Through a new province-wide campaign, Ontario university researchers are reaching out to explain the value and benefits of university research. The Council of Ontario Universities (COU) launched Research Matters聽to showcase new stories and ideas emerging from聽the research underway at Ontario's universities. The campaign, which features a website and blog, speaks聽to daily issues and reflects the […]
The Centre for Research on Latin America & the Caribbean (CERLAC) at 91亚色 launched a research partnership this summer that uses the arts to explore violence among youth in Canada and Jamaica. The project, Youth and Community Development in Canada and Jamaica: A Transnational Approach to Youth Violence, popularly known as 鈥淧roject Groundings鈥, opened […]
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, […]
Why does homosexuality incite vitriolic rhetoric, hate and violence around the world, and does homophobia operate differently across social, political and economic terrains? Those are just some of the questions examined in the book Homophobias: Lust and Loathing across Time and Space, edited by聽91亚色 anthropology Professor David Murray. Published by Duke University Press, Homophobias looks […]