The spring/summer 2012 issue of the Journal of the Motherhood Initiative (JMI) – Mothers and the Economy: The Economics of Mothering – looks at everything from the discursive foundations of family allowance and universal child care to the value of human milk exchange. JMI is a peer-reviewed, Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada-funded […]
Las Nubes: Conservation in the Cloud Forests of Costa Rica, a new book by two York graduate students, tells the story of the Las Nubes Biological Reserve through stunning photos and accompanying text, from its York beginnings until today. “Las Nubes is Spanish for ‘the clouds’, and Las Nubes Biological Reserve is a place where […]
Shortly before she died last Thursday, Finnish historian and Professor Emerita Varpu Lindström was presented with a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal as a tribute for her lifetime of scholarship and her pioneering work documenting the history of Finnish Canadians. She was nominated by York linguistics Professor Sheila Embleton and given the award by Halifax […]
York PhD Candidate in English Samantha Bernstein (BA ’06, MA ’09), daughter of Canadian poet Irving Layton, explores the complex world of families, life, love, politics and trying to live ethically in a corporatizing world in her epistolary memoir, Here We Are Among the Living: A Memoir in Emails. The launch of Here We Are […]
Award-winning author and scholar James Laxer will discuss his latest book, Tecumseh and Brock: The War of 1812, Sunday as part of Luminato at the Library. Laxer, who teaches in York’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, will talk about the effect of the War of 1812 on the Native struggle for nationhood, as […]
A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. So sang Mary Poppins, but as Schulich School of Business Professor of finance Moshe Milevsky says, his newest book uses the same principle to help people understand their finances. In what Milevsky calls a “very different book than what I usually write,” The 7 Most Important Equations […]
York psychology professors Jane Irvine and Debra Pepler of York’s Faculty of Health have recently been named two of the most published women in the field of clinical psychology in Canada, according to an article in the Canadian Psychology journal. “Assessing the Publication Productivity of Clinical Psychology Professors in Canadian Psychological Association-Accredited Canadian Psychology Departments,” […]
Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Paul Emond wears many hats, but it’s his publishing business that has grabbed the limelight recently. On May 1, it was announced that Democratizing the Constitution: Reforming Responsible Government by Peter Aucoin, Mark Jarvis and Lori Turnbull, and published by Emond Montgomery Publications, had won the $50,000 Donner Prize for […]
How has feminist thinking shaped what we know? Osgoode Hall Law Professor Mary Jane Mossman and York women’s studies Professor Meg Luxton examine that question in their new co-edited book, Reconsidering Knowledge, launching Friday. The launch will take place March 23, from 2 to 3:30pm, Founders Senior Common Room, 305 Founders College, Keele campus. Reconsidering […]
Performance design professionals, historians and arts audiences alike have reason to celebrate the publication of World Scenography 1975-1990. This thoughtfully curated, lavishly illustrated anthology documents the most influential theatrical designs of the period. World Scenography 1975-1990 documents lighting, set and costume design The book covers set, lighting and costume design for all forms of performance, […]
Canadian-led team of scientists, including two York University students, has offered the world its first glimpse of antihydrogen’s properties, in the first experiment ever performed on the anti-atom. Researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), in an international collaboration led by Canadians, used microwave spectroscopy – one of the most sensitive techniques for […]
Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) experience higher rates of bullying, which are associated with a higher incidence of mental health issues, according to a study in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders this month by York researchers. “Very little research has been done to assess the relationship between bullying and mental health in youth with […]
Where have all the girls gone? That’s what York Professor Sharada Srinivasan examines in her new book, Daughter Deficit: Sex Selection in Tamil Nadu, about the elimination of daughters in India through sex selection, female infanticide and neglect. It is neither an aberration nor an idiosyncrasy. It accounts for a large proportion of missing girls in […]
Cultures meet here in Canada, says Agnès Whitfield. Literary translation is an essential means of sharing heritages, yet it is a field too often overlooked and undervalued. That situation is about to improve with the launch of the first volume in a new series called Vita Traductiva. A joint initiative of the Research Group on […]
Competition is a powerful force with an unrecognized and dangerous underbelly, says a York professor in his new book Agon Culture: Competition, Conflict and the Problem of Domination. Claudio Colaguori, a professor in York’s human rights and criminology programs, explores the idea that competition is not a biological drive as evolutionary thinkers believe, but a […]
How do we remember important events in our lives? Is it the conversation, people or things associated with the event, or is it the “place” that anchors our memories? We remember best when we have an experience in a place, but what happens when we leave that place or it ceases to exist? For York architectural historian, […]
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 […]
It's not all in your head. There really is a connection between your emotional state and your skin, says psychologist Linda Papadopoulos [BA Hons. ’93], reported the Ottawa Citizen Sept. 10. The Canadian-born-and-raised Papadopoulos has called Britain home for the past 14 years. She is known there as both a leading academic and as "Dr. […]
A new report co-authored by a York University researcher says the federal and provincial governments are not doing a good job helping the unemployed find work, despite spending billions of dollars each year on employment training and programs. The report says Canada’s system isn’t optimized to assist the unemployed – and underemployed – in finding meaningful work […]
Professor Emerita Barbara Godard, the Avie Bennett Historica Chair in Canadian Literature at the time of her death just over a year ago, was one of Canada’s pre-eminent literary scholars who taught in the departments of English, French, social & political thought and women’s studies, and whose influence was felt far and wide. In commemoration of […]