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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...
Decolonizing research on educational leadership through land-based writing retreats: an Indigenous/non-Indigenous partnership
By Dave Hazzan, writer and academic, completing his PhD in History at York University Several years ago, Pamela Osmond-Johnson got SSHRC funding to explore non-Indigenous school leaders in the prairies, and how they were supporting TRC calls to...
Enacting anti-racism and activist pedagogies in teacher education
By Dave Hazzan, writer and academic, completing his PhD in History at York University There is no such thing as neutrality; it simply means siding with the oppressor. Those words from Elie Wiesel helped guide the editors and authors of the...
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?”...
What is the future of Canada’s research support system?
by Eric J. Van Giessen, PhD student in Sociology at York University What kind of research receives federal funding? How is innovative research defined, recognized, and supported? How does interdisciplinary work fit within the silos of the Tri-Agency...
(Re)imagining research for public good: understanding knowledge mobilization in academia and beyond
by Kimberly Duong, Criminology Honours Major, 4th year at York University The ability to acquire knowledge, to preserve, and to pass it on to the next individual, is powerful. Knowledge does not always come with power – it is a state of understanding...
Building digital communities in the humanities and social sciences
by Erika Dilling, Global Health and the Environment Honours Major, 3rd year at York University “But what I’m stuck on is the behaviour piece. How do we get people to want to learn?” In the inquisitive spirit conversations on university campuses often...
On the antinomy of the postcolonial and the decolonial: an epistemological and transdisciplinary perspective
by Dave Hazzan, writer and academic, completing his PhD in History at York University If decolonization is the practice of shedding the oppressor’s cloak, then what is postcolonialism? Is it a surrender to colonialism or a place of resistance? And if...
Recovering the forgotten forms & communities of queer comics
by Eric J. Van Giessen, PhD Student in Sociology at York University History is often seen as a stagnant and impartial record of the most important or notable moments of our collective past. Yet, what we regard as 'history' has been constructed by...