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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.

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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.

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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.

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The institute's director, Samir Gandesha, speaks to @cjsfradio.bsky.social's Kseniya on "Speak Up!" about Fascism, Populism, and Zionism. @sfufass.bsky.social

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Speak Up! playlist for 08/14/2025 | CJSF 90.1FM Radio
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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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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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Israel’s aggressive revisionism seeks to violently reshape the Middle East.
This is my second piece in The Conversation on its escalating strikes in Syria, its claim to protect the Druze, and the broader fallout in the Middle East.
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Israel’s attack on Syria: Protecting the Druze minority or a regional power play?
Israel’s strikes in Syria, framed as protecting the Druze, reflect a strategy to fragment the Syrian state and secure Israel’s role as the dominant regional power.
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Join us on July 26, from 2:30–4:30PM, for a private screening of “I Am Gitxsan,” followed by a discussion with Director Hossein Martin Fazeli! Event is open to @sfu.ca's students/faculty, associates of the Institute for the Humanities, and those who self-identify as Indigenous. @sfufass.bsky.social
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McWhinney Professor in International Relation @jhorncastle.bsky.social speaks to 880 CHED's Shaye Ganam podcast about the United States bombing Iran. Timestamp: 46:20–56:32. @sfufass.bsky.social

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Guest Host Angela Kokott - APP, Oil and Gas Wells, U.S. Missile Strike
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Recording of our cosponsored lecture by @azadessa.bsky.social is now live on YouTube.

The talk examines how India became a strategic partner with Israel in the ongoing colonization of Kashmir, the ethnic cleansing of Indian Muslims, and the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

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India and Israel: Partners in Genocide
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McWhinney Professor in International Relations @jhorncastle.bsky.social speaks to 730 CKNW's Mornings with Simi about Israel's recent airstrikes on Iran's nuclear and missile sites. @sfufass.bsky.social

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Israel launches attack on Iran
Podcast Episode · Mornings with Simi · 2025-06-13 · Bonus · 10m
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The "Media+Environment" journal, co-edited by our Woodsworth Chair @eevakheev.bsky.social, launched a new stream (the open-access, continuously-published version of an ‘issue’) on the Wind Humanities: "Wind as Model, Media, and Experience." @sfufass.bsky.social

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Wind as Model, Media, and Experience | Media+Environment
OA, peer-reviewed journal of transnational interdisciplinary ecomedia research publishing traditional and multimodal forms of scholarship.
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McWhinney Professor in International Relations @jhorncastle.bsky.social talks about Canada’s international affairs and defence spending on Fairchild TV's Canada West-Political Segment. @sfufass.bsky.social

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Canada West-Political Segment
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