Summer Institute to examine York scholar’s theory after 25 years
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Michael Gilbert
A Summer Institute on multi-modal argumentation beginning on June 8 will feature a critical assessment of York University Professor Emeritus Michael Gilbert’s seminal article on the topic 25 years after its publication.
The five-day course will be taught virtually by Gilbert, along with fellow York Professor Emeritus Claudio Duran, York Philosophy Professor Linda Carozza, Michigan State University Assistant Professor David Godden and University of Windsor Professor Christopher Tindale, director of the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation, and Rhetoric (CRRAR).
Gilbert studies philosophy, gender and feminist philosophy. His multi-modal theory holds that information in arguments is exchanged not through statements, but through messages which include familiar meaning, context, bodily communications, power relations and intuitions.
The Summer Institute will open with a lecture by Gilbert and will include specific days devoted to discussions of each of the four modes (logical, emotional, visceral and kisceral) highlighted in his theory.
Participants will engage in a retrospective analysis of Gilbert’s work and theory, which originally appeared in the paper “Multi-Modal Argumentation” in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences journal in 1994 and subsequently developed in his 1997 book, Coalescent Argumentation. This course gives scholars of argumentation a chance to review the theory, discuss its details and the prospects for its development.
Students who register for the course will have an opportunity to develop a project that can be submitted later in the summer.
The Institute is being hosted in conjunction with CRRAR and the 12th conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA). The course schedule, requirements, reading list and registration info can be found on the Summer Institute’s website.
Dahdaleh Institute-led team contributes to UN’s International Day for Biological Diversity
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The United Nations (UN) Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) solicited messages from the world community for the International Day for Biological Diversity 2020, which was marked on May 22. The messages addressed the theme “Our solutions are in nature.”
Idil Boran
Dahdaleh Institute Member of Faculty Idil Boran, a professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) at York University, with her Synergies of Planetary Health Research Initiative team, submitted a statement to the UN’s call. Titled, “Nature-based solutions: Catalyzing action for biodiversity, climate, and health,” the statement outlined principles for an effective agenda for nature and people.
Boran, author of Political Theory and Global Climate Action: Recasting the Public Sphere (Routledge 2019), recently joined the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health to develop and launch the “Synergies of Planetary Health Research Initiative.” Partners in the initiative include the German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), and the Institute of International Relations, University of São Paulo.
“It is very exciting to start this project on such a strong note,” said Boran.
She noted that her team developed the Synergies of Planetary Health Research Initiative to create stronger links between actors addressing biodiversity loss and climate change. Nature-based solutions by non-governmental and local actors, such as businesses, investors, cities, regions and civil society organizations, could contribute to the effective and integrated governance of multiple global issues such as biodiversity, climate change and health.
“The UN Convention on Biological Diversity is a key actor in this space,”said Boran. “It is essential to engage with them with interdisciplinary research methodologies and concrete policy recommendations for governance synergies.”
This is not Boran’s first time working with the United Nations. She actively participates in the UN Climate Change conferences, known as Conference of the Parties (COPs), organizing and speaking at official events since 2012, and engaging researchers and practitioners.
In February, with the Synergies team, Boran made recommendations to the CBD which outlined strategies to address the drivers of biodiversity loss and shape a post-2020 global biodiversity framework.
Statements were also submitted by the secretary-general of the United Nations; the president of Costa Rica; the president of the United Nations General Assembly; the minister for environment, forest and climate change, Bangladesh; the mayor of Bonn, Germany; the mayor of Montreal, Canada; the director general, WWF International; the chief of the assembly of First Nations National; the secretary general, Asian Indigenous Peoples Pact; and others.
Research on resource nationalism in Southern Africa receives funding
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Richard Saunders
Richard Saunders, an associate professor in the Department of Politics at York University, has been awarded Partnership Development Grant funding from the Social Science Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) to support his new project exploring innovations in resource nationalism policymaking in Southern Africa.
The proposed project – led by Saunders and supported by five co-applicants, six partner organizations, and nine specialist collaborators – will explore various policy interventions surrounding national-level debates on the regulation of resource industries in mineral-rich African countries.
