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CRLCC-Robarts-YCAR Connects: Languages other than English and the Anglophone academic world—A two-part event

Moderated by Dr. Eve Haque, and co-sponsored by the York Research Chair in Linguistic Diversity and Community Vitality “Back from the field?” Insights from emerging scholars 27 January 2023 at 2pm Register in advance for this meeting:  https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAucO2uqjgiHdMKG8wLGzdQukpsLfNHf05p  Emerging scholars will share their experiences with learning a different language for fieldwork, the challenges they faced […]

Canada Watch | Call for Proposals: Extended deadline!

The Critical Perspectives on Mental Health (CPM) cluster within the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies at York University invites you to submit your work for our second edition of Canada Watch – Special Edition: Critical Perspectives on Mental Health and Mad Studies. Canada Watch is the main publication of the Robarts Centre. The publication is […]

Exhibiting Digital Animalities Book Launch event is now live on YouTube

How has digital technology reshaped our experiences and understandings of animals? Documenting two major international art exhibitions, Exhibiting Digital Animalities demonstrates the significance of contemporary art as a site for rethinking and restating human-animal relations. The twelve curated projects seek to broaden the range of artistic approaches to animals facilitated by digital technologies. Furthering the […]

Congratulations to the winners of the Odessa and Godard Prizes

This summer the Robarts Centre awarded the  Barbara Godard Prize for the Best York University Dissertation in Canadian Studies to Andrew Zealley, Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change (EUC), for “Risky Beeswax: Artistic Responses to the Biopolitics of HIV/AIDS.” The  Odessa Prize for the best undergraduate paper in a fourth-year course was awarded to Emily […]

Contemporary Kanata Launches

Contemporary Kanata, a new undergraduate journal in Canadian Studies is calling for abstracts for its inaugural issue.  Deadline for abstracts: October 26, 2020

Successes for the Godard Dissertation Prize Winner

  Congratulations to Warren Bernauer, recipient of the 2018 Robarts Centre Barbara Godard Prize for the Best Dissertation in Canadian Studies. Dr Bernauer’s dissertation “Extractive Hegemony in the Arctic: Energy Resources and Political Conflict in Nunavut, 1970-2017” went on to win the Canadian Studies Network’s Best PHD Dissertation in Canadian Studies and most recently the […]

Lunchtime Q & A with 2020 Melville-Nelles-Hoffman Lecturer Professor Eve Buckley

  Join the Robarts Centre Environmental Research Group for a Lunch Time Question and Answer with Eve Buckley, Professor of History, University of Delaware. Monday March 9, 2020 7th Floor Lounge, Kaneff Tower 12:30 – 2 PM   RSVP by Monday March 2, 2020 at robarts@yorku.ca                

Environmental Research Group Talk with Claire Campbell

 From Away: How Teaching Americans Changed the Way I See Canada Claire Campbell, Bucknell University Tuesday March 3, 2020 11:30AM – 1PM 749 Kaneff Tower   Visit: https://www.facebook.com/events/177804676828543/  

Environmental Research Group Talk with Claire Campbell

 From Away: How Teaching Americans Changed the Way I See Canada Claire Campbell, Bucknell University Tuesday March 3, 2020 11:30AM – 1PM 749 Kaneff Tower   Visit: https://www.facebook.com/events/177804676828543/  

Book Launch with former Robarts Centre Director Colin Coates

Former Robarts Centre director Colin Coates (2011-2015) launches two new publications on November 21, 2019 as part of the MDS Seminar Series discussing “Going Back to the Land: the Nature of Canada”. The Nature of Canada (On Point Press, 2019) and La Confédération 1864-1999 nouvelles perspectives (University of Calgary Press, 2019) with commentary from Robarts […]