SFU Vancouver Speakers Series
Accessible. Affordable. Engaging.
The SFU Vancouver Speaker Series brings global experts to a local audience.
Launched in 2012, the series builds on SFU’s rich history of community engagement by exploring critical issues to contribute to better understanding among Vancouver’s citizens through an intellectually enriching experience.
Acclaimed journalist and historian Gwynne Dyer served as the inaugural speaker in February of 2012. His lecture ‘The New Middle East’ discussed the democratic revolutions sweeping through the Arab World, and investigated a host of issues, including the problem of poverty, radicalism, and the struggle for power in the region.
Housing was the topic for the second edition of the series when former United Nations special rapporteur on adequate housing Miloon Kothari spoke at the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema. Concentrating on work done by civil society campaigns around the world, Kothari traced the evolution of the right to adequate housing during his lecture, including detailing his 2007 mission to Canada to evaluate the country’s human rights record related to housing.
The SFU Vancouver Speaker Series is presented by SFU Public Square, in partnership with SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement.