We are pleased to share our Call for Papers! The conference will be held on August 11-13, 2026, at York University with the option for hybrid participation. For more information, please visit the "Conference 2026" section of our website or click here.
We are pleased to announce that details for the Call for Papers for our upcoming conference at York University will be shared soon. Please stay tuned for the official announcement! All conference details will be shared here. In the meantime, we are still running focus groups online (via Zoom) and in person. If you'd like […]
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While we are all thinking about what it means to be Canadian following Canada Day, Director Anne MacLennan spoke with Rukhsar Ali for the CBC/Radio-Canada about defensive nationalism and Canadian identities and symbols, with regard to Artist Lynne Rennie’s Drawn to Canada project visualizing Canada. Check the story out here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/canadian-national-identity-art-1.7563912
We are holding our first focus group over Zoom on June 18, 2025 at 1:00pm EST. If you would like to participate in the focus group, please email us at ccools@yorku.ca, CanadianID2024@gmail.com, and amaclenn@yorku.ca. Please also please sign and send the informed consent form below to ccools@yorku.ca, CanadianID2024@gmail.com, and amaclenn@yorku.ca. Informed Consent (PDF)
Fatima Husain has hosted a podcast with Dr. Felix Odartey-Wellington! Dr. Felix Odartey-Wellington is an Associate Professor of Communication. Dr. Odartey-Wellington received his PhD in Communication and Culture from Toronto Metropolitan and York Universities (Toronto), his MA in Media Studies from Concordia University (Montreal), his BL (Barrister-at-Law/Solicitor qualifying certificate) from Ghana School of Law (Accra), […]
Fatima Husain has hosted a podcast with Dr. Anja Borck! Dr. Anja Borck has been the director of the Musée des ondes Emile Berliner since 2017, a museum that is situated in the historic RCA Victor factory in the west part of Montreal, and dedicated to the history and technology of sound recording and associated […]
Fatima Husain has hosted a podcast with Raegan Swanson! Raegan Swanson is the Executive Director at The ArQuives. She holds a BA from Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface and a Masters of Information from the University of Toronto iSchool. She has worked as an archivist at Library and Archives Canada, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of […]
Fatima Husain has hosted our first podcast with Dr. Olivier Côté! Dr. Olivier Côté has been Curator, Media and Communications, at the Canadian Museum of History since 2015. During his time with the Museum, he has been part of the Canadian History Hall exhibit team, and was curator of the exhibit From Pepinot to PAW […]
Gabriella Conforti has joined the team as the DARE (Dean's Award for Research Excellence) student. Gabriella Conforti is a third-year Honours BA student in Communication & Media Studies at York University. She has a keen interest in marketing, public relations, and corporate communications, and is dedicated to expanding her expertise in these fields both through […]