Much of the current scholarly literature and business commentary on resource nationalism, which refers to claims and efforts made by states to gain maximum local benefit from the regulation of access to natural resources, focuses on national-level conflict between governments and large-scale foreign miners.
Saunders’ new project – which first began to take shape at a SSHRC Connection Grant-funded workshop held in Zimbabwe two years ago – widens the scope of investigation to include local businesses, labour and community groups and the realm of competitive party politics, in understanding the dynamics of resource nationalism policymaking and outcomes.
By working with research organizations in Canada, as well as Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe, Saunders will investigate innovations in the use of discretionary policies pertaining to those African nations’ mining policies.
Drawing on the diverse backgrounds of the project’s researchers and their advocacy links to regional stakeholder networks, the goal is to unify new evidence, information and perspectives typically excluded from the domestic policy discussions in each country.
According to Saunders, mineral-rich African countries have experienced successive waves of resource nationalism, with the first wave, characterized by seizing control of major mining assets through nationalization of foreign-owned operations, occurring early in the post-independence period of the 1960s and 1970s.
Saunders said that a new form of resource nationalism has emerged over the past decade as international mineral markets have experienced a resurgence and demands have risen for the strengthening of local benefits from rising mining profits.
“Resource nationalism has seen a resurgence in Africa and other mineral-rich parts of the Global South in recent years, but our understanding of what it has achieved has lagged behind the pace of policy reform,” Saunders said.
“We need to know more about what benefits resource nationalism has produced in practice; for example, higher tax revenues from mining, skills and ownership transfer to local citizens, strengthened employment or the nurturing of secondary industries.”
In 2018 Saunders took part in a SSHRC-funded workshop on resource nationalism in Harare, Zimbabwe.
“We also need a better understanding of how popular demands for improved outcomes are most effectively translated into productive and sustainable policymaking,” Saunders continued.
With his team of project collaborators, Saunders’ study will gather comparative research on a wide range of experiences connected to recent policy transformations – such as amending taxation measures and increasing reliance on local supply chains – in the three African nations. Development consequences, local benefits, responses from international mining companies and other dynamics impacted by these changes will be examined to paint a clearer picture of the controversial subject resting in the heart of many socioeconomic debates.
“It’s very gratifying to be awarded this Partnership Development Grant because it both recognizes the value of previous collaborative research with my partners in Canada and the three African countries involved and allows our network of researchers to take our joint work to a new level,” Saunders explained.
“Building partnerships across borders takes time and resources, and the Partnership Development Grant funding helps us to address these challenges.”
The grant, valued at $198,943, will be used to cover costs of this study as it directly contributes to the building of new research partnerships over the next three years. Although the study is currently delayed due to travel restrictions, the funding will help to facilitate transportation, meetings and knowledge mobilization once safe to do so.
New blog features work of York faculty and students on COVID-19 virus and its aftermath
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The Marxist Studies in a Global and Asian Perspective (MSGAP) blog titled “York Left Consortium: Reflections on Capitalism’s Half-Life” serves as an accessible location for written interventions of various sorts relating to COVID-19 and its aftermath on the part of leftist faculty and grad students at York, as well as guest contributors.
Robert Latham
The blog is curated by York University faculty Robert Latham (Politics) and Raju Das (Geography), and includes both short blog posts and longer thought pieces and speculations.
York and other universities in Canada, the U.S., Western Europe and across other regions of the world, are mobilizing faculty in the natural sciences and closely allied fields to address various issues around the novel coronavirus such as potential treatments or public health practices, said Latham.
“York is especially known worldwide for the strengths of its politically progressive social justice-focused faculty and graduate students across the social sciences, law, humanities and the arts,” said Das. “Together they have an incredible array of expertise and experience relating to the social, political, economic and environmental issues in society that are brought into relief by the virus and its anticipated aftermath such as economic depression, increasing state retrenchment and/or oppression, and expanding environmental degradation.”
Raju Das
The initial featured pieces include those from a range of York faculty and grad students coming from various sources. Two pieces written originally for the blog include “COVID-19, Mass Consciousness, and Left Organizing” by Latham and “Death from COVID-19, Collateral Damage, and the U.S. Capitalist-State” by guest contributor Vince Montes. New pieces will appear on a regular basis. There is also the possibility of the site turning into a longstanding effort beyond the current moment associated with COVID-19.
