York University’s Department of Philosophy, in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, presents the Cognitive Science Speakers Series. The next event is Oct. 7 and features speaker Cecilia Heyes.
Read moreA collection of articles in the Canadian Review of Sociology (CRS) on “Sociology and Black Liberation” includes contributions from three York University faculty members.
Read moreThe McLaughlin College Lunch Talk Series continues through October, and presents a double serving on Oct. 7 with a morning and afternoon session featuring two different speakers: James Simeon and Balkees Jarrah.
Read moreThe long-running McLaughlin College Lunch Talks Series continues with an Oct. 7 presentation on the German trial of two alleged former Syrian intelligence officials implicated in serious abuses in Syria’s prisons.
Read moreYork University Professor Gregory Chin was appointed to the Advisory Group of the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC), to advise on the UNOSSC South-South Ideas Paper Series and contribute to this research work of the UNOSSC.
Read moreDavid B. Goldstein, an associate professor of English in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, is co-organizing a major international conference on food studies in early modern culture that runs Oct. 2 to 12.
Read moreYork University’s Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) Project, Faculty of Education and Centre for Refugee Studies present a monthly virtual colloquium series on the intersections of refugee education, anti-Black racism and COVID-19 in Canada and East Africa. It kicks off Oct. 7.
Read moreIf you love meeting talented writers and hearing them read from their published work, or just want to soak up a unique cultural experience, don’t miss the opportunity to attend the Canadian Writers in Person Lecture Series, which continues on Oct. 6.
Read moreThe inaugural Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change Seminar Series Seminar Series, “Miijim: Food as Relations,” will feature renowned Indigenous, Black and People of Colour food scholars, growers, artists and advocates who will gather for conversations on the interconnections between art, earthwork, planting, cultivation and harvesting experiences that decenter colonial frameworks, while thinking through labour and power relations related to food justice in urban and rural communities.
Read moreComparing unethical decisions of Chinese and Canadian businesspeople, a research team unearths some social variations along the road to corruption. The findings, however, have wide-ranging, practical implications on how to prevent unscrupulous moves in any organization.
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