Learning and engagement

The following are a list of workshops offered by the Office of Equity Transformation. 

Details and registration information below.

Intersectionality: Building Understanding and Application 

This workshop centers the voice of Kimberlé Crenshaw, the term's originator, with modules looking at: basics of intersectionality, intersectionality in the Canadian context, and how to apply intersectional thinking. Module exercises are specifically tailored to the work of student leaders, staff, faculty and/or researchers at UM, with the intent of leaving space to move from theory to practice. Participants should have a basic understanding of different forms of systemic oppression and come open to discussions and exercises to deepen their understanding of intersectionality. 

• The Intersectionality Workshop is a series of four modules (60 to 75 minutes each), with participants attending all 4 modules.
• There are two workshop options:
  • On-line only. Dates: November 13, 20, 27 and December 4. Time: 6 p.m. Register for the on-line series.
  • Hybrid option. Dates: November 18 (in person), 25 (on-line), December 2 (on-line) and 9 (in person). Time: 6 p.m. Register for the hybrid series.

Anti-Oppression: Framework and Praxis

This workshop encourages participants to consider how their activism, advocacy, and community-building actions might be different if approached from an anti-oppression framework. The workshop introduces key theories of anti-oppression, including exploring how multiple forms of oppression can occur at the same time, and at various levels (micro, mezzo, macro). The workshop further considers how anti-oppression is premised upon recognition of diversity within systemically marginalized groups. We will collectively explore how listening, relationships, collaboration, partnerships, stepping up & stepping back are all key aspects of anti-oppression praxis. We distinguish anti-oppression praxis from ‘everyone, everywhere, all at once” approaches, and discuss how anti-oppression frameworks can inform strategic prioritization of initiatives and areas for action by, with, and for specific marginalized groups.

EDIA and Anti-Oppression at UManitoba: Fostering a Vibrant Community

The workshop provides an overview of the steps taken to implement the recommendations of the UM Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Taks Force, with a focus on how the UM is working to listen to diverse voices, empower those who experience marginalization, and build capacity and accountability for equity and anti-oppression. A focus of the workshop will be on the value and importance of this work, strategies for UM administrators, faculty staff, and students to be active in dismantling all forms of oppression and advancing equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility, and how we collectively can be part of UM’s commitment to fostering a vibrant community.  

• This workshop is also delivered in the Academic Administrators Workshop Series, New Faculty Workshop series and faculty council meetings, and can be requested for other groups on request.

Available for faculty, staff, and graduate students. 

The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning offers a variety of programs and workshops on topics relating to equity, anti-oppression, anti-racism, accessibility, diversity and inclusion. 

Upcoming workshops

• Accessible design for assessment
• Incorporating EDI into your course and teaching

Examples of workshops recently offered by The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning:

• Validating Diverse Knowledges in Your Course
• Designing an Inclusive Syllabus
• Inclusive Pedagogies – EDI Principles in Practice
• Inclusive Pedagogies Faculty Learning Community
• Navigating Difficult Discussions
• Supporting Diverse Graduate Students (CATL and Faculty of Graduate Studies)
• Inclusive and Anti-Racist Pedagogies
• Addressing Racism in Teaching and Learning
• Conversations on Inclusive and Anti-Racist Pedagogies

Sexual Violence Awareness

Available through UM Learn. Log in to find more information about this course.

• UM Learn

Responding to Sexual Violence Disclosures

Faculty and staff:

• Register through Learning and Organizational Development

Students:

• Learn more about the training
• Contact the Sexual Violence Resource Centre for a cost-free workshop

Summer Institute on Literacy in Indigenous Content

For more information and to register, visit the Summer Institute UM Intranet page. The information can be found on the Faculty of Arts UM Intranet site under the "Units" area of the menu. Learn how to log in to the UM Intranet.

Registration for the 2024 sessions will begin in March 2024

Working in Good Ways Framework and Resources for Indigenous Community Engagement

• More information on the Working in Good Ways project

Additional Indigenous-focused events

For additional Indigenous-focused events, such as Fireside Chats and Sharing Circles with Elders-in-Residence, please visit Migizii Agamik Indigenous Student Centre.

