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Scholarship and Allyship Through Film: An Interview with Celia Haig-Brown

Celia Haig-Brown is a Euro-Canadian ethnographer committed to respectful and reciprocal research and practice. Her first book (1988), a retrospective ethnography of the Kamloops Indian Residential School, was based on interviews with former students. A new and updated edition, Tsqelmucwílc: The Kamloops Indian Residential School, Resistance and a Reckoning, with Indigenous collaborators, was launched on September 30, 2022 […]

York students learn side-by-side with Colombian classmates

By Elaine Smith Students are easily tempted by courses that include a trip abroad as part of the curriculum, but Hispanic Geopoetics: Geography, Literature, Identity, taught by Alejandro Zamora, offered an extra treat: classmates from the Universidad del Magdalena (UniMag) in the Colombian Caribbean region of the course’s field study. Zamora, an associate professor of Hispanic […]

Pride Month 2023

Training Session: Creating and Maintaining Positive Spaces Date: Wednesday, June 7, 2023Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AMLocation: Online This is a “101” session that will explore gender and sexual diversity, as well as homophobia and transphobia specific to the campus experience. Learn about using inclusive language, being a supportive ally, campus resources, and creating safer spaces on […]

Congress 2023- Reckonings & Re-imaginings

Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences is Canada’s largest gathering of academics, and one of the largest in the world. It’s a place to hold critical conversations of our time, hear from a diverse set of voices, share findings, refine ideas, and build partnerships to help shape the Canada of tomorrow. Congress 2023 will […]

Paying it forward for future students - Living and Learning in Retirement (LLIR) celebrates their 50th anniversary at Glendon

On May 17th, Living and Learning in Retirement (LLIR) celebrated their 50th anniversary with current and former leaders and board members, long-time course directors, dignitaries, and Glendon partners and staff.  A commitment to lifelong learning is a cornerstone of Glendon College’s approach to education, and one we have long shared with the volunteer-led group Living and […]

Racial Injustice and the Limits of Reparative Policies: A Conversation with Carmela Murdocca -Interview by Serena Aprile 

Carmela Murdocca is the York Research Chair in Reparative and Racial Justice and Professor in the Department of Sociology at York University. She is appointed to graduate programs in Sociology, Socio-Legal Studies, and Social and Political Thought. Her research examines the intersections of racialization, criminalization and the social and legal politics of repair, redress and reparations. […]

Sculpting Political Outrage: An Interview with Artist Donna Bliss - Interview by Liliana Antonyshyn

Donna Bliss was born near Chicago. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) with an honourable mention in the Senior Fellowship Project Since graduating from SAIC, her life has been evenly split between building a career as an event planner and continuing to create art. As part of the Zhou B team […]

Bees, Beewashing and Climate Change: An Interview with Sheila Colla - Interview by Alyssa Ramos

This interview was conducted by Research Apprenticeship Programme (RAP) student Alyssa Ramos, Glendon Campus, with Professor Sheila Colla, Faculty of the Environment and Urban Change (https://www.savethebumblebees.ca).  How did you end up in this field, studying bees and their relationship to the environment and climate change?   During my undergraduate degree, the University of Toronto had the […]

Andrew Dawson and graduate student Isabel Krakoff win the inaugural Alexis de Tocqueville Award for the best conference paper on democracy and public opinion

Andrew Dawson, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the Glendon Campus of York University, and Isabel Krakoff, a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology, were announced as the winners during WAPOR’s 75th conference.  The paper “Political Trust and Democracy: The Critical Citizens Thesis Re-Examined” empirically assesses competing perspectives on the relationship between […]

Glendon Global Debates | Is Democracy Broken?

Glendon School of Public and International Affairs’ first-ever hybrid Glendon Global Debate took place on April 4, exploring the contemporary shifts in political discourse and the future of democracy.  Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, The Honourable Elizabeth Dowdeswell moderated a discussion titled “Is democracy broken?”. Her Honour was joined by a panel of expert speakers, including […]