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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(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:umih@ad.umanitoba.ca>
umanitoba.ca/institutes/humanities<http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/humanities>
Dear Friends of the hUManities,
As many of you already know, Winnipeg's City Council is set to vote on new vehicle-for-hire regulations tomorrow. Please join us on Thursday for a public panel discussion of how this will impact the culture of work, public safety, and the future of transportation in Winnipeg. Please see below for details. All welcome.
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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(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:umih@ad.umanitoba.ca>
umanitoba.ca/institutes/humanities<http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/humanities>
Dear Friends of the Humanities,
Here is your holiday run-down of events. For more details, please see attached.
Sunday 10 December & Thursday 14 December
8:30-5:30 at the Inn at the Forks
Write-on-Site for Arts Graduate Students/Upper-level undergraduates
Katelyn Dykstra, PhD Candidate in the Department of English, Film, and Theatre, has, with the help of the Faculty of Arts Endowment Fund, organized two full-day Write-on-Sites for graduate students and upper-level undergraduates in Arts to help them reach their writing goals at the end of this term.
The dates for these mini-retreats are as above. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. Please inform interested students to email k.dykstra(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:k.dykstra@umanitoba.ca> ASAP. They must have signed up by this coming Thursday, December 7th. Space is limited.
Monday 11 December
5:15 pm, The Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Juan Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History, University of Michigan, “Being Young, Being Arab, in an Age of Revolutions: Arab Youth Politics Since the 2011 Uprisings”
Thursday 14 December
2:00 pm, 409 Tier Building
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
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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(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:umih@ad.umanitoba.ca>
umanitoba.ca/institutes/humanities<http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/humanities>
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(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:umih@ad.umanitoba.ca>
umanitoba.ca/institutes/humanities<http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/humanities>
Dear friends of the Humanities,
Below is a supplementary rundown of what is coming up. Additional details are to be found in the attached.
Tomorrow, Thursday November 23
2:30 pm in 409 Tier
Chris Frank, “Fair And Reasonable Having Regard to all Circumstances of the Case: Female Factory Inspectors, Sweated Workers, and the Struggle Against Workplace Fines and Deductions
Thursday December 14
2:00 pm in 409 Tier
A public roundtable discussion, Ubering The City: Understanding the Changes to Transportation in Winnipeg
CALL FOR PAPERS
1919 Winnipeg General Strike Centenary Conference—For more details, please see attached or visit http://1919-2019.com
Paul Jenkins, PhD
Instructor, Department of History, &
Program Developer/Coordinator & Assistant to the Director
Institute for the Humanities,
University of Manitoba
