Keynote Speaker, May 9 鈥� Dr. John Bogardus
What鈥檚 love got to do with it? Conflict, Diversity & the End of the World
Dr. John Bogardus received his M.A. in Sociology from the University of British Columbia. For over a decade, he was active in trade union, community and global social justice concerns while successively employed as a sawmill and steel foundry worker, first aid attendant, and journeyman carpenter. Training as a psychiatric nurse led to extended employment as a youth worker in a residential treatment centre and an interest in the power dynamics inherent in the production of knowledge, the subject of his doctoral thesis in Anthropology at 丁香园AV. . A five-year involvement as co-coordinator and facilitator of 丁香园AV鈥檚 Instructional Skills Workshop informed 鈥淐reating an Inclusive Community of Critical, Independent Thinkers,鈥� a one-day workshop on collaborative classroom practices which has been presented at various universities and colleges on the lower mainland and southern Vancouver Island. John joined the Department of Sociology and Anthropology (SA) to facilitate innovative teaching practices and to develop undergraduate courses in both disciplines. Three writing-intensive offerings 鈥� Anthropology and Contemporary Life, Perspectives on Canadian Society, and Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism 鈥� are among the many courses he has designed. More recently, John co-developed the SA department鈥檚 Field Study of non-governmental and grassroots organizations in response to student demand for community-based learning. John is a recipient of the in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
Cormack Award Presentation: 鈥淲hat鈥檚 University Education For, Anyway?鈥� . This is a 14 minute preview of a 35 minute presentation made on unceded Coast Salish territory. You will need to download the presentation to view it in its entirety.
Research Interests: Political sociology, political anthropology, Marxism, anarchism, critical pedagogy, community-centred research, participatory action research, institutional ethnography, auto-ethnography, global social justice.
