A new book authored by York University Associate Professor Alicia Turner, along with Laurence Cox of Maynooth University and Brian Bocking of University College Cork, follows an audacious character of history while offering a window into the worlds of ethnic minorities and diasporas, transnational networks and social movements. The Irish Buddhist (Oxford University Press, 2020) […]
Two students in the Black Canadian Studies (BCS) certificate program at York University took home top accolades at the annual Humanities Education and Research Association (HERA) conference. Aysha Campbell and Arshad Desai, who attended the event with BCS program coordinator and Department of Humanities Chair Andrea Davis, earned the HERA Undergraduate Research Prize – valued […]
Will China’s global infrastructural initiative survive in a post COVID-19 world? The book, One Road, Many Dreams (Bloomsbury Press, 2019), written by three political economists affiliated with York University, hints that it just might. One Road, Many Dreams is co-authored by Daniel Drache, professor emeritus of political science at York University and senior research fellow […]
Most participants in the recently-conducted, York University-led Canadian COVID-19 Social Impacts Survey believe scientific evidence (82%) and advice from medical doctors (78%) should be the key influences affecting government decisions for COVID-19, with only 48% of entrants putting economic considerations among the top three determining factors. But when asked to select up to three things […]
Following the publication of the Socialist Register’s 56th volume at the end of 2019, co-editors Leo Panitch and Greg Albo of York University reflect on their editorships of the journal and discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic is highlighting the contradictions in neoliberal capitalism. Panitch, professor emeritus of politics at York University, has been co-editing the […]
In these unprecedented times, York University is issuing a call for time-sensitive, special research proposals with a COVID-19 focus. The University has committed $250,000 to this call as a demonstration of its ongoing commitment to research and innovation in this most difficult period. Applicants from across the University are encouraged to apply with a focus […]
The Closing the Enforcement Gap research team, headed by York Politics Professor Leah F. Vosko and involving York Sociology Associate Professor Mark P. Thomas and Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Eric M. Tucker, has published a new co-authored book from the University of Toronto Press. Closing the Enforcement Gap: Improving Protections for Workers in Precarious […]
Research projects at York University focusing on gender, urbanization and identity in the Greater China Region and in the diaspora in Canada received funding earlier this year from the Canada-China Initiative Fund at the York Centre for Asian Research. Founded in 2019, the Canada-China Initiatives Fund (CCIF) was created to support scholarly exchanges and research […]
Self-isolation, physical distancing, stay-at-home directives – the COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed our way of life. Family dynamics are re-calibrating, under unprecedented stress and anxiety, to adapt to a rapidly evolving “new normal.” Adjusting to being home all day with their children, many parents are also maneuvering to balance working remotely, childminding, running a household […]
The following is a letter to YFile from Bruce W. Powe, associate professor in the Departments of English and Humanities at York University. Powe is living temporarily in Spain and has shared his account of living abroad during the COVID-19 pandemic. The letter is dated April 3 and is reproduced with his permission. To YFile, […]