SFU Library Publication Series

The St. Petersburg Diaries (1843–1848) of Anna McNeill Whistler

Evelyn Jasiulko Harden — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0800

This annotated critical edition of The St. Petersburg Diaries (1843–1848) of Anna McNeill Whistler is an unprecedented resource for scholars in the fields of Russian and European history, transportation and railway history, art history, and women’s history.

Anna McNeill Whistler, in writing her St. Petersburg diaries (1843–1848), was in a position to comment on a unique opportunity and space within her world. The wife of Major George Washington Whistler, who had been commissioned by Tsar Nicholas I to oversee the construction of the St. Petersburg–Moscow Railway, she had access to both the Russian and the foreign communities in St. Petersburg. Recording through the lens of her unyielding religious, moral, and social beliefs; unable to communicate with Russians and other non-English speakers because of her inability to achieve fluency in Russian and her shyness in speaking French, the two major languages of the capital city; and restricted by the selective cultural isolation of the English and American communities and the random ability of Russians to speak English, in her frequently detailed diaries she presented her criticizing, anguishingly empathetic, and sometimes uninformed insights into the life of mid-nineteenth-century St. Petersburg.

While the diaries have been studied by previous scholars, investigations have been superficial, hampered by language barriers that inhibit access to Russian archives and printed sources. As a Russian scholar, Dr. Evelyn Harden is able to expand on the wealth of information Anna Whistler presents. Her research in archives in Russia has enabled her to provide readers with extensive in-depth annotations and biographical information not previously collected. The result of the addition of mini-biographies and hundreds of images has meant that she has identified almost everyone in Anna Whistler’s world and, where possible, clarified her understanding of what she experienced.

The Pleasures Sought by Others You Despise

Thu, 08 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0700

This twenty-eight-poem anthology is the product of a third-year university course in English literature of the long eighteenth century at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby BC, Canada, located on the traditional and unceded lands of Coast Salish peoples of the Səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.

ISBN: 978-1-77287-096-1

Hiding in Plain Sight: Uncovering Nuclear Histories

Fri, 07 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0800

ISBN: 978-1-77287-093-0

Nuclear histories are global yet worryingly incomplete. Linking a plutonium refinery in Washington, a uranium mine in Saskatchewan, a tsunami at Fukushima, a nuclear bomb test site in Rajasthan, a reactor ‘accident’ at Chernobyl, a shipping accident in the English Channel, and a president-to-prime-minister confrontation over the US-Canada frontier, these quasi-autobiographical essays prove the importance of public archives, personal files with fragments, oral histories, and private recollections. This is the social history, business history, environmental history, labour history, scientific and technological history, and indigenous history of the twentieth century. Hiding in Plain Sight offers everyone an entry to the irregularities of our ‘disorderly nuclear world’, and offers other researchers crucial insights to what richness lies within.

Our Reading Roots

Mon, 30 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0700

In Our Reading Roots, the participants in English 487 Topics in Children's Literature in Summer 2021 at Simon Fraser University share stories of becoming readers, relationships with libraries and librarians, family reading time, social struggles, comfort and discomfort, expanding ideas of inclusion, and the joy and value of reading.

ISBN: 978-1-77287-088-6

Jordan and the Magic Cape

Thu, 15 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0700

This book was conceived by a team of 15 students in Simon Fraser University’s Make Change Studio Program. Through experiential and interdisciplinary teaching styles, students were given space to reckon with the strategic and evolving challenges of textile sustainability and entrepreneurship. The outcome of this 13 week program is this book, which we created in order to support young people to engage with the challenges surrounding textile sustainability and to inspire opportunities for learning.

Students:

David Cao, Educational copywriting & research / Time management
Bryan Cortes, Art direction / Grant & funding research, & external partner outreach
Irene Dinh, Quality control / Art direction
Mahyar Ghorbandaiy, Grant & funding research, & external partner outreach / Time management
Clare Huang, Images & drawings / Art direction
Taki Karasmanis, Story building & kid-proofing / Images & drawing
Jesika Kula, Story building & kid-proofing / Images & drawing
Alvin Leung, Images & drawings / Art direction
Sophia Nguyen, Textile sourcing & publishing outreach / Quality control
Danakin Seah, Textile sourcing & publishing outreach / Quality control
Caleigh Smith, Story building & kid-proofing / Book execution
Nancy Tran, Book execution / Educational copywriting & research
Maria Wang, Art direction / Quality control
Kirby Woo, Educational copywriting & research / Time management
Yuki Yao, Art direction / Quality control

