There’s far more to Korea than kimch’i, Gangnam style, or the Kim family cult, says York history Professor Janice Kim, organizer of the 2012-2013 YCAR Korea Speaker Series. The series is designed to introduce students and faculty to recently published and emerging research on North and South Korea and their relations with their Northeast Asian […]
Gifted: Donations from the Ontario Society of Artists showcases the work by members of the Ontario Society of Artists (OSA). In 2007, the group donated 39 works to the Government of Ontario Art Collection. Dynamic and contemporary, the works were given by 37 of the society's members. They include watercolours, oil and acrylic paintings, photographs […]
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 […]
Hatsumi: One Grandmother's Journey through the Japanese Canadian Internment premiered at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre on Sunday, April 1. It was part of a larger conference hosted by the centre to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Japanese Canadian Internment. The film by Osgoode grad Chris Hope (JD ’04) offers a moving account of Japanese […]
Environmental studies PhD candidate Andrew Mark knows what’s it’s like to have a long commute to campus, but he tries to use this time productively by thinking about and listening to podcasts. In fact, he likes podcasts so much, he and a fellow student have created a podcast series he hopes other York commuters will […]
Two more lectures are coming up in the series "Whose (De)Fault is it Anyway? The EU Crisis in Historical and Comparative Perspective". Organized by York’s European Union Centre of Excellence in cooperation with the Critical Research Laboratory in Law & Society at Osgoode Hall Law School, the series explores the current European financial crisis from the […]
Two Glendon professors, both accomplished and established scholars in their respective fields, have been awarded the Principal’s Research Award. Psychology Professor Anne Russon and history Professor Bettina Bradbury received the awards in recognition of their outstanding research accomplishments over the past year. The awards were presented in a recent ceremony to the researchers by Glendon Principal […]
Haints: American Ghosts, Millennial Passions, and Contemporary Gothic Fictions, a new book by the chair of York’s Department of English, Art Redding, will launch next Wednesday. Published by the University of Alabama Press, Haints (see YFile, Sept. 14) examines the work of contemporary American authors who draw on the gothic tradition in their fiction, not […]
When Ian Dejardin first encountered the Group of Seven in the late 1980s, he was stunned by their visual impact and was determined to learn everything he could about these seminal figures in the history of 20th-century Canadian art, wrote Postmedia News Sept. 20, in a story about a new European tour of the group’s […]
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 […]