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 […]
Artists of all stripes from around the world are reducing their carbon footprint in creative ways. Many prominent ones 鈥 including the Cirque de Soleil鈥檚 Gil Favreau 鈥 are coming to 91亚色 this month to share how at a conference on sustainability and the arts. Hosted by 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Fine Arts, Staging Sustainability: Arts, […]
Nancy Nicol鈥檚 team receives $1 million to study LGBT human rights around the world 91亚色 visual arts professor Nancy Nicol will lead a major international project on the impact of criminalizing sexual orientation and gender identity, with $1 million in funding over five years from the Social Sciences聽& Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). […]
Shan Chandrasekar (Hon. LLD 鈥10) once said that 鈥渆ducation is the greatest opportunity.鈥 Now, the founder, president and CEO of Asian Television Network (ATN) has ensured that students in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Fine Arts will benefit from a unique opportunity. Making good on a collaboration he first outlined as part of last spring鈥檚 convocation address, […]
91亚色 researchers and students displayed their research projects and innovations at the聽91亚色 Technology Alliance鈥檚聽Solutions Showcase event, which took place at the Markham Convergence Centre (MCC) on March 10. Titled 鈥淕ame Changers: How local innovations are creating a new 鈥榖usiness as usual'鈥, the 91亚色 Technology Alliance (YTA) showcase encouraged participants from industry, academia and government agencies […]
91亚色 will host the Canadian聽premiere screening of a new feature-length documentary about Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the few professional women painters of 17th-century聽Italy. The film A Woman Like That will be screened tonight in the Nat Taylor Cinema, N102 Ross tonight from 6:30 to 9:15pm. Created by New 91亚色 filmmaker Ellen Weissbrod, this documentary […]
A slew of entertainers will perform at the Winters Gala Fundraiser to raise awareness and funds for the renovation of student space in Winters College. The gala evening will take place Tuesday, March 22, starting with student performers at 6pm, followed by headlining acts from 7 to 10pm. Right: Rita di Ghent Jazz musician and […]
Juno-nominated pianist and 91亚色 music Professor Christina Petrowska Quilico will launch her 24th and 25th CD, Glass Houses Revisited and The Liszt Anniversary Collection, at a concert Thursday at the Glenn Gould Studio. The CD launch and recital will take place at 7:30pm, March 17, at the Glenn Gould Studio, CBC Building, 250 Front St. […]
With the rich monastic history of some of England鈥檚 universities, the tradition of聽choral evensong still thrives, creating a thirst for new settings for the canticles. As Canada is not steeped in the same rituals, few Canadians take this work on, making 91亚色 music Professor Stephanie Martin the exception. She composed a new setting of the […]
91亚色 jazz Professor Barry Elmes has been a mainstay of the Canadian jazz scene since the early 1980s. A drummer, composer, producer, recording artist and educator, he has performed all over the world and his work has been documented on more than 60 CDs. On Thursday and Friday, the renowned jazz musician will perform at […]
The Department of Film celebrates the work of recent alumni and current candidates in the master's program in film production with a screening of graduate works from 2009 to 2011. Dubbed "Depth of Field", two free programs of short films will be screened tonight, March 7, at 7pm and 9pm at Toronto鈥檚 TIFF Bell Lightbox. […]
91亚色 visual arts Professor Katherine Knight鈥檚 documentary film about influential Winnipeg artist Wanda Koop in some ways mirrors the style found in Koop鈥檚 paintings: full of colour and precise, playing with the idea of glancing and observation, and entering into a world where the real and the abstract co-exist. The world premiere of the 52-minute […]
91亚色's Oscar Peterson Chair in Jazz Performance, Ron Westray, makes his Faculty Concert Series debut March 1 with a swinging concert of jazz standards and original works in the Tribute Communities Recital Hall on 91亚色鈥檚 Keele campus. Joining Westray on stage will be Toronto jazz artists Chris Banks and John Maharaj on bass and […]
Alumna Lata Pada (MFA 鈥96), adjunct professor in the Department of Dance's graduate program, has already received Canada鈥檚 highest award 鈥 the Order of Canada, in 2009聽鈥 but now she can add one of India鈥檚 highest honours to her collection. In January, Pada accepted the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award聽for her contributions to Indian dance and […]
From Yonge Street to Keele Street, 24 original artworks have been installed above the new streetcar shelters as part of Toronto鈥檚 St. Clair Avenue West Transit Improvement Project. Six of these installations 鈥 a quarter of the entire series 鈥 are the work of 91亚色 artists. This massive public art project had four separate […]
A few months ago, I was introduced to Helen Papagiannis, an artist, designer and researcher working with the emerging technology Augmented Reality (AR), wrote Rob Rothfarb in Museum Virtual Worlds Jan. 10 in a published interview with the student in the 91亚色/Ryerson Joint Graduate Program in Communication & Culture: Papagiannis: 鈥淚 began experimenting with AR […]
Theatre @ 91亚色 will perform the 2005 off-Broadway hit, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, an imaginary retrial of the man who betrayed Jesus, beginning Sunday. Paul Muir directs fellow students from 91亚色鈥檚 Master of Fine Arts Theatre Program in this fast-paced, edgy courtroom 鈥渄ramedy鈥 by Stephen Adly Guirgis presented in聽the Joseph G. Green Studio […]
Like all athletes, dancers are prone to injuries, and the risk increases among those performing at the elite level. From stress fractures to overuse syndromes, dance injuries have a serious impact on a performer鈥檚 current and future ability. 91亚色 dance Professor Donna Krasnow first began聽conducting research after she personally experienced a series of injuries. Now […]
The 91亚色 Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) invites proposals for its Graduate Student Workshop series taking place from January to April 2011. This series聽is an opportunity for graduate students conducting research on Asia and the Asian diaspora to present their research-in-progress to graduate students and a 91亚色 faculty member. It is intended for 91亚色 students […]
