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Manisha Khetarpal
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Rima Wilkes and Leah Keegahn
Date: May 4th from 12:00-1:00 p.m. MST
What's so Funny? The Sociology of Comedy
Description: This session will focus on the Sociology of Comedy. Among the questions we will consider are: What purpose does comedy have for society? Why does what is funny change over time? Please note that the presenters are amateur comedians at best. But we do love a good laugh.
Bio: Rima Wilkes is a Professor and Grad Chair at the University of British Columbia. Her research seeks to address the question of why, despite a decline in overt racism, racial and ethnic inequality persists in Western societies. This includes considering how politics are intertwined with inequality, how people think, and the impact of their geographical location. Wilkes was also the President-Elect of the Canadian Sociological Association from 2017-2018 and the Executive Editor of the Canadian Review of Sociology from 2013-2016. She is a mother to twin boys and lives in Vancouver.
Leah Kegan is a doctoral candidate at the University of British Columbia who is writing a thesis about Native American education.
Email address of presenter(s): wil...@mail.ubc.ca lkee...@yahoo.com
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William (Bill) Carroll
Date: July 20th from 10:00-11:00 a.m. MST
Fossil Fuels and Climate Breakdown: Issues of Power and Resistance
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Bio: William (Bill) K. Carroll has been a Sociology Professor at the University of Victoria since 1981. He helped establish the Interdisciplinary Program in Social Justice Studies in 2008 and was its director from 2008 to 2012. His research interests include the political economy/ecology of corporate capitalism, social movements and social change, and critical social theory and method. Currently, he co-directs “Mapping the power of the carbon-extractive corporate resource sector” which is an interdisciplinary partnership between several universities and civil-society organizations that traces the modalities of corporate power and the resistance within the global political economy by focusing on fossil capital within western Canada. He has written numerous books including The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class, Corporate Power in a Globalizing World, Remaking Media (with Bob Hackett), Critical Strategies for Social Research, Challenges and Perils: Social Democracy in Neoliberal Times (with R.S. Ratner) and Organizing Dissent. He has won many awards for his work including the Sociology Association’s John Porter Memorial Prize twice, the University of Victoria Faculty of Social Sciences Research Excellence Award, and the CSA’s Outstanding Contribution Award.
Email address of presenter(s): wcar...@uvic.ca
Readings: These readings have been provided by Professor Carroll. It is suggested that they are read before the session.
Klein, Seth, and Shannon Daub. 2016. “The New Climate Denialism: Time for an Intervention.” Policy Note. Retrieved September 22, 2016 https://www.policynote.ca/the-new-climate-denialism-time-for-an-intervention/
*Corporate Mapping Project. 2019. “Fossil Power Top 50.” https://www.corporatemapping.ca/database/fossil-power-top-50/
Heede, Richard. 2019. “It's Time to Rein in the Fossil Fuel Giants Before their Greed Chokes the Planet.” The Guardian. Retrieved April 1, 2021 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/09/fossil-fuel-giants-greed-carbon-emissions
Coulthard, Glen. 2013. “For Our Nations to Live, Capitalism Must Die.” Rabble. Retrieved April 8, 2019 http://rabble.ca/news/2013/11/our-nations-to-live-capitalism-must-die
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Jeffery Denis
Date: May 30th from 1:00-2:00 p.m. MST
Making Change, Building Alliances: How Shoal Lake 40 First Nation’s Freedom Road Campaign Succeeded
Description: This presentation examines how Shoal Lake 40 First Nation – an Anishinaabe community on the Manitoba-Ontario border – succeeded in its longstanding campaign for road access and safe drinking water. Based on interviews, sharing circles, and archival research, it identifies the important roles of Indigenous leadership, creative strategies and tactics, and relationship-building in generating meaningful change. In particular, it emphasizes how Shoal Lake 40 members persuasively framed their struggle in terms of human rights and reconciliation and deliberately cultivated alliances with outside groups and individuals who could use their resources and networks to advance the First Nation’s goals. While drawing broader lessons on how to facilitate change, the research is meant to honour the efforts of all the people who made Freedom Road happen.
Bio: Jeff Denis is a settler Canadian of mixed European ancestry. He is an Associate Professor of Sociology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Dish with One Spoon territory. Jeff’s research focuses on the social psychology of racism and colonialism and the strategies, policies, alliances, and practices that can foster more just and sustainable societies. Jeff’s PhD research encompassed 18 months of fieldwork, 160 interviews, and a photovoice project with Anishinaabe, Métis, and white residents of Northwestern Ontario (Treaty #3 territory). The insights gained from this research then inspired his book Canada at a Crossroads: Boundaries, Bridges, and Laissez-Faire Racism in Indigenous-Settler Relations. Another research project involved interviewing settler Canadians who have participated in Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Idle No More events to better understand what led them to engage in solidarity activities. Jeff has also collaborated with community-based research projects such as the Poverty Action Research Project to monitor changes in Indigenous community well-being and with a non-profit group called Reconciliation Kenora that involved sharing circles and interviews to better understand barriers to reconciliation. Currently, Jeff is a co-investigator in a project called “For the Long Haul” that examines the conditions that foster long-term Indigenous-settler alliances. In this, he is working with Shoal Lake 40 First Nation to document the success of its Freedom Road campaign.
