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2025
2024
UPCOMING/ONGOING WORKSHOPS
Lina Pinto-García, Connected Minds Fellow, will host the "Dissertation to book workshop", on February 18, 2026. Register here and save the date. Lina Pinto-García is an alumna of York’s STS graduate program. Her research explores the intersections of science, medicine, and violence in Latin America, with a focus on Alzheimer’s and neglected tropical diseases in Colombia.
This workshop draws on her experience transforming her doctoral dissertation in STS into the book Maraña: War and Disease in the Jungles of Colombia (University of Chicago Press, 2025), and later securing its translation into Spanish for publication in Colombia (a co-edition between Ediciones Uniandes and the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History – ICANH). We will discuss how to write a dissertation with a future book in mind, the different pathways for attracting the interest of an academic press, and key considerations when negotiating and signing a publishing contract. We will also reflect on the afterlife of a book—its circulation, reception, and the new projects and audiences it can generate.
This is an Institute for Technoscience & Society (ITS) Virtual Workshop.
"GET IT DONE TOGETHER co-working sessions" - for Graduate students and Faculty using the Pomodoro technique. Will be held on the 7th floor lounge area in the Kaneff Tower from 1pm to 4 pm. Fall dates - September 24, October 8 & 22, November 5 & 19 and December 3, 2025. Hosted by Institute for Research on Digital Literacies in partnership with Centre for AI & Society, The City Institute at York, Centre for Feminist Research, Canadian Jewish Studies, Institute For Technoscience and Society, Sensorium and Robarts Centre for Canadian Centres . Contact jaw24@yorku.ca if you have any questions.
Professor Kean Birch, Ontario Research Chair, is hosting the “Writing for the Public/Writing for Change Workshop,” on February 25, 2026. Register now.
Past workshops 2025 2026
Guita Banan, Hana Holubec and Dr. Denielle Elliott co-hosted "How To Get A Canadian Graduate Research Scholarship Application Workshop (SSHRC Doctoral Award)" on September 12th, 2025.