2000

• Philosophers' Café Series
• The Emergence of Evolutionary Psychology Series 
• Joanne Brown Symposium on Violence and its Alternatives: "Systemic Violence: An Interdisciplinary and Comparative Approach to Understanding, Experiencing and Responding to Violence"
  
• Thakore Visiting Scholar Award to Medha Patkar
• Co-sponsored (with Political Science) Speakers 2000 Series
• Lecture (in cooperation with IDERA) by Anto Sangaji
• Support to the Centre for Scottish Studies

2001

• Lecture by Denise Riley: “The Right to be Lonely”
• Support to the West Coast Line
• Workshop on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Domestic Space
• Presentation by Josef Szajna
• Lecture by Jeff Halper and Salin Shawanreh: “Isreal/Palestine Peace Tour”
• Philosophers' Café Series
• Support to the Centre for Scottish Studies
• The Emergence of Evolutionary Psychology Series
• Critical U Series
• Lecture by Gavin Bryars
• Workshop with Medha Patkar
• Bill Bisset Reading (Spring and Fall)
• Lecture by John Rumbiak
• Thakore Visiting Scholar Award to Lloyd Axworthy
• Joanne Brown Symposium on Violence and its Alternatives: "Violence and Poesis"
• Tribute to Aung San Suu Kyi

2002

• Lecture by Marc Ellis
• Classical Leanings Conference
• Lecture by Dr. Louisa Bashmakova
• Grace MacInnis Visiting Scholar: Myrna Kostash lecture and reading.
• Thomas Merton and Interfaith Dialogue Conference
• Lecture by Herbert Kessler
• Support: Centre for Scottish Studies
• Lecture by Venerable Lhakdor
• Exhibit: Treasuring the Future: Children's rights and realities
• Seminar on The Teachings of J. Krishnamurti
• Violence and its Alternatives lecture series: “Violence and the Media” with Robert Hackett
• Thakore Visiting Scholar Awards and Gandhi Commemorative Ceremonies. Recipient: Rev. James Lawson
• The Joanne Brown Alternatives to Violence Symposium
• Critical U Program
• Violence and its Alternatives lecture series “Race and Gender: Perceptions of Girls about Violence in their Lives” with Margaret Jackson
• “The Case of West Papua”, a lecture by John Rumbiak
• Violence and its Alternatives lecture series “Aggression and Violence in Girls” with Marlene Moretti
• Address, Derek Evans on Human Rights Day

2003

• Violence and its Alternatives lecture series: “Evaluating a Media Risk Assessment Strategy for Children and Adults” with Stephen Kline and Kym Stewart.
• Violence and its Alternatives lecture series: “Hitting, Hurting and Having Fun: Why Violence is Essential to Life and Different than Aggression” with Ehor Boyanowsky.
• Modernity, Secularity, Pluralism lecture series: “Becoming Non-rational:Recent Transformations in Evangelical Belief” with Bruce Heibert.
• Modernity, Secularity, Pluralism lecture series: “Overcoming Onto-theology: George Grant and Religion without Religion” with Peg Peters.
• Violence and its Alternatives lecture series: “Twisting the Cross: Terrorism and the Construction of American Society” with Michael Fellman.
• Modernity, Secularity, Pluralism lecture series: “Human Difference and Religion: Girard, Derrida, and Postmodern Anthropology” with Christopher Morrisey.
• Exploring Islam lecture series: “Democratizing Shi ism: On the Theoretical Foundation of Iran's Reform Movement” with Peyman Vahabzadeh.
• Exploring Islam lecture series: “The Ethical Crescent” with Amyn B. Sajoo.
• “The Future of Poverty Series.” January through March 2003 at SFU Harbour Centre
• Support toward “Cooperative Workshop” participant at SFU and Bologna to explore the role of the university in public education, June 2002.
• “Walkerton: the Memory of Matter”, a lecture by Jody Berland.
• “The Armenian Genocide: A Canadian Perspective”, a lecture by Alan Whitehorn. Click here to download a PDF transcript of Alan Whitehorn's lecture.
• “Opposing Mining in the Andes: Social Movements and Neo-Liberalism”, a lecture by Andres Dimitriu
• Violence and its Alternatives lecture series: “Structuring Violence: the Interaction among Religion, Economics, War and Conquest” with Douglas Cousineau.
• Gandhi Jayanti and the Thakore Visiting Scholar Award presented to War Child Canada.
• The Joanne Brown Alternatives to Violence Symposium
• Violence and its Alternatives lecture series: “The Necessity of Literature for a Humane Science” with Stephen Ogden.
• Violence and its Alternatives lecture series: “Violence and the Literature of War” with Kate Scheel.
• Violence and its Alternatives lecture series: “Weapons of Mass Destruction and the End of War?” with Douglas Ross.
• The Leon and Thea Koerner Lecture Series: The New World Order After Iraq. “The Human Right to Peace” with Senator Douglas Roche.
• “Phyllis Bennis Speaks on the Current Situation in the Middle East”.
• The Leon and Thea Koerner Lecture Series: The New World Order After Iraq. “The Life of Writers in Difficult Times” with Eleanor Wachtel.
• “Human Rights Day” December 10th, 2003. Speaker: Jean Swanson
• “Seeking Justice: Human Rights in our Communities.” Symposium on workers: Elaine Bernard, the Grace MacInnis Visiting speaker.

2004