institute for the humanities News Archive

December 2, 2024 — 
The Office of Equity Transformation introduces the Public Classroom Initiative, an extension of the Listening, Learning, Leading series, designed to foster informed dialogue and deepen understanding of contemporary issues within the UM community.

January 17, 2020 — 
One explores the traditional Anishinaabek lifeways in the context of art and Residential School, and the other examines Indigenous resurgence within cities. 

September 26, 2019 — 
Sara Ahmed, a feminist writer and independent scholar who works at the intersection of feminist, queer and race studies, will deliver a free public lecture on Oct. 2.

January 29, 2019 — 
Winnipeg-based performance artists, Shawna Dempsey & Lorri Millan, hippety-hop through grand questions of time, space, science and aesthetics, asking “what is more important than wonder?”. The University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities helps to bring the explorative performance to Winnipeg audiences.

October 29, 2018 — 
Celebrate all things Frankenstein at UM on October 31

September 6, 2018 — 
Hee-Jung Serenity Joo has been named Director of the University of Manitoba Institute of the Humanities (UMIH).

December 7, 2017 — 
There are few people who were children in the late 1990s and early 2000s who grew up without Harry Potter. A new panel has explored this tradition of two decades.

November 9, 2017 — 
In late October the University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities brought Maren Wood and Jennifer Polk of Beyond the Professoriate to campus to deliver a series of workshops entitled “PhDs That Work: Finding Success in an Uncertain Job Market.”

February 1, 2017 — 
Maggie Berg and Barbara K Seeber, authors of The Slow Professor, visited our campus last week for discussion of their recent book.

January 25, 2017 — 
New research at the UMIH colloquium series provides new ways of accessing and understanding music's importance.