Dear friends of the UMIH, I want to remind of today's event supported by the UMIH:

-Book Launch, Black Market Intimacies. The Transpacific Sexual Economy of the Korean War, with Dr. Jeongmin Kim, Department of History Wednesday, October 7 1-3pm Senior Common Room, 239 St. John's College

Black Market Intimacies (Stanford University Press, 2026) reveals how illicit exchanges of money and commodities involving sexual encounters between Korean and Japanese women and US soldiers provided the material foundations of the regional economy across Korea and Japan during the Korean War. Against the conventional view that illicit exchanges exist outside the formal economy and legal regulations, Jeongmin Kim examines how the interlinked markets for transactional sex and goods crucially constituted the transpacific formation of US military base capitalism in post-World War II East Asia This event is supported by the Centre for Human Rights Research, the Department of History, the Faculty of Arts, and the Institute for the Humanities

Also, and as we are going to enter the most active period of UMIH programming, mark your calendars for these next events:

-Book Club: What Fills Your House Like Smoke by E. McGregor Discussion facilitated by Dr. Jamie Paris (Instructor, Dept of English, Theatre, Film & Media)

Tuesday, Oct 13 1-2pm 409 Tier Building

In this session, we will discuss E. McGregor's What Fills Your House Like Smoke, published in 2024 by Thistledown Press and a finalist at this year's Manitoba Book Awards for the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. While this is McGregor's first volume of poetry, she has published in numerous poetry magazines. Her poem "A Eulogy" was included in Best Canadian Poetry, 2024.

What Fills Your House Like Smoke is available through the Winnipeg Public Library in both digital and print versions.

This event is organized by the UMIH Research Cluster Poetry, Grief, and Mourning, and it is the first in a series of poetry talks, writing workshops, and a book club this Fall and Winter

-Poetry Talk & Writing Workshop Dr. Christine Stewart-Nuñez (Professor, Women's and Gender Studies)

Wednesday, Oct 21, 6-8pm* Jake Epp Library, 255 Elmdale St., Steinbach

Please note: registration is required for this event: https://jakeepplibrary.com/event/adult-creative-writers-4/

* This poetry talk & workshop, supported by the UMIH Research Cluster Poetry, Grief, and Mourning, is funded through UofM Community Engagement.

-Film screening and discussion

War Came to My Home (Canada, 2026, 16 min.) Marusya Bociurkiw (dir.)

Thursday, October 22nd 2:30pm 409 Tier

War Came to My Home is set in an undisclosed location in Lviv, Ukraine, where approximately twenty women gather to weave camouflage nets for the Ukrainian army. What first appears to be a peaceful craft workshop gradually reveals itself as a space shaped by war, volunteering, solidarity, and everyday resistance. Structured to evoke the rhythm of a long afternoon, the film gradually reveals the women's individual reasons for being there and offers an intimate perspective on how the Russia-Ukraine war enters domestic, communal, and emotional life.

Marusya Bociurkiw is an award-winning Ukrainian Canadian filmmaker, writer, media scholar, and Professor Emeritus at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her scholarly and creative work brings together feminist and queer archives, media activism, migration, social justice, documentary filmmaking, cultural memory, and questions of belonging and displacement.

After the screening of the film, there will be a discussion with its director, Dr. Bocirkiw, moderated by Dr. Mariya Shymchyshyn (UMIH Research Affiliate)

This event, organized by the UMIH, counts on the generous support of the Departments of English, Theatre, Film, and Media, and German and Slavic Studies, and it is part of Central and East European Lecture Series.

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