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2002-2003

• Marc Ellis lecture: A Revolutionary Coincidence
• Exhibit: Treasuring the Future: Children's Rights and Realities—in cooperation with Soka Gakkai International and UNICEF
• John Rumbiak lecture: Human rights, militarism and terror in the Asia Pacific: the Case of West Papua
• Support toward The Future of Poverty: A Social Justice Series held at Harbour Centre through Continuing Studies
• Address: Derek Evans, on Human Rights Day, December 10, 2002: Human Rights: Changes and Challenges—1990-2010
• Lecture: The Armenian Genocide: A Canadian Perspective, Alan Whitehorn (June 2003)
• Lecture: Opposing Mining in the Andes: Social Movements and Neo-Liberalism, Andres Dimitriu (July 2003)
• Address: Jean Swanson, on Human Rights Day, December 10, 2003: Struggling for Economic Human Rights in BC and Canada
• Senator Douglas Roche lecture on The Human Right to Peace

1998-2001

• 1998 Ed Broadbent, J.S. Woodsworth Chair, "Citizenship and the Welfare State: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going?" Respondents: Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Chair, Women's Studies/Political Science, SFU; Ian Angus, Sociology and Anthropology/Humanities, SFU; Stephen McBride, Chair, Political Science, SFU.
• Cuco Fusco, "Latina Performance in the Global Economy"
• Gandhi Commemorative Program 1998. Thakore visiting scholar award recipient Marta de la Vega Torres.
• Surrey Art Gallery Exhibition: Hari Sharma, "Like the Mighty Ganges, Life continues to Flow."
• Surrey Art Gallery Symposium, "Nuclear Terror in the Economy of Scarcity": Asma Jahangir, Kildip Nayar, T. Sher Singh. Moderated by Ed Broadbent.
• 1999 Chief Joe Gosnell Sr. "Aboriginal Rights and the Nisga'a Treaty"
• 1999 Ed Broadbent, J.S. Woodsworth Chair, "At the End of the Millennium: Which way Ahead?"
• 1999 November. Ed Broadbent, J.S. Woodsworth Chair, Book launch and panel discussion: "The Future of Social Democracy. "
• Ed Broadbent lecture: "John Humphrey and the Birth of the Declaration of Human rights." 1999.
• Vancouver Burma Roundtable. 1999.
• Mochtar Buchori lecture: "Indonesia: Recent Events in Indonesia and Prospects for Reform." 1999.
• Tribute to Aung San Suu Kyi. 2001.

1996-1997

• 1996 "The NDP in Power: Social Democratic Governments in Canada" (J.S. Woodsworth Chair conference)
• 1996 "Voices: An Oral History and Community Workshop," Vancouver, co-sponsor
• 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 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"
• 1996-97 GRANT: development funds for "Common Journeys: Women Walking Together," (project) Debbie Bell, Continuing Studies
• 1996-97 GRANT: development funds for "Labour Studies Colloquia," Tom Nesbit, Labour Program
• 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
• 1996-97 GRANT: development funds for "Activism and Apocalypse: Politics in the Shadow of the Silent Majorities" (seminar series), Richard Day, Sociology and Anthropology
• 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
• 1997 Gandhi Commemorative Program and Thakore Visiting Scholar, Mary Wynn Ashford, lectures on Gandhi.
• 1997 John O'Neill, lecture, "Utopia and McTopia"
• 1997 Andre Gundar Frank, lecture (with Sociology and Anthropology)
• 1997 GRANT: development funds for "Minority Rights in Politics and the Ideal of Personal Autonomy: A Talk by Will Kymlicka," Sam Black, English
• 1997 Ed Broadbent, "On Quebec."
• 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 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 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 "The New Millennium: Not Everything Will Change; Not Everyone Will Notice," (photography exhibit), Hari Sharma, Sociology and Anthropology
• 1997 Ed Broadbent, J.S. Woodsworth Chair, Inaugural Lecture
• P. Sainath "Development and Displacement (A Report from India)"

1993-1995

• 1993 "Haiti and President Aristide: Liberation Theology and Sociopolitical Change" (panel discussion)
• 1993 Thakore Visiting Scholar Award: Ovide Mercredi
• 1993 "Spain and Latin America, The Two New Worlds Today," including films, performances, readings, and lectures.
• 1993 Liberation Theology, January 1993
• 1993 Liberation Theology Book launch and Panel Discussion
• 1993 Grace MacInnis Program with Shirley Williams, who spoke on Social Democracy, Problems Democracies confront, and the European Community.
• 1994 Thakore Visiting Scholar Award: Ursula Franklin
• 1994 Spanish and Latin American Guest Speakers Series. The Institute supported a number of speakers in this series: Daisy Zamora, Nicaraguan Poet, The Brazilian Culture Forum, including Veronica Armstrong,Eduardo Coutinho, and Lidia do Valle Santos, and Galina Alexeeva.
• 1994 "The NDP Now: Prospects for Canadian Social Democracy" Dr. Alan Whitehorn (lecture) (with Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation)
• 1994 Enzo Mingione, Speaker, "Urban Poverty."
• 1994 Shadows of the Swastika: A Symposium on Militant Hindu Nationalism in India
• 1995 Grace MacInnis Visiting Scholar: Joy Kogawa
• 1995 Gandhi Commemorative program: George McRobie, Thakore Visiting Scholar. SFU Theatre; G. McRobie, "Community Solutions for the New World Disorder." HC; G. McRobie, "Town and Gown: The Role of the University in Community Economic Development," Burnaby
• 1995 J. S. Woodsworth—Special Labour Collection Fund established at SFU in 1995 to accept donations in support of the purchase of a portion of the special collection, A Western Canadian Labour and Social Party, 1895-1930. The collection comprises over 400 items, including runs of rate periodicals, and the archive of one of the Socialist Party of Canada leaders, James Hawthornthwaite.
• 1995 "The Future of Social Democracy" (JS Woodsworth Chair conference)
• 1995 "Women in Politics: A Social Democratic Perspective," panel discussion
• 1995 Canada-Japan Forum, co-sponsored
• 1995 "Modernity: Challenge to Jewish Survival:" a public lecture by Leonard Ehrlich, emeritus professor of philosophy, University of Massachusetts. Co-sponsored with the Koerner Lecture Series
• 1995 Rajmohan Gandhi, visiting speaker, co-sponsored with the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute
• 1995-96 Dave Barrett, adjunct Professor with the Institute for the Humanities and Political Science, advisor, consultant and visiting speaker
• 1995-97 "Social Movements and the Public Sphere" (tv series) (with Knowledge Network and Ian Angus, Sociology and Humanities)
• 1995-97 Research Assistant, Tammie Tupechka, researcher and interviewer for the Oral History Project with Britannia Community

1990-1992

• 1990 The New Europe: Political and Social Change in the East, conference.
• 1990 Stephen Lewis, Keynote Speaker, Inauguration of the J.S. Woodsworth Chair.
• 1991 Environment and Labour Project, a SSHRCC supported workshop (Steve Duguid)
• 1991 Thakore Visiting Scholar Award: Ed Broadbent
• 1992 GRANT: Jorge Garcia, Los Angeles Latin American Conference
• 1992 New Europe Conference, Democracy and Capitalism in the West
• 1992 L. Bredella, Visiting Professor, English Department, "Cross/inter-Cultural Understanding"
• 1992 Smitu Kothari, " Multilateral Institutions and Democracy," lecture at Harbour Centre
• 1992 Liberation Theology and Sociopolitical Transformation: A Reader, Ed. by Jorge Garcia.

1984-1989

• 1984 Bureaucracy and Culture Conference
• 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.
• 1989 "Cuba: The New Face of Socialism," lecture series, co-sponsor.
• 1989 "Human Rights and the Disappeared" A Canada-Latin America Consultation," consultations. Co-sponsored by the Institute for the Humanities, the Centre for Education, Law and Society and Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies.