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Public Seminar: Air India Flight 182: The Making of a Canadian Tragedy
No full textTo mark the 30th anniversary of the Air India Flight 182 tragedy, Simon Fraser University's Centre for Policy Studies on Culture and Communities and SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement have organized a public forum on the Air India Flight 182: A Canadian Tragedy public inquiry report. We invite you to join panellists on June 17th from 7:00-9:00pm in the Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre at SFU Woodward's for a round table discussion
MA Defence: “Coastal Church: Community through Connectivity†By Adam Bajan
Get PDFOur dear colleague, Adam Bajan, will defend his MA Thesis on Friday, September 17th, 2015 at Harbour Centre, Room 1700 (10 am -12 noon). Here is the abstract of his thesis “Coastal Church: Community through Connectivity”
Public Event: A Colloquium on Digital Media, Public Sphere, & the Development of Digital Systems
No full textThere will be a day-long colloquium on Digital Media, Public Sphere, & the Development of Digital Systems on November 9, at Harbour Centre room 3100. The event starts at 9 am. Please see the attached poster for details
Public Lecture: Thinking about Oil: Energy Epistemologies and Political Futures
Get PDFA CPCC public lecture on the topic of "Energy and Philosophy" will be hosted on January 12, 2015 from 5-7pm in room HC1600 (SFU Vancouver). The event is sponsored by FCAT's Centre For Policy Studies on Culture and Communities (SFU), the Institute for Humanities (SFU), and the Centre for Social Justice at Kwantlen University (KPU). Please see the attached PDF for further details
2015 Smythe Memorial Lecture: Framing Inequality as a Crisis by Oscar Gandy
Get PDF2015 Smythe Memorial Lecture will be hosted on March 26, 2015 from 7-9pm in Segal Centre (SFU Vancouver). This year's lecture is delivered by Prof. Oscar Gandy on the topic of "Framing Inequality as a Crisis". See the full text for details
MA Defence: “Reading, Writing and Resistance: Feminist and Neoliberal Subjects in the Canadian Academy†By Madison Trusolino
Get PDFOur dear colleague, Madison Trusolino, will defend her MA Thesis on Thursday, May 7th, 2015 at Harbour Centre, Room 1425. Here is the abstract of her thesis “Reading, Writing and Resistance: Feminist and Neoliberal Subjects in the Canadian Academy”
An Appraisal of Robert Brandom's Making it Explicit
Get PDFThis paper attends to the moral thought of Robert Brandom as it appears in his 1994 magnum opus Making It Explicit. Insofar that it is necessarily to outline Brandom’s thought the presentation will refer to the conception of deontic commitments as providing a basis for inference and entitlements for the purposes of meaning making. Accepting these remarks as sound enough, the paper directs attention at the role of inference in moral-decision making. Finally, it offers an appraisal of Brandom’s moral thought system
Public Event: Global to Village: Grounding Communication Research in Rural China
No full textThe M.A. Double Degree Program in Global Communication is holding a workshop on ethnographic research in rural China, to share their initial analysis and experiences in the field. The workshop will be at SFU Harbour Centre, room 1530 from 7 pm to 9 pm on November 12. Please see the attached poster for details
MA Defence: “Creativity Within Constraints: Encoding, Production, and Representation in Battlestar Galactica†by Philippa Adams
Get PDFOur dear colleague, Philippa Adams, will defend her MA Thesis on Friday, December 10th, 2015 at Harbour Centre, Room 1520 (2:00 pm - 4:00 pm). Here is the abstract of her thesis “Creativity Within Constraints”
MA Defence: “Tweeting Tsunami: Early Warning Networks in British Columbia†by Amanda Oldring
Get PDFOur dear colleague, Amanda Oldring, will defend her MA Thesis on Wednesday, December 16, 2015 at Harbour Centre, Room 1500 (1:00 pm - 3:00 pm). Here is the abstract of her thesis “Tweeting Tsunami”