SFU Global Humanities
@sfuhumanities.bsky.social
Welcome to the Department of Global Humanities, home of cross-disciplinary inquiry and study at Canada's #1 comprehensive university, Simon Fraser University.
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A full house at our 4th Annual Professor Chinmoy Banerjee Memorial Lecture in Anti-Racism with Pragna Patel, who gave an engaging talk about the shift from a progressive to a regressive politics.
The event was recorded and will be available soon. Subscribe now for notifications: ow.ly/2gO150XoMrI
The event was recorded and will be available soon. Subscribe now for notifications: ow.ly/2gO150XoMrI
November 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A full house at our 4th Annual Professor Chinmoy Banerjee Memorial Lecture in Anti-Racism with Pragna Patel, who gave an engaging talk about the shift from a progressive to a regressive politics.
The event was recorded and will be available soon. Subscribe now for notifications: ow.ly/2gO150XoMrI
The event was recorded and will be available soon. Subscribe now for notifications: ow.ly/2gO150XoMrI
Spring 2026 enrollment has begun! From phenomenology and existentialism to the great city of Damascus, we offer courses under a number of designations, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the humanities. Explore the richness by taking a course this spring!
Course outlines: ow.ly/8Elj50XlxRI
Course outlines: ow.ly/8Elj50XlxRI
November 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Spring 2026 enrollment has begun! From phenomenology and existentialism to the great city of Damascus, we offer courses under a number of designations, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the humanities. Explore the richness by taking a course this spring!
Course outlines: ow.ly/8Elj50XlxRI
Course outlines: ow.ly/8Elj50XlxRI
Congrats to Global Humanities' Jason Brown for receiving this year's Cormack Teaching Award, which recognizes faculty who have demonstrated exceptional commitment to student learning, pedagogical engagement, and teaching innovation throughout their career at FASS!
Every year, we come together at the annual Cormack Teaching Symposium and FASS Fall Reception to celebrate our 2025 @sfu.ca FASS faculty and staff award winners. See more photos at: www.sfu.ca/fass/news/2025/10/fass-awards.html
October 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Congrats to Global Humanities' Jason Brown for receiving this year's Cormack Teaching Award, which recognizes faculty who have demonstrated exceptional commitment to student learning, pedagogical engagement, and teaching innovation throughout their career at FASS!
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Join us on November 20th @ 6PM for a book launch for and discussion of "The New Lives of Images: Digital Ecologies and Anthropocene Imaginaries in More-than-Human Worlds" with author @eevakheev.bsky.social and respondent @amjohal.bsky.social!
Learn more: ow.ly/m0j750X7vvv
Learn more: ow.ly/m0j750X7vvv
October 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Join us on November 20th @ 6PM for a book launch for and discussion of "The New Lives of Images: Digital Ecologies and Anthropocene Imaginaries in More-than-Human Worlds" with author @eevakheev.bsky.social and respondent @amjohal.bsky.social!
Learn more: ow.ly/m0j750X7vvv
Learn more: ow.ly/m0j750X7vvv
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Join us on November 13th @ 6:30PM for a screening of "We Were Here: The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe," followed by Q&A with director Fred Kudjo Kuwornu! Please RSVP to insthum@sfu.ca.
Learn more: ow.ly/iXQo50X7qur
Learn more: ow.ly/iXQo50X7qur
October 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Join us on November 13th @ 6:30PM for a screening of "We Were Here: The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe," followed by Q&A with director Fred Kudjo Kuwornu! Please RSVP to insthum@sfu.ca.
Learn more: ow.ly/iXQo50X7qur
Learn more: ow.ly/iXQo50X7qur
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In an age of rising misinformation, credible analysis matters. @sfuhumanities.bsky.social's James Horncastle is helping shape public understanding of complex geopolitical events through his 45 published articles in @ca.theconversation.com, regular media commentary and interdisciplinary research.
Guiding global discourse in challenging times
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October 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
In an age of rising misinformation, credible analysis matters. @sfuhumanities.bsky.social's James Horncastle is helping shape public understanding of complex geopolitical events through his 45 published articles in @ca.theconversation.com, regular media commentary and interdisciplinary research.
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Join us on Nov 5th @ 6PM for our Annual Professor Chinmoy Banerjee Memorial Lecture in Anti-Racism by Pragna Patel, the co-founder and co-director of Project Resist, an organization focused on work with marginalized and vulnerable women and girls throughout the UK.
