Archive: 2007 Activities
Simons Student Citizenship Presentations and Panel Discussion: Panel Two
Thursday, November 15, 2007
SFU, Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings
Room 7000
7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Please note that while this event is free and open to the public, reserved seating is recommended . Please call 778-782-5100 or e-mail cs_hc@sfu.ca to reserve a seat.
This panel discussion is the second evening public presentation of the Simons Student Citizenship Program award recipients.
SFU student presenters:
Stacey Fitzsimmons. Seeing Life through Bicultural Frames: Real-life Primes for Bicultural Frame Switching. Due in part to the rapid increase in numbers of bicultural individuals in the workplace, a recent stream of experimental research been increasingly focused on when and why bicultural individuals switch from one cultural frame to another. This presentation, based on an interview based study, asks what the real-life situations are that might lead to this shift.
Narcisa Medianu. Diversity and Urban Citizenship in Canadian Cities. This presentation looks at the tensions between multiculturalism, as a state policy, and the phenomenon of insurgent citizenship which brings into focus the importance of local participation and the transformation of public space in a way that would reflect cultural diversity.
Sacha Ludgate. The Compromise of Canadian Multiculturalism Policy: Group Rights vs. Women's Rights. This presentation will review research into how group rights can conflict with women's rights within the Canadian framework of multiculturalism policy.When the underlying function of multiculturalism is to preserve minority cultures, what happens when the values of these minority cultures are not in congruence with gender equality?
Bethany Koepke. Remembering. This presentation discusses a creative project which aims to provide a conceptual framework that will facilitate discussion about citizenship-related issues that are otherwise difficult to access. Remembering, is a story about a people who wake up in a cave, four times a century, to recreate their civilization. They do not recall anything from their past: they have forgotten their identities, their culture, their ways of life. All that remains is their language.
Simons Student Citizenship Presentations and Panel Discussion: Panel One
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings
Room 7000
7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Please note that while this event is free and open to the public, reserved seating is recommended . Please call 778-782-5100 or e-mail cs_hc@sfu.ca to reserve a seat.
This panel discussion is the first evening public presentation of the Simons Student Citizenship Program award recipients. With the support of the Simons Foundation, the Institute for the Humanities invited SFU students to submit written proposals that focused on issues related to citizenship. The following presentations and discussion is the first public presentation of selected students' research work.
SFU student presenters:
Patrick Belanger. Climate Science, Economic Tropes and Cultural Inertia. This presentation discusses the influence exerted by conventional patterns of belief on the formation of public environmental policy. Of specific interest are the discursive tactics by which prominent North American think-tanks have attempted to discredit a broad consensus in research, and thereby encourage public apathy and reluctance in government to implement regulatory policy.
Cameron Clark. The Modern Denial of Irrational Thought. This presentation approaches such questions as: Is there an inherent conflict between scientific thought and religious thought? Can the two ever be reconciled, or even coexist within a consistent worldview? With the recent popularization of a particularly militant brand of atheism (Dawkins, Dennett, Harris, Hitchens etc.) it is more important than ever to clarify our thinking on these questions.
Nicholas Hauck. Thinking through Philosophy: The event of Transitory Citizenship. Through an examination of Alain Badiou's thought in conversation with other 20th century thinkers, this presentation discusses the researcher's attempts to understand the function and place of philosophy today. While the 20th century is fraught with discourses of ends, citizenship demands active thinking and participation, thus philosophy must rethink the role it has assumed in order to answer these demands.
Enclosure and Emancipatory Communication in the Global City: An international conference of the Union for Democratic Comminications
Hosted by SFU's School of Communication and co-sponsored by SFU's Institute for the Humanities and Faculty of Applied Sciences, the British Columbia Library Association and the Union for Democratic Communications.
October 25-27, 2007
SFU Vancouver, Harbour Centre
515 West Hastings
For further information and to register go to http://www.sfu.ca/conferences/udc2007
Public lecture: Prof. Saskia Sassen, The Global City: Strategic Site/New Frontier
Friday, October 26, 2007
SFU Vancouver, Harbour Centre
515 West Hastings
Room 1400
7 p.m.
Sassen's books include The Global City (1991); Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (2006); and A Sociology of Globalization (2007). Her books have been translated into 16 languages, and she has recently completed a five-year 30-country project on sustainable human settlement for UNESCO.
