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Deadline extended: Grad students invited to submit proposals for research conference

The deadline for graduate students to submit a proposal for Visions, Collaborations, & Transformations: The First Annual York University Graduate Student Research Conference in the Social Sciences & Humanities has been extended to Feb. 1.

This conference is a special multidisciplinary event that aims to connect participants within the social science communities at York University and beyond. The York Graduate Student Research Conference (GSRC) will take place on April 6 and 7.

Canada will celebrate the 150th anniversary of Confederation in 2017. The York GSRC will focus on the Canada 150 themes identified by the Government of Canada: the environment, diversity and inclusion, Indigenous people, and youth. Proposal submissions are for panel presentations, and approximately 15 minutes will be allocated to each presentation.

Topics can include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Canada’s past, present, future
  • social justice, diversity and equity
  • experiential learning, participatory methods, community-situated learning
  • (de)colonizing theory and practices
  • urban education
  • disability studies
  • early childhood
  • childhood studies
  • K-12 and postsecondary education
  • psychoanalysis, sexualities, feminist studies, queer theory
  • cultural studies
  • philosophy
  • arts
  • ethnographic research
  • literacy and linguistics
  • global and international relations and perspectives
  • sustainability and environment
  • mathematics, science, technology
  • media and communications
  • alternative education
  • other

Proposals must be submitted no later than Wednesday, Feb. 1, using the GRSC Proposal Submission Form.

For submission guidelines and conference details, visit gsrc.info.yorku.ca.

Questions about the Graduate Student Research Conference and the proposal submission process can be sent to gradconf@edu.yorku.ca.

In-house conference showcases research in the Faculty of Education

Faculty of Education Research
Faculty of Education Research

Faculty mini-conference roundtable discussionAn in-house research mini-conference organized and facilitated by the associate dean of Research and Community in the Faculty of Education brought together faculty members to showcase their individual research projects and to discuss the innovative work they are engaged in.

The half-day event titled “Research Directions: Yours, Mine, Ours?” took place on Jan. 11, and was an opportunity to discuss research directions in the Faculty.

“This event not only enabled faculty members to learn about the range of topics their colleagues’ study, it also highlighted how projects that seem very different actually address some of the same themes,” said Sue Winton, associate dean, research and community. “Personally, I identified new possibilities for research collaborations as well as colleagues that can support my graduate students’ research. I left feeling excited about the research taking place in our Faculty.”

Professors Warren Crichlow and Mario DiPaolantonioThe day began with a panel presentation on the theme Learning from Traumatic Histories: Curatorial Controversies, and was followed by a series of research snapshots on a diverse range of topics, including policy advocacy, teacher education in refugee camps, discourses of teacher professionalism, literacy and technology, international students, and teaching and learning.

A number of research projects addressed the themes of identity, truth and evidence, recovering history, and teaching and learning in schools.

“Today’s mini-conference offered an opportunity for us to get together as a Faculty to share and learn about some of the great research projects that our colleagues are engaged in,” said Dean Lyndon Martin. “This event showcased the interdisciplinary research done within our Faculty and provided an opportunity to discuss the many ways that we can collaborate with each other to strengthen the culture of research in the Faculty of Education.”

Powerful documentary “The Pass System” explores Canada’s hidden history of racial segregation

A Department of Indian Affairs pass card
A Department of Indian Affairs pass card

The Pass System, directed by York graduate film student Alex Williams, is a powerful documentary that illuminates Canada’s hidden history of racial segregation. The film investigates how, for over 60 years, the Canadian government illegally denied many Indigenous peoples of the prairies the basic freedom to leave government-assigned reserves, and forced them to carry a pass when they did so.

The film will be screened Jan. 31, at 7pm in the Nat Taylor Cinema, N102 Ross Building, Keele campus. The screening, which is free and open to the public, is presented by the Department of Cinema & Media Arts, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design.

York University’s Vice-Provost Academic Alice Pitt will introduce the film and filmmaker. Knowledge Keeper Amy Desjarlais will perform a smudging ceremony before the screening.

Following the screening, there will be a panel discussion with Williams, Osgoode Hall Law School/Environmental Studies Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Environmental Justice Deborah McGregor, Theatre Professor Michael Greyeyes, History Professor Carolyn Podruchny, Education Professor Celia Haig-Brown and Environmental Studies Lecturer Lisa Myers.

Alex Williams
A Department of Indian Affairs pass

The Pass System is a result of a five-year investigation involving extensive, pan-Canadian archival research and elders’ oral history testimony. Cree, Saulteaux, Dene, Ojibwe and Blackfoot elders tell their stories of living under and resisting the pass system and link their experiences to today’s struggles for Indigenous rights.

headshot of filmmaker Alex Williams

Alex Williams

Williams researched, wrote, shot, directed and produced the film, which is narrated by acclaimed Cree actor and activist Tantoo Cardinal. The Pass System is currently in the running for two 2016 Canadian Screen Awards given by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. It has been nominated for Best History Documentary Program or Series (APTN – Aboriginal Peoples Television Network) and for the Barbara Sears Award for Best Editorial Research.

Admission is free. All welcome.

This event is presented by Cinema Politica York, the Department of Cinema & Media Arts, Graduate Film Student Association, Centre for Aboriginal Students Services,  Office of the Vice-Provost Academic and OPIRG York.

York Region Science & Technology Fair returns to Keele campus for second year

2017 York Region Science and Technology Fair
2017 York Region Science and Technology Fair

The York Region Science & Technology Fair (YRSTF) will return to York University’s Keele campus for the second year on March 31 and April 1 to showcase the research of budding scientists.

York Region high school students from Grades 7 to 12 will participate in the event, and display their work in one of six categories: Biotechnology, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Engineering and Computer Sciences, Health Sciences, Life Sciences, and Physical and Mathematical Science. Projects can be experiments, innovations or studies.

2017YRSTFThe event is a collaborative partnership between York University and the York Region Science and Technology Fair Organizing Committee. Other large sponsors include the York Region District School Board, the York Catholic District School board.

Participation in the fair is open to all students currently attending a York Region public, catholic, or private school; who are homeschooled; or who reside in York Region. The top projects selected from the York Region Science and Technology Fair are invited to represent York Region and compete at the Canada-Wide Science Fair.

Rebecca Pillai Riddell, York University professor and York Research Chair in Pain and Mental Health, was instrumental in bringing the fair to campus last year. She leads a York University committee that has members from the Faculties of Science, Health, Environmental Studies, Education, the Lassonde School of Engineering, the School of Arts, Media, Performance & Design, Glendon College and the Offices of the Vice-President Academic & Provost, the Vice-President Research & Innovation, and the Vice-Provost Students.

Rebecca_PillaiRiddell_Headshot“Supporting York Region’s preeminent science fair is an excellent opportunity for York University to support youth in science from a region that went from being our neighbor to being our home,” said Pillai Riddell.

Last year, YRSTF enabled York Region to send, for the first time in its history, the full complement of junior scientists to Montreal for Canada-Wide Science Fair. Pillai Riddell notes that the national fair was won (BEST IN FAIR) by one of the YRSTF participants, Kayley Ting (https://cwsf.youthscience.ca/news/top-prizes-awarded-canada-wide-science-fair-0), who went on to earn a silver medal in Europe.

Pillai Riddell said in addition to encouraging students to enter, organizers are also seeking York community members with a background (honours degree, graduate, or PhD) in biotechnology, earth and environmental sciences, engineering and computer sciences, health sciences, life sciences, and physical and mathematical sciences to consider being a judge.

All details about registration as a judge or student are available at http://yrstf.info.yorku.ca.

During the fair, students will display their own work and participate in a series of activities designed and guided by the York University faculty, graduate and undergraduate student volunteers. Faculty from the University in partnership with representatives from the school boards will select the top 11 students who will go on to represent York Region at the Canada-Wide Science Fair.

YRSTF will begin on March 31 with a community event to kick off the fair, and on April 1 will include other activities such as a Science Immersion Adventures with York U scientists, and Science Teacher Lunch and Learn events. York Community members and their families are invited to come visit the fair during the afternoon of April 1.

For more information, visit the York Region Science & Technology Fair website or Facebook page.

