York University Criminology Professor James Sheptycki is the recipient of the 2021 Allen Austin Bartholomew Award for best-published paper of the year by the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology for his essay titled “The Politics of Policing a Pandemic Panic.” The essay was completed in early April 2020 and published during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic […]
Welcome to LA&PS Through the Ages, where, each month, we talk 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. This month’s story is all about Luisa Robinson who is a Student Success & Academic Advisor in […]
Emily St. John Mandel visited Canadian Writers in Person at York on Oct. 26 to talk about her latest novel, The Glass Hotel (2020). York University teaching assistant Dana Patrascu-Kingsley sent the following report to YFile. Author of five novels, including Station Eleven (2014), Mandel was born on Vancouver Island, has lived in Toronto and […]
The annual Ontario Public Service (OPS) Breakfast presented by York University’s School of Public Policy & Administration (SPPA) on Oct. 5 focused on anti-racism with a special talk by guest speaker Nosa Ero-Brown, assistant deputy minister at Ontario’s Anti-Racism Directorate (ARD). This year, the event took on a hybrid form, hosting a number of faculty, […]
Loredana Kun, professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, passed away on Oct. 16. Kun began teaching at York in 2001, and was a dedicated and enthusiastic instructor in the Department of Humanities over these many years, most recently in Myth and Imagination in Greece and Rome. Her students described her “as one […]
For the Oct. 27 edition of the Scholars’ Hub @ Home speaker series, David Weitzner, an assistant professor of management in York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, will host a discussion about the importance of arts venues in post-pandemic society. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed everything, and with governments overtaking markets in deciding economic winners and […]
Career readiness is top of mind for many students in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) at York, and there are new tools at their fingertips to help them enhance their preparation. The experiential education (EE) team in the dean’s office, staffed by Melanie Belore, Aleksander Golijanin and Irene Seo, has recently unveiled a series of online […]
Studying another language is a gateway to world citizenship, said Professor Maria João Dodman, Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics at York University. Language courses aren’t only about learning another language, Dodman said. Languages are embedded in specific cultures, enabling learners to engage and acquire global competencies that can include, for instance, important historical, ideological […]
Advancing YU, a mentorship pilot program being launched by the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) this month, focuses on women students and Black students, groups that have been historically held back in their pursuit of successful careers, said LA&PS Dean J.J. McMurtry. “A number of our alumni have succeeded despite the obstacles they […]
The dream two professors had for a mathematics help centre at the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) has become a reality in the form of a SNACK – the Student Numeracy Assistance Centre – Keele. The centre, a pilot project, formally opened online on Sept. 27, but the team behind it envisions that it […]