Date: October 25, 2024 Time: 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.Format: in person Location: 314 York Lanes This panel discussion on transnational feminist praxis and solidarity featured an interdisciplinary conversation on crises and social media. Panelists
Date: September 28, 2024 Time: 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Format: Virtual Inspired by Gloria Anzaldúa’s words, "Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks," this graduate research forum invites exploration of the concept of liminality across disciplines. We seek to understand how individuals and communities encounter, negotiate, and transform within transitional spaces, and […]
Date: June 4, 2024 Time: 10 - 11 a.m. Format: HybridVenue: Vari Hall 2101 (York University) Women in Ghana, as in many parts of Africa, face serious socioeconomic and health barriers daily: Not only do they have limited access to land, credit, healthcare, and other social protection programs, but they also do most of the household activities […]
Criminology Annual Lecture 2024 Date: March 14, 2024 Time: 3 - 5 p.m. Location: CLH (Curtis Lecture Halls) B Speaker: Professor David Lyon (Queen’s University). Professor David Lyon is the former Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre, and Professor Emeritus of Sociology and of Law at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. A pioneer in the field of Surveillance Studies, he has authored or […]
Thursday January 25, 2024 1:00-3:30 via Zoom This workshop will introduce attendees to archival research and provide tools for using archives in research. The workshop is built around two (2) themes: archival research about work and successes and challenges in doing archival research. Panelists will speak from experiences as archivists with expertise in social history, […]
Date and time: Thursday, April 6, 2023. Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Virtual Event via Zoom This is a registered event. See below for link. Speaker: Professor Cary Wu, Department of Sociology, York University Visualizing Intersectionality One way to capture how social categories and their associated identities and experiences intersect to create advantages or disadvantages […]
Date and time: Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. EDT Virtual Event via Zoom. Register here: https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqceirrj4sGdWv0K8naWY2JJBZ3xgFb0GB Statements from panelists: Sharon Henry, PhD Candidate, Sociology: As another year of the international day of the elimination of racial discrimination begins on March 21st, 2023, let us not forget our ancestors that have gone […]
Date and time: Tuesday, March 21, 2023. 1 - 3:30 p.m. Virtual Event via Zoom (Zoom link will be sent out Monday, March 20). This is a registered event. See below for link. Recently, blatant infractions on women’s rights in Afghanistan have garnered outrage, interest and despondency from the global community. With increasing restrictions on […]
Date and time: Tuesday, March 9, 2023. 1 - 2:30 p.m. Virtual Event via Zoom (Zoom link will be sent out Wednesday, March 8). This is a registered event. See below for link. How do we use research to transform our communities and contribute towards social change? How do we connect researchers and multiple publics […]
A York University Resource Centre for Public Sociology Zoom Symposium Thursday, January 19 – Saturday, January 21, 2023 Note: all times are in Toronto’s EST (Eastern Standard Time) zone REGISTER by January 17, 2023. ZOOM LINK will be sent out January 18, 2023. Thursday, January 19 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. Making Interview Research on Violence […]