Displacement and Migration: Restoring Dignity and Sacred Connection
JUNE PUBLIC FORUMS
14 June 2008
Indigenous Worldviews on Truth and Reconciliation:
Working toward a Community – Based Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Rosalyn Ing, Chief Robert Joseph, Cheryl Jourdain, Saahiilthit (Gerry) Oleman, Marie Zarowny SSA, and Jim Manly
27-28 June 2008
Human Dignity and 2010 Olympics: Challenging the Trafficking of Women
Lydia Cacho, Angela Sterritt, Laurel Dykstra, Deborah Issacs and Bonnie Hanuse
SUMMER INSTITUTE
AUGUST 5-8 - SFU Burnaby Campus
Course-9:30am-1:30pm
Decolonizing the Body and Indigenous Principles: Connecting through Creativity and Ceremony
Alannah Young and Denise Nadeau
August 8 - First Nations House of Learning UBC
4:00pm-8:00pm
Opening Ceremony - with Wendy Mendez, Esther Mombo, Saahiilthit (Gerry) Oleman, Sitara Thobani and others
August 9 - Shri Guru Ravidass Sabha, 7271 Gilley Avenue, Burnaby, BC
2:00pm-8:00pm
Sanctuary: Zones of Peace Against State Violence Kathryn Poethig, Carlos Morentes, Jared Will and Jai Birdi
August 10 - SFU Burnaby Campus
9:30am-12:30pm
Solitude and the Land: a morning to experience the holiness of the land
Madeleine Macivor and Dr Robert Kull
August 12 - SFU Harbour Centre
Evening Forum - 7pm-9pm
The Perfect Storm of Inequality: Sexism, Racism, and Economic Exploitation in Contemporary Pornography
Robert Jensen
August 13 - SFU Burnaby Campus
Mid-Day Workshop
Building Bridges: A hands-on workshop about Israel and Palestine and Ourselves
Sima Elizabeth Shefrin
August 14 - SFU Harbour Centre
Evening Forum - 7pm-9pm
Muslim Youth and the Racial Politics of the Home Grown War on Terror
Jasmin Zine
AUGUST 11-15
Courses - Simon Fraser University 8888 University Drive (Burnaby Campus)
9:30am-12:30pm
Islam in the Hinterlands: A Critical Exploration of Canadian Muslim Cultural Politics
Jasmin Zine
The Girl Child, African Women, Religion and HIV&AIDS
Esther Mombo
2:00pm-5:00pm- CANCELLED
Religion's Role in Peacebuilding: Sikhs and Muslims in Malerkotla, Punjab and Beyond Karenjot Bhangoo Randhawa
Mass Media’s Role in Progressive Politics and Religion
Robert Jensen
AUGUST 11-14
2:00pm-6:00pm
Truth and Reconciliation : The Politics and Possibilities of Memory
Lorena Sekwan Fontaine and Angela Contreras-Chávez with Chief Robert Joseph
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