SFU School for International Studies

10/13/2026

On Oct. 22, join us for the inaugural talk in our “Indigeneity in Southeast Asia” series, hosted by SFU’s Southeast Asia Research Initiative and SFU's David Lam Centre, where we feature Indigenous topics and scholars from across Asia.

Our first public conversation with Dr. Oona Paredes (UCLA), a Filipino scholar who is deeply engaged with the Higaunon Lumad community, will reflect on the current moment for Indigenous communities and Indigenous Studies in Southeast Asia. Joining her in conversation will be Parboti Roy (UBC), a Chakma scholar from Bangladesh, Dr. rupak shrestha (SFU), a Newa scholar from Nepal, and Dr. Daniel Iwama (SFU), a scholar who is part of the Okinawan diaspora.

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SFU Indigenous Studies Simon Fraser University Global Asia Program SFU Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences UBC Asian Studies

10/13/2026

The School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University is seeking a qualified individual for the Assistant Professor in International Studies International Law and Foreign Affairs position. We invite applications for this full-time tenure-track role starting as early as July 15, 2027.

Applications will be reviewed starting November 12, 2026.

Learn how to apply: https://buff.ly/34i6Kuy

10/08/2026

Join our information session to learn about our unique four-week field school, African Politics and Development. The 2027 field school will take you to Dar es Salaam and Arusha, giving you firsthand insight into development, climate change, and social movements in East Africa.

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10/07/2026

Come enjoy presentations by students of SFU's DREAM Lab on October 26!

The DREAM Lab (Defence Resources Exploring Alternatives to Militarism) at Simon Fraser University brings students together to rethink conventional approaches to defence, security, and public spending.

In this Consular Conversations event, Professor Megan MacKenzie will introduce the DREAM Lab, its origins and goals, and what the project has learned from putting students at the centre of conversations about defence and security policy.

Two DREAM Lab students, Jessica Tsigaros and Misha Sidhu, will then share their own contributions to the project, demonstrating how students have translated big questions about security into concrete policy ideas. Together, the discussion will consider what happens when we invite students not simply to study existing security policy, but to imagine—and rigorously develop—alternatives.

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10/06/2026

Simons Foundation Canada Postdoctoral Fellow Ibrahim Muradov co-authors a new article in the European Journal of International Security examining why Putin’s “one people” narrative failed to translate shared history and culture into Ukrainian acceptance of Russian political leadership.

The authors argue that many Ukrainians did not reject historical and cultural ties with Russia—they rejected attempts to turn those ties into political hierarchy, diminished sovereignty, and limits on Ukraine’s independent choices.

Read the article: https://buff.ly/qBedpoq

10/05/2026

This week, join us for an in-person/online event with art history facilitator and instructor Jairo Salazar. Learn how artists found new ways to challenge the limits of creativity during the brutal military dictatorships of 1970s Argentina. Get tickets at https://buff.ly/j9meye9

09/18/2026

From early May to late June, 42 students taking part in SFU's NATO Field School had the incredible opportunity to travel through Europe, visiting key institutions responsible for upholding security and defence across the NATO military alliance. IS undergraduate student Harry Gibson shares his one-of-a-kind field school experience:

From early May to late June, 41 other students and I had the incredible opportunity to travel through Europe as part of the 2026 NATO Field School, the program’s ninth edition. As a cohort, we travelled through Estonia, Latvia, Germany, Italy, and Belgium, with day trips to Finland and the Netherl...

09/17/2026

On Oct. 8. join us for an in-person and online event with art history facilitator and instructor Jairo Salazar. During the 1970s, Argentina endured one of the most brutal military dictatorships of the twentieth century. During this dark period, countercultural movements—and artists in particular—were persecuted, tortured, disappeared, or forced into exile. Learn how many artists also found new ways to challenge the limits of their creative practices during this era.

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09/15/2026

Offered in Spring 2027, IS 130W delves into the ways in which individuals and communities construct and contest new identities, aspirations, and forms of belonging in the context of transnational movements. The course instructor is Rupak Shrestha for the spring term. IS 130W fulfills the Writing/Breadth-Hum/Soc Sci requirement.

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Vancouver Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Fraser University

09/15/2026

Seats are going fast! SFU's Andrew Mack Lecture returns on October 1 featuring Dr. Negar Razavi, a political anthropologist and public scholar whose work sits at the intersections of critical security studies, anthropology, gender studies, and global Middle East studies.

Join us as Razavi critically examines the role of an elite community of experts, based at Washington think tanks, who have helped sustain the logics of war-making in the Middle East and North Africa for the past two decades.

Get your free tickets at https://buff.ly/UDzlGXL