If you love meeting talented writers and hearing them read from their published work, or just want to soak up a unique cultural experience, don’t miss the final instalment of the 2021-22 Canadian Writers in Person Lecture Series on March 22, featuring a reading from Louise B. Halfe/Sky Dancer’s fourth book of poetry, Burning in […]
Welcome to the latest edition of LA&PS Through the Ages, where we speak to longtime members of the LA&PS community about how they got to York University, what their roles are like and even some of their fondest York memories. Today’s post is all about Sonia Cianfarani, Assistant Director of Student Recruitment. For the past […]
Canadian musician, writer and artist Vivek Shraya will deliver the 2022 Kitty Lundy Memorial Lecture, exploring the theme of reinvention through collaboration. The lecture, titled “Collaboration as a Path to Reinvention,” will take place on March 28 at 6 p.m. It will be a hybrid event taking place virtually and in person with limited seating available. Shraya will examine […]
The Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) presents this year’s Anthropology Annual Lecture on March 17 at 4:30 p.m. with anthropologist and academic Jason De León. Serving as the keynote speaker for the event, De León will discuss “The Land of Open Graves: Understanding the Current Politics of Migrant Life […]
On Feb. 15, Canadian poet Rebecca Salazar visited the Canadian Writers in Person series at York to read from and talk about her poetry collection sulphurtongue. Rebecca Salazar’s poetry collection sulphurtongue contains over 10 years of poems through which the poet said that her younger self processed “how to be in good relation with the damaged world, […]
Professor Dagmar Soennecken (School of Public Policy and Administration, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies) is part of a global team of researchers examining the meaning of vulnerability in the context of migrants who need special assistance and protection. Soennecken and Canadian collaborators in the VULNER Project at the University of Ottawa, McGill and Waterloo, have […]
Over the years, there has been some debate about whether trustful children are the product of genetics, environmental influences or parental socialization. York University Assistant Professor Cary Wu of the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS), looked at the process underlying the intergenerational parent-to-child transfer of trustfulness to find the answer. “Although not the only […]
The Student Senator Caucus (SSC) oversees nominations for student members for the Board of Governors and makes a recommendation to them based upon the election results. The election of student governors rotates annually between undergraduate and graduate/professional students. The Board of Governors appoints its members. The SSC is responsible for nominating those members, and in […]
This summer, the C4: Cross-Campus Capstone Classroom will be working in collaboration with IBM to offer co-branded micro-credentials to York students through C4 Sprint 3.0, a three-layered experiential learning space for students at all levels and faculties. C4 Sprint 3.0 combines three streams of C4: Primer (first- and second-year students), Launchpad (second- and third-year students), […]
The 2022 Sociology Annual Lecture will take place on Thursday, March 3 at 4 p.m. with Professor Emerita Pat Armstrong to discuss “Feminist Political Economy: A Promising Approach to Public Sociology.” The lecture will explore the meaning of a feminist political economy and how it can contribute to the struggle for social justice in present […]