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(DEA2b): Death and Grief in Society II: Death and social identity

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Friday Jun 21 9:00 am to 10:30 am (Eastern Daylight Time)
McGill University -

The experiences of death and grief are both socially-mediated experiences. They are shaped and influenced by social, cultural, economic, political, demographic, racial, ethnic, and gendered dynamics, among others. The general ... more

(FDS1) Hunger Pains: Food Justice in (Times of) Crisis

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Tuesday Jun 18 11:00 am to 12:30 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
Wong Building - WONG 1050

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries around the world experienced a rise in food insecurity. Within so-called Canada, this rise occurred at an especially alarming rate, particularly within ... more

(FTS1) An Intersectional Analysis of Fatness

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Tuesday Jun 18 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
Wong Building - WONG 1050

In the development of fat studies and other disciplines analyzing the experience of social inequality, race as an analytic has been left out of discussion as the focus has been ... more

(FTS3) Fat Futures and Worldmakings

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Tuesday Jun 04 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
Online via the CSA

In the critical dialogues of fat studies, fat futurity has always been explored to distinguish ‘a life’ worth living for outside the confines of sizeism and its interlocking systems of ... more

(MEM2) Remember the Bad Times: Collective Memory and Crisis

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Thursday Jun 20 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
Wong Building - WONG 1030

In a world rife with inequity, death, and loss, it is easy to forget that the concept of crisis is not new, and that the sociological impacts of “crisis” events ... more