LA&PS Prof releases book on how films help us understand the inevitable death of Earth and humanity

Department of Humanities Professor Jean-Thomas Tremblay has co-authored a new book, titled Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern University Press, 2024), which brings film studies, queer theory and psychoanalysis into novel configuration.  The book makes a tripartite argument; first, that life is held together by contradictions which the contemporary climate crisis aggravates; second, that […]

Advancing YU empowers Black, women students

Advancing YU is a mentorship and scholarship program in York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) that links Black and/or women third- and fourth-year students with experienced alumni mentors, and provides professional and personal development opportunities. A critical component of the Advancing YU program is matching student mentees with alumni mentors who […]

York U researchers awarded seed grants for global health projects

Following the fifth annual Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health Research (CPGH) Workshop, York University’s Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research and the CPGH steering committee have awarded four York U researchers this year’s $7,000 CPGH Seed Grants to initiate novel and innovative ideas that take a critical social science approach to global health […]

Model EU brings students from across Canada to York U

When political science major Sara Harsini heard York University was hosting a Model European Union (EU) for university students nationwide, she signed up to participate and convinced her third-year classmate, Nawal Alhawari, to join her. The Model EU, a simulation of the work done by the European governing body, was held this spring and organized by Heather MacRae, an […]

York U initiative amplifies voices of refugee youth

York University’s Singing Our Stories project, led by Professor Andrea Emberly, aims to amplify the voices of refugee and newcomer children and youth through music and collaborative arts creation. Partnering with refugee settlement agencies COSTI and CultureLink, as well as international research leaders in applied community music, Singing Our Stories mobilizes arts- and music-based programs to […]

Professor advances understanding of animal consciousness

A major new declaration co-initiated by York University professor and philosopher Kristin Andrews affirms there is strong scientific evidence that not just mammals and birds, but potentially all vertebrates and many invertebrates, possess conscious experiences. The New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness, unveiled on April 19 at a conference at New York University, states that the empirical […]

LA&PS Prof Advocates for Indigenous Rights and Climate Justice in Bonn

Dr. Angele Alook, an Assistant Professor from the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, embarks on a research journey to Bonn, Germany, championing the rights of Indigenous Peoples and advocating for ethical engagement with knowledge systems amidst the challenges of climate change. Alook and her team recently participated in the 11th meeting of the […]

LA&PS Postdoctoral Fellow: Kennedy Opande

  The LA&PS Research Office is pleased to introduce one of the LA&PS Postdoctoral Fellows, Kennedy Opande. Opande completed his PhD at the Institute of Anthropology, Gender and African Studies, University of Nairobi in Anthropology. Opande will work with supervisor Denielle Elliott, a Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Social Science. Professor Elliott holds a York Research […]

Professor Idil Boran awarded $3.1M in international research project tackling climate change

Professor Idil Boran is the Principal Investigator (PI) of one of the three large-scale team grants awarded to York University in the New Frontiers Research Fund International - 2023 International Joint Initiative for Research in Climate Adaptation and Mitigation competition. The grant — valued at $3.1M — has been awarded to Professor Boran with co-PI […]

Study examines impact of Quebec’s Bill 21

York University Professor Nadia Hasan, in collaboration with the National Council of Canadian Muslims, has published a new study called “Social Discord and Second-class Citizenship” that examines how legislation passed in Quebec has negatively impacted the lives and careers of Muslim women. Bill 21, a legislation enacted in 2019, prohibits Quebec public servants – teachers, law […]