The Department of Anthropology invites the York community to attend the annual general lecture on Thursday, March 5 from 4 - 6 p.m. This year’s lecture, Amphibious City: Stormwater Drains and the Making of Gray Futures, will be delivered by Professor Nikhil Anand of the University of Pennsylvania. Based on six years of research in […]
Lélia Young, a retired professor in the Department of French Studies, has received the 2025 poetry prize from the Académie des Baobabs for her French-language collection Rupture et avènement. The Prize is awarded annually to the best novels and poetry collections from Africa and the diaspora. Professor Emerita Young’s research has focused on linguistics, translation, […]
The Disaster Seminar Series is organized by Y-EMERGE, a pan-university research institute at York University dedicated to scientific, technological and social aspects of disaster and emergency management. Held every Thursday from 2:45 to 3:45 p.m. in Harry Crowe Room (ATK 109), the series will build on York’s exceptional expertise to advance transformative and multidisciplinary research […]
Desirée de Jesús, assistant professor in the Department of Communication & Media Studies, has been awarded funding for the digital media community-engaged project, From Archive to Imagination: Building Canada’s Future with Black Histories, through the Black Research Seed Fund. This project partners with the arts and cultural organization the Black Arts Centre, along with Black […]
A new Teaching Fellows Program has been launched by the Office of the Vice-Provost Teaching and Learning. The program will empower faculty members across York University to investigate pedagogical issues across various disciplines. Participating faculty members will focus on exploring challenges, creating new strategies for professional growth and enhancing teaching at York. Lisa Davidson, associate professor in the Department […]
Two alumni from the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) have been appointed to the Order of Canada. A total of 80 appointments of the award were announced on Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025, nine of which were from the York University community. The Order of Canada is one of Canada’s highest civilian honours […]
The School of Human Resource Management was honoured to host Denise Rousseau as part of the 2026 Monica Belcourt HR Talks series. Rousseau, the H.J. Heinz II University professor of Organizational Behaviour and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, visited York to share her research on self-promises and their implications for human resource management. Held […]
Hassan Qudrat-Ullah, professor in the School of Administrative Studies (SAS), has published a new book titled A Treatise on Dynamic Decision Making. The book investigates how decisions are made, looking at cognitive, behavioral and collaborative factors, and investigating models like reinforcement learning and participatory decision-making. Drawing on real-world examples, illustrations and practical insights, the book aims […]
Duygu Biricik Gulseren, Associate Professor of Human Resource Management, recently visited the Osaka University of Economics as Dr. Tae Funakoshi’s guest. The visit focused on research exchange, and teaching and learning from Japanese perspectives on disability inclusion in organizational contexts. As part of the visit, Biricik Gulseren presented her research at the Business Law Information Centre’s (BLIC) Annual Research […]
Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction, co-authored by Jean-Thomas Tremblay, associate professor in the Department of English, received an Honourable Mention in the 2025 Book Prize competition held by the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP). ASAP promotes the best scholarship on the literary, visual, performing and media arts, and […]