2025-2026

Writer and journalist Omar El Akkad joined CRiCS’ Palestine Reading Group to discuss his recent book, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, via Zoom. The author answered questions about the book in an informal and intimate dialogue, which was expertly facilitated by Jenny Heijun Wills.

On Friday, October 24 at 1:30pm we hosted the launch of CRiCS member Jane Barter’s excellent new book, Theopolitics and the Era of the Witness (Routledge, 2025). This event featured Drs. Jane Barter (presenter), Jason Hannan (moderator), and Anupama Ranawana (Durham University, respondent).

Please note: this event is for CRiCS members and special invited guests only. 

Thank you to the CRiCS Programming Committee for organizing this event, the first of the CRiCS programming season for 2025-26. 

The Centre for Research in Cultural Studies with the Departments of English, Indigenous Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, and the Disability Studies program invite you to a public screening of the award-winning NFB film, The Nest, written and directed by University of Winnipeg graduate Julietta Singh. The screening will be followed by a virtual Q&A with the director which will be hosted by Dr. Aarzoo Singh from the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies. The screening will be closed captioned and is free and open to the public. 

Time: 2:30-5:30pm

Date: Jan 27, 2026

Location: EG Hall, University of Winnipeg (3rd floor of Centennial Hall, 515 Portage Avenue)

For more information, visit the event page

Archiving the Black Canadian Experience: Education, Innovation, Preservation

February 3, 2026 • 2:30-4:00 p.m. • Free event

University of Winnipeg Archives (5th floor, Library) • Light refreshments offered

Panel discussion with: Nadia Thompson, Black History Manitoba; Judy Williams, Black Canadian Experience Centre; and Gabriel Bell-Gam, Bell-Gam Digital Cultural Heritage Centre.

Exhibition materials from the University of Winnipeg Archives and the Black Canadian Experience Centre will be on display all afternoon. 

Visit the event webpage for more information or to register

Pinoy Tanghalian@UWinnipeg (Pinoy Gathering+Coming Together)

This event gathers University of Winnipeg's community members who are of Filipino heritage. Centering on the Filipino word, "Kapwa", the event seeks to invite students, faculty members, and staff who are of Filipino descent or allies of Filipino community in the university. This event will consist of conversation on community building, arts-based workshop on Filipino concept of relationality informed by Pakikipagkapwa as a worldview and its limits. Lunch will be served. 

CRiCS Lab, 12:30pm-2pm on Friday, February 6

The Centre for Research in Cultural Studies at the University of Winnipeg is pleased to host the Canadian virtual launch of The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory (2024), edited by Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores, Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Ana Carolina Díaz Beltrán, Sandeep Bakshi, Augustin Lao-Montes, and Flavia Rios.

Please join us on Friday 20 February at 11am(CST)/12pm (EST) for a discussion with editors and contributors about their work for the collection, ongoing commitments to decolonization, and their importance in a Canadian context.

You can register here and please share this with colleagues, students and community.