Past Events

The ideas of the activist scholar and activist scholarship are prevalent in many circles, but what do they mean exactly? Come hear different perspectives from activist scholars on what their role entail and how they navigate academic conventions. This event is co-sponsored by the Centre for Feminist Research, the Global Labour Research Centre, and the Nexus Centre.

Register here by 15 November 2023.

Time and Date:
1:30-2:30pm
17 November 2023 (online event)

Moderator: Ethel Tungohan, Department of Politics, York University

Speakers:
Steven Tufts, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University
Rose Ndengue, Department of History, Glendon-York University
Kristen Bos, Historical Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga
Karl Gardner, Political Science, University of Toronto

Contemporary Periodical Cultures: Multilingualism, Translation, and Global English

Date: 2 November 2023 | 12pm
Location: 170 York Hall, Glendon Campus

Join us for a talk by Dr. Jutta Ernst, Visiting Professor in Canadian Studies, from Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany. It will be held during the course EN 4641, Beyond "Two Solitudes": The Contact Zones of Canadian Literature, taught by Dr. Myra Bloom.

From the Environmental Research Group Cluster, Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies.

Lunchtime Q&A with Dagomar Degroot, 2023 Melville Nelles Hoffman Lecture in Environmental History

Date: Thursday October 26, 12:30-2:00pm
Location: Room 749, Robarts Centre, Kaneff Tower (in-person event)

On Thursday, October 26, Dr. Dagomar Degroot will be giving the 2023 Melville Nelles Hoffman Lecture in Environmental History. The lecture, titled “Coping with Climate Change: Can the Past Teach Us How to Survive the Future?” will take place from 3:00-5:00 at the Schulich Executive Dining Room. All are welcome. Please RSVP here.

Members of the Robarts community are also invited to join us for a lunchtime Q&A session with Dr. Degroot from 12:30-2:00PM at the Robarts Centre, Kaneff Tower room 749. See the attached poster for more details. For graduate students and faculty with interests in climate change and environmental humanities research, this is an excellent opportunity to meet the author and discuss his research on global historical climate change and its implications for the present.

For the lunchtime Q&A with Dagomar Degroot, RSVP at robarts@yorku.ca by Friday October 13.

Date: Wednesday, 18 October 2023 | 3:00pm
Starting Location: Skennen’ko:wa Gamig (Section F4 of the Keele Campus map)

Join us on Wednesday, October 18^th for an Indigenous History Walk at Keele Campus led by guides from First Story Toronto. All are welcome, including faculty and graduate students from across the university.

Meeting place and itinerary
The Indigenous History Walk will meet at 3pm outside Skennen’ko:wa Gamig (The House of Great Peace). From there we will walk south to the Parson Site and then on to the Black Creek Watershed system. The tour will make several stops at points of historical significance to the Indigenous Nations with longstanding relationship to the territory upon which the Keele campus is located.

Please RSVP: https://forms.gle/34ACMGfEagxL69fk7

Directions
Skennen’ko:wa Gamig appears in Section F4 of the Keele Campus map. It is listed under "Historical Houses". To learn more about Skennen’ko:wa Gamig, visit: https://aboriginal.info.yorku.ca/skennenkowa-gamig/

Event sponsors
Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, Environmental Research Group

About ERG 
The Environmental Research Group is one of the research clusters in the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies. The group brings together graduate students and faculty at York University studying aspects of the Canadian environment from a broad range of disciplinary perspectives including sciences, social sciences, humanities, fine arts, health, and engineering. We strive to provide a forum for researchers to make connections, share findings and explore key issues in environmental research.

Learning from the Pandemic? Challenges, Opportunities and Adaptations of Research Design, Goals and Outputs

Come and join us for a frank conversation on how researchers have struggled with and navigated meeting their research goals since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. We will discuss the challenges scholars face as they seek to produce knowledge, some opportunities that have arisen and some stories of adaptations and resilience.

Register here by 11 September, 2023.

Time and Date:
11:00 am to Noon
14 September 2023 | Zoom (online)

Speakers:
Dr. Josh Thienpont, EUC
Dr. Gillian Parekh, Education
Gary Myers, History
Kate Moo King-Curtis, Humanities

Moderators:
Carolyn Podruchny and Jean Michel Montsion, Robarts Centre

Do you want a new photo for your professional and institutional needs? A photographer will be available from 1pm to 3pm at the Robarts Centre. Interested Associates will need to set up an appointment.

Please email us by Monday 11 September 2023 at robarts@yorku.ca with your time preference, and we will confirm what time you should come by the Centre.

Covid in the House of Old: Stories for a Revolution with Professor Megan Davies
Date and time: 14 September 2023 | 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: 7th floor lounge, Kaneff Tower (in-person event)

Speaker:
Professor Megan J. Davies
Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, Keele Campus

7,609 seniors in Canadian care homes died of COVID over its first seven months. And the catastrophe continued. Megan Davies shares stories from a community-based travelling exhibit on eldercare in crisis and her thoughts on activist scholarship.

This talk is part of the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies' Welcome Day events.

Drop by the Robarts Centre to re-connect with colleagues and meet new ones in an informal setting. We will provide hors d'oeuvres and light refreshments!

Friday, 9 June 2023 | 17:15 to 18:00 EDT
Room 519, Kaneff Tower, York University

To join virtually, please register at https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMuf-6vrD8pHtGWvbV3oF7aGdnKeTJLRCR

To join in-person, please RSVP to iccsciec@yorku.ca . The deadline to register for in-person attendance is May 19.

Speaker:
Colin Coates
Glendon College, York University

Professor Coates examines whether there is a Canadian utopian tradition. He shows that many  Euro-Canadians have used the concept of “utopia” in vague and negative ways to describe  unrealistic attempts to improve society. For his analysis, he adopts a more restrictive, but standard, definition based on isolation, equality, regimentation, and visions of peace and justice.

Coates surveys Canadian utopian and dystopian literature and places these examples alongside  a series of actual attempts to establish utopian communities, ranging from Ville-Marie in the  seventeenth century, through an Owenite community near Sarnia in the early nineteenth century, to various socialist experiments at the turn of the twentieth century, as well as Hutterite and  Doukhobour settlements, and hippy communes in the 1970s and 1980s.

Coates’ presentation also considers dystopian examples, primarily residential schools for Indigenous children.