Welcome to a new week!
Up-coming Public Lectures:
Panel Discussion: Toward a History
of Transnational Communism Across the Americas - Patricia
Harms, Dr. Margaret
Power (Illinois
Institute of Technology) & Dr. Marc
Becker (Truman
State University).
UMIH Reserach Cluster on Power and Resistance in Latin America.
Tuesday,
October 26th, 2021 at 3 PM CT
The panel would
focus on a collaborative research and book project on transnational communism across the Americas. Join esteemed speakers Patricia
Harms, author
of Ladina
Social
Activism in Guatemala City, 1871-1954 (2020), Dr. Margaret
Power, professor of history at the Illinois Institute of Technology and Dr. Marc
Becker, professor of history at Truman State University, discussing
communist
parties in the Americas outside their national context and, further
than their connection with the Communist International (Comintern) or the Soviet Union. See attached poster to learn more about the panel.
We Don't Need Reform, We Need to Tear It Down!:
A reading and conversation on prison abolition with
poet-educator, Mercedes Xue mei Eng
PLC
(Prison Libraries Committee) + PAO! (Prairie
Asian Organizers) + UMIH
October
28th, 2021, at 6:00 PM CT
Join poet-educator, Mercedes
Xue mei Eng reading her book Prison
Industrial Complex Explodes followed
by a conversation focused on prison abolition. This
lecture is in collaboration with community partners Prairie Asian Organizers and the Prison Libraries Committee. There
will be live ASL interpretation for this lecture. Please see the attached poster for further details and email umih@umanitoba.ca for
the Zoom link to attend.
On Climate Justice and Just Transitions: Dr Julie
Sze (University of California)
UMIH + CERG
(Critical Enviromentalisms Research Group)
Wednesday,
November 3rd, 2021 at 12:00 PM CT.
The
UMIH is excited to invite folks to this lecture focused on climate justice presented by Dr. Julie Sze, Professor of American Studies and founding Director of the Environmental Justice Project at the University of California.
There
will be live ASL interpretation for this lecture. Please see the attached poster
for further details and email umih@umanitoba.ca for
the Zoom link to attend.
Tuseme Conversations on Diversity & Inclusion: Dr Lisa Dublin & Mila Bongco-Philipzig
UMIH + Tusome Books
Friday, November 5th, 2021 from 7:00 PM to 8:05 PM CT.
Join Tusome books in partnership with the UMIH for a Tuseme (let's talk) conversation series with Dr. Lisa Dublin, Chair of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at the
University of Alberta and Mila Bongco-Philipzig, author
of Tony's Wheels'. Tuseme conversation Series are aimed at supporting an hour of communal learning
and personal development with various guest speakers. To register for this event and for more details, please visit this
link.
Event poster coming soon.
Of
Interest:
MOSAIC Lecture
series
Friday, October 8th - Friday, December 3rd, 2021. Via Zoom.
Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal, invites
you to a series of digital lectures via Zoom. The lectures will concentrate on the flow or pace of current time,
especially in relation to past time. ​Lectures
will run from October through December via Zoom. For a list of upcoming lectures and to register please email mosatemp@umanitoba.ca.
Please also note that registration
is free but required in order to attend the lectures. Future
presentations include; Dominic
Pettman on Wednesday, November 3rd, Paul Huebener presenting on Monday, November 8th, Etienne Turpin & Anna-Sophie Springer on Monday, November 15th, Denise Ferreira da Silva on Friday, November 19th and more.
The
History Department Colloquium: Examining the Historical Connections between Universities and Residential Schooling
Department of History + CHA
Indigenous History Group.
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 from 12:30
- 1:30 pm CT.
Join
the history department in partnership with the CHA Indigenous History Group for this round table.
Presenters
include: Sean Carleton (University
of Manitoba), Natalie
Cross
(Carleton University),
Crystal Gail Fraser (University
of Alberta) and Thomas
Peace Huron University. Pre-registration
is required to attend, please visit this link
for details to register.