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On November 25, 2021, Professor Suzan Ilcan presented at Western University’s Centre for Research on Migration and Ethnic Relations as part of its Fall Colloquium Series. The talk, entitled ‘Syrian Experiences of Displacement and Precarious Living in Turkey,’ highlighted Syrians’ struggles and the ‘architecture of precarity’ shaping their lives.

Please join us for the Fall 2021 Joint University of Waterloo–St. Jerome’s University Legal Studies Seminar

On Monday the 22nd of November, 2021 at 1 p.m. EST,

DR. ARIADNA ESTÉVEZ will be speaking on the topic of 

'THE RULE OF LAW NECROPOWER’
 

The Department of Sociology and Legal Studies is bringing back the Fall and Wellness Scavenger Hunts for Thrive Month.

Read the full story: https://uwaterloo.ca/news/2021-canadas-most-powerful-women

Martin Cooke is PI of a new CIHR Operating Grant on emerging COVID-19 research gaps.

In June Sociology & Legal Studies instructors Sarah Turnbull and Phil Boyle were elected to two-year terms as Board Members of Canadian Law & Society Association, visit their website.

PhD studnet Emerson LaCroix recently had an article named Organizational Complexities of Experiential Education: Institutionalization and Logic Work in Higher Education published in the Journal of Experiential Education.

Understanding cybersecurity from multiple perspectives | Arts & Letters | University of Waterloo

Professors Jennifer Whitson and Ian Goldberg developed an interdisciplinary course for graduate students to tackle the challenge of cybersecurity from humanities, social science and computer science perspectives.

This chapter examines how racial innocence is embedded in and shapes the parameters of reform efforts around immigration detention. Using the United Kingdom as an example, it considers the importance of race and racism—as these intersect with other social relations of power—for understanding the policy and practice of immigration detention and recent reforms.

Assistant Prof. Andrea Quinlan, Prof. Suzan Ilcan and Assistant Prof. Adam Molnar have each been awarded Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Grants for their respective research projects.