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2012 Robarts Lecture with Bettina Bradbury

2012 Robarts Lecture with Bettina Bradbury

On Wednesday October 24, 2012, the Robarts Centre launched a new series of Annual Robarts Lectures with this talk by Professor Bettina Bradbury (History, LA&PS and Women's Studies and History, Glendon). Entitled "Twists, turning points and tall shoulders: studying Canada and feminist histories," Prof. Bradbury reflects on the personal and professional twists, turns and intellectual […]

"Home Again" A film Screening and Question and Answer

"Home Again" A film Screening and Question and Answer

"When you are stripped of everything you know you find out who you are..." Home Again is a dramatic feature film about three adults raised "a foreign" from childhood and deported to their country of birth, Jamaica. Marva, Dunston, and Everton are deported from Canada, the U.S. and London, respectively. Now back "home," each quickly […]

Research cluster on Black Canada launches

Research cluster on Black Canada launches

The Robarts Centre will launch a research cluster on Black Canada with a talk by Karina Vernon "The Way I Felt, I Wanted to Plead Guilty; I Wanted the World To Know: Black Activism on the Canadian Prairies in the 1960's." Karina Vernon is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough, specializing in […]

Research cluster on Black Canada launches

Research cluster on Black Canada launches

The Robarts Centre will launch a research cluster on Black Canada with a talk by Karina Vernon "The Way I Felt, I Wanted to Plead Guilty; I Wanted the World To Know: Black Activism on the Canadian Prairies in the 1960's." Karina Vernon is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough, specializing in […]

Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies Annual Lecture and Collective Book Launch

Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies Annual Lecture and Collective Book Launch

In this series of lectures, prominent York scholars will provide their intellectual autobiographies, reflecting on their career in and contributions to the study of Canada. This year Bettina Bradbury (history and women's studies, Glendon College and the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Profressional Studies), will present "Twists, Turning Points and Tall Shoulders: Studying Canada and feminist […]

Borderlands Workshop October 19 - 20, 2012

Borderlands Workshop October 19 - 20, 2012

Public Lecture Friday, October 19 in the ballroom at the Glendon Manor at Glendon College, York University. 2 pm – 3:30 pm. “Local, National, and Transnational Histories of Immigration to the Americas” A public lecture given by Erika Lee, Professor of History, University of Minnesota. Director of the Immigration History Research Center. All are welcome. Public Roundtable Discussion […]

Borderlands Workshop October 19 - 20, 2012

Borderlands Workshop October 19 - 20, 2012

Public Lecture Friday, October 19 in the ballroom at the Glendon Manor at Glendon College, York University. 2 pm – 3:30 pm. “Local, National, and Transnational Histories of Immigration to the Americas” A public lecture given by Erika Lee, Professor of History, University of Minnesota. Director of the Immigration History Research Center. All are welcome. Public Roundtable Discussion […]