CTV News reported on the 2016 York Region Science & Technology Fair and a news clip on the fair can be viewed at http://bit.ly/2kkkUfv.

Deadline extended: Grad students invited to submit proposals for research conference

The deadline for graduate students to submit a proposal for Visions, Collaborations, & Transformations: The First Annual York University Graduate Student Research Conference in the Social Sciences & Humanities has been extended to Feb. 1.

This conference is a special multidisciplinary event that aims to connect participants within the social science communities at York University and beyond. The York Graduate Student Research Conference (GSRC) will take place on April 6 and 7.

Canada will celebrate the 150th anniversary of Confederation in 2017. The York GSRC will focus on the Canada 150 themes identified by the Government of Canada: the environment, diversity and inclusion, Indigenous people, and youth. Proposal submissions are for panel presentations, and approximately 15 minutes will be allocated to each presentation.

Topics can include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Canada’s past, present, future
  • social justice, diversity and equity
  • experiential learning, participatory methods, community-situated learning
  • (de)colonizing theory and practices
  • urban education
  • disability studies
  • early childhood
  • childhood studies
  • K-12 and postsecondary education
  • psychoanalysis, sexualities, feminist studies, queer theory
  • cultural studies
  • philosophy
  • arts
  • ethnographic research
  • literacy and linguistics
  • global and international relations and perspectives
  • sustainability and environment
  • mathematics, science, technology
  • media and communications
  • alternative education
  • other

Proposals must be submitted no later than Wednesday, Feb. 1, using the GRSC Proposal Submission Form.

For submission guidelines and conference details, visit gsrc.info.yorku.ca.

Questions about the Graduate Student Research Conference and the proposal submission process can be sent to gradconf@edu.yorku.ca.

Deadline extended: Grad students invited to submit proposals for research conference

The deadline for graduate students to submit a proposal for Visions, Collaborations, & Transformations: The First Annual York University Graduate Student Research Conference in the Social Sciences & Humanities has been extended to Feb. 1.

This conference is a special multidisciplinary event that aims to connect participants within the social science communities at York University and beyond. The York Graduate Student Research Conference (GSRC) will take place on April 6 and 7.

Canada will celebrate the 150th anniversary of Confederation in 2017. The York GSRC will focus on the Canada 150 themes identified by the Government of Canada: the environment, diversity and inclusion, Indigenous people, and youth. Proposal submissions are for panel presentations, and approximately 15 minutes will be allocated to each presentation.

Topics can include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Canada’s past, present, future
  • social justice, diversity and equity
  • experiential learning, participatory methods, community-situated learning
  • (de)colonizing theory and practices
  • urban education
  • disability studies
  • early childhood
  • childhood studies
  • K-12 and postsecondary education
  • psychoanalysis, sexualities, feminist studies, queer theory
  • cultural studies
  • philosophy
  • arts
  • ethnographic research
  • literacy and linguistics
  • global and international relations and perspectives
  • sustainability and environment
  • mathematics, science, technology
  • media and communications
  • alternative education
  • other

Proposals must be submitted no later than Wednesday, Feb. 1, using the GRSC Proposal Submission Form.

For submission guidelines and conference details, visit gsrc.info.yorku.ca.

Questions about the Graduate Student Research Conference and the proposal submission process can be sent to gradconf@edu.yorku.ca.

Students ‘map’ their personal stories to inform future teaching practice

Teacher candidate
Teacher candidate

A unique visual ‘mapping’ assignment for Faculty of Education teacher candidates provided a deeper understanding and perspective of how they can use their own personal experiences to imagine the possibilities of place-based learning in their future classroom practice.

SStudent Maptudents in the Faculty’s Arts and Social Studies: Integrating Curriculum in the Primary/Junior division course were tasked with making connections between mapping concepts in the social studies curriculum with their own identity and personal experiences with teaching, learning and schooling in a visual way.

“By situating themselves within their own schooling experiences through aspects of their own identities, teacher candidates gain a better perspective of how students’ home life and communities can impact their learning and in turn the learning of their future students,” said Course Director Heather Bourrie.

