THE THIRD ANNUAL JAMES E. CURTIS MEMORIAL LECTURE - Habits-of-Inequality Theory: A New Approach to Sociology's Oldest Problem
The Department of Sociology & Legal Studies
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
is pleased to announce
THE THIRD ANNUAL JAMES E. CURTIS MEMORIAL LECTURE
Habits-of-Inequality Theory:
A New Approach to Sociology's Oldest Problem
Monday, February 27, 2012 @ 5:00 p.m.
Tatham Centre, Room 2218 A/B
University of Waterloo
Presented by:
Dr. Lorne Tepperman
Department of Sociology
University of Toronto
In memory of our distinguished colleague and friend
who passed away suddenly May 27th, 2005.
The James E. Curtis Memorial Lecture is an annual public lecture sponsored by the Department of Sociology & Legal Studies and delivered by a distinguished Canadian scholar in honour of the life and work of Professor Jim Curtis. Professor Curtis was among Canada’s most distinguished sociologists, contributing to the founding of an indigenous Canadian sociology and publishing groundbreaking research in a broad range of areas including social inequality, political sociology, comparative sociology and the sociology of sport. Among his many lifetime honours Professor Curtis was recipient of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association’s Outstanding Contributions to Canadian Sociology award in 2000, and named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2004. Although imposing as a scholar, Jim was a humble and self-effacing person who served as a friend and mentor to a host of students and colleagues throughout his career.
Dr. Lorne Tepperman will deliver the Third Annual James E. Curtis Memorial Lecture. Dr. Tepperman received his PhD in Social Relations from Harvard University in 1970. Except for brief periods at Princeton and Yale Universities, he has spent the last forty years teaching and researching at the University of Toronto. For nearly two decades he collaborated with Jim Curtis on a variety of textbook projects. In the last ten years, he has worked mainly on topics related to gambling addiction and its impact on family life.
The coming lecture previews a book, Habits of Inequality, he is currently completing for Oxford University Press (2013).
Direct RSVPs and enquiries to Luanne McGinley, Department of Sociology & Legal Studies, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, email: lemcginl [at] uwaterloo [dot] ca (phone: 519-888-4567, ext. 32421). Further information, including how to contribute to the James E. Curtis Memorial Graduate Scholarship, can be found at the department’s website: http://sociologyandlegalstudies.uwaterloo.ca.
Reception to follow the public lecture
