Previous Events: 2008
Richard Stallman Lectures
February 6-7, 2008
Richard Stallman, president of the Free Software Foundation and founder of the Free Software movement, will deliver a three part lecture series “Ethics, Rights and Freedoms” about copyright and Free Software in Vancouver, February 6-7. Dr Stallman's appearance is being hosted by the UBC Faculty of Law, Vancouver Institute, Simon Fraser University Institute for the Humanities,Vancouver Fair Copyright Coalition and Free Geek Vancouver.
For twenty five years Richard Stallman has been the driving force behind the Free Software movement and has consistently spoken out about controversial technology concerns. Dr. Stallman's unique genius is to see technology issues as matters of ethics, rights and freedoms.
Lectures and Locations:
“Free Software in Ethics and in Practise”
Friday, February 6, 2009, 12:30pm – 2:00pm, Room 101/102/201, George F. Curtis Law Building, 1822 East Mall, UBCSponsored by the UBC Faculty of Law
“Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks” Friday, February 6, 2009, 7:30 pm, The Maritime Labour Centre, 1880 Triumph Street, Vancouver. Sponsored by SFU Institute for the Humanities, Vancouver Fair Copyright Coalition, and Free Geek Vancouver
“The Free Software Movement” Saturday, February 7, 8:15pm, Lecture Hall Number 2, Woodward Instructional Resources Centre, UBC. Sponsored by the Vancouver Institute and the UBC Faculty of Law
Simons student citizenship presentations
November 20, 2008
SFU Harbour Centre, Room 7000
SFU Simons citizenship award winning students -- Debbie Yao, Natalie Wind, Adam Basanta, Jennifer Chaput and Sean Rupka -- will present their citizenship projects at SFU Harbour Centre.
Natalie Wing is an undergraduate student in the departments of
Humanities and English at Simon Fraser University. She is interested in aesthetics and the politics of representation in modernist literature, and is currently writing an honours thesis on James Joyce.
Adam Basanta is a composer and sound-artist, and a Music major at SFU's School for Contemporary Arts. His interests include semiotic approaches to electroacoustic compositions, compositional use of sound phenomenology, as well as found sound environments.
Jennifer Chaput is an undergraduate student in Humanities and English at SFU. She is particularly interested in experimental poetry and poetics and is currently working on a English honours paper on representations of subjectivity in the experimental autobiographies of Gertrude Stein and Lyn Hejinian.
Sean Rupka is an Humanities/Political Science student completing his studies this year. His interests are aesthetics and critical theory and he is currently completing his honours on spaces for political resistance/the redefining of political/social spaces.
Debbie Yao is a fourth year undergraduate student of General Studies at Simon Fraser University. She immigrated to Vancouver from Taiwan when I was 11 years old. She is interested in animal ecology, plant ecology, and aqua-botanical design.
This program is sponsored by the Simons Foundation.
"Cascadia: The Elusive Utopia" Book Launch
November 17, 2008
Saint Philip's Church, 3737 West 27th Ave. Vancouver.
Ronsdale Press Cordially invites you to the launch of a new book edited by Douglas Todd. Cascadia: The Elusive Utopia is an exploration of the unique spiritualy and culture of the region of Cascadia, which includes BC, Washington and Oregon. A number of SFU affilliated people are contributors to the book.
October 15-16, 2008. Symposium on International Perspectives on the Relations of Culture to Nature.
October 2, 2008. Gandhi Jayanti and the Thakore Visiting Scholar awards.
Interfaith Summer Institute, August 2008
June 12-15, 2008. Madness,Citizenship and Social Justice: A Human Rights Conference
April 10, 2008. Mark Danner Lecture: "Lost in the 'War on Terror': Iraq, Afghanistan and the Politics of Endless War."
March 27-28, 2008. Modernity and Citizenship Panel Discussion: "Critical Theory and Metaphysics."