7:30 PM
Kinsella Auditorium, MMH

The Annual Endowed Chair in Criminology & Criminal Justice Lecture will take place on Monday, November 15 at 7:30 PM in the Kinsella Auditorium. The event will also be livestreamed on STU's YouTube channel.

The theme of this year's symposium will be "Interrogating Hate: From Minassian to the Military" and will include talks by STU's Endowed Chair in in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Dr Allyson Lunny (Law & Society, York University) and her guests Dr David Hofmann (Sociology, UNB) and Arunita Das (PhD candidate in Socio-Legal Studies, York University).

About the Speakers

Dr. Allyson Lunny is an Associate Professor in the Law & Society program at York University and holds the 2021 Endowed Chair in Criminology & Criminal Justice at St. Thomas University. Her research has examined the socio-legal discourses of hate crime and hate speech in legislation, judicial decisions, and popular culture. Her book Debating Hate Crime: Language, Legislatures and the Law in Canada (UBC Press, 2017) is recognized as a leading work in the field. Her recent work explores incel ideology and acts of mass violence.

Dr. David Hofmann joined the UNB Sociology department as Associate Professor in 2016. His research interests include terrorism and political violence, right-wing extremism, apocalyptical and millenarian groups, and criminal & illicit networks. David is a mixed methodologist, with a particular interest in social network analysis. He is a research fellow with the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society, and is a senior research affiliate with the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security, and Society (TSAS). His recent funded research is related to terrorist risk and threat assessment, the far-right and anti-government movements in Canada, and hate crimes in Canada and the Maritimes.

Arunita Das is a PhD candidate in Socio-Legal Studies at York University. Her doctoral research examines right-wing extremists in Canada and the role of digital technology in providing a platform for online hate speech and networks. Arunita is a Research and Communications Associate at the Inclusion Project and a junior research affiliate with the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security, and Society (TSAS). Her recent publications include an intersectional analysis of the R v Gladue decisions and an examination of the rise of hate crimes during the COVID-19 pandemic.