Details: ow.ly/MsMG50X7qe9
Details: ow.ly/MsMG50X7qe9
October 9, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Join us on Nov 5th @ 6PM for our Annual Professor Chinmoy Banerjee Memorial Lecture in Anti-Racism by Pragna Patel, the co-founder and co-director of Project Resist, an organization focused on work with marginalized and vulnerable women and girls throughout the UK.
Details: ow.ly/MsMG50X7qe9
Details: ow.ly/MsMG50X7qe9
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SNF Centre Director, Dr. Sabrina Higgins, is in the news with an amazing artifact find found in a BC Thrift store!
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Rare ‘medieval’ artifacts found in B.C. thrift store donated to SFU for study
Rare artifacts dating back potentially thousands of years have been found in a British Columbia thrift store and donated to Simon Fraser University for study.
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September 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
SNF Centre Director, Dr. Sabrina Higgins, is in the news with an amazing artifact find found in a BC Thrift store!
Learn more!
www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stor...
vancouversun.com/news/extraor...
Learn more!
www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stor...
vancouversun.com/news/extraor...
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Join us on Oct 7 (Indigenous Survivance, Traditional Knowledge, and the Arts) and Nov 4 (How Another World Might Be Possible) for the first two sessions of our J. S. Woodsworth Chair's hybrid webinar series on “Radical Hope in Feverish Times”! RSVP required for Zoom.
Learn more: ow.ly/Pg5f50X2pKg
Learn more: ow.ly/Pg5f50X2pKg
September 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Join us on Oct 7 (Indigenous Survivance, Traditional Knowledge, and the Arts) and Nov 4 (How Another World Might Be Possible) for the first two sessions of our J. S. Woodsworth Chair's hybrid webinar series on “Radical Hope in Feverish Times”! RSVP required for Zoom.
Learn more: ow.ly/Pg5f50X2pKg
Learn more: ow.ly/Pg5f50X2pKg
Thank you to Julia Nijjar for this amazing review of HUM 102W in @sfu.ca's The Peak:
". . . I sincerely hope other students at SFU can take a meaningful course that will alter the way they think. My only regret is that I hadn’t taken HUM 102 sooner."
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". . . I sincerely hope other students at SFU can take a meaningful course that will alter the way they think. My only regret is that I hadn’t taken HUM 102 sooner."
Read more: ow.ly/2w8O50WZzo8
Course Review: The wonders of classical mythology
By: Julia Nijjar, SFU Student It’s often difficult to decide which classes to take for an upcoming semester. I constantly find myself lost in an entanglement of thoughts as I weigh the pros and con…
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September 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Thank you to Julia Nijjar for this amazing review of HUM 102W in @sfu.ca's The Peak:
". . . I sincerely hope other students at SFU can take a meaningful course that will alter the way they think. My only regret is that I hadn’t taken HUM 102 sooner."
Read more: ow.ly/2w8O50WZzo8
". . . I sincerely hope other students at SFU can take a meaningful course that will alter the way they think. My only regret is that I hadn’t taken HUM 102 sooner."
Read more: ow.ly/2w8O50WZzo8
@jhorncastle.bsky.social, McWhinney Professor in International Relations, speaks to @ctvyourmorning.bsky.social about Canada's, UK's, and Australia's Palestinian state recognition. @sfufass.bsky.social
Watch now: ow.ly/xpFE50X1CZe
Watch now: ow.ly/xpFE50X1CZe
Palestinian state recognition
SFU professor, James Horncastle addresses Palestinian state recognition on CTV Your Morning Vancouver.
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September 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
@jhorncastle.bsky.social, McWhinney Professor in International Relations, speaks to @ctvyourmorning.bsky.social about Canada's, UK's, and Australia's Palestinian state recognition. @sfufass.bsky.social
Watch now: ow.ly/xpFE50X1CZe
Watch now: ow.ly/xpFE50X1CZe
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Join us on October 5th at SFU Surrey Campus for a free film screening of "Farming the Revolution," which is followed by a Q&A with director Nishtha Jain! Sussanne Skidmore, President of the @bcfed.bsky.social will make the concluding remarks after the Q&A session.
Learn more: ow.ly/Un8z50WZO03
Learn more: ow.ly/Un8z50WZO03
September 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Join us on October 5th at SFU Surrey Campus for a free film screening of "Farming the Revolution," which is followed by a Q&A with director Nishtha Jain! Sussanne Skidmore, President of the @bcfed.bsky.social will make the concluding remarks after the Q&A session.
