{"id":433,"date":"2021-08-16T19:36:59","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T23:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/gradstudies-socanth\/?page_id=433"},"modified":"2026-03-20T13:28:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T17:28:51","slug":"news-and-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/gradstudies\/cmct\/news-and-events\/","title":{"rendered":"News and Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Featured News<\/h2>\n\n\n<style>.kt-blocks-testimonials-wrap433_f91b49-86 .kt-svg-testimonial-global-icon{font-size:30px;}.kt-blocks-testimonials-wrap433_f91b49-86 .kt-testimonial-rating-wrap .kb-svg-icon-wrap{color:#ffd700;font-size:16px;}.kt-blocks-testimonials-wrap433_f91b49-86 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The roar of a hometown crowd becomes a story about memory, identity, and the enduring power of shared experience.\u00a0 <br><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"kt-testimonial-meta-wrap\"><div class=\"kt-testimonial-meta-name-wrap\"><div class=\"kt-testimonial-name-wrap\"><div class=\"kt-testimonial-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/gradstudies\/cmct\/2025\/10\/06\/cfp-future-comms-2025\/\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/gradstudies\/2026\/03\/19\/hometown-concerts-cultural-power\/\">Read the Full Article <i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"kt-testimonial-occupation-wrap\"><div class=\"kt-testimonial-occupation\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"kt-blocks-testimonial-carousel-item kb-slide-item\"><div class=\"kt-testimonial-item-wrap kt-testimonial-item-433_852513-eb wp-block-kadence-testimonial\"><div class=\"kt-testimonial-text-wrap\"><div class=\"kt-testimonial-media-wrap\"><div class=\"kt-testimonial-media-inner-wrap\"><div class=\"kadence-testimonial-image-intrisic\"><div class=\"kt-testimonial-image\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/gradstudies\/cmct\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/327\/2023\/12\/natasha-tusikov.jpg);background-size: cover;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"kt-testimonial-title-wrap\"><h2 class=\"kt-testimonial-title\">Professor Natasha Tusikov\u2019s book explores \u2018datafied\u2019 world<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"kt-testimonial-content-wrap\"><div class=\"kt-testimonial-content\">Professor Natasha Tusikov has co-written a book about the new \u201cdatafied\u201d world, and how control over knowledge has become its own ideology. <em>The New Knowledge: Information, Data and the Remaking of Global Power<\/em> (Rowman &amp; Littlefield, 2023) is a guide to and analysis of today\u2019s knowledge-driven society.<br><br><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"kt-testimonial-meta-wrap\"><div class=\"kt-testimonial-meta-name-wrap\"><div class=\"kt-testimonial-name-wrap\"><div class=\"kt-testimonial-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yfile.news.yorku.ca\/2023\/09\/06\/laps-professors-book-explores-datafied-world\/\">Read the Full Article <i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"kt-testimonial-occupation-wrap\"><div class=\"kt-testimonial-occupation\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"kt-blocks-testimonial-carousel-item kb-slide-item\"><div class=\"kt-testimonial-item-wrap kt-testimonial-item-433_e078af-9e wp-block-kadence-testimonial\"><div class=\"kt-testimonial-text-wrap\"><div class=\"kt-testimonial-media-wrap\"><div class=\"kt-testimonial-media-inner-wrap\"><div class=\"kadence-testimonial-image-intrisic\"><div class=\"kt-testimonial-image\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/gradstudies\/cmct\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/327\/2023\/12\/brenda-longfellow.jpg);background-size: cover;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"kt-testimonial-title-wrap\"><h2 class=\"kt-testimonial-title\">Immersive audio experience takes listeners into the drug overdose crisis<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"kt-testimonial-content-wrap\"><div class=\"kt-testimonial-content\">Professor Brenda Longfellow worked with Darkfield, a U.K. theatre company specializing in immersive audio, and Crackdown, a monthly podcast covering the drug war through the eyes of drug user activists, to produce Intravene to plunge listeners into the heart of the overdose crisis in Vancouver.<br><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"kt-testimonial-meta-wrap\"><div class=\"kt-testimonial-meta-name-wrap\"><div class=\"kt-testimonial-name-wrap\"><div class=\"kt-testimonial-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ampd.yorku.ca\/news\/immersive-audio-experience-takes-listeners-into-the-drug-overdose-crisis\/\">Read the Full Article <i class=\"fas fa-external-link-alt\"><\/i><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"kt-testimonial-occupation-wrap\"><div class=\"kt-testimonial-occupation\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Events<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/events.yorku.ca\/mecExternalScript?id=12831&amp;t=calendar\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group grey-bg-block has-very-light-gray-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Expand the Grad @ York Story<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"lead\">Do you have a story or event to share with the wider graduate community? 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