Dr. Joshua Fogel was awarded a SSHRC Connection Grant for a project titled “Translation within a world of Chinese characters.” The aim of the project is to examine how people in the early modern and modern eras of East Asian history translated each other's works, and how interpretation (in a non-literary sense) was done. The aim […]
The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies plays an important role in enhancing the University's reputation among academics and employers, as demonstrated by April’s QS World University Rankings by Subject report. The QS World University Rankings is an annual publication of university rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). The QS Ranking by Subject evaluates a […]
The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) welcomes our new cohort of Postdoctoral Fellowships. Each postdoctoral fellow is working with LA&PS Faculty on compelling and engaging research projects. Since its creation in 2020, the LA&PS Postdoctoral Fellowship Program has provided opportunities for promising young scholars as LA&PS recognizes the importance of postdoctoral training […]
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 […]
The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) at York University is the largest and most diverse Faculty of its kind in Canada with 18,000 students, 90+ undergraduate degree and certificate options, and offers more than 35 graduate degrees in 23 fields of study. Over 600 faculty members bring their diverse experiences across our […]
Art exhibits can serve as powerful forms of public anthropology, putting on display an individual’s creative exploration of what it means to be human. As part of its Anthropology Beyond the Academy series, the York University Department of Anthropology’s Winter 2024 event will demonstrate just that by featuring the work of abstract and mixed-media artist Audra […]
No matter your profession, creative writing is a healthy way to disconnect from reality, stretch the limits of your mind and tap into your imaginative side. And regardless of your experience level, feedback is always beneficial. As part of the York University English Department’s Writer-in-Residence Program, esteemed Toronto author Emma Healey is offering appointments to York students, […]
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 Boyd Cothran in York University’s Department of History, and Adrian Shubert, Professor Emeritus, recently published a new book, The Edwin Fox: How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850-1914 (University of North Carolina Press, 2023), detailing the history of the Edwin Fox, a seemingly unremarkable merchant ship vessel […]
Dr. Lillian Lerman, Professor Emerita and former Undergraduate Program Director of the Division of Social Science in the Faculty of Arts (now Liberal Arts & Professional Studies), passed away on January 26, 2024. Lillian was a longtime and beloved member of the Division of Social Science, both as a lecturer and academic leader who could […]