Theme - The 4th Annual Sociology & Criminology Undergraduate Student Conference

Sociology and Criminology Undergraduate Student Conference

The theme of this year's conference is Multidisciplinary Approaches to Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities. We invite papers that investigate and explore social, economic, cultural, political, and legal issues and factors from various disciplinary approaches. Students from sociology, criminology, history, English, fine arts, Asian studies, geography, anthropology, psychology, African studies, Middle Eastern studies, art history, political science, education, and other social science and humanities are invited to submit their research on various international and Canadian issues, factors, relations, and structures.

The aim of this year's conference is to provide a space for the exploration of how similar themes, factors, social issues, and structures are examined and explored through the lenses of different academic programs. The goal is to promote a multicentric and holistic understanding of the the social world through sharing of research from multiple perspectives.

We accept a wide range of papers that critically explore global and Canadian social, cultural, political, and economic relations. Topics include but are not limited to:

  • Environmental Issues
  • Immigration Issues
  • Technology, Society, and Culture
  • Aging, Dying, and Construction of Identity
  • European and North American History
  • South and Central America: history, diversity, and development
  • Development and Under-Development
  • Human Rights Studies
  • Crime and Society
  • Social Policy
  • Curriculum Studies
  • Work and Society
  • Literature and Society
  • Health Studies
  • Sports and Society
  • Modernity and Post-modernity
  • Policing and Society
  • Terrorism and Social Justice
  • Social Justice Studies
  • Ethnic Studies
  • Disability Studies
  • Literary Studies
  • War and Conflict
  • Diaspora and Transnationalism
  • Education, Law, Colonialism, and Neo-Liberalism
  • Identity Construction
  • Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • Racialization, Racism, and Construction of Otherness
  • School Textbooks and Knowledge Production: how the world is constructed for students
  • Social Justice, Reconciliation, and Human Rights
  • Nationalism, Post-Colonial Relations, and Violence
  • Capitalism and Political Economy
  • Feminism
  • Critical Sociology
  • Genocide
  • American and Canadian historical studies
  • Aboriginal Studies
  • Economy and Society: the consequences of globalization
  • The State and Supra-National Organizations: the role of civil society and grassroots movements in social change
  • North Africa, the Middle East, and Diversity: Ethnographical (Re)reflections
  • Arab Merchants, Eurocentrism, and Slavery
  • African Immigration and Racialization in Europe and North America: (re)visiting the Civil Rights Movements
  • Constructing Africa, Asia, and South/Central America in the Global Context
  • Afrocentrism, Eurocentrism, and Ethnocentrism in the Era of Neo-Conservatism
  • Social Control and Policing: criminalization and the other
  • Popular Culture and Diaspora
  • Media Studies
  • Grassroots Movements and Social Movements
  • Music, Discourse, and Diversity
  • Hybridity and Fractured Identities: ethno-nationalism and construction of pan-identities
  • Canada, Racism, and Multiple Forms of Oppression: History, Nation-Building, and Exclusion
  • Youth, Culture, and National Identities: the construction of multiple selves/other