Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media News Archive
![J. M. W. Turner's representation of the mass murder of slaves, inspired by the Zong killings](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Slave-ship-150x150.jpg)
Professor finds and publishes lost 233-year-old letter condemning slave massacre
July 14, 2016 —
For 233 years the true sentiments of Britain's leading abolitionist were lost, until a University of Manitoba professor accidentally came across them in the British Library
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Free Press: Grim financial world grist for Hollywood’s mill
June 23, 2016 —
English, Theatre and Film department head, Brenda Austin-Smith analyses the rise of financial corruption in film
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Faculty of Law
The Idea of a Human Rights Museum shortlisted for Manitoba Book Award
April 29, 2016 —
A book co-authored by professors Karen Busby (Law), Adam Muller (English, Film and Theatre) and Andrew Woolford (Sociology) is up for a Manitoba Book Award.
![The cast of Doubtful House rehearses a scene at the John J. Conklin Theatre.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Doubtful_House-150x150.jpg)
Playwright Ian Ross debuts new work for theatre’s grand opening
March 9, 2016 —
Alumnus Ian Ross creates play for unveiling of 'world-class stage'
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Big show about small town life
January 20, 2016 —
The Black Hole Theatre Company presents Middletown from January 26 through to February 6, 2016. The play is about growing up in a place that never changes; where everyone knows each other but you still feel miles apart. It’s about stories and how these stories connect even if we never realize it.
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JEANNE RANDOLPH one of Canada’s foremost cultural theorists – Writer in Residence Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture
January 13, 2016 —
CCWOC Writer in Residence Dr. Jeanne Randolph
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Faculty of Arts
Black Hole theatre Company Presents Middletown by Will Eno, directed by George Toles
January 12, 2016 —
Middletown premiere performance for the Black Hole Theatre Company in redesigned theatre within historic Tache Hall.
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Reflections on the Syrian refugee crisis
December 10, 2015 —
'My point is that when looking abroad for good works to do and causes to champion, Canadians must do more than see just Syrian refugees'
![2015 Vanier Scholars (l to r) Ifeanyi Nwachukwu, Jonathan Challis, Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba and Michael Becker](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Vanier-2015-Group-150x150.jpg)
Faculty of Graduate Studies
Four more to be reckoned with
November 25, 2015 —
New Vanier Scholars receiving major grants to study subjects as varied as nutritional foods, crop disease, pollution and genocide