Keynote address: SSS is pleased to announce that Dr. William K. Carroll will be our 2006 keynote speaker. Dr. Carroll’s speech is entitled 'Hegemony, counter-hegemony, anti-hegemony'.

Bill Carroll is a critical sociologist with research interests in the areas of social movements and social change, the political economy of corporate capitalism, and critical social theory and method. A professor at the University of Victoria, where he teaches in Sociology and in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Cultural, Social and Political Thought, his current projects include a longitudinal investigation of networks of global corporate power and a study of democratic media reform as an emergent social movement (forthcoming as Remaking Media [Routledge, 2006], co-authored with Bob Hackett). Among Dr. Carroll’s recent publications are Challenges and Perils: Social Democracy in Neo-Liberal Times (Fernwood, 2005, co-edited with Bob Ratner) and Critical Strategies for Social Research (CSPI, 2004). He has won the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association’s John Porter Prize twice: in 1988 for Corporate Power and Canadian Capitalism (UBC Press, 1986) and in 2005 for Corporate Power in a Globalizing World (Oxford University Press, 2004).  His Organizing Dissent (Garamond Press), published in 1992 and in a revised edition in 1997, was a widely read text. He has held visiting fellowships and appointments at the University of Amsterdam, Griffith University, Kanazawa State University and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences. During the summer of 2003 he was Visiting Professor at the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University. Carroll is a Research Associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and a member of Sociologists Without Borders.