Free, but seating is limited: tickets are dispensed at the door on a first come, first-served basis.
Friday Oct. 26, 4.30-7 p.m., Concourse, SFU (Harbour Centre) Vancouver.
Media Democracy Day/Vancouver Independent Media Fair. Free, no ticket needed. See <http://www.democraticmedia.ca>
Judges, Justice and Citizenship: A Public Conversation
Hosted by the Citizenship and Social Justice group of the Institute for the Humanities
Friday, October 5, 2007
SFU, Harbour Centre
Segal Centre
8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Please note that while this event is free and open to the public, reserved seating is required. Please call 778-782-5100 or e-mail cs_hc@sfu.ca to reserve a seat. If you do not plan on attending all of the panels throughout the day, please specify which panel(s) you will be attending.
Our ideas about citizenship and social justice are shaped by many forces (for example, by our own experiences within the legal system, and also by television and print media). In this day-long event, we are bringing experts and judicial representatives in areas such as community justice, immigration law, and specialized courts, together with journalists, community advocates, and academics researching the classical foundations and contemporary notions about judges and juries, including mediatized courtrooms, and scholars in criminology and legal geographies. Our aim is to join targeted presentations with lively public dialog.
The Program for October 5th:
(8:30-9:00) Registration: sign in if you have reserved a seat.
Note that on-site requests for reserved seating will be accepted, but only if there is space. Seats reserved beforehand will be given priority.
(9:00 -9:15) Welcoming Remarks
9:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Panel I: Transforming Disputes: Private Persons; Public Concerns in the First Democracy, Classical Athens. (Discussant: Steve Wexler, UBC Faculty of Law); David Mirhady (SFU Humanities) Citizen Judges in Athenian Courts; Craig Cooper (University of Winnipeg Classics) Determining Justice in Athens
Coffee 10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
(10:45 a.m. - 12:00 noon)
Panel II: Transforming Disputes: Private Persons; Public Concerns in Contemporary Canada (Discussant: Margaret Jackson, SFU Criminology)
a) Judge Thomas Gove (B.C. Provincial Court Judge) Problem-solving Courts
b) Carol LaPrairie (Research consultant) Emerging Specialized Courts and the Adversarial System
Lunch 12:00 - 1:00 (provided by the Institute for the Humanities for all those who have reserved a seat).
1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Panel 111: Judges on Stage: Judges in the Media (Discussant: Dorothy Chunn, SFU Sociology)
a) Steven Kohm (University of Winnipeg, Criminal Justice Studies) Court TV
b) Charlie Smith (Georgia Straight Editor) Capturing the complexity of the courtroom process in print.
Coffee 2:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Panel IV: The Scope of Judgement: Judges and Social Justice Agenda (Discussant: Nick Blomley, SFU Geography)
a) Katrina Pacey (Pivot Legal Society)
b) Lorenne Clark (former member Immigration and Refugee Board, Appeal Division)
c) Peter McKnight (Vancouver Sun Editorial Page)
The Social Justice Working Group of the Institute of the Humanities at SFU seeks to invigorate the linkages between SFU and its larger community around issues of social justice through information, public events, and forums for communication between academics and community activists. In March of 2006 this group also organized a one day symposium which focused on issues related to social justice, citizenship and the question of exclusion.
Gandhi Jayanti and the Thakore Visiting Scholar Award
Hosted by the Institute for the Humanities, The Thakore Foundation and the India Club.
Tuesday, October 2
SFU Burnaby
Images Theatre
7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Mahatma Gandhi and his legacy have been honoured at Simon Fraser University since the unveiling of his memorial bust in the Simon Fraser Peace Square in l970. Each year, on his birthday (October 2), the Gandhi Jayanti celebration brings members of the local Indo-Canadian community together with others who wish to salute his memory and honour his ideals.
