mexican Gothic is a gothic novel that stages, through its feminist protagonist, a critique of colonialism and whiteness. While taking us on a horror-filled journey, it invites us to look at the […]

New webinar series on disaster ethics begins April 6

The nine-part webinar series titled “Exploring Ethics: Lessons from COVID-19 and Other Catastrophes” kicks off on Wednesday, April 6 and will run on select Wednesdays from 10 to 11 a.m. until June 2022. With nine speakers participating across multiple continents, collaborating universities of this joint project include York University, Roskilde University and Arkansas Tech University. […]

Upcoming joint STS-HESO seminar explores fertility efficiency

A special joint seminar between the Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) within the Faculty of Science and the Health and Society (HESO) program within the Department of Social Sciences at the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies takes place virtually on Tuesday, April 5 from 12:30 to 2 p.m. This is the […]

Do octopuses, squid and crabs have emotions?

LA&PS philosophy professor Kristin Andrews, an expert in animal minds, debates if octopuses can solve complex puzzles and show a preference for different individuals, but whether they, and other animals and invertebrates, have emotions and could shake up humans’ moral decision-making. Most countries don’t recognize invertebrates, such as octopuses, crabs, lobsters and crayfish, as sentient […]

LA&PS student awarded prestigious Fulbright Canada Killam Fellowship

Tiana Putric, a fourth-year Disaster & Emergency Management student in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) has been awarded the Fulbright Canada Killam Fellowship, a bi-national exchange for exceptional undergraduate students in Canada and the United States. Putric is one of 16 Canadian students chosen to participate in the prestigious program that aims to […]

Six LA&PS students named winners at Ontario Japanese Speech Contest

Six students enrolled in the Japanese Studies program in the Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguists at the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS), were each presented with an award at the 40th Ontario Japanese Speech Contest (OJSC) held online on March 6.. Supported by the Consulate General of Japan in Toronto and […]

Book launch for Twice Migrated, Twice Displaced by Professor Tania Das Gupta

A book launch for Twice Migrated, Twice Displaced by Professor Tania Das Gupta at the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies will take place Thursday, March 24 at 12:30 p.m. The book explores the lives of twice-migrated Gulf South Asians who arrived in the Greater […]

The show goes on: Vanier College Productions presents ‘The Radio Plays’ and ‘Show Choir’

In-person performances this March became unattainable for Vanier College Productions (VCP) as universities once again pivoted to online learning at the beginning of the year amid surging COVID cases. Virtual preparations and rehearsals for VCP’s 50th anniversary season production of Festival began in the fall. But as they looked ahead to opening their curtains, VCP converted all […]