Dear friends of the UMIH,
As we head toward the Fall term break, please join us this week for these exciting events:
- "Sport Activism and Social Justice. A Conversation with Olympians Gabriella Papadakis and Kaitlyn Weaver." Tina Chen (Vice-Provost, Equity) and Doug Brown (Den, Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management) host a panel discussion on gender, queer identities and leading change in figure skating with Olympic Champion and 5x World Champion Papadakis and 3x World Medalist Weaver.
-Date: Tuesday, November 4th, 2:30-3:45 220 Active Living Centre.
Also, join us for Queer Community Skate. UM 2SLGBTQIA+ staff, students and faculty are invited to join Papadakis and Weaver for a community skate.
Date: Nov. 6, 2:30-3:30 pm, Wayne Fleming Arena, Max Bell Centre, Fort Garry campus
The panel and the community skate are sponsored by the Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management, the Office of Equity Transformation, UM Creative Works Grant, and the UM Institute for the Humanities
-History Colloquium, book presentation and discussion, Empire of Purity: The History of Americans' Global War on Prostitution
Eva Payne (University of Mississippi)
Date: Friday, November 7th, 2:30-4pm, 111 St. John's College (Quiet Room)
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of History, the Asian Studies Program, the Centre for Human Rights Research, the Institute for the Humanities, and the Faculty of Arts.
After the break, we will have several events, including the symposium The Great Overlooked - Prof. Leonid Biletskyi as Teacher and Scholar; honoring the influential Ukrainian literary scholar, educator, and cultural leader whose work in Winnipeg left a lasting legacy. This one-day, mixed-format symposium will be held on November 18th, 409 Tier, beginning at noon and with the keynote address delivered via Zoom at 2:30pm by Prof. Rostyslav Radyshevskyi (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv). The full program will be soon circulated.
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
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...