{"id":3926,"date":"2020-11-05T17:03:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T22:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/?p=3926"},"modified":"2025-04-29T11:13:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T15:13:32","slug":"upcoming-visiting-professor-lecture-kevin-skerrett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/2020\/upcoming-visiting-professor-lecture-kevin-skerrett\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Visiting Professor Lecture by Kevin Skerrett"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Upcoming Visiting Professor Lecture by Kevin Skerrett\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>The Institute of Political Economy is excited to announce our upcoming lecture by the fall 2020 Visiting Professor, Kevin Skerrett!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kevin will deliver a lecture on&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/cu_event\/lecture-pension-fund-capitalism-and-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-canada\/\">Pension Fund Capitalism and the Covid-19 Pandemic in Canada: A Socialist&nbsp;Perspective<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong>next Wednesday, November 18th from 19:00-20:30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<p>Kevin is currently serving as a <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/visiting-professors\/\">Fall 2020 Visiting Professor<\/a> at the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University. This semester he&nbsp;is teaching two courses, <strong>Union Power in Canada Under Neoliberal Capitalism<\/strong> (PECO 5503F) for Political Economy Work &amp; Labour Program and&nbsp;<strong>The Political Economy of the Neoliberal State&nbsp;<\/strong>for Sociology (SOCI 5806G). He was a co-editor of the Cornell University Press volume <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cornellpress.cornell.edu\/book\/9780913447147\/the-contradictions-of-pension-fund-capitalism\/#bookTabs=1\">The Contradictions of Pension Fund Capitalism<\/a> (2018). He is on leave from his work as a Senior Research Officer assigned to pensions at CUPE, the Canadian Union of Public Employees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<p>This lecture will be moderated by Dr. Stephanie Ross (Associate Professor, Director, School of Labour Studies, McMaster University).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql\">\n<p>This event will take place on Zoom. 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Kevin is currently serving as a Fall 2020 Visiting Professor at the Institute of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}