2021 SOSC Student Awards virtual celebration video

The Racialized Students in Healthcare Virtual Lecture Series

The Racialized Students in Healthcare virtual lecture series is sponsored by the OHTN and provides workshop series on Indigenous Education, HIV Clinical Care, HIV research facilitated by HALCO and HIV Pharmacy Care. Our facilitators include: MaryAnn from the Native Women Resources Centre, Dr. Gordon from Unity Health, Stevia Arthur from BlackCAP, Alex Vincent from Cabbagetown Community Health Centre and […]

Professor Allyson Lunny receives Endowed Chair in Criminology & Criminal Justice at St. Thomas University

York University Associate Professor Allyson Lunny will hold the prestigious Endowed Chair in Criminology & Criminal Justice at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, N.B. during the Fall 2021 term. The Endowed Chair appointment is awarded annually to a scholar with a well-established record of research and who has a PhD in Criminology or a related field.   Lunny, […]

You're Invited: 4th Annual Book Celebration

A virtual event will be held to celebrate recent publications by Annie Bunting, Lisa Drummond, Carlo Fanelli, Les Jacobs, Jaime Llambías-Wolff, Vanisha Sukdeo, and Douglas C. Young. This event will take place on Tuesday, Feb. 9, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Zoom. Each of the books is available for purchase at the hyperlinks provided with […]

ISS Asst. Prof. Sarah Rotz has an opinion piece in the Globe and Mail: "As meat plants shut down, COVID-19 reveals the extreme concentration of our food supply"

“The food supply chain is breaking,” Tyson Foods Chairman John H. Tyson wrote in an open letter published in the New York Times earlier this week. And he’s not wrong. Over the past month, anyone following the news might have noticed images of seemingly endless food bank lineups juxtaposed against footage of milk being dumped […]

ISS Students Association 1st Meeting & Celebration

Come on out to the 1st meeting of the ISS Students Association. Help us celebrate completing the Fall Term!

Interdisciplinary Social Science Meet & Greet - Oct 30

Please join us for some food and conversation. Come meet our faculty and staff to talk about our programs and answer any questions you may have. Interested in joining the ISS Student Club? Want to know more about the kinds of events and activities you can help organize? Explore what our program offers!

Department of Social Science event celebrates 11 new publications

This article originally appeared in yFile. An event to celebrate 11 recent publications from faculty in York University’s Department of Social Science, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LAPS), will take place on Thursday, Jan. 25 from 2 to 4pm. This event is open to the York University community and will take place in […]

ISS Speaker Series - Fall 2017 (Risto Kunelius)

York U researcher part of international collaboration on climate change communication

This article originally appeared in yFile. Climate change is one of this century’s defining challenges. Scientific investigations on climate change and global warming are at the forefront of research agendas with increasing numbers of such inquiries undertaken each year. Approaches investigating the transforming conditions of the Earth’s planetary environments have also grown in depth and […]