The Honourable Jean Augustine, the Fairness Commissioner of the Province of Ontario, will deliver the keynote address at a conference on immigration, immigrant settlement and integration on Thursday, November 1, at the University of Manitoba.
The Strangers in New Homelands conference is hosted by the U of M’s Faculty of Social Work, in collaboration with the […]

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What are human rights and where do they come from? And how would a museum convey this kind of information to a visitor?
Critical Conversations: The Idea of a Human Rights Museum is a seminar series designed to discuss issues surrounding the Canadian Museum of Human Rights now under development in Winnipeg.
The next public event is […]

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According to one of Canada’s top young criminologists, provincial governments need to get over their fear of being labeled “soft on crime.
“Memorial University professor Justin Piché will challenge Manitobans to speak out against the federal government’s “runaway punishment train” during his upcoming talk at the University of Manitoba:
When: 11:30 am, Friday November 25, 2011
Where: Moot […]

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University of Manitoba president and vice-chancellor David Barnard and His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, celebrated inner city success stories today.
The Celebrating Inner-City Community Connections event showcased highlights of the University of Manitoba Connecting to Kids report. This report demonstrated that world-class scholars, researchers and staff are joining with community […]

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For 2011, the prestigious Robert and Elizabeth Knight Distinguished Visiting Lecture focuses on issues relating to the economic implications and consequences of human rights.
This year’s visiting lecturer is Diane Elson at the University of Essex in the UK, and a research affiliate of the Centre for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers University. Her current research […]

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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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