Woodwards:
Last Wednesday, October 29, in the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema, Benjamin Bratton delivered a presentation called, “The Stack: Design and Geopolitics in the Age of Planetary-Scale Computing.”
The lecture discussed how computation has grown to be a “global infrastructure that is changing not only how governments govern, but what government even is in the first place.”
Surrey:
SFU’s Faculty of Health Sciences along with the Surrey Firefighters Charitable Society presented a lecture last Tuesday, October 28, on how to recognize and eliminate gendered and racialized violence in media.
Professor of women’s studies at the University of Victoria, Jo-Anne Lee gave the talk in the Surrey City Hall’s council chambers, with a reception following.
Harbour Centre:
This past Sunday, October 26, the SFU Association of Latin American Students (ALAS) gathered on Abbott Street to help those in need with the profits collected during the Havana Night event hosted on October 17 at the Highland Pub.
The ALAS executive team and volunteers prepared over 400 sandwiches and matched each sandwich with an apple and a water bottle to provide the hungry with a basic lunch.
