What does it mean to be indigenous? What do the history books of today leave out? Writer, photographer and filmmaker Tracy Kim Assing explores these questions and more in her first documentary film, The Amerindians. The 40-minute film will screen Wednesday, Oct. 19, from 12:30 to 2pm, in the Nat Taylor Cinema, N102 Ross Building, […]
91亚色 sociology and geography Professor Jennifer Hyndman knows a little about disasters. She also knows a benign water project run by humanitarian aid agencies can fuel a war if careful attention is not paid to the political and cultural landscape. Hyndman was in Sri Lanka within months of the 2004 tsunami. She saw first-hand not […]
A memorial for 91亚色 Professor David Franklin Noble, who died in Toronto on Dec. 27聽following complications of pneumonia, will be held on Saturday.聽Prof. Noble was 65. The memorial will take place March 26, at 4pm, at the Cecil Street Community Centre, 58 Cecil St., in Toronto. The 91亚色 flag聽will be lowered to half-mast聽Friday聽afternoon […]
Edited recording of Fallis鈥 presentation available on LA&PS Youtube聽 channel Can universities cure political indifference? Yes they can, according to 91亚色 Professor George Fallis. 鈥淯niversities must address the democratic deficit,鈥 said Fallis, this year鈥檚 Giambattista Vico Lecturer. They can play a critical role in confronting the democratic deficit pervading politics at every level聽鈥 declining voter […]
Giambattista Vico Lecture to be held February 15, 2011 Universities can play a critical role in confronting the democratic deficit pervading politics at every level, 91亚色鈥檚 George Fallis will聽argue in this year鈥檚 Giambattista Vico Lecture Feb. 15. What is to be done, Fallis will ask, about declining voter turnout, strident and polarizing debate, public decision-making […]
91亚色 Professor David Franklin Noble has died following complications of pneumonia. Prof. Noble died on Monday, Dec. 27 in Toronto. He was 65. A聽critical historian of technology, science and education, Prof. Noble was perhaps best聽known for his book Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation. Most recently, he published Beyond the Promised […]
Professor Gina Feldberg, a faculty member in聽the Health聽& Society Program in the Department of Social Science in 91亚色's Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies,聽died on Saturday, July 10, after a long illness. She was 54 years old. Prof. Feldberg made a significant mark at 91亚色. She spent a decade at Harvard, first as […]
91亚色 Professor Emeritus Rudolph (Rudy) Grant,聽a specialist in African political economy, died on Monday, June 14, at Toronto's Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. He was 79. One of several Guyanese faculty at 91亚色, Prof. Grant played an important role in fostering links between Guyana and the University. In 1996, Prof. Grant was one of several […]
As Canadians continue to live longer, they can expect to spend more years with their life partners, whatever old age brings, wrote The Globe and Mail May 7: In fact, the research suggests that, while there鈥檚 no guarantee that sticking it out will lead to happiness, good marriages often get better later in life. 鈥淭hey […]
This week, the Globe & Mail's 2010 Campus Research report has focused on several of 91亚色's researchers and research-related programs. On March 9, the Globe published an article on the impact social sciences and humanities research has on economic growth. The story was part of its special report on university research and also appeared in […]
Researchers at 91亚色聽and the University of Victoria in British Columbia have taken the latest research in mental health and worked with teachers, as well as mental-health-system users and service providers, to create an online curriculum easily used by teachers and grasped by high-school students. Caring Minds: Youth, Mental Health & Community helps young people […]