Dear friends of the UMIH,

While we settle in the quiet rhythm of reading week, I would like to call your attention to the exciting list of events that the UMIH is organizing or co-sponsoring for this and the next week.

 

First ,a reminder about our event today:

 

-Writing Workshop

 

“Mapping Our Grief”

Jodie Schoenbeck (Student Support Case Manager)

 

Tuesday, Nov. 10  

1-3pm

409 Tier

 

Grief mapping provides space to process and contain our experiences of loss. The workshop invites participants to choose a lived experience of grief and create a visual map. The creative process will allow participants to engage where they are comfortable, whether through imagination or through locating events in a time and place. The workshop is a starting point:  Participants can take what they make in the workshop and continue to develop the grief map on their own or use it as inspiration for writing. Examples of grief maps will be provided within the workshop.

This event is organized by the UMIH Research Cluster Poetry, Grief and Mourning

 

 

And next week, we have a very busy line up of events:

 

 

-Panel

White supremacy in global contexts: Understanding histories and resistance

 

Monday, November 16
2:00 - 3:45 p.m.
MPR, 100 Innovation Drive, Smartpark Innovation Hub

 

Panelists:

 

-Ben Baader

-Sean Carleton

-Tina Chen

-Roisin Cossar

-Jorge Nállim

 

Concluding remarks: Jordan Howell

 

Moderator: Sarah Elvins

White supremacy is not confined to one country, historical period or form of political organizing.  The ideology of White Supremacy has shaped societies and institutions around the world, taking different forms across geographic, political and historical contexts.

On Monday, Nov. 16, members of the University of Manitoba community are invited to learn about these histories and their continuing impact at a panel discussion featuring scholars from UM’s Department of History.

“White Supremacy in Global Contexts: Histories, Political Organizing, Resistance” will examine how racial ideologies have developed, been organized and challenged around the world, offering historical context for understanding racism and anti-racist resistance today.

For more information, please visit https://umtoday.ca/stories/white-supremacy-global-contexts-understanding-histories-and-resistance

This event, organized by the Office of the Vice-Provost (Equity), is supported by the Department of History and the UMIH.

-Guest speaker

 

Robert Zacharias (York University) 

 

“After Multiculturalism: Faith and/as Ethnicity in Mennonite Writing in Canada”

 

Wednesday, November 18th  

409 Tier, 2:30 pm 

Light refreshments will be served

 

This presentation explores Mennonite writing as a case study in the impact of multiculturalism on Canadian literary studies. Tracing the contested establishment of Mennonite writing as an “ethnic” literature in the late twentieth century, it considers the field’s complicated position within what scholars have called the “after-multicultural era” of Canadian literature—and reflects on its possible futures in a time of resurgent nationalism.

 

Robert Zacharias is an Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of English at York University in Toronto. His publications include Rewriting the Break Event: Mennonites and Migration in Canadian Literature (2013) and Reading Mennonite Writing: A Study in Minor Transnationalism (2022). His edited volumes include After Identity: Mennonite Writing in North America (2015) and In Search of a Mennonite Imagination: Key Texts in Mennonite Literary Criticism (2025).

 

This event is organized by the Department of Religion and Culture and supported by the UMIH

 

-Book discussion

North End Love Songs (The Muses’ Company, 2012), by Katherena Vermette

 

Thursday, Nov. 19th  

1-2 pm 

307 Tier Building

 

Coffee and light refreshments will be served

Red River Métis poet, novelist, and filmmaker Katherena Vermette’s North End Love Songs is her debut poetry collection, and it won the 2013 Governor General’s Award for poetry and The Lina Chartrand Award for Activism in Poetry. The poems represent a loving, careful way of exploring poverty and Indigenous identity in Winnipeg’s north end. Many of the poems deal with birds, trees, and girlhood, but the collection takes a dark turn when they start to detail her brother’s disappearance and the subsequent issues her family faced with local police and media in their quest for justice.

Print versions of North End Love Songs are available through the Winnipeg Public.

This event, organized by the UMIH Research Cluster Poetry, Grief, and Mourning, is free and open to public and the general university community.

 

 

-Panel

Queer and Trans Approaches to Science Fiction and Fantasy

 

Friday, November 20th  

2:30 –4 pm (Manitoba Time)

627 Tier and online via Zoom (link below)

 

Presenters:

Dr. Evie Johnny Ruddy, Creative Technologies and Design, University of Regina

Dr. Hee-Jung Serenity Joo, English, Theatre, Film & Media, University of Manitoba

Dr. Megan Perram, Department of English and Creative Writing, Campion College, University of Regina

Dr. Nicole Goulet, Department of Religion and Culture, University of Manitoba

Moderator: Dr. Erin Keating, English, Theatre, Film & Media, University of Manitoba

Zoom meeting:

https://umanitoba.zoom.us/j/62913539426?pwd=pVolGTzJZDhfEpSU8BY4UHMyACaMtM.1

Meeting ID: 629 1353 9426

Passcode: 166459

All are welcome. Coffee and light refreshments will be served.

This event is organized by the UMIH Research Cluster Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy.

 

 

Finally, do not forget to visit our website (in process of being updated) to read our last short  and long blogs, and follow us in Instagram, umih@umanitoba.ca

 

Jorge A. Nállim

Professor, Department of History

Director, Institute for the Humanities

405 Fletcher Argue Bldg.

University of Manitoba

Winnipeg, MB R3T 5V5

jorge.nallim@umanitoba.ca

https://umanitoba.ca/arts/jorge-nallim