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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