On the occasion of Statistics Canada’s 100th anniversary, the Association for Canadian Studies and the Canadian Institute for Identities and Migration, in collaboration with Statistics Canada and the Vanier Institute of the Family, will be holding a conference (December 6 & 7, 2018 - Ottawa) that will look at how Canada’s population has evolved over the last 100 years and at the critical contribution made by the country’s national statistical agency in measuring its evolution. You are invited to submit original proposals (in the official language of your choice) to organize bilateral or multilateral sessions (i.e., workshops, roundtables or poster sessions) using comparative perspectives that offer important insights into measuring identities in Canada in the past, present and future. For information on themes and topics, workshop formats, and selection criteria, please click here. Proposals should be submitted no later than October 19, 2018.
The Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University is inviting applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the sociology of law and crime. Applicants should be able to situate their work in one or more of the Department’s three areas of specialization: Critical Health Studies; Economy, Work and Development; or Social Justice and Inequality. The deadline to apply is October 15th. For more details and application information, please see the job posting.
The McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy is offering a postdoctoral fellowship for the 2019 calendar year. The holder of this fellowship will play a key role in IHSP’s Laboratory of Urban Culture (LUC) which is both a physical space and a series of programs operating out of the Salon 1861 in Montreal’s vibrant Little Burgundy neighborhood. The fellow will be of the Salon management team, and will help further develop LUC’s community ties, existing programing, and new programing. For more details and to apply, please see the call for applications.
