The joint graduate program in Communication and Culture is an extraordinary partnership between Ryerson University and York University. Combining York's tradition of innovative, interdisciplinary graduate programs with Ryerson's record of applied education - the program is ground-breaking and progressive. Launching in 1999, the curriculum has become increasingly rich over its twenty-year history. The program supports […]

Congratulations to Zahra Nader on her Ioan Davies Award! This award is given annually to an outstanding student in the Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture who is registered at York, in financial need and has demonstrated an interest in the topics reflected in the work of Ioan Davies: aesthetics; critical cultural theory; culture in […]

Big congratulations to Dr. Giovanni Salas, who successfully defending his PhD dissertation - Reclaiming Craftsmanship!

PhD candidate Jason Wang was recently featured in the Winter 2019 edition of The York University Magazine. The article describes Jason's research (and what he is writing his PhD on) - on the concept of the flânerie, "the French noun meaning to cruise through a city as a browsing spectator of the theatre of modern […]

Professor, scholar and author, Elizabeth Wissinger, presented Glamour Labour in the Post-Digital Age for the Ioan Davies Memorial Lecture. During the lecture, Wissinger explained how "glamour labor" is a new beauty standard that is unattainable.

Congratulations to Mahssa Chavoshi for successfully defending her MRP project RYUReady: Building Online Communities within York and Ryerson’s ComCult Program!