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President's Dream Colloquium
Conceived by former President Andrew Petter, current President Joy Johnson continues the tradition of the President’s Dream Colloquium: bringing leading thinkers to SFU and provide an annual forum for intensive interdisciplinary exchange amongst faculty and students.
Each colloquium provides an opportunity for approved SFU students to gain graduate course credits towards their degree. The choice of each term’s colloquium, and associated responsibilities for its oversight and co-ordination, is determined through an application process. Applications must propose a graduate course and a six-speaker lecture series that is of interest to, and supported by, at least three university departments.
Upcoming Free Public Lectures
Thursday, September 29, 7:00 – 8:30 PM
Honouring Ancestral Teachings and Environmental Knowledge in a Time of Urgency: Lessons from the Ninogaad
Speaker: Kim Recalma-Clutesi
Award-winning activist and cross-cultural interpreter from the Qualicum First Nation on eastern Vancouver Island.
Speaker: Douglas Deur
Groundbreaking researcher, author and cultural anthropologist.
Location: SFU Harbour Centre
Thursday, October 13, 7:00 – 8:30 pm
Creating Resilient Futures by Leading with a Light Heart
Speaker: Monique Gray Smith
Award-winning, best-selling author and consultant of Cree, Lakota and Scottish heritage.
Location: SFU Harbour Centre
Free Public Lectures / Public Engagement
President Joy Johnson brings leading thinkers to SFU and invites the community to an annual forum for intensive interdisciplinary exchange amongst faculty, students and the general public.
Seminars for Undergrads & Graduates
SFU students gain course credits towards their degree for attending and participating in colloquium seminars and completing supervised research papers relating to the colloquium’s subject or theme.
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2022 Fall - Indigenous Peoples and Local Community Perspectives on Sustainability and Resilience
This colloquium will explore how some Indigenous peoples and local communities understand sustainability and resilience and how their traditional worldviews might provide models for more sustainable futures for their communities and others.
More details and list of speakers
Past President's Dream Colloquia
Spring 2021
From Conversations to Action: Creating from Social Justice Research
Connect your passion for social justice through creative academic conversation. Take innovative interdisciplinary research from distinguished scholars and experiment with your peers to communicate it in engaging ways to a public audience.
Fall 2019
Creative Ecologies
We must challenge ourselves to face the environmental bad news and imagine human and nonhuman life in strikingly new and different ways.
Spring 2019
HIV/AIDS
Inspire and mobilize as the next generation of researchers, policy-makers, activists, artists, and advocates with an interdisciplinary understanding of the past, current, and future response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Calls for Colloquium Proposals
Questions
If you have any questions about the Colloquium administration, please email Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.