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UMIH Newsletter
by Jorge Nallim 19 Oct '26

19 Oct '26

Dear friends of the UMIH, As we enjoy a beautiful and long Fall season, please join us this week for these exciting events: -Poetry Talk & Writing Workshop Dr. Christine Stewart-Nuñez (Professor, Women's and Gender Studies) Wednesday, Oct 21, 6-8pm* Jake Epp Library, 255 Elmdale St., Steinbach Please note: registration is required for this event: https://jakeepplibrary.com/event/adult-creative-writers-4/ * This poetry talk & workshop, supported by the UMIH Research Cluster Poetry, Grief, and Mourning, is funded through UofM Community Engagement. -Film screening and discussion War Came to My Home (Canada, 2026, 16 min.) Marusya Bociurkiw (dir.) Thursday, October 22nd 2:30pm 409 Tier War Came to My Home is set in an undisclosed location in Lviv, Ukraine, where approximately twenty women gather to weave camouflage nets for the Ukrainian army. What first appears to be a peaceful craft workshop gradually reveals itself as a space shaped by war, volunteering, solidarity, and everyday resistance. Structured to evoke the rhythm of a long afternoon, the film gradually reveals the women's individual reasons for being there and offers an intimate perspective on how the Russia-Ukraine war enters domestic, communal, and emotional life. Marusya Bociurkiw is an award-winning Ukrainian Canadian filmmaker, writer, media scholar, and Professor Emeritus at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her scholarly and creative work brings together feminist and queer archives, media activism, migration, social justice, documentary filmmaking, cultural memory, and questions of belonging and displacement. After the screening of the film, there will be a discussion with its director, Dr. Bociurkiw, moderated by Dr. Mariya Shymchyshyn (UMIH Research Affiliate) This event, organized by the UMIH, counts on the generous support of the Departments of English, Theatre, Film & Media, and German and Slavic Studies, and it is part of Central and East European Lecture Series. Also, mark your calendars for next week's events: -Guest speaker "Queer and Trans Space Operas: From Samuel Delany to Becky Chambers" Dr. Jes Battis (University of Regina) Monday, October 26th 2:30 - 4 pm 409 Tier and online via Zoom (link below) The space opera genre has a long history of queer and trans authors, including Samuel "Chip" Delany, who was writing before the 1969 Stonewall uprising. This talk, with Dr. Jes Battis, will explore the radical history of space ships and interstellar travel, including Star Trek and the popular Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers. This hybrid talk will be recorded and shared online via YouTube. Dr. Jes Battis (all pronouns) teachers queer and trans speculative fiction, medieval studies, and creative writing at the University of Regina. They are the author of books on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Farscape, and the cult classic film Labyrinth, as well as the fantasy novel The Winter Knight. Their work has won the Saskatchewan Book Award, and been shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award and the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Zoom Meeting link: https://umanitoba.zoom.us/j/68325450693?pwd=wFpO7DauHtWJmO6f2iwDL4TBG28Xlz.1 Meeting ID: 683 2545 0693 Passcode: 307571 This event, organized by the UMIH Research Cluster Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy, counts with the generous support of the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media. -Workshop and Meet and Greet -"Queer Science Fiction & Fantasy World Building Workshop with Jes Battis" Tuesday, October 27th 9:30 - 10:30 am 307 Tier -"Queer Science Fiction Research Cluster- Meet and Greet" Tuesday, October 27th 10:30 am - 11:30 am 307 Tier All al welcome to attend one or both events. Coffee and breakfast snacks will be served These events are organized by the UMIH Research Cluster Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy, with the generous support of the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media. Finally, visit our website (in process of being updated) to read our last blog, https://www.umhumanities.com/longexposures/write-it-exploring-grief-through… , and follow us in Instagram, umih(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:umih@ad.umanitoba.ca> Jorge A. Nállim Professor, Department of History Director, Institute for the Humanities 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

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UMIH Newsletter
by Jorge Nallim 07 Oct '26

07 Oct '26

Dear friends of the UMIH, I want to remind of today's event supported by the UMIH: -Book Launch, Black Market Intimacies. The Transpacific Sexual Economy of the Korean War, with Dr. Jeongmin Kim, Department of History Wednesday, October 7 1-3pm Senior Common Room, 239 St. John's College Black Market Intimacies (Stanford University Press, 2026) reveals how illicit exchanges of money and commodities involving sexual encounters between Korean and Japanese women and US soldiers provided the material foundations of the regional economy across Korea and Japan during the Korean War. Against the conventional view that illicit exchanges exist outside the formal economy and legal regulations, Jeongmin Kim examines how the interlinked markets for transactional sex and goods crucially constituted the transpacific formation of US military base capitalism in post-World War II East Asia This event is supported by the Centre for Human Rights Research, the Department of History, the Faculty of Arts, and the Institute for the Humanities Also, and as we are going to enter the most active period of UMIH programming, mark your calendars for these next events: -Book Club: What Fills Your House Like Smoke by E. McGregor Discussion facilitated by Dr. Jamie Paris (Instructor, Dept of English, Theatre, Film & Media) Tuesday, Oct 13 1-2pm 409 Tier Building In this session, we will discuss E. McGregor's What Fills Your House Like Smoke, published in 2024 by Thistledown Press and a finalist at this year's Manitoba Book Awards for the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. While this is McGregor's first volume of poetry, she has published in numerous poetry magazines. Her poem "A Eulogy" was included in Best Canadian Poetry, 2024. What Fills Your House Like Smoke is available through the Winnipeg Public Library in both digital and print versions. This event is organized by the UMIH Research Cluster Poetry, Grief, and Mourning, and it is the first in a series of poetry talks, writing workshops, and a book club this Fall and Winter -Poetry Talk & Writing Workshop Dr. Christine Stewart-Nuñez (Professor, Women's and Gender Studies) Wednesday, Oct 21, 6-8pm* Jake Epp Library, 255 Elmdale St., Steinbach Please note: registration is required for this event: https://jakeepplibrary.com/event/adult-creative-writers-4/ * This poetry talk & workshop, supported by the UMIH Research Cluster Poetry, Grief, and Mourning, is funded through UofM Community Engagement. -Film screening and discussion War Came to My Home (Canada, 2026, 16 min.) Marusya Bociurkiw (dir.) Thursday, October 22nd 2:30pm 409 Tier War Came to My Home is set in an undisclosed location in Lviv, Ukraine, where approximately twenty women gather to weave camouflage nets for the Ukrainian army. What first appears to be a peaceful craft workshop gradually reveals itself as a space shaped by war, volunteering, solidarity, and everyday resistance. Structured to evoke the rhythm of a long afternoon, the film gradually reveals the women's individual reasons for being there and offers an intimate perspective on how the Russia-Ukraine war enters domestic, communal, and emotional life. Marusya Bociurkiw is an award-winning Ukrainian Canadian filmmaker, writer, media scholar, and Professor Emeritus at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her scholarly and creative work brings together feminist and queer archives, media activism, migration, social justice, documentary filmmaking, cultural memory, and questions of belonging and displacement. After the screening of the film, there will be a discussion with its director, Dr. Bocirkiw, moderated by Dr. Mariya Shymchyshyn (UMIH Research Affiliate) This event, organized by the UMIH, counts on the generous support of the Departments of English, Theatre, Film, and Media, and German and Slavic Studies, and it is part of Central and East European Lecture Series. Jorge A. Nállim Professor, Department of History Director, Institute for the Humanities 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

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UMIH- Newsletter
by Jorge Nallim 02 Oct '26

02 Oct '26

Dear friends of the UMIH, I am very glad to reach out to you with information for the first series of events organized and supported by the UMIH, in what promises to be another year full of exciting initiatives. The first two events are related to the ongoing exhibition of ancient Greek papyrology: -Ancient Greek Papyrology Public Exhibit "The Ancient Inbox: 2000 Years of Documents" August 17-September 30, 2026 Archives and Special Collections Room 330, Elizabeth Dafoe Library, University of Manitoba FREE -Public talk with Dr. Mike Sampson, Department of Classics Tuesday, September 22, 2026 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Archives and Special Collections Classroom, 3rd floor Elizabeth Dafoe Library FREE The Summer Institute of Papyrology took place at UM June 29-July 31, 2026. Offered by the American Society of Papyrologists and hosted by the Department of Classics, this institute brought together over 20 participants and guest lecturers from as far away as Egypt and Australia to Winnipeg to work with a mix of private and public documents that have not been studied before. The students and academic researchers took workshops on reading Ancient Greek cursive, transcribed the documents to English and prepared research papers for the Society. Supported by: Connection Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; UM Institute for the Humanities; UM Department of Classics; American Society of Papyrologists Also, marked your calendar for the following two events (see attached posters, please circulate them): -"Silence, Loss, Love, and the Lone Voice: the Poetry of Grief " Neil Besner (Professor Emeritus, UW) Tuesday, October 6th 1pm 409 Tier Building Poems writing loss depend upon invoking language within the chime of silence. Often, the silence is as eloquent as the language it begets: the voice of a grieving poem echoes within this dual vocation, which merges in a singular longing tone. A grieving poem bestows upon its readers its loving regret; as points of departure, let's begin by thinking about how Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art" and William Carlos Williams's "Danse Russe" commemorate as they celebrate related loneliness and loss. This event is organized by the UMIH Research Cluster Poetry, Grief, and Mourning. It is the first in a series of poetry talks, writing workshops, and a book club this Fall and Winter. The series is based on the idea that reading and writing can be meaningful practices for individuals grieving the loss of a person, place, or something else that is fundamental to the individual or community's life. Through poetry talks and a book club, we will hear from and interact with established poets and scholars. Through hands-on workshops, we will deepen our own poetic writing skills. All activities in the series are open to UofM students, staff, faculty members, and members of the wider community -Book Launch, Black Market Intimacies. The Transpacific Sexual Economy of the Korean War, with Dr. Jeongmin Kim, Department of History Wednesday, October 7 1-3pm Senior Common Room, 239 St. John's College Black Market Intimacies (Stanford University Press, 2026) reveals how illicit exchanges of money and commodities involving sexual encounters between Korean and Japanese women and US soldiers provided the material foundations of the regional economy across Korea and Japan during the Korean War. Against the conventional view that illicit exchanges exist outside the formal economy and legal regulations, Jeongmin Kim examines how the interlinked markets for transactional sex and goods crucially constituted the transpacific formation of US military base capitalism in post-World War II East Asia This event is supported by the Centre for Human Rights Research, the Department of History, the Faculty of Arts, and the Institute for the Humanities Stay tuned for more events! Jorge A. Nállim Professor, Department of History Director, Institute for the Humanities 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 -Application deadline and Conferences' presentations
by Jorge Nallim 23 Apr '26

23 Apr '26

Dear friends of the UMIH, As final exam season is going ahead and we look forward to the summer, the UMIH first gently reminds you that there is one week left until the deadline for applications, April 30th, for Research Clusters, Research Affiliates, and Graduate Fellows. Please visit our website, https://umanitoba.ca/arts/institute-humanities for instructions about how to apply. In addition, the UMIH is glad to announce several presentations that is sponsoring within the framework of two conferences. First, the UMIH is one of the several co-sponsors of the Prairie Conference: Ukrainian Studies in Times of Global Transformations of the Humanities (April 30-May 3), organized by UM in partnership with Södertörn University (Stockholm, Sweden) and hosted by UM's Department of German and Slavic Studies. The finalized conference program will be circulated soon, but for now we want to draw your attention to two keynote addresses (see also attached posters): -Dr. Svitlana Matviyenko (Simon Fraser University), ""Donetsk Chornobyl": Deep Time of the Elemental Warfare" Thursday, April 30th, 7-8:30 pm (entry to the library will be available between 6:30 and 7:00 PM) Archives & Special Collections, Room 330, Elizabeth Dafoe Library Dr. Matviyenko is an Associate Professor of Critical Media Analysis in the School of Communication of Simon Fraser University. Her research and teaching, informed by science & technology studies and history of science, are focused on information and cyberwar, media and environment, critical infrastructure studies and postcolonial and decolonial theory. Matviyenko's current work on nuclear cultures & heritage investigates the practices of nuclear terror, weaponization of pollution and technogenic catastrophes during the Russian war in Ukraine. Matviyenko is a co-editor of two collections, The Imaginary App (MIT Press, 2014) and Lacan and the Posthuman (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). She is a co-author of Cyberwar and Revolution: Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism (Minnesota UP, 2019). -Dr. Niigaan Sinclair (University of Manitoba), "Ukrainian People Are My People: From Ukraine to Treaty One" Saturday, May 2, 2026 , 2:30- 4 pm Room 307, Tier Building Dr. Sinclair is Anishinaabe from Peguis First Nation. He is an award-winning writer, editor and professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba who was named by Maclean's magazine in 2022 as one of the most influential people in Canada. Niigaan is a multiple nominee of Canadian columnist of the year (winning in 2018) and his commentary appears weekly on multiple platforms across Canada. His first book Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre (McClelland & Stewart, 2024) was a national bestseller that won the 2024 Governor General Award for Non-fiction Second, the UMIH is sponsoring the plenary talk of the 2026 Conference of the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada: -Dr. Sarah Fee (Royal Ontario Museum), "Friendship, Commerce, and Cloth on the Edge of Empire: Ethiopia, Madagascar, Zanzibar" Friday May 1, 9:30- 10:30am 8th Floor, Alt Hotel, 310 Donald St. Dr. Fee is Senior Curator of Global Fashion & Textiles at the Royal Ontario Museum. She is the editor of Cloth that Changed the World: The Art and Fashion of Indian Chintz (2020, ROM-Yale University Press). 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- reminder of applications and event this week
by Jorge Nallim 30 Mar '26

30 Mar '26

Dear friends of the UMIH, First of all, just a reminder of the call of for application for research clusters, research affiliates, and graduate fellow, with deadline a month from now, April 30-- See attached files or visit our website. As the semester is winding down, the UMIH is glad to announce of the following event: -"Reading and Writing in Times of Grief" Tuesday, March 31st, St. John's College, Cross Common Room, 9am-2:45pm The goal of this event is to think about how artists use poetry as a tool for processing loss, and how writing about someone or something that is gone can be an expression of love and joy. Our event will include a discussion with academics and artists in the morning and readings by local poets in the afternoon, followed by an open mic. It is open to UofM students, staff, and faculty as well as members of the wider Winnipeg community. Participants can come for the full day, or the morning or afternoon, only. Advance registration is required. For more information and to register, please see the event website: https://umanitoba.ca/st-johns-college/reading-and-writing-times-grief . This event is funded by the Faculty of Arts Dean's Office; the Dept of Religion; the Dept of English, Theatre, Film & Media; the Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture; the UofM Institute for the Humanities; and St John's College. 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- Reminder call for applications and events this week
by Jorge Nallim 16 Mar '26

