Past Events

Title: Racialized Disinvestment and Displacement in Toronto

 The SOAN Society is hosting its annual SOAN career panel this Monday March 3rd, 5:30 - 7pm You don't have to be a student to attend. Please come if you are interested in hearing from sociology and anthropology graduates at different career stages about their work experiences and career paths.

Canada is currently experiencing a housing affordability crisis. Over the past few decades, housing prices have risen at double the income growth rate, with rental prices increasing by 10% annually. More than one-fifth of families face unmet housing needs. One of the most vulnerable groups identified in this crisis is immigrants, particularly those from racial minority backgrounds. In this presentation, I first document variations in the risk of living in unaffordable housing for immigrant families according to their race/ethnicity and nativity status.

This talk will focus on the cultural and symbolic aspects of making foods into “superfoods” within the context of a neoliberal and global agri-food regime. It will first consider consumption-side approaches to explaining superfoods. Then, using the case of Turkey’s avocado producers, it will point towards the need to place consumers and producers on equal cultural footing, across the global North/South divide, for a more complete understanding of how and why superfoods emerge as a 21stcentury phenomenon.

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology presents the third in the 2024-2025 SOAN Seminar Series From Outer to Inner: Moral Selfhood, Therapy Culture, and Conspicuous Reflexivity Galen Watts, Sociology and Legal Studies, University of Waterloo Galen Watts is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo. He is the author of The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2022).

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology presents the second in the 2024-2025 SOAN Seminar Series Choice, Commitment, and Modern Selfhood in Friendship-based Households Laura Eramian Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology presents the first in the 2024-2025 SOAN Seminar Series Deference Rituals and Creative Buzz: Theorizing the Creative Trajectories of Songs and Songwriters Taylor Price, Sociology, NYU