Marc Stein (History and Women's Studies) and Janine Marchessault (Fine Arts) were featured in today's Y-File because they were recently honoured with awards by the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Y-File
Liette Gilbert's (CITY Faculty Associate) article "Politics of Immigration and Controversial Refugee Reforms" as well as Simon Black and Roger Keil's article "Conquering the Urban Nation" were featured in Canada Watch Spring 2011.
Alan Mabin (University of Witswatersrand, Johannesburg) will be presenting "Scope and Dimensions of African Suburbanism" as part of SUBURBS TALKS. 305 York Lanes, 12:30 - 2pm. Poster To listen to a streaming version of Alan Mabin's presentation, click here.
CITY, CERLAC and the Graduate Program in Sociology are pleased to present "Welcome to the Capital of the 21st Century: Medellin Globalization's anticipating urbanism" a talk by Angela Stienen (Pedagogical University Berne, Switzerland). Conference Centre, 519 York Research Tower, 3:00 - 4:30pm. Please note that there is no audio file available for this talk.
Congratulations to Kat Cizek, Gerry Flahive and their team! The NFB's Highrise: Out my Window multimedia art project won an International Digital Emmy!
Heather Haynes (Toronto Free Gallery) and Mark Campbell (northsidehiphop.ca and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education) will be presenting “Shifting empowerment, remixing values” as part of our City Seminar Series. 305 York Lanes, 12:30 to 2:00pm. To listen to a streaming version of Heather Haynes and Mark Campbell's presentation, please click here.
Marco Amati (Lecturer and Program Director of Environmental Planning, Department of Environment and Geography, Macquarie University, Sydney) will be presenting "Greenbelts: A guide to setting up and running multifunctional peri-urban spaces" as part of CITYTALKS. The presentation will be held in room 626 York Research Tower, 10:30 - 12pm. Poster […]
Ali Asgary (Emergency Management) was quoted in a National Post article discussing the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake and how death tools are estimated and recorded after natural disasters. National Post | Y-File
Roger Keil was quoted in an article from czechposition.com about the National Film Board's "Out My Window" online documentary and highrise apartment dwellers specifically featured in Prague.
CITY is pleased to welcome a new visiting scholar to the Institute. Melanie Pooch is a PhD Student in the Graduate Program ‘Formations of the Global’ at the University of Mannheim in Germany. She is currently a doctoral student and scholarship recipient of the graduate program ‘Formations of the Global', investigating processes of cultural globalization […]