TORONTO, May 19, 2010 -- Acclaimed author Wayson Choy will deliver this year’s Asian Heritage Month Lecture at York next Tuesday. In his lecture, “Asian Identity: Becoming Canadian,” Choy will speak about life as an in-between citizen, living as a hyphenated Chinese-Canadian for most of his life. Choy – born in Canada in 1939 – will […]
Film Theorist Mary Ann Doane addresses “Where is the Medium?” in York University’s Joan and Martin Goldfarb Summer Institute
TORONTO, May 17, 2010 -- Eminent American cinema and media scholar Mary Ann Doane gives four free public lectures in the Norman Jewison Series as the concluding segment of Where is the Medium?, the 2010 Joan and Martin Goldfarb Summer Institute in Visual Arts and Film at York University. The George Hazard Croker Professor of […]
Economic fallout and social activism top agenda at Marxism conference: York U
TORONTO, May 12, 2010 -- The effects of the global economic crisis on poor and working class people around the world will be the focus of the Historical Materialism 2010 conference at York University this week. The annual conference, associated with the leading English-language journal of critical Marxist research, will draw hundreds of scholars […]
Power Tool Drag Racing Revs Up Youth about Skilled Trades through Art
TORONTO, May 11 2010 -- In the spirit of hit TV shows Holmes on Homes, Pimp My Ride and Monster Garage, Power Tool Drag Racing is the most extreme after-school program to cruise into the University Heights community in the Jane and Finch neighbourhood. York University’s Department of Visual Arts and the Art Gallery of York […]
Press conference on Central American local community viewpoints at the Goldcorp Inc.’s annual shareholder meeting in Toronto
TORONTO, May 11, 2010 -- The Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security of York University, in partnership with Rights Action, is convening a press conference on Tuesday, May 18, 10am, at the downtown campus of Osgoode Hall Law School (1 Dundas West at Dundas and Yonge, 26th floor, Osgoode Professional Development Centre). The press […]
Forum on Senate reform seeks to ignite national debate
To view the archived webcast of this event, click here. TORONTO, May 11, 2010 -- The Centre for Public Policy & Law at York University and the Canada West Foundation will hold a joint forum on Senate reform on Wednesday, May 12. The forum is a response to the federal government’s initiative to reform the […]
Education and Communities the focus of York U conference
TORONTO, May 6, 2010 -- Aboriginal educators and activists Mary Lou and Dan Smoke will deliver the keynote address at a conference about Education and Communities, being held at York University this week. The couple, hosts of the newsmagazine program “Smoke Signals” on CHRW 94.9 FM Radio in London, Ont., will perform an Indigenous ceremony […]
