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4 SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY NEWS I THURSDAY APRIL 5, 2007
Eleanor Wachtel: writer,broadcaster and host ofCBC Radio's "Writers &Company" and "The ArtsTonight," Order of Canadamember and former SFUadjunct professor ofwomen's studies.
Marguerite Ford: community planner, formerVancouver city councillor,Order of British Columbiamember, communityvolunteer and advocatefor better healthcare andhousing for the elderlyand disabled.
Terry Snutch: molecularbiologist, alumni-awardwinner whose NeuromedPharmaceuticals signedthe largest agreement inCanadian biotech history,potentially worth $500million, with Merck & Co.for painkiller MK-6721.
Douglas Coupland:novelist, playwright andvisual artist best knownfor his 1991 internationalbestseller Generation X:Tales for an AcceleratedCulture, which popularized the terms "Generation X" and "McJob."
The universitywill present ninedistinguishedcitizens withhonorary doctorates at its Juneand October2007 convocationceremonies.Find out more:www.sfu.cajconvocation
Nine honorary SFU degreesTHURSDAY, APRIL 5CIVITAS I 4-6 pm I Vancouver campusContemporary political discussion group I Noexperience needed I Drop in I 604.687.8695
TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17-18BCNET CONFERENCE I Vancouver campusMaking Connections: Sharing knowledge forgreater innovation I Western Canada's premiertechnology event for research &higher educationwww.bc.netj2007-conference/overview.htm
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11LECTURE I 7 pm I SUR 2600 I Surreycampus I Forensic psychology I Freewww.psychinthecity.ca
MONDAY, APRIL 16LECTURE I 10:30 am I AQ 6229 I Burnabycampus I Matthew Paterson I Theorisingthe Politics of Emissions Trading: From policylearning to political economy
LECTURE I 7 pm I SUR 2600 I Surreycampus I Developmental psychology I Freewww.psychinthecity.ca
THURSDAY, APRIL 19INFO SESSION I 5:30 pm I Segal Graduate School ofBusiness, 500 Granville I Upgrade management skills andleadership capability with SFU Business' 2007 ExecutiveManagement Program. Meet instructors and alumni I FreeReservations 604.291.5295
JS WOODSWORTH LECTURE I 7 pm I Room 1700Vancouver campus I Terri-Lynn Williams-DavidsonProtecting and respecting the earth's soul I Reservations604.291.5100 or cs_hc@sfu.ca
FRIDAY-SATURDAY, APRIL 20-21PUBLIC EVENT AND CONFERENCE I Segal Graduate Schoolof Business, 500 Granville I Tradeswomen: Awinning ticket.Celebrate, inform and to develop strategies for success forB.C. and Yukon women in trades I www.sfu.ca/tradeswomen
POETRY READING I 12-4 pm I Aboriginal Friendship CentreAFirst Nations Studies class in poetry, poetics, and bookmaking ends by sharing poetic forms related to homelandwith poet Elizabeth Woodie, printmaker Joe Seddersen andCoast Salish weavers Chief Janice George and Willard Joseph
Larry Beasley: formerVancouver city planner,largely credited withtransforming the city'sdowntown core into walkable neighborhoods containing a diverse range ofhousing and jobs.
Ray Hyman: parapsychology critic, professoremeritus of psychology atthe University of Oregonat Eugene and foundingmember of the Committee for the ScientificInvestigation of Claims ofthe Paranormal.
Stephen Jarlslowsky:philanthropist, Orderof Canada officer andchairman and CEOof Jarislowsky, Fraserand Company, one ofCanada's largest andmost successful investment management firms.
Orhan Pamuk: NobelPrize-winning (2006)Turkish novelist and visiting professor at ColumbiaUniversity with appointments in middle eastand asian languages andcultures at Columbia'sSchool of the Arts.
Richard LIpsey: professor emeritus of economics, Order of Canadamember, Social Sciencesand Humanities ResearchCouncil gold medallist('05), fellow of the RoyalSociety of Canada andthe Econometric Society.
Arrest record for Julia Lebrun, "keeper of Bawdy house", dated 1903.
LOCAL HISTORY OF SEX WORK
Aunique program in world literature debutsat the Surrey campus in September.
The undergraduate program will focus onnovels, poetry and essays from around theworld, says arts and social sciences facultymember Paulo Horta, who was instrumentalin shaping the new program. "We'd like totap into the extraordinary cosmopolitanand multicultural richness and potential ofthe Lower Mainland in general, and Surreyin particular."
