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November 2024

Labour Unions, Climate Action, and Just Transition

Panelists: Seth Klein – Director of Climate Emergency Strategy. Author of A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency Rebecca Keetch – Autoworker and Activist with Green Jobs Oshawa. John Clarke, – Former Ontario Coalition Against Poverty organizer and Packer Visitor in Social Justice at York University. Author, with Sarah Glynn, of Climate Change […]
21 Nov
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Virtual
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Creating Space: Precarious Status Women Leading Local Pandemic Responses

Join us for a virtual symposium celebrating the creative and collaborative work of Creating Space:  Precarious Status Women Leading Local Pandemic Responses. This two-year collaboration was led by 14 community partner organizations with our Artistic Manager and three co-PIs, and was supported by two  project managers, eight York researchers, a team of students and interns, […]
28 Nov
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Virtual
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December 2024

2024 Meet & Greet Luncheon and Keynote Lecture

Please, join us for our 2024 Meet & Greet Luncheon:  Keynote speaker: Professor Lars Osberg will discuss his new book The Scandalous Rise of Inequality in Canada (2024).  Prof. Osberg is McCulloch Professor of Economics, Dalhousie University, and author of The Age of Increasing Inequality: The Astonishing Rise of Canada’s 1% (2018), among other publications. […]
05 Dec
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
York University (room t.b.c.)
4700 Keele St, North York, ON M3J 1P3
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January 2025
February 2025

GLRC Graduate Student Symposium (in person)

The GLRC is pleased to announce its upcoming 9th annual Graduate Student Symposium: Critical Conversations in Work and Labour. This conference is designed to showcase the scholarship of new voices in labour studies across a diverse range of disciplines. It is our hope that the workshop will provide an interdisciplinary venue for graduate students and postdoctoral […]
20 Feb
All Day
Kaneff Tower 519 @ York University, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3
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What is Antiracism? And Why it Means Anticapitalism (John Eleen Lecture)

Speaker: Arun Kundnani. Author of What is Antiracism? (Verso, 2023), The Muslims are Coming! (Verso, 2014) and The End of Tolerance (Pluto, 2007), and former editor of the journal Race & Class. Commentary: Abigail Bakan. Professor, Social Justice Education department at OISE, University of Toronto   What is Antiracism? And Why it Means Anticapitalism Responding to Nazism, liberals have been […]
20 Feb
9:00 am - 10:30 pm
Kaneff Tower 519 @ York University
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GLRC Graduate Student Symposium (virtual)

The GLRC is pleased to announce its upcoming 9th annual Graduate Student Symposium: Critical Conversations in Work and Labour. This conference is designed to showcase the scholarship of new voices in labour studies across a diverse range of disciplines. It is our hope that the workshop will provide an interdisciplinary venue for graduate students and postdoctoral […]
21 Feb
All Day
Virtual
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March 2025

Work in the Digital Media and Entertainment Industries A Critical Introduction

Book launch: Work in the Digital Media and Entertainment Industries: A Critical Introduction, by Tanner Mirrless (2025) Speaker: Tanner Mirrlees, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director of Communication and Digital Media Studies at Ontario Tech, and GLRC Faculty Associate.   Description: This book is a first-of-its-kind critical interdisciplinary introduction to the economic, political, cultural, and technological […]
06 Mar
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Virtual
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