Archive: 1983-89 Activities

  • 1983 Readings in Critical Thought and Cultural Literacy, Edited by Steve Duguid
  • 1983 National Humanities Conference
  • 1984 Bureaucracy and Culture Conference
  • 1985 Tradition and Modernity: Contemporary Perspectives on the Humanities, ed. by David Wallace
  • 1986 Issues in Education and Culture: On Teaching Peace
  • 1988 "November 1918: Seventy Years After," conference co-sponsor.
  • 1988 GRANT: co-sponsorship of week of Brecht performances and lectures, with John Willett.
  • 1988 Mihaly Vajda, Visiting Professor, Trent University, "Culture and Power Struggles in the Modern World," lecture.
  • 1988 George McRobie, Public Lecture, "International Experiences with Appropriate Technology."
  • 1988 Aleksey Levin, visiting Professor, University of Maryland: "Science and Conflict in Soviet Institutions," public lectures (co-sponsor).
  • 1988 J.S. Woodsworth Conference
  • 1988 Wolf Dieter-Narr, 1988 JS Woodsworth Distinguished Visiting Speaker in Peace, Justice and Human Rights, "Are Human Rights Obsolete? Towards a Materialist Theory of Human Rights," seminar.
  • 1988 GRANT: Mnemos, interdisciplinary periodical of cultural theory, analysis and criticism (inaugural issue Jan. 1989).
  • 1988 Ruth Richardson, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, "The Corpse and Popular Culture" (lecture)
  • 1988 Russell Jacoby, roundtable discussion on The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe, co-sponsor.
  • 1988 GRANT: Vancouver Medieval Symposium, travel grant.
  • 1988 Edward Said, "Culture and Imperialism," conference at UBC, with E. Said giving keynote address (co-sponsor).
  • 1988 "Education for What?" colloquium with SFU faculty Barry Beyerstein (Psychology), Diane Ingraham (Engineering Science) and Judith Osborne (Criminology).
  • 1988 Philip Bereano, Professor of Engineering, University of Washington, "Towards a Socially Responsible Science: What Can A University Do?" public lecture, co-sponsor.
  • 1988 GRANT: Verus Productions, video on ordination of gay persons in the United Church of Canada.
  • 1988 GRANT: John Wilcox, instructor, Readings in Critical Thought and Cultural Literacy, offered at Carnegie Community Centre, Fall 1987, Spring 1988.
  • 1988 Intellectuals and the University Symposium
  • 1988 Archie Roy, University of Glasgow, "Sun Stones and Speculation: The Genius of Megalithic Man" (public lecture).
  • 1988-92 Institute for the Humanities Newsletter and Issues in Education and Culture
  • 1988-92 Institute for the Humanities Newsletter and Issues in Education and Culture
  • several dates Aesthetics and modernism symposia, lectures, or conferences, including on Freud, Rousseau, Newton, and Foucault
  • 1989 "The Last Intellectuals Colloquium," Russell Jacoby, Wolf Dieter Narr (Free University, Berlin), Bryan Palmer (Queen's University). lecture and discussion.
  • 1989 Lothar Bredella, Professor of American Language and Literature, University of Giessen, Germany, "Stereotypes of German Culture in American Television," and "Reception Theory, Literary Context and Intercultural Understanding," co-sponsored with Goethe Institute, as part of "Mounties, Lederhosen, Rock'n'Roll: Culture Stereotypes" program.
  • 1989 Ursula Franklin, Professor of Metallurgy and Science, University of Toronto, "Responsibility in Science: Can It Be Taught?" public lecture.
  • 1989 "Human Rights and the Disappeared" A Canada-Latin America Consultation," consultations co-sponsored with the Centre for Education, Law and Society and Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies.
  • 1989 "Cuba: The New Face of Socialism," lecture series, co-sponsor.
  • 1989 Andr�s Boz�ki, Faculty of Law and Politics, Roland E�tv�s-University, Budapest, "New Movements and Old Ideologies: The Making of Post-Communist Society in Hungary," public lecture.
  • 1989 O.A.W. Dilke, Emeritus Professor of Latin, Leeds University, "Mathematical Practitioners of Ancient Rome," lecture, co-sponsor.
  • 1989 Volker Honeman, University of G�ttingen, West Germany, "Anti-Semitism and the Middle Ages," lecture, co-sponsor.
  • 1989 J.S. Woodsworth Resident Scholar: Alan Rudrum, SFU Department of English.
  • 1989 Sadhu Singh Dhami, "Maluka: A Novel," reading, co-sponsor.
  • 1989 Oxford, Wessex and Ambleside Travel-Study Program scholarships.
  • 1989-92 Yearbook of Correctional Education, ed. by Stephen Duguid
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