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UM Press launches two books exploring the Indigenous experience

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. 

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Free public lecture ‘Closing the Door: Complaint as Diversity Work’

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.

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Performance Artist Shawna Dempsey

Faculty of Arts

Working with Wonder

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.

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Frankenstein reading a novel

Faculty of Arts

Halloween is for Frankenreads

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

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Hee-Jung Serenity Joo, Director, UMIH stands outside the Tier Building

Faculty of Arts

Joo named UMIH Director

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

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Harry Potter books formed an important part of many childhoods

Faculty of Arts

Two decades of Harry Potter

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.

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Faculty of Arts

PhDs That Work—Beyond the Professoriate

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.”

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A full audience at the Institute for the Humanities

Faculty of Arts

A Leisurely Chat with a Couple of “Slow Professors”

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.

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Faculty of Arts

Musical Encounters

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

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