In trying to make sense of contemporary events unfolding in the United States, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East, journalists and scholars have not hesitated to draw comparisons between current political leaders and events and past political extremist movements. SFU history will rise to the challenge of providing historical context for our current political climate of extremism.
October 6, 2017 | 6:30 p.m.
Voices of Resistance in Ages of Extremism
Mark Leier in conversation with Aaron Goings, Eryk Martin, and Heather Mayer
The Hall at 1739 Venables Street (at Commercial Drive)
December 1, 2017 | 6:30 p.m.
The Life and Death of the Russian Revolution
Yuri Slezkine - UC Berkeley's Jane K. Sather Professor of History
Room 1400 | SFU Harbour Centre - 515 W. Hastings Street
April 5, 2018 | 6:30 p.m.
Lauren Faulkner Rossi, Amal Ghazal, Roxanne Panchasi, Jennifer Spear, Joseph Taylor, Aaron Windel Violence, Victims, Extremism: The Political Crises of Our Time
Room 1300 | SFU Segal Graduate School of Business- 500 Granville Street