This installment of the Winters Graduate Salon (the York University chapter of the WIDEN series) will focus on the theme, On Ugliness. The panel will be spearheaded by grad students Ela Prybylo (Gender, Feminist & Women’s Studies) and Sara Rodrigues (Social & Political Thought).  It will run on Thursday, January 31, 2013 at 5pm in […]

WIDEN Winters Graduate Salon –  “Political Conversations” Tuesday October 30, 2012 – 5:00 p.m. Winters Senior Common Room (021WC), York University Attendance is free and no advance registration is required. Refreshments will be provided.   Speakers: Ali Abbas, M.A. student, Sociology “Hearing The Voice From The Veil” I will be discussing how the granddaughter of […]

The Misunderstanding of Memes: Constructing the Idea of an Idea Virus Jeremy Burman, Psychology The notion that ideas are spread by social infection as “memes” (the cultural equivalents of genes) emerged through interactions between scholars, journalists, and the letter-writing public. This talk will present a summary of an article in press at “Perspectives on Science.” […]

3-4 pm, in the Winters Senior Common Room (rm. 021WC) Alberto Munarriz, Department of Music “Traditional music genres and current expressive needs” In this presentation I center on the processes through which musicians and producers are able to manipulate the boundaries of instrumental tango by incorporating non-traditional musical elements and new technologies in order to […]

May 17, 2011, 3-4 pm, Winters Senior Common Room (rm. 021WC) Brian de Lima, Department of Music “Trauma of the head and heart: Effects on a musician’s creative output” Marnina Norys, Department of Social and Political Thought “Caregiving, prescriptive technology and technological rationality”