The Centre for Support of Teaching聽Revisioning Work Group was聽created in September 2011, with the mandate to develop a proposal that would expand and enhance support for teaching and learning. Over the past four months the work group has reviewed key documents produced through the Green Paper on Teaching聽and Learning and white paper processes. The group […]
Research Month this February will celebrate the achievements and diversity of 91亚色鈥檚 research community. Every Wednesday throughout the month, Vari Hall Rotunda will play host to displays and demonstrations featuring the University鈥檚 faculty and graduate researchers. Drop by to learn what they are up to. "Research Month provides an opportunity for the 91亚色 community […]
Ananya Mukherjee-Reed, professor in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies focused on South Asia and issues of human development, was interviewed by The Globe and Mail June 10, in a story about the Day of Overseas Indians conference in Toronto: The conference is the first of many large events planned for 2011, declared […]
Called 鈥渞emarkable鈥 and 鈥渟ometimes hilarious鈥, 3 Jamaican Plays: A Postcolonial Anthology (1977-1987), edited by 91亚色 environmental studies Professor Honor Ford-Smith, will launch Monday. Readings of short excerpts of each of the three plays, considered an intertwining memory, violence, creativity, belonging and dispossession during a ten-year period in Jamaica, will take place June 6 at 7pm, […]
Scrawled underneath or to one side of the photographs in a new book by artist Daniel Ehrenworth and 91亚色 English Professor Priscila Uppal聽 鈥 Curse. Sleep. (That鈥檚 the Thing About Trouble) 鈥 are bits of an ongoing conversation. Things like: 鈥淧rotect your heels,鈥 printed in capitals under a photo of a backyard with a swing […]
Invisimomibility? Mamazon? If these terms aren鈥檛 familiar to you, the concepts should be, according to a new book edited by a 91亚色 professor. The 21st Century Motherhood Movement: Mothers Speak Out on Why We Need to Change the World and How to Do It, released this week, is touted as the first anthology of […]
How is "hip" constructed? Is a culture of dissent ultimately a by-product of prevailing sociopolitical forces?聽Do countercultural events influence mainstream society? Those questions and more聽are at聽the core of聽Making the Scene: 91亚色ville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s, a new book by 91亚色 postdoctoral fellow Stuart Henderson published this聽month by the University of Toronto Press. The […]
If you follow the advice below, chances are, your son will turn into the kind of man you want him to be, wrote WomensDay.com May 11, in a story about parenting advice for mothers: Encourage him to read novels. Ongoing studies at 91亚色 [by psychology Professor Raymond Mar and colleagues in the Faculty of […]
Glendon鈥檚 Fran莽oise Mougeon will be stepping down this July after completing her three-year term as the associate principal academic & research. 鈥淔ran莽oise Mougeon has made a signal contribution to Glendon through her two tenures as associate principal academic & research,鈥 said Glendon Principal Kenneth McRoberts. 鈥淥ver these several years, Fran莽oise could always be counted on […]
For two 91亚色 professors, receiving an award for Lifetime Achievement in African Studies from the Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS) represents a major acknowledgement of decades of work in African liberation, research and teaching. 91亚色 Professor Emeritus John S. Saul and 91亚色 Distinguished Research Professor in African history and Canada Research Chair Paul Lovejoy […]
An聽upcoming Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS) conference at 91亚色 鈥 Africa Here; Africa There 鈥 will look not only at Africa of the past, but discuss recent and ongoing issues, especially those in North Africa, says conference co-organizer 聽and 91亚色 history Professor Jos茅 Curto. The conference will take place Thursday, May 5, from 8am […]
Linguistics and language studies Professor Raymond Mougeon, director of Glendon鈥檚 Centre for Research on Language Contact (CRLC), is a co-investigator on a seven-year, $2.5-million project to examine 400 years of family histories to see how language has shaped communities and cultures. Funded聽through the聽Major Collaborative Research Initiatives program of聽the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of […]
From the 鈥榖urbs to birds and from social justice to Olympic poetry, the next installment of the 91亚色 Circle鈥檚聽popular Lecture & Lunch series returns on Saturday, April 30. It promises plenty of new ideas for inquiring minds. As with previous 91亚色 Circle Lecture & Lunch events, organizers have planned a full day of inspiring lectures […]
University Professor Emeritus John Tupper (Jack) Saywell, noted Canadian historian and a member of the Founders Society of 91亚色, has died. Prof. Saywell, or "Jack" as most knew him, died on April 20 in Toronto. He was 82. Known as the "kid from Cowichan Lake, British Columbia", Prof. Saywell arrived at the University of […]
David Dewitt, associate vice-president research (social sciences & humanities) and a professor of political science in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, will be taking a leave of absence from 91亚色 to become the vice-president of programs at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). His new position commences July 1. Left: […]
An upcoming forum, 鈥淲ikiLeaks and the Politics of Exposure: Militaries, States and the Public Realm鈥, will look at the phenomena of WikiLeaks, including questions related to security, international relations, and public versus private space. The event will take place April 27, from 7 to 9pm, in the Rosedale Room of the Marriot Bloor-91亚色ville Hotel, 90 […]
About five years ago, Haideh Moghissi heard of plans to translate into Indonesian her 1999 book, Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Limits of Postmodern Analysis. She didn鈥檛 hear anything more until two months ago when, lo and behold, she learned it had not only been translated, it had been published. Slowly, over the past 12 […]
The Centre for Feminist Research, home to Professor Nancy Nicol's Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights project, is seeking a project coordinator. More details, including salary details and how to apply, are available in the Research Jobs section. Please note that only resumes submitted through the described process will be considered. The posting closes April 13, […]
Toronto helped lead the world in its embrace of diversity when the first same-sex couple to be legally married in North America was wed here in 2003. That local tradition of re-examining legal attitudes to gender issues will carry on as 91亚色 Professor Nancy Nicol [Faculty of Fine Arts] has received $1 million in […]
Glendon Principal Kenneth McRoberts and Teodor Baconschi, the Romanian minister of foreign affairs, toasted the official launch of the first Romanian lectureship in Canada on March 25 at Glendon. 鈥淭his is an historic moment for Glendon,鈥 said McRoberts. "We聽are deeply honoured to welcome such a large delegation of important dignitaries from Romania.鈥 Right: Teodor Baconschi […]