Canadian poet Brian Bartlett told the audience at the three-day Green Words/Green Worlds: Environmental Poetry & Environmental Politics conference that Facebook is a new forum for environmental poetry. Bartlett identified a gap in the online realm, arguing that a need existed for a digital “nature calendar”. He is currently constructing a collection of 365 short […]
Veteran Canadian writer Gary Geddes will talk about his journey through Africa and the book Drink the Bitter Root next Tuesday as part of the Creative Writing Speaker Series. The event will take place Nov. 15, from noon to 2pm, in the Paul Delaney Gallery, 320 Bethune College, Keele campus. Drink the Bitter Root: A […]
Two upcoming events hosted by the United Way York Region have a special connection to York University's Knowledge Mobilization Unit. The first is a community forum tomorrow, Nov. 9 to discuss food policy and the development of a food charter for York Region. The second event on Tuesday, Nov. 29, features a community dialogue on pressing social issues facing the region. […]
York University has been named Canada’s top university in research publication intensity growth in the comprehensive category for the period 2004 to 2009 in a ranking released last week by Research Infosource Inc., a Canadian leading research analysis firm. “Excellence in research is central to York University’s mission,” says Robert Haché, York's vice-president research & innovation. “These results recognize […]
Prominent Canadian primatologist and Glendon psychology Professor Anne Russon will talk about the Borneo Orangutan Society of Canada (BOS Canada) and their research projects in Kutai National Park this Thursday as part of the Institute for Research & Innovation in Sustainability Speaker Series. The talk, “Orangutans: Research & Rainforest Protection in Borneo”, will take place Nov. 10, […]
...if I could preach to birds I'd tell them – fly and kiss, lives depend on this. "The Language of Birds" Lover Through Departure, the newest collection of poetry by York English and education Professor Rishma Dunlop, offers up an enticing glimpse of lovers as they weave a world of secrets with their affairs of the […]
Yesterday was a very good day for future generations of Canadian engineers. During a special event held at York University's Keele campus, President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri announced a $25-million dollar transformative donation from Pierre Lassonde, chairman of the Franco-Nevada Corporation, for an expanded School of Engineering. [stream provider=youtube flv=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Ffeature%3Dplayer_embedded%26v%3D3IXewlKqpmM img=x:/img.youtube.com/vi/3IXewlKqpmM/0.jpg embed=false share=false width=400 height=300 dock=true controlbar=over bandwidth=high autostart=false […]
Emotionally raw and deeply human, womanhood and marginalization, these are just a few of the words that describe the two newest books of poems and conversations coming from York English and creative writing Professor Patricia Keeney. There are three launches scheduled for Keeney's new books, First Woman (Inanna Publications) and You Bring Me Wings (ANTARES Publishing House of […]
New music pioneer Trichy Sankaran, whose work is known for bridging the traditions of India and the West, has won the Muriel Sherrin Award for International Achievement in Music. The York professor received the $10,000 prize Oct. 20 at the 2011 Toronto Arts Foundation Awards ceremony at the annual Mayor’s Arts Awards Lunch. More than […]
They say two heads are better than one. Jonathan Edmondson, chair of York's Department of History, now has an extra one – a Roman bust. He received it from the National Museum of Roman Art in Spain as the 18th winner of the international prize, Protective Spirit of the Colony of Augusta Emerita (Genio Protector de la […]
Teenage boys who experience “persistent” pain aren’t all that fazed by it – at least not compared to girls – a York University study finds. The study, conducted at the Ontario Science Centre, looked at more than 1,000 children and adolescents from ages eight to 18. While boys and girls reported the same frequency of persistent […]
Theatre @ York launches its 2011-2012 season with the world premiere of a new adaptation of John Vanbrugh's English Restoration romp, The Provok’d Wife. Director Vikki Anderson (left), of Toronto’s DVxT Theatre Company, commissioned playwright and actor Rick Roberts to rework this tragicomic roller coaster ride on the subject of relationships. Witness the rich behaving badly […]
The challenge in health care today is to shift the emphasis toward prevention and health promotion, while creating accessible and sustainable health services for all. It’s this kind of transformation that is at the heart of discussion at a by-invitation-only Rethinking Health Summit: A Roadmap for Integrated Systems in the GTA/York Region today at Black […]
The sixth annual Faculty of Environmental Studies (FES) Awards Gala marked an evening of firsts as FES Dean Barbara Rahder welcomed award recipients, presenters and friends to a packed Gladstone Hotel ballroom last Thursday night, Oct. 20. A new certificate program and several inaugural awards were just some of the items on the evening’s agenda. […]
Want to know what it takes to edit an anthology or what is happening in the Canadian poetry publishing scene? Join the York Creative Writing Speaker Series as authors Barry Dempster, Andrew Faulkner, Daniel Scott Tsydal and Priscila Uppal read and discuss poetry. Left: Priscila Uppal The four will read from their work in the new […]
Can you blame the financial crisis on mathematicians? What exactly is a Canadian utopia? Why is walking such a balancing act? And is there something to be learned from Halloween’s contentious history? Four York University professors will address these questions as part of the next York Circle presentation on Saturday, Oct. 29. As with previous York Circle […]
Administrative studies Professor Richard Leblanc was named one of Ontario’s most outstanding university teachers by the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) on Saturday. Leblanc teaches governance, law and ethics in the School of Administrative Studies in York’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, and is an adjunct faculty member at York’s Osgoode […]
Glendon has a rich history, including a forest containing some rare trees – one of which was brought over from China and once thought to be extinct. Professor Stuart Schoenfeld and Helen Psathas, senior manager, Environmental Design & Sustainability, will talk campus sustainability tomorrow at the launch of the Glendon Campus Project website. “Environmental History of the […]
The Financial Times of London yesterday ranked the Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA (EMBA) at York University the number one EMBA program in Canada and number 11 in the world. This is the fifth year that Schulich has been eligible to participate in the Financial Times ranking and the fifth straight year that the Kellogg-Schulich EMBA program […]
Hugh Raffles is a professor of anthropology at Eugene Lang College at The New School for Social Research in New York City. Raffles will deliver a special guest lecture today titled, "Rocks, Stones & Other Vital Things" as part of the fourth annual lecture hosted by the Department of Anthropology at York University. The lecture, which […]