Authors and Book Launches

2018

February 2, 2018: Book Launch: Basically Queer: An intergenerational introduction to LGBTQA2S+ lives edited by Claire Robson, Kelsey Blair, and Jen Marchbank; Introduction by Shirley R. Steinberg, Venables Hall, Vancouver

February 26, 2018: Book Launch: Basically Queer: An intergenerational introduction to LGBTQA2S+ lives edited by Claire Robson, Kelsey Blair, and Jen Marchbank; Introduction by Dr. Lara Campbell, SFU Surrey Campus

2017

May 11, 2017:  Jamie Swift on "The Vimy Trap" Book Launch

2015

October 22, 2015:  Dr. Mike Ward - From Labouring to Learning: Working-Class Masculinities and De-Industrialization

May 14, 2015:  Book Launch - Worth Fighting For: Canada's Tradition of War Resistance from 1812 to the War on Terror. Edited by Lara Campbell

2014

March 21, 2014:  Book Launch & Reading – The Bridge Generation: A Queer Elders’ Chronicle from No Rights to Civil Rights, Edited by host artists Claire Robson and Kelsey Blair

2012

January 27, 2012: Jessica Yee, "Marginalization Doesn't Happen by Accident: Colonialism and Violence from the State" Lecture/Book Signing

2013

March 7, 2013: Book Launch: Lara A. Campbell, Dominique Clement, Gregory S. Kealey, eds. Debating Dissent: Canada and the Sixties & Claire Robson, Writing for Change:  Research as Public Pedagogy and Arts-based Activism, Rhizome Café, Vancouver

2011

January 20, 2011: Herstory Café: "Awfully Devoted Women, Lesbian Lives in Canada 1900-65" Book Launch by Cameron Duder.

March 30, 2011: Book launch and discussion: Kouri T. Keenan & Joan Brockman, "Mr Big" and Rebecca Haskell & Brian Burtch "Get that Freak: Homophobia and Transphobia in High Schools," (Fernwood Publishing) at Ardea Books and Art

2010

October 14, 2010: Press release: Rebecca Haskell, Brian Burtch, "Get That Freak: Homophobia and Transphobia in High Schools" Fernwood Publishing.

November 25, 2010: Book Launch, Rebecca Haskell, Brian Burtch, "Get That Freak: Homophobia and Transphobia in High Schools" Little Sister's Bookstore and Art Emporium

December 2, 2010: Five SFU Authors Book Launch: 

  • Lara Campbell, "Respectable Citizens: Gender, Family, and Unemployment in Ontario's Great Depression"
  • Adrienne Burk, "Speaking for a Long Time: Public Space & Social Memory in Vancouver"
  • Kristen Emiko McAllister, Terrain of Memory: A Japanese Canadian Memorial Project"
  • Zoe Druick, "Allan King's: A Married Couple"
  • Helen Hok-Sze Leung, "Farewell My Concubine: A Queer Film Classic" Paperback

2002

May 5, 2002: Dionne Brand reading, "Thirsty," (McClelland & Stewart 2002) Bowen Island, BC

June 7-8, 2002: Dionne Brand, "Poetry Matters: a Festival of Women Poets," SFU Harbour Centre Campus, Vancouver

2001

January 18, 2001: Dionne Brand. Reading by Edin Robinson, "Traplines, Monkey Beach (Knopf Canada 2000), SFU Harbour Centre Campus, Vancouver

January 26, 2001: Dionne Brand reading, "At the Full and Change of the Moon," UCC, Kamloops

February 15, 2001: Dionne Brand. Reading by Constance Backhouse, "Color-Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950" and "Petticoats and Prejudice: Women and Law in Nineteenth-Century Canada," (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999), SFU Harbour Centre Campus, Vancouver

March 7, 2001: Dionne Brand reading, "A Map to the Door of No Return," UBC, Vancouver

March 15, 2001: Dionne Brand. Reading by Kerri Sakamoto, "The Electric Field," (Norton: New York 2000), SFU Harbour Centre Campus, Vancouver

April 19, 2001: Dionne Brand. Reading by Lorna Goodison, "Turn Thanks, Collected Poems," (University of Illinois 1999), SFU Harbour Centre Campus, Vancouver

September 20, 2001: Dionne Brand. Reading by Nicole Brossard, "Installations: With and Without Pronouns," J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing, 2001), SFU Harbour Centre Campus, Vancouver

October 18, 2001: Dionne Brand reading, "A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes on the Journey to Belonging," (Vintage Canada 2002), SFU Harbour Centre Campus, Vancouver

November 15, 2001: Dionne Brand. Reading by Anita Badami, "The Hero's Walk," (Knopf Canada 2000), SFU Harbour Centre Campus, Vancouver

2000

October 12, 2000: Dionne Brand "Readings and Discussion," Capilano College Lecture Theatre