York University professor champions arts of the Indian Ocean

For centuries, the Indian Ocean has been a vital maritime highway, facilitating the movement of people, goods and ideas across a vast region stretching from East Africa to Southeast Asia. Yet the artistic legacies born from these cross-cultural exchanges remain relatively understudied compared to other parts of the world. Zulfikar Hirji, a professor of anthropology at […]

Jason Harrow inspires graduands to embrace their creativity

Canadian music industry icon Jason “Kardinal Offishall” Harrow accepted his honorary degree from York University at the June 20 convocation ceremony by reciting spoken word poetry – infused with his signature hip-hop lyricism – to graduands of the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design. The former […]

John Ralston Saul urges graduands to be engaged citizens

John Ralston Saul, an award-winning essayist and novelist who is often referred to as one of Canada’s leading thinkers, received an honorary degree from York University during a June 19 convocation ceremony for the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. “It’s amazing looking around at all the faces and thinking about the future,” Saul […]

Arnold Auguste reflects on career spent sharing marginalized voices

At York University’s Spring Convocation ceremony on the morning of June 20, an honorary degree was presented to Arnold Auguste, president and publisher of the newspaper Share, which has been serving the Greater Toronto Area’s Black and Caribbean communities since 1978. Born and raised in Trinidad, Auguste always had a fondness for Canada, so when he had […]

LA&PS prof co-curates international art exhibit

Born in France in the wake of the First World War, the surrealist movement positioned itself as an artistic, poetic, and philosophical investigation of the unconscious and the irrational, in pursuit of revolutionizing the human experience. In honour of the centenary of the publication of the Manifesto of Surrealism by the movement’s founder, André Breton, events around […]

Interim Director: Carlo Fanelli, Global Labour Research Centre

As you may know, Professor Adrian Smith, Director of the Global Labour Research Centre (GLRC), will be on sabbatical from July 2024 to June 2025. We are pleased to announce that Carlo Fanelli, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, has accepted to take on the role of GLRC's Interim Director.   Carlo Fanelli is an […]

Canada’s first national study on 2SLGBTQ+ poverty launches during Pride Month

York U-led project aims to drive social and economic change in support of 2SLGBTQ+ communities Just how widespread — and persistent — is poverty within 2SLGBTQ+ communities in Canada? Municipal and provincial 2SLGBTQ+ poverty-related studies offer glimpses but there is no national measure. Research led by York University and launched during Pride Month looks to fill that […]

LA&PS Faculty members among new cohort of York Research Chairs

Two researchers in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies have been named among the 10 new York Research Chairs (YRCs), an internal program that supports outstanding faculty members as they produce research and excel in their wide-ranging areas of study, including cognitive neuroscience, gender justice and molecular ecology, among others.   “The York […]

President’s University-Wide Teaching Award LA&PS recipient honoured

LA&PS faculty member Heather Lynn Garrett will be recognized during the 2024 Spring Convocation ceremonies with a President’s University-Wide Teaching Awards for enhancing quality of learning and demonstrating innovation and excellence in teaching. This year’s President’s University-Wide Teaching Award recipients – selected by the York University Senate – are representative of three categories: full-time faculty […]

LA&PS faculty member to receive honorific professorship

York University will honour LA&PS professor Leah Vosko during 2024 Spring Convocation with a Distinguished Research Professor recognition. Distinguished Research Professor is a designation reflecting a member of faculty who has made outstanding contributions to the York U community through research and whose work is recognized within and outside of the University. A professor and […]