Links from faculty and graduate students to their existing writings on websites, or contributions of original reflections for the blog are very welcome. Contact via email rajudas@yorku.ca and rlatham1@yorku.ca.
MSGAP is a research initiative within the York Centre for Asian Research at York University. MSGAP is Marxist-oriented and is open to all frameworks on the left and which can be or are in conversation with the Marxist tradition. For more information, visit http://marxiststudies.blog.yorku.ca/.
Informative book prepares readers for the future of board governance
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Richard Leblanc
Board governance will be an area of significant interest in the coming months and years as corporations and other institutions seek to grapple with the societal shifts brought by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Employee and customer safety, debt and supply chain issues, future pandemic planning and return time frames for profitability are all critical issues that many boards will be consumed by as they adapt to a new way of working.
With the nature of governance changing almost daily, according to York University Professor Richard Leblanc, today’s corporate board leaders need to reach into the future to be prepared for what is coming. With the new second addition of his book, The Handbook of Board Governance, Leblanc attempts to help them do just that.
Released on May 19, The Handbook of Board Governance provides comprehensive coverage of public, non-profit and private board governance. Featuring a collaboration of internationally recognized academics and prominent board directors, executives, managers and advisors, the second edition offers substantial new content reflecting contemporary trends, practices and future developments in board governance.
The Handbook of Board Governance
Former Cabinet Minister and Registrar of the Ontario College of Trades David Tsubouchi called it the definitive work for board directors and senior management.
“This handbook is reflective of the gold standard that is required of corporate governance,” said Tsubouchi, noting that the text has direct application to government considering the agencies, boards and committees they appoint that are subject to stronger requirements of accountability and scrutiny by the public.
Highly relevant issues such as boards’ roles in climate governance, cyber security and the potential of blockchain and artificial intelligence to disrupt industries are explored in this updated edition.
Aspiring board leaders can look to this text for insights on how to be an effective chair, non-profit governance and fundraising, shareholder engagement and strengthening collaborative leadership in the boardroom. New chapters on governance in Africa, Asia, India and Russia give readers an international perspective on a range of issues.
YCAR receives $500K donation to support student engagement in Hakka research
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The York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) recently received a $500,000 donation from Canadian philanthropist, author and business woman Vivienne Poy to create an endowment to support student engagement in Hakka research and scholarship. This generous gift plants a seed for the growth of a Hakka Scholars Network to develop Hakka research and scholarship at York University and promote this scholarship in Canada and internationally.
“This is the first Hakka Studies initiative outside of Asia and further stimulatesthe study of Asia and Asian Diaspora that is at once cross-regional and local in its engagement with Asian Canadian communities,” said Abidin Kusno, YCAR director.
Vivienne Poy
An accomplished entrepreneur, fashion designer, historian and author, Poy was the first Canadian of Asian descent to be appointed to the Senate of Canada (1998–2012). She had been supportive of YCAR’s initiatives with the establishment of the Vivienne Poy Asian Research Award, and donated the proceeds of her book Profit, Victory and Sharpness: The Lees of Hong Kong to YCAR, in support of graduate student research on Asia and the Asian Diaspora.
The reason for choosing to support students engaging with Hakka Research and scholarship, according to Poy, is that Hakka is a subgroup of the Han Chinese with a distinct culture.
“Their historic villages were circular fortresses built with very thick walls for defence. Hakka women are known for their unbound feet, strength and resilience,” said Poy. “The Hakkas have contributed globally over centuries, and many have risen to prominence at home and in their countries of adoption, a fact that is not widely known. As a Hakka descendant on my mother’s side, it is of great interest to me to support scholarly research on this group.”
Poy kicked off the initiative with the aspiration that it will soon develop into a multi–faceted program. As students represent the future, she decided to establish the Vivienne Poy Hakka Graduate Research Award as part of her donation.
“The annual award will encourage York’s graduate students to conduct research on topic(s) related to Hakka cultures, histories and geographies anywhere in the world,” said Kusno. The inaugural award will be given out in the Fall 2020 term.
Together with the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, YCAR will launch the Hakka Scholars Network with an event this fall.The network also has an ambitious plan for eight research and teaching initiatives that YCAR and its York-based and external partners, hope to develop incrementally over the next 10 years.