This year, we are presenting at the Gandhi Commemorative Programme the 2ist Annual Gandhi Peace Award and the 17th annual presentation of The Thakore Visiting Scholar Award to Dr. James Chi Ming Pau for his generous contributions and dedicated leadership in providing health and support services to the people of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Dr. James Chi Ming Pau immigrated to Canada in 1975. He was one of the first to have Traditional Chinese Medicine Regulated under the Health Profession Act of B.C. He began the free treatment program for patients seeking alternative therapy in the 1980's. He sits on the advisory committee of the Seniors' Population Health Advisory Committee, the Special Senior's Health Advisory Committee to the Mayor of Vancouver, the Neighborhood Advisory Committee of St. Paul's Hospital, The Vancouver Elder Abuse Network, Carnegie Executive Board, and Carnegie Seniors' support Group. He is the Social/Spiritual Chair of the DTES HIV/AIDS IDU Consumers' Board,
Dr. Pau uses Traditional Chinese Medicine in the treatment of HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, substance abuse and related problems, which he provides without cost or by donation.
The Interfaith Summer Institute for Justice, Peace and Social Movements
August 4 -12, 2007
For full details about this program go to: http://www.interfaithjustpeace.org/
Interviewing the Interviewer: Hal Wake talks toEleanor Wachtel
Hosted by the Institute for the Humanities
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
SFU, Burnaby, Diamond Alumni Centre
Fraser Room
3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Note: this event is free and open to the public. However, reserved seating is recommended. E-mail grahama@sfu.ca to reserve.
Eleanor Wachtel was born and raised in Montreal, where she studied English literature at McGill University. Wachtel lived in the United States and Kenya, and then in the mid-'70s worked as a freelance writer and broadcaster in Vancouver.
Eleanor Wachtel has co-edited two books: The Expo Story (1986), and Language in Her Eye (1990), and she is the co-author of A Feminist Guide to the Canadian Constitution (1992). For five years she was Adjunct Professor of Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University.
In the fall of 1987, Wachtel moved to Toronto to work full-time as Literary Commentator on CBC Stereo's "State of the Arts", and then as writer-broadcaster for "The Arts Tonight," and Toronto reporter for"The Arts Report." She was host of "The Arts Tonight" from 1996 to 2007, and has been host of CBC Radio's "Writers & Company" since 1990.
In 1993, Knopf Canada published a selection of interviews called Writers & Company; More Writers & Company was published in the fall of '96. In spring 2003, HarperCollins brought out another selection, Original Minds. Eleanor Wachtel is a contributor to the best-seller, Dropped Threads (2001) co-edited by Carol Shields, and Lost Classics (2000), co-edited by Michael Ondaatje et al.
In 1995, "Writers & Company" won the coveted CBC Award for Programming Excellence for the best weekly show broadcast nationally."Writers & Company" also won the CBC excellence award in 2003.
In 2002, Eleanor Wachtel was named winner of the Jack Award for the promotion of Canadian books and authors.
Eleanor Wachtel has received four honorary degrees: D.Litt.(1999) from St. Thomas University in Fredericton; D.Litt. (2000) from Athabasca University in Alberta; D.Litt. (2001) from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver; and D. Hum.Litt (2002) from Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax.On February 8, 2005, Eleanor Wachtel was named a member of the Order of Canada. On June 7, 2007, Wachtel will receive an honorary degree at Simon Fraser University.
Hal Wake has been engaged with the literary community in Canada for more than 30 years. In the mid '80s he was the book producer for CBC Radio's Morningside with Peter Gzowski and has hosted or moderated more than a hundred literary events at Festivals in Vancouver, Victoria and Sydney, Australia. Hal Wake's reviews have appeared in the Georgia Straight and the Vancouver Sun and he is currently the Artistic Director of the Vancouver International Writers Festival.
Panel discussion: "Religion in Citizenship"
Sponsored by the Religion and Citizenship Study Group with the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University.
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
7 pm to 8:30 pm
SFU, Harbour Centre Room 7000 (7th floor)
Reserved seating is recommended. Call 604-291-5100 or email cs_hc@sfu.ca
Panelists will address the topic of how their spirituality or religion informs their understanding of active, participatory, citizenship.
Panelists:
David Diewert - sessional lecturer at Regent College and a community activist in East Vancouver
Leonard George - a member of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, actor, traditionalist, lecturer, and consultant
Sister Victoria Marie - researcher, activist, and co-founder of the Vancouver Catholic Worker.
Wendy Pederson - a community organizer in the Downtown Eastside (Carnegie Association) who is inspired by Buddhist teachings.
Lecture: Lois Wilson -- Religion and Public Policy
Hosted by the Institute for the Humanities' study group on Religion and Citizenship.
