Hazal Halavut is a postdoctoral fellow for the 2025-26 year, working under the supervision of Alison Crosby, professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies. Halavut’s work traces the afterlives of colonial violence and genocide across memory, history and culture, attending to how they are held, denied and reimagined within the psychic, political […]
The Victorian Studies Network at York (VSNY) has unveiled an online exhibit displaying a selection of nineteenth-century books, correspondence and other rare materials held by the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections at York University Library. This virtual display follows a successful in-person event, which was co-hosted by the VSNY and York University Libraries on […]
Nicole Dufoe is a postdoctoral fellow for the 2025-2026 year, working under the supervision of professor Tina Choi in the Department of English. Dufoe’s current project, “Victorian Fictions of Wellness,” brings together her background in nineteenth-century literary studies and the health humanities to investigate the relationship between Victorian ideals of self-improvement, epitomized by Samuel Smiles’s […]
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 […]