Visiting Speaker - HILDE JAKOBSEN

The Department of Sociology is pleased to present:

HILDE JAKOBSEN

DISCUSSING WIFE-BEATING* IN TANZANIA

Wednesday November 23rd, 2011

12:30pm - 2:20pm

BSB B136

ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND!

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Hilde Jakonsen writes on violence against women in Africa and methods for studying the global south and world majority. Most recently she was a visiting scholar in the department of Sociology at the University of Wisconson, Madison. She is currently at the University of Bergen in Norway.

* Wife-beating is the most common term in Tanzania for physical n0n-sexual violence against women

Visiting Speaker - DR. PETER WARRIAN

The Department of Sociology is pleased to present

DR. PETER WARRIAN

THE CHANGING SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE STEEL INDUSTRY

Thursday, November 24, 2011

1:00 p.m.

Togo Salmon Hall 719

ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND!!

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Dr. Peter Warrian

Senior Research Fellow, Munk School for Global Affairs, University of Torontoa former Research Director of the United Steelworkers of America and Chief Economist of the Province of Ontario.

The famous business historian Alfred Chandler (1962) observed that steel was the only major industry not to have adapted the multi-divisional (M) model for the modern corporation. Steel retained a unitary, hierarchical structure of authority, skill and knowledge flows. It meant that steel companies only learned what their engineers learned. The ownership change in recent years means that Canadian steel management must now adapt to new global steel HR norms, best practices and knowledge flows.