Rethinking surveillance historically: From the medieval eye-of-God to the modern eye-of-power

Criminology Annual Lecture 2024 Date: March 14, 2024 Time: 3 - 5 p.m. Location: CLH (Curtis Lecture Halls) B Speaker: Professor David Lyon (Queen’s University). Professor David Lyon is the former Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre, and Professor Emeritus of Sociology and of Law at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. A pioneer in the field of Surveillance Studies, he has authored or […]

Exploring Archival Research Workshop

Thursday January 25, 2024 1:00-3:30 via Zoom This workshop will introduce attendees to archival research and provide tools for using archives in research. The workshop is built around two (2) themes: archival research about work and successes and challenges in doing archival research. Panelists will speak from experiences as archivists with expertise in social history, […]

SUSA Presents Destressing with dogs

SUSA is a student organization catering to the academic and social life of sociology undergraduates. We function as a liaison between the Department of Sociology and undergraduate students. SUSA provides support and a voice for undergraduates, as well as guiding students to helpful resources. Take a break and join us at our destressing with dogs […]

UPDigest - Sociology Newsletter (Fall 2023)

Fall 2023 Newsletter Hi all We're running this digest since the global pandemic hit in March 2020. You can find previous newsletters on the UPDigest page. When looking back, it seems that each iteration of the digest has been framed around some major crisis. The evocation of such crises has certainly to do with our […]

RCPS Methods Workshop: Visualizing Intersectionality

Date and time: Thursday, April 6, 2023. Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Virtual Event via Zoom This is a registered event. See below for link. Speaker: Professor Cary Wu, Department of Sociology, York University  Visualizing Intersectionality One way to capture how social categories and their associated identities and experiences intersect to create advantages or disadvantages […]

Harriet Tubman Institute and the Resource Centre for Public Sociology special event - The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Date and time: Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. EDT Virtual Event via Zoom. Register here: https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqceirrj4sGdWv0K8naWY2JJBZ3xgFb0GB Statements from panelists:  Sharon Henry, PhD Candidate, Sociology: As another year of the international day of the elimination of racial discrimination begins on March 21st, 2023, let us not forget our ancestors that have gone […]

RCPS Global Public Sociology Conversations: Women in the Mist of War, Occupation, Nation-Building and International Relations

Date and time: Tuesday, March 21, 2023. 1 - 3:30 p.m.  Virtual Event via Zoom (Zoom link will be sent out Monday, March 20).  This is a registered event. See below for link. Recently, blatant infractions on women’s rights in Afghanistan have garnered outrage, interest and despondency from the global community. With increasing restrictions on […]

RCPS Global Public Sociology Conversations: Beyond the Ivory Tower: Practising Public Sociology

Date and time: Tuesday, March 9, 2023. 1 - 2:30 p.m.  Virtual Event via Zoom (Zoom link will be sent out Wednesday, March 8).  This is a registered event. See below for link. How do we use research to transform our communities and contribute towards social change? How do we connect researchers and multiple publics […]

UPDigest - Sociology Newsletter (January 2023)

Sociology@York Newsletter, February 2023 Current Perspectives on the Sociology of Health and Illness Dear Students, In our first newsletter in 2023 we introduce you to recent contributions to the Sociology of Health and Illness in our department. For the past few years of living through the Covid-19 pandemic, we have collectively seen and felt the […]

York Sociology Research Celebration

Please join us as we celebrate the release of new publications by some of our faculty and graduate students. Wednesday, January 25, 2023; 12-2 p.m. Zoom link: https://yorku.zoom.us/j/93749700015?pwd=RDk2RlU0NTdIa0VpRE9nTzJ4SFZPUT09 Jean-Pierre, J., Watts, V., James, C. E., Albanese, P., Chen, X., & Graydon, M. (Eds.). (2023). Reading Sociology. Decolonizing Canada. Oxford University Press. This new edition of […]