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A Talk by Dr. Miriam Nichols
Date: 2016-11-10
Name(s): Nichols, Miriam, Power, Tony
Description: Dr. Miriam Nichols is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of the Fraser Valley where she teaches modernism, American and Canadian literature, and literary theory. She is an alumnus of SFU English (BA, Hons & M.A.) and received her PhD. from York University. Her publications include scholarly editions of the poet Robin Blaser's The Fire: Collected Essays and The Holy Forest: Collected Poems (University of California Press, 2006), and a series of essays on…
Conversation with Carl Peters: a close reading of Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons
Date: 2016-10-06
Name(s): Peters, Carl, Power, Tony
Description: Dr. Carl Peters is a scholar, curator, and author of "bpNichol Comics" (Talonbooks, 2002) and "textual vishyuns: image and text in the work of bill bissett" (Talonbooks, 2011). He graduated from SFU in 2001 with a doctorate in English Literature and presently teaches poetics, art history, theory and criticism at the University of the Fraser Valley. His most recent book-length critical work is "Studies in Description: Reading Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons: objects, food, rooms" (Talonbooks,…
Dean's Lecture on Information + Society: Dean Spade
Date: 2019-04-04
Name(s): Bird, Gwen, Spade, Dean
Description: The 2019 SFU Library's Dean's Lecture on Information + Society featuring Dean Spade on Pinkwashing & Mainstreaming.
Dean's Lecture on Information + Society: Lawrence Hill
Date: 2018-04-27
Name(s): Bird, Gwen, Gibson, Chantal, Hill, Lawrence
Description: The 2018 SFU Library's Dean's Lecture on Information + Society featured author Lawrence Hill in conversation with artist Chantal Gibson.
Housepress/no press at 20: a talk by Calgary poet & publisher Derek Beaulieu
Date: 2017-10-26
Name(s): Beaulieu, D. A. (Derek Alexander), 1973-, Power, Tony
Description: Calgary-based author of nine books of poetry, five volumes of conceptual fiction, two collections of criticism and over 175 chapbooks, Derek Beaulieu has been praised for having produced some of the most radical and challenging work in contemporary Canadian writing. He has also been active for two decades as a literary publisher with his acclaimed micro-press housepress (1997-2004) and its successor, no press (2005-present), as well as other publishing projects. His talk will focus on this…
Kiss & Tell: Drawing the Line on Lesbian Activism 1990-2005, a Talk by Susan Stewart
Date: 2017-11-09
Name(s): Hardbattle, Melanie, Stewart, Susan
Description: Susan Stewart is a trans-disciplinary artist who has produced photography, video, writing, and multi-media performance and installations, both in solo and collaborative productions. She was a member of the queer art collective, Kiss & Tell, whose awardwinning and provocative productions were exhibited, published and performed locally and internationally for over a decade. Stewart is also an arts educator and was the Founding Dean of the Faculty of Culture + Community at Emily Carr…
Legendary Beat Poet Michael McClure
Date: 2017-10-18
Name(s): Bowering, George, 1935-, McClure, Michael, Power, Tony
Description: San Francisco writer Michael McClure gained fame at the very start of his career as one of the five poets who read at the legendary Six Gallery event in 1955, where Allen Ginsberg first read 'Howl'. A key member of the Beat Generation, which is often dated from that night at the Six, and of the California arts scene and counterculture of the 1960s and '70s, McClure has published extensively as a poet, playwright, essayist, novelist and songwriter. He is known for the highly original, visionary…
New York-Vancouver poet and media artist Adeena Karasick
Date: 2017-02-23
Name(s): Karasick, Adeena, 1965-, Power, Tony
Description: Adeena Karasick is a poet, performer, cultural theorist, media artist and author of seven books of poetry and poetics. Her Kabbalistically infused, urban, Jewish, feminist mashups have been described as "electricity in language" (Nicole Brossard), "protoecstatic jet-propulsive word torsion" (George Quasha), noted for their "cross-fertilization of punning and knowing, theatre and theory" (Charles Bernstein), and "a twined virtuosity of mind and ear which leaves the reader deliciously lost in…
Occupy Vancouver: A Discussion in Special Collections, September 24, 2013
Date: 2013-09-24
Name(s): Collis, Stephen, Cross, Kathleen, Power, Tony
One Book One SFU: Eden Robinson and Cherie Dimaline in conversation
Date: 2019-04-25
Name(s): Bird, Gwen, Dimaline, Cherie, Robinson, Eden
Description: One Book One SFU, presented by the Simon Fraser University Library and co-sponsored by the VanCity Office of Community Engagement, SFU Woodward's, and Pulpfiction Books. An evening of reading and conversation with Eden Robinson and Cherie Dimaline as they discuss Robinson's poignant and hilarious novel, Son of a Trickster.
One Book One SFU: Esi Edugyan in conversation with Omar El Akkad
Date: 2020-01-30
Name(s): Bird, Gwen, Edugyan, Esi, El Akkad, Omar
Description: One Book One SFU, presented by the Simon Fraser University Library and co-sponsored by SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement and Pulpfiction Books. An evening of reading and conversation with Esi Edugyan and Omar El Akkad as they discuss Edugyan's award-winning novel, Washington Black.
One Book One SFU: Ivan Coyote and Tegan Quin in conversation
Date: 2018-02-22
Name(s): Bird, Gwen, Coyote, Ivan, Quin, Tegan, Yousefi, Baharak
Description: One Book one SFU, presented by Simon Fraser University Library and co-sponsored by the Tegan and Sara Foundation, Vancity Office of Community Engagement SFU Woodward's, Pulpfiction Books. An evening of reading and conversation with Ivan Coyote and Tegan Quin as they discuss Coyote's poignant memoir, Tomboy Survival Guide
One Book One SFU: Maggie Nelson and Amber Dawn in Conversation
Date: 2017-01-26
Name(s): Bird, Gwen, Dawn, Amber, Nelson, Maggie
Description: One Book one SFU, presented by Simon Fraser University Library and co-sponsored by UBC Creative Writing. An evening of reading and conversation with Maggie Nelson and Amber Dawn as they discuss Nelson's powerful and genre-bending memoir, The Argonauts.
Pacific Tribune Photograph Collection - A Discussion in Special Collections
Date: 2014-10-16
Name(s): Griffin, Sean, Leier, Mark, Swanick, Eric L.
Description: For the years 1972 to 1992, Sean Griffin and Dan Keeton photographically documented many of the British Columbia social and labour movements. These photographs appeared regularly in the Pacific Tribune, a weekly newspaper published by the Tribune Publishing Company and widely known in the province as "B.C.'s only labour weekly". In 1992, the publishing company became part of the Pacific Socialist Education Association (PSEA) . Now PSEA has donated the entire Collection of photographs, numbering…