TORONTO, January 22, 2003 -- Please note that a presentation scheduled for today at York University by U.S. foreign policy analyst Walter Russell Mead has been cancelled due to illness. -30- For further information, please contact: Susan Bigelow Media Relations York University 416-736-2100, ext. 22091 sbigelow@yorku.ca YU/005/03
York U. launches global resource centre on citizenship studies
TORONTO, January 15, 2003 -- With Canadian scholars in the forefront of international research on the changing nature of citizenship world wide, York University today established the Citizenship Studies Media Lab (CSML) as a Canadian headquarters and global clearing house for research. It is directed by Engin Isin, York professor of social science and holder […]
Hot Lunch… York U. Brownbag Research Seminars serve up food for thought in science and technology, and cultural studies
TORONTO, January 13, 2003 --York University resumes its ninth annual Brownbag Research Seminar series, January through to April 2003. The seminars provide a public, interdisciplinary forum for scholars in many fields, including science and technology, culture and the humanities, to share the latest results of their research. Dr. Nancy Olivieri (Medicine, UofT) launched the winter […]
Alistair MacLeod headlines York U. winter Canlit series
TORONTO, January 10, 2003 -- For those wanting to escape the winter blahs and get a bit more up close and personal with their favourite home-grown authors, York University is continuing its fourth annual "Canadian Writers in Person" reading series, January - April 2003. In addition to MacLeod, the series will feature five of Canada's […]
York U. showcases work of Asian-Canadian women scholars
TORONTO, January 9, 2003 -- York University’s Centre for Feminist Research (CFR) and the York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) launch the new year with a speaker series showcasing the work of Asian-Canadian women scholars, starting Jan. 15. The series begins with Memories of Internment: Reflections on Hearing and Presenting Japanese Canadian Nisei Women’s Life […]
New book on Black Canadians calls for equity enforcement in the workplace
TORONTO, December 19, 2002 -- Despite Canadian progress toward multiculturalism and racial equality, a "colour line" in the job market continues to relegate most Blacks to low-paying, dead-end jobs, excluding them from some segments of the job market altogether, according to a new book on Blacks in Canada. It calls for greater enforcement of federal […]
York researcher’s review of centrefolds highlighted in British Medical Journal
TORONTO, December 19, 2002 -- A new study examining trends in Playboy centrefolds concludes the shapely bodies traditionally associated with centrefolds are giving way to a more androgynous body type. Highlights of the study, conducted by lead researcher Martin Voracek, a research resident at the University of Vienna Medical School, and Maryanne Fisher, a doctoral […]
