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  • The Real Thing: Theatre and Film Lecture Series 2011-12 - a series of exciting and informative lectures featuring guest speakers from the "real world" of theatre and film.

    February 15, 2012

    Martine Friesen
    Theatre Officer, "Manitoba Arts Council for Beginners"

    12:30-1:30 PM
    Theatre 1T15 (400 Colony Street)


  • The Department of Theatre and Film presents its production of Howard Barker's The Possibilities.

    February 7-10, 2012 (Tues. Feb. 7 - Fri. Feb. 10 at 8:00 PM and Sat. Feb. 11 at 7:00 PM)

    Asper Centre for Theatre and Film
    400 Colony Street

    For more information, about the production, click here.
     

  • The Department of Anthropology's Visiting Speaker Series in conjunction with the Department of Indigenous Studies Harry Daniels Distinguished Lecture Series present:

    Dr. Julie Pelletier, Indigenous Studies: "And the Easter Bunny Dies." Old Traditions from New Stories: Anishinaabeg Indentity and Storymaking

    January 20, 2012
    12:30-1:30 PM
    Room 3C01

    To go to Dr. Pelletier's bio, click here.


  • The Real Thing: Theatre and Film Lecture Series 2011-12 - a series of exciting and informative lectures featuring guest speakers from the "real world" of theatre and film.

    January 18, 2012

    Kim Rampersad
    Councillor, Winnipeg/Nunavut, "Canadian Actors' Equity Association for Beginners"

    12:30-1:30 PM
    Theatre 1T15 (400 Colony Street)


  • Fiona Joy Green is launching Practicing Feminist Mothering.

    December 4, 2011

    12:30 PM

    McNally Robinson Booksellers in the Atrium
    Grant Park























  • Religion and Culture Colloquium Series:

    November 25, 2011

    Dr. Jack Zupko, Philosophy: "New Approaches to the Problem of Evil"
    12:30-1:30
    Room 2C10


  • The Department of Theatre and Film presents its production of Frank Langella's Cyrano, an adaptation of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano De Bergerac.

    November 22-26, 2011     (Tues. Nov. 22 - Fri. Nov. 25 at 8:00 PM and Sat. Nov. 26 at 7:00 PM)

    Gas Station Arts Centre
    445 River Avenue

    For more information, about the production, including comments from the Chair of the Department of Theatre and Film, click here.


  • Launch of "Maternal Pedagogies: In and Outside the Classroom"

    All faculty and staff are invited the Winnipeg launch of Maternal Pedagogies: In and Outside the Classroom with readings by the three contributors to the book including Acting Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Dr. Fiona Green. 

    November 10, 2011

    6:00 PM
    Room 2M70













    The other contributors are Marlene Pomrenke and Jennifer Watt. This event is free and held in an accessible space. This event is child welcoming and childcare is available.

    Click here to go to photogallery.

 

  • Politics Department's Visiting Lecturer's Series

    November 8, 2011

    The Honourable Stéphane Dion, Member of Parliament for St. Laurent-Cartierville, and former leader of the National Liberal Party will speak on Democratic Reform.

    12:30-1:30 PM
    Convocation Hall

    All are welcome to attend this free lecture.


  • The Departments of Anthropology and Indigenous Studies invite you to attend a lecture by Rudy Reimer, entitled Squamish Indigenous Landscape: Smaylilh (Wild People) and Stelmexw (Humans).

    November 4, 2011

    12:30-1:30 PM
    Room 2M70


  • The Real Thing: Theatre and Film Lecture Series 2011-12 - a series of exciting and informative lectures featuring guest speakers from the "real world" of theatre and film.

    November 2, 2011

    Marina Stevenson Kerr, Chris Sigurdson and Two Guests (TBA)
    Professionalism Panel, "Professional Etiquette for Actors' Equity Association for Beginners"

    12:30-1:30 PM
    Theatre 1T15 (400 Colony Street)


  • Classical Association of Canada, Western Lecture Tour

    October 31, 2011

    Dr. Victoria Wohl (University of Toronto): Living the Law in Democratic Athens

    Pericles' Citizenship Law of 451 BCE defined a citizen as the child of an Athenian father and an Athenian mother. This law thus created a sharp distinction between legitimacy and illegitimacy. But when we look at court cases from Classical Athens, a murkier picture of family life emerges, full of mistresses and prostitutes, bastard children and secret love-affairs . . . .

    2:30 PM
    Room 4C40

    Free and open to the general public.


  • Religion and Culture Colloquium Series:

    October 28, 2011

    Dr. Albert Welter, Religion and Culture/EALC:
    "Four Texts: Narrative and the Quest for Identity in Chan/Zen Buddhism"

    12:30-1:30 PM
    Room 2C10


  • The D.F. Plett Historical Research Foundation and the Chair in Mennonite Studies are co-sponsoring:

    Anti-Modern Pathways: 'Horse and Buggy' Mennonites in Canada, Beliz and Latin America

    October 21 & October 22, 2011
    Convocation Hall

    Click here for the conference program.

