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Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): Hern, Matt
Date created: 2014-11-06
Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): Andrew Nikiforuk
Date created: 2016-01-28
Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): Chief Dr. Robert Joseph
Date created: 2016-01-21
Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): Nicholas George
Date created: 2016-03-16
Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): Gandesha Samir, Author (aut): Iskandar Adel
Date created: 2016-03-31
Alberta's historic election results call for analysis and discussion.The Broadbent Institute and the SFU School of Public Policy presented: Beyond the Headlines: Learning about Alberta's Historic Election.The panel discussion of politicos and campaigners discussed what happened in the election that ended 44 years of Progressive Conservative Party rule of Alberta -- and how that shift led to an NDP majority.Panelists:Gerry Scott, Alberta NDP campaign directorKerry Towle, former Wildrose and PC MLA, Innisfail-Sylvan Lake Mike McDonald, Principal, Rosedeer Strategies Inc., and Campaign Director, BC Liberal 2013 electionAnne McGrath, National Director, New Democratic Party of Canada
Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): Scott, Gerry, Author (aut): Towle, Kerry, Author (aut): McDonald, Mike, Author (aut): McGrath, Anne
Date created: 2015-06-01
Recording of a panel discussion from a Shaping Vancouver event (2018)
Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): Heritage Vancouver
Date created: 2018-10-11
Video of EMMA Talks presentation with Anoushka Ratnarajah.
Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): Ratnarajah, Anoushka, Author (aut): EMMA Talks
Date created: 2018-10-01
Audio recording of Shaping Vancouver presentation (2018)
Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): Heritage Vancouver
Date created: 2018-05-10
Video of EMMA Talks presentation with Vivek Shraya
Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): Shraya, Vivek, Author (aut): EMMA Talks
Date created: 2018-10-01
A presentation from EMMA Talks, Dr. Amina Wadud talks about the evolution of Muslim women are in the 21st Century as it relates to her own personal history and story. Dr. Amina Wadud is Professor Emiratis of Islamic Studies and Visiting Scholar at Starr King School for the Ministry. Author of Qur’an and Woman; and, Inside the Gender Jihad; she is a founding member of Sisters in Islam and resource person for Musawah: the global movement for reform in Muslim Personal Status Law.
Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): Wadud, Amina, Author (aut): EMMA Talks
Date created: 2018-05-03
Indigenous women are among the underrepresented voices in contemporary anthropology, and throughout its history. They were more likely to be the subjects of research into an ethnographic present, always portrayed in exotic terms and without agency. Perhaps in reaction to earlier studies Indigenous people are among the critics of the work that anthropologists produce. Despite this troubled relationship Audra Simpson has adopted a discipline that exists to explore the human condition.The current generation of anthropologists accept that research does not occur independent of the researcher’s perspective. Thus, indigeneity will inevitably direct the course of inquiry for anthropology conducted by Indigenous people. In this conversation, Dr. Simpson will reflect upon her career as an anthropologist. She will discuss the tropes, trends and themes that inform her research and how she contributes to the discourse of modern anthropology.Audra Simpson is in conversation here with Eldon Yellowhorn.
Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): Simpson, Audra, Author (aut): Yellowhorn, Eldon
Date created: 2018-03-21
Social innovation is at a crossroads. How will it embrace and build on the social justice movements of the past? Will we be able to move to action while holding the space for the real conversations that need to happen?SPEAKER BIOTonya Surman is a social entrepreneur with a passion for bringing life to world-changing projects. Tonya is the founding Chief Executive Officer of the Centre for Social Innovation (CSI), a coworking space, community and launchpad for people who are changing the world, with four locations in Toronto and one location in New York City.CSI provides its members with the tools they need to accelerate their success and amplify their social impact. Tonya has been creating and leading social ventures since 1987.
Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): Surman, Tonya
Date created: 2018-03-07
One Book one SFU, presented by Simon Fraser University Library and co-sponsored by the Tegan and Sara Foundation, Vancity Office of Community Engagement SFU Woodward's, Pulpfiction Books. An evening of reading and conversation with Ivan Coyote and Tegan Quin as they discuss Coyote's poignant memoir, Tomboy Survival Guide.
Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): Coyote, Ivan, Author (aut): Quin, Tegan
Date created: 2018-03-06
Milestones 2017 is the third annual Vancouver City Planning Commission Year in Review public forum, it’s a look back that invariably turns into a dialogue about the future of the city.Four leading urban thinkers and achievers discuss 2017 decisions and events in planning and development that have been identified as possibly having a transformative influence on the evolution of Vancouver. The panelists will also offer their own ideas on proposed milestones of 2017.
Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): Vancouver City Planning Commission, Author (aut): Kershaw, Paul, Author (aut): Ma, Melody, Author (aut): Price, Gordon, Author (aut): Scott, Ouri, Author (aut): Singh, Sandra
Date created: 2018-02-05
Join Susan Boyd, and guests Donald MacPherson and Horde of Two (Wendy Atkinson and David Lester), on the publication of Susan’s new book, Busted: An Illustrated History of Drug Prohibition in Canada.ABOUT THE BOOKCanada’s drug laws are constantly changing. But what does Canada’s history of drug prohibition say about its future?Susan Boyd argues that in order to chart the future, it is worthwhile for us as Canadians to know our history of prohibition and our history of resistance to it.Busted is an illustrated history of Canadian drug prohibition and resistance to that prohibition. Reproducing over 170 striking archival and contemporary drawings, paintings, photographs, film stills and official documents from the 1700s to the present, Susan Boyd shows how Canada’s drug prohibition policies evolved and were shaped by race, class and gender discrimination. For more than a century, drug prohibition has been and continues to be an expensive failure.
Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): Boyd, Susan, Author (aut): MacPherson, Donald, Author (aut): Atkinson, Wendy, Author (aut): Lester, David
Date created: 2018-01-23
Queer Arts Festival and SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement presented a lecture by Jonathan David Katz, PhD, on the exhibition ART/AIDS/AMERICA at the Tacoma Art Museum from now until Jan 10, 2016. Generally considered merely a tragic tangent to US culture, AIDS has in fact been one of the most powerful shaping forces in American culture since the 1980's. We have repressed AIDS’ role in the making of our culture in keeping with our longstanding, repression of AIDS in general. But repression, as known from psychoanalysis, is the sign of great power. The lecture was followed by a Q&A with Dr. Katz.Jonathan David Katz is a pioneering academic and gay activist who works at the intersection of art history and queer history. Widely recognized as a leading authority in queer art history, his work as curator, scholar, and activist has had a profound impact on the understanding of queer art and artists in both academia and the larger world. Katz founded the Harvey Milk Institute, the world’s largest queer studies institute, and serves as president and chief curator of New York City's Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art. His recent work includes co-curating “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Art,” an exhibition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery that broke ground by focusing on LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) issues. Katz directs SUNY Buffalo’s PhD program in visual studies. Katz is currently co-curating ART/AIDS/AMERICA at the Tacoma Art Museum from now until January 10, 2016, and will curate the 2016 Queer Arts Festival visual arts exhibition this coming June.
Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): Katz, Jonathan David, Author (aut): Queer Arts Festival
Date created: 2015-11-26
About Free Home UniversityA project of Loop House (Lecce, IT) and Musagetes, Free Home University (FHU) is a pedagogical experiment grounded in experiencing life and creativity in common. FHU is a response to the need to generate new ways of sharing and creating knowledge. Created in collaboration with a pool of diverse international artists and thinkers, FHU is based in and around the city of Lecce, in the Puglia Region of southern Italy.FHU approaches the possibilities of education by producing collaborative artistic projects and coalitional knowledge. A positive alternative to the neoliberal and service-oriented system, FHU provides a home for radical thought, experimental action, learning-by-doing. It opens up existing competencies and encourages personal enrichment. The name Free Home University (FHU) refers to how a horizontal, inviting, energy-liberating environment (Free), within a protected and intimate space (Home), can provide an alternative, yet universal experience of sharing knowledge (University).
Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): Pomarico, Alessandra
Date created: 2015-11-23