York University Professors Alison Halsall and Jonathan Warren Honoured with 2023 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work

San Diego, California - We are thrilled to announce that York University professors Alison Halsall and Jonathan Warren have won the prestigious 2023 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work. Their groundbreaking work, titled The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader: Critical Openings, Future Directions, has received the comic industry's most distinguished recognition, the Eisner Award. Halsall and […]

LA&PS Professor collaborates with YPT on 5th Annual Children, Youth and Performance Conference

The fifth annual Children, Youth and Performance Conference took place June 16-18th 2023 this Spring at Young People’s Theatre in Toronto. This conference is the largest academic forum held in Canada focusing specifically on children, youth and the performing arts. Dr. Abigail Shabtay, a professor in LA&PS has run this conference annually since 2017, receiving […]

yFile article about Queer Comics Symposium

Please follow the link below with a notice in yFile about upcoming Queer Comics symposium on the 28th of April. All are welcome to attend!

RESTtalk Lecture Mar. 13 2023

Religion and Childhood: A Modest (Course) Proposal The Religious Studies Program presents a talk with Prof. Gurbir Jolly of the Children, Childhood, and Youth Studies program. The title of the talk is “Religion and Childhood: A Modest (Course) Proposal.” As with other events in the RESTtalks series, the presentation will be filmed and posted on […]

Congratulations, Jessica Campbell!

Dear CCY faculty and students – Please join me in offering CCY student Jessica Campbell our most sincere and hearty congratulations for her first-year paper, “Young People as Social Actors in Conflict Zones,” which was nominated for a LA&PS Writing Prize and was chosen as a first-year Honourable Mention! Congratulations, Jessica! We are so proud […]

York University CCY research project

York University CCY research project Singing Our Stories, led by Associate Professor Andrea Emberly and Postdoctoral Research Fellow Kael Reid, is partnering with Newcomer Women’s Services Toronto (NEW) and the Community Music Schools of Toronto to create an inclusive space for newcomer children and youth to engage with music.  Read more about the project here https://www.newcomerwomen.org/press-releases

New Book Explores Global Scope of LGBTQ+ Criticism

The first of its kind, The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader, co-edited by Professors Alison Halsall and Jonathan Warren, honours work that emerged from and was influenced by the underground and alternative comix movements of the mid-1960s to become what is still an underrepresented sub-genre in comics scholarship: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) comics, their provocative current iterations […]

Inaugural Robarts Keynote Professor Cheryl Cowdy "Neither Here nor There: A Canadian Suburban Imaginary"

The Inaugural Robarts Keynote (online) will be held on Friday 8 July from 5pm to 6pm to hear CCY colleague and Associate Professor Cheryl Cowdy give a talk entitled "Neither Here Nor There: A Canadian Suburban Imaginary." You will find the Zoom link attached. The Robarts Keynote was recently created to strengthen our collaboration with […]

The Children, Youth and Performance Conference

Interested in working with children and/or the performing arts? The Children, Youth and Performance Conference consist of three days of incredible workshops, panels and performances, June 24-26. Attendees can drop into any sessions they want, led by more than 100 expert presenters from around the world! The conference includes interactive workshops, performances, panels, and project […]

Education is Key to Reconciliation

Read CCY York Student Shanice Perrot’s Reflection on #NIPD2022 Please read this full story in Yfile