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UMIH Newsletter
by Jorge Nallim 26 Jan '26

26 Jan '26

Dear friends of the Institute for the Humanities, the UMIH is very glad to invite you to join us for this event this week: -Everything You Want to Know about Publishing an Academic Book; Celebration and Insights from Faculty of Arts Members Tuesday, January 27th, 2:30, 307 Tier This event is both a celebration of books published by Faculty of Arts' scholars as well as an open discussion on the experience involved in the process of publishing an academic book. It will count on the participation of two faculty members from Department of English, Theatre, Film, and Media, David Watt (author of Laughter and Awkwardness in Late Medieval England: Social Discomfort in the Literature of the Middle Ages, Bloomsbury 2023 ) and Vanessa Warne (author of By Touch Alone; Blindness and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Culture, University of Michigan Press, 2025); and two from the Department of History, Roisin Cossar (co-author with Jason Brown of Telling Tales: Clerics, Concubines, and an Inquisitor in Late Medieval Ferrara: A Primary Source Study, University of Toronto Press, 2025) and Jorge Nállim (co-editor with Sandra McGee Deutsch of Antifascim(s) In Latin America and the Caribbean. From the Margins to the Centre, Cambridge University Press, 2025). The following events are organized by the Afro-Caribbean Mentorship Prorgram (ACMP), co-sponsored by the UMIH along other institutions (please visit https://weareacmp.com/ for more information) : -Afro-Caribbean Mentorship Program- Free Movie Screening: Till Friday, January 30th, 11-2pm Landmark Cinemas, Grant Park For more information, visit. https://weareacmp.com/free-movie-screening/ -4th Annual Anti-Black Racism As A Mental Health Concern Friday, January 30, 6-8:30pm MTS Classrooms ABC Canadian Museum for Human Rights, 85 Israel Asper Way This forum situates mental health within broader historical, cultural, and structural contexts, drawing on humanities-informed perspectives alongside community expertise. It offers a space for critical analysis of how anti-Black racism shapes lived experience, narrative formation, and access to care. This event will examine how the intersections of race, social class, immigration status, sexuality, and gender influence distinct mental health challenges among Black Canadians. In addition to several panelists, the keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Ciann L. Wilson. For more information, visit https://weareacmp.com/4th-annual-anti-black-racism-as-a-mental-health-conce… -Hairstyling and Conversations. Salon Talk Series Part 1: Reframing the Mental Health Conversation Dr. Rhonesha Blaché (facilitator), Dr. Ciann Wilson (guest speaker) Saturday, January 31, 11am-2pm Karen's Hair and Loc Studio, 1867 Portage Avenue Supported by a Prime X Community Grant, Hairstyling and Conversations exemplifies community-engaged humanities in practice. The initiative transforms Winnipeg-based Black-owned barbershops and salons into sites of informal pedagogy and cultural exchange, where participants engage in structured dialogue on trauma, identity, healing, and systemic inequality. Grounded in humanities-based research and mentorship, the project values oral history, storytelling, and critical reflection as legitimate forms of knowledge production. It invites collaboration among scholars, students, local business owners, and community members, reinforcing reciprocal relationships between the University and the broader Black community For more information, visit https://weareacmp.com/hairstyles-and-conversations/ And for next week, we are glad to invite you to the, -UMIH International Conference- Identity in Motion: Literary Representations of Refugees, Exiles, and Immigrants Venue: hybrid, Zoom and in-person. All sessions and keynote addresses will be held virtually via Zoom and can be attended at the rooms mentioned below for each day. February 5th: 307 Tier Bldg, Zoom link: https://umanitoba.zoom.us/j/64360446545?pwd=lovbcd9Tud5lGLokLpEWyQy6FgaKlG.1 February 6th: Cross Common Room, 108 St. John's College, Zoom link: https://umanitoba.zoom.us/j/67829779443?pwd=S4E4RC5etHLE5Yg82JYkQE1HdWdDsa.1 For the conference's full program, please see the attached program. Over two days, this conference seeks to explore the diverse literary portrayals of displacement, migration, exile, and the refugee experience across genres, languages, and cultures. In addition to twenty presenters divided in panels, the conference will feature two keynote speakers: -Dr. Alex Sager (Professor of Philosophy and University Studies, Portland State University): "What If Refugees Designed Asylum", at the conference's opening session, February 5th, 10:15am -Dr. Peggy Levitt (Professor, Mildred Lane Kemper Chair of Sociology, Wellesley College, Co-Founder, Global (De)Centre): "Move Over, Mona Lisa: Reimagining What We Read, Look at, and Learn", at the conference's closing session, February 6th, 12:30pm This event is co-sponsored by the University of Manitoba's Department of English, Theatre, Film, and Media and the Department of German and Slavic Studies, whose generous support has made this conference possible. Jorge A. Nállim Director, Institute for the Humanities Acting Head and Professor, Department of History 405 Fletcher Argue Bldg. University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3T 5V5 jorge.nallim(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:jorge.nallim@umanitoba.ca> 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…

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UMIH Newsletter
by Jorge Nallim 19 Jan '26

