Dear Friends of the Humanities,
Here is your holiday run-down of events. For more details, please see attached.
Sunday 10 December & Thursday 14 December
8:30-5:30 at the Inn at the Forks
Write-on-Site for Arts Graduate Students/Upper-level undergraduates
Katelyn Dykstra, PhD Candidate in the Department of English, Film, and Theatre, has, with the help of the Faculty of Arts Endowment Fund, organized two full-day Write-on-Sites for graduate students and upper-level undergraduates in Arts to help them reach their writing goals at the end of this term.
The dates for these mini-retreats are as above. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. Please inform interested students to email k.dykstra@umanitoba.camailto:k.dykstra@umanitoba.ca ASAP. They must have signed up by this coming Thursday, December 7th. Space is limited.
Monday 11 December
5:15 pm, The Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Juan Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History, University of Michigan, “Being Young, Being Arab, in an Age of Revolutions: Arab Youth Politics Since the 2011 Uprisings”
Thursday 14 December
2:00 pm, 409 Tier Building
Panel Discussion, “Ubering the City: Understanding the Changes to Transportation in Winnipeg”
Panelists include:
Joe Kornelsen - Public transit advocate
Lea Baturin - Former member of the Winnipeg Taxicab Board
Paul Moist - Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
David Camfield - Associate Professor of Labour Studies & Sociology
Adolf Ng - Director, University of Manitoba Transport Institute
Scott McFadyen - Spokesperson for the Winnipeg Community Taxi Coalition
Sheri Gibbings, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Paul Jenkins, PhD
Program Developer/Coordinator & Assistant to the Director
Institute for the Humanities &
Instructor, Dept. of History
University of Manitoba
407 Tier Building
204 474 9599
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