16 Mar '26

Dear friends of the UMIH, First, a reminder about the call for applications for UMIH Research Clusters, Research Affiliates, and Graduate Fellow for the 2026-2027 academic year. The deadline for applications is Thursday, April 30, see attached files or visit our website for more information. For this week, the UMIH is very glad to support the following three events organized by Mosaic. Interdisciplinary Critical Journal: - Literature's Strike: Melville, Bartleby Theory, and Benito Cereno Michael Krimper (NYU) Tuesday, March 17th, 7-8:30pm, Cross Common Room, St. John's College Michael Krimper's work on inoperativity, désoeuvré, idleness, and the correspondences between Georges Bataille's notion of "unemployed negativity" and Walter Benjamin's "dialectics at a standstill" offer one of a number of crucial theoretical pathways to keeping the possibility of a subversive politics alive in the continuing end times in which we live. One of Krimper's aesthetico-political hunches is that the poetics of drifting typical of Baudelaire's Flâneur might not only rupture the work of the crowd (whether capitalist, communist, or fascist), but also resensitize the crowd in ways that would make for an open-ended and plural form of sociality. Dr. Krimper's lecture will revisit the theoretical reception of Melville's short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" by writers ranging from Maurice Blanchot to Giorgio Agamben to the anonymous collective Tiqqun, as well as its political renewal during the events of Occupy Wall Street. It will ask how we can reread this reception now in the wake of Bartleby theory and politics, bringing it into conversation with the slave revolt of another short story by Melville "Benito Cereno." Its aim will be to elucidate the art of refusal in Melville, his techniques of abdication and abolition, enacting a general strike in and through literature that speaks to the urgency of living otherwise in times of distress. -Graduate Seminar: "Nonsovereign: Inoperativity from Battaille to Agamben" Michael Krimper (NYU) Wednesday, March 18th, 11-1pm, 409 Tier -Dying-In Banu Bargu (University of California-Santa Cruz) Thursday, March 19 Time: 11:00AM-1:00PM ZOOM RSVP for Dr. Banu Bargu's Zoom Lecture "Dying-In" and/or Graduate Student Seminar - Fill out form<https://forms.office.com/r/ByZVNvm6jQ> Dr. Bargu's lecture concentrates on the intersection between climate protest and what she calls corporeal agency, a kind of truth telling, that risks or sacrifices the singular body for the common good. The lecture will build on the work of Dr. Bargu's 2024 book Disembodiment: Corporeal Politics of Radical Refusal (Oxford UP). 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- CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Research Clusters, Research Affiliates, and Graduate Fellow 2026-2027
by Jorge Nallim 09 Mar '26

09 Mar '26

The UMIH is very glad to announce its annual call for Research Clusters, Research Affiliates, and Graduate Fellow for the 2026-2027 academic year. The deadline for applications is Thursday, April 30. Please see the attached files with information and circulate them widely in your networks. If you any have further questions, please reach out to me. Best, 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- March 9-March 13
by Jorge Nallim 09 Mar '26

