Research News

January 10, 2022

Lunchtime with the Sensorium: Winter Seminar Series

The Lunchtime Seminar Series fosters interconnectivity between faculty, graduate students, visiting scholars and artists within AMPD. Join online every Wednesday from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM for various scholarly presentations by both York and visiting researchers.


July 29, 2021

Dance Professor Patrick Alcedo’s documentary wins at Cannes Indies Cinema Awards

A film by York University Associate Professor Patrick Alcedo earned the Best Short Documentary award at the Cannes Indies Cinema Awards on July 10. The film, titled They Call Me Dax, tells the story of 15-year-old Dorothy Echipare who struggles to survive as a high-school student and ballet dancer while living alone in a poor urban district in Quezon City, Philippines.


A child plays the keyboard
April 27, 2021

Helen Carswell Call for Proposals – 2021

The Helen Carswell Chair in Community Engaged Research in the Arts welcomes the submission of research proposals that can inform the practice, programming, or curricula of a community music school.


Stephanie Martin
March 11, 2020

Professor Stephanie Martin to receive the AMPD Research Award

An important story of Canadian history and tragedy that was retold through an opera written by Stephanie Martin, associate professor of music at York University’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design (AMPD), will be the subject of a special lecture on March 11 at York University.


Recipients of the Teaching Awards stand with the Dean
September 24, 2019

2019 AMPD Teaching Awards

The School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design celebrated the start of the academic year with a fall faculty reception and teaching awards presentation Wednesday, September 18.