Everyday life. Everyday people. Most of us say "everyday" almost every day. Academically, it is a term that has been theorized, used as a concept and developed into narratives. But what does it really mean? The Everyday: Experiences, Concepts, Narratives is an upcoming Graduate Program in Humanities conference looking at the "everyday" as it relates to […]
Toronto helped lead the world in its embrace of diversity when the first same-sex couple to be legally married in North America was wed here in 2003. That local tradition of re-examining legal attitudes to gender issues will carry on as York University Professor Nancy Nicol [Faculty of Fine Arts] has received $1 million in […]
Artists of all stripes from around the world are reducing their carbon footprint in creative ways. Many prominent ones – including the Cirque de Soleil’s Gil Favreau – are coming to York this month to share how at a conference on sustainability and the arts. Hosted by York’s Faculty of Fine Arts, Staging Sustainability: Arts, […]
Glendon Principal Kenneth McRoberts and Teodor Baconschi, the Romanian minister of foreign affairs, toasted the official launch of the first Romanian lectureship in Canada on March 25 at Glendon. “This is an historic moment for Glendon,” said McRoberts. "We are deeply honoured to welcome such a large delegation of important dignitaries from Romania.” Right: Teodor Baconschi […]
Eight faculty members of York’s Osgoode Hall Law School recently visited India, where they continued a conversation with their counterparts that began last year on governance in a rapidly globalizing world and the impact on social justice, human rights, international trade and foreign investment, and environmental law. Right: Professor Sanjeev Purshotam Sahni (left), head of […]
The revolutions in the Middle East have, in their wake, left countries struggling with how to reassert relations with regimes that are in transition. This afternoon, from 2 to 4pm at the Vivian & David Campbell Conference Centre at the Munk School at the University of Toronto, York political science Professor Saeed Rahnema (right) will […]
Nancy Nicol’s team receives $1 million to study LGBT human rights around the world York University visual arts professor Nancy Nicol will lead a major international project on the impact of criminalizing sexual orientation and gender identity, with $1 million in funding over five years from the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). […]
In his recent book, Writing Justice: Voicing Issues in the Third Media, York public policy & equity studies Professor Lorne Foster provides a retrospective review of the burning issues of the last decade from the perspective of Canada’s black community. The launch for Writing Justice (Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 2011) will take place on […]
Is it really such a stretch to think of art as a sort of medicine, or at least as a healing tool that can literally affect our health? wrote the Ottawa Citizen March 23: Expand the definition of art as a health tool, and consider it as an essential link, as a bridge between those […]
A memorial for York University Professor David Franklin Noble, who died in Toronto on Dec. 27 following complications of pneumonia, will be held on Saturday. Prof. Noble was 65. The memorial will take place March 26, at 4pm, at the Cecil Street Community Centre, 58 Cecil St., in Toronto. The York University flag will be lowered to half-mast Friday afternoon […]
Stephen Gaetz, a leading Canadian homeless researcher based at York University's Faculty of Education, was interviewed by the Calgary Herald March 21 in a story about an international homelessness conference held in United States: The Calgary Homeless Foundation has taken a leadership role in bringing together an international network dedicated to ending homelessness worldwide. Foundation […]
The way French is spoken in places as diverse as Gatineau, Shediac and New Orleans can tell us a lot about how francophone communities evolved in North America, and it's the subject of a major study beginning at the University of Ottawa, wrote the Ottawa Citizen March 17: The $2.5-million project is led by Francine […]
Hosted by the Canadian Studies Program and student club in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, the Canada Like You’ve Never Heard it Before Lecture Series explores everything from economics and indigenous issues to Canadian government and poetry. The next instalment of the series will be delivered by Cate Sandilands, a professor in York's […]
Professor Emeritus Richard Storr, a historian who was briefly York's acting president, died earlier this week at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto following a brief illness. Prof. Storr was born and educated in the United States, receiving a PhD from Harvard University in 1949. After teaching at various American colleges, he accepted a position at the […]
York University will host the Canadian premiere screening of a new feature-length documentary about Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the few professional women painters of 17th-century Italy. The film A Woman Like That will be screened tonight in the Nat Taylor Cinema, N102 Ross tonight from 6:30 to 9:15pm. Created by New York filmmaker Ellen Weissbrod, this documentary […]
A slew of entertainers will perform at the Winters Gala Fundraiser to raise awareness and funds for the renovation of student space in Winters College. The gala evening will take place Tuesday, March 22, starting with student performers at 6pm, followed by headlining acts from 7 to 10pm. Right: Rita di Ghent Jazz musician and […]
Calling all 78-year-olds – and better. A team of researchers from York University in Toronto would like Langley residents aged 78 and over to tune into their research on radio, wrote BClocalnews.com March 15: [Fourth-year undergraduate student] Aidan Moir is one of the research assistants working on the Remembering Radio project with Professor Anne MacLennan […]
Juno-nominated pianist and York music Professor Christina Petrowska Quilico will launch her 24th and 25th CD, Glass Houses Revisited and The Liszt Anniversary Collection, at a concert Thursday at the Glenn Gould Studio. The CD launch and recital will take place at 7:30pm, March 17, at the Glenn Gould Studio, CBC Building, 250 Front St. […]
York University students, faculty and staff are getting a jump on Earth Hour 2011 with Earth Hour, Every Hour, a special event tomorrow evening, March 16, from 4:30 to 9pm in the Winters College Master's dining hall. Hosted by the Institute for Research & Innovation in Sustainability (IRIS) in collaboration with the Ecologically Conscious Organization and Schulich […]
CIHR-funded study will run at the Hospital for Sick Children Are obese girls overweight because they eat poorly and don't get enough exercise or because their bodies don't burn off fat properly? asked InsideToronto.com March 10: Seems no one knows. But researchers at York University want to find out. They are conducting the first study […]