Winter + Spring 2012

20th Anniversary Celebration

Come celebrate 20 years of intellectual engagement and passionate thinking in the Graduate Liberal Studies Program.  Join us in the Denman ballroom and adjoining garden space at the Coast Plaza Hotel. Bring your significant other, your friends or a potential student. This is our opportunity to celebrate our collective achievement.

Saturday, May 5^th, 2012

Coast Plaza Hotel 1763 Comox Street

7pm until late

Stand up reception of elegant West Coast fare serving canapés, passed hors d’oeuvres and sweets with lots of opportunity to mingle, to share and to laugh.

Cash bar

Tickets $45 each. Cheques must be received by the GLS office by Friday, April 27, 2012. Please include your name, your cohort year and your current email address. An email will confirm payment received.

Send cheques made payable SFU to:

Jennifer Chutter--GLS 20th

c/o Graduate Liberal Studies Program

515 West Hastings Street

Vancouver, BC, V6B 5K3

 http://www.coasthotels.com/hotels/canada/bc/vancouver/coast_plaza/overview

Alumni Seminar--Friday, April 13th, 2012 at 7pm in GLS Library

Jerry Zaslove will be hosting the evening's discussion on Franz Kafka's story, "In the Penal Colony".

To prepare for the seminar please read "In the Penal Colony" by Franz Kafka, preferably a translation from a book of his stories,  but there's a translation on line. Jerry will briefly present on "Why Kafka, Then and Now - Kafka's Journey". He will also speak about the idea of the Journey in literature and art in relationship to the story and Kafka's letter writing. Jerry will also have copies of his book available at the seminar which is available to purchase from bookstores from Line Books. The title of the book: The Insurance Man, Kafka in the Penal Colony.

Jerry has taught and teaches Humanities and Comparative Literature at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, since 1965. Currently, Simons Chair in Graduate Liberal Studies; Founding Director of the Institute for the Humanities. Has written on social radicalism and the arts, exile authorship, theory of the novel, literacy; most recent publications are: Talking Through: This Space Around Four Pictures by Jeff Wall (with Glen Lowry); The Last Snapshot of the Vancouver Intelligentsia - on the city; The Photograph and Posthumous Memory; An Open Letter to the Exile, Siegfried Kracauer and Exile; Kafka in the Penal Colony; W.G. Sebald; An Open Letter to the Roy Miki Generation of Poets; Dead Speech, Universities and the Art of Cynicism (forthcoming).

Please email, jennifer_chutter@sfu.ca to register for the GLS Alumni Seminar on Friday, April 13th, 2012. The cost of the evening is $20. It will be held in the GLS Library starting at 7pm.