2023 Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health Research Workshop

Join us for the fourth annual Critical Social Science Perspectives in Global Health (CPGH) Research Workshop on Wednesday, March 29 from 9 a.m. to noon ET at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research. Breakfast and lunch will be served.   Critical research often involves the use of critical theory with social justice aims. Critical social science perspectives […]

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 […]

United Way: Finding Home Workshop Offers Insight Into Poverty

As York staff, faculty and instructors continue to work together to raise $150,000 for the United Way Greater Toronto as part of the York Cares United Way Campaign; community members are encouraged to challenge their perspective on housing in the GTA. As demand for accessible housing outpaces supply, GTA’s homelessness crisis has worsened over the […]

A Haunted Herschel Halloween Telescope Tour!

The Allan I. Carswell observatory at YorkU is featuring Haunted Telescope Tours this Oct 31st (after the Herschel lecture and concert). We will show folks around the domes, view images if clear, and have candy for the small kids… So, get into character and join us for a spooky night! Eventbrite tickets are free but […]

Halloween Herschel Lecture and Concert

The Allan I. Carswell observatory at YorkU is collaborating with the school of Arts, Media, Performance and Design to present a lecture followed by a concert featuring music of Sir William Herschel. Join Dr. Parandis Tajbakhsh, the observatory crew, and special featured musicians Kay Tozawa, Jesse Tamang, and Yusuf Tajbakhshfor this special event. Eventbrite tickets […]

Media Creation Lab Launch and Open House

York University Libraries’ new Media Creation Lab (MCL) is inviting members of the university community to a Launch and Open House event.  The event will be highlighted by four interactive stations placed throughout the Scott Library atrium, where attendees will have the opportunity for hands-on access to audio and video recording equipment and virtual reality […]

Reading Week at Las Nubes, Information Session

The ‘ecohealth approach’ or ‘ecosystem approach to health and well-being is an applied approach based on principles of systems thinking, transdisciplinarity, participation, gender and social equity, knowledge-to-action, and sustainability. In this course, participants will move from understanding environment and health relationships to applying these principles in the design of collaborative interventions that produce “co-benefits” – […]

York University Alumni Book Club | A talk with Cheryl Diamond, author of Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood

Join the York University Alumni Book Club for a talk with Cheryl Diamond, author of Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood a story about growing up in a family of outlaws. To the young Cheryl Diamond, life felt like one big adventure, whether she was hurtling down the Himalayas in a rickety car […]

Scholars’ Hub @ Home | The latest United Nations report – Accelerating the energy transition

Presented by Professor Patricia Perkins, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change Huge potential now exists to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency, adoption of renewables and new energy infrastructures, and the global spread of low-emission technologies and lifestyles which can provide healthy, decent living standards for all. These coordinated energy transition strategies have the […]

Scholars’ Hub @ Home | Pandemic possibilities: Sexuality, gender and youth in the time of COVID-19

Presented by Professor Jen Gilbert, Faculty of Education How will stay-at-home orders, virtual schooling, canceled proms, viral TikTok dances, boredom, and omnipresent doom inspire, or perhaps constrain, new sexual and gender formations? This presentation explores how the experience of living with and through the pandemic has shaped young people’s sense of their genders and sexualities. […]