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

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 […]

Passings: Professor Emerita Lillian Lerman

Passings: Professor Emerita Lillian Lerman

Dr. Lillian Lerman, Professor Emerita and former Undergraduate Program Director of the Division of Social Science in the Faculty of Arts (now Liberal Arts & Professional Studies), passed away on January 26, 2024. Lillian was a longtime and beloved member of the Division of Social Science, both as a lecturer and academic leader who could […]

HESO Prof Kenton Kroker awarded AMS grant to support history of sleep medicine in Canada

HESO Prof Kenton Kroker awarded AMS grant to support history of sleep medicine in Canada

Kroker received the AMS History of Healthcare Project Grant, worth $20,000, for his historical study titled “Innovation, Expertise, and Equity: Creating Sleep Medicine within Canada’s Universal Health Care System, 1970 – 2000.” Kroker asks what effects Canada’s evolving system of universal health care had on sleep medicine since 1970. “I’m thrilled to use this grant […]

HESO 2021-2022 Student Award Winners

HESO 2021-2022 Student Award Winners

HESO is pleased to announce its 2021-2022 student award recipients! Health & Society Founders Prize: Second-year: Amen Okungbowa Third-year: Jennifer Santin Fourth-year: Jennifer Santin Gina Feldberg Prize: Amanda Cowen Congratulations to the winners for their outstanding work.

Success story: Faduma Ali

Success story: Faduma Ali

Faduma Ali is a Junior Professional Officer at Environmental Co-operation Unit at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Secretariat. Read the interview with Faduma Ali on OSCE website.

Passings - Jan Krouzil

Passings - Jan Krouzil

Department of Social Science mourns Jan Krouzil's passing and we extend our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends, colleagues.

Nigeria’s efforts to help victims of trafficking are failing. We found out why.

Nigeria’s efforts to help victims of trafficking are failing. We found out why.

Author: Uwafiokun Idemudia (Professor of African Studies and International Development Studies)  Contributor: NNenna Okoli (PhD Candidate)  “Most countries have anti-trafficking laws, policies and programmes to prevent human trafficking. There are also international treaties to address the problem. Yet it’s still thriving.  Human trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, harbouring and control of a person using force […]

Twitter starts testing edit button; Canadian Twitter Blue users among first to access

Twitter starts testing edit button; Canadian Twitter Blue users among first to access

Criminology professor Natasha Tusikov comments on the safety and productivity issues regarding Twitter’s new feature trial.  September 01, 2022  Author: Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press. “…The rollout of the long-awaited tool comes as Canada is looking to regulate tech companies and pressure is mounting to tamp down on online harassment.  “But if we're looking for […]

BUSO profs contribute chapters to new publication on Southeast Asia’s Mekong Region

BUSO profs contribute chapters to new publication on Southeast Asia’s Mekong Region

Business & Society (BUSO) Assistant Professor Nga Dao, who is also a Faculty Associate at the York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR), and Research Associate Vanessa Lamb, who is joining BUSO in January 2023 as an Associate Professor, have authored chapters in a long-anticipated edited collection on development and dispossession in the Mekong Region.   More […]