Good afternoon everyone,

I hope your week is off to an excellent start! Here are a few UMIH-related events to draw your attention to:

The first is a reminder that this coming Wednesday, May 15th, at 7pm at X-cues, UMIH is helping to host a panel discussion to celebrate the publication of Dr. Julie Guard's new book Radical Housewives: Price Wars and Food Politics in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada. The panelists are Dr. Guard (University of Manitoba), Dr. Janis Theissen (University of Winnipeg), and Dr. Rhonda Hinther (Brandon University), moderated by Dr. Deborah McPhail (University of Manitoba). We encourage you all to join us! You can find the poster attached.

The second is this coming Sunday (May 19) at 3:00pm in the Buchwald Room at Millennium Library. There will be a Preview/Launch event for "The Modern Reception of the Medieval Saga of the Sworn Brothers," a special volume of the journal Scandinavian-Canadian Studies, which is about to be published (Volume 26, Spring 2019). Several contributors will be there to discuss topics such as the place of Icelandic literature in world literature and its international influence in Winnipeg and elsewhere. All are welcome to attend - but please note that (for those who may be smuggling exotic animals, for example) there is a security scan at the entrance. Thanks are due to the Icelandic Department and UMIH for their support of the research being presented here, as well a to AASSC who run the journal (scancan.net). Please see the attached poster and venue files for further details.

Warm wishes,