Please join the Religious Studies Program and the Department of Humanities in welcoming our new faculty member Dr. Julie Vig on February 14 for a talk about her life and work. Dr. Vig joined the Dept. of Humanities in January and currently teaches HUMA 3802 Sikh History and Thought and HUMA 3819 Outsiders Inside Religion.
Loredana Kun, professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, passed away on Oct. 16. Kun began teaching at York in 2001, and was a dedicated and enthusiastic instructor in the Department of Humanities over these many years, most recently in Myth and Imagination in Greece and Rome. Her students described her “as one […]
Angels: 215 >, 1820 – 1979 “The Past is Always Our Present” A cradle board hangs from a treeA beaded moss bag is folded in a small chestA child’s moccasin is tuckedInto a skunk Pipe bagChildren’s shoes in a ghost dance.A mother clutches thesePalms held against her faceA river runs between her fingers. A small […]
York University Black Canadian Studies (BCS) certificate program student Michelle Molubi has been recognized at the annual Humanities Education and Research Association (HERA) conference with the top undergraduate research paper honour. For Molubi, a humanities student in her final year, the $1,000 prize from HERA represents the culmination of hard work and meaningful research within the Black […]
We are thrilled to invite you to the Inaugural Del & Wanita Smyth Lecture on Peace, Justice and Human Security. As we take action against anti-Black racism as a Faculty, this lecture series offers a space for community building, knowledge sharing and mobilization. Starting this series off with a multi-national perspective, our first lecture brings together influential […]
Jesse Thistle's memoir From the Ashes is the #1 bestselling Canadian print book so far in 2020, according to BookNet Canada. BookNet Canada is a non-profit organization that tracks Canadian book sales. Their data represents approximately 85 per cent of overall Canadian sales. They looked at sales of print books from Jan. 1 to Sept. 26 to create the […]
There’s a moment in Don DeLillo’s classic black-comedy novel “White Noise” when the main character hears one of his children reciting fragments of commercial advertising in their sleep. We realize from this that things have gotten really bad. “The Eyelid” spins a rich and rewarding political fantasy out of this anxiety over the colonization of […]
Those who love children’s literature, picture books and the way beautiful language breathes will want to mark Feb. 26 on their calendars. From 3 to 5 p.m., award-winning author and York alumna Kyo Maclear will be at the Keele Campus to present a session titled “The Poetry of Picturebooks.” Kyo Maclear Maclear is a scholar, essayist, novelist and children’s […]
This talk offers a discussion of the competing goals of urban gentrification through a reading of the documentary film Unarmed Verses (2016). The film follows the life of 12-year-old Francine Valentine for several months in 2016 as her family prepares for forced relocation from their North York, Toronto community of Villaways, targeted for demolition by a city […]