Learn more: ow.ly/Un8z50WZO03
Learn more: ow.ly/Un8z50WZO03
McWhinney Prof in International Relations @jhorncastle.bsky.social (w/ Royal Danish Defence College's Samuel Zilincik) on "how Ukraine’s struggle over the last three years has yielded valuable lessons for Europe’s defence." @sfufass.bsky.social @ca.theconversation.com
Read now: ow.ly/RzKc50WYoAW
Read now: ow.ly/RzKc50WYoAW
What NATO could learn from Ukraine as it navigates Russian threats to European security
Throughout its war with Russia, Ukraine is providing lessons to the West on what’s required to win a modern-day war. Will European and other states heed those lessons?
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September 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
McWhinney Prof in International Relations @jhorncastle.bsky.social (w/ Royal Danish Defence College's Samuel Zilincik) on "how Ukraine’s struggle over the last three years has yielded valuable lessons for Europe’s defence." @sfufass.bsky.social @ca.theconversation.com
Read now: ow.ly/RzKc50WYoAW
Read now: ow.ly/RzKc50WYoAW
It was a pleasure to meet and chat with future Global Humanities students at this year's @sfufass.bsky.social
Department Fair! Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth to learn more about the department and Humanities Student Union—we are excited for you to join us!
Department Fair! Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth to learn more about the department and Humanities Student Union—we are excited for you to join us!
September 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
It was a pleasure to meet and chat with future Global Humanities students at this year's @sfufass.bsky.social
Department Fair! Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth to learn more about the department and Humanities Student Union—we are excited for you to join us!
Department Fair! Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth to learn more about the department and Humanities Student Union—we are excited for you to join us!
Faculty member @sasofos.bsky.social's new @ca.theconversation.com article on Israel's attack on Qatar and how it affects international relations. @sfufass.bsky.social
Read now: ow.ly/BjPh50WUV0V
Read now: ow.ly/BjPh50WUV0V
How Israel’s attack on Qatar erodes peace — and American influence — in the Middle East
Israel’s strike on Qatar undermines diplomacy, casts doubt on U.S. security guarantees and entrenches a state of permanent war in the Middle East.
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September 12, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Faculty member @sasofos.bsky.social's new @ca.theconversation.com article on Israel's attack on Qatar and how it affects international relations. @sfufass.bsky.social
Read now: ow.ly/BjPh50WUV0V
Read now: ow.ly/BjPh50WUV0V
Evan Freeman, Hellenic Canadian Congress of BC Chair in Hellenic Studies, publishes new journal article on the relationship between Florovsky's neo-patristic synthesis and Ouspensky's icon theology. @sfufass.bsky.social
Read now: ow.ly/seep50WOgXc
Read now: ow.ly/seep50WOgXc
Project MUSE - Leonid Ouspensky's Icon Theology and the Neo-Patristic Synthesis
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September 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Evan Freeman, Hellenic Canadian Congress of BC Chair in Hellenic Studies, publishes new journal article on the relationship between Florovsky's neo-patristic synthesis and Ouspensky's icon theology. @sfufass.bsky.social
Read now: ow.ly/seep50WOgXc
Read now: ow.ly/seep50WOgXc
Global Humanities' Assistant Professor @sasofos.bsky.social on how Israel and Turkey "are pursuing a vision of Syria as a weak, fragmented state": ow.ly/9F0C50WN5LQ
@lsemiddleeast.bsky.social @sfufass.bsky.social
@lsemiddleeast.bsky.social @sfufass.bsky.social
Syria as a Battleground: How Israel and Turkey Are Shaping a Fragmented Middle East - Middle East Centre
As Israel and Turkey entrench themselves further in Syria’s geography and political future, the question is not whether Syria will be whole again, but whether the Middle East can avoid becoming a regi...
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August 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Global Humanities' Assistant Professor @sasofos.bsky.social on how Israel and Turkey "are pursuing a vision of Syria as a weak, fragmented state": ow.ly/9F0C50WN5LQ
@lsemiddleeast.bsky.social @sfufass.bsky.social
@lsemiddleeast.bsky.social @sfufass.bsky.social
McWhinney Professor in International Relation @jhorncastle.bsky.social speaks to 880 CHED's @ShayeGanam Podcast about how Trump’s separate meetings with Putin and Zelenskyy have advanced Russian interests. Timestamp: 0:52:03–1:00:48. @sfufass.bsky.social
Listen now: ow.ly/hXPn50WJaQj
Listen now: ow.ly/hXPn50WJaQj
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August 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
McWhinney Professor in International Relation @jhorncastle.bsky.social speaks to 880 CHED's @ShayeGanam Podcast about how Trump’s separate meetings with Putin and Zelenskyy have advanced Russian interests. Timestamp: 0:52:03–1:00:48. @sfufass.bsky.social
Listen now: ow.ly/hXPn50WJaQj
Listen now: ow.ly/hXPn50WJaQj
@jhorncastle.bsky.social on Fairchild TV's Canada West-Political Segment to talk about Trump’s involvement in foreign conflicts despite his campaign to do otherwise and Carney’s response amidst Canada-US trade negotiations. @sfufass.bsky.social
Watch now: www.fairchildtv.com/en/news.php?...
