Dear friends of the UMIH,
As we head toward the Fall term break, please join us this week for these exciting events:
-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
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,