Dear friends of the humanities,

 

Here is your weekly rundown of news and events.

 

Thursday, January 25, 2018 – Arts of Conversation series resumes

2:30 pm, 409 Tier Building

Moholy-Nagy and Media: Theory and Practice

A panel discussion featuring:

     Oliver A.I. Botar, School of Art

     Eduardo Aquino, Faculty of Architecture

     Lancelot Coar, Faculty of Architecture

     Monika Vracar, Independent Scholar, former UMIH Affiliate

 

Thursday, January 25, 2018

7:00 pm, McNally Robinson Booksellers.

“The Making of Modern Syria”, a public talk by Daniel Neep, Assistant Professor of Arab politics in the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University

Dr. Neep's public talk is part of the event series "Beyond Crisis: The Middle East, Past, Present, Future" organized by Jennifer Dueck, Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in the Modern History of the Middle East and North Africa, University of Manitoba.

 

Friday, January 26, 2018

2:30 pm, 210 Helen Glass Bldg.

“Working with and for Indigenous communities in Colombia: ongoing process, ongoing questions”

Gabriel Nemogá, University of Winnipeg

 

Dr. Nemogá’s presentation and discussion, opened to any interested person, will be based on a short text available upon request, please send a message to jorge.nallim@umanitoba.ca

 

Monday, January 29, 2018

2:30 pm, 409 Tier Building

“Leigh Hunt, Rebooted: Textual Editing and Digital Humanities”

Michael E. Sinatra, Université de Montréal

 

UMIH 2018-19 Call for Research Affiliate, Research Clusters, and Graduate Fellowship applications is now open.

 

Call for Papers – The 1919 Winnipeg General Strike Centenary Conference

Due date: February 28, 2018.