19 Jan '26

Dear friends of the UMIH, The UMIH is glad to present you an exciting line of events to keep you warm through January. Mark your calendars! We'll start tomorrow with, -Fighting Islamophobia, Colonizing Palestine: Canada's Instrumentalization of Anti-Racism Strategies after October 7th, 2023- Youcef Soufi (UMIH Research Affiliate) Tuesday, January 13th at 2:30 pm, 335 Isbister This presentation will explore how, in the wake of Hamas' October 7th attacks in South-West Israel, the Trudeau government instrumentalized its recently adopted policy of fighting Islamophobia to shield its foreign policy from critique and uphold a status quo-characterized by Canada's support for Israel's destruction of Gaza. It was a discursive shift that would soon be embraced among centrist politicians, media, and public institutions like universities across Canada. In exploring this shift, the presentation raises questions regarding Canadian foreign and domestic policies in relation to the cooptation of progressive policies and discourses and the governmental use of anti-Islamophobia to silence criticism. And then we continue with the following: -Rethinking Empire: Sugar and Dispossession at Home and Abroad Donica Belisle (University of Regina) Tuesday, January 20th, at 2:30 pm, 335 Isbister Today, 90% of the sugars that Canadians eat are made from cane. But where does our sugar come from? This presentation looks at the history of sugar in Canada, focusing on the case of B.C. Sugar. Taking advantage of imperial trade networks and coerced labour in colonial sugarcane fields, this Vancouver company sourced sugars from around the world. Inquiring into the conditions that made western Canadian sugar possible, this talk suggests that it is time to revisit Canada's place in the British Empire. Doing so enables us to see how Empire enabled western Canadian development even while Canadian multinationals perpetuated colonial extraction and dispossession both at home and abroad. This event is organized by the UMIH's Food Matters Research Cluster. -Faces of Palestine, 1972: From a Document in The Manitoban to the Current Crisis Rachad Antonius January 22nd, 3:00-4:30 pm, 307 Tier While an M.A. student in Mathematics at the University of Manitoba between 1970 and 1973, Rachad Antonius helped publish a fascinating yet almost completely unknown dossier of articles, Faces of Palestine, in The Manitoban. This document was for him the beginning of a long-term engagement with the question of Palestine. He will present this archival document as an introduction to the problematics of campus activism on the question of Palestine from the early 1970s to the present. As well, he will propose a critical reading of the current situation in Gaza based on a historical perspective of the processes that led to it. Bio: Rachad Antonius, who until his retirement in 2021 was a Full Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Université du Québec à Montréal, is an expert on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, contemporary Arab societies, Arab uprisings, political Islam, and Arab and Muslim minorities in Canada. His recent books include La conquête de la Palestine. De Balfour à Gaza, une guerre de cent ans (Écosociété, 2024) and Islam et Islamisme en Occident. Éléments pour un dialogue (University of Montreal Press, 2023, co-authored with Ali Belaïdi). He is also a frequent commentator on events in the Middle East, appearing on networks such as CBC, BBC, France24, and Radio France International. Sponsors: Faculty of Arts Endowment Fund; Centre for Human Rights Research; Institute for the Humanities -Everything You Want to Know about Publishing an Academic Book; Celebration and Insights from Faculty of Arts Members Tuesday, January 27th, 2:30, 307 Tier This event is both a celebration of books published by Faculty of Arts' scholars as well as an open discussion on the experience involved in the process of publishing an academic book. It will count on the participation of two faculty members from Department of English, Theatre, Film, and Media, David Watt (author of Laughter and Awkwardness in Late Medieval England: Social Discomfort in the Literature of the Middle Ages, Bloomsbury 2023 ) and Vanessa Warne (author of By Touch Alone; Blindness and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Culture, University of Michigan Press, 2025); and two from the Department of History, Roisin Cossar (co-author with Jason Brown of Telling Tales: Clerics, Concubines, and an Inquisitor in Late Medieval Ferrara: A Primary Source Study, University of Toronto Press, 2025) and Jorge Nállim (co-editor with Sandra McGee Deutsch of Antifascim(s) In Latin America and the Caribbean. From the Margins to the Centre, Cambridge University Press, 2025). Please follow the QR in the posters or visit our website for more information, and do not forget to follow us in Facebook and Instagram. Jorge A. Nállim Director, Institute for the Humanities Acting Head and Professor, Department of History 405 Fletcher Argue Bldg. University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3T 5V5 jorge.nallim(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:jorge.nallim@umanitoba.ca> 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…

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UMIH Newsletter
by Jorge Nallim 06 Jan '26

06 Jan '26

Dear friends of the UMIH, Happy New Year! As we come back to the university, we are very happy to present our first event for what will be another exciting semester of UMIH activities: "Fighting Islamophobia, Colonizing Palestine: Canada's Instrumentalization of Anti-Racism Strategies after October 7th, 2023" Youcef Soufi (UMIH Research Affiliate) Tuesday, January 13th at 2:30 pm, 335 Isbister This presentation will explore how, in the wake of Hamas' October 7th attacks in South-West Israel, the Trudeau government instrumentalized its recently adopted policy of fighting Islamophobia to shield its foreign policy from critique and uphold a status quo-characterized by Canada's support for Israel's destruction of Gaza. It was a discursive shift that would soon be embraced among centrist politicians, media, and public institutions like universities across Canada. In exploring this shift, the presentation raises questions regarding Canadian foreign and domestic policies in relation to the cooptation of progressive policies and discourses and the governmental use of anti-Islamophobia to silence criticism. Jorge A. Nállim Director, Institute for the Humanities Acting Head and Professor, Department of History 405 Fletcher Argue Bldg. University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3T 5V5 jorge.nallim(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:jorge.nallim@umanitoba.ca> 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…

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