Watch now: www.fairchildtv.com/en/news.php?...
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August 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
@jhorncastle.bsky.social on Fairchild TV's Canada West-Political Segment to talk about Trump’s involvement in foreign conflicts despite his campaign to do otherwise and Carney’s response amidst Canada-US trade negotiations. @sfufass.bsky.social
Watch now: www.fairchildtv.com/en/news.php?...
Watch now: www.fairchildtv.com/en/news.php?...
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Honouring innovation, impact, and dedication: Congratulations to our FASS Research Excellence Award recipients in the humanities & social sciences!
Learn more about our winners: www.sfu.ca/fass/news/2025/08/research-excellence-award.html
Learn more about our winners: www.sfu.ca/fass/news/2025/08/research-excellence-award.html
August 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Honouring innovation, impact, and dedication: Congratulations to our FASS Research Excellence Award recipients in the humanities & social sciences!
Learn more about our winners: www.sfu.ca/fass/news/2025/08/research-excellence-award.html
Learn more about our winners: www.sfu.ca/fass/news/2025/08/research-excellence-award.html
French translation now out: theconversation.com/reunions-sep...
August 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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@jhorncastle.bsky.social , Global Humanities' McWhinney Professor in International Relations, on Trump's separate meetings with Putin and Zelenskyy and now his "balanced approach" have mostly benefited Russia.
@ca.theconversation.com
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@ca.theconversation.com
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How Trump’s separate meetings with Putin and Zelenskyy have advanced Russian interests
Given Donald Trump’s unwillingness to make firm commitments at the meetings with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders, Russia has come out on top.
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August 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
@jhorncastle.bsky.social , Global Humanities' McWhinney Professor in International Relations, on Trump's separate meetings with Putin and Zelenskyy and now his "balanced approach" have mostly benefited Russia.
@ca.theconversation.com
@sfufass.bsky.social
Read now: ow.ly/9xfO50WItlk
@ca.theconversation.com
@sfufass.bsky.social
Read now: ow.ly/9xfO50WItlk
Jason Brown, our Lecturer in Religious Studies, on contemplative and somatic approaches to healing: ow.ly/xs3I50WAqM6
@sfufass.bsky.social
@sfufass.bsky.social
Wisdom Responses to Troubled Times: Healing through Contemplative and Somatic Approaches
Humanity is facing troubled times, as witnessed by increased polarization and division that are exploding into various forms of violence. Collectively, we are facing unprecedented ecological and envir...
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August 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Jason Brown, our Lecturer in Religious Studies, on contemplative and somatic approaches to healing: ow.ly/xs3I50WAqM6
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@jhorncastle.bsky.social, McWhinney Professor in International Relations, talks to Fairchild TV about the Battle River by-election (timestamp: 1:04–2:09): ow.ly/yy1i50WAesZ
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August 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
@jhorncastle.bsky.social, McWhinney Professor in International Relations, talks to Fairchild TV about the Battle River by-election (timestamp: 1:04–2:09): ow.ly/yy1i50WAesZ
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@sfufass.bsky.social
McWhinney Professor in International Relations @jhorncastle.bsky.social returns to 880 CHED's @ShayeGanam Podcast to discuss the Russia-Ukraine war after Russia launched waves of missile and drone attacks on Kyiv.
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Listen now: ow.ly/zVVk50WyMi8
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James Horncastle is an assistant professor and Edward and Emily McWhinney professor in international relations at Simon Fraser University
Podcast Episode · Shaye Ganam · 2025-07-31 · 10m
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August 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
McWhinney Professor in International Relations @jhorncastle.bsky.social returns to 880 CHED's @ShayeGanam Podcast to discuss the Russia-Ukraine war after Russia launched waves of missile and drone attacks on Kyiv.
@sfufass.bsky.social
Listen now: ow.ly/zVVk50WyMi8
@sfufass.bsky.social
Listen now: ow.ly/zVVk50WyMi8