World Water Day 2022: A Solutions-Driven Workshop on Climate Impacts on Freshwater: In-Focus knowledge-exchange dialogue.

The impacts of climate change and ecosystem degradation are experienced by local communities regionally and around the world. These experiences are exacerbated by underlying social inequities. World Water Day is an opportunity to contextualize research that sheds light on these experiences against the backdrop of global efforts to boost ambition on adaptation action, and strengthening […]

Ernest C. Mercier Lecture in Entrepreneurial Science: Bracing for the Entrepreneurial Thrillride

The Lassonde School of Engineering and Schulich School of Business invites you to attend the 2022 Ernest C. Mercier Lecture in Entrepreneurial Science. We are honoured to welcome Dan Tzotzis (BBA ’02, MBA ’10), co-founder of AWAKE Chocolate to present this year’s lecture “Bracing for the Entrepreneurial Thrillride.” Bracing for the Entrepreneurial Thrillride: 20 years […]

CERLAC Presents The 2021-2022 Michael Baptista Lecture Series: Uprooted: Race, Land and Dispossession in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean cannot be addressed without questioning existing land distribution schemes and their relationship with the rights of the most excluded population groups in the region: Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities. For two centuries, this issue has caused more wars, population displacements, social conflicts, hunger and inequality than any other. This […]

Ukraine, Putin, and the Impact on International Security

Join the Glendon community on Zoom to discuss the Russia-Ukraine crisis with Susan Pond, former NATO executive. This event will be hosted in English. There will be a Q-and-A session. Speaker Biography For 30 years, Ms. Pond has been an agent for change, promoting peace and security and the transformation of international institutions. As a […]

Mexican Canadian Novelist Silvia Moreno-Garcia reads from ‘Mexican Gothic’ in Canadian Writers in Person Lecture Series

During 2021 and 2022, readings are available online and can be accessed according to the schedule. Zoom links will be made available a week before the reading Readings are free and open to members of the public and to members of the York community. Our lineups consist of a unique selection of emerging and established […]

Kitty Lundy Memorial Lecture: COLLABORATION AS A PATH TO REINVENTION

Artist Vivek Shraya shares how the act of collaborating with others not only offers the possibility of creating more meaningful and nuanced works, but also the opportunity to reveal—and be—a new version of oneself. An accomplished author and musician, Shraya is also an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Calgary and founder […]

Black History: In March and forever after?

Now that the month where Black History is both celebrated and prescribed is over, what are the lenses through which we can understand its pasts and its presents? Where are they, and how are they celebrated and understood, not just in North America, but throughout different parts of the world where people of African descent […]

Connection Across Communities

Join us as we celebrate, honour and reflect on the various journeys that our panellists have taken in their lives and how their resilience has moved them forward in healing. We welcome you to celebrate International Women’s Day with us as we create connection across communities. Panellists: Meggie Cywink Nneka MacGregor Zahra Nader This event […]

Scholar’s Hub @ Home | Law in the time of COVID: Pandemics, protest and emergencies

Featuring Professor Allan Hutchinson, Osgoode Hall Law School This talk will explore how law has been affected by the pandemic and the Emergency Powers Act specifically. What are its implications on Canadian civil liberties in the current situation? How does it empower the federal government? What are the powers available to federal and provincial governments? […]

Children’s Brain Development in a Changing Climate by Dr. Kam Sripada

Brain development in the early years lays the foundation for lifelong cognitive function, productivity and mental health. How does the changing climate threaten children’s brain development globally? Children are vulnerable to both the sudden events linked to climate change (e.g., flooding, heatwaves, and wildfires) as well as slower-onset impacts (e.g., water scarcity, shifting agricultural zones, […]