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@umanitoba.camailto: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-cari...