Dear Friends of the Humanities,

Happy New Year. Here is your weekly run-down of upcoming events and other news

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"https://www.facebook.com/beyondcrisis/ organized by Jennifer Dueck, Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in the Modern History of the Middle East and North Africa, University of Manitoba.

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

For more details, please visit: http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/humanities/ or

https://umhumanities.wordpress.com/

Call for Papers – The 1919 Winnipeg General Strike Centenary Conference

Due date: February 28, 2018. For details, please visit: http://1919-2019.com

Paul Jenkins, PhD Instructor, Department of History, & Program Developer/Coordinator & Assistant to the Director Institute for the Humanities, University of Manitoba