LA&PS English Professor Agnes Whitfield led a daylong hybrid workshop at the Maison Suger, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH), on the challenges of compiling, conserving, and promoting literary translators’ archives. The workshop brought together Translation Studies scholars, literary translators, national archivists, and university librarians from four countries (Canada, Finland, France and Norway). […]
Professor Denielle Elliott and team held a film screening and roundtable for Becoming the Butterfly, a film that captures the experiences of those who live with the effects of brain injuries. The film uses research-creation and an arts-based approach to integrate film and ethnographic methodologies to engage people living with brain injuries in all phases […]
The Global Labour Research Centre - GLRC (LA&PS-based ORU) recently hosted it’s 9th Annual Graduate Student Symposium, Critical Conversations in Work & Labour. More than 50 participants from York University and from other universities across Canada attended the symposium. Spread across 13 panels, conversations interrogated the role of artificial intelligence, care work and reproductive labour, migration, […]
Kids, KidTech and the Metaverse: Global Childhoods in digital capitalism is a SSHRC Insight Development Grant funded project that explores the shift where much of children’s daily lives have moved into online spaces; and in this shifting reality, asks what it means to be a child in these spaces. The team seeks to understand what […]
LA&PS Professor Elisha Lim from the Department of Humanities has co-published a provocative manifesto to abandon privacy, which tackles digital discourse about online privacy through a humanities lens. “Abolish Privacy,” was published as the lead article of the February issue of Open Access journal First Mondays. Professor Lim mentioned that “the aim of “Abolish Privacy” is […]
Dr. Andi Schwartz was awarded a Connection Grant for the project "Visualizing Queer Femme Narrative Histories of Toronto Using Digital Mapping," which is a part of a larger project called the Femme Story Archives (funded by a SSHRC IDG: "'On Our Own Terms': An Oral History and Archive of Queer Femme Community in Culture in […]
LA&PS Professor Audrey Laurin-Lamothe was awarded a SSHRC Connection Grant for a project titled “La Grande transition: Raviver les solidarités postcapitalistes.” The Great Transition collective is calling on all those interested in building a fairer future to propose activities for the fifth edition of its international conference. The event aims to foster reflection on ways […]
Professor Stephen Brooke’s (Department of History) book London, 1984: Conflict and Change in the Radical City has been selected by The Conversation as one of its top 5 best non-fiction books of 2024. London, 1984 explores a pivotal year in London’s history, when the reforms enacted by Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government began to profoundly reshape the life […]
The LA&PS Research Office is pleased to announce that two LA&PS Faculty have been selected as York Massey Fellows. We congratulate Professor Emilia Nielsen and Professor Zulfikar Hirji on this opportunity and look forward to seeing what they accomplish! Professor Nielsen’s program of scholarly research and creative activity engages interdisciplinary, arts-based, and research-creation interventions […]
The Global Labour Research Centre, LA&PS-based Organized Research Unit, is entering its third charter period under the direction of Prof. Adrian Smith (currently on sabbatical) and Prof. Carlo Fanelli (Interim Director). The GLRC was launched in 2013 following two decades of research activities pursued through the Centre for Research on Work and Society. In its new […]