Accessibility for Manitobans Act compliance training

• Learn more about the training
• Access UM Learn

Creating Accessible materials

Contact the Centre for Advancement of Teaching and Learning:

• Accessible course design coaching

Stop, Talk and Roll: Addressing Micro-Aggressions in Your Clinical Teaching Practice

Contact the Rady Faculty Office of Equity, Access, and Participation

Learn more about equity, access, and participation

The “Listening, Learning, Leading” series is a step toward creating foundations for campus dialogues beyond polarization, where complexity is appreciated without demands for resolution, and where compassion and humanity enliven debate within our community.

All events in this series follow community accountability guidelines as a starting point for listening, learning, leading.

All participants including speakers, moderators, participants, and audience members agree to the following community accountability guidelines:

• Listen for insight
• Appreciate complexity
• Engage with respect the viewpoint of the speaker(s)
• Question for understanding, rather than to confront or challenge
• Value dialogue
• Debate ideas not the person
• Hold human dignity for all
• Allow speakers to be in spaces of listening and learning with each other and participants
• Carry this approach with you when you share learnings from the event
• Audio or video recording by attendees will not be permitted

 Digital Harms: Online Hate and Racism

• Dates: November 4, 2024 and February 12, 2024
• Workshop delivered by Foundation for a Path Forward.

Teaching Israel-Gaza War and the Middle East

• Date: April 11, 2024
• Dr. Tami Jacoby has been teaching Middle East politics and the Arab-Israeli conflict for roughly 30 years. She has published widely on Middle East-related topics and spent considerable time studying, working and living in Jerusalem.

Centering Humanity: Human Rights Frameworks in times of Violence, Discrimination and Hatred

• Date: March 28, 2024
• Speakers:
  • Karen Sharma, Executive Director, Manitoba Human Rights Commission
  • Art Miki, CM, OM, Japanese-Canadian activist, former MB Citizenship Judge
  • Lionel Steiman, Senior Scholar, History, University of Manitoba 
  • Moderator: Tina Chen, Vice-Provost (Equity)

Public Classroom Initiative:

Media Literacy and Critical Thinking

• Presenter: Cecil Rosner
• Date:  December 12, 2024

Antisemitism: Histories and Contemporary Manifestations

• Presenter: Belle Jerniewski
• Date: January 10, 2025

Islamophobia: Histories and Contemporary Manifestations

• Presenter: Dr. Youcef Soufi
• Date: January 13, 2025

A Manifesto for a Disability Justice in Academia

• Date: April 5, 2024
• Guest speaker: Agnès Berthelot-Raffard
  • Associate Professor, Critical Disability Studies, School of Healthy Policy and Management, York University
  • Berthelot-Raffard will explore whether Canadian universities are designed to consider justice for people with disabilities. She will discuss the anti-ableist utopia and outline the five principles that guide disability justice in the academic world.

Disability, Revolution? Access, Intersectionality, and Resistance in Disability Culture

• Date: March 6, 2024
• Guest speaker: Robert McRuer
  • Professor, Department of English, George Washington University
  • McRuer discusses the idea of "one-dimensional disability", a disability identity that does not consider solidarity with other movements for social justice. His talk considers the vibrancy, intersectionality, and multi-dimensionality of social justice movements which actively seek solidarity across a range of differences, namely, Mad Pride, disability justice, and queercrip culture.

Disability decolonized: Lived experiences, Indigenous knowledges and teaching from Txeemism

• Date: November 24, 2023
• Guest speaker: Rheanna E. Robinson
  • Associate Professor, Department of First Nations Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia 
  • Robinson combines her personal experiences and academic pursuits to examine tensions between traditional Indigenous perspectives and contemporary views of disability for Indigenous peoples. She will share how Indigenous knowledge and worldviews have the potential to transform the understanding of disability in Canada and the world.