Thursday, April 26, 2007
SFU, Harbour Centre Room 1700
7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Reserved seating is recommended. Call 604-291-5100 or email cs_hc@sfu.ca
Dr. Lois Wilson has a distinguished record of working on issues of religion, social justice, human rights, and peace in national and international arenas. She is the acting president of the World Federalist Movement and is the Ecumenist-in-Residence at the Toronto School of Theology.
Dr Wilson is a former Canadian senator (1998-2002), a former president of the World Council of Churches (1983-1990), a former president of the Canadian Council of Churches (1976-1979, and a former chancellor of Lakehead University (1991-2000). She was named an officer in the Order of Canada in 1984 and promoted to a companion in the order in 2003.
Her publications include "Turning off the Taps: Public Policy in Canada" in The Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America (2006), an essay in Transforming the Faith of Our Fathers (2004), Nuclear Waste: Exploring the Ethical Dilemmas (2000), and Turning the World Upside Down: a memoir (1989).
Lecture: Richard Rodriguez -- On Being Brown: Identity and Impurity in North America
Hosted by the Institute for the Humanities
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings
Room 7000
7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
This lecture is free and open to the public. Reserved seating is recommended. Call 604-291-5100 or email cs_hc@sfu.ca
RICHARD RODRIGUEZ , one of America's most important essayists and a master of the "personal essay," writes about the intersection of his personal life with some of the great vexing issues of America.
Rodriguez, the son of Mexican immigrant parents, grew up in Sacramento, California. He was an undergraduate at Stanford University. He went on to spend two years in a religious studies program at Columbia. He then studied English Renaissance literature at the Warburg Institute in London and was a doctoral candidate at the University of California in Berkeley.
In 1982, he published an intellectual autobiography, HUNGER OF MEMORY:
The Education of Richard Rodriguez. Widely celebrated and criticized, this book is today read in many American high schools and colleges. A memoir of a "scholarship boy", HUNGER remains controversial for its skepticism regarding bilingual education and affirmative action.
In 1992, Rodriguez published DAYS OF OBLIGATION: An Argument with My Mexican Father, a "philosophical travel book," concerned with the moral landscape separating "Protestant America" and "Catholic Mexico." DAYS OF OBLIGATION was a runner-up for a Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction in 1993.
In 2002, Rodriguez published BROWN: The Last Discovery of America.
In a series of essays concerned with topics as varied as the cleaning of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, cubism, and Broadway musicals, Rodriguez undermines America's black and white notions of race and proposes the color brown for understanding the future (and past) of the Americas. As a journalist, Richard Rodriguez worked for over two decades for the Pacific News Service in San Francisco; he has also been a contributing editor for HARPER'S MAGAZINE and the Sunday "Opinion" section of the Los Angeles TIMES. Many Americans probably recognize him from his television appearances o PBS. For more than ten years he has appeared as an essayist on "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer". His televised essays on American life were honored in 1997 with a George Peabody Award. In 1993, Richard Rodriguez was given the Frankel Medal (now renamed "The National Humanities Medal"), the highest honor the federal government gives to recognize work done in the humanities.
Lecture: Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidison -- Protecting and Respecting the Earth's Soul
Hosted by The Interfaith Summer Institute for Justice, Peace and Social Movements and the JS Woodsworth Lecture Series
Thursday April 19, 2007
SFU Harbour Centre SFU, Room 1700
515 West Hastings, Vancouver
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson is a citizen of the Haida Nation from Skidegate, Haida Gwaii. She holds degrees in computer science and law from the University of British Columbia. She has practiced in the area of aboriginal-environmental law for the last 10 years, and restricts her personal law practice at White Raven Law in this area. Terri-Lynn represented the Haida Nation at all levels of court in litigation to protect the old-growth forests of Haida Gwaii, Council of the Haida Nation and Guujaaw, et. al. v. Ministry of Forests, et. al., and is currently counsel for the Haida Nation in an Aboriginal Title lawsuit.
Terri-Lynn has published and regularly lectures internationally in aboriginal law, particularly as it relates to cultural heritage and environmental protection. She was the founding Executive Director of the charity EAGLE (Environmental-Aboriginal Guardianship through Law and Education). She has volunteered for numerous organizations, including as an Advisory Council member for the Vancouver Foundation's Environment Program and as a juror for the Buffet Award for Indigenous Leadership, at Ecotrust (US). She is currently a board member of Earthlife Canada Foundation and Haida Gwaii Singers.
