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May 15, 2008
Death toll rises in China
The death toll climbs and the rescue efforts continue in China. The region is no stranger to devastating quakes. An earthquake 75 years ago (August 1933) in the same region killed 9,300 people. Nearly 250,000 lives were lost when the city of Tangshan was heavily damaged by a magnitude-7.5 earthquake in 1976. SFU earthquake expert John Clague says earthquakes in this part of China result from the northward movement of the India plate against the Eurasia plate on which China lies. Collision of the two plates is responsible for the Himalaya mountain range (the highest on Earth) and elevation of the Tibetan Plateau to the west of Sichuan.
John Clague, jclague@sfu.ca (Clague is travelling but reachable via email to set up interviews)
Today’s independent scholar
As an award-winning essayist and novelist John Ralston Saul has had a growing impact on political and economic thought. Declared a "prophet" by TIME magazine, he is included in the Utne Reader's list of the world's 100 leading thinkers and visionaries. Saul will be the keynote speaker at a two-day symposium called Public Intellectuals Today: Modes & Models of Independent Scholarship, May 24-25 at SFU Vancouver’s Harbour Centre campus. Saul will speak on May 24 at 7:30 p.m. on The Independent Scholar and Public Intellectual In a Corporatist Era. Other speakers will include politician Jim Green, Paul Whitney, Chief Librarian, Vancouver Public Library, author Chuck Davis, philosopher Laura Duhan Kaplan, artist Antonio E. Fernández-Tonel, and arts critic Max Wyman. Elena Feder and Yosef Wosk will convene sessions. Reservations are required. Contact 778.782.5100 or cstudies@sfu.ca.
http://www.independentscholars.net/
Susan Jamieson-McLarnon, PAMR, 778.782.5010
The death toll climbs and the rescue efforts continue in China. The region is no stranger to devastating quakes. An earthquake 75 years ago (August 1933) in the same region killed 9,300 people. Nearly 250,000 lives were lost when the city of Tangshan was heavily damaged by a magnitude-7.5 earthquake in 1976. SFU earthquake expert John Clague says earthquakes in this part of China result from the northward movement of the India plate against the Eurasia plate on which China lies. Collision of the two plates is responsible for the Himalaya mountain range (the highest on Earth) and elevation of the Tibetan Plateau to the west of Sichuan.
John Clague, jclague@sfu.ca (Clague is travelling but reachable via email to set up interviews)
Today’s independent scholar
As an award-winning essayist and novelist John Ralston Saul has had a growing impact on political and economic thought. Declared a "prophet" by TIME magazine, he is included in the Utne Reader's list of the world's 100 leading thinkers and visionaries. Saul will be the keynote speaker at a two-day symposium called Public Intellectuals Today: Modes & Models of Independent Scholarship, May 24-25 at SFU Vancouver’s Harbour Centre campus. Saul will speak on May 24 at 7:30 p.m. on The Independent Scholar and Public Intellectual In a Corporatist Era. Other speakers will include politician Jim Green, Paul Whitney, Chief Librarian, Vancouver Public Library, author Chuck Davis, philosopher Laura Duhan Kaplan, artist Antonio E. Fernández-Tonel, and arts critic Max Wyman. Elena Feder and Yosef Wosk will convene sessions. Reservations are required. Contact 778.782.5100 or cstudies@sfu.ca.
http://www.independentscholars.net/
Susan Jamieson-McLarnon, PAMR, 778.782.5010