UMIH is pleased to share news of two upcoming events with you:

Playing with Wor(l)ds: A Reflection and Celebration with Writer-in-Residence Dr. Sonja Boon

Monday April 7; 2:30pm; 109 St. John’s College

CCWOC- the Center for Creative Writing and Oral Culture- invites you to attend a final reception celebrating work undertaken during Winter 2025 by Writer-in-Residence Dr. Sonja Boon. Sonja will reflect upon her time at UM, share some of what she accomplished during her writing time, and reveal a quilt made from poetry by participants of the “Dear Alice” workshop. This event is free and open to the UM community and public. No registration required; light refreshments will be served. Please email questions to: ccwoc@umanitoba.camailto:ccwoc@umanitoba.ca

“Hello, Giant: Economic rent, colonialism, and monopoly in Canada”

Friday April 11; 10:00 am; 409 Tier Building

The Critical Environment Research Group invites you to attend a guest lecture by Dr. Shiri Pasternak. Dr. Shiri Pasternak is Associate Professor of Criminology at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is the author of Grounded Authority: The Algonquins of Barriere Lake Against the State (2017), and co-editor of Disarm, Defund, Dismantle: Police Abolition in Canada (2022). Her talk will take us through the resource hinterlands of hard rock northern Ontario mining, Maritime monopoly, the Family Compact, and NWT extraction to show how Canada’s colonial policies carved out a system of economic rent structured on Indigenous dispossession and global networks of capital.

Ekene Maduka

Assistant to the Director

Institute for the Humanities

University of Manitoba

407 Tier Building

204 474 9599

umih@umanitoba.camailto:umih@ad.umanitoba.ca

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