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Public Event: ‘Can the University Stand for Peace?’ Omar Khadr, Higher Education and the Question of Hospitality
No full textDavid L. Clark will explore the question ‘Can the University Stand for Peace?’ in a talk on Omar Khadr and higher education in Canada on Feb. 10, 2017 in room 700 at SFU Harbour Centre. Please see the attached poster for more details
Public Event: Dallas Smythe Memorial Lecture: Life and Liberatory Communications in the Age of Trump
No full textDr. Dorothy Kidd will be giving the annual Dallas Smythe Memorial Lecture, entitled "Life and Liberatory Communications in the Age of Trump" on Thursday, March 16 at 7:00 pm in Harbour Centre room 1400-1410.
Dr. Dorothy Kidd teaches media studies at the University of San Francisco. Her two current research projects examine the use of contentious communications by political and social justice movements, including a longitudinal study of the San Francisco Bay area, and a trans-national study of trans-local movements against extractivism.
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PHD Defence: Inventing Havana in Thin Air: Sound, Space, and the Making of Sonic Citizenship by Vincent Andrisani
Get PDFOur dear colleague, Vincent Andrisani, will defend his PHD dissertation on Wednesday, July 12, 2017 at Harbour Centre, Room 1520 (10:30-13:30). Here is the abstract of his dissertation “Inventing Havana in Thin Air: Sound, Space, and the Making of Sonic Citizenship.â
My Puerto Ricanness: Locating Sovereignty in La Puerta
Get PDFReflecting on positionality shook the core pillars of my research. I thought that an essay on positionality would be purely expository. But little by little I started encountering reflections of who I am in my description of my topic. Identifying myself in what I was studying helped me question what I was doing. It helped me discern between truths and how my research will provide explanations of certain truths. More importantly, it aided me in identifying why it should be me who completes this study
Public Event: Laya Behbahani: Human Trafficking In The Gulf States
No full textLaya Behbahani, who recently completed her MA in Criminology at SFU, will provide media accounts of the experiences of migrant workers in the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) states of the Middle East against a backdrop of the hybrid legal system and varying innovative, and often evasive, state responses in the GCC. A post-lecture dialogue will be moderated by SFU School of Communication's Adel Iskandar. The lecture will take place on January 31, 2017, at 7:00 PM at the Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts.
Co-presented by SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, SFU's School for International Studies, the Institute for the Humanities at SFU, and the Global Communication MA Double Degree Program.
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What's in a Word? Unpacking the Communicative Implications of Knowledge Translation as a Term
Get PDFKnowledge translation is one of many terms used to describe the process of moving academic research into practical application to achieve positive impacts. Attention to knowledge translation has grown significantly in the contemporary Canadian research landscape, supported by major federal research funders. This article explores the term in depth, highlighting the interdisciplinary links between the burgeoning area of knowledge translation and more established areas of communication studies and translation studies. Focusing on a Canadian health research setting, the concepts of "perfect communication" and "loss in translation" are examined in relation to knowledge translation. This analysis explores contradictions and tensions within current assumptions and rhetoric around knowledge translation, highlighting misalignments with traditional thinking about communication. These issues can affect how knowledge translation work is perceived and practiced. Critical attention to the tensions emerging from the term knowledge translation is important for the field to continue to develop
A Venezuelan Position on the Bolivarian Revolution
Get PDFMy interest in politics started during my high school years. At 13 I got hooked on the Venezuelan political scenario with the same intensity as most adults. It is not usual for a teenager to be interested in politics, but the impact of the 1998 Venezuelan presidential election was so significant, the coverage by media so widespread, that it was practically inevitable that I would become enthralled in the outcome. “How does who you are and where you stand in relation to others shape what you know about the world?” By raising this question, David Takacs (2002) introduces the importance of positionality to knowledge production. Positionality provides a way to understand how objective or subjective researchers are during knowledge production (Lave & Wenger, 1991). I can firmly say that the representations portrayed in Venezuela’s mainstream media built up my character, and shaped the analytical approach that I follow today as a scholar
Long Lost Lore of a ‘Land’ Called Home
Get PDFI grew up in a household that crossed boundaries.And as a result, I faced relentless questions from my classmates, their parents, my neighbors, local shopkeepers, even pedestrians. Asking uncom-fortable questions tominority people like “why don’t you eat beef?” or “why don’t your men under-go circumcisions?” or “why do you give sambar to your lentil soup?”is normal in Bangladesh, where I live. I was taught to overlook these questions—to know them as rhetorical queries, to which there can be no sane reply. What justified the casual insults hurled at me as a representative of a minority
MA Defence: Treading the Line: Seeking balance in information sharing and privacy in ActionADE by Serena Small
Get PDFOur dear colleague, Serena Small will defend her MA thesis on Thursday, July 13, 2017 at Harbour Centre, Room 2200 (10:00-12:00). Here is the abstract of her thesis "Treading the Line: Seeking balance in information sharing and privacy in ActionADE.
MA Defence: Challenging Knowledge Divides: Communicating and Co-creating Expertise in Integrated Knowledge Translation by Christine Ackerley
Get PDFOur dear colleague, Christine Ackerley will defend her MA thesis on Wednesday, July 19, 2017 at Harbour Centre, Room 2245 (14:00-16:00). Here is the abstract of her thesis "Challenging knowledge divides: Communicating and co-creating expertise in integrated knowledge translation.