09 Mar '26

Dear friends of the UMIH, Here you have a reminder of the Institute for the Humanities’ events for this week: Join us today for, “Anne Carson’s NOX: Playing with a “Hopeful Monster” and Its Variants” UMIH Grad Fellow Virginia Page Jähne Date: Monday, March 9, 2:30pm, 307 Tier or Zoom at https://umanitoba.zoom.us/j/67309190833?pwd=dXxV9bHMTH8ueWXGik82Zr9bcagVib.1 This research presentation engages with NOX, Anne Carson’s epitaph for her brother, as an “un-kindle-able” hopeful monster. It develops this idea through a detailed bibliographic study of the work, situating it within a post-digital ecology as personal archive, ur-text cahier, elegiac literature, anti-codex book-object, Oulipian and neo-Fluxus gesture, and public performance. In conversation with Eleanor Wachtel, Anne Carson notes, “I loved making that book despite the context… mechanically, physically, it was just a joy.” Carson’s description of making frames NOX as a space where play is not unserious, joy coexists with grief, and constraint is generative. Virginia Page Jähne is an award-winning Winnipeg writer, playwright, and doctoral candidate in the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at the University of Manitoba. She is the founder and president of the UM Cicero Club, an organization supporting older adult students pursuing university degrees. She holds a BA(Hon) in Theatre from the University of Winnipeg, where she received the Gold Medal in Theatre. Her MA thesis, The Far-off Edge of Things, won the Robert Kroetsch Award for Best Creative Thesis and placed second for the Playwrights Guild of Canada’s Tom Hendry Award. She is also a past recipient of the C.D. Howe Award in Creative Writing from the Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture. Before academia, she was a rug weaver, soap-maker, and Celtic musician (the bronze branch) And then, Abolitionist Intimacies with El Jones. Poetry, Storytelling, and Art Make. El Jones (Mount Saint Vincent University) March 13th, 12:30-2pm, 307 Tier Dr. El Jones, assistant professor of Politics and Canadian Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University and author of Abolitionist Intimacies (Fernwood, 2022), will share her poetry and stories of abolitionist organizing while participants engage in crafting, as together we imagine a world without prisons. Free and open to the public. Craft supplies and refreshments provided. This event is organized by the UMIH Prairie Abolition Research Cluster - 1st Annual Dr David Pentland Lectureship in Linguistics “From the Shoulders of Giants to the Local Community: The case of Menominee Comparatives” Monica Macauley (University of Wisconsin Madison) Date: March 13, 2:30-4pm, 204 University College This presentation explores ways in which the job of a linguist working with an Indigenous language has and has not changed over the last several decades. Specifically, I look at the task of documenting and analyzing data in Menominee, something I could never have begun to do without the significant amount and quality of work done by linguists stretching back well over a century. But then I look to the future and consider a job most of us are also presently undertaking: how that knowledge can be put to use in a community’s language revitalization work. Finally, a reminder of the deadline for the call for papers for the, Prairie Conference: Ukrainian Studies in Times of Global Transformations of the Humanities University of Manitoba, April 30 - May 3, 2026, Call for papers deadline: Tuesday, March 10, 2026 The Prairie Conference seeks to examine how Ukrainian studies and studies of the Global East can contribute to new approaches in cross-disciplinary and cross-area research and education. The event will bring scholars of Ukraine and the Global East into conversation with scholars, educators, and curators working on Canada, Africa, Latin America, and Asia. It will explore how scholars can draw on different theoretical frameworks (e.g., world-systems analysis, settler colonialism, neocolonialism, coloniality, decoloniality, inter-imperiality, creolization) and approaches from fields such as Indigenous studies, gender studies, peace and conflict studies, and environmental studies to develop new forms of cross-regional research and teaching. The conference also aims to advance decolonizing approaches in pedagogies through a student-centered education. Undergraduate and graduate students will play an active role in planning and shaping the event, and a student-led panel, along with student presentations in other panels, will provide a visible platform for their research and perspectives. For more information on the conference, please visit our website of contact Dr. Oksana Dudko, oksana.dudko(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:Carmela.Cianflone@umanitoba.ca> For next week, mark your agendas for three events organized by Mosaic and supported by the UMIH: - Literature’s Strike: Melville, Bartleby Theory, and Benito Cereno Michael Krimper (NYU) Tuesday, March 17th, 7-8:30pm, Cross Common Room, St. John’s College Michael Krimper's work on inoperativity, désoeuvré, idleness, and the correspondences between Georges Bataille's notion of "unemployed negativity" and Walter Benjamin's "dialectics at a standstill" offer one of a number of crucial theoretical pathways to keeping the possibility of a subversive politics alive in the continuing end times in which we live. One of Krimper's aesthetico-political hunches is that the poetics of drifting typical of Baudelaire's Flâneur might not only rupture the work of the crowd (whether capitalist, communist, or fascist), but also resensitize the crowd in ways that would make for an open-ended and plural form of sociality. Dr. Krimper’s lecture will revisit the theoretical reception of Melville’s short story “Bartleby, the Scrivener” by writers ranging from Maurice Blanchot to Giorgio Agamben to the anonymous collective Tiqqun, as well as its political renewal during the events of Occupy Wall Street. It will ask how we can reread this reception now in the wake of Bartleby theory and politics, bringing it into conversation with the slave revolt of another short story by Melville “Benito Cereno.” Its aim will be to elucidate the art of refusal in Melville, his techniques of abdication and abolition, enacting a general strike in and through literature that speaks to the urgency of living otherwise in times of distress. -Graduate Seminar: “Nonsovereign: Inoperativity from Battaille to Agamben” Michael Krimper (NYU) Wednesday, March 18th, 11-1pm, 409 Tier -Dying-In Banu Bargu (University of California-Santa Cruz) Thursday, March 19 Time: 11:00AM-1:00PM ZOOM RSVP for Dr. Banu Bargu's Zoom Lecture "Dying-In" and/or Graduate Student Seminar – Fill out form<https://forms.office.com/r/ByZVNvm6jQ> Dr. Bargu’s lecture concentrates on the intersection between climate protest and what she calls corporeal agency, a kind of truth telling, that risks or sacrifices the singular body for the common good. The lecture will build on the work of Dr. Bargu’s 2024 book Disembodiment: Corporeal Politics of Radical Refusal (Oxford UP). Dr. Bargu’s presentation is organized by Mosaic and supported by the UMIH 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 Mar '26

02 Mar '26

Dear friends of the UMIH, As we move to a new month, a gently reminder of the Institute’s events for this week: -Photography and Diaspora: Orphaned Memory Mariya Shymchyshyn, UMIH Research Affiliate Wednesday, March 4th, 3:30pm, 409 Tier The presentation examines photography as a privileged site of diasporic epistemic uncertainty. It will first explain that diasporic subjects often inherit visual archives without inheriting narrative authority. Family photographs from the “old country” resurface only after the death of the parental generation, leaving the next generation with material evidence but without interpretive guardians. The presentation then will turn to Ghosts in a Photograph by Myrna Kostash, which offers a distinct reorientation of diasporic photography. Rather than focusing on epistemic suspension, Kostash mobilizes photographs as archival triggers for historical reconstruction. Through what is described as photographic familial autofiction, staged portraits and inherited images become entry points into broader Ukrainian and Ukrainian Canadian histories. Mariya Shymchyshyn is the Department of Literary Theory and World Literature Chair at Kyiv National Linguistics University in Ukraine. Her current research explores the lives of objects - how things travel, transform, and take on meaning in Ukrainian Canadian literature. She is a visiting professor at the University of Manitoba, where she also holds a UMIH Research Affiliate position. -Unnatural mothers: motherhood and nature in Venezuelan cinema Omar Rodriguez, University of Lethbridge Thursday, March 5, 2:30pm, 409 Tier Are all women “natural” mothers? Is nature a protective, nurturing force? Can a relative, a stranger or a community assume the role of a mother? Join us for a discussion of these questions through Venezuelan cinema. From the stark black-and-white landscapes of Araya (1958) to the excesses of melodrama in El pez que fuma (1977), to contemporary films such as La distancia más larga (2015), we explore how cinema reimagines, subverts and at times reinforces the conception of mothering and the trope of Mother Nature. Omar Rodríguez is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Lethbridge’s Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics. He specializes on Latin American and Venezuelan cinema. He is the co-editor with María Soledad Paz of Politics of Children in Latin America (Lexington Books, 2019) and the author of The Melodramatic Nation: Novel, Soap Opera and the National imaginary in Venezuela (published in Spanish, Caracas: Fedeupel, 2009) -Panel: Old and New Challenges: Latin America and US Renewed Hegemonic Interventionism Participants: Anamary Linares Maqueira (University of Manitoba/Economics), Omar Rodríguez (University of Lethbridge), Wilder Robles (Brandon University), and Jorge A. Nállim (University of Manitoba/UMIH and History) Friday, March 6, 12pm, 409 Tier Over the last year, the United States has disrupted the global postwar political and economic structures in different and profound ways. This development is particularly clear in the case of Latin America. From tariffs to direct intervention in Venezuela, the US is once again affecting Latin American countries as they confront the new reality. This panel will discuss the broader context of US policies in the region, the real and potential impact in countries like Venezuela, Cuba, and Brazil, and how they are responding to the new context. And for next week, mark your agendas for the following events: “Anne Carson’s NOX: Playing with a “Hopeful Monster” and Its Variants” UMIH Grad Fellow Virginia Page Jähne Date: Monday, March 9, 2:30pm, 307 Tier This research presentation engages with NOX, Anne Carson’s epitaph for her brother, as an “un-kindle-able” hopeful monster. It develops this idea through a detailed bibliographic study of the work, situating it within a post-digital ecology as personal archive, ur-text cahier, elegiac literature, anti-codex book-object, Oulipian and neo-Fluxus gesture, and public performance. In conversation with Eleanor Wachtel, Anne Carson notes, “I loved making that book despite the context… mechanically, physically, it was just a joy.” Carson’s description of making frames NOX as a space where play is not unserious, joy coexists with grief, and constraint is generative. Virginia Page Jähne is an award-winning Winnipeg writer, playwright, and doctoral candidate in the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at the University of Manitoba. She is the founder and president of the UM Cicero Club, an organization supporting older adult students pursuing university degrees. She holds a BA(Hon) in Theatre from the University of Winnipeg, where she received the Gold Medal in Theatre. Her MA thesis, The Far-off Edge of Things, won the Robert Kroetsch Award for Best Creative Thesis and placed second for the Playwrights Guild of Canada’s Tom Hendry Award. She is also a past recipient of the C.D. Howe Award in Creative Writing from the Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture. Before academia, she was a rug weaver, soap-maker, and Celtic musician (the bronze branch) - 1st Annual Dr David Pentland Lectureship in Linguistics “From the Shoulders of Giants to the Local Community: The case of Menominee Comparatives” Monica Macauley (University of Wisconsin Madison) Date: March 13, 2:30-4pm, 204 University College This presentation explores ways in which the job of a linguist working with an Indigenous language has and has not changed over the last several decades. Specifically, I look at the task of documenting and analyzing data in Menominee, something I could never have begun to do without the significant amount and quality of work done by linguists stretching back well over a century. But then I look to the future and consider a job most of us are also presently undertaking: how that knowledge can be put to use in a community’s language revitalization work. Finally, a reminder of the call for papers for the, Prairie Conference: Ukrainian Studies in Times of Global Transformations of the Humanities University of Manitoba, April 30 - May 3, 2026, Call for papers deadline: Tuesday, March 10, 2026 The Prairie Conference seeks to examine how Ukrainian studies and studies of the Global East can contribute to new approaches in cross-disciplinary and cross-area research and education. The event will bring scholars of Ukraine and the Global East into conversation with scholars, educators, and curators working on Canada, Africa, Latin America, and Asia. It will explore how scholars can draw on different theoretical frameworks (e.g., world-systems analysis, settler colonialism, neocolonialism, coloniality, decoloniality, inter-imperiality, creolization) and approaches from fields such as Indigenous studies, gender studies, peace and conflict studies, and environmental studies to develop new forms of cross-regional research and teaching. The conference also aims to advance decolonizing approaches in pedagogies through a student-centered education. Undergraduate and graduate students will play an active role in planning and shaping the event, and a student-led panel, along with student presentations in other panels, will provide a visible platform for their research and perspectives. For more information on the conference, please visit our website of contact Dr. Oksana Dudko, oksana.dudko(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:Carmela.Cianflone@umanitoba.ca> 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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