Archive: 1996-97 Activities
- 1996 Gandhi Collection Ceremony: completed works of Mahatma Gandhi donated by India Consulate to SFU Library through the Institute for the Humanities at SFU.
- 1996 Charles Altieri, visiting speaker, SFU
- 1996 "Peace in the Middle East?" Noam Chomsky, visiting speaker, in cooperation with Jews for a Just Peace, the Unitarian Social Action Committee, and the United Jewish Peoples Order.
- 1996 "Voices: An Oral History and Community Workshop," Vancouver, co-sponsor
- 1996 Lothar Bredella, "Post Colonialism and Intercultural Understanding: Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Tar Baby." SFU Burnaby
- 1996 Christine Delphy, visiting speaker, SFU, co-sponsor.
- 1996 Robert Hullot-Kentor, visiting Lecturer, SFU
- 1996 International Philosophy Symposium, co-sponsored with the Italian Cultural Institute, the Alliance Francais, and the Goethe Institute of Vancouver.
- 1996 "Photography and the Public Sphere:" lecture series, co-sponsor
- 1996 Gandhi Ceremonies and the Thakore Visiting Scholar Award: Aung San Suu Kyi and The Canadian Friends of Burma
- 1996 Ed Broadbent, visiting speaker in the "Problems and Prospects of Social Democracy series: Human Rights in the Age of Globalization"
- 1996 Josef Silverstein: The idea of Freedom and the Political thought of Aung San Suu Kyi, October 6, '95, at Harbour Centre. In coordination with the Gandhi Commemorative program, and as part of the Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation Lecture Series. Josef Silverstein's lecture focused on the idea of freedom in Burma and the seeking of peaceful solutions.
- 1996 "The NDP in Power: Social Democratic Governments in Canada" (JS Woodsworth Chair conference)
- 1996 Rakesh Shankar, visiting lecturer, SFU
- 1996 Ambedkar Collection, donation to SFU Library
- 1996 Habib Tanvir, "Performing Shakespeare with Tribals in India," Halpern Centre, SFU
- 1996 Carmelo Carabetta, "Corrado Alvaro: Between Tradition and Modernity," lecture, SFU.
- 1996 Mordecai Briemberg, "Is the Peace Process Dead?" HC
- 1996 Christopher Norris, "Text & Lumps: How to Tell the difference; on Richard Rorty" SFU-HC
- 1996 Steven Lukes, "Is Universalism Ethnocentric?" lecture, SFU.
- 1996 Casey Blake, "Between Civics and Politics: The Modernist Moment in American Public Art." lecture, SFU.
- 1996 Diana Cooke Lecture: "Is Class a Difference that Makes a Difference?" SFU.
- 1996-97 Lecture Series, "Old Mind and Bodies in New Worlds II: A Darwinian Perspective on our Past, Present, and Future" (C. Crawford, Psychology, coordinator): Eaton, "Stoneagers in the Fast Lane: Evolution, Culture and Health;" Eaton, "Questions in Evolutionary Medicine;" Singh, "Shape and Meaning of Feminine Beauty: Historical and Cross-cultural Perspectives."
- 1996-97 GRANT: development funds for "Common Journeys: Women Walking Together," (project) Debbie Bell, Continuing Studies
- 1996-97 GRANT: development funds for "Activism and Apocalypse: Politics in the Shadow of the Silent Majorities" (seminar series), Richard Day, Sociology and Anthropology
- 1996-97 Joanne Brown Endowment: committed for the Publication of Sentences and Paroles (the final edition of the Prison Journal).
- 1996-97 GRANT: development funds for "Labour Studies Colloquia," Tom Nesbit, Labour Program
- 1996-97 Lecture Series, "Old Mind and Bodies in New Worlds I":Singh, "Waist-to-hip Ratio: An Indicator of Health, Fecundity and Attractiveness;" Orians, "Evolutionary Aesthetics: Humans and Habitats;" Haig, "Internal conflicts: Genetics, mimetics, and the divided Self;" Alexander, "Darwin versus the Darwinists: Science, Politics, and Clinical Depression;" Ydenberg, "The Logic and Limitations of Darwinian Thinking."
- 1996-97 GRANT: development funds for "Training for What? Education for Whom?" (video and print series), Stephen Duguid, Graduate Liberal Studies, Wayne Knights, c/o Graduate Liberal Studies, Mary Ann McEwen, c/o Graduate Liberal Studies
- 1996-98 GRANT: development funds for "Old Minds and Bodies in New Worlds: A Darwinian Perspective on our Past, Present, and Future," (lecture series) Charles Crawford, Psychology Department.
- 1996-99 Our Own Backyard Project: a community based project in the Grandview Woodlands area in coordination with Britannia Community Education with funding support from the Bronfmann Foundation.
- 1996-pres. Gandhi Centre for Alternatives to Violence (fund-raising project)
- 1996/97 Activism and Apocalypse Series (Richard Day, Psychology, coordinator): "Dead and Live Power; " "The Shift in the Left Imaginary;" Hirsh and Singh, "Networks and Counter Networks;" at La Quena, Vancouver. Raman, "Globalization and its Impact on the Working Women of India," Burnaby
- 1996/97 Looking at Labour Series (Tom Nesbit, Labour Studies, SFU, coordinator): "Implementing BC21 Objectives: the Example of the Island Highway;" "Labour and Politics; " "Guy Letts, Looking at Labour;" "Trade Unions and Employee Representation in the Czech Republic;" "Masters in their Own House? Worker-Owned Cooperatives in Shanghai." Burnaby;" "Looking at Labour" (all at SFU).
- 1996/97 GRANT: development funds for "LifeStrains" (publications and workshop on biotechnology), Scott McFarlane, English Department, and Sourayan Mookerjea, School of Communication
- 1997 Dr. George J. Aditjondro, Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Newcastle University, NSW, Australia, "The Current Environmental Crisis in Indonesia", lecture.
- 1997 GRANT: development funds for "Minority Rights in Politics and the Ideal of Personal Autonomy: A Talk by Will Kymlicka," Sam Black, English
- 1997 Human Rights and Democratic Development: East Timor and Indonesia (conference) "East Timor Perspectives on History and the Future;" "Perspectives on E. Timor and Indonesia; East Timor as a Canadian Issue;" "Freedom of Conscience -- Religious Perspectives on Human Rights in Indonesia and East Timor;" Screening of "Bitter Paradise: The Sell-Out of East Timor," and Closing Address by Jose Ramos Horta (various locations in Vancouver).
- 1997 GRANT: development funds for "The New Millennium": Not Everything Will Change; Not Everyone Will Notice," (photography exhibit), Hari Sharma, Sociology and Anthropology
- 1997 Ed Broadbent, "On Quebec."
- 1997 Grace McInnis Visiting Scholar Program, Lynn MacDonald, Visiting speaker. "Florence Nightingale: Pioneer Activist and Theorist and the Origins of Public Health Care," SFU.
- 1997 GRANT: development funds for "Learning From Shaugnessy: The Role of Design Guidelines in Adjudicating Community Conflicts," Don Alexander, School of Resource and Environmental Management
- 1997 GRANT: development funds for "Sabbath of the Land or Utopia of Work" (survey; seminars; communications tools), Tom Nesbitt, Labour Studies; Tom Walker
- 1997 Symposium on Housing in the Community, sponsored by the Bronfman Foundation.
- 1997 Gandhi Commemorative Program and Thakore Visiting Scholar, Mary Wynn Ashford, lectures on Gandhi.
- 1997 John O'Neill, lecture, "Utopia and McTopia"
- 1997 Remo Bodei, lecture, (with Humanities Program) "The Reason of the Passions from the Aeneid to Dante."
- 1997 Judith Brown, lecture on Gandhi as Victorian Gentleman
- 1997 Andre Gundar Frank, lecture (with Sociology and Anthropology)
- 1997 GRANT: development funds for "One Day Seminar on Rene Girard," Dany Lacombe, French
- 1997 Hans Gumbrecht talk (with Latin American Studies and Humanities)
- 1997 GRANT: development funds for "To write the misery of late 16th century France," (conference sched. for 1999). Guy Poirier, French
- 1997 GRANT: development funds for "Mythological Perspectives on Community, Autonomy and Authenticity: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference," (Sharon Alker and Sarah Parry, English)
- 1997-98 Ed Broadbent, JS Woodsworth Chair, Inaugural Lecture
- Gisele Mathiew-Castellani, "Rhetorique et Autobiographie"
- Douwe Fokkema, "Internation Postmodernism" (Coach House, Green College)
- Gary Geddes and Sharon Thesen reading
- Tatiana Bubnova and Desiderio Navarro, "Bakhtin and Cultural Studies in the Hispanic World"
- P. Sainath, "Development and Displacement (A Report from India)"