“The assignment, which included a written reflection on their personal learning journey and the way that they felt when included or excluded from various communities, was meant to prompt the students to think critically about the ways in which ‘life events’ and community experiences impacted their learning and helped to shape them into being responsible citizens of the global community.”

Student mapStudents used a variety of methods including drawing, painting, photography, text and media to create their maps. They also consulted the Citizen Education Framework on page 10 of the Ontario Social Studies Curriculum document to help in the creative process of thinking about the ways in which their identity, experiences and environment could inform how they mapped themselves, their community and their learning.

“The assignment forced me to reflect back on being a student going through the system, and to now look at it from the perspective of being a teacher,” said teacher candidate Kameni. “It forced me to dig deep in order to better understand how my environment and sense of place helped to shape my own identity and to think about how I can use this exercise in my future teaching practice to better understand my students.”

“Getting to know your students through their personal experiences and knowing where they come from can provide you with an awareness of what your students know and don’t know and can help you to adapt your teaching style,” said teacher candidate Justin Marangoni.

The overall goal of the assignment was to get teacher candidates to think about the concept of citizenship education in the social studies, history and geography curriculum and the ways in which their own schooling and connections to communities has played a role in preparing them to be active citizens in a global community.

Grad students invited to submit proposals for research conference

Graduate students are invited to submit a proposal for Visions, Collaborations, & Transformations: The First Annual York University Graduate Student Research Conference in the Social Sciences & Humanities. This conference is a special multidisciplinary event that aims to connect participants within the social science communities at York University and beyond. The York Graduate Student Research Conference (GSRC) will take place on April 6 and 7.

Canada will celebrate the 150th anniversary of Confederation in 2017. The York GSRC will focus on the Canada 150 themes identified by the Government of Canada: the environment, diversity and inclusion, Indigenous people, and youth. Proposal submissions are for panel presentations, and approximately 15 minutes will be allocated to each presentation.

Topics can include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Canada’s past, present, future
  • social justice, diversity and equity
  • experiential learning, participatory methods, community-situated learning
  • (de)colonizing theory and practices
  • urban education
  • disability studies
  • early childhood
  • childhood studies
  • K-12 and postsecondary education
  • psychoanalysis, sexualities, feminist studies, queer theory
  • cultural studies
  • philosophy
  • arts
  • ethnographic research
  • literacy and linguistics
  • global and international relations and perspectives
  • sustainability and environment
  • mathematics, science, technology
  • media and communications
  • alternative education
  • other

Proposals must be submitted no later than Wednesday, Jan. 18, using the GRSC Proposal Submission Form.

For submission guidelines and conference details, visit gsrc.info.yorku.ca.

Questions about the Graduate Student Research Conference and the proposal submission process can be sent to gradconf@edu.yorku.ca.

YFile’s Year in Review: Top headlines at York University, October to December 2016

Glendon Citizenship

As a new year emerges, YFile looks back on 2016 to share with readers a snapshot of the year’s highlights. Here is the final instalment featuring stories and highlights for October to December 2016, as chosen by YFile editors.

October

Four York U students receive Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships
Alison Humphrey, Zachary Lomo, Jesse Thistle and Syrus Marcus Ware were named recipients of the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, one of the most prestigious graduate scholarships in Canada.

Members of Project Connect greet the first York U sponsored Syrian family
Members of Project Connect greet the first York U-sponsored Syrian family

York U welcomes its first sponsored Syrian refugee family
York’s Project Connect refugee sponsorship team welcomed the University’s first sponsored family through its Syria Response & Refugee Initiative.

The Economist Ranks Schulich School of Business No. 1 in Canada
The Economist magazine gave the MBA program at York University’s Schulich School of Business the top ranking in Canada in the its annual survey of the world’s top 100 MBA programs for the 14th straight year.

Inaugural York World Scholars program attracts top students from around the globe
The program recruited four outstanding students who chose specific double-major programs. The newly arrived World Scholars join a Faculty that is already home to students from 127 countries.

Landmark US$1M gift from Jim and Marilyn Simons establishes leading science fellowship program
The York Science Fellows program will fund at least 12 three-year postdoctoral fellowships, valued at $72,000 per annum each, including contributions from the Faculty and supervisory faculty members.

