Archive: 2005 Activities
The Affect Research Group Presents
“Tough Broads: Unsentimental Views of Pain”
A Lecture by Dr. Deborah Nelson
Thursday, December 1, 2005
6:00 pm
Room 2270, SFU at Harbour Centre
515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver
Part Three of the Affect Research Group’s Speaker’s Series on Theories of Affect.
Dr. Deborah Nelson is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Chicago.
The Affect Research Group is an interdisciplinary and inter-university consortium of scholars from Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia. Funding for the talks is made possible through the support of: the Office of the Vice President, Research (SFU); the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (SFU); the Faculty of Health Sciences (SFU); the Institute for the Humanities (SFU); the Department of English (SFU); the School of Communication (SFU); the Department of English (UBC); the Department of French, Italian, and Hispanic Studies (UBC); and the International Canadian Studies Centre (UBC).
For more information on this lecture series, as well as our upcoming spring line-up, contact peter_dickinson@sfu.ca or rcavell@interchange.ubc.ca
Exploring Citizenship in the Context of a Marginalized Society: A Lecture by Michael Clague
November 14, 2005
5:00 pm-7:00 pm
Room 7000, SFU at Harbour Centre
515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver
The Affect Research Group Presents
The Future Birth of Affective Fact: A Lecture by
Dr. Brian Massumi
Thursday, October 20, 2005
6:00 pm
Room C680, UBC Robson Square
800 Robson Street, Vancouver
Part Two of the Affect Research Group’s Speaker’s Series on Theories of Affect.
Dr. Brian Massumi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the Univérsité de Montréal.
The Affect Research Group is an interdisciplinary and inter-university consortium of scholars from Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia. Funding for the talks is made possible through the support of: the Office of the Vice President, Research (SFU); the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (SFU); the Faculty of Health Sciences (SFU); the Institute for the Humanities (SFU); the Department of English (SFU); the School of Communication (SFU); the Department of English (UBC); the Department of French, Italian, and Hispanic Studies (UBC); and the International Canadian Studies Centre (UBC).
For more information on this lecture series, as well as our upcoming spring line-up, contact peter_dickinson@sfu.ca or rcavell@interchange.ubc.ca
Derrida and His Legacy
Thursday, October 13, 2005
5:00 pm–7:00 pm
SFU at Harbour Centre
Room 7000, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver
The work of Jacques Derrida, activist and theorist, will be the subject of this open and informal panel discussion, hosted and sponsored by the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University.
Ian Angus, (Humanities, SFU), Lorraine Weir, (English, UBC), Samir Gandesha (Humanities, SFU), and Alessandra Capperdoni (PhD candidate, English, SFU) will approach the legacy of Derrida from a number of perspectives. Panelists will consider, for example: how we can situate Derrida's work within current philosophical contexts; Derrida's work in relation to current debates around national security, citizenship, indigenous claims, migratory flows and international justice; some of the controversies that Derrida's work generated; and to what extent deconstruction is to be regarded as an immanent critique of the legacy of the Enlightenment.
Panelist's presentations and discussion will be moderated by Andrew Feenberg, Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology, in the School of Communication at SFU.
The Affect Research Group Presents
Reading in White Time: A Lecture by Dr. Cindy Patton
Thursday, October 6, 2005
6:00 pm
SFU at Harbour Centre
Segal Centre, Room 1420
515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver
Part One of the Affect Research Group’s Speaker’s Series on Theories of Affect.
This lecture is part of Dr. Patton's current research project on the “problem films” in post-World War II USA, which argues that their introduction of Method acting helps engender a new form of political affectivity. Working from a close reading of Ethel Waters’s first autobiography (1950), and her performance in the blockbuster film Pinky (1949), the lecture assesses the legacy of the late 1940s efforts by novelists and filmmakers to deal with the “problem” of American prejudice by creating works that invited those in dominant positions to imagine themselves in the position of those they oppress. Placing these works in the context of the subsequent rise and critique of identity politics, the lecture then considers whether Lyotard's analysis of holocaust deniers has conceptual utility for developing forms of “reading across” the power gradients that continue to define American race relations.
The Affect Research Group is an interdisciplinary and inter-university consortium of scholars from Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia. Funding for the talks is made possible through the support of: the Office of the Vice President, Research (SFU); the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (SFU); the Faculty of Health Sciences (SFU); the Institute for the Humanities (SFU); the Department of English (SFU); the School of Communication (SFU); the Department of English (UBC); the Department of French, Italian, and Hispanic Studies (UBC); and the International Canadian Studies Centre (UBC).
