From SFU’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology‘s Fall 2012 colloquium series…
All talks will be held at the Burnaby Campus, Academic Quadrangle Building, Room 5067 (Ellen Gee Common Room)
“The Paradox of Precarity: Risk, Desire, and Brazil’s Labouring Poor”
Kathleen M. Millar (Duke University)
Dr. Kathleen M. Millar received her Ph.D. in the Department of Anthropology at Brown University in 2011 and currently holds a Visiting Professor appointment at SFU. She comes to SFU from Duke University, where she teaches courses on writing, ethnography, and urban poverty in the Thompson Writing Program.
“Empowerment Theory: Political-Cultural Formation and Social Movements from Below”
Gerardo Otero (Simon Fraser University)
Dr. Gerardo Otero, Professor of Sociology and Associate Member of the Latin American Studies Program, received his Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1986. His research interests include political sociology, social movements, rural sociology, political economy of the world system, state-society relations in semiperipheral nations, neoliberal globalism and agricultural biotechnology in Latin America.
All talks free and open to the public.
Brown bag lunch (beverages and sweets provided)