The fourth-year Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) course, AP/HUMA 4141, taught by Steve Gennaro, is a gamified course that explores the lives of young people and their culture in and across digital spaces by offering students a cutting-edge opportunity to understand digital life themselves and to tailor the course material to their interests and the class […]
On Tuesday, March 16, 2021, 11:30am, Dr. Valerie Steeves (Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa) will be delivering CCY’s annual Chamberlain Lecture entitled, “Talking Toys: How Smart Technology Reshapes Childhood.” Based on a discourse analysis of Hello Barbie’s lexicon, this talk will explore how talking toys seek to restructure the notion of play […]
Please join me in congratulating CCY student, Katelyn Conferido, in being this year’s recipient of the LA&PS Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, an award that recognizes the student who achieved the highest GPA on a minimum of 30 credits at the 2nd year level. What a remarkable accomplishment! We are so very proud of you, […]
Annual CCY Career Workshop is scheduled for Monday, February 3, 2020, from 11:30-1:30 in 001 Vanier. All are welcome! Guest Speakers: Emily Chan, Staff Lawyer, Justice for Children and Youth Mardi Daley, Toronto Housing Outreach Program Collaborative, designer of comic book about youth homelessness Mikhaela Gray, Education and Research Coordinator for Fight 4 Freedom, NGO […]
Professor Chakraborty’s project “Extreme love: Young people’s experiences at the intersection of intimacy and violence in urban India” has just been awarded a prestigious SSHRC Insight Grant ($90,659.00).
An interdisciplinary panel on “Recruitment and Reciprocity in Child-Centred Research” taking place this fall. All CCY students are welcome to attend. See the attached poster for panel details.
Please be advised that effective July 1, 2019, Professor Cheryl Cowdy will be on sabbatical and will no longer be fulfilling the role of Coordinator for the Children, Childhood and Youth program. We are thrilled that Professor Alison Halsall will be taking on the position for the 2019-20 academic term. We are also thrilled to […]
The Children, Childhood and Youth Program proudly presents The 2019 Career Workshop on February 4, 2019 in 001 Vanier College. Please see all details by following the link below. 2019CareerWorkshop
Please see the details by following the link below: http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2019/01/13/film-screening-fireside-chat-with-kim-culmone-offers-insight-into-evolution-of-barbie/
The Children, Childhood & Youth (CCY) Program proudly presents a film screening of Tiny Shoulders: Rethinking Barbie (Nevins, 2018) and a fireside chat with KIM CULMONE, our 2019 Alexander F. Chamberlain speaker. Kim Culmone, Mattel's Vice President of Barbie Design, sets the global creative vision for the No. 1 toy property in the world. She […]