For more information on this lecture series, as well as our upcoming spring line-up, contact peter_dickinson@sfu.ca or rcavell@interchange.ubc.ca
Gandhi Jayanti Garlanding Ceremony and Award Presentation
October 2, 2005
The Thakore Charitable Foundation, the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University, and the India Club will be celebrating Mahatma Gandhi's birthday, on Sunday, October 2nd, 2005 at Simon Fraser University. The program on October 2 will begin at 6:45 p.m. with a garlanding ceremony in Peace Square, SFU, followed by the award presentation and cultural program in Images Theatre beginning at 7:30 p.m. For more information visit www.gandhijayanti.com
Human Rights and Social Activism: Rethinking the Legacy of J.S. Woodsworth
September 22–24, 2005
SFU at Harbour Centre
515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver
J.S. Woodsworth was a major figure in the first half of the 20th century with influence in labour politics, the social gospel religious tradition, the birth of a political party (CCF), immigration policy, and the founding policies of the welfare state. This conference will not only celebrate Woodsworth's many achievements but will also re-open some of the debates in which he participated in the light of subsequent social, legal and political changes.
For more information, please visit the conference website.
TransCanada: Literature, Institutions, Citizenship
June 23–26, 2005
Co-sponsors of the conference TransCanada: Literature, Institutions, Citizenship at SFU Harbour Centre and the Wosk Centre for Dialogue. Full program details at: www.transcanadas.ca
“A Most Dangerous Woman”: Emma Goldman — Digitizing her Legacy of Anarchism and Activism
June 11, 2005 / 12:45–1:30 pm
SFU Vancouver, Harbour Centre
Room 1600, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver
Barry Pateman is associate editor of The Emma Goldman Papers, University of California, Berkeley. This lecture is in association with the IWW—The First 100 Years and Thinking Through Action Conferences, June 10-12, 2005 at SFU Harbour Centre.
Citizenship and the Common Good: Secularism or the Inclusive Society?
May 19–20, 2005
Co-sponsors of the symposium, “Citizenship and the Common Good: Secularism or the Inclusive Society?” at SFU Harbour Centre. Co-chairs: Donald Grayston, Associate and Former Director, Institute for the Humanities, SFU; Iain Benson, Executive Director, Centre for Cultural Renewal. Program.
A SANSAD Public Forum: U.S. Hegemony and South Asia: A Talk by Tariq Ali
April 29, 2005 / 7–9 pm
Canadian Auto Workers Union (CAW) Hall
326–12th Street, New Westminster, BC
Internationally renowned anti-imperialist and anti-war activist, historian, journalist, film- maker, and novelist, Tariq Ali will be in Vancouver to speak on the impact of US imperialist war and war mongering on the world and its particular effect on South Asia.
South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy (SANSAD) phone : (604) 420-2972; fax: (604) 420-2970; email sansad@sansad.org.
Co-sponsorship by the Canadian Auto Workers Union, New Westminister, Institute for the Humanities, SFU, Department of English, SFU, and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, SFU
The Reality of the Virtual, Slavoj Zizek
April 14, 2005 / 7 pm
The Institute for the Humanities presents Zizek's "The Reality of the Virtual" which will be screened on April 14th at 7 pm.
Citizenship, Civil Society and the Idea of Home: A Lecture by Ted Chamberlin
April 11, 2005 / 7:30 pm
SFU Vancouver, Harbour Centre
Room 1800, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver
J. Edward (Ted) Chamberlin is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. Chamberlin will be giving the opening lecture for the Institute for the Humanities in its new focus on “Reclaiming Citizenship”.
SFU Writer-in-Residence Colloquium and Reading. Citizen: Imagination and Agency
March 9, 2005
SFU Vancouver, Harbour Centre
Room 7000, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver
A one-day colloquium sponsored by the Writer-in-Residence Program, English Department, Simon Fraser University.
2:15 pm — Keynote Address: Daphne Marlatt, SFU Writer-in-Residence.
Critical Paper: Alessandra Capperdoni, “On Swells and Surges: Pleasure-Holes and Dangerous Zones in Daphne Marlatt's Migratory Poetic.”
2:30–4:30 pm — Roundtable Discussion, “Citizen: Imagination and Agency”: Larissa Lai, Fred Wah, Wayde Compton, Samir Gandesha, and Sophie McCall.
7:30–9:30 pm — Evening reading with Wayde Compton, Larissa Lai, Rajinderpal S. Pal, Jacqueline Turner.
All Events Free. Thanks to the Canada Council, Graduate Liberal Studies, West Coast Line, and the Asia-Canada Program for funding assistance. Contact the Department of English at SFU for further information.
