On Thursday October 5, 2017, the Graduate Program in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies and the Centre for Feminist Research presents the Graduate Program’s annual lecture. This year’s lecture titled ‘From Resistance to “Reconciliation”: Ruminations on Decolonization from a Feminist Metis’ is with Dr. Emma LaRocque. About the Lecture The current trend to conflate “reconciliation” […]
The Robarts Centre is pleased to announce that the 2016 Godard Prize has been awarded to Brittany Luby (History) for her dissertation “Drowned: Anishinabek Economies and Resistance to Hydroelectric Development in the Winnipeg River Drainage Basin, 1873-1975.” The adjudication committee was compelled by “the rich, textured story Luby’s dissertation told and the depth to which […]
We are excited to announce that this year’s Robarts Centre Annual Lecture in Canadian Studies will be delivered by Dr. Bonita Lawrence (Mi’kmaw), Associate Professor in the Department of Equity Studies at York University. Her lecture, “Canada at 150: Where is the ‘Truth’ in the Reconciliation Process?” will be delivered as the keynote address at […]
We are proud to release this year’s edition of Canada Watch “Canada: Homeland or Hostile Land?” This year’s issue contains amazing works examining state oppression, critiquing Canadian multiculturalism, and analyzing the relationship between the Canadian state and ‘outsiders.’ The papers in this issue were written by the esteemed presenters from the 2016 Robarts Centre Annual Graduate […]
Take advantage of this funding opportunity offered by the Canadian Polar Commission called the Northern Scientific Training Program. For more information: Polarcom.gc.ca NSTP Poster 2015 (PDF)
Take advantage of this funding opportunity offered by the Canadian Polar Commission called the Northern Scientific Training Program. It is designed to support students interested in solving the pressing environmental, health, cultural, socio-economic, political, educational, legal, engineering or resource development challenges facing the Arctic and its peoples. York NSTP Poster (PDF) York University internal application […]
Power From the North: Modernity, Visibility and the Landscape of Hydroelectricity in Quebec Monday, 28th September 2015 5:00 PM N120 Ross Dr. Caroline Desbiens Professor Laval University Department of Geography View Poster (PDF)
CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS Cultural Diversity & Liberal Democracy: Models, Policies and Practice Cultural diversity, and its implications, constitutes a fundamental challenge to contemporary liberal democracy. Historically, liberal democracy’s adherents have championed tolerance and openness. Yet, as diversity becomes more complex and the demands of cultural minorities for recognition and accommodation become more intense, so there […]
We are looking for: 1 graduate representative to serve on the Robarts executive 2 graduate students who will be given free memberships to the Canadian Studies Network – as part of our affiliation as Robarts Interested students please send your statement of interest and a CV to robarts@yorku.ca. Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies
We are looking for: 1 graduate representative to serve on the Robarts executive 2 graduate students who will be given free memberships to the Canadian Studies Network – as part of our affiliation as Robarts Interested students please send your statement of interest and a CV to robarts@yorku.ca. Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies