World Literature
Art and Defiance: Narratives of Disobedience facilitates important dialogues around rebellious narratives
November 18, 2020By: Yelin Gemma Lee, Peak Associate Editor’s note: Yelin Gemma Lee is involved with the 2020 WLSC as the Director of Communications and Design. The World Languages and Literatures Student Union (WLLSU) presented the 6th annual World Literature Student Conference (WLSC) as an online journal, Art and Defiance: Narratives of Disobedience, on November 15. The conference, which typically occurs each spring, was postponed to the fall semester due to COVID-19, and then had to be reimagined through a virtual format. The WLSC team was dramatically reduced from over 40 members to 16 members, but this small but mighty team adamantly…
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SFU publications and initiatives that students can contribute to
October 17, 2020By: Devana Petrovic, Staff Writer CJSF CJSF is a radio station which broadcasts from SFU’s Burnaby campus. The community station is a non-commercial broadcasting programme and is run by staff and volunteers from the SFU community. Their program includes a…
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Dr. Ken Seigneurie’s event How Stories Move Us highlighted the universality of storytelling
July 9, 2020By: Nathaniel Tok, Peak Associate My first non-academic Zoom lecture consisted of a professor reading us stories. I last had that in . . . I can’t even remember. As someone more used to policy, graphs, science, and numbers, this…
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SFU needs to invest more in its language offerings
July 4, 2020By: Michelle Young, Staff Writer Over the years, SFU has been slowly picking away at its language program. The Spanish Language Certificate was suspended in 2017, and there is speculation that Arabic and Persian courses will be the next to go.…
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Dr. Asel Omar and Anosh Irani find common ground on the topic of displacement
October 27, 2019By: Isabella Wang, SFU Student On October 9, 2019, a congregation of students and staff gathered for a long-anticipated talk featuring Dr. Asel Omar and Anosh Irani. Dr. Asel Omar is a Russian and Kazakh writer. Writing in Russian, she…
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o discusses the power of language at SFU Woodward’s
October 6, 2019By: Isabella Wang, SFU Student 25/10/2019: This story was corrected from an older version. In a previous version, Ayan Ismail’s name was incorrectly spelled as “Ayan Ismaili.” Editor’s note: This article covers the September 23 event titled “The Political Power…
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For the love of SFU’s World Literature department — expand your horizons!
September 6, 2019By: Lubaba Mahmud, Staff Writer Disclaimer: This article is not sponsored by SFU’s World Literature department; it just portrays my giddy excitement for books and my love of reading! I am an avid reader, but I had a tendency to…
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Seven-Minute Majors: Find out what SFU students like about their majors (Part Two)
September 28, 2018By: Melanie Hiepler, Nicky Magas, Aaron Richardson (Humour Editor), Nicky Magas, Zach Siddiqui (Copy Editor), Henry Tran (Peak Associate), and Hillary Ta Behavioural neurosciences Behavioural neuroscience (BNS) is a unique combination of psychology and biomedical physiology courses. You learn about human…
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