Indigenous Knowing and Climate Futures: EUC Congress event with Candis Callison, Naomi Klein and Deborah McGregor

As part of the open programming at Congress 2023, the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC) is hosting  a keynote panel titled "Indigenous Knowing and Climate Futures" on May 31st from 3-5pm at the Tribute Communities Recital Hall, Accolade East Building. Co-sponsored by UBC’s Centre for Climate Justice, and the Environmental Studies Association of

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Director of City Institute at York celebrated by American Association of Geographers

Linda Peake, professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change and director of the City Institute, was awarded the American Association of Geographers’ (AAG) Lifetime Achievement Honors for her scholarly contributions to feminist and urban geographies, and for a career dedicated to extending equity, diversity and inclusion at her institution and across the discipline

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Passing: Professor Emeritus J. David Wood

The Geography and EUC community at York was saddened to learn of the death of our colleague David Wood on October 15th 2022. We are grateful to Glen Norcliffe for this account of David’s life and contributions. An obituary published in the Toronto Star is also available online. Beginnings matter: often they matter a lot. 

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HONOREBEL

ZigZag Gallery, opening September 8, 2022 An exhibition in celebration of Honor Ford-Smith on her retirement, featuring visual art by her former students Anique Jordan, Charmaine Lurch, Mosa McNeilly, Nastassia Pratt, Shuxia Tai and Camille Turner. Retiring EUC Professor Dr. Honor Ford-Smith has worked at the crossroads of performance, politics and Caribbean culture for decades.

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David Erskine

David Erskine died August 30, 2022, in Toronto. He was born in London, England in 1929, and spent his childhood years in a rural setting in a corner of England’s Lake District, where his family kept a garden, chickens, and goats. When David was seven, the Erskine family moved to Canada, settling on the outskirts

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Professor honours the citizen-taxpayer with enduring gesture

Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change Professor L. Anders Sandberg has taken an unusual step to install a commemorative bench on York University’s Keele Campus as a way to highlight the important role of citizen-taxpayers in society. Sandberg says he was inspired to sponsor a bench that is situated on the Harry W. Arthurs Common at the

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Toronto greenspaces create structural, systemic barriers for racialized residents

Racialized residents could face structural and systemic barriers to accessing, using and navigating Toronto’s greenspaces, say the authors of a new report led by York University. The report, “Park Perceptions and Racialized Realities: Exploring the experiences of racialized residents in two Toronto neighbourhoods,” offers several recommendations toward making the city’s public greenspaces more welcoming to

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Call for Submissions: UnderCurrents volume 22

View this Call for Submissions as a PDF From the depths of Dante’s Inferno to Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, subterranean and subaquatic environments have often been depicted as repositories of primordial forces and abiding secrets in the Western tradition. The much-repeated (if somewhat misleading; e.g. Copley, 2014) claim that humans have “explored”

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Indigenous book launch and art exhibit feature links to York University

Key participants at a recent book launch and art exhibit at the Crawford Lake Conservation Area have strong connections to York University. The Crawford Lake Conservation Area, located north of Milton, Ontario, harbours a reconstructed ancestral Wendat/Atawandaron village with three longhouses, Three Sisters farm fields, and displays and interpretative signs, all of which are very

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Associate Dean Jack Leong organizes 2022 Canadian Comparative Literature Conference

Together with the executive committee, Jack Leong, associate dean of research and open scholarship at York University Libraries organized the conference for the Canadian Comparative Literature Association/L’Association Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (CCLA/ACLC). The event featured presentations from York faculty and graduate students. This year’s theme was “Divergence and Convergence of Comparative Literature” and the event took place

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