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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. J. David

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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. Above: Honor Ford-Smith as the character “Katie” in the dramatic comedy playwright, Fallen Angel

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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

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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. Happy citizen-taxpayers and sponsors of the bench, Professor L. Anders Sandberg and Vera Sandberg Sandberg

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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

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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)

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Key participants at a recent book launch and art exhibit at the Crawford Lake Conservation Area have strong connections to York University. Book cover of Daughters of Aataentsic: Life Stories from Seven Generations The Crawford Lake Conservation Area, located north of Milton, Ontario, harbours a reconstructed ancestral Wendat/Atawandaron village with three

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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”

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The Co-operative Education and Work-Integrated Learning Canada (CEWIL Canada) is supporting York University’s 4REAL (4th Renewable Energy & Agricultural Learning) project. Students building a compost at the experiential learning partner farm, Native Plants in Claremont as part of a previous CEWIL-funded REAL project CEWIL partners with post-secondary institutions, community members, employers, government and

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Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC) Professor Andil Gosine is the guest co-editor of Wasafiri Issue 110: Afterlives of Indenture – exploring the legacy of indentured workers across the Indo-Caribbean and the diasporic experience.   Event poster Among the contributors of the Summer 2022 issue is co-editor Nalini Mohabir, assistant professor at Concordia University;

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