News 2018

• 2018 Outstanding Graduating Student Award

  June 13, 2018

  Dr Dany Lacombe, Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, presented the following... read more

• Namesake: Reconsidering the histories of James Douglas

  November 16, 2018

  Douglas College Intersections' Namesake: Reconsidering the histories of James Douglas, Nov 16 6:30... read more

• Telling Stories: About Nation, of War, and Through Dance

  Nov 13, 2018 - Ahalya Satkunaratnam, Professor, Contemporary Cultural Studies, Division of... read more

• The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) Are Creating a Gender Revolution

  October 10, 2018

  Guest blog by Ann Travers, Associate Professor of Sociology at Simon Fraser University ... read more

• Code-switching Identities: Curating Gender Across Networks

  October 02, 2018

  with Son Vivienne, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, RMIT, Melbourne ... read more

• Canadian South Asian Youths Conference: Identity, Gender, Sexuality, Employment, and Activism

  September 20, 2018

  Call for abstracts, Conference April 6, 2019, SFU Harbour Centre, Vancouver  ... read more

• Sex & Secularism

  October 10, 2018

  Dr. Joan Wallach Scott: October 10th, 6:30pm ... read more

• SHIFT: Let's Talk Gender Violence

  September 24, 2018

  is a film festival style event that aims to bring a spotlight to the pressing issue of... read more

• Sqwélqwel, sxwoxwiyám: Illuminating Coast Salish Oral History of the Recent Past and Oral History of the Distant Past in Research

  September 18, 2018

  September 18, 2018 with Dara Kelly, Assistant Professor, Indigenous Business, Beedie School of... read more

• Bicram Rijal, PhD candidate, photo wins Honourable Mention

  Photo Contest Posted on the SFU Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies website Honourable... read more

• Ann Travers interview, author of The Trans Generation

  June 12, 2018

  Ann Travers, author of a new book called The Trans Generation.  A radio interview: The Early... read more

• Ann Travers' Globe and Mail Article for trans people

  July 20, 2018

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• Global News interview with Barbara Mitchell on family matters and some perspectives on alternative relationships

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• Walking in Beauty

  July 28, 2018

  WHAT WILL SURVIVE OF US IS LOVE (with thanks to Philip Larkin's “An Arundel Tomb.”) Our memories... read more

• Reclaiming the Discarded: Life and Labor in Rio's Garbage Dump

  March 01, 2018

  Book Launch with Author Kathleen M. Millar, March 1, 5:30 pm     ... read more

• Dr. Audra Simpson, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University

  March 20, 2018

  Savage States: Settler Governance in an Age of Sorrow Tuesday, March 20, 2018  /  2 - 4... read more

• Ann Travers book launch - The Trans Generation

   May 31, 7 pm at the Vancouver Public Library, Downtown 350 W Georgia Street. Dr. Ann Travers,... read more

• Dr. Andrea Muehlebach

  February 27, 2018

  Insurgency, Price, Sovereignty: The Struggle Against Financialized Water in Europe Dr. Andrea... read more

• Dara Culhane in conversation with Marianne Nicolson's, Oh, How I Long For Home (2016)

  February 21, 2018

  Wednesday, February 21, 12:30pm SFU Gallery, Burnaby Unpacking Art: Lunchtime Talks on Works in the... read more

• Labor Regimes of Indenture – A Global Overview of Migrant Domestic Work

  Tues, Jan 23rd, 3:00 pm in Blusson Hall, Room 10011 SFU, Burnaby The Department of Sociology &... read more

• Dr. Sarah Hunt

  Rupturing Colonialscapes: Politicizing the Relational Sites and Scales of Indigenous... read more

• SA 2018 Spring Colloquium Seminars

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