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Laura Huey
Date: April 25th from 11:00-12:00 p.m. MST.
“No research without action, no action without research”: Examining the Woeful State of Canadian Research into Indigenous Policing Issues
Description: Arguably, issues related to Indigenous policing and the policing of Indigenous communities are some of the most critical areas of criminal justice policy and practice. And yet, this is another area in which we've seen provincial and federal governments repeatedly fall short. We have a pretty good idea of what "doesn't work" in these spaces, but there has been a significant lack of interest and investment in research aimed at improving existing policing and security services or creating new and/or alternate models. In this talk, I am going to introduce the concept of "evidence based policy" and explain why this approach is vital to understanding these issues. I will then provide an overview of the current state of research in relation to some important topics: policing in general, missing persons research, mental health and Indigenous policing, and cybercrime. This might sound boring, but I promise: it won't be!
Bio: Dr. Laura Huey is Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario, Editor of Police Practice & Research, Chair of the Working Group on Mental Health and Policing of the Royal Society of Canada, and the former Executive Director of the Canadian Society of Evidence Based Policing. She is also a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada and a Senior Research Fellow with the National Police Foundation.
Email address of presenter(s): lh...@uwo.ca
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Anisha Datta
Date: July 13th from 11:00-12:00 MST
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Bio: Dr. Anisha Datta is Associate Professor of Sociology, and she is the current chair of the Department of Sociology at King’s University College at Western University. Her research interests fall in the broad areas of critical social theory, postcolonial studies, diaspora and transnational studies, neoliberalism, political economy, South Asian studies, and historical sociology. Dr. Datta also works as an expert for UNESCO’s Inclusive Policy Lab, which works on knowledge co-production and inclusive and equity-weighted policies. Some of her published works can be found here: https://kings-uwo.academia.edu/AnishaDatta
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Myriam Bals
Date: April 25th from 4:00-4:45 p.m. MST
The 3 Levels of Racism Towards Indigenous Persons
Description: I will explain what racism is all about and give a figure with the 3 levels (Macro, mezzo and micro). Then, I'll treat every level and give examples. For instance, the Indian Law belongs in the Macro level, and create some racism in the Mezzo system, like the Residential schools, but also other kinds of discrimination in health care, justice, social services and child protection system, the absence of safe water on many reserves (27 years without drinkable water in Neskatanga... and many double standards against First Nations. But those levels don't exclude the interpersonal racism they created and how people have experienced it (micro system). A few years ago, I showed a "loud racism in the absence of comments'' on CBC or Radio Canada: negative comments when Native were granted some money or nonexistent comments when something terrible had happened to them (A family of 9 First Nations died in the fore of their house in Pikangikum, and no comment)... I used Gofundme to see how much Native persons get vs non Native persons, showing the "value" a group or a person has...
Bio: Myriam Bals has an interdisciplinary background as well as extensive work experience. Currently, she is an Associate Professor at Laurentian University where she has been the Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Program of Public Health (Health Studies) since 2014. She has introduced natural medicine within the curriculum and has taught 'Introduction to Alternative Medicines', 'Aboriginals' Health' and 'Immigrants' Health.' For the Department of Political Sciences, she has taught 'Immigration and Human Rights.’ As well, she has been a member of the School of Social work since 2004. Before working at Laurentian University, she had a private practice where she worked as a Child Therapist and was a Licensed Immigration Consultant. During this time, she was also an independent researcher mostly with the Direction de la Santé Publique de Lanaudière (Joliette, Quebec) where she published books and articles on different topics. She also has extensive experience in various aspects of social work, has received training from numerous institutions, and has shared her expertise for many organizations. Furthermore, she has extensive experience advocating for human rights (she has a certificate in International and Human Rights) and has been invited by the provincial parlements of Quebec and Ontario, and Ottawa to make recommendations regarding legislation pertaining to immigration and child protection. She has given several presentations on systemic (even systematic) discrimination towards First Nations and Inuit Peoples and has presented internationally at the annual conference organized by the University of Holguin, in Cuba. For a more in-depth list of her accomplishments please visit her university profile.
Email address of presenter(s): mb...@laurentian.ca
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Marie McLeod
Date: April 22nd from 11:00-12:00 p.m. MST.
Decolonizing, Paths to New Futurities
Description: The presentation explores what it means to speak of decolonizing and the implications for cultural, educational and social change. It examines the search for genuine options to change the social order of things to reshape how resources are shared and/or distributed and to forge new alliances in order to resist the dominance of Western modernity. The panel aims to activate and develop equity considerations and engage in critical conversations regarding a rhetoric of reform in cultural, social and educational settings geared towards the needs of the majority.
Bio: Marie McLeod is a PhD candidate in the Department of Social Justice Education at the University of Toronto. Marie is an educator with comprehensive proficiency in educational administration. Her doctoral research is dedicated to providing scholarship to apply an anti-colonial/anti-racism lens to challenge and subvert traditional Euro-American perspectives and discourses in Western traditional epistemology used to evaluate knowledge and what it means to know.
Michelle H.A. Bailey is a full-time high school teacher and PhD candidate in the department of Social justice Education (SJE) at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto (OISE/UT). Her research interests include Restorative practices in Education, Holistic Education, Deconstruction Designations for Marginalized Students and Early Engaging of the Pathways to Post-Secondary Success.
Rowena Linton is a PhD student in Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT). Her research interest is in Black students schooling experiences, academic success and developing an antiracist curriculum, teaching and learning practices and pedagogies.
Marycarmen Lara-Villanueva is a Mexican-born PhD student at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Marycarmen is an anti-racist educator and organizer with extensive experience doing anti-oppressive work with parents and caregivers. Her doctoral research is anchored in anti-colonial discursive theories, and it explores anti-Black racism in Mexico and how it is produced and learned in schools through visual culture. She is also a Coordinator at the Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies.
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Paulina García-Del Moral
Date: October 2022
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Bio: Paulina García-Del Moral is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Guelph. Her research focuses on the intersection between law, gender, and power in the transnational processes in Mexico as well as across Canada, Latin America, and Europe. As well, her work encompasses three empirical areas which are the impact of transnational feminist activism on state responses to the killing of women; the transnational travel and legal institutionalization of feminist knowledges; and how the decisions of supranational human rights institutions on states’ policies on gender violence and reproductive rights shape national politics of belonging. The geographical areas studied work to contribute to the transnational sociological understanding of social construction of legal problems and how their implications impact different social and legal-political contexts. An intersectional perspective is utilized to bridge scholarship in socio-legal studies and in political sociology to then analyze how there are gendered and racialized dynamics that underlie transnational processes.
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Jennifer R. Whitson
Date: April 21 from 1:00-2:00 p.m. MT Edmonton
Dark Patterns and Addictive Design: Unpacking the tricks and “hacks” designers use to create habit-forming media.
Description: This session outlines how our everyday technologies—from tax software to fitbit health trackers to games and social media—leverage psychological “hacks” and “dark patterns” that encourage us to act in ways that are not always in our best interests. Jen will draw from the fields of Sociology, Psychology and HCI (Human-Computer-Interaction) to talk about “addiction by design”, illustrating the growing influence of “Persuasive Technology” in our digital tools and spaces, and the ethical conflicts that may arise as a result. At the end of this session, you should have a better understanding of some of the many tricks designers use to foster your own compulsive device use, as well as be able to identify some of the underlying reasons as to why our brains are so easily addicted to, influenced, and persuaded by phones, games, and online media.
Bio: Jennifer R. Whitson grew up on a cattle farm just north of Alexander, Alberta and is now an Associate Professor at the Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business and in the Sociology and Legal Studies Department, both at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. Her research focuses on the secret life of software, the people behind making it, and how both of these impacts our daily lives. Currently, her projects focus on indie game makers, digital media incubators, and the surveillance implications of data-driven design. In a recent study she has conducted ethnographic fieldwork within game studios and within developer communities in order to learn about the various struggles that new media producers face in finding a balance between creative work and economic sustainability. A focal question this research asks is how in a ‘sharing’ community where the majority of games are low-cost or free manages to do what they love while still being able to pay rent.
Email address of presenter: jwhi...@uwaterloo.ca
Twitter of presenter: @jen_whitson
Website of presenter: https://jenniferwhitson.com/
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Julius Haag
Date: Mid-late September 2022
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Bio: Julius Haag is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto within the Teaching Stream of Sociology. His areas of specialization include policing, youth justice, racialization, ethnicity, criminalization, terrorism, and teaching and learning. The research he conducts draws on urban sociology, critical race theory, and cultural criminology to explore the individual and community-level impacts of policing and criminalization on young people from racialized and marginalized backgrounds. A major focus is on the lived experiences of young people from the Afro-Caribbean community. He is involved in a collaborative study that focuses on young people’s experiences with gun violence in the Greater Toronto Area, led by Julian Tanner, Scot Wortley, and Jooyoung Lee.
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Kristin Plys
Date: May 12th, 10:00-10:30 a.m. MT Edmonton
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Bio: Kristin Plys is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga’s Sociology Department. Her research focuses on the intersection of political economy, postcolonial theory, labour and labour movements, historical sociology, and global area studies. Much of her intellectual work analyzed the historical trajectory of global capitalism as seen from the working class and anti-colonial movements in the Global South. She has published two books: Brewing Resistance: Indian Coffee House and the Emergency in Postcolonial India and Capitalism and its Uncertain Future.
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