25th Annual W. David Pierce Research Colloquium — AT A GLANCE

8:45 – 9:30am Registration and Brunch

9:30 – 9:50am Gillian Stevens Opening Remarks Dr. W. David Pierce 25th Anniversary Address

9:50 – 10:30am Hate Crime and Racialization

Moderator: Irfan Chaudhry #YEGHATECRIMES: A five year overview of police reported Jean-Philippe Crete hate incidences and crimes in Edmonton

Justin Tetrault Seeing the ‘Invisible Empire’: Hate Speech and Visibility in Canada

Ajay Sandhu The Police’s Backstage Under Threat: Why the police want to keep their coping, racial joking, and other backstage behaviors ‘out of sight’

Q&A

10:30 – 11:00am Gendered Practices

Moderator: Nicole Hill Incidents of Disrespectful and Abusive Maternity Care: An Herb Northcott Unanticipated Discovery in the Experiences of Women Denied Midwives in Edmonton

Kassandra Landry Booms & Busts: The Sex Trade in Alberta’s Oil Industry

Q&A

11:00 – 11:20am Coffee Break

11:20 – 11:50am Critical Engagements with Justice

Moderator: Ami Schmidtke Palestinian Political Prisoners: Administrative Detention as a Greg Eklics Normative Occurrence

Molly Murray The Importance of Trauma Informed Practice when Dealing with Offenders

Q&A

11:50 – 12:20pm Governance and Governmentality

Moderator: Sara Dorow Governing through Community in Fort McMurray Greg Eklics Tyler Dunford Legal Nationalism: A Reconceptualization of Post-9/11 Legal Complexes

Q&A ! 12:20 – 1:10pm Lunch

1:10 – 1:40pm Criminality, Surveillance, and Extremism

Moderator: Marta Urbanik “You Never Know Whose Watching”: Inner City Surveillance, Kelsi Barkway Fears of Victimization and Strategies of Resistance

Kevin Haggerty & Terrorist Radicalization: Conceptual Asymmetries Sandra Bucerius

Q&A

1:40 – 2:40pm Seventh Inning Stretch: Politics of Knowledge, Identity, and Representation

Moderator: Jonathan Simmons Not all atheists are skeptics: boundary work among secularists in Kelly Struthers Alberta Montford Herb Northcott East is West and West is East: The Paradox of Collectivism and Individualism

William Schultz “An Unbiased Perspective:” Media Influence on Public Perception of Nuclear Energy

Richard Westerman The Normative Dilemmas of Engaged Sociology

Q&A

2:40 – 3:00pm Coffee Break

3:00 – 3:40pm Gender, Sexuality, Identity

Moderator: Aryan Karimi Hamjensgara belongs to family; Iranian nationalism and exclusion Dave Odynak of homosexuality

Sammy Jo Johnson Disability in the Sexual Politics of Meat

James Harley Immobilizing Identity: Animal-Based Foods

Q&A

3:40 – 3:50pm Sara Dorow Closing Discussion Going Forward: 26th Annual W. David Pierce Colloquium

3:50 – 5:00pm Reception

Poster Display Elaine Laberge Informal Poster Discussion Media Portrayals of White Trash: Welfare queens, pregnant teens, and unclean scenes—the “Honey Boo Boo” phenomenon