Matt Hern and Am Johal: How Can We Be Together?
Date:
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Time:
2:30 pm
Location:
Kresge Building Metered Parking
Room: 203
Room: 203
Cost:
Free
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The SASAH Speakers' Series welcomes authors, advocates and collaborators Matt Hern and Am Johal to discuss Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: A Tar Sands Tale (with Joe Sacco), and O My Friends, There is No Friend: The Politics of Friendship at the End of Ecology.
This interactive conversation is guided by questions that Matt and Am have posed and anchored in their collaborative work. How can we think through the present political moment with its hard edges and populisms - what might friendship offer us in this moment?
We invite participants to read chapters 1, 5, 8, 9, 10 and 12 of O My Friends, There is No Friend (open access) in advance of this event.
Matt Hern lives in Richmond, BC on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) waters. He is the co-founder and co-director of Solid State Community Industries, which is building a network of worker cooperatives with migrant communities in Canada. He continues to lecture globally and his articles and books, including What a City Is For and Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life (with Am Johal and Joe Sacco), have been translated into nineteen languages.
Am Johal was, until February 2025, Director of SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Co-Director of SFU's Community Engaged Research Initiative and is host of the podcast, Below the Radar. He has additional affiliations at SFU with Graduate Liberal Studies, Labour Studies and the Institute for the Humanities. He has been on the boards of the Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancity Community Foundation, Indian Summer Arts Society, Impact on Communities Coalition, 221A, Greenpeace Canada, BC Alliance for Arts and Culture, the Or Gallery, the City of Vancouver’s Arts and Culture Committee and the Vancouver City Planning Commission.
Host:
School for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities
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