February 2026 - UM-Humanities - University of Manitoba Mailing Lists

UMIH events for next week
by Jorge Nallim 23 Feb '26

23 Feb '26

Dear friends of the UMIH, While we are in the middle of reading week, we want to let you know about the exciting list of events for next week, mark your agendas! -Landscape Use and the Political Economy of the Nineteenth-Century Zulu Kingdom, South Africa Desmond Owusu-Ansah, UMIH Graduate Fellow Monday, February 23, 1pm, 409 Tier From the early to late nineteenth century, a succession of Zulu kings established their capitals at different localities across the kingdom. These capitals were situated in four distinct environmental and geographic zones. Based on ongoing research, this presentation examines how these landscapes supported the operations of the capitals and whether each was provisioned in the same ways. It explores how multiple historical, archaeological, and geophysical datasets are being analysed within the framework of landscape affordances, capability equivalence, and mobility potentials. The study uses GIS tools to investigate these aspects of the kingdom's landscape against the backdrop of the operations of the capitals and the connectedness of resources, settlements, and people across the kingdom. Desmond Owusu-Ansah is a doctoral candidate in the department of Anthropology. His area of research is precolonial African urbanism with a focus on the 19th century Zulu Kingdom in South Africa. He is a recipient of a University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities Graduate Fellowship. - Covenants (or how to read Wordsworth) Andrzej Warminski (University of California- Irvine) Thursday, Feb. 26th, ArtLab 368, 12-1:30pm, A reception will follow the presentation -Graduate Seminar on Hegel Andrzej Warminski (University of California- Irvine) Friday, February 27, 409 Tier, 11-1pm Coffee and muffins will be provided at the seminar Both events by Dr. Warminski are organized Mosaic and supported by the UMIH Andrzej Warminski is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Irvine who works on literary theory and its history, German 19th- and 20th-century philosophy and its reception in French thought, and British romantic literature. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome and Butler Visiting Chair at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Warminski's main publications include Material Inscriptions: Rhetorical Reading in Practice and Theory (2013), Ideology, Rhetoric, Aesthetics: For De Man (2013), and Readings in Interpretation: Hölderlin, Hegel, Heidegger (1987). Some of his scholarly essays and articles include "Machinal Effects: Derrida With and Without de Man" (2009); "Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History" (2007); "Lightstruck: 'Hegel on the Sublime'" (2012); and "Allegories of Symbol: On Hegel's Aesthetics" (2004). As one of the key inheritors of the double legacy of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, Warminski is uniquely situated to speak to the aporia's that each confronted through the question of suicide. Like speech and writing themselves reading too emerges from the death of a former self. Warminski's lecture will concentrate on William Wordsworth's supposedly simple poem, "My Heart Leaps Up" and the "Great Ode." Suicide as the necessary requisite to positive becoming and the mirror of nature as the non-dialectical counterpart to a sheltering heaven and earth will be plumbed for its ecocidal imperative. -Annual Black History Month Celebration. Black Narratives Leading Our Communities: Action, Vision and Change Keynote speaker: HE. The Hon. Gline Clarke, High Commissioner to Canada from Barbados Friday, February 27, starts at 5pm University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Avenue This event will celebrate the Black African Diaspora community in Canada and pay homage to the great accomplishments of the Black African Diaspora people throughout history, leading to the present. The event will involve panel discussions, Black business showcases, Bursaries for Black African Diaspora students (secondary and post-secondary Winnipeg students), recognition for trailblazers in the Black African Diaspora Winnipeg community and much more For more information, visit https://weareacmp.com/black-history-month-2025-2/ 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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FW: UMIH event today- ROOM CHANGE!
by Jorge Nallim 09 Feb '26

09 Feb '26

My apologies if you are receiving this message again; the system for the email list is not acting properly. From: Jorge Nallim Sent: Monday, February 9, 2026 10:40 AM To: U Of M Institute For The Humanities <umih(a)umanitoba.ca> Subject: UMIH event today- ROOM CHANGE! Importance: High Dear friends of the UMIH, Please note a last minute change of the venue for today's presentation by Shelby Stymeist. It will be held at the Haney Reading Room, 627 Fletcher Argue Bldg, at the same time, 2:30pm. Best, Jorge From: Jorge Nallim Sent: Monday, February 9, 2026 9:22 AM To: 'um-humanities(a)lists.umanitoba.ca' <um-humanities(a)lists.umanitoba.ca<mailto:um-humanities@lists.umanitoba.ca>> Subject: UMIH event today Dear friends of the UMIH, Please join us today for UMIH's last event before the reading week: -"New and Curious Sights": Nineteenth-Century Literary Representations of Women's Encounters with Zoological Gardens and Menageries Shelby Stymeist, UMIH Graduate Fellow Monday, February 9th, 409 Tier, 2:30pm Based on research on nineteenth-century literary representations of women's encounters with zoological gardens and menageries, this presentation examines the ways in which these spaces act as sites of liminality for women and girls in fictional and non-fictional texts of the period. And don't forget to follow us in Instagram and visit our website, where you can find more information about our events and blogs of our last events. 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 event today
by Jorge Nallim 09 Feb '26

09 Feb '26

Dear friends of the UMIH, Please join us today for UMIH's last event before the reading week: -"New and Curious Sights": Nineteenth-Century Literary Representations of Women's Encounters with Zoological Gardens and Menageries Shelby Stymeist, UMIH Graduate Fellow Monday, February 9th, 409 Tier, 2:30pm Based on research on nineteenth-century literary representations of women's encounters with zoological gardens and menageries, this presentation examines the ways in which these spaces act as sites of liminality for women and girls in fictional and non-fictional texts of the period. And don't forget to follow us in Instagram and visit our website, where you can find more information about our events and blogs of our last events. 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 02 Feb '26

02 Feb '26

Dear friends of the UMIH, the UMIH is very glad to invite you this week 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 via Zoom and can be attended at the rooms mentioned below for each day. Thursday, February 5th: 307 Tier Bldg, Zoom link: https://umanitoba.zoom.us/j/64360446545?pwd=lovbcd9Tud5lGLokLpEWyQy6FgaKlG.1 Friday, February 6th: Cross Common Room, 108 St. John's College, Zoom link: https://umanitoba.zoom.us/j/67829779443?pwd=S4E4RC5etHLE5Yg82JYkQE1HdWdDsa.1 For the full program, please see the attached program or visit our website 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 The UMIH acknowledges the generous support of the University of Manitoba's Department of English, Theatre, Film, and Media and the Department of German and Slavic Studies for making this conference possible. And for next week, mark your calendar for, -"New and Curious Sights": Nineteenth-Century Literary Representations of Women's Encounters with Zoological Gardens and Menageries Shelby Stymeist, UMIH Graduate Fellow Monday, February 9th, 409 Tier, 2:30pm Based on research on nineteenth-century literary representations of women's encounters with zoological gardens and menageries, this presentation examines the ways in which these spaces act as sites of liminality for women and girls in fictional and non-fictional texts of the period And don't forget to follow us in Instagram and visit our website, where you can find the blogs of our last events. 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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