“The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies is delighted to support the establishment of Hakka Scholars Network Fund at YCAR,” said Lily Cho, associate dean, Global & Community Engagement for the Faculty. “We know how important it is to prepare our students for the global economy by offering them a chance to experience the world. This fund will be crucial to opening up our undergraduate student experience to complexities and richness of Hakka culture, identity, and history. The Hakka Scholars Network Fund illuminates a world of diasporic culture and connection that builds on York’s long-standing commitment to Hakka communities.”
Over the next two years, a committee comprised of York and external members will develop a summer study abroad course, which aims to bring York undergraduate-level students to a part of the world where they will learn and experience aspects ofHakkacultures, histories and geographies. This course, whichis planned to be first held in Summer 2022, will include field study to explore specific locales where students will develop community-based research projects and present them in a conference or an exhibit.
The inaugural Hakka symposium will be held in 2022 to bring together researchers focusing on Hakka studies to share the latest knowledge and research and grow the academic field.In the longer term, the Hakka Scholars Network Committee will be seeking support to establish a Chair in Hakka Studies as well as a funded visiting scholar opportunity, a language and culturaltraining program, an undergraduate scholarship for students interested in Hakka studies as well as a virtual archive of Hakka diaspora.
Although Hakka studies at York may be in a nascent phase, there is a long association between the University and Hakka scholars and community members. The first Toronto Hakka Conference was held at York University in 2000 and YCAR will co-host the sixth edition, which will take place on Keele campus in July 2021 (rescheduled from 2020 due to COVID-19).
According to Keith Lowe, co-founder of the Toronto Hakka Conference and member of YCAR’s External Advisory Council, “The donation from Dr. Poy marks a new growth of the Toronto Hakka Conference, especially in its engagement with the University since the first conference in 2000.”
LA&PS course directors: Nominate your students’ work for the Writing Prizes
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Course directors in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) are invited to nominate a student’s paper for the annual LA&PS Writing Prizes until the June 7 deadline.
The Writing Prizes are open to all kinds of writing (except creative writing) from undergraduate students enrolled in LA&PS courses, including case studies, administrative/executive reports, reviews of all kinds, non-fiction prose and formal essays. There are five categories: first through fourth year and also Undergraduate Thesis/Major Research Project.
Any course director in LA&PS may nominate a paper (one per course) in the appropriate category. Submissions should be in Word format and include both a clean copy of the paper and a copy of the submission’s associated assignment sheet. Please note: under normal circumstances, the competition will not accept multiple papers from the same class. Only the first paper submitted per course will be considered.
Nominate your student’s paper using the year level of your course (not of your student). For example, a fourth year student writing in WRIT 2004 would be nominated in the second-year category. Eligible papers will come from courses offered during the Summer 2019, Fall 2019, and Winter 2020 terms.
Fall/Winter 2019 entries will be accepted until June 7. For first- and second-year categories, two honourable mentions and one winner will be chosen in each category. For third- and fourth-year categories, three honourable mentions and one winner will be chosen in each category. Winners and honourable mentions will be contacted by the Faculty in Fall 2020.
This competition is adjudicated by full-time faculty from the Writing Department. Questions about the nomination form or about the process for adjudicating these awards should be directed to Jon Sufrin at jons@yorku.ca or calling ext. 77473.
New book from York authors traces origins and diaspora of Italian cuisine
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Italian Foodways Worldwide: The Dispersal of Italian Cuisine(s)
Two associate professors of Italian studies in York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, Roberta Iannacito-Provenzano and Gabriele Scardellato, have co-edited a new book titled Italian Foodways Worldwide: The Dispersal of Italian Cuisine(s) (Soleil Publishing, 2020).
“The important observation that ‘we are what we eat’ has profound implications for cultural identity not only for countries of immigration, where diverse foodways come into contact, but also for those from where the exported foodways originate,” said Iannacito-Provenzano.