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    Conference presenters gather around traditional buggy in front of Wesley Hall on Fri. Oct. 21, 2011



  • The Real Thing: Theatre and Film Lecture Series 2011-12 - a series of exciting and informative lectures featuring guest speakers from the "real world" of theatre and film.

    October 19, 2011

  • Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor: "Solidarity and Diversity in a Secular Age: Managing Belief and Unbelief in the Public Square"

    Wednesday, October 19, 2011
    7:30 PM
    Eckhardt-Grammate Hall

    The event is sponsored by The Knowles-Woodsworth Centre for Theology and Public Policy; The Mouseland Press Speaker Series; The Uniter; and the Department of Politics.

    For more information, please click here.
  • Religion and Culture Colloquium Series:

    "Dakota (Sioux) Dreamers, Healers, and Spiritual Leaders"
    Dr. Mark Ruml, Religion and Culture

    Friday, September 30, 2011
    12:30-1:30 PM
    2C10


  • The Real Thing: Theatre and Film Lecture Series 2011-12 - a series of exciting and informative lectures featuring guest speakers from the "real world" of theatre and film.
    Zena Edwards - London-based performance poet, writer and musician
    Click here for more information about Zena Edwards.

    Wednesday, September 21, 2011
    12:30-1:30 PM
    Theatre 1T15 (400 Colony Street)


  • The Department of Rhetoric, Writing and Communications and the Dean of Arts present Dr. Louise Wetherbee Phelps, Fulbright Specialist and Emeritus Professor, Writing and Rhetoric at Syracuse University and Visiting Scholar of Rhetoric and Writing at Old Dominion University.  Dr. Phelps will give a Distinguished Speaker Lecture Writing Studies at the University of Winnipeg: A Strategic Opportunity.

    Friday, May 27, 2011
    12:00-1:00 PM
    Faculty and Staff Club

    All are welcome.
    Light refreshments will be served.

    For more information, please click here.

  • You are invited to join Drs. Kristen Kramar (Sociolgy Dept.) and Richard Jochelson (Dept. of Criminal Justice) at the launch for their new book Sex and the Supreme Court: Obscenity and Indecency Law in Canada (Fernwood Publishing).

    Thursday, May 19, 2011
    8:00 PM
    Prairie Ink Restaurant in McNally Robinson Booksellers
    1120 Grant Avenue

    For more information about Sex and the Supreme Court: Obscenity and Indecency Law in Canada, please click here.



  • Faculty and Staff are asked to save the date of Wednesday, June 1, 2011 for the 8th Annual Head Up Dinner & Auction.

    Co-presented by the University of Winnipeg Athletic Therapy and the Manitoba Brian Injury Association, the Heads Up Dinner & Auction offers great food, great fun for a great cause.  More details about the dinner will follow in the near future.  In the meantime, please mark the event in your calendars for June 1.

    Click here for photos from the 2010 Head's Up Dinner & Auction.



  • The Department of Classics at the University of Winnipeg, along with the Offices of the Vice President (Research and International) and Dean of Arts, are pleased to present a free public lecture by renowned Canadian author Annabel Lyon.

    Winner 2009 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.



    Monday, May 9, 2011
    7:00 PM
    Eckhardt-Gramatte Hall

    Annabel Lyon will discuss how she came to write The Golden Mean, and the eerie echoes she kept discovering between the ancient and contemporary worlds. These echoes are embodied by the characters of Aristotle (who she imagines as bi-polar) and the teenaged Alexander (who she imagines as suffering post-traumatic stress).


  • The Vice-President, Research and International presents Dr. Mary Jane McCallum, Department of History:

    Mapping Manitoba First Nations Tuberculosis History, 1940-1965

    Wednesday, April 6, 2011
    12:30-1:30 PM
    3D01


  • Everyone is welcome to attend the Carol Shields Writer in Residence Distinguished Lecture for 2011:

    Chest Air: The Power of Personal Narrative
    by Ivan Coyote

    Wednesday, March 16, 2011
    7:30 PM
    Convocation Hall

  • The Department of Women's and Gender Studies is very pleased to welcome Dr. Sidneyeve Matrix back to the University of Winnipeg for a lecture entitled Freud, Film Noir, and Fairy Tales:  Fritz Lang's "The Secret Beyond the Door".

    Dr. Matrix is a distinguished researcher, scholar and teacher who previously taught in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies for two years before being named National Scholar in Film and Media at Queen's University. 

