In last week’s Globe and Mail, there was a disturbing story about how passengers failed to help a 79-year-old man who was being mugged on a Toronto subway car, despite his cries for help, wrote Wendy Craig of Queen's University, Tracy Vaillancourt of the University of Ottawa and Debra Pepler, Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology […]
As Canadians continue to live longer, they can expect to spend more years with their life partners, whatever old age brings, wrote The Globe and Mail May 7: In fact, the research suggests that, while there’s no guarantee that sticking it out will lead to happiness, good marriages often get better later in life. “They […]
The York Leadership Roundtable event series connects senior business executives and community leaders in York Region with York University's researchers and senior administrators. Through the roundtable format, participants identify and generate ways to build upon their scientific and social innovation while sharing resources by forming research partnerships. YorkRegion.com covered the most recent event May 6: […]
Professor Andrea O’Reilly's new Encyclopedia of Motherhood attracted media attention this Mother's Day. She was interviewed by CityNews.ca May 7: When Andrea O’Reilly received a call from a publisher expressing interest in an encyclopedia on motherhood, she knew her field of expertise had finally arrived. O’Reilly, a professor in York’s School of Women’s Studies in […]
Today, more than halfway around the world, York University Distinguished Research Professor of Communications, Culture and Political Science Stephen Gill is watching his vision become reality. Gill is at the University of Helsinki in Finland as the institution’s inaugural Jane & Aatos Erkko Visiting Professor in Studies on Contemporary Society. As part of his role with […]
Professor Emeritus Arthur Siegel of the Communication Studies Program in York’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) died on Wednesday, April 7, in Toronto. A leading scholar in the field of politics and media communications policy in Canada, Prof. Siegel was instrumental in shaping York University’s Communication Studies Program, which has grown to become a full-fledged […]
Crisis of Capital, Crisis of Theory is the first in a series of student-organized conferences on heterodox political economy, seeking to develop new ways of understanding capitalism and power. The conference, to be held Oct. 29 to 31 at York, will have a dual theme: to investigate the global financial crisis and to use the […]
Economic spinoff arguments for transit can be complex, wrote NOW Magazine April 29 in a story about efforts by Toronto Mayor David Miller to save the Transit City plan: If people use their cars less, for example, they may have more cash to spend on clothes or theatre tickets, but there might be less work […]
Tracing the various routes of slavery is the goal of Voyages, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, which has records of over 35,000 voyages and is the topic of an upcoming workshop hosted by York’s Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples and the African Economic History journal. “Documenting where people […]
Peter Victor, a professor in York University’s Faculty of Environmental Studies, was featured in the Hamilton Mountain News April 22. His recent book, Managing Without Growth: Slower by Design, Not Disaster, argues economic growth hurts the environment and has not eliminated poverty or provided full employment: “We need a new measure of success,” said Victor, […]
Civilian possession of guns has undermined global and national efforts to control small arms and light weapons, but what can be done and what are the issues? That’s what the York Centre for International & Security Studies (YCISS) will examine at its Contemporary Dilemmas in Canadian Security Lecture Series. Four speakers will untangle some of […]
Sarah Flicker, assistant professor in York's Faculty of Environmental Studies with research expertise incommunity development, public health, HIV and adolescent development, was interviewed by the Hamilton Spectator April 15 about Ontario's new curriculum that will teach more detailed sex education to schoolchildren in earlier grades beginning this September: Sarah Flicker, a professor in York's Faculty […]
York University will host a major international conference on November 4 and 5 that will bring together more than 120 students, academics and artists to examine interactions between popular culture and world politics. For further information, visit the Popular Culture & World Politics Conference Web site. The conference, which is hosted by the York Centre for International & […]
York University Professor Ellen Bialystok has been awarded the prestigious Killam Prize for outstanding career achievement. Bialystok, a Distinguished Research Professor in York’s Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health, is known internationally for her research on language, bilingualism and cognitive development. She received the award this morning from the Canada Council for the Arts, which […]
Novæ Res Urbis (NRU), Toronto’s city policy newsletter, covered the global suburbanisms project led by Roger Keil, Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies and director of the City Institute at York University. His team of 44 researchers at 29 universities in 12 countries is embarking on a seven-year project to take stock of suburban […]
York Distinguished Research Professor in African history Paul Lovejoy, director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples, was chosen over 10 other nominees to receive this year's Distinguished Africanist Research Excellence Award from the University of Texas at Austin for his dedication, lifetime of service and contributions to the […]
The Osgoode-York Working Paper Series in Policy Research publishes research that has been presented as part of the Osgoode-York Seminar Series in Policy Research, although authors who have not presented their work in the seminar series may still submit papers for consideration, provided that they relate to public policy themes, more broadly. With the assistance […]
Sitting at a quiet table in the National Archives in London earlier this year, Canadian graduate student Julia Gaffield (MA ’07) opened a bound book of documents from 1804 and unearthed the only known printed copy of Haiti’s Declaration of Independence, wrote The Globe and Mail April 2: “I was surrounded by complete strangers who […]
Rai Reece, a doctoral candidate in York's School of Women's Studies, spoke to the Barrie Examiner March 31 about her research working with young women in Canada's prison system. She was also an attendee of the Mobilize Barrier conference, which aimed to bring community organizations, agencies, youth, individuals, and government institutions to participate in a […]
Pat Armstrong, professor of sociology in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and an executive member of both the York Institute for Health Research and the Graduate Program in Health Policy & Equity, recently received $2.5 million from the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada to lead a study to identify […]