[Brownbag] Student Roundtable Featuring Sociology and Demography PhD candidate, Boróka Bó

[Monique Marie VERRIER]

Dear Demography Community,

You are invited to a Student Research Roundtable on April 21 featuring
Sociology and Demography PhD candidate Boróka Bó. Please see the
announcement below for details.

*Interested parties should RSVP at canada at berkeley.edu
<canada at berkeley.edu>.*

Monique

UPCOMING EVENT
Student Research Roundtable
Colloquium | April 21 | 12:45 p.m. | Online | RSVP required

Learn about some of the fascinating student research Canadian Studies is
fostering at UC Berkeley thanks to support from our donors. This live
presentation will showcase projects from two recent fellowship recipients.
Please RSVP at canada at berkeley.e <canada at berkeley.edu>du
<canada at berkeley.edu>. If you require an accommodation for effective
communication, please let us know with as much advance notice as possible.
Good Time, Bad Time: Socioeconomic Status and the Cultural Repertoires of
Time Scarcity in Retirement
Boróka Bó, doctoral candidate in sociology and demography

We tend to think of retirement as a great equalizer when it comes to relief
from the pernicious time scarcity characterizing the lives of many
individuals in the labor force. Puzzlingly, this is not the case. Using
established research, long-term participant observation, and in-depth
interviews with Toronto residents, I show that socioeconomic
characteristics are important determinants of retiree time scarcity.
Neighborhood disadvantage gets under the skin via time exchanges that are
forged by both neighborhood and peer network characteristics. For the
advantaged, the experience of time scarcity is protective for well-being in
later life, as it emerges from managing a relative abundance of choices.
For the disadvantaged, the later life experience of time scarcity is shaped
by cumulative inequality, further exacerbating inequalities in well-being.
The final section of my talk offers an analysis and interpretation of my
findings, putting retiree time scarcity in conversation with the broader
literature on socioeconomic status and well-being.
Healing Through Language: Revitalization in the Wendat Confederacy
Fallon Burner, undergraduate history major

Language is at the core essence of identity. My honors thesis examines the
history of the languages of the Wendat Confederacy (Huron), showing the
vital role that language plays in the Indigenous community, how its history
is tied to issues of erasure and survival, and the role that language
revitalization projects have in addressing transgenerational trauma. The
Wendat Confederacy straddles the US-Canada border with nations in Québec,
Ontario/Michigan, Kansas, and Oklahoma. Distance and multiple language
barriers provide challenges for language revitalizers.

There is a strong need in the field of history for narratives which are
from an Indigenous perspective. This can be achieved through a methodology
utilizing the languages themselves and oral histories. I spent the summer
of 2019 conducting oral history interviews with Wendat and Wyandot(te)
language revitalizers, in order to create an archive of Wendat perspectives
on language revitalization. I also conducted archival research on the
Wendake reserve in Québec, and had one-on-one language instruction in the
Waⁿdat and Wendat languages. Part of my mission is to erase the erasure of
Indigenous voices by contributing more Indigenous perspective primary
sources to the historical narrative for future scholars.

-- 
*Tomás Lane*
Program Coordinator, Canadian Studies Program <https://canada.berkeley.edu/>
FLAS Coordinator, Institute of International Studies
<http://is.berkeley.edu>
University of California, Berkeley
tomaselane at berkeley.edu




-- 
Monique Verrier
Graduate Student Services Advisor
Department of Demography, UC Berkeley
Ph: 510-459-0110 (cell phone)
Hours: Monday and Tuesday 9-5, Wednesday 9-3
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