November

glendon-citizenship3Bilingual citizenship ceremony at Glendon unique lesson for students
Students taking a course on Canadian citizenship at Glendon College were given a unique experiential education opportunity on Nov. 3 when they met with about 50 new Canadians ahead of a Canadian citizenship ceremony.

York U researchers are the first to sequence genome of killer honeybees
The successful mapping of the genome by biology Professor Amro Zayed and his PhD student Brock Harpur offers a huge boost to international efforts to protect agriculture and the honeybee industry from the highly aggressive and invasive Africanized bee.

Paper strips laced with sugar could be the sweetest solution so far, literally, to kill E. coli in contaminated water.
Paper strips laced with sugar could be the sweetest solution so far, literally, to kill E. coli in contaminated water

York U researchers find ‘sweet’ solution to kill E. coli in drinking water
The discovery known as “DipTreat” will be instrumental in developing a new generation of inexpensive and portable water treatment devices. The sweet solution holds promise for efforts underway to ensure global water safety.

Glendon launches ‘Truth and Reconciliation Declaration on Indigenous Language Policy’ Nov. 18
A document responding to three of the 94 Calls to Action issued last December by the Truth & Reconciliation Commission of Canada on Residential Schools got special attention with a public launch on Nov. 18 at Glendon.

York U announces game-changing $2M gift for music education partnership
The gift from York Professor Emeritus Allan Carswell and the Carswell Family Foundation will facilitate a partnership between York University and the Regent Park School of Music to enhance arts education for children.

December

York engages in #ActionsMatter campaign to end violence against women
York University students, staff and faculty were invited to engage in the #ActionsMatter campaign to end violence against women. On Monday, Dec. 5, the University hosted a memorial event to remember the 14 women killed at l’Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal in 1989.

Ottawa renews $1.4M Canada Research Chair at York
The federal government renewed a Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Health Psychology at York enabling Faculty of Health Professor Joel Katz to advance his research in the psychological, emotional and biomedical factors involved in acute and chronic pain.

Visitors to the AGYU examine the Stairry steps exhibit
Visitors to the AGYU examine the Starry Stairs exhibit

AGYU wins major awards for exhibitions, publication design and writing
The Art Gallery of York University (AGYU) did it again. York University’s innovative gallery won four awards of excellence from the Ontario Association of Art Galleries.

York researcher Shayna Rosenbaum receives INS Early Career Award
The International Neuropsychological Society (INS) will award York psychology Professor Shayna Rosenbaum with the INS Award for Early Career Research for her “substantive independent contribution to research in the area of brain-behaviour relationships.”

This concludes YFile’s Year in Review: Top headlines at York University, 2016

Grad students invited to submit proposals for research conference

Graduate students are invited to submit a proposal for Visions, Collaborations, & Transformations: The First Annual York University Graduate Student Research Conference in the Social Sciences & Humanities. This conference is a special multidisciplinary event that aims to connect participants within the social science communities at York University and beyond. The York Graduate Student Research Conference (GSRC) will take place on April 6 and 7.

150can-featuredCanada will celebrate the 150th anniversary of Confederation in 2017. The York GSRC will focus on the Canada 150 themes identified by the Government of Canada: the environment, diversity and inclusion, Indigenous people, and youth. Proposal submissions are for panel presentations, and approximately 15 minutes will be allocated to each presentation.

Topics can include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Canada’s past, present, future
  • social justice, diversity and equity
  • experiential learning, participatory methods, community-situated learning
  • (de)colonizing theory and practices
  • urban education
  • disability studies
  • early childhood
  • childhood studies
  • K-12 and postsecondary education
  • psychoanalysis, sexualities, feminist studies, queer theory
  • cultural studies
  • philosophy
  • arts
  • ethnographic research
  • literacy and linguistics
  • global and international relations and perspectives
  • sustainability and environment
  • mathematics, science, technology
  • media and communications
  • alternative education
  • other

Proposals must be submitted no later than Wednesday, Jan. 18, using the GRSC Proposal Submission Form.

For submission guidelines and conference details, visit gsrc.info.yorku.ca.

Questions about the Graduate Student Research Conference and the proposal submission process can be sent to gradconf@edu.yorku.ca.