Institute for the Humanities
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.”
The Challenge Before Us: Moving From a Politics of Identity to a Politics of Solidarity
India and Israel: Partners in Genocide
From Pine Ridge to Palestine: A Comparison of Colonization and Anti-colonial Struggle
Finite Crises and Infinite Wars: Global Laboratories of Social Desensitization and the Case of Gaza
Winter of Discontent: The Russia-Ukraine War lecture with James Horncastle
Grace MacInnis Lecture by Micheal Vonn, the Chief Executive Officer of PHS
Apocalyptic Anxieties Keynote Speaker Lewis R. Gordon
Apocalyptic Anxieties Keynote Speaker Adrian Ivakhiv
The Middle of the Middle Public Lecture by Stephen Collis
Anti Racism, the Labour Movement, and the role of Elected Officials
“Society Must Be Defended. Society Must Be Attacked: Foucault as a Critic of Schmitt"
Unveiling of George Rammell's "Chambers of Predetermined Outcomes: Gatekeepers of Justice"
Panel 4: "Roundtable: Moving Forward"
Panel 3: "Facing New Realities in an Era of Crisis and Reckoning"
Panel 2: "Democratic Socialist Approaches to the Environment/Economy Relationship"
Panel 1: "The Politics and Philosophy of Democratic Socialism"
"Groundwork of Phenomenological Marxism: Crisis, Body, World"
"Cultivating Placefulness: Why We Need a Contemplative Ecology in Troubled Times"
2022 Thakore Visiting Scholar Lecture: "Climate Activism at SFU"
Inaugural Professor Chin Banerjee Memorial Lecture in Anti-Racism: "Rehearsals for Living"
"Marx and Democracy"
"A Matter of Love and Death: Marcuse and Adorno on Narcissism"
"Walter Benjamin’s Toward the Critique of Violence: A Roundtable Discussion"
"The 2019 Chilean Revolt and the Spectre of Fascism/Communism"
"Jerry Zaslove: A Memorial Event"
"Fairy Creek and the Climate Emergency"
"Merleau-Ponty, Nature, and the Normative Stakes of Deep History"
"No Farmers, No Food: Indian Farmers Confront Authoritarian Neoliberalism"
"Global Solidarity with India's Farmers"
"Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste: How the Left Can Win Big After the Pandemic"