Panel 2 | Black and Health in Canada Thursday, 10 February 2022 | 15:00 EST This panel presents an overview of Black Canadians' health and the challenges that they encounter in society that affect their health outcomes. The panelists will also share perspectives on how to improve health equity across the country. Panelists: Cheryl Prescod […]
The Mary-Jo Nadeau Activist Scholar Award (The M.J.) for Graduate Students in Sociology was established by family, friends, and colleagues of Dr. Mary-Jo Nadeau, a graduate (’05) of York University’s Graduate Program in Sociology. Her anti-racist feminist research and activism focused on white supremacy in the Canadian women’s movement, labour rights, anti-poverty campaigns, and Palestinian […]
Opening Panel | African/Black Knowledge and Wellness Thursday, 3 February 2022 | 15:00 EST Panellists: Pablo Idahosa (Social Science, York University); Wendy Jones (Toronto Catholic School Board and Pan Fantasy Steelband); Njoki Wane (University of Toronto) Moderator: Sylvia Bawa (York University) This event is co-presented by the Resource Center for Public Sociology and the African […]
Check out our full November 2021 Sociology UPDigest! Dear students, the COP26 United Nations Climate Summit just ended with a fragile attempt and compromise to keep the 1.5c warming target alive as a glimmer of hope. For people in the Global South who have had to endure the slow violence of global injustice and environmental […]
Friday 28th January 2022 The COVID-19 pandemic has reminded us of our mutual interdependence and the need for collective and coordinated global effort and action, anchored in solidarity, to combat this threat. Yet, despite the threat COVID-19 (as well as attendant climate change crisis) poses to our humanity, global responses to combat the pandemic mirror […]
Thursday, January 20 2022 This presentation outlines current explorations to mapping out what it means to do Experiential Education (EE) with the Jane Finch community. Historically, EE is often done in the community with little to no community feedback or inclusions on the effectiveness and implications of EE on residents, organizations, groups, and the community at […]
We regret that the event is now full and there is no longer a wait list. We had to cap registration to keep the small group discussions manageable. Please do not be discouraged, you will have other opportunities to share your experiences. The Graduate Student and Postdoc Subcommittee of the President’s Advisory Council – Equity, […]
Media data collection using R 4 May 2021, 10-3pm EST (Eastern Standard Time) Register by April 27, limited spots Facilitators: Professors Cary Wu and Muyang Li, Sociology Part I. 10-12pm, R basics. Professor Wu This workshop will cover the basics of R programming (e.g., data importation, data visualization, and simple regression analysis). Part II. 1-3pm, […]
Solidarity with Asian communities We, in the Department of Sociology and the Graduate Program in Sociology, express our support for members of Asian communities and their allies, and we would like to reiterate that we stand in solidarity against racial violence and aggression in all its forms for all racialized groups. We denounce the recent […]
Check out our March 2021 Sociology UPDigest today! One year after the pandemic was declared a global health emergency shaping our lives and the lives of many communities around the world, we want to take a moment to reflect what it has meant for us as sociologists. To you as students, to us as teachers […]