Terri-Lynn is devoted to perpetuating Haida culture, beginning with co-founding a children’s dance group in 1978 and illustrating a children's book. She is an accomplished singer and dancer and is an active member of the Rainbow Creek Dancers, which travels and performs locally and internationally. She also creates appliquéd and woven ceremonial-regalia. She and husband, artist Robert Davidson, often return to rejuvenate and connect with the land and people of Haida Gwaii.
The Institute for the Humanities wishes to acknowledge the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada.
Lecture: Junaid S. Ahmad -- Prophetic Religion and Solidarity
Hosted by The Interfaith Summer Institute for Justice, Peace and Social Movements and the JS Woodsworth Lecture Series at SFU
Sunday, April 1, 2007
SFU Harbour Centre, Room 1800
515 West Hastings, Vancouver
3:30 p.m.- 5: 00 p.m.
Reserved seating is recommended: call 604-291-5100 or email cs_hc@sfu.ca
Junaid S. Ahmad is a JD candidate in law at the College of William and Mary School of Law, Williamsburg, VA. He is on the Executive Board of the Domestic Violence Resource Project (DVRP). For the past few years, he has worked with the National Interfaith Committee on Worker Justice - building alliances with some of the leading religious figures - of all faith backgrounds - who are working on issues of worker and social justice. He has presented on this theme of interfaith solidarity for worker justice at the previous two annual meetings of the largest gathering of Muslims in North America, the Islamic Society of North America convention. In addition, he has worked as a labor organizer in Washington , DC , on two principal campaigns, the "Justice for Janitors" campaign and the Hotel and Restaurant Workers campaign, as part of the national organization, Service Employees International Union (SEIU). He has been active in campus and community living wage campaigns, and is at present part of the Williamsburg, VA-based group, Tidewater Labor Support Committee (TLSC), a group advancing the rights of workers on the campus of the College of William and Mary.
Junaid is an editor of the Richmond Independent Media Centre. He has been a longtime activist on issues related to corporate-led globalization, HIV/AIDS and gender justice, and militarism and war, working in organizations such as Amnesty International and the Mobilization for Global Justice (MGJ). He writes for webzines (such as ZNet, Counterpunch, Hot Coals, Left Hook, etc) and has written for magazines and journals such as Left Turn, Chowrangi (progressive Pakistani-American magazine), Muslim Public Affairs Journal, Studies in Contemporary Islam, and Islamic Studies. In Pakistan, he has worked with groups such as Educate Pakistan and the Peoples Rights Movement, the latter being at the forefront of issues related to social and economic justice in Pakistan. He continues to maintain an association with Positive Muslims, the Cape Town-based organization working on issues related to Muslims, HIV/AIDS, and gender justice, a group with which he worked while he was in South Africa in 2004.
He is currently involved in a collaborative project with the International Islamic University, Islamabad, on developing an annual "State of the Muslim World" report. Most recently, he, along with other Muslims, has formed the Abu Dharr Collective, which is committed to the ideal of social justice and to articulating an Islamic theology of liberation.
Junaid Ahmad’s visit to Vancouver is being co-sponsored by the Institute for the Humanities, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the SFU Economic Security Project.
Lectures: Satinath Sarangi from Bhopal (India)
Saturday, March 31, 2007. 2:30 p.m. Conference on Jobs and Justice, organized by Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Sunday, April 1, 2007. 2-5 p.m. 2007. A SANSAD public meeting at Langara College sponsored by students and the UBC Centre for International Health
Monday, April 2, 2007. Noon hour at UBC at the Liu Institute for Global Issues
Tuesday April 3, 2007. SFU Harbour Centre, organized by the Vancouver and District Labour Council.
For details please contact: SANSAD: Dr. Hari Sharma, 604-420-2972
or The Liu Institute for Global Issues, UBC.
Sarangi's visit to Vancouver is co-sponsored with SANSAD by:
The Institute for the Humanities at SFU, the Centre for International Health, UBC, the Liu Institute for Global Issues, UBC International Affairs Committee, Vancouver and District Labour Council Sociology & Anthropology Department, and Langara College.
