TORONTO, September 19, 2002 -- Following the recent World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, York University researchers are calling for new development partnership strategies spanning the fields of environmental studies, business and law, as a model for creating sustainable livelihoods at the local level in developing countries. In a conference on Friday, September 27 […]
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Civil Disobedience, Civil Resistance And Civil Liberties: Law’s Role And Limits International Legal Experts Gather At Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, October 3-5
TORONTO, September 17, 2002 -- How far should political protest be allowed to go before it becomes an illegal act punishable by criminal law? That’s one of the questions a group of prominent scholars and lawyers from Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. will confront at a conference at Osgoode Hall Law School of York […]
Janice Gross Stein to Present Memorial Lecture at Osgoode Hall Law School
TORONTO, September 17, 2002 -- Janice Gross Stein, one of Canada’s most notable international relations experts, will present the Eleventh Barbara Betcherman Memorial Lecture at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University on Tuesday, October 1, 2002 at 7:30 p.m. in Osgoode’s Moot Court. The public is cordially invited to attend this free lecture at […]
Elementary and secondary students depict hope for tomorrow with art installation at York U.
TORONTO, September 16, 2002 -- A group of students from the Westview Partnership of schools in the Jane/Finch community, will unveil an art installation in the atrium of the Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts at York University on Tuesday, Sept. 17 at 7 p.m. The installation, which is the result of the Summer Arts 2002 […]
Richard B. Wright, Alistair MacLeod among literary luminaries at York U. Canlit series
TORONTO, September 16, 2002 -- For those wanting to get a bit more up close and personal with their favourite home-grown authors, York University is presenting its fourth annual "Canadian Writers in Person" reading series, September 2002 - April 2003. Twelve of Canada's leading novelists and poets, including: Greg Hollingshead, Rosemary Sullivan, George Elliott Clarke, […]
York hosts author of Caucasus Chronicles on Armenia, Greek Ambassador to Canada Leonidas T. Chrysanthopoulos
TORONTO, September 12, 2002 -- Greek Ambassador to Canada Leonidas T. Chrysanthopoulos will be at York University on Thursday, September 26, to launch his book, Caucasus Chronicles: Nation-Building and Diplomacy in Armenia, 1993-1994 (Princeton and London: Gomidas Institute Books, 2002). Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan has called the book "a compelling, first-hand account of a crucial […]
Russia after 9/11 – York hosts State Duma Deputy Speaker Vladimir Lukin
TORONTO, September 10, 2002 -- York University’s Centre for International and Security Studies (YCISS) will host the Deputy Speaker of the State Duma, Russia’s lower house of Parliament, Vladimir Lukin, on Wednesday, September 11, to discuss issues in Russia, both domestic and foreign, since the attack one year ago on the World Trade Centre in […]
