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Treaty Relations and Decolonization: Indigenous Community and Academic Perspectives
By Dave Hazzan, writer and academic, completing his PhD in History at York University Jeffrey Denis wonders why treaty-making is not studied in sociology. “Until recently, sociologists have paid very little attention to treaties,” Denis, Associate...
Beautifully Seen: how the arts can deepen relationships in re-imagining a different world
by Kimberly Duong, Criminology Honours Major, 4th year at York University Music is the “vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expressions of emotion.” Music’s visual qualities, the...
Five tips on turning your dissertation into a book
By Eric J. Van Giessen, PhD Student in Sociology at York University Many graduate students dream of extending their research reach to a broader audience by turning their dissertations into a book. As part of Congress 2023’s Career Corner series...
Black scholars in Canada’s research enterprise
By Dave Hazzan, writer and academic, completing his PhD in History at York University Discussion on the Final Report and Recommendations (2023) of SSHRC’s Advisory Committee to Address Anti-Black Racism in Research and Research Training, and SSHRC’s...
Say the Name: An Inquiry into Nominal Space
Kimberly Duong, Criminology Honours Major, 4th year at York University What is a monument, a name, but a standing memory? An artifact, an identity marker to make tangible the truth of the past? Are certain statues nothing but a reminder of our...
Reckonings and re-imaginings: rethinking medieval gendered violence after #MeToo
by Erika Dilling, Global Health and the Environment Honours Major, 3rd year at York University Stuck to the side of the toilet paper dispenser in the women’s washroom, a peeling sticker reads “Did you know intoxicated people cannot consent to sex?”...
Opening the world’s eyes on Ukrainian culture
by Dave Hazzan, writer and academic, completing his PhD in History at York University What is an artist’s role in a time of war? Does the artist even have a role, or does their work get lost in a time of mass devastation? Gregory Hlady, a Ukrainian...
Re-imagining campus communities
Our ideas about community have been dramatically altered during the last three years. At universities in particular, deep questions emerged about the scope, shape, and role of the campus community: can a university fulfill its academic mission wholly...
From Big to Bold Thinking in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Scholarship in the humanities and social sciences has, both historically and in the present, done harm to Indigenous and Black communities. In the humanities, this harm originates in Western humanism’s construction of what Sylvia Wynter identifies as...