The Mary-Jo Nadeau Activist Scholar Award (The M.J.) for Graduate Students in Sociology was established by family, friends, and colleagues of Dr. Mary-Jo Nadeau, a graduate (’05) of York University’s Graduate Program in Sociology. Her anti-racist feminist research and activism focused on white supremacy in the Canadian women’s movement, labour rights, anti-poverty campaigns, and Palestinian […]
Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US Speaker: Dr. Julian Go (UChicago) Dr. Julian Go is Professor of Sociology and Faculty Affiliate of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture and the Committee on International Relations at the University of Chicago. Date: October 26, 2023Time: 4:30 […]
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 Department's Website. 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A York University Resource Centre for Public Sociology Zoom Symposium Thursday, January 19 – Saturday, January 21, 2023 Note: all times are in Toronto’s EST (Eastern Standard Time) zone REGISTER by January 17, 2023. ZOOM LINK will be sent out January 18, 2023. Thursday, January 19 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. Making Interview Research on Violence […]
RCPS Global Conversations Date and time: Friday, November 25, 2022. 11:30 - 1 p.m. Virtual Event via Zoom (Zoom link will be sent out Thursday, November 24). This is a registered event. See below for link. In solidarity with the women of Iran and others protesting violent state repression following the tragic death of Mahsa […]