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Institute for the Humanities
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Now in its 40th year, the Institute for the Humanities at SFU seeks to accomplish these basic objectives: stimulate student interest and faculty research in demonstrating the irreducibility of humanistic perspectives in understanding some of the most pressing social, economic, political and environmental problems we face and, above all, to engage the many publics beyond the academy in city, the province, the country and, indeed, the wider world. The Institute is perfectly placed, therefore, to play a key role in the idea of SFU as “student-centred, research-driven and community-engaged.”
Winter of Discontent: The Russia-Ukraine War lecture with James Horncastle
Public lecture by James Horncastle
November 21, 2023
The Russia-Ukraine War, whose current phase began in 2022, shows no signs of abating. Ukraine’s offensive during the summer, while making limited gains, did not achieve the decisive breakthrough desired by Ukraine and its allies. The autumn weather, furthermore, will likely limit either party’s ability to launch significant military campaigns for the foreseeable future. Pressure is building on both sides, as attention fatigue sets in amongst their supporters, to end the conflict. Is peace in the short term likely, and what form will such a peace take once the conflict reaches its conclusion? These are not easy questions and require one ...
November 21, 2023
The Russia-Ukraine War, whose current phase began in 2022, shows no signs of abating. Ukraine’s offensive during the summer, while making limited gains, did not achieve the decisive breakthrough desired by Ukraine and its allies. The autumn weather, furthermore, will likely limit either party’s ability to launch significant military campaigns for the foreseeable future. Pressure is building on both sides, as attention fatigue sets in amongst their supporters, to end the conflict. Is peace in the short term likely, and what form will such a peace take once the conflict reaches its conclusion? These are not easy questions and require one ...
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Grace MacInnis Lecture by Micheal Vonn, the Chief Executive Officer of PHS
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“Who the Hell Would Do this Work? Reflections on Supportive Housing and Harm Reduction in Unfriendly Times” Public lecture by Micheal Vonn November 15, 2023 Supportive housing and harm reduction are popular political footballs. But the delivery of services to the most needful has been fraught from the outset, even aside from the current iterations of political heat. Much of the regulatory, admi...
Apocalyptic Anxieties Keynote Speaker Lewis R. Gordon
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Keynote Speaker Lewis R. Gordon October 28, 0223 This conference brings together psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic and political theorists and social scientists from a multiplicity of traditions and orientations to examine contemporary apocalyptic anxieties. We focus on how unconscious mechanisms contribute to conceptualize, understand and reinvent the various forms of apocalypses and dematerializ...
Apocalyptic Anxieties Keynote Speaker Adrian Ivakhiv
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Keynote Speaker Adrian Ivakhiv October 27, 2023 This conference brings together psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic and political theorists and social scientists from a multiplicity of traditions and orientations to examine contemporary apocalyptic anxieties. We focus on how unconscious mechanisms contribute to conceptualize, understand and reinvent the various forms of apocalypses and dematerializa...
The Middle of the Middle Public Lecture by Stephen Collis
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"The Middle of the Middle: Purgatory, Pilgrimage, and Human and Plant Mobility in a Time of Climate Crisis" Public Lecture by Stephen Collis April 26, 2023 In the context of the climate crisis and what has been referred to as the “great redistribution” of life on earth, this talk considers human and more-than-human mobility from the perspective of climate solidarity. Part travelogue, part poeti...
Anti Racism, the Labour Movement, and the role of Elected Officials
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Second Annual Dr.Chinmoy Banerjee Lecture in Anti-Racism: “Anti Racism, the Labour Movement, and the role of Elected Officials” Public Lecture Kshama Sawant Roundtable with Anjali Appadurai, Michal Ma, Yammeena Zaidi (Teaching Support Staff Union), moderated by Samir Gandesha October 30, 2023 Co-sponsored by Dr.Hari Sharma Foundation, the West Coast Coalition Against Racism (WCCAR) and South As...
“Society Must Be Defended. Society Must Be Attacked: Foucault as a Critic of Schmitt"
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Valentina Antoniol Public Lecture March 2, 2023 Co-sponsored by SFU's Institute for the Humanities and Vancity Office of Community Engagement. In a 1998 essay entitled Karl und Carl, Mario Tronti defined the meeting between Marx and Schmitt as “impossible and necessary.” A few lines later, he added that these constituted: “two forms of agonic, ‘polemical’ thought: not only with regard to practi...
Unveiling of George Rammell's "Chambers of Predetermined Outcomes: Gatekeepers of Justice"
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George Rammell, Rueben George, Alex Phillips, Michelle Silongan, & Ian Angus Art Unveiling & Panel Discussion March 21, 2023 Join us for an unveiling of George Rammell’s sculptural work “Chambers of Predetermined Outcomes: Gatekeepers of Justice” by Rueben George of the Tsleil-Waututh nation. The unveiling is followed by a discussion with the artist and introductory statements by panelists Rueb...
Panel 4: "Roundtable: Moving Forward"
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Dimitri Lascaris, Ben Issitt, Ashley Zarbatany, Bob Williams, & Alicia Massie Panel 4 of the "Democratic Socialism and Civilizational Crisis" Conference October 22, 2022 The conference is sponsored by the SFU Institute for the Humanities through the Joanne Brown Symposium on Violence and Its Alternatives endowment, the SFU Labour Studies Program, and the SFU VanCity Office of Community Engageme...
