Dear friends of the UMIH,
I want to remind of the incoming two events organized/sponsor by the UMIH next Monday and Tuesday
(see attached posters, please circulate them):
-“Silence, Loss, Love, and the Lone Voice: the Poetry of Grief “
Neil Besner (Professor Emeritus, UW)
Tuesday, October 6th
1pm
409 Tier Building
Poems writing loss depend upon invoking language within the chime of silence. Often, the silence is as eloquent as the language it begets: the voice of a grieving poem echoes within this dual vocation,
which merges in a singular longing tone. A grieving poem bestows upon its readers its loving regret; as points of departure, let's begin by thinking about how Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art" and William Carlos Williams's "Danse Russe" commemorate as they celebrate
related loneliness and loss.
This event is organized by the UMIH Research Cluster Poetry, Grief, and Mourning. It is the first in a series of poetry
talks, writing workshops, and a book club this Fall and Winter. The series is based on the idea that reading and writing can be meaningful practices for individuals grieving the loss of a person, place, or
something else that is fundamental to the individual or community’s life. Through poetry talks and a book club, we will hear from and interact with established poets and scholars. Through hands-on workshops, we will deepen our own poetic writing skills. All
activities in the series are open to UofM students, staff, faculty members, and members of the wider community
-Book Launch, Black Market Intimacies. The Transpacific Sexual Economy of the Korean War, with Dr. Jeongmin Kim, Department of History
Wednesday, October 7
1-3pm
Senior Common Room, 239 St. John’s College
Black Market Intimacies (Stanford University Press, 2026) reveals how illicit exchanges of money and commodities involving sexual encounters between Korean and Japanese women and US soldiers provided the material foundations of the
regional economy across Korea and Japan during the Korean War. Against the conventional view that illicit exchanges exist outside the formal economy and legal regulations, Jeongmin Kim examines how the interlinked markets for transactional sex and goods crucially
constituted the transpacific formation of US military base
capitalism in post-World War II East Asia
This event is supported by the Centre for Human Rights Research, the Department of History, the Faculty of Arts, and the Institute for the Humanities
Jorge A. Nállim
Professor, Department of History
Director, Institute for the Humanities
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,