Much of what informs environmental thinking springs from a view that equates nature with sexually straight and queer with unnatural. The editors of a new book Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire, turn those notions upside down. Co-editors Bruce Erickson (PhD 09’) and York environmental studies Professor Catriona Sandilands, Canada Research Chair in Sustainability & […]
On June 21, Laurence Packer of York’s Faculty of Science & Engineering will discuss what has become a crisis in agriculture – the rapid disappearance of bees, wrote InsideHalton.com June 17: Packer will present findings outlined in his new book Keeping the Bees, which grew out of the Canadian pollination research initiative spearheaded by the […]
York English Professor Emerita Barbara Godard, who died May 16, has received the 2009 Gabrielle Roy Prize (English Section) posthumously for her most recent book, Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women’s Poetry, co-edited with poet Di Brandt. The award is given annually by the Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures (ACQL) […]
Bee expert urges public to create bee-friendly gardens in their yards Breakfast may be toast if we don’t take action to save the bees, according to York biology Professor and bee expert Laurence Packer. “Consider breakfast. Eggs, maybe a slice of watermelon, toast with butter and jam, and a cup of coffee with a dash of […]
It is a human urge to imitate percussive sounds, says York music Professor Trichy Sankaran, whose new book, The Art of Konnakkol (Solkattu), delves into the rhythmic spoken syllables of south Indian drumming. A master percussionist, Sankaran wrote the book and used selections from his albums Laya Vinyas and Catch 21 on the accompanying CD to […]
The research and creative work of York music professors spans a wide range of genres and media formats. Disseminated through recordings, print publications and live performances, it’s reaching growing audiences at home and around the world. Composer and choral conductor Professor Stephanie Martin (left), who serves as music director of Toronto’s historic Church of St. […]
This year, York is honouring sociology and women’s studies Professor Pat Armstrong and psychology Professor Leslie Greenberg with its highest award, Distinguished Research Professor, for their outstanding contributions to the University through research. The title will be conferred on Armstrong at the Spring 2010 Convocation on June 16 at 10:30am and on Greenberg during the […]
Dance Professor Norma Sue Fisher-Stitt (BA Spec. Hons. ’78, MFA ’86), York’s associate vice-president, academic learning initiatives, has published a major new work in the annals of Canadian dance. Her book, The Ballet Class: A History of Canada’s National Ballet School, 1959-2009, traces the conception and growth of the National Ballet School (NBS), one of the […]
In a May 8 review of Professor Bridget Stutchbury’s new non-fiction book, The Bird Detective, The Globe & Mail compared it to Margaret Atwood’s Year of the Flood. Stutchbury is a Canada Research Chair in Ecology and Conservation Biology and a professor in the Department of Biology in York’s Faculty of Science & Engineering: In […]
York English Professor Michael Helm likens writing novels to driving bumper to bumper at 120 kilometres an hour for half a day, and being emotionally and physically spent by the end. That’s on good days. “You have to concentrate so hard, but when you get out of the car, you’re just so exhausted. I always […]