News and Events

2015

September

Thinking Through the Museum: UW Prof leads collaboration

UWinnipeg’s Dr. Angela Failler has been awarded a three-year Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)... Read More

July

CSRG Members Co-Edit Special Double Issue on the CMHR

UWinnipeg professors and CSRG members Dr. Angela Failler (Women’s and Gender Studies), Dr. Peter Ives (Politics), and Dr. Heather Milne... Read More

2014

October

Naming and the Visual Technologies of the CMHR

Tue. Oct. 14, 2014 12:00 AM
by Cynthia Milton photo credits: Karen Sharma I had the fortune of being one of the 9,000 to be given a preview tour of sections of the Canadian... Read More

Mixed Metaphors, Herding and Burning Issues at the CMHR

Wed. Oct. 8, 2014 12:00 AM
A post from our partners at CEREV-Concordia by Shelley Ruth Butler How do you open a museum that already feels closed? I asked myself this as I... Read More

Museum Openings

Sun. Oct. 5, 2014 2:39 PM
by Angela Failler and Erica Lehrer Canada’s newest national museum recently opened its doors to the public. Much was made of its... Read More

September

Sun. Oct. 5, 2014 2:39 PM Fri. Sep. 19, 2014 12:00 PM - Sun. Sep. 21, 2014 12:00 PM
Museum Openings: Caring for Difficult Knowledge: Within and Beyond the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. This event will mark the official launch... Read More

August

Connections Grant Awarded for difficult knowledge

Sat. Aug. 30, 2014 12:00 AM Fri. Sep. 19, 2014 12:00 PM - Sun. Sep. 21, 2014 12:00 PM
News release August 30, 2014 Read More

April

Rebecca Belmore Artist Talk

Sat. Aug. 30, 2014 12:00 AM Wed. Apr. 9, 2014 5:30 PM - Wed. Apr. 9, 2014 6:30 PM
photo credits: Kimberley Moore On Wed. April 09, 2014, artist Rebecca Belmore and Workshop... Read More

March

Bead Making Workshop

Sat. Aug. 30, 2014 12:00 AM
March 8, 2014 A dozen members of the Cultural Studies Research Group (CSRG) joined artist Rebecca Belmore to help in the creation of her latest... Read More

January

Paul Zacharias: Study for the Canadian Museum of Human Wrongs

Sat. Aug. 30, 2014 12:00 AM Fri. Jan. 10, 2014 8:00 PM - Fri. Jan. 10, 2014 10:00 PM
Members of the Cultural Studies Research Group visited Zsa Zsa West Gallery in Winnipeg for Paul Zacharias's showing of Study for the Canadian... Read More

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