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Mariya Melentyeva, UM History instructor and PhD candidate UAlberta, will give a research presentation "Forging A Liberal Alliance: Jews, Socialists, and Liberals in the Russian Imperial Borderlands" on Wednesday, April 12, 2:45 pm, 409 Tier Building. Everyone is welcome.
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Undergraduate Research Symposium
Faculty of Arts Undergrad Students will present their research in 5 sessions held through the day of Thursday, March 30, in 307 Tier Building. Registration & Breakfast begins at 9:30 am. Closing comments will be at 2:30 – full details.
The Department of Anthropology presents Ethics and Archives in the Contemporary World, a roundtable discussion with: History Department speakers Tom Nesmith and Greg Bak; Christian Fees, Frobenius Inst. Germany; and Raymond Frogner, National Centre for Truth & Reconciliation, Friday, March 31, 2:30 pm in the UM Archives & Special Collections Reading Area, E. Dafoe Library.
The Faculty of Arts presents the Outstanding Professor of 2016, the History Department’s Jorge Nállim giving a public talk “Cultural Networks and Politics in Cold War Latin America, “ Tuesday, April 4, 3:00 pm, Conklin Theatre, 3rd floor Tache Hall. Reception to follow. Everyone is welcome.
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LECTURE SERIES
The Department of German & Slavic Studies and the Centre for Defense and Security Studies, UM, welcome Dr. Jörg Echternkamp, Center for Military History, Potsdam and University Halle-Wittenberg, giving 2 public talks.
"Between Militarism and Pacifism: Shifting Military-Civil Relations in East and West Germany, 1945-Present," Wednesday, April 5, 10:30 am, 240 University College
"Variations of Victims: Germany’s Changing Memories of World War II in European Perspective," Thursday, April 6, 7:00 pm, 408 Tier Building with reception to follow.
Everyone is welcome.
*Graduate students who work on German and/or European cultural and/or Military History have the opportunity to arrange one-on-one meetings with Dr. Echternkamp or participate in a lunch meeting with him on April 5 or 6. For further information contact Dr. Stephan Jaeger (stephan.jaeger@umanitoba.ca).
IN THE COMMUNITY
Writer Jamie Swift will be speaking on and signing The Vimy Trap, or, How We Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Great War (Between the Lines Press, 2016) - another book short-listed for the forementioned CHA MacDonald Prize and co-authored by Ian McKay.
Thursday, March 30, 7:30 pm, McNally Robinson Grant Park in the Travel Alcove
Jamie Swift also lectures at the Smith School of Business at Queen's University.
Event webpage
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The University of Manitoba Anthropology Students Association invites students and faculty to the 2017 Manitoba Anthropology Students Conference (MASC)
March 24 &-25 - 307 Tier, UM.
Keynote speakers: Dr. Scott MacEachern of Bowdoin College, "Border Violence: The Landscapes of Boko Haram," and
Robert Falcon Oulette, MP for Winnipeg Centre and UofM alum, "Anthropology and Governance."
Please register through email: uofm.anthros@gmail.com. There is an associated fee for an optional dinner. It will be assessed at time of check in on the 24th.
Conference Program
Vimy at 100 - the 28th Canadian Military History Colloquium
May 5 & 6 - Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON
Keynote speakers: Tim Cook, Holger Herwig, Gary Sheffield
Early registration until April 14.
Go to conference website to register
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