2024 Invited Speakers

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Scott Grills
Department of Sociology
Brandon University

Examining the Origins of the "Qualitatives": Interactionist Approaches to Deviance, Cross-Cultural Critiques and the Pursuit of Generic Social Process


Scott Grills is a Professor of Sociology at Brandon University, Manitoba, Canada. He is the co-author of Management Motifs: An Interactionist Approach for the Study of Organizational Interchange (2019). Recent publications include those in the areas of symbolic interactionist theory, success claiming and making, the sociology of management, and ethnographic research methods. Scott has served the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction in multiple capacities, including as President in 2010/11 and as Vice-President in 2007/08.


FEATURED SPEAKER: Dan Henhawk
Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management
University of Manitoba

Dan Henhawk is currently an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management at the University of Manitoba. His research interests revolve around Western conceptualizations, and practices, of leisure and Indigenous ways of knowing and being. More specifically, he is interested in the tensions between leisure and neo-colonialism, questions about leisure and decolonization and leisure in relation to climate change. He also has interests in auto-ethnography and narrative inquiry.


FEATURED SPEAKER: Jacqueline Low
Department of Sociology
University of New Brunswick