Learning and engagement

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

Winter 2026

Black Studies at UM series:

• Cameroonian Peasants and the Global Economy through Literature and Films, presented by Etienne-Marie Lassi (Faculty of Arts)
• Bearing the Burden of Liberation: Black Youth Activists and the Cost of Freedom Work, presented by Warren Clarke (Faculty of Arts)
• Black Speculative Futures, presented by Serenity Hee-Jung Joo (Faculty of Arts)
• An Introduction to Black Love Poems, presented by Jaime Paris (Faculty of Arts)
• Fugitive Slave Women’s Narratives in Canada, presented by Nancy Kang (Faculty of Arts)

Learning for Democratic Futures series

• Politics of Classical Architecture: Past and Present, presented by Braden Scott (School of Art)
• Understanding US Interventions in Central and South America: A Conversation, presented by Jorge Nallim (History) and David Churchill (History)
• Freedom of Expression and Universities, presented by Richard Jochelson (Faculty of Law)

Winter 2025

• Antisemitism: Histories and Contemporary Manifestations, presented by Belle Jerniewski
• Islamophobia: Histories and Contemporary Manifestations, presented by Youcef Soufi
• Human Rights in Canada: Addressing Canada’s Rights Implementation Problem, presented by Nathan Derejko
• Corporate Responsibility and Supply Chain Justice, presented by Minelle Silva
• Environmental Racism and Land: A Conversation, with Dan HenHawk and Bruce Erickson
• Race, Territory, and Nation-States in Post-WWII Global Orders, presented by Tina Chen
• Death, Mourning, and Funeral Practices in the Diaspora: Zimbabwean Experience, presented by Joy Chadya

Fall 2024

• Media Literacy and Critical Thinking, presented by Cecil Rosner
• Digital Harms: Online Hate and Racism, workshop by Foundation for a Path Forward.

Winter 2024

• Digital Harms: Online Hate and Racism, workshop by Foundation for a Path Forward.
• Teaching Israel-Gaza War and the Middle East, presented by Tami Jacoby
• Centering Humanity: Human Rights Frameworks in times of Violence, Discrimination and Hatred, panel with:
  • 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)

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

Intersectionality: Building Understanding and Application 

This workshop series 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 series has four modules (60 to 75 minutes each). Participants are expected to attend all four sessions and will receive a certificate upon completion.
• Workshop dates: TBD

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. Participants should have an have understanding of equity, as well as of different systems of oppression (such as racism, sexism, systemic faithism, ableism, heteronormativity) as this workshop builds on foundational concepts and practices. 

• Next date: TBD

EDIA and Anti-Oppression at UM: 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 for Literacy in Indigenous Content

• More information on the Summer Institute in Indigenous Content

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.

Anti-Ableism education resources

• Access learning opportunities

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