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Friday, September 16, 2022

Testimonios of community: empowering Latinx and Portuguese youth in a Toronto-based academic program

Dr. Alexandra Arraiz Matute, faculty member in the Childhood and Youth Studies program, has recently published a new article titled, 鈥淭estimonios of community: empowering Latinx and Portuguese youth in a Toronto-based academic program,鈥� Race, Ethnicity and Education (2022): 1-16.... More

Friday, September 16, 2022

Did you know? Dr. Leila Angod, Childhood and Youth Studies Program……

Did you know? Dr. Leila Angod (Childhood and Youth Studies Program) is the Co-Chair of 杏吧原创鈥檚 Racialized and Indigenous Faculty Alliance (RIFA). In 2021鈥�2022 she was awarded the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences鈥� Early Career Research Award and the RIFA Research Award for her youth participatory action research project on Afro-Asian... More

Friday, September 16, 2022

Learning to Enact Canadian Exceptionalism: The Failure of Voluntourism as Social Justice Education

Dr. Leila Angod, faculty member in the Childhood and Youth Studies program, has recently published a new article titled, 鈥淟earning to Enact Canadian Exceptionalism: The Failure of Voluntourism as Social Justice Education,鈥� Equity & Excellent in Education (2022).... More

Friday, September 16, 2022

Covid-19 pandemic: lessons from the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Southern Africa

Human Rights & Social Justice faculty, Drs. Paul Mkandawire and Shazia Sadaf co-published an article titled, 鈥淐ovid-19 pandemic: lessons from the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Southern Africa,鈥� African Geographical Review (2022):... More

Friday, September 16, 2022

Qualitative Visual Methods in Research with Girls and Women with Disabilities in the Global South

Childhood and Youth Studies faculty member, Dr. Xuan Thuy Nguyen has published a chapter titled, 鈥淨ualitative Visual Methods in Research with Girls and Women with Disabilities in the Global South,鈥� in the recently published anthology, Handbook of Disability: Critical Thought and Social Change in a Globalizing World.... More

Friday, May 20, 2022

J. Carlisle Hanson Essay Contest Winners 2022

The Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies extends its sincere congratulations to the two winners of the J. Carlisle Hanson Essay Contest for 2022. The adjudication committee selected Fiona Doyle for her essay titled "Threading the Contribution of Indigenous Women to Socioenvironmental Praxis and Resistance鈥� and Sidney Kamerbeek for her essay... More

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

2021-2022 Outstanding TA Awards

Teaching and Learning Services is delighted to announce that the following FASS Teaching Assistants have been awarded an Outstanding TA Award and/or an Honourable Mention for the 2021-2022 academic year: WINNERS Esme Song CHST 3205 Nick Hayes SOCI 1001 Tori Semple PSYC 3400 HONOURABLE MENTIONS Dessa Bayrock ENGL 1500 Nora Abushaban SOCI 1001 James... More

Monday, April 11, 2022

Sex, taxes & COVID-19: How sex workers navigated pandemic relief efforts

After completing research funded through a SSHRC partnership grant, Dr. Ryan Conrad and his University of Ottawa colleague Dr. Emma McKenna shared some of their initial findings on The Conversation through an article on entitled 鈥淪ex, taxes & COVID-19: How sex workers navigated pandemic relief efforts.鈥� This research was conducted in... More

Thursday, April 7, 2022

The Secret Life of Canada

On March 31st, 2022, CBC Radio featured Professor Patrizia Gentile's research originally published in her co-authored book with Gary Kinsman聽 "The Secret Life of Canada. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/secretlifeofcanada/the-history-behind-canada-s-homosexuality-test-1.6396436.... More

Thursday, April 7, 2022

Tears and Tiaras: Affect, Beauty Contests, and Protests

Human Rights and Social Justice Professor Patrizia Gentile was recently published in the Anthology Feeling Feminism:聽 Activism, Affect, and Canada's Second Wave (UBC press, 2022) Her chapter titled "Tears and Tiaras:聽 Affect, Beauty Contests, and... More

Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Graduate School Student Panel Recording

Are you interested in聽graduate school? Julia Palm-Sinclair hosted a Graduate School Student panel event. The Panel had four students who have either completed or are currently enrolled in graduate programs in Ontario. Panelists discussed the application process, what to expect from grad programs and some things they wished they had known before... More

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