Roberta Iannacito-Provenzano
In this light, the volume brings together scholarly papers on a variety of topics related to the culture and representation of Italian cuisine, ranging from menus and feasts in Toronto from the Fascist period, Italian foodways in Britain during the Second World War, Italian cookbooks, the Catelli Pasta Company, menus from Italian restaurants in Tokyo, Italian food branding in North America, the Mediterranean diet, foodways and film, food, immigration and ethnic identity in Ontario and Argentina, the first Italian restaurant in Calgary and the history of the famous Vesuvio restaurant in Toronto.
Gabriele Scardellato
“In their global dispersal, both before and after unification, Italians may have carried with them only a memory of a cuisine but, wherever they settled, enclaves or Little Italies were established and efforts to recreate the memory began,” explained Scardellato. “That re-creation, however, always happened in the presence of other cultures and other foodstuffs. At the same time, the culture(s) of origin were far from static with regard to so-called ‘traditional’ cuisine.”
Iannacito-Provenzano and Scardellato acknowledged the support of York University’s Mariano A. Elia Chair in Italian-Canadian Studies in making this project possible.
Those interested in more information and purchasing options can email Iannacito-Provenzano (roberta@yorku.ca) or Scardellato (gpscar@yorku.ca).
Lisa Farley’s examination of psychoanalysis and childhood development receives Outstanding Book Award
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Lisa Farley
York University Associate Professor Lisa Farley‘s book, Childhood Beyond Pathology: A Psychoanalytic Study of Development and Diagnosis, has been selected as the winner of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2020 Outstanding Book Award.
In the book, published in 2018, Farley describes how concepts from psychoanalysis can help shed light on questions in childhood development.
She examines debates in the fields of education, childhood studies and psychology that argue over how children should be treated and who they should become. In focusing on times when adults disagree, she critiques the notion of a singular expert who can settle questions about a child’s detour from normative scripts of development.
“Winning the AERA Outstanding Book Award is a wonderful surprise,” Farley said. “The awarding Division B (Curriculum Studies) is comprised of courageous scholars, many of whom I have admired since attending my very first AERA conference in 2002.”
Childhood Beyond Pathology: A Psychoanalytic Study of Development and Diagnosis
“I continue to be inspired by colleagues in the curriculum community and I am grateful for this recognition,” she continued. “I am particularly proud that psychoanalysis – the theoretical framing of my book – has been noted as a generative discourse in the context of historical, political, philosophical and social inquiries into education, childhood and development.”
Although generally intended for a scholarly audience, Farley is confident her book is relevant to a wide array of people because it addresses issues that so many teachers face, including the problem of diagnosis, issues of ableism and disability, anti-Black racism in schooling and society, ongoing legacies of colonial history and transgender childhoods.
The Outstanding Book Award was established to acknowledge and honour each year’s best book-length publication in education research and development. To have been considered for the 2020 Outstanding Book Award, a book must be concerned with the improvement of the educational process through research or scholarly inquiry, must have a research base and must have a 2018 or 2019 copyright date.
Farley joined the Faculty of Education at York University in 2007. Her research considers the uses of psychoanalysis in conceptualizing dilemmas of historical representation, pedagogy and childhood.
Childhood Beyond Pathology: A Psychoanalytic Study of Development and Diagnosisis available for purchase from SUNY Press.
New book on breast cancer shifts narrative away from happy survivor
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Professor Emilia Nielsen, from the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, has published a book about breast cancer that tackles the issue in a very different way. Disrupting Breast Cancer Narratives: Stories of Rage and Repair (University of Toronto Press, 2019) explores what she calls the “politically insistent narratives of illness” and refutes the optimism of pink ribbon culture. Instead, she digs deep and investigates the anger around breast cancer; discusses the ways emotion, gender and sexuality become complicated, relational and questioning; and unpacks the culture of disease in a unique way.
Emilia Nielsen and her book. Image reproduced with permission of U of T Press
Nielsen talks with Brainstorm about this new publication, which was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Q: Tell us about the genesis of your new book.
A: This is a revision of my doctoral research, which I defended in 2013. The idea started with my being disturbed about the way that all cancer stories seemed to be so similar. I was curious about the lack of discernible anger attached to breast cancer.
I didn’t want to critique the stories themselves – coming from real women with breast cancer. Instead, I wanted to better understand the conditions through which breast cancer stories emerge. I wondered why we see so many public sharings of happy, positive, hopeful breast cancer stories.
