Ron Arad: The United States bookshelf
Designer Ron Arad’s The United States bookshelf is shaped like the map of the United States and entitled, ‘Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends’.
I like to call it “A Part of World” Literature Bookshelf! :)
Join SFU Women’s Centre and their guests for an evening of thoughtful discussion surrounding gender representation on the labour end of the gaming industry. How does that have an impact on marketing, game development, character development, and gamer engagement?
Speakers on the panel include Matt Toner of the Vancouver Film School, Nico Dicecco of Medium Difficulty (http://www.mediumdifficulty.com/), and Dr. Kimberly Voll of the Centre for Digital Media (http://mdm.gnwc.ca/) (other panelists TBD).
This is sure to be a thought-provoking event that takes a look at the industry side of one of the most popular forms of entertainment in our society - video games.
This event is fully accessible, and ASL interpretation will be available.
Event link for registration: http://gendergames.eventbrite.ca/
~World Digital Library~
About WDL:
The WDL makes it possible to discover, study, and enjoy cultural treasures from around the world on one site, in a variety of ways. These cultural treasures include, but are not limited to, manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings.
Items on the WDL may easily be browsed by place, time, topic, type of item, and contributing institution, or can be located by an open-ended search, in several languages. Special features include interactive geographic clusters, a timeline, advanced image-viewing and interpretive capabilities. Item-level descriptions and interviews with curators about featured items provide additional information.
Navigation tools and content descriptions are provided in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Many more languages are represented in the actual books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, and other primary materials, which are provided in their original languages.
The WDL was developed by a team at the U.S. Library of Congress, with contributions by partner institutions in many countries; the support of the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); and the financial support of a number of companies and private foundations.
Check it out here! http://www.wdl.org/en/
~Forum Meeting Report~
» By Cheyenne Bergenhenegouwen
At the SFSS forum meeting we discussed a couple of interesting things that may affect students:
Do you feel like you are being treated unfairly? If so we want to remind you of OMBUDSPERSON. The office of the OMBUDSPERSON is a resource for students who need a fair and effective resolution to their concerns and complaints. The office can be used if you believe that you have been treated unfairly, you are not sure what to do or don’t know where else to turn, or you need information or advice about a University policy or procedure.
Check out this website for further information if you believe you are being treated unfairly:
As many of you may have already heard the TSSU (Teaching Assistants) are on strike. As of now they are on Job Action which essentially means that they will not work overtime and will not do anything beyond what their contract outlines. Whether they will go on a full-fledged strike is unknown at this time. If you have an opinion on this issue or would like to voice your stance please let us know by coming out to the World Lit Student Union meeting Monday October 15th at 6 pm in 3200 Surrey campus.
That’s it for now! Over and out!
Nuruddin Farah
“God created women from a crooked rib and anyone who trieth to straighten it, breaketh it.”
Somalian Proverb
Novelist, essayist, and professor, Nuruddin Farah was born in 1945 in Baidoa, Somalia. He went to school in Kallafo in the Ethiopian-ruled Ogaden and in Mogadishu, the capital of the independent Somali Democratic Republic. He worked in the Somali Ministry of Education before studying Philosophy and Literature at the Punjab Univercity of Chandigarh in India. His first novel, From A Crooked Rib, was published in 1970 before he traveled to Britain to study Theatre. Farah speaks multiple languages such as Somali, Italian, Arabic, Amharic, and English; the language of his novels. His novels have been translated in several languages around the world. The large focus of Farah’s novel is on Somalia. This feminist novelist, as Anthony Appiah mentions in Nuruddin Farah “even when he’s following a big story-about what dictatorship does to a society- he tells it through the lives of fully imagined women and men and their families and friendships, and their vices and virtues; he makes it through what makes them individual, unique, special, and through what makes them like the rest of us, human.” From A Crooked Rib genuinely unfolds the story of a young girl who escapes home in deny of the arranged marriage with an older man. By publishing his next novel, A Naked Needle, Somali’s dictator of the time, Said Barre, exiled Farah for 22 years. Nuruddin Farah was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012. His novels include: Why Die So Soon (1965), Sweet and Sour Milk (1979), Sardines (1981), Close Sesame (1983), Links (2004), Knots (2007), Crossbones (2011), and more.
Nuruddin Farah is going to give a free public lecture on the power of literacy as well as reading from his latest work, Crossbones, to World Literature students, faculty, staff and any guests are welcome to attend. This event is taking place on Thursday October 18 at SFU Surrey (Westminister Savings Lecture Theatre (SUR 2600), Simon Fraser University - Surrey, #250 - 13450 102 Avenue ). As was said, this is a free event however the space is limited. Register below to reserve your seat:
http://www.fass.surrey.sfu.ca/wl/events/farah
Farah is going to be at the Vancouver International Writer’s Festival on Wednesday October 17 at Waterfront Theatre. Click on the link below for more info:
http://www.writersfest.bc.ca/2012festival/event/25-uprooted
Also, super excited for this opportunity, Emily Peters will be interviewing Nuruddin Farah for the next issue of Lyre Magazine. Make sure to check it out!!
To watch previous interviews with Nuruddin Farah, follow the links below:
Nuruddin Farah in Norway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D35Y2SzoGSM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEyG-zVf3R0&feature=relmfu
Salman Rushdie on Somali Writer Nuruddin Farah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec22c0OmGKE
Nuruddin Farah at the Commonwealth Club
Hello Everyone!!
Here are a couple of announcements for the up coming events in October:
1. Vancouver International Writer’s Festival
i) “Uprooted”: Wednesday, October 17 at 8 pm, Waterfront Theatre ($19)
ii) “Past Times”: Friday, October 19 at 10 am, Granville Island stage ($8.50 for student groups)
2. Vancouver International Film Festival
i) “Midnight’s Children”: Wednesday, October 03 at 9 pm
ii) “Salman Rushdie: Imagining India”: Friday, October 05 at 11 am
3. Nurrudin Farah Lecture and Pub Night: Thursday, October 18 at 6:30 pm
Westminister Savings Lecture Theatre (SUR 2600), Simon Fraser University - Surrey, #250 - 13450 102 Avenue
http://www.fass.surrey.sfu.ca/wl/events/farah
We hope to see all of you very soon!!!
…
AZ: Can you talk about what it is like having a seizure? Do you have any warning?
“I wrote a poem…
“Seizures
Seizures are like falling into
a sad and dark hole.
Rest is necessary and no sense
is strong enough
Yet the senses are very awake.
Beside me is my soul
so tortured by synapsis
of unconsciousness.
Seizures are hopelessness
going deep into the zone
of nothing.
A giant man coming after me
vital, intense
like an entity of torture.”
Copyright 2005 by Amy Sequenzia
(Source: The Huffington Post)
2012 Makers Muse Recipients
Posted on August 30, 2012 by Kindle Project 1
http://www.kindleproject.org/blog/tag/marjane-satrapi/
• JIBZ CAMERON
• MIRANDA JULY
• JOSH MACPHEE
• CARLOS MOTTA
•NOVA RUTH
• MARJANE SATRAPI
• FARDIN WAEZI
It’s almost fall again, and with the season comes year four of the Makers Muse Award…
Franz Kafka’s handwritten manuscript pages of The Trial
(Source: bookshavepores, via bookporn)
Simon Fraser Unviersity's World Literature Student Union