Panel 3: "Facing New Realities in an Era of Crisis and Reckoning"
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Matthew Green, Avi Lewis, & Kendra Strauss Panel 3 of the "Democratic Socialism and Civilizational Crisis" Conference October 22, 2022 The conference is sponsored by the SFU Institute for the Humanities through the Joanne Brown Symposium on Violence and Its Alternatives endowment, the SFU Labour Studies Program, and the SFU VanCity Office of Community Engagement. ABOUT THE PANEL Where does toda...
Panel 2: "Democratic Socialist Approaches to the Environment/Economy Relationship"
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Bill Carroll, Shannon Daub, Marjorie Cohen, Bianca Mugyenyi, Jim Stanford, & Joey Hartman Panel 2 of the "Democratic Socialism and Civilizational Crisis" Conference October 21, 2022 The conference is sponsored by the SFU Institute for the Humanities through the Joanne Brown Symposium on Violence and Its Alternatives endowment, the SFU Labour Studies Program, and the SFU VanCity Office of Commun...
Panel 1: "The Politics and Philosophy of Democratic Socialism"
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Mary Mellor, Roberta Lexier, Natalie Fenton, Steve McBride, & Am Johal Panel 1 of the "Democratic Socialism and Civilizational Crisis" Conference October 21, 2022 The conference is sponsored by the SFU Institute for the Humanities through the Joanne Brown Symposium on Violence and Its Alternatives endowment, the SFU Labour Studies Program, and the SFU VanCity Office of Community Engagement. ABO...
"Groundwork of Phenomenological Marxism: Crisis, Body, World"
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Ian Angus, Andrew Feenberg, & Samir Gandesha Book Launch & Panel Discussion December 8, 2022 Ian Angus’ recently published Groundwork of Phenomenological Marxism: Crisis, Body, World is a new exploration of the relationship between phenomenology and Marxism in a manner pertinent to contemporary issues at the beginning of the 21st century. It develops themes relevant to Indigeneity; Eurocentrism...
"Cultivating Placefulness: Why We Need a Contemplative Ecology in Troubled Times"
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Jason Brown Public Lecture December 6, 2022 Jason is keenly focused on PLACEfulness, mutuality with other species, "eco-spiritual" activism, and the presence of a spiritual foundation in addressing the climate emergency in which we currently live. He will engage us in a conversation that includes the evolution of the "Holyscapes" project-an exploration of the inner and outer landscapes we inhab...
2022 Thakore Visiting Scholar Lecture: "Climate Activism at SFU"
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SFU350 Panel Discussion October 3, 2022 Simon Fraser University has a rich history of student activism and recent years have seen a surge in climate-related actions. SFU350 is a student-led group dedicated to engaging the university in climate justice and while recent victories have been encouraging, the group is eager to continue striving for greater changes. Operating on the unceded territori...
Inaugural Professor Chin Banerjee Memorial Lecture in Anti-Racism: "Rehearsals for Living"
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Inaugural Professor Chin Banerjee Memorial Lecture in Anti-Racism: "Rehearsals for Living"
"A Matter of Love and Death: Marcuse and Adorno on Narcissism"
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"A Matter of Love and Death: Marcuse and Adorno on Narcissism"
"Walter Benjamin’s Toward the Critique of Violence: A Roundtable Discussion"
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"Walter Benjamin’s Toward the Critique of Violence: A Roundtable Discussion"
"The 2019 Chilean Revolt and the Spectre of Fascism/Communism"
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"The 2019 Chilean Revolt and the Spectre of Fascism/Communism"
"Fairy Creek and the Climate Emergency"
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"Fairy Creek and the Climate Emergency"
"Merleau-Ponty, Nature, and the Normative Stakes of Deep History"
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"Merleau-Ponty, Nature, and the Normative Stakes of Deep History"
"No Farmers, No Food: Indian Farmers Confront Authoritarian Neoliberalism"
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"No Farmers, No Food: Indian Farmers Confront Authoritarian Neoliberalism"
"Global Solidarity with India's Farmers"
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"Global Solidarity with India's Farmers"
"Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste: How the Left Can Win Big After the Pandemic"
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"Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste: How the Left Can Win Big After the Pandemic"
"Moving Slow While Urgent Change is Needed: Why Governments Struggle to Effect True Reconciliation"
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"Moving Slow While Urgent Change is Needed: Why Governments Struggle to Effect True Reconciliation"
"Renaissance Italy's 'First Responders': Humanists and the Humanities in an Age of Crisis"
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"Renaissance Italy's 'First Responders': Humanists and the Humanities in an Age of Crisis"
"Logics of Genocide: The Structures of Violence and the Contemporary World"
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"Logics of Genocide: The Structures of Violence and the Contemporary World"
"The Pandemic and the Police: COVID, the Surveillance State and the Future of Movements to Defund"
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"The Pandemic and the Police: COVID, the Surveillance State and the Future of Movements to Defund"