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Sociology Department News

Thomas Dunk has been reappointed to a second five-year term as Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences.
The announcement was made by Murray Knuttila, the University’s Provost and Vice-President Academic, who said, “The Advisory Committee was very enthusiastic in its recommendation, and I am pleased that Dean Dunk has agreed to another term.”
Dunk joined the University in July 2008 when he was appointed to his first term as Dean of Social Studies. Before coming to Brock, he was at Lakehead University, where he had been Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities and, earlier, Chair of the Department of Sociology.
He holds a BA (honours) from the University of Alberta and an MA and PhD in Anthropology from McGill University. Prior to Lakehead, he taught at Concordia University, McMaster University and the University of Toronto.
Dunk’s new term commences July 1, 2014. He will be taking administrative leave from July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014, in order to continue his research and scholarly activities.
 
Resarcher Renewed as Canada Research Chair
 
 

In her five years as Canada Research Chair in Social Justice, Janet Conway has focused on why and how people organize to bring about change, and how they use the knowledge from these activities to form emancipatory politics.

For the past decade, Conway researched the dynamics of the World Social Forum, an annual event that started in 2001 as an alternative to the Davos World Economic Forum. The World Social Forum enables people and groups to exchange ideas, experience, and strategies to come up with alternatives to dominant economic and political systems.

Hot off the press is the paperback version of her hardcover book, “Edges of Social Justice: The World Social Forum and its ‘others,’” which will be released in March at 2013 World Social Forum in Tunisia. She has also done research on the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Her Canada Research Chair renewal will enable Conway to analyze the use of digital and social media in developments of global anti-austerity and pro-democracy social movements such as the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street.

 
The Poverty Challenge
A workshop on the power of simulation in teaching complex social issues.  Presented by the Service-Learning Resource Centre adn the Centre for Pedagogical Innovation.
When:  Friday, April 5, 2013 from 1-4p.m.
Where:  Plaza 600F
For more information: www.thepovertychallenge.org/
 
 
An Author Talk by Jamie Swift, author of "Warrior Nation: Rebranding Canada in an Age of Anxiety"
Sponsored by the Sociology Department
 
When:  Friday, April 5, 2013 at 7p.m.
Where: Niagara Artists Centre, 354 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines