The University of Manitoba and the Languages and Cultures Circle of Manitoba are holding an international conference in Winnipeg called Languages and Cultures of Conflicts and Atrocities.
More than fifty presenters from across the Humanities and Social Sciences in North America and Europe will discuss practices and representations of conflicts and atrocities in literature, film, history, […]

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Senator Roméo Dallaire struggled to find the will to live after witnessing the worst side of humanity during the Rwandan genocide. Learning to take the long-term view is what saved him. In a public lecture at the University of Manitoba, the former commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Rwanda will encourage Canadians to […]

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Timothy Snyder, professor of history at Yale University, will be this year’s 20th annual J.B. Rudnyckyj Lecturer at the University of Manitoba. The presentation will reflect upon his research on the history of mass murders in central and eastern Europe between 1933 - 1945.
Following his acclaimed book Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010), Snyder […]

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Andrew Woolford, an Associate Professor with the University of Manitoba’s Department of Sociology, has been granted a Fulbright Scholar Award to the University of New Mexico. Dr. Woolford will spend four months, starting in January 2012, researching for a project entitled: “A Tonic for the Boarding School Blues? Genocide and Historical Redress in Canada and […]

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