Q: Please expand on the similarities. How did you unearth them?
A: I discovered Judy Segal’s work, published roughly 10 years ago. She critiqued what she called the standard story: “I found a lump – I was scared – I stayed strong – I battled through the treatment – Now I’ve emerged and I’m better than before.”
My antennas went up and I thought: I bet it’s way more complicated than that. This necessitated that I go into illness narrative scholarship, to go beyond the commonly circulated personal stories to examine the cultural politics of breast cancer. Here, you start to see the influence of the corporatization of breast cancer, the marketing of pink ribbon products, the support groups that have a ‘good-vibe-only’ approach, etc.
The mainstream breast cancer narrative of triumph: “I found a lump – I was scared – I stayed strong – I battled through the treatment – Now I’ve emerged and I’m better than before.”
Q: You moved toward a more disruptive narrative?
Audre Lorde’s book, The Cancer Journals (1980). Source: Wikipedia
A: Yes, I sought to look at all those disruptive voices, those stories that are a bit different. Audre Lorde’s book The Cancer Journals (1980) was influential to me here. It was a prophetic text because it urged women to claim all the emotions. I was interested in the angry, sad, despairing stories; the stories that include the examination of the possible environmental causes of cancer; the stories that ask questions.
Hope is a powerful emotion. But it’s made more powerful when combined with anger because anger contains within it the desire to change the structural forces that allow cancer to emerge or for treatments to be difficult. Being angry can allow things to happen.
After I apprehended this, I went about finding these stories from the 1980s to the present day. Allowing space and visibility for disruptive breast cancer narratives has grown, especially in the last five years. I’ve seen a shift, which has been wonderful to witness.
Q: Why is it so important to refute the “tyranny of cheerfulness?”
A: Cheerfulness, which is highly gender socialized [girls = nice], can come with a cost to claiming full emotional experience of the real gravitas of a breast cancer diagnosis. The tyranny of cheerfulness, coined by Samantha King, is really saying: hold your tongue; don’t say that; don’t ask a question. But we’re losing out what it truly means to be diagnosed and treated for cancer. We’re losing valuable information on the patient experience.
What I’ve gleaned from conversations with doctors is that yes, the crying, angry patient is harder to address than the non-crying, non-angry patient. But doctors also want to know the truth of their patient’s experience.
Q: The book’s third chapter contains ‘angry stories.’ Could you tell us a few that stuck out in your mind?
A: Barbara Ehrenreich’s 2001 essay “Welcome to Cancerland” breaks down the problem with the commodity culture that has emerged around breast cancer, but she doesn’t shield us from her own anger – not at doctors, nurses or cancer survivors, but at the culture we’ve allowed to grow that seems inseparable from the marketplace.
She lets us into her world as she navigates from the first moment when she sits in her doctor’s office, preparing for a mammogram, to biopsy then treatment. It’s a stronger story, a more effective and truthful story, because the anger, which mobilizes her, is so present. It’s not an obstacle to clear thinking; it’s a vehicle.
The tyranny of cheerfulness means we’re losing valuable information on the patient experience. Doctors want to know the truth about these experiences
Q: Your approach is interdisciplinary. Can you tell us about this?
A: I joined York in 2018 in the Health & Society program. I was hired with a specialty in arts, medicine and healing. My approach brings various disciplines together. My goal is to move beyond disciplinary knowledge. I prefer to take a problem and then assemble around that problem methodologies that are most appropriate.
Q: How have you found York University, given its strength in interdisciplinary work?
A: York has an appetite for this kind of work; it’s almost expected that if you’re at York, you’ll be doing something interdisciplinary. When I accepted this job, people said, “Yes, York University, of course that makes a lot of sense.”
At York, I can write a critical-creative paper and also have poetry as a research outcome. At other institutions, something like poetry would be considered as icing on the cake; but at York, research-creation is the cake itself.
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By Megan Mueller, senior manager, Research Communications, Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation, York University, muellerm@yorku.ca
The Writing Prizes are open to all kinds of writing (except creative writing) from undergraduate students enrolled in LA&PS courses, including case studies, administrative/executive reports, reviews of all kinds, non-fiction prose and formal essays. There are five categories: first through fourth year and also Undergraduate Thesis/Major Research Project.
