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The Trip Diary: B-Line to the Future – with Bowinn Ma & Uytae Lee

Author: Ma, Bowinn, Author: Lee, Uytae, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Roach, Melissa, Author: Smith, Paige, Author: Feng, Kathy, Author: Bardi, Alyha, Author: Tornes, Steve, Author: Alex Masse

Date created: 2022-07-26

Ahalya Satkunaratnam: The Art of Interdisciplinary versus the Market of “Innovative” Education

Recording of talk by dance scholar Ahalya Satkunaratnam.Ahalya Satkunaratnam is a Chicagoan at heart and on the dance floor and a Malaysian-born dance scholar and dancer who found herself in Vancouver after joining the faculty of Quest University Canada in 2014. There, she teaches courses in cultural studies, performing arts, and women’s and gender studies. Her upcoming book to be published by Wesleyan University Press, Moving Bodies, Navigating Conflict: Practicing Bharata Natyam in Colombo, Sri Lanka, explores how dance practices make and undo local and state nationalisms, the intersections of gender and ethnicity with cultural practices, and the personal experiences of Sri Lanka's 26-year civil war.

Author: Satkunaratnam, Ahalya

Date created: 2017-11-15

Itrath Syed: Gendered Islamophobia and Muslim Women’s Resistance

Recording of talk by PhD Candidate at the School of Communication at SFU Itrath Syed whose research involves an analysis of the ideological history of Islamophobia in Canada.Itrath Syed is a PhD Candidate at the School of Communication at SFU where her research involves an analysis of the ideological history of Islamophobia in Canada. Her MA in Gender Studies (UBC) explored the gendered and racialized construction of the Muslim community in the media discourse surrounding the Islamic Arbitration or “Shariah” debate in Ontario. She is an Instructor at the School of Communication at SFU, in Women’s Studies at Langara College, and in Asian Studies at Kwantlen University. Itrath has a history of activism against war and occupation, and against the racial profiling of the Muslim, Arab and South Asian communities in Canada.

Author: Syed, Itrath, Author: Jaffer, Samaah

Date created: 2017-11-14

Gershon Shafir: The First Half-Century of Israel’s Permanently Temporary Occupation

Recording of talk by Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego Gershon Shafir.Gershon Shafir is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. He has served as President of the Association for Israel Studies in 2001-2003, and is the author or editor of ten books, among them Land, Labor, and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882–1914. He is also the coauthor, with Yoav Peled, of Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship, which won the Middle Eastern Studies Association’s Albert Hourani Award in 2002, and the coeditor, with Mark Levine, of Struggle and Survival in Palestine/Israel, a collection of life histories. His new book is A Half Century of Occupation: Israel, Palestine and the World’s Most Intractable Conflict.

Author: Shafir, Gershon

Date created: 2017-11-09

SFU History Reads: Martin Luther

Recording of panel discussion for History Reads event.

Author: Panchasi, Roxanne, Author: Clossey, Luke, Author: Craig, John, Author: O'Brien, Emily, Author: Werth, Tiffany

Date created: 2017-11-01

Importance of Cultural Identity for Women and the Rise of Women Warriors with Germaine Tremmel

Recording of panel discussion with Visible Colours from Heart of the City Festival.

Author: Tremmel, Germaine, Author: Gail Bowen, Dalannah

Date created: 2017-10-29

Book Launch: In the Long Run We Are All Dead

Recording of book launch In the Long Run We Are All Dead by Geoff Mann.