The next session of the award-winning Visionary Conversations series presented by the University of Manitoba will be held on Wednesday, March 20, 2013. Visionary Conversations is an engaging, interactive speaker series that brings together world-class minds to present and discuss issues with the audience that are critical to the future of our community, our country […]

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In celebration of International Women’s Day the School of Art Gallery is honoured to host the solo exhibition of the work of Bev Pike. Hymenal Views features six 20-foot-long paintings that depict mountainous bundles of clothing enveloping the gallery creating a visual topography of overlapping social histories and constructions of gender.
Highly illustrative and detailed, […]

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The Global Political Economy Student’s Association at the University of Manitoba will host a panel discussion that will explore trends in post-secondary education.
The panel will examine general trends and changes in the funding of post-secondary education and discuss if these trends are problematic in terms of long-term economic development.
The panelists include:
Dr. Robert Chernomas - […]

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The Co-Chairs of the 2013 University of Manitoba Political Studies Students’ Conference (PSSC) are pleased to announce its 29th forum on politics, defence and security. This year’s conference is entitled: “Canada and NATO After Afghanistan.”
General Ray Henault (ret), former Chief of Defense staff and former Chair of the NATO Defence Committee, will deliver the opening […]

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The University of Manitoba’s Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture is pleased to announce the arrival of Clare Muireann Murphy, its new Storyteller-in-Residence. Murphy will hold the position into early April 2013.
Of her new post, Murphy says, “I am utterly honored and delighted to be Storyteller-in-Residence at the Centre for Creative Writing and Oral […]

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The University of Manitoba is honoured to announce that Faculty of Arts student Thomas Toles is the recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship for 2013. The U of M is one of the leading institutions in Canada for numbers of Rhodes Scholars, and continues to be the alma mater for more Rhodes Scholars than any other […]

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The Black Hole Theatre opens its 2012/2013 season with Oscar Wilde’s witty masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People. Set in Victorian England, the play is a farcical social satire on the triviality of social institutions, and is one of the most famous theatrical comedies of all time.
Two men, Jack and Algernon, both […]

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