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.
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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
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,