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Bringing the university experience to international students during the age of remote learning

With university campuses across the nation essentially deserted and everything from lectures to Frosh weeks now relegated to online spaces, the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has drastically altered the post-secondary experience.   While these changes may seem unfathomable to the countless students who are now learning from their bedrooms, Canada’s international student community faces their own set of unique challenges navigating university as it is today. Unable to return to a physical campus, feeling a sense of connectedness to their school is proving to be difficult for many while studying thousands of kilometers away.  […]

Michal Baptista Lecture presented by CERLAC explores the toxic realities of aluminum mining in Jamaica

Amid ongoing protests over incursions into Jamaica’s ecological heartland – the Cockpit Country – the timely Jamaican film Fly Me to the Moon tells the stories of Black and Indigenous peoples across the globe whose lands, forests, and rivers have been taken over and made toxic by the aluminum industry. The film examines the deep geopolitical and racialized […]

Acclaimed authors to discuss Canadian Jewish historical fiction

An event aimed to bring the Canadian Jewish community and the CanLit community together for a discussion on Canadian Jewish historical fiction will take place Nov. 15 from 6 to 8 p.m. on Zoom. Hosted by York University’s Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies, the discussion panel features four internationally acclaimed authors: Ayelet Tsabari, David Bezmozgis, Norman Ravvin and Nessa […]

Michael Prior reads from his second collection of poems for Canadian Writers in Person

The series gives attendees an opportunity to get up close and personal with an eclectic group of 11 authors while having the unique opportunity to engage with them in a dialogue about their work. If you love meeting talented writers and hearing them read from their published work, or just want to soak up a […]

LA&PS Professor Gregory Chin publishes timely article on U.S.-China relations

In advance of the American presidential election on Nov. 3, York University Professor Gregory Chin contributed to a collection of essays on U.S./China relations in the journal Asian Perspective. Johns Hopkins University Press is offering free access to the issue until the end of 2020. This issue consists of pieces by leading scholars from around the world, including […]

2020 Anthropology Annual Lecture to feature renowned anthropologist and filmmaker John L. Jackson Jr.

This year’s Department of Anthropology Annual Lecture will be highlighted by a keynote presentation from University of Pennsylvania Professor John L. Jackson Jr., titled “What a Difference Filmmaking Makes: Autoethnography, Multimodality and the Future of Scholarship.” Originally slated as an in-person event on York University’s Keele Campus back in March, the lecture has been rescheduled […]

LA&PS professors to discuss history of tattoos, disproportionate mental health impacts of COVID-19 during October’s Scholars’ Hub @ Home events

Do you enjoy hearing about the latest thought-provoking research? The Scholars’ Hub @ Home speaker series features discussions on a broad range of topics, with engaging lectures from some of York’s best minds. The Scholars’ Hub events are done in partnership with Vaughan Public Libraries, Markham Public Library and Aurora Public Library, and are presented […]

Canadian Writers in Person continues with reading from Steven Price’s new novel

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 opportunity to attend the Canadian Writers in Person Lecture Series. The series gives attendees an opportunity to get up close and personal with an eclectic group of 11 […]

Politics professor appointed to UN Advisory Group

York University Professor Gregory Chin was appointed to the Advisory Group of the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC), to advise on the UNOSSC South-South Ideas Paper Series and contribute to this research work of the UNOSSC. The appointment was announced Sept. 15. The UNOSSC was established to promote, coordinate and support South-South and […]

English professor co-organizes international conference on food studies

David B. Goldstein, an associate professor of English in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, is co-organizing a major international conference on food studies in early modern culture. The conference Food and the Book: 1300-1800 launched Oct. 2 and continues through Oct. 12. This entirely digital conference is co-sponsored by the Center for […]