Professor Pablo Idahosa, director of the African Studies Program at York, was a guest on TVO's The Agenda June 11 to discuss the World Cup's global impact and importance beyond the stadium's walls. The segment runs 28 minutes. Pablo Idahosa is a social science professor in York’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. Posted […]
The quadrennial World Cup that kicks off Friday may be the planet's biggest excuse for a party, and Canadians will be joining in with gusto, wrote The Canadian Press June 10 in a story picked up by the Guelph Mercury, TheSpec.com and the Times & Transcript (Moncton): With its ethnic diversity and soccer-crazy immigrants, cities […]
Priscila Uppal, professor of English in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, spoke to Matt Galloway on CBC's Metro Morning March 24 about her work as poet-in-residence during the 2010 Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Games. Uppal wrote poems about the competitions and read them to the athletes and their families, which are archived […]
Wearing red at the Olympics may give an athlete an easy advantage, according to a York University study that shows perceptions of motion are subconsciously affected by colour. “All things being equal between two figure skaters – including their actual speed on the ice – the judges will perceive a skater in red is moving […]