The聽Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS)聽is celebrating the fourth annual聽Dean鈥檚 Award for Research Excellence (DARE)聽by recognizing 54 students for their research achievements. This year鈥檚 DARE recipients produced meaningful work across all disciplines offered in LA&PS. Over the summer, each student played an integral role in coordinating projects that added valuable scholarly inquiry to […]
A book co-authored by 91亚色 Professor Emeritus聽Jaime Llamb铆as-Wolff聽was recognized with a Talent Award by publisher Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial during the third edition of the Caligrama Awards. Llamb铆as-Wolff teaches in the Division of Social Science in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. The book, titled 隆SAB脥A QUE NO SAB脥A! and written in Spanish, […]
Making the Shift聽(MtS), a youth homelessness social innovation lab co-led by the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness at 91亚色, will present the fourth webinar of the 鈥淚n Conversation With...鈥 series on聽May 28聽from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Titled "Child Welfare and Youth Homelessness Prevention in Canada," the webinar will examine pandemic responses to homelessness across […]
David Cecchetto, associate professor of Critical Digital Theory in 91亚色鈥檚 Department of Humanities, is co-editor of a new book series that will showcase interdisciplinary works in the arts, literature and science. Proximities: Experiments in Nearness聽(University of Minnesota Press)聽is co-edited with聽Arielle Saiber, who is a professor of Romance Languages & Literatures at Bowdoin College in […]
Philosophy Professor Regina Rini pens a provocative article in the UK-based Times Literary Supplement, which suggests that our near-descendants could live forever, thanks to biomedical breakthroughs. This would mean a moral crisis for the last generation facing death, she argues. Professor Regina Rini, Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Moral and Social Cognition and core […]
The School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) at 91亚色 will honour one of its own during the inaugural AMPD Research Celebration on Feb. 14. Brenda Longfellow Cinema & Media Arts Professor Brenda Longfellow will be presented with the AMPD Research Award in recognition of her outstanding work. An accomplished documentary filmmaker, […]
When Eric Armstrong got the call from his agent about made-up science fiction languages, he was up for the challenge. In this Q&A, he talks about this exciting chapter in his career.
On聽Sept. 19, 91亚色鈥檚 Canadian Writers in Person course debuted with Mona Awad reading from her book, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl.聽91亚色 teaching assistant Dana Patrascu-Kingsley聽sent the following report to聽YFile. Mona Awad Author Mona Awad opened this year鈥檚 Canadian Writers in Person series with a riveting presentation about writing out emotional experiences. An […]
English Prof, author and poet B.W. Powe publishes compelling new book of poetry, Decoding Dust, in 2016 鈥 the launching point for a must-read Brainstorm Q&A.
91亚色 U Humanities Professor joins forces with British counterparts to write a comprehensive and unconventional book on how documentary film has been affected by the digital era.
Researchers at 91亚色 have been awarded more than $5.5 million from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).聽The grants, part of more than $107 million in funding and awards recently announced in the Insight Development Grants and Insight Grants Competition, will support 91亚色 research that improves the quality of life of […]
A systems approach is needed to respond to youth homelessness in 91亚色 Region and Canada. This was the message at yesterday鈥檚 research forum: Re-Imagining Our Response to Youth Homelessness: A Canadian and Global Perspective, organized by United Way 91亚色 Region (UWYR) and 91亚色 at the Markham Convergence Centre. 鈥淎 multi-sectoral approach is necessary. Non-profit […]
Associate Librarian of Humanities and Religion,聽Scott McLaren, has been awarded a prestigious Botein Fellowship by the American Antiquarian Society (AAS). McLaren will spend the month of November at the AAS in Worcester Massachusetts extending research he began in his dissertation on early Upper Canadian religious print culture. Specifically, McLaren wants to deepen his understanding of […]
Nielson Bezerra, who received his PhD at Universidade Federal de Fluminense in Brazil in 2010 and now teaches at Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, has been awarded a prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his research program at 91亚色鈥檚 Harriet Tubman Institute. The awards were announced by Gary Goodyear, minister of state […]
91亚色 historian Michiel Horn says his latest book project may well be the most important one he has ever worked on 鈥 and it's not even one he wrote. At the Edge of the Abyss: A Concentration Camp Diary, 1943-1944 is the largest of only 17 such works to survive the Holocaust and is considered […]
Who really wrote the plays and poems that were performed and published under the name 鈥淲illiam Shake-Speare?鈥 This is the question that won鈥檛 go away, even after 400 years. Could it have been a pen name, and if so, why? It begs the question, who was the real William Shake-Speare? Shakespeare: The Authorship Question, a […]
Scholars from Canada, Spain and Mexico will discuss the birth of liberalism amid the tumultuous struggles for independence in Spain during the 1800s, next聽week at Glendon. C谩diz, 1812: The Birth of Modern Liberalism will take place Wednesday,聽March 21, starting at 4pm聽in the聽Glendon Hall BMO Conference Centre, Glendon College. The event is free and everyone is […]
91亚色's Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies will celebrate research with a week-long program of midday events starting Monday and continuing through Thursday. Organized by the Faculty's Committee on Research Policy & Planning, the celebration comprises four themed presentations from noon to 1:30pm daily. Scheduled venues include the Senate Chamber, Scott Library Atrium and […]
Where have all the girls gone? That鈥檚 what 91亚色 Professor Sharada Srinivasan examines in her new book, Daughter Deficit: Sex Selection in Tamil Nadu, about the elimination of daughters in India聽through sex selection, female infanticide and neglect. It is neither an aberration nor an idiosyncrasy. It accounts for a large proportion of missing girls in […]
All bilingual children 鈥 regardless of the languages they speak 鈥 show cognitive advantages over their English-only peers, although they may experience weakness in areas like vocabulary acquisition,聽says a new study by 91亚色 researchers. The study, published today in the journal Child Development, examined the effects of specific language pairings on children鈥檚 verbal and […]