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. 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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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”
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4REAL experiential learning opportunity to focus on local climate solutions
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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Professor Andil Gosine is co-editor of the ‘Wasafiri’ summer 2022 issue
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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Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change Dean, Alice Hovorka, reappointed
The following is a message to the York University community from President & Vice-Chancellor Rhonda L. Lenton and Provost & Vice-President Academic Lisa Philipps: We are pleased to inform the York community that, following a consultation process with staff and faculty in the Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change (EUC), Alice
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Honorary doctorate recipient Neil Shubin says humility is key ingredient to learning
By Alysia Burdi Evolutionary biologist, paleontologist and popular science writer Neil Shubin received an honorary doctor of science at York University’s convocation ceremony for graduands from the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change and the Faculty of Science. Among graduating students, Shubin addressed convocation by stating that “we all stand
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York researchers receive more than $16M in SSHRC funding
More than 40 research projects at York University will receive a boost of $16 million in funding from the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), including close to $10 million in Partnership Grants for long-term research projects in anti-homelessness, global health, 2SLGBTQ+ poverty and Indigenous rights and reconciliation. The funding was
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York student premieres documentary at Human Rights Watch Film Festival
York University master’s of environmental studies student Tamo Campos is the co-director of The Klabona Keepers which is set to premiere at the 2022 Human Rights Watch Film Festival (HRWFF) at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema in Toronto on Thursday, May 26 at 7:30 p.m. The Klabona Keepers film poster The Klabona Keepers is an intimate portrait
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The Black Creek walks, talks and dances
A workshop on April 23 that was preceded by two walks the week earlier, highlighted through creative expression Indigenous people’s sacred connection to moving water and the earth. On Saturday, April 23, Skennen’kó:wa Gamig, the House of Great Peace, located on the Keele Campus hosted a workshop by Taǫmęˀšreˀ/Catherine Tàmmaro,
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Alectra and EUC establish Alectra Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Undergraduate Awards
Alectra Inc. and York University’s Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC) announce the establishment of the Alectra Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Undergraduate Awards to provide scholarship opportunities for Black and Indigenous students accepted into an EUC undergraduate program. Alice Horvorka “We are proud to have Alectra as one
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