Dear friends of the UMIH,
Nothing like a beautiful autumn season for enjoying the next series of events brought to you by the UMIH-see attached posters for further information and do not forget to follow us in Instagram @umih__
-UMIH Brown Bag Lunch Series: Ecstatic Torment: Cinematic Motus in the Horror Genre
GG Dascal, UMIH Graduate Fellow
Thursday, October 9th, 1pm, 309 Tier Bldg.
Get ready for Hallowing and bring your lunch, for a presentation by one of UMIH's Graduate Fellows! A PhD candidate at the Department of English, Theatre, Film, and Media, Dascal will discuss her research on horror films, aesthetics, and audience experience and engagement.
-The Closest Thing to Time Travel: Original Antique Objects as a Teaching Aid in Literary Studies
Christopher Heyl (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Wednesday, October 15th, 2:30pm
Zoom presentation, streamed in and moderated by UIMIH Research Affiliate Dr. Mariya Shymchyshyn in 409 Tier Zoom link: https://uni-due.zoom-x.de/j/67327444304?pwd=AB46IxXZaBhblTlLhXclgpkM9KUeia.1<https://uni-due.zoom-x.de/j/67327444304?pwd=AB46IxXZaBhblTlLhXclgpkM9KUeia.1,>
Objects, and especially original antique objects, can be very powerful tools in academic teaching. This lecture will offer a discussion of how they can be used in a lecture or seminar context, and why they have the power to fascinate and motivate. One focus of this lecture will be the special appeal of small, portable objects that were once embedded in social practices.
And we continue reminding about the forthcoming event organized by Dr. Shymchyshyn:
-The Great Overlooked - Prof. Leonid Biletskyi as Teacher and Scholar
This is a one-day symposium honoring Leonid Biletskyi (1882-1955), an influential Ukrainian literary scholar, educator, and cultural leader whose work in Winnipeg left a lasting legacy. This one-day, mixed-format symposium will be held on November 18th, and the keynote address will be delivered via Zoom at 2:30pm by Prof. Rostyslav Radyshevskyi (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv). We invite submissions for the symposium, for further information see attached pdf and contact Dr. Shymchyshyn at
mariya.shymchyshyn(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:mariya.shymchyshyn@umanitoba.ca>
Stay tuned for more events!
Jorge A. Nállim
Director
Institute for the Humanities
University of Manitoba
407 Tier Building
204 474 9599
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Jorge A. Nállim
Director, Institute for the Humanities
Faculty of Arts Humanities Research Professor
Department of History
405 Fletcher Argue Bldg.
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB R3T 5V5
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https://umanitoba.ca/arts/jorge-nallim
Sanda McGee Deutsch and Jorge A. Nállim (eds.), Antifascism(s) in Latin America and the Caribbean: From the Margins to the Center (Cambridge University Press, 2025). For more information, visit our blog,
https://cambridgeblog.org/2025/08/antifascisms-in-latin-america-and-the-car…