Shortly after midnight, in the early hours of December 3, 1984, over 40 tonnes of deadly gases (methyl isocyanate, hydrogen cyanide, mono methyl amine, carbon monoxide and up to 20 other chemicals) leaked from a pesticide factory owned and operated by the US-based Union Carbide Corporation. None of the six safety systems designed to contain such a leak were operational, allowing the gases to spread rapidly throughout the city without warning. Half a million people were exposed; over 5,000 died within two days. The death has not stopped; till today, 20,000 people have lost their lives to the poisonous gasses and more than 120 000 remain seriously affected. Drinking water has been contaminated and the factory site abandoned by its current owner Dow Chemical.
"Bhopal isn't only about thousands dead, charred lungs, poisoned kidneys and deformed foetuses. It's also about corporate crime, multinational skullduggery, injustice, dirty deals, medical malpractice, corruption, callousness and contempt for the poor. Nothing else explains why the victims' average compensation was just $500 - for a lifetime of misery . . . Yet the victims haven't given up. Their struggle for justice and dignity is one of the most valiant anywhere. They have unbelievable energy and hope . . . the fight has not ended. It won't, so long as our collective conscience stirs." _Outlook India 7 Oct 2002.
An Interview with Franco Borgogno
Thursday, March 22, 2007
SFU Harbour Centre, Segal Centre Room 1400
515 West Hastings, Vancouver
7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Reserved seating is recommended: call 604-291-5100 or email cs_hc@sfu.ca
Franco Borgogno, a Psychoanalyst and a Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Clinical Psychology Department at Turin University, Italy, has recently published a book entitled Psychoanalysis as a Journey (Open Gate Press, London, 2007). This book reflects his personal and professional views on a psychoanalytic journey which "lays down a path from the past into the future." Through the notion of journey, the book's essays explore the insights of Sigmund Freud and other important, though lesser known, pioneers -- Ferenczi, Heimann, and Bion. In the book, also dedicated to problems which arose in psychoanalysis after Freud's discoveries, Borgogno proposes that these influential psychoanalysts uncovered and explored unconscious forms of analytical narcissism (i.e. authoritarianism) and relational phobia. Borgogno suggests that these analysts left a critical legacy in present day analytical institutions. He also provides insights into his own journey as an analyst (showing how an analyst grows, learns, and applies what he has learned), as well as those journeys that he has shared with patients. In this evening encounter, Professor Borgogno will explore these and other ideas from his book with Vancouver psychoanalytic historian, Christopher Fortune.
Franco Borgogno is Full Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Psychology Faculty of Turin University, Italy. He is also a Full member of the International Psychoanalytical Association, Training and Supervising Analyst of the Sociteta Psiconalitica Italiana, and director of the Post-graduate School in Clinical Psychology. He is author of "L'illusione di osservare", "Psicoanalisi come percorso" (translated in Spanish, Portuguese, English [Psychoanalysis as a Journey]), several books about Ferenczi, (partially translated in English and French) and author of numerous papers about technique and theory of psychoanalysis published in Italian and international reviews. Dr. Borgogno is coming to Vancouver at the invitation of the Western Branch of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society and the Vancouver Institute of Psychoanalysis, where he will be the keynote speaker at their annual conference.
Christopher Fortune received his doctorate from the University of Toronto, and is an internationally known historian of psychoanalysis. He has lectured widely in Europe and North America on early figures in psychoanalysis, particularly Sandor Ferenczi and Carl Jung. His articles, reviews and interviews have been published in popular and scholarly journals including the British Journal of Psychotherapy, the Journal of Analytical Psychology, Psychoanalysis and History, and Psyche, and he has published numerous chapters in edited volumes on Ferenczi and psychoanalysis. In 2002, Open Gate Press, London, published his book, the The Ferenczi-Groddeck Correspondence. Dr. Fortune currently works as a psychotherapist with children and families in Vancouver, and is a former moderator of SFU's Philosphers Cafes.
A Report on the World Forum and the World Forum on Theology and Liberation
February 27, 2007
SFU Harbour Centre, Room 7000
515 West Hastings, Vancouver
7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
The report is being given by Denise Nadeau, Interim Director of the Interfaith Summer Institute for Justice, Peace, and Social Movements, to be held at SFU August 4-12, 2007. Denise attended both forums as a member of the Peace for Life delegation and will report on women's peace movements, migrant workers movements, and LGBT movements.
This event is sponsored by the J.S. Woodsworth Chair in the Humanities and the Interfaith Summer Institute for Justice, Peace and Social Movements, and is endorsed by the Vancouver and District Labour Council, Stopwar.ca, and the World Peace Forum.
Workshop: (Re)Inventing the Internet
Friday, February 23, 2007
Segal Graduate School of Business (500 Granville St.)4800 Policy Room
10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Graduate students in the ACT Lab have been working for a year with Dr. Andrew Feenberg and several of his colleagues on a forthcoming book entitled (Re)Inventing the Internet: Critical Case Studies. This workshop is a report on the progress of their research. The presentations correspond to chapters that explore the social construction of the Internet in a variety of settings, from video games to online education, civic participation to music sharing. The theme is the shaping of the Internet by the practices of users who attempt to influence its design and impact. The Internet appears in these presentations not just as a functional device but also as a field of struggle within which a variety of social and technical factors meet, contend, and converge to produce new forms.
Presenters include noted philosopher of technology, Dr. Andrew Feenberg, communication scholar and author of Internet Society, Dr. Maria Bakardjieva and Dr. Norm Friesen, Canada Research Chair at Thompson River University. Other panelists include: Ted Hamilton, Cindy Xin, Michael Felzcak, Florence Chee, Sara Grimes, Darryl Cressman and Kate Milberry.
The workshop is co-sponsored by SFU’s School of Communication and the Institute for the Humanities.
Admission is FREE but reservations are required. Call 604-268-7845 to reserve seats.
Conference: Hegemonic Transitions and the State
February 23-24, 2007
SFU Harbour Centre
515 West Hastings, Vancouver
An International conference hosted by the Centre for Global Political Economy and co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Department of Political Science, and the Institute for the Humanities.
The conference, "Hegemonic Transitions and the State," aims to contribute to our understanding of the complex interconnections between capitalist globalization and political authority. The conference features sessions, papers, and plenaries dealing with such topics as: states, sovereignty and crisis, the post Cold War re-shaping of global power, cultural politics in Latin America, and the Middle East, the development of a transnational capitalist class, indigenous peoples movements in Latin America, global governance structures, neo-liberalism in the Middle East and South East Asia, post Cold War eastern Europe, global finance, state formation, social movements, and democratic alternatives to neo-liberal globalization.
They keynote address will be delivered by Philip McMichael ( Cornell) and Plenary speakers include Christopher Chase-Dunn (University of California, Riverside), William Carroll (University of Victoria), Greg Albo (York University), and Yildiz Atasoy, Stephen McBride and Gary Teeple (Simon Fraser University)
Full details on the programme and on-line registration can be found at: http://www.sfu.ca/cgpe/
Lecture: Michael M'Gonigle -- The Planetary University As A Catalyst For Local/Regional Sustainability
Thursday, January 18, 2007
SFU Burnaby. Robert Brown Hall. Room 6152 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
SFU Surrey. Galleria, Room 3090
2:30 p.m. - 4:20 p.m.
In the era of global warming, and calls for urgent action, citizens need new strategies to help break the political and economic gridlock that prevents such action. One institution that has so far escaped attention in this quest is one that is right in front of us, the university. Drawing on his recent book, Planet U: Sustaining the World, Reinventing the University, Dr. M'Gonigle will consider this historic institution in terms of its potential to become a model of transformative change at the community level where we live. The challenge will be to harness the power of the "higher education industry," in conjunction with new emerging processes of social change, and to open the postmodern university to a new mission that will be of local and global significance.
MICHAEL M'GONIGLE is the EcoResearch Professor in Environmental Law and Policy in the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria. A lawyer and political ecologist, his work with Greenpeace in the 1970s led to the international moratorium on commercial whaling. During this time he co-founded Greenpeace International. In the 1980s, he worked on wilderness conservation and forestry reform in British Columbia, including leading the successful struggle to protect the Stein River Valley from industrial logging. As Chair of the Board of Greenpeace Canada, he initiated its forests campaign in 1990. A cofounder in the late 1990s of SmartGrowth BC and Forest Futures (Dogwood Initiative), he recently founded the POLIS Project on Ecological Governance at UVic. He is author, most recently, of Planet U: Sustaining the World, Reinventing the University (with Justine Starke) (New Society Publishers) (2006).
