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March 19, 2010
Voice on the Israel-Palestine conflict
U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden’s effort to restart Israel-Palestine peace talks last week was doomed to failure, says Middle East expert Juan Cole. A historian and commentator on Middle East issues, Cole says peace in the region depends on Palestinians having a state of their own. Cole, the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan and author of Engaging the Muslim World, will speak on the issue at a free talk at SFU’s Surrey campus on Tuesday, March 23 at 7:30 p.m. He is available for interviews before and after the talk. For more information: www.surrey.sfu.ca/news/cruxofthemideastcrisis.html
To interview Cole, contact Derryl MacLean, director, Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures at SFU, 778.782.4437; maclean@sfu.ca
Digital scrapbooking
The SFU Library will demonstrate a new digital scrapbooking tool to promote multiculturalism during a ceremony to be held on Tuesday, March 23, at 2 p.m. at SFU's Bennett Library in the Special Collections foyer. The tool is part of an ongoing project funded by Canadian Heritage to digitize long-hidden books, photos and ephemera for the Multicultural Canada website (www.multiculturalcanada.ca). Using their own home computers, members of the public will be able to upload documents, photos and stories reflecting their own family history. "You can then publish your scrapbook as a webpage on the Multicultural Canada website for anyone in the world to see," says project leader Mark Jordan, head of information systems at the SFU Library.
Mark Jordan, 778.782.5753; mjordan@sfu.ca
Participation and exploitation on the internet
More and more people are building new communal spaces and networking online, but when does collaboration become exploitation? Graham Murdock, Reader in the Sociology of Culture at Loughborough University (U.K.) argues for a counter-balancing alternative. He calls for a public digital commons built on the integration of grass roots online participation and public cultural institutions that are re-made for the digital age. Murdock, SFU’s Smythe Memorial Lecture speaker, will share his insights on Thursday, March 25 at 7 p.m. at SFU’s Harbour Centre campus.
Susan Jamieson-McLarnon, PAMR, 778.782.5151
U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden’s effort to restart Israel-Palestine peace talks last week was doomed to failure, says Middle East expert Juan Cole. A historian and commentator on Middle East issues, Cole says peace in the region depends on Palestinians having a state of their own. Cole, the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan and author of Engaging the Muslim World, will speak on the issue at a free talk at SFU’s Surrey campus on Tuesday, March 23 at 7:30 p.m. He is available for interviews before and after the talk. For more information: www.surrey.sfu.ca/news/cruxofthemideastcrisis.html
To interview Cole, contact Derryl MacLean, director, Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures at SFU, 778.782.4437; maclean@sfu.ca
Digital scrapbooking
The SFU Library will demonstrate a new digital scrapbooking tool to promote multiculturalism during a ceremony to be held on Tuesday, March 23, at 2 p.m. at SFU's Bennett Library in the Special Collections foyer. The tool is part of an ongoing project funded by Canadian Heritage to digitize long-hidden books, photos and ephemera for the Multicultural Canada website (www.multiculturalcanada.ca). Using their own home computers, members of the public will be able to upload documents, photos and stories reflecting their own family history. "You can then publish your scrapbook as a webpage on the Multicultural Canada website for anyone in the world to see," says project leader Mark Jordan, head of information systems at the SFU Library.
Mark Jordan, 778.782.5753; mjordan@sfu.ca
Participation and exploitation on the internet
More and more people are building new communal spaces and networking online, but when does collaboration become exploitation? Graham Murdock, Reader in the Sociology of Culture at Loughborough University (U.K.) argues for a counter-balancing alternative. He calls for a public digital commons built on the integration of grass roots online participation and public cultural institutions that are re-made for the digital age. Murdock, SFU’s Smythe Memorial Lecture speaker, will share his insights on Thursday, March 25 at 7 p.m. at SFU’s Harbour Centre campus.
Susan Jamieson-McLarnon, PAMR, 778.782.5151