Instructors:

Naghmi Shireen
Stephanie Ostler

Course Mentors:

John Bondoc
Lynn Warburton

ISBN: 978-1-77287-087-9

Gender, Diversity, and Inclusion International Workshop Proceedings

Wed, 13 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0800

This International Workshop on Gender, Diversity, and Inclusion was an outcome of the collaborative effort by the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (GSWS) at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Canada and the Research Center for Gender and Development of Hohai University (HHU) in Nanjing, China. In 2017, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the SFU Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) and the HHU School of Public Administration was signed by both universities. One of the stated objectives was to organize a collaborative international workshop on gender and diversity at SFU in 2019.

ISBN 9781772870824

A Chapbook Anthology of Female Romantic Poets Writing in English

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0700

This chapbook anthology of poems by female-identifying Romantic-era poets writing in English is the product of a senior-year seminar in English literature at Simon Fraser University in the Summer term of 2020. Each student found a poet and poem that interested them and contributed a section to the chapbook: each section contains a headnote with biographical/other contextual information, an edited version of the poem, and explanatory footnotes.

ISBN: 978-1-77287-089-3

Canadian South Asian Youth Conference Proceedings: Gender, Identity, Sexuality, and Activism

Mon, 16 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0800

This one-day conference, titled Canadian South Asian Youth: Gender, Identity, Sexuality, and Activism, was held at Simon Fraser University (SFU) Harbour Centre in downtown Vancouver on April 6th, 2019.

ISBN: 978-1-77287-068-8

Souvenirs d’Émigration

Rosena Davison — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0700

Dès la première page de ses Mémoires, publiés en 1830, M^me de Fars Fausselandry déclare: « Nous sommes dans un siècle de mémoires et […] chacun livre à la mode présente des réflexions sur les événemens qu’il a vus de près ou de loin ». En effet, on compte plus de mille mémorialistes qui ont décidé de faire publier leurs souvenirs de la Révolution française. De ces écrits, environ quatre-vingts sont dûs à des femmes dont deux tiers étaient des aristocrates. Le texte que nous éditons ici est l’œuvre de M^me la marquise de Lage de Volude, témoin privilégié et parfois acteur de l’Histoire. Proche de la famille royale, cette femme cultivée manie la plume avec aisance et, du fait de sa position dans la société, a subi tous les excès de la Terreur et tous les malheurs de l’Émigration.

ISBN 978-1-77287-057-2

Canada 150 Conference Proceedings: Migration of Bengalis

Thu, 05 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0700

The Canada 150 Conference on Migration of Bengalis was triggered by our academic as well as personal desires to establish broadly the history of migration of Bengalis or Bangla-speaking people to Canada. As long-time researchers on Asian immigrants in Canada, and through our involvement in the Metropolis Research Project, we realized that there was hardly any published material on Canadian Bengalis. Therefore, in 2017, on the eve of Canada’s 150th anniversary, we took the opportunity to celebrate and document the history and contemporary trends of Bengali immigrants in Canada.

ISBN: 9781772870442

History of Community Mental Health in the Vancouver Area (1973 - 2000)

L. Ralph Buckley — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0800

For some time I have been wanting to capture the story of the development of the community mental health system in Vancouver. It's a story of visionary th inkers, administrators, service providers, clients and family members who, together, created a unique, world-renowned system known as the Greater Vancouver Mental Health Service (GVMHS).

Public Service Media Initiatives in the Global South

Tue, 26 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0700

This book makes an important and timely contribution to an increasingly global discourse on the meanings, values and roles of public service in media provision today. While acknowledging the significant contributions of the public service broadcasting heritage in the Global North in efforts to establish such provision in the Global South, the contributors explain why simple imitation is unlikely to ever work well enough across such a diverse range of countries and regions with crucial differences in their histories, languages, cultures and experiences.

"This volume counter-balances the heavy Western bias in the existing scholarship, which often laments the decline or crisis of public service media (PSM). Proceeding with both a theoretical and comparative sensibility, and centred on seven case studies from the global South, this book explores major challenges and opportunities for PSM. Refreshingly optimistic, it generates some surprising conclusions about the role of both the state and local communities in the performance and future of PSM in the distinctive cultural and political contexts of the South. It will be a valuable resource to media researchers, teachers, policymakers, practitioners, and anyone concerned with the prospects for democratic communication globally." -- Robert Hackett, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University

For more information, contact Anis Rahman, volume editor and author.