York will honour two of its professors during Convocation ceremonies for their scholarship, teaching and participation in University life and contribution to it as a community. Professors Stanley Tweyman (right) of York’s Department of Philosophy in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) and Jan Rehner of York’s Writing Department in LA&PS have […]
Tricky math and haunting messages accumulate in unresolved poetics this fall at the Art Gallery of York University (AGYU). The AGYU invites you to “surge out there” as it joins with Raqs Media Collective: technological poets for an India in transition, to present their newest exhibit Surjection. Of the current generation of Indian artists, the […]
Yorks’s Osgoode Hall Law School and the departments of philosophy at York and McMaster University have recently joined forces to facilitate academic collaborations in the field of legal philosophy. The Ontario Legal Philosophy Partnership (OLPP), which celebrates its founding with a launch reception on Friday, May 13 in the Great Hall of McMaster’s University Club, is the […]
Stuart Shanker, Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology and Philosophy and director of the Milton & Ethel Harris Research Initiative at York University, spoke about the concept of self-regulation – managing our inner emotional life – and its increasing role in treating children with mental disorders, such as autism, and adults on CBC Radio’s “Ideas” program […]
The release of the Air India inquiry report Thursday will help solidify a public narrative around the deadliest terrorist attack perpetrated in Canada, wrote The Globe and Mail June 16: As it was with Britain’s Bloody Sunday report and apology on Tuesday, or the residential schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada event launched Wednesday, […]
Stuart Shanker, Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology and Philosophy in the Faculty of Health and director of the Milton & Ethel Harris Research Initiative, was featured on “The Hurried Infant,” an audio documentary that ran on CBC’s Ideas program April 22 and 23, 2010. The message? Mozart, and indeed any classical music will stimulate the […]