LA&PS Professor David Koffman Awarded Partnership Engage Grant

Dr. Koffman was awarded a SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant (PEG) for a project titled “Life and Literature of Jews from the Former Soviet Union:  Amplifying New Voices in Canada.” The project involves a multi-disciplinary scholarly symposium about the lives and literature of Canadian Jews from the Former Soviet Union; a writers' workshop for Canadian-Ukrainian-Russian-East Slavic Jewish novelists, poets and […]

LA&PS Professor Adrian Shubert Awarded Connection Grant

Professor Adrian Shubert was awarded a SSHRC Connection Grant for a project titled “Phase 2 of 'Spanish Civil War: A Virtual Museum: Adding New Galleries and Content, Extending the Audience, and Developing Resources for Educators" (SCWVM). This is an outreach project whose overarching goal is to further extend knowledge exchange and dissemination about one of […]

Professor Sylvia Bawa announces the publication of her co-edited book, Truth Commissions and State Building

Professor Sylvia Bawa announces the publication of her co-edited book, Truth Commissions and State Building, by McGill-Queen's University Press. This book examines truth commissions' mandates, methods, outcomes and legacies and how they shape state-building processes in transitional and restorative justice contexts. Professor Bawa states that "our limited goal in the book was to broadly map the expanding […]

“In My Life”: Loving Queerly and Singing Across Generations by Dr. Casey Mecija

LA&PS Dr. Casey Mecija​ recently published an article in a academic online publication called Sounding Out! The article “In My Life”: Loving Queerly and Singing Across Generations examines the queer inheritances and intimate plotlines made possible by popular music. “In My Life” by The Beatles holds unique familial meaning for Mecija. As a soundtrack to her […]

Toronto Commemorates the Athens Polytechnic Uprising

On November 17, 2023, the HHF Chair in Modern Greek History, the HHF Greek Canadian Archives, York University Libraries, and the Hellenic Canadian Academic Association of Ontario hosted Democracy's Echo: Toronto Commemorates the Athens Polytechnic Uprising at the Collaboratory Space at Scott Library. The event was organized by Vasilis (Bill) Molos, Director and Research Lead […]

Bearing Witness Symposium Fosters Discussions about Academic Harassment

This past week, the Bearing Witness Symposium fostered many discussions around hate and harassment pertaining to public scholarship. The Bearing Witness team of Professor Natalie Coulter, and Communication and Culture PhD students, Marion Grant, Alex Borkowski and Anna Young coordinated speakers, panels, workshops, an art exhibit, and a documentary screening to center the stories of graduate students who have […]

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 […]

Collaborative Cybersecurity Workshop with BCCC and NICT: Bridging Research and Practice

The Understanding Cybersecurity Series (UCS) is a comprehensive knowledge mobilization program aimed at addressing the critical issue of cybersecurity resiliency on a broader scale founded by Professor Arash Habibi Lashkari at the School of Information Technology in York. It operates under the premise that tackling cybersecurity challenges effectively requires creating efficient and relevant tools in […]

LA&PS Professors Examine the Issues Experienced by International Students

LA&PS Professor Tania Das Gupta investigates the myriad of challenges experienced by international students, focusing on how the housing crisis especially impacts this population while they also experience blame for it. In an article for CBC and for CBC’s Front Burner, Professor Das Gupta discusses how international students face exploitation and challenges both within the housing and labour markets. Professor Das Gupta mentions how “international students have been scapegoated […]