Recent Publications - Dr. Loretta Czernis
Dr. Loretta Czernis
Department of Sociology
Book:
Weaving a Canadian Allegory: Anonymous Writing, Personal Reading. Wilfred Laurier University Press, 1994.
Papers:
With Dr. Patricia Coyne (Bishop’s University): "What are They Wearing? Costume in the Art of the Ancient World." Conference of the Popular Culture Association, Boston, April 2007.
"Academic Staff on a Slippery Slope" Sixth International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organisations, Prato, Italy, July 11-14, 2006.
"President’s Column," CAUT Bulletin, 24 monthly columns June 2004-May 2006.
"The Young Reader: From Painting to Stamp", in Slippery Pastimes: A Canadian Popular Culture Reader, Wilfred Laurier U. Press, 2002: 81-94.
"Other Modernities" A book review for the Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology. Vol. 38, No. 2 (May 2001): 246-247.
"Prisoners of the Crystal Palace", "A book review for the Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 35, No. 3 (August 1998): 430-432.
"Exhibited Decisions: A Review of Social Science in the Crucible," H-Net Book Review Project, August 21, 1995.
Weaving a Canadian Allegory: Anonymous Writing, Personal Reading. Wilfred Laurier University Press, May 1994.
With H. Diab, "Familial and National Fragmentation: Sociological Education at the Lebanese University in Comparison with the Canadian Case," in Higher Education Group Annual 1992/93, Toronto: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, pp.81-97, 1993.
"Canadian Experimental Camera-Child," Cinemas, Vol. 2, No. 1, (Fall 1991): 155-167.
"Pourquoi Est-Ce La Bête Est Noire?" Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, Vol. 14, Nos. 1-3, (1990): 215-218.
"Ungrateful Voyageurs," Border/Lines, No. 7/8 (Spring 1987).
"Elder: Artaud after Telsat," paper published in The Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, Vol. 10, No. 1-2 (1986): 266-273. Portions of this article were reprinted in Practices in Isolation, a catalogue published by the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, 1986.
University and Public Lectures
Guest speaker, CAUT Collective Bargaining Conference, January 30, 2004
"Environmentalism and Religious Piety: Canadian Activists, Artists and Trees", presented at the 35th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Krakow, Poland, July 12, 2001.
"The Story of Silk and Ideology in Martha Stewart's Living Magazine", presented at the 22nd annual Conference of the American Culture Association, New Orleans, April 22, 2000.
Book Reviews
Review of Other Modernities for The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology Volume 38, Number 2 (May 2001)
Review of Prisoners of the Crystal Palace for The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, Volume 35, Number 3 (August 1998).
Review of Social Science in the Crucible for H-Net Book Review Project (August 21, 1995).
Recent Conferences
“Environmentalism and Religious Piety : Canadian Activists, Artists, and Trees” 35th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Krakow, Poland, July 12, 2001.
“The Story of Silk and Ideology in Martha Stewart’s Living Magazine”, a paper given to the 22nd Annual Conference of the American Culture Association, New Orleans, April 22, 2000.
“Imagining the Self in Lifestyle Magazines: A Sociological Explanation of Visual Documents”, presented to the Annual Meetings of the Canadian Society of Sociology and Anthropology, Ottawa (June 1998)
