Dear friends of the Humanities,
Here is your weekly rundown of events. For additional details, please see attached posters.
Tuesday, December 5
4:00 pm Robert Schultz Theatre, St John’s College
Johnny Marquez, “The Geo-Politics of Oil and Venezuela” (see also below, December 6)
Tuesday, December 5
7:30 pm at the Lantern Gallery, 211 Pacific Ave
LAUNCH and CELEBRATION
The Slovenian paraliterary journal IDIOT presents a special bilingual issue of Poetry and Fiction by Canadian and First Nations Writers
Readings by:
Colin Smith, Angela Lopes, and the issue editors Mariiane Wiebe and Monika Vrečar
Wednesday, December 6
7:00 pm, Ukrainian Labour Temple, 591 Pritchard (Admission by Donation)
Johnny Marquez, “Venezuela What is Really Going On?”
Thursday, December 14
2:00 pm, 409 Tier Building
A panel discussion, “Ubering the City: Understanding the Changes to Transportation in Winnipeg.”
Panelists include:
Joe Kornelsen - Public transit advocate
Lea Baturin - Former member of the Winnipeg Taxicab Board
Paul Moist - Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
David Camfield - Associate Professor of Labour Studies & Sociology
Adolf Ng - Director, University of Manitoba Transport Institute
Scott McFadyen - Spokesperson for the Winnipeg Community Taxi Coalition
Sheri Gibbings, Wilfrid Laurier University
Finally, you may want to follow the Institute for the Humanities’ blog, for more news, articles, and other special features about, by, and for our humanities and social science community:
https://umhumanities.wordpress.com
Paul Jenkins, PhD
Program Developer/Coordinator & Assistant to the Director
Institute for the Humanities &
Instructor, Dept. of History
University of Manitoba
407 Tier Building
204 474 9599
umih@umanitoba.camailto:umih@ad.umanitoba.ca
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