Lauren Montgomery

"Shaping Canada: Students as Activists" hosted by the Faculty of Public Affairs, at the Visions for Canada 2042: Imagining A Future Canada-hosted by Carleton University. This conference was to 'celebrate' Canada's 150th and Carleton's 75th anniversary.

Budgets are always about choices, and that principle has inspired alternative budgeting exercises in Canada for over two decades. This year’s Alberta Alternative Budget was written in collaboration with individuals in the nonprofit sector, labour movement and advocacy sector. It provides a wish list of spending initiatives, along with a plan to finance them.

We provide an autoethnography of
gendered encounters in a graduate seminar. We use
an affective lens to argue that these encounters stem
from "more than" just individual sexism. We also use
affect to identify how these encounters related to
both exits from and openings for knowledge production
in the classroom.

community based piece, focusing on the role of progressive youth networks involved in anti-violence activism.

"The process of creating the Carleton University standalone sexual violence policy has been shrouded in secrecy, and blanketed with hurt and institutional violence-particularly for survivors from various organizations who have dedicated substantial emotional, intellectual and physical labour and time.  After much thought, I felt that as a survivor, it was time to reflect upon this work, to continue to break the silence surrounding the process at Carleton, and to highlight the role of youth anti-violence activists in creating consent culture at Carleton"

The Sociology & Anthropology Graduate Student Caucus (SAGSC) Conference Committee at Carleton University welcomes submissions to its 4th annual graduate student conference. The committee aims to provide an intellectual platform where graduate students across disciplines may share their unique empirical research and theoretical insights.

Submissions from a wide range of disciplines and perspectives are encouraged. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

- Social justice, power & resistance
- Feminism, gender studies & queer theory
- Ecosystems, geographies and spatialization
- Activism and social movement scholarship
- Public sociology and anthropology
- Policing and criminology
- Indigenous studies & decolonizing research
- Science and technology studies

Submission Deadline for Abstracts: February 22, 2016

Paper presentations are to be fifteen minutes in length, followed by a discussion period. Please submit a 200-word abstract, a brief author biography (100 words maximum), and contact information in a Microsoft Word document to sagsc.conference@gmail.com. Presenters will be notified of their acceptance by February 29, 2016.