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.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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