Dear Colleagues, I had the pleasure of attending the 8th Annual LA&PS Celebration of Student Academic Achievement yesterday. The Dean's Award for Academic Excellence - Honourable Mention - awarded to domestic students with a grade-point average of at least 8.5 based on a course load of at least 30 credits - went to two of our best and […]
On March 7, 2019, Professor Pat Armstrong delivered the 2019 Margaret Laurence Lecture at Trent University, “The Charlottetown Declaration on the Right to Care.” History of the Margaret Laurence Lecture Series
ICS Facility Services ("ICS") welcomes Meline Beach to the executive management team as Chief Communications Officer If you are an alumni of the York Sociology program, we’d love to hear from you. Email: lapssoci@yorku.ca
What’s a York University sociology professor to do if he discovers an ongoing deficit in writing and language skills among his students? If he’s John Paul Grayson or Robert Kenedy, he applies for an Academic Innovation Fund (AIF) grant and creates an online course, Skills for Success in Sociology, to teach these much-needed basics. “Last year, we […]
York University’s Department of Sociology will hold its annual lecture on Feb. 26 with guest speaker Renisa Mawani, professor and Chair of the Law & Society program at UBC. Renisa Mawani Mawani will deliver the talk “Atmospheric Pressures: On Race and Affect,” which explores Frantz Fanon’s comments on atmosphere with more recent efforts to theorize affect through […]
Christopher Kyriakides, Canada Research Chair and Executive Committee Member, Centre for Refugee Studies at York University, will draw from research on the reception of Syrian refugees in Canada so as to illustrate how the dynamic of refugee-host relations affects and is affected by the Canadian Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program. In this presentation, Kyriakides will […]
Tubman Talks Thursday, January 17, 2019 14:30-16:00 Harriet Tubman Institute 321 York Lanes “Wakanda Forever”? Reflections on a film and movement A year ago, Black Panther, a movie from Marvel Comics was released to much critical and popular acclaim. In the film, Wakanda’s heir, T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman), ascends to the throne, inherits the superhero mantle […]
Congratulations to Professor Harris Ali and his team. Their study entitled, “The Role of Social, Cultural and Environmental Factors in Improving Ebola Virus Disease Response and Resilience: Exploring the Potential of Community-Based Initiatives,” received an award of $359,968 over two years. Exploring community-based initiatives to improve Ebola virus response and resilience Rapid Research Fund for Ebola to […]
OTTAWA -- A new study suggests women are more likely than men to experience workplace harassment, and that it's more common in health-related fields. The Statistics Canada report, "Harassment in Canadian workplaces," suggests most people don't experience abuse on the job but that a significant number do -- including verbal abuse, humiliating behaviour, threats, physical violence, and […]
In his early work, Professor Paul Gilroy, one of the most influential scholars in cultural studies, draws attention to how citizenship and belonging are socially lived in profoundly uneven ways, noting that citizenship is more than holding a certain passport. This, of course, is very true, but Gilroy’s insight raised a different set of […]