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The ERICA Chair Day
Find out more about the conferences presented at the event by clicking on the link!
Félix Dusseau thesis defence – 16 June 2025 – 9.30am to 12pm (at UQAM and on Zoom).
🎉 It is with great joy 🎉 that we announce 📆 the date of the viva of our colleague Félix Dusseau
📆 16 June 2025
🕔 from 9h30 to 12h (Montreal time – 15h30 to 18h France time).
📍At UQAM, in room A5020 or on Zoom (contact Félix Dusseau for the link).
The annual conference of the PRFM & ERICA Chair : 
La norme du couple 
à l’épreuve : Intimité, parentalité 
et faire famille 
hors du cadre conjugal.
The Chaire Erica is taking part, this Friday 23 May, from 8.30 am in the conference co-organised with the research partnership Familles en mouvance.
Find out more about the very interesting programme, which brings together an international panel of researchers.
Our Chair Chiara Piazzesi will be giving the closing lecture at ✨️ Living outside a couple: a case study of non-monogamous, single and non-cohabiting people. ✨️
ERICA Chair Day – Wednesday 14 May 2025 – 8.30am to 2.40pm – UQAM (DS-1950) and Zoom
In preparation for this great event, and to encourage eco-responsible practices, please bring your own reusable mug and water bottle for the day.
To mark the one-year anniversary of the ERICA Chair, we are organising a one-day conference bringing together a panel of researchers from different geographical and academic backgrounds, all of whom are dedicated to exploring the topic of intimacy.
Our bilingual event will take place on Wednesday 14 May 2025 between 8.30 a.m. and 2.40 p.m. (Montreal time) [from 2.30 p.m. in France] in hybrid for our guests.
To register, all you have to do is follow one of the links below:
In person: at UQAM in room DS-1950 (Pavillon J.-A._DeSève (DS) at 20, rue Sainte-Catherine Est, Montréal, H2X 1L7). –
A free buffet lunch will be served on site.
Find out more about the programme
ERICA lunchtime Talks – Selemani Djemba – Monday, April 14th 2024 from 12h30 to 13h30 – on ZOOM
Selemani Djemba, a master’s student in sociology at UQAM, will present her work
Marriage and dowry: Baluba women of the Belgian diaspora and tradition
When: Monday 14 April 2025 from 12.30 to 1.30 pm
Where: Zoom
To register, follow the link!
ERICA lunchtime Talks – Rajae Anys – Monday, March 17th 2024 from 12h30 to 13h30 – on ZOOM
Rajae Anys, a PhD student in sociology at UQAM, will present her work on
Marriage of underage girls in Morocco: a qualitative study of the factors encouraging this intimate practice among adult husbands
When: Monday March 17, 2025 from 12:30 to 1:30 pm
Where: on Zoom
ERICA SPEAKER SERIES- Amy Moors – Friday, January 24th at 11am – on Zoom
Amy Moors, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Chapman University and researcher at the Kinsey Institute, presented her work entitled
« Relationship Quality and Sexual Health: Addressing Common Misconceptions about People engaged in Consensual Non-monogamy ».
ERICA lunchtime Talks – Monday, January 13th 2024 from 12h30 to 13h30 – on ZOOM
Amélie Cousineau, PhD student in Population Studies at the Institut National de Recherche Scientifique (INRS) presented her work entitled
“Représentations des agressions sexuelles dans la télésérie québécoise “M’entends-tu ?”.
ERICA lunchtime Talks – Monday, December 9th 2024 from 12h30 to 13h30
Jules Pector-Lallemand, PhD student in sociology at the Université of Montréal and student member of the ERICA Chair, presented his work on “Les cadres de l’intimité: le casual, la fréquentation, le sérieux”
ERICA SPEAKER SERIES- Christine Détrez – Friday, December 6th 2024 at 9am
Christine Détrez, professor of sociology at the ENS in Lyon, presented her work: Pour un crush avec toi : une nouvelle éducation sentimentale ?
ERICA SPEAKER SERIES – Hélène Belleau – Friday, November 29th, 2024 – 9am
Hélène Belleau, sociologist and full professor at INRS’s Centre Urbanisation, Culture et Société, presented her work on “Long-term money management: an overlooked or an unthinkable of married life?”
ERICA lunchtime Talks – Aziliz Kondracki – Monday, November 18th 2024 – 12h30 à 1:30 pm
Aziliz, PhD student in Anthropology at CeRCLEs, presented her research on reality TV, entitled ‘Ordinary beauties: The selection of candidates for the reality TV show “Married at First Sight” in Poland’.
Lunchtime talk – Poul Poder – Monday, october, 28th 2024 from 12h30 to 2pm:
ERICA lunchtime Talks – Monday october, 21st 2024 from 12h30 to 1:30 pm:
Meygan St Louis, a PhD student in history at UQTR, presented her work on Madonna’s SEX (1992): an analysis of the origins and manifestations of American bourgeois sexual culture.
Call for participation (2023/2024)
Call for participation in the study conducted by our colleague Noé Klein (PhD candidate specialised in digital media & coordinator of the MACLIC project) on the use of dating platforms by 25-35 year-olds!
You will receive a $20 gift card with your second interview!
Contact: klein.noe@courrier.uqam.ca
The new issue of the sociology magazine Siggi is finally here! …. and the theme is ‘love’ ❤️
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