Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Departmental Colloquium Lectures:

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2009 3:30 P.M.
A720 LOEB BUILDING

Professor Sheila Meintjes
Head and Senior Lecturer
Political Studies, University of the Witwatersrand will speak on:

“Honoured in the Breach? Implementing the law and policing gender violence in South Africa.”

FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 2010, 3:30 P.M.
A720 LOEB BUILDING

Daniel Buckles

Adjunct Research Professor

Department of Sociology and Anthropology,

Carleton University,

Senior Specialist with the

International Development Research Centre,

will speak on:

"Shelter from the Storm: Katkari Adhavasi Struggles for Land and Recognition"

Winter Term Departmental Colloquium Lectures:

Winter term: Tentative schedule

Mid-January:

Debate: “Should Canadian universities support the Palestinian call for an institutional boycott of Israeli universities?”

Friday, Febuary 5

Abigail Bakan

Queen’s University

“Apartheid”

Considerations on Race, State and Imagined Communities in the Israel/Palestine Context

Friday March 12

Peter Gose

Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Carleton University

(TBA)

Friday, March 19

Paul Theberge

Carleton University

Canada Research Chair in Technological Mediations of Culture

Topic: TBA

Claudio Aporta: Investigating Sea Ice

Claudio Aporta's research has been featured in the media lately, including several radio interviews and articles at the following locations:

Earth Magazine

National Geographic France

Science at the Poles

The Walrus, November 2009

Congratulations

Joanne Gaudet, MA Sociology. Joanne is one of four Carleton winners of the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Master’s Scholarship beginning fall 2009.

Kevin Walby, PhD Sociology student honoured by Canadian Association of University Teachers

Life on The Inside

PhD Sociology candidates Justin Piche and Kevin Walby edit the Journal of Prisoners on Prison an academic journal on prison issues that is written by prisoners

Read about it here...

The ad hoc meeting of 22 faculty members of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology held on Thursday 30 July unanimously:

(1) deplores the improper dismissal of Hassan Diab from his contract teaching position;
(2) calls for the reinstatement of Hassan Diab;
(3) deplores the University Administration's violation of the University's own procedures; and,
(4) declares its support for the actions of Peter Gose, Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and John Osborne, the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in assigning teaching duties to Hassan Diab.

Please join us in congratulating our student,
Jihan Abbas
winner of one of three

Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGS)

Read about it here

Announcing:

The new PhD program in Anthropology

See the Graduate Program page for details