Call for submissions: University-wide creative writing competition

The annual York University President’s Creative Writing Awards, the Lorna Marsden Prize for Creative Writing in French, the Daniel Whittaker-Van Dusen Prize for Emerging Poets and the Richard Teleky Short Fiction Prize are accepting unpublished and original writing submissions. The President’s Creative Writing Awards are looking for submissions in four categories: poetry, short fiction, screenplay and stage play. Submissions for the Lorna Marsden Prize […]

Research-informed website aims to support sexual and gender-diverse communities

A new research website launched by a multidisciplinary team led by LA&PS Professor Kinnon MacKinnon aims to provide resources, support and data-driven information about gender detransition/retransition. The website Detrans Support was informed by learnings from two research studies funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) that explore detransition/retransition, along with ongoing consultations with transgender and […]

LA&PS alum among Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100

Seven York University alum and one faculty member have been recognized as female leaders in Canada who work to build positive change and empower others. The women are recipients of the WXN Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Awards for 2023. WXN is a Canadian national organization that celebrates the advancement of women. Launched in 2003, […]

LA&PS writer-in-residence hosts award-winning filmmaker Deepa Mehta

The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) and the Department of English invite you to an evening with Writer-in-Residence Shyam Selvadurai and internationally revered filmmaker Deepa Mehta. On December 7, Selvadurai will host Mehta for a screening and discussion of her latest collaboration, the documentary film I Am Sirat. The film follows Sirat […]

LA&PS professor to honour Canadian wartime nurses

Andrea McKenzie, associate professor and Chair of the Writing Department in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies at York University, has been asked by the Western Front Association (WFA) to place a wreath in honour of Canadian nurses at the Cenotaph in London, England, in Nov. 11 ceremonies honouring veterans of the First […]

New book explores Toronto’s Bloor Viaduct bridge history

Paul McLaughlin, an award-winning writer and course director at Writing Department, Faculty of LA&PS, has released The Suicide Magnet: Inside the Battle to Erect a Safety Barrier on Toronto’s Bloor Viaduct, which details the history of the barrier and the citizen volunteers who advocated for its existence. From 1918 to 1997, Toronto’s Prince Edward Viaduct (more […]

Talk explores impact of Canada’s social inclusion strategy on Greece

Department of Sociology will host a discussion on Nov. 16 that delves into Canada’s strategy for promoting social inclusion among Indigenous and vulnerable communities, and how it could inform Greek policymakers. The talk, titled “Social Exclusion of Roma, Indigenous People and Irregular Migrants,” aims to offer valuable insights for Greek policymakers seeking to tackle the issues confronting […]

LA&PS Professor Kinnon MacKinnon and Team Launches a Research Website

LA&PS Professor Kinnon MacKinnon and team launches a research website outlining resources and support to provide up-to-date, data-driven information about gender detransition/retransition. This website was developed through on-going consultation with transgender/nonbinary and detransitioned people, their care providers, and by compiling the results from two research studies—The Detrans Discourses Study, led by Professor Annie Pullen Sansfaçon, and The Re/DeTrans Canada Study, led by Professor MacKinnon. Both of these studies were funded by the Social Sciences and […]

New Books Network podcast features Dr. Sylwia Chrostowska’s book: Utopia in the age of survival: between myth and politics

LA&PS Professor Dr. Sylwia Chrostowska from the Department of Humanities was recently on the New Books Network podcast, which featured Dr. Chrostowska’s book Utopia in the age of survival: between myth and politics, published by Stanford University Press in October 2021.   In the podcast, Dr. Chrostowska starts with the genesis of the book and discusses the way […]

LA&PS researchers receive federal funding for knowledge mobilization projects

Three LA&PS researchers are among the latest recipients of Connection Grants from the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Richard Saunders, Johanne Jean-Pierre and Yvonne Su from the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, were awarded the funding for various knowledge mobilization activities related to their different research projects. The grants fund activities like research events, […]