Building Strategies Towards more Effective Partnerships between Major Institutions/Industries and Communities
March 8, 2005 / 1–3:30 pm
SFU Vancouver, Harbour Centre
Room 2050, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver
Co-sponsors of the Dr. David Maurrasse Public Forum, “Building Strategies Towards more Effective Partnerships between Major Institutions/Industries and Communities” at SFU Vancouver.
Lessons Learned about Community-University Partnerships
March 7, 2005 / 2:30–3:30 pm
SFU Vancouver, Harbour Centre
Segal Centre, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver
Co-sponsors of the Dr. David Maurrasse Public Forum, “Lessons Learned about Community-University Partnerships” at SFU Vancouver.
Islamic Empire, Pax Americana, or a World of Law: A Lecture by Gwynne Dyer
February 28, 2005 / 7:30 pm
SFU Vancouver, Harbour Centre
Segal Centre, 515 West Hastings, Vancouver
What has blown us so far off course, and where do we go from here? American soldiers are mired in the Middle East, there is a permanent panic about terrorism, and all the rules and organizations we have been building since 1945 to make the world a safer place are eroding fast. With NATO fading, the United Nations at risk, and the United States lost in Lone Ranger territory, the world seems to be sliding back towards the old international anarchy. But the decline into chaos is not inevitable. The world's agenda has actually been hijacked by two projects that are very much from the margins, and if we do not over-react they will burn out of their own accord.
GWYNNE DYER has worked as a freelance journalist, columnist, broadcaster and lecturer on international affairs for more than 20 years. Born in Newfoundland, he received degrees from Canadian, American and British universities, finishing with a Ph.D. in Military and Middle Eastern History from the University of London. He served in three navies and held academic appointments at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and Oxford University. Since 1973, his major activity has been his twice-weekly column on international affairs, which is published by 150 papers in some 35 countries. With the recent sale of the Southam newspaper in eastern Canada, his column now appears once again in all the newspapers of the four Atlantic provinces. His first television series, the 7-part documentary War was aired in 45 countries in the mid-80s. His more recent works include the 1994 series The Human Race, and Protection Force, a three-part series on peacekeepers in Bosnia, both of which won Gemini awards. His award-winning radio documentaries include The Gorbachev Revolution, a seven-part series based on Dyer's experiences in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union in 1987-90, and Millennium, a six-hour series on the emerging global culture. Dyer's most recent book is Ignorant Armies: Sliding into War in Iraq, which was the number-one non-fiction bestseller in Canada in the spring of 2003. His next book, from McClelland & Stewart, is Future: Tense.
Sponsored by the Institute for the Humanities, the office of the President and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at SFU.
Getting Gender into the Agenda: Canadian Policy on Information and Communications Technology
February 25, 2005 / 5:30 pm
SFU Vancouver, Harbour Centre
Room 1600, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver
With Dr. Leslie Regan Shade, Concordia University, Montreal. Professor Shade's talk will trace Canadian policy initiatives whose goals have been to insert a gender-based analysis into universal access policy to the Internet. Early policy formulations on what was dubbed the "information highway", by both public interest groups and the Canadian federal government, recommended that initiatives consider gender as an important category to include in universal access definitions.
For more information call 604.268.6917 or visit http://artsandscience.concordia.ca/comm/shade.html
The Eighth International Conference on Philosophy and Culture: Unity and Diversity in Religion and Culture
Jan 27-30, 2005
Seattle, Washington
With the Institute's financial support, four people were able to attend, make presentations and to represent Simon Fraser University at this UNESCO conference: Prof. Meg Holden (Geography), Larry Green (an Institute associate), Angus McBlane (SFU student and Humanities major) and Donald Grayston (previous director of the Institute and faculty member of Humanities). The conference brought together many outstanding practitioners of conflict resolution and social analysis. The next UNESCO-related conference of this kind will take place in Paris in 2006.
Environmental Refugees: Cutting to the Quick of the Globalisation Challenge. A Lecture by Cassandra Star
January 27, 2005
Cassandra Star, Resident Scholar with the Institute for the Humanities. In January 2005, the Institute hosted the residency of Cassandra Star, from the department of Politics and Public Policy of Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. On January 27th, Star gave a public lecture at SFU entitled Environmental Refugees: Cutting to the Quick of the Globalisation Challenge. Dr. Star's lecture focused on global environmental politics, the politics of climate change and environmentally induced displacement and environmental refugees. A transcript of this lecture is available upon request. Please contact grahama@sfu.ca to order a copy.
