2024-2025 SOAN Seminar Series

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

Laura Eramian is a social anthropologist who specializes in personhood and everyday social relationships. Since 2016, she has been engaged in a series of collaborative projects on modern friendship in Atlantic Canada. She is principal investigator on a 2020-2024 SSHRC Insight Development Grant-supported project on friendship across public and private life. A central goal of that project is to understand both the rising cultural value placed on friendship and growing anxieties around it as friendship increasingly becomes an object of reflexive scrutiny. She is also principal applicant on a successful 2024 SSHRC Connection Grant that will support a workshop bringing together North American and international friendship scholars and an edited book (co-editor Peter Mallory), Critical Friendship in the Modern World, which is under contract with Cambridge University Press.

Monday November 4th, 12.00-13.00 MCKN 621 (6th floor, next to the elevators)

ALL WELCOME!

Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Housing Experience Project. Please direct any queries to Prof. Mervyn Horgan (mhorgan@uoguelph.ca)