Psychedelics (Opium) and Pyschology in Renaissance Florence?? Come learn about the surprising end-of-life medicine practices from Prof. Cynthia Klestinec (Miami University) at her talk on “Dying Well in Renaissance Venice,” from 1:30-3:00 p.m., Thursday, March 16 in room YH170. The talk is part of the History Café/café historique is funded by the Albert Tucker Speaker […]
Professors Mark Jurdjevic and Gillian McGillivray did interviews with Glendon liaison last fall about our program (the first 30 seconds are in French then we switch to English), please feel free to check those out! And Glendon History Professors Rose Ndengue and Gillian McGillivray were featured, respectively, in Shifter Canadian Black Culture Magazine and York’s […]
Congratulations to Natasha Sarazin, whose essay on Brazilian autoworkers that she wrote for GL/HIST 4630 (6.0) Brazilian Globalization Seminar won York’s Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean’s $500 undergraduate essay prize! Did you know Brazil’s President Lula was an autoworker? Click here to read her brilliant essay that begins in the early […]
This fall, Glendon History & the student Glendon Historical Society had the pleasure of hosting PhD student Luah Tomas to discuss the historic Brazilian elections in October that opposed former auto-worker and now elected President Lula da Silva versus the “Trump of the tropics” Jair Bolsonaro. In November, Myriam Paris (CNRS-France) spoke to students about […]