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Liberal Arts & Professional Studies welcomes eight new faculty members

This story is published in YFile’s New Faces feature issue 2024. Every September, YFile introduces and welcomes those joining the York University community. The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) welcomes eight new full-time, permanent faculty members this fall. “I would like to extend a warm welcome to our new faculty members,” says J.J. McMurtry, dean of […]

Canadian Writers in Person Lecture Series celebrates 25 years

York University’s Canadian Writers in Person (CWIP) Lecture Series is set to mark its 25th anniversary this fall, with its 2024-25 season kicking off on Sept. 17. This year, the series features 11 up-and-coming authors who have received recent literary recognitions. They will read from and discuss their published works and offer attendees a glimpse into their […]

Passings: Stephen Hellman

York University Professor Emeritus Stephen Hellman passed away on Aug. 19. Hellman joined the Department of Political Science (as it was then known) as a lecturer in 1971, before being promoted to assistant professor two years later, then going on to become a full-time professor. He retired in 2014. Hellman taught a wide variety of courses in […]

Passings: Ron Sheese

Ron Sheese, a former York University professor and associate dean in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional (LA&PS) studies, passed away on August 15. During his time at York University – from 1971 till his retirement in 2021 – Sheese’s academic interests included the development of cognitive skills and learning practices in university students, […]

York University announces first-of-its-kind PhD program

Due to the growing frequency and severity of disasters experienced around the world, and the ongoing need for management and mitigation of such risks, disaster and emergency management (DEM) has become an expanding academic and professional field that is sure to experience increased relevance – both domestically and internationally – for the foreseeable future. York […]

Exploring the Evolution of the New Development Bank: Perspectives from Global Policy Experts

In the June 2024 issue of Global Policy journal, LA&PS Professor Gregory Chin assumed the role of guest editor for a collection of 10 articles focusing on The Evolution of the New Development Bank (NDB) within the journal’s Policy Insights Special Section. Global Policy journal — recognized in Google’s top 10 for international relations and […]

LA&PS Prof releases book on how films help us understand the inevitable death of Earth and humanity

Department of Humanities Professor Jean-Thomas Tremblay has co-authored a new book, titled Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern University Press, 2024), which brings film studies, queer theory and psychoanalysis into novel configuration.  The book makes a tripartite argument; first, that life is held together by contradictions which the contemporary climate crisis aggravates; second, that […]

Advancing YU empowers Black, women students

Advancing YU is a mentorship and scholarship program in York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) that links Black and/or women third- and fourth-year students with experienced alumni mentors, and provides professional and personal development opportunities. A critical component of the Advancing YU program is matching student mentees with alumni mentors who […]

York U researchers awarded seed grants for global health projects

Following the fifth annual Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health Research (CPGH) Workshop, York University’s Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research and the CPGH steering committee have awarded four York U researchers this year’s $7,000 CPGH Seed Grants to initiate novel and innovative ideas that take a critical social science approach to global health […]

Model EU brings students from across Canada to York U

When political science major Sara Harsini heard York University was hosting a Model European Union (EU) for university students nationwide, she signed up to participate and convinced her third-year classmate, Nawal Alhawari, to join her. The Model EU, a simulation of the work done by the European governing body, was held this spring and organized by Heather MacRae, an […]