The world literature courses begin insecond year. Students in the first-year Explorations in the Arts and Social Sciencesprogram at the Surrey campus receivepriority registration. The program wouldalso appeal to "anyone who is interestedin books, language, travel, or who wants tocompete in our increasingly globalized marketplace," Horta says. Teachers would findit helpful for preparing for the multiculturalclassroom, he says.
The world literature courses will betaught in English, and students will haveopportunities to study other languagesthrough elective courses, field schools, andinternational exchanges. Horta says theprogram differs from tfaditional comparative literature programs in that students willcompare different traditions and literatureswithin the same courses, and investigatethe creation and reception of literary textsacross different traditions.
He says it's fitting that the program isoffered at the Surrey campus as Surrey isone of the most dynamic, fastest-growingand diverse municipalities in Canada. "It isan ideal venue for such cross-cultural learning and exchange." More: www.students.surrey.sfu.ca/worldliterature
NEW PROGRAM PERFECTFOR SURREY CAMPUS
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"We're now engaged in trying to securelabour rights for sex workers," says SusanDavis, a sex worker who helped spearheadthe undertaking. "When you're engaged in acivil rights movement, you have to know yourhistory in order to have pride."
The group's goal, says Besso, is to show sexworkers in a different light from that associated with the Pickton missing-women trial.
"They're trying to get people to understand that there's a diversity, a history and acivil- and-labour-rights movement involved;that they're complex individuals in a complexcommunity."
Local artist Anne Marie Slater helped withthe installation, which includes photo collagesexploring themes such as "laws and enforcement" and the "sex worker movement," soundscapes of Vancouver over the past 120 years,and interviews with project participants.
The premiere features a reception at 7:30pm followed by a live-music and burlesqueshow at 8:30 pm in the Lamplighter and theadjacent Lobby Gallery. Tickets are $10 at thedoor. The art show runs until May 3.
Amultimedia art installation and book, chronicling the history of Vancouver sex workers, willpremiere April 12 at the Lamplighter Cafe inthe Dominion Hotel, 210 Abbott St.
The launch culminates two years of work bya group of local sex workers who completedthe project through SFU's Continuing Studiescommunity education program.
"They wanted to examine the history of Vancouver's sex workers through diverse lensessuch as labour and human rights, instead ofthe prevalent victim messaging in mainstreammedia," explains program coordinator ShanthiBesso.
SFU helped with fundraising and administration and gave participants workshops oneverything from Internet and library researchtechniques to Vancouver history.
"At the end of the project they'll each havea learning portfolio," says Besso, which theycan apply at Vancouver Community Collegetoward their high-school equivalency or othercourse offerings.
BY DIANE LUCKOW
TUESDAY, APRil Z4LECTURE I 7:30-9 pm I Vancouver campus I On BeingBrown: Identity and impurity in North America I RichardRodriguez is one of the United States' most importantessayists I Free I Reservations 604.291.5100
FORUM I 7-9:30 pm I Morris JWosk Centre for DialogueASustainable Future: Whose business is it anyway?Jonathon Porritt, author of Capitalism as if the World MattersReservations 604.291.3395
MONDAY-WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30-MAY 2FREE CONFERENCE I Promoting Child and Family Well-beingI HIPPY is an early childhood program that helps parentsspecifically low-income or socially excluded-be their child'sfirst and best teacher I 604.291.5084
THURSDAY, APRIL 26LECTURE I 7 pm I Room 1700 I Vancouver campusLois Wilson I Religion and Public Policy I Reservations604.291.5100 or cs_hc@sfu.ca
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25LECTURE I 7 pm I SUR 2600 I Surrey campus I Socialpsychology I Free I www.psychinthecit~.ca
APRIL 19: THINKING LAND CLAIMS7-9 pm I 515 W. HastingsReservations http://thinkcity.ca
SFU's public policy programis hosting a free public forumwith Think City on the impact ofurban treaty-making. The recentTsawwassen First Nation (TFN)treaty is Canada's first modern-dayurban aborginal treaty. If ratified, the treaty willresult in substantial change, not only for the TFN, but for theentire region. Moderated by negotiator and long-time NDPpolitician Tony Penikett, now senior fellow on native treatyissues at SFU. With TFN chief Kim Baird, SFU public policyprofessor Doug McArthur, Richmond city councillor HaroldSteves and media commentator Bill Tieleman. Think City is anon-profit group that brings citizens together to discuss thechallenges facing Vancouver and develop practical solutions.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 2FORUM I 2-3:30 pm I Vancouver campus I SocialPsychology of the Chinese: Reflections of a Canadianacademic in the court of the dragon I 604.291.5089
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