The Intellectual World War Trilogy: Western Marxism, French Theory and the Culture of Empire

On Thursday, Feb. 5, from 2:30 to 4 p.m. at HNES 141, a lecture presents some of the archival research behind “The Intellectual World War Trilogy” which proposes a counter-history of theory in the age of imperialism by clearly situating it within the global class struggle. Professor Gabriel Rockhill from Villanova University is presenter to […]

Geographic Information System (GIS) Day 2025

Attention GIS enthusiasts, curious minds, and secondary school educators (Grades 9 to 12)! Join us in celebrating Geographic Information System (GIS) Day on November 19th and discover how maps reveal more than just directions. Did you know that geomatics technology seamlessly integrates into our everyday lives, often without us even realizing it? Explore innovative technology […]

EUC PhESSA Research Day: Precarity, Care and Repair

The Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change invites you to our PhD in Environmental Studies Students Association (PhESSA) Research Day! Please come and learn about the exciting work our colleagues and students are doing. If you’re coming for lunch and are not  a presenter, please send a quick RSVP to esphd@yorku.ca. Thank you and see […]

MES Research Presentations

The Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change (EUC) is delighted to present the research of MES graduates, now PhD students, Kelly Gingrich and Cole Weber! Kelly Gingrich, MES, is a first year Environmental Studies PhD Student in EUC. She is studying environmental and climate change education as prefigurative, participatory and place-based practices, with a particular […]

Garden Party and Outreach Event at the EUC Native Plant Garden

The Centre for Bee Ecology, Evolution & Conservation (BEEc), in partnership with the Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change, invites everyone (students, staff, faculty, community members) to join a Garden Party on Thursday, May 16 from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. outside the Health, Nursing & Environmental Studies Building (HNES) on York University’s Keele Campus. In […]

EUC Professor Jennifer Foster releases new book on the importance of abandoned industrial sites

The Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change is proud to announce the launch of Professor Jennifer Foster’s latest book, Post-Industrial Urban Greenspace: Ecology, Aesthetics and Justice (2022).   All are welcome to attend the book launch on Friday, May 19 at 1PM in HNES 142. The event will also be broadcast on zoom – for […]

Film Screening and Q&A: The Changing Face of Iceland

On Thursday, March 9 at 12:30 p.m., join renowned filmmaker Mark Terry, an adjunct professor in York University’s Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC), for a film viewing and Q&A on The Changing Face of Iceland, his latest documentary about the impacts of climate change on the island nation of Iceland. The documentary examines […]

Meet the author: Stefan Kipfer’s ‘Urban Revolutions’

The Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change is celebrating the launch of Professor Stefan Kipfer’s new book, Urban Revolutions: Urbanisation and (Neo-)Colonialism in Transatlantic Context On Jan. 24, from 1 to 2:20 p.m. in HNES 141, Kipfer will be joined by Kanishka Goonewardena, professor of geography and planning at the University of Toronto, and York […]

Scholar’s Hub @ Home | Rough seas: Working conditions in the fishing industry and the impact on sustainability

Peter Vandergeest, Professor Emeritus& Senior Scholar, Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change Do Canadians have a role or obligation to act with respect to working conditions for the seafarers who catch the seafood we consume? Industrial fisheries provide much of the seafood that enters into global seafood supply chains, such as the ubiquitous canned or […]

EUC Seminar Series on Polishing the Chain: We are all Treaty People

Indigenous peoples negotiated nation-to-nation treaties with the Crown. The British North America Act of 1867 and the Canadian constitution both clearly establish responsibility for and relations with Indigenous peoples as a federal jurisdiction. What then, is our role as treaty people? In this panel speakers will explore how non-Indigenous led social movements understand and take […]