Speaker Series
Department of Sociology Speaker Series
*** All talks 12:00-13:30, Sociology Seminar Room A-4049D ***
WINTER 2012
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Alternative policy groups and global civil society: Networks and discourses of counter-hegemony
William Carroll, Department of Sociology, University of Victoria
PAST TALKS:
Winter 2012
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Notes Towards a Political Ontology of ‘Environmental’ Conflicts
Mario Blaser, Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Studies, Memorial University
Thursday, February 16, 2012
We’ve Got Beaver! Women as a national resource in Canadian beer commercials
Ailsa Craig, Department of Sociology, Memorial University
Fall 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
"You regarded me as perfectly safe in the realm of experimental psychology": W.G. Smith: The First Newfoundland-born Sociologist
Stephen Riggins, Department of Sociology, Memorial University
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Skiing Mobilities: Cyborg Skiers, Powder Nomads, and Eco-Politics
Mark Stoddart, Department of Sociology, Memorial University
Thursday, November 17, 2011
"The White Man's Burden"? Obesity and Colonialism in the Canadian North
Deborah McPhail, ISER Postdoctoral Fellow, Community Health and Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University
