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The Centre for Human Rights Research (CHRR) and the School of Fine Art Students’ Association (SOFASA) are holding a Student Art Competition!
Submit up to two pieces of artwork related to the CHRR’s research themes for a chance to receive an honorarium and have your art featured on the CHRR’s website and promotional material! We follow CARFAC Fee Schedule for all honorarium.
For further information, email us at chrrman@umanitoba.ca.
We look forward to seeing your submissions!
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Lavender Graduation is an annual ceremony conducted on numerous campuses to honor queer and trans students to acknowledge their achievements and contributions as they graduate their degrees. The Lavender Graduation Ceremony was created by Dr. Ronni Sanlo, a Jewish Lesbian, who was denied the opportunity to attend the graduations of her biological children because of her sexual orientation.
The Queer & Trans Graduate Student Group is hosting the 2025 Lavender Graduation Ceremony at the University of Manitoba on Tuesday, May 27, 2025. The ceremony will be held at the Brodie Centre Atrium located at 727 McDermot Avenue starting at 10:00 AM. Further details about the schedule will follow.
Any University of Manitoba students (at any level, including undergraduate and graduate students) who identify as 2SLGBTQIA+ who have graduated in the Fall 2024/Spring 2025, or will be graduating in Summer 2025/Fall 2025 are welcome to be a graduate this ceremony.
Please fill out the Google Form to attend Lavender Graduation 2025.
If you have any questions or concerns, please e-mail Mikayla Hunter (she/they) at hunterm7@myumanitoba.ca
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Pride in Health invites submissions from students, early career researchers, and community organization based researchers in the area of queer health and healthcare. Pride in Health invites submissions from students, early career researchers, and community organization based researchers in the area of queer health and healthcare.
We are looking for works in progress, class papers, future publications in various stages, and or/polished presentations as well as posters and works of art on topic of queer health and healthcare. “Health,” here, is largely defined and highly inclusive, and can be interpreted through the lenses of many different disciplines. Submissions can be grounded in any type of research methodology.
All accepted types of work – the presentations/papers, posters, and art piece – will be evaluated, and the best work in each category will each receive a prize. Runners up will also receive a price of lesser value.
Preference will be given to submissions from students and community organization based researchers.
We welcome submissions in the following categories:
Oral Presentations – Presentations should be a total of 20 minutes. They can be in the form of a PowerPoint presentations, or can be the form of reading a paper.
Scientific Posters – We welcome posters on original work, on the topic of queer health and healthcare. Successful posters will be described in 10-minute presentations at the conference, as well as displayed.
Art Pieces – We welcome art pieces of any medium on the topic of queer health and healthcare.
Successful applicants will have the opportunity to discuss their work with conference attendees for 5 minutes. Successful applicants will also have their work displayed as well as displayed at the conference.
To submit an application, please submit a 250 work abstract/artist’s statement and/or an image of the art piece (if completed) using this Google Form. All abstracts/statements and/or images will be peer reviewed.
If you need support or assistance regarding your submission, please contact hunterm7@myumanitoba.ca.
Deadline extended to Sunday, September 22nd, 2024.
Whether you are passionate about interdisciplinary human rights research, social justice programming, or student training and mentorship, the University of Manitoba offers opportunities to support the opportunities most important to you.
Call for Proposals: 2024-25 Outreach and Event Support Initiative
July 22, 2024
Author
Angela Ciceron
The Centre for Human Rights Research invites proposals for its Outreach and Event Support initiative from University of Manitoba faculty members and instructors who would like to highlight lived experiences and community activism within the field of human rights in their classroom. This opportunity will offer CHRR’s expertise in event coordination and outreach to UM faculty and instructors whose courses may benefit from a visiting speaker whose work within the community or otherwise may enrich the learning of students within the classroom. Although funds may be used to host a variety of different people working within the field of human rights and social justice, priority will be given to community activists, organizers, Elders/Knowledge Keepers, practitioners, and/or artists.
Visiting speakers are expected to deliver a public lecture in conjunction with the course that the applicant is teaching. This initiative will contribute to covering the costs of hosting the visiting speaker, such as honorariums (preferably in line with CARFAC-RAAV), travel and accommodation costs, and other costs related to event coordination (e.g., room booking fees, AV equipment rental, catering costs, interpretation, etc.). Applicants are welcome to include additional events involving the visiting speaker that may require the CHRR’s assistance for consideration.
The maximum value of support is $2500. Applicants are welcome to partner with other organizations/units/departments for additional funding. Funding for this initiative is made possible by the Centre for Human Rights Research and the UM Strategic Initiatives Support Fund.
Learn more about this initiative through the guidelines below. To apply to this initiative, submit a completed application form to chrrman@umanitoba.ca.
Whether you are passionate about interdisciplinary human rights research, social justice programming, or student training and mentorship, the University of Manitoba offers opportunities to support the opportunities most important to you.
New Project at the CHRR: “History in the Hot Seat”
July 03, 2024
Author
Pauline Tennent
“History in the Hot Seat: Colonialism and the Knowing and Teaching of Canada’s Past” is a project led by Dr. Adele Perry, Director of the Centre for Human Rights Research and Professor of History and Women’s & Gender Studies at the University of Manitoba. It is funded by the 2024 Knowledge Synthesis Grant Competition from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (in partnership with Canadian Heritage, Genome Canada, and UK Research Innovation’s Arts and Humanities Research Council). Following the competition’s theme, “Evolving Narratives of Cultures and Histories,” History in the Hot Seat will synthesize a decade of reckoning with