    Friday, January 28, 2011
    1:30 PM
    Room 3M70

  • The Department of Sociology is proud to present two talks by their esteemed 2011 Visiting Lecturer, Dr. Rita Kaur Dhamoon.  Dr. Dhamoon will give a lecture and seminar, both of which are open to the public, and are co-sponsored by the University of Winnipeg's Department of Women's and Gender Studies and Department of Politics.  Please click here for more information on Dr. Dhamoon and her work.

    • Lecture: Celebrating Multiculturism and Security: Challenges and Alternatives

      Monday, January 31, 2011
      7:00-9:00 PM
      Room 2M70

    • Seminar: Identity/Difference Politics through the Lens of Intersectionality

      Tuesday, February 1, 2011
      1:30-3:00 PM
      Room 2M70

  • Mennonites, Melancholy and Mental Health: A History Conference

    Oct. 14-16, 2010
    Convocation Hall, The University of Winnipeg

    Topics that will be covered include:  Melancholia in Literature, Anabaptists & Russian, Old Order Groups, Russlaender and War, Mennonite Practitioners, Diagnosing the 'Mennonite' Patient, and Children & Mental Health

    For the conference program, please click here.


  • Editing the Acts of Pilate in Early Christian Languages:  Theory and Practice . . . Oct. 4-5, 2010

    This Workshop forms part of an international project to edit and publish all linguistic versions of the Acts of Pilate (Acta Pilati; also known as Evangelium Nicodemi), a fourth-century Christian apocryphon of the Passion, originally composed in Greek and translated into early Christian Latin, Coptic, Armenian, Georgian, Syriac and Old Slavonic.

    Public lecture On Reading the Forgotten Gospels:  What We Can Learn from Ancient Apocryphal Literature by Prof. Jean-Daniel Dubois
    Tues. Oct. 5, 2010
    Convocation Hall, The University of Winnipeg

    For the workshop program, please click here.


  • The Classical Association of Canada Western Tour and the University of Winnipeg Classics Department present Jitse H. F. Dijkstra (University of Ottawa):

    Scratched in Stone: The Isis Temple Graffiti Project

    Mon. Sept. 27, 2010
    9:30-10:20 AM
    Eckhart Grammate Hall

    For more information, please click here.


  • The Manitoba Brain Injury Association (MBIA) and The University of Winnipeg Athletic Therapy Students' Association, in partnership with Manitoba Hydro, present the 7th Annual Heads Up Dinner & Auction . . . June 2, 2010.

    Doors open at 6:00 PM

    Riddell Hall, The University of Winnipeg

    For more information, click here.


  • The Department of Theatre and Film is sponsoring The University of Winnipeg's 8th Annual Student Film Festival . . . April 21-23, 2010.

    The Film Festival will feature screenings of post-secondary student films, a seminar on new film technology, the premiere of a Winnipeg senior class project, and a presentation and Q & A session with filmmaker Michael Maryniuk.

    For more information on the Film Festival, please click here.


  • All faculty members (including sessionals and contract faculty) and staff are invited to attend Engaging with the Community: Opportunities for Learning, Research and Service . . . April 8 & 9, 2010, 9:00 AM-4:00 PM

    Room 3C01, The University of Winnipeg

    The Symposium is co-hosted by the Faculties of Arts and Science.  A light lunch will be served.

    For more information about the Symposium, click here.


  • The President's Task Force on Athletics and Academics presents the lecture:  Are Kids Having a Rough Time of it in Sports? by Dr. Dennis Caine  . . . March 11, 2010, 7:00-8:00 PM

    Eckhartd-Grammate Hall, The University of Winnipeg

    Admission is free.  There will be a reception to follow.

    Dr. Caine is a Professor and Chair in the Department of Physical Education, Exercise Science and Wellness at the University of North Dakota.


  • Professor Afua Cooper:  A History of Africans in Canada . . . . March 5, 2010, 1:30 PM

    Convocation Hall, The University of Winnipeg

    Afua Cooper is a scholar, author and poet.  She has a Ph.D. in Canadian history and the African Diaspora, focusing on black communities of 19th century Ontario.

  • Lloyd Axworthy, President and Vice-Chancellor, The University of Winnipeg, and Catherine Rushton, Interim President and CEO, Red River College, invite you to attend the official announcement of a new academic program in Disability Studies . . . February 10, 2010, 2:00-3:00 PM

    The program is being launched at the University of Winnipeg in partnership with Red River College.

    Convocation Hall, 2nd Floor of Wesley Hall, The University of Winnipeg

    Click here for more details.


  • Art History Students' Reception and Artist's Talk: Breaking Through the Canvas . . . . February 4, 6:00-9:00 PM

    You are invited to hear about artist LUC LEESTEMAKER's collaboration with composer VINCENT HO in art, dance and music.  The lecture will be follwed by a reception at the Faculty Club.

    Sponsored by: The Office of the Dean of Arts and the History Department Visiting Lecturers' Committee

    Room 2L17, The University of Winnipeg