TORONTO, February 26, 2001 – York University cognitive psychologist Dr. Vinod Goel and Dr. Raymond J. Dolan of the Institute of Neurology in London, U.K. have discovered the neural correlations of the pleasurable effect associated with ‘getting’ a funny joke. Their findings are published today in the latest issue of Nature Neuroscience. Goel and Dolan […]
3rd Annual York University Jagan Lecture Prominent Caribbean economist, political thinker Lloyd Best to argue modern-day race, class divisions in the Caribbean are a throwback to colonial period
TORONTO, February 26, 2001 – The 3rd annual York University Jagan Lecture will feature prominent Caribbean economist and political thinker Lloyd Best, who will speak on the political and social implications of race, class and ethnic divisions in the Caribbean. Best’s lecture, "Race, Class and Ethnicity in a Caribbean Interpretation", will be delivered Saturday, March […]
York U. Seminar Series on Violence in Sport: American sports sociologist to assess male athletes’ sexual violence against women
TORONTO, February 23, 2001 – Noted expert on male athletes and masculinity issues, Professor Donald F. Sabo, a sports sociologist at D’Youville College in Buffalo, NY, will deliver a talk entitled Sports, Masculinity, and Men’s Sexual Violence Against Women, at York University, Tuesday, February 27. Sabo, whose address is part of the Michael Smith Seminars […]
York University honours Canada Research Chairs in Atomic Science, Chemistry, the Slave Trade, Global Intellectual Property Rights and Work
TORONTO, February 22, 2001 -- York University will honour its first chairholders in the federal government’s Canada Research Chairs Program at a reception Friday, February 23 at 2:30 p.m. Chairholders at York will advance research into a range of important scientific and social issues, from the study of air-quality and the chemistry of carbon monoxide […]
President's Task Force on Sustainability Speaker Series: Leading U.S. Expert Reports on "Fraying Web of Life" in World's Ecosystems
TORONTO, February 19, 2001 -- Better ways of managing and protecting the world's ecosystems will be highlighted in an address by Jonathan Lash, president of the Washington-based World Resources Institute (WRI), at York University on Thursday, February 22. Lash will speak about the current condition of the world's major ecosystems - forests, croplands, coastal zones, […]
York Centre for Refugee Studies: UN Convention refugees in Canada languish in stateless limbo
TORONTO, February 16, 2001 -- Thousands of refugees admitted by Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board are living in stateless limbo, having been refused permanent residence by the department of Citizenship and Immigration. Prof. Michael Creal at the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University says this is a violation of Canada's international treaty obligations and […]
Public Forum on Sexual Offences and Personal Privacy at Osgoode Hall Law School
TORONTO, February 15, 2001 -- The arrest in Toronto last November of 29-year-old pedophile Peter Whitmore, who was released from prison in October and discovered the next month in a hotel room with a young teenage boy, sparked fear and outrage in the debate over how to deal with repeat sexual offenders. Whitmore's release from […]
