On April 1, the McLaughlin College Union, a new initiative this academic year for McLaughlin College, debated the future of democracy with an outstanding panel of expert speakers. The debaters included Professor Sylvia Bashevkin, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto; Professor Simone Bohn, Department of Politics, York University; Harry Pearse, research associate, Centre for the Future of […]
Two York University Professors from the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies are the co-editors of a special issue of the Studies in Social Justice journal. The special issue, published December 2020, is titled “Migration, anti-racism and Indigenous sovereignty in a ‘chronically mobile’ world.” Soma Chatterjee, associate professor of social work, and Tania Das Gupta, professor of gender, […]
York alumnus Michael H. Tulloch, justice of the Ontario Court of Appeal was the keynote speaker at this year’s McLaughlin College Year-End Student Special Event on Thursday, March 25. The event, which was held over Zoom, also featured brief opening remarks from York University President and Vice-Chancellor Rhonda L. Lenton and J.J. McMurtry, dean of the Faculty of Liberal […]
The Sexuality Studies Program in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University has announced a visiting scholar position in partnership with the Centre for Feminist Research (CFR) at York University for the 2021-22 academic year. Applicants who have/will have acquired a doctorate in sexuality studies and/or transgender studies or a related […]
Three students from York University earned a first-place prize during the 32nd Canadian National Japanese Language Speech Contest (NJSC). The students, from the Japanese Studies Program in York’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS), earned the top spot in the Beginner, Intermediate and Open categories during the contest, held online by the University […]
The McLaughlin College Lunch Talks series continues in April in a virtual format via Zoom. This month features four events, taking place April 6, 7, 8 and 13, which will discuss a wide range of topics in public policy. Students who attend six or more lunch talks throughout the year will receive a Certificate of Participation, while those […]
On March 23, Black Canadian poet Cecily Nicholson visited the Canadian Writers in Person series at York and talked about her collection of poems, Wayside Sang. York University Teaching Assistant Dana Patrascu-Kingsley sent the following report to YFile. In Wayside Sang, which won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry in 2018, poet Cecily Nicholson thinks through a relationship to […]
The School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA) held its fourth annual Municipalities of the Future Symposium in virtual format in early March with a focus on the COVID-19 pandemic through the theme Municipalities on the frontlines: New realities and mandates in a post-pandemic world. Close to 200 participants attended throughout the day, including municipal […]
The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) has announced the recipients of four inaugural postdoctoral fellowships. Fellows receive a funded, one-year postdoctoral research position to conduct their proposed research project under the guidance of a faculty supervisor. Fellows will receive $50,000 over the next academic year. “I’m thrilled to congratulate our inaugural postdoctoral […]
A report released March 17 by Islamic Relief Canada (IRC) titled, One Year Later – Unmasking COVID-19, concludes that the pandemic threatens to worsen economic inequality and further marginalize vulnerable groups. The report provides an in-depth examination of the impact of the pandemic and offers important policy recommendations. It reveals that lockdowns and closures of non-essential […]