Dear friends of the UMIH,
As we go into reading week, we would like to let you about the exciting events waiting for you when you come back, brought to you by the UMIH and other institutions and programs:
-2025 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize Winner presentation: The Honourable John Norquay: Indigenous Premier, Canadian Statesman, by Dr. Gerald Friesen Monday, November 17, 11:30am-1:00pm, 108 St. John's College (Cross Common Room) Gerald Friesen will be talking about his multi-award-winning book, including the Dafoe Book Prize, "The Honourable John Norquay: Indigenous Premier, Canadian Statesman". The book explores the life and contributions of John Norquay, leader and premier of Manitoba who was once described as Louis Riel's alter ego. Have some lunch with the author and engage in questions and discussion about the book and about a new research tool developed for students of Manitoba politics and history.
This event is sponsored by the J.W. Dafoe Foundation, the Duff Roblin Professor of Government, the University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities, and the Department of Political Science.
-Symposium: The Great Overlooked - Prof. Leonid Biletskyi as Teacher and Scholar Tuesday, November 18th, 12-4:15pm, hybrid format: 409 Tier and Zoom, https://umanitoba.zoom.us/j/61961511998?pwd=gUoTFCabW46bS9QqIbIBlalXZz6pOY.1 his is a one-day symposium honoring Leonid Biletskyi (1882-1955), an influential Ukrainian literary scholar, educator, and cultural leader whose work in Winnipeg left a lasting legacy. This mixed-format symposium will begin at noon and includes presentations from several local and international scholars, with the keynote address delivered via Zoom at 2:30pm by Prof. Rostyslav Radyshevskyi (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv). Please see the symposium's full program in English or Ukrainian (attached) for the list of presenters and topics.
This symposium counts on the support of the Kyiv National Linguistic University (Ukraine), the H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University (Ukraine), the Center for Canadian and Quebec Studies / Centre d'Études Canadiennes et Québécoises, Saarland University (Germany), the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (Manitoba), and "Oseredok" Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre (Winnipeg)
-UMIH Guest Lecture Series: "i-Crimes and Misdemeanours: [Presti]Digit[iz]ation, Analogue Photographs, and their Digital Surrogates" Joan Schwartz (Queen's University) Thursday, November 20th, 335 Isbister, 3:30 pm Under pressure from administrators, funders, and the user-public, institutions strive to make photographs available online as searchable single items. In the process, the relationship between materiality and meaning is easily effaced, and valuable information about the physical and intellectual contexts of creation, circulation, and viewing is sacrificed at the altar of speed, quantity, convenience, and the almighty dollar. This lecture will point to examples of those instances for which institutions can justly be accused of "i-Crimes and Misdemeanours". With a view to balancing access aims and descriptive affordances, it raises the distinction between search and research, call for a broader appreciation of photographs as "working objects in their own time" (Frizot), and advocate for better "best practices" as a way to bring the in-situ experience of analogue photographs and on-screen encounter with their digital surrogates into closer alignment. This event counts on the support of the Department of History.
Black Film Collective- Third Annual Screening Date: November 23rd, The Park Theatre. Door opens at 6, films at 7pm The Black Film Collective celebrates its third year as a local grassroots organization dedicated to the preservation, cultivation and promotion of Black cinematic art form from Prairie Black people.
Organized by the Black Film Collective, this event counts on the support of Creative Manitoba, the Assiniboine Credit Union, IATSE Local 856, the University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities, and the University of Winnipeg Department of Women's and Gender Studies.
Jorge A. Nállim Director, Institute for the Humanities Faculty of Arts Humanities Research 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
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