On Tuesday, Dec. 7 at 12:30 p.m., Hilkka C. Becker, chairperson of the International Protection Appeals Tribunal, will join the McLaughlin College International Lecture to virtually present, “The UNHCR and the Enforcement of Refugee Protection before International Courts: Amicus and Third-Party Submissions before the ECtHR.”
Following on the Government of Canada’s lifting of the advisory for fully vaccinated Canadians to avoid all non-essential travel, York University offers international travel criteria for faculty, staff and students.
The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography by Marcello Musto, professor of sociology in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, will be the subject of a virtual discussion hosted by the British Sociological Association on Oct. 25, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. BST.
The OsgoodePD International Entrance Award of Excellence and the OsgoodePD International Entrance Award of Merit will support internationally trained lawyers in their pursuit of legal education in Canada.
The Canadian Centre for Disease Modelling based at York University was one of the co-organizers for a virtual symposium on COVID-19 and other infectious diseases that took place Sept. 14 to 18. The symposium also served as a valuable experiential learning opportunity for young researchers.
Two keynote lectures and an additional 26 papers were part of the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Role and Reference Grammar (RRG2021) at York University. The conference ran from Aug. 4 to 6 and was organized by the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies.
York International is recruiting volunteers to provide wellness checks to international students who are subject to the Government of Canada’s mandatory quarantine.
Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar Juan Pascual-Leone of York’s Psychology Department, Faculty of Health, has been elected an honorary member of the Academy of Psychology of Spain (Academia de Psicologia de Espana).