Urban Ecologies on the Edge: Making Manila’s Resource Frontier

With Kristian Saguin, University of the Philippines Diliman In this presentation, Dr Saguin will examine urbanization as a frontier-making process through the example of Metro Manila in the Philippines and its adjacent resource frontier, Laguna Lake. Guided by an urban political ecological understanding of urban metabolism, he tracks two resource flows with particular resonance for […]

OMNI-RÉUNIS Distinguished Lecture Series: “Modelling to support public health decisions for responding to emerging infectious diseases” with Dr. Nick Ogden, Public Health Agency of Canada

The One Health Modelling Network for Emerging Infections‘ (OMNI-RÉUNIS) is delighted to announce its upcoming Distinguished Lecture Series talk! OMNI-RÉUNIS is part of the Center for Disease Modelling (CDM) at York, led by Professor Huaiping Zhu in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, faculty of Science. Register here today! Title: Modelling to Support Public Health […]

Anthropology Annual General Lecture: Juvenile Murder, Vengeance, and Grief

Juvenile Murder, Vengeance, and Grief with keynote speaker Dr. Laurence Ralph Dr. Ralph’s talk will examine the ramifications of juvenile incarceration. A central focus of his discussion will be juvenile murder, as he discusses two separate, yet interrelated, cases in which teenage boys of color were killed by their peers. He asks: How does a […]

Without Guarantees: A parallax view of everyday life and place-based urban political economy with Prof. Christian Anderson

Leveraging insights from feminist geography and diverse economies and cultural studies traditions, this talk will trace the contours of underrecognized but entrenched and consequential forms of labor, value, narrative, and social infrastructure—together amounting to an expanded sphere of social reproduction—in urban space. This is a conceptualization which initially emerged from an ethnography of everyday life […]

CIKL Research Seminar with Dr. Leora Gansworth | Heart-centered research and Anishinabe ontology

Date: Monday, March 13th Time: 7:00-8:30pm Location: Online and Accolade East Building Room 007 To attend online please register on Zoom In her dissertation project, Dr. Gansworth suggests that Anguilla rostrata, American eels, are important species to remember and understand within the lands and histories of Anishinabeg and other Indigenous nations. The research methods included […]

OISA Moose Hide Campaign Day

Come mark International Women’s Day by attending the Osgoode Indigenous Students’ Association’s Moose Hide Campaign Day, which is occurring in advance of the national Moose Hide Campaign Day on May 11. The Moose Hide Campaign is a nationwide movement of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians from local communities, First Nations, governments, schools, colleges/universities, police forces and […]

Smudging in Sharm El-Sheikh: Experiences of Indigenous Peoples at COP 27

Registration: https://yorku.zoom.us/ Join Drs. Angele Alook and Graeme Reed as they discuss their experiences attending the twenty seventh session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 27) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. COP 27, heralded as an implementation COP, saw the greatest number of Indigenous Peoples representatives […]

Navigating Mental Health Resources

Transitioning to university is challenging enough. The quality of your health and well-being impacts everything from managing your stress, make time for your loved ones, and still work towards your academic success. Join the Peer Health Educator Team to learn how to… De-stigmatize mental health and why that is important for you as a student […]

Department of English presents Dr. Derek Beaulieu

Wednesday, March 8 from 11:30- 12:30pm Dr. Derek Beaulieu is the author of twenty-six books of poetry, conceptual fiction, critical writing, as well as over 200 chapbooks and 6 edited volumes. He is also Director of Literary Arts at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Join us via Zoom for a reading and talk […]

Sustainable Developmental Goals (SDG) Student Hub Information Session

In celebration of SDG Week, sign up for the SDG Student Hub Information Session on March 6, open to any York U student who is interested in learning more about the SDG Student Hub and how to become a member. There will be a brief presentation and an opportunity for questions. REGISTER HERE: https://bit.ly/3y4DPz4