Dr. Allison Pugh “The Stratification of Human Contact: The Present and Future of Connective Labor”

06 September 2022 2:00 pm

Venue: ANSO 207
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UBC Sociology welcomes Dr. Allison Pugh for our 2022/2023 Distinguished Speaker Series Academic Launch. She will be presenting a lecture titled, “The Stratification of Human Contact: The Present and Future of Connective Labor.”

Dr. Terrell Carver “Masculinities, Gender and International Relations”

20 September 2022 11:00 am

Venue: ANSO 134
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Dr. Terrell Carver presents a talk based on his forthcoming book, which addresses great-power politics through the gender ‘lens’ of both masculinity and femininity. It adapts current theorisations within a novel conceptual framework that presents gender as an asymmetrical binary.

Martha Foschi Honorary Lecture 2022: Dr. Jane Sell

25 October 2022 11:00 am

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UBC Sociology presents the Martha Foschi Honorary Lecture 2022, part of the Distinguished Speaker Series. This year’s speaker Dr. Jane Sell will present her talk titled, “Racial/Ethnic Discrimination: Questions and (Some) Answers from Experimental Social Psychology.”

Go Global Seminar Information Session

08 November 2022 2:00 pm

Venue: ANSO 2107
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UBC Professors Sylvia Berryman (Philosophy) and Thomas Kemple (Sociology) are teaming up once again with Go Global to offer a unique encounter with global systems, oppression, poverty, and civil society activism.

Final Global Seminar Information Session

08 December 2022 10:00 am

Venue: ANSO 202
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Study power, pppression and theories of civil society in Guatemala during Summer 2023! Come find out more about this intensive experiential learning opportunity to explore the impacts of colonialism, extreme poverty, global economic and political systems, and transnational civil society.

“There Were Black People in the Past: Gentrification, Displacement and the Making of A Food Oasis” Dr. Waverly Duck

31 January 2023 11:00 am

Venue: ANSO 134
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Dr. Waverly Duck explains the formation of a “food oasis,” a concentration of seven supermarkets within a quarter-mile radius in East Liberty, a poor and working-class Black neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Anna Zajacova “Sociodemographic Perspective, Findings, and Paradoxes in Chronic Pain and Pain Treatments”

07 February 2023 11:00 am

Venue: ANSO 134
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In this year’s Kaspar Naegele Honorary Lecture, Dr. Anna Zajacova will argue that chronic pain should play a central role in the sociodemographic study of health and health care and policy because it is a sensitive measure of population health, reflects social conditions, sociopolitical context, and beliefs and prejudices of society.

“’Childcare Experts’ and ‘Wiping Older People’s Ass’: The Stratification in the Domestic Work Market in Contemporary China” Suowei Xiao

02 March 2023 11:00 am

Venue: ANSO 134
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Suowei Xiao’s study explores how different nurturant care jobs become stratified in the emerging market for domestic work in contemporary China, as childcare jobs come to be higher-paid “semi-professions” while elderly care is marginalized and under-compensated.

Dr. Erika Summers-Effler “The Trouble with Levels”

07 March 2023 11:00 am

Venue: ANSO 134
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Dr. Erika Summers-Effler considers potential alternative heuristics to levels-thinking in order to support connections between process social theory and empirical sociological work.

“How to Read a Journal: Telos and the Formation of Critical Theory in Canada” Gary Genosko

16 March 2023 11:00 am

Venue: ANSO 134
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Professor Gary Genosko’s presentation reflects on a long-term project about the political philosophy journal Telos, an independently owned and operated major journal on Western Marxism and the Frankfurt School.