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Dance Professor Danielle Robinson researches the samba de roda's cultural significance in Brazil

Posted on 19 July 2010

Salvador da Bahia, the second most popular tourist destination in Brazil, is a lively, tropical city on the northeast coast with a population of over two million. Musical rhythms from many different cultures can be heard in its bustling marketplaces, amidst the old Portuguese architecture and on its sandy beaches. In Salvador da Bahia it […]

Tubman Centre's workshop to discuss 35,000-record Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database

Posted on 29 April 2010

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 […]

York Prof. Paul Lovejoy receives Distinguished Africanist Award

Posted on 9 April 2010

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 […]

York leads all Canadian universities in SSHRC’s largest awards

Posted on 23 March 2010

York researchers awarded two of SSHRC’s largest grants to study long-term residential healthcare and global suburbanism Two teams led by York University researchers have received $5 million in research funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Their multinational research teams, involving multiple universities and community partners in a large-scale collaboration, […]

Historians TV airs video about York's History Department highlighting breadth of research

Posted on 11 February 2010

History is not just about dusty old scrolls, manuscripts and things of the past – it has real relevancy in today’s world. Just watch the video prepared by York’s Department of History in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, which aired recently at a conference in the United States. What makes York’s Department of […]

Music, artists and film festival featured during Black History Month

Posted on 1 February 2010

A series of films, concerts, workshops, artist talks and community events will usher in Black History Month this February, under the title Performing Diaspora 2010: Celebrating Black History Month through Expressive Culture – Afro Diasporic Women in Focus. Produced by York's Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples, Performing Diaspora 2010 is designed to serve as a catalyst […]

Tubman Research Centre to host free international film festival

Posted on 25 January 2010

From January 31 to February 5, 2010, the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples will present The International Research Film Festival: Slavery, Memory, Heritage and Contemporary Forms. Funded in part by the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the festival addresses issues of slavery in its […]