Institute for the Humanities

Now in its 30th year, the Institute for the Humanities at SFU seeks to accomplish these basic objectives: stimulate student interest and faculty research in demonstrating the irreducibility of humanistic perspectives in understanding some of the most pressing social, economic, political and environmental problems we face and, above all, to engage the many publics beyond the academy in city, the province, the country and, indeed, the wider world. The Institute is perfectly placed, therefore, to play a key role in the idea of SFU as “student-centred, research-driven and community-engaged.”

Upcoming Event:

September 16, 2013 – Public Lecture: Han Dongfang

7:00 p.m., The Alma VanDusen & Peter Kaye Rooms, Vancouver Public Library,                                   350 W. Georgia St. Vancouver

Please rsvp by email to sgz@sfu.ca if you would like to reserve a seat

Han Dongfang has been an advocate for workers’ rights in China for more than two decades during which time he has won numerous international awards including the 1993 Democracy Award from the U.S.