Graduate students envision tomorrow

 

The Sociology and Anthropology Graduate Student Association (SAGSA) will hold its fifth annual conference, under the title Visions of Tomorrow/ Regards Vers Demain on May 18 and 19, on the seventh floor of Hall Building.

Friday night will feature keynote speaker Nigel Rapport, Canada Research Chair for Globalization, Citizenship and Justice (CTR, April 21, page 1), under the title “Diaspora, Cosmopolis, Global Refuge: Three Voices of the Supranational City.”

Saturday will be devoted to presentations by graduate students from universities across Canada and the United States. Topics include cosmopolitanism, globalization, health issues, the media, identity politics, and violence and conflict.

The conference will open and close with talks by two members of Concordia’s Sociology and Anthropology Department, Katja Neves-Graca and Shelley Reuter.

Admission to the conference is free for the public. The doors open at 4:45 p.m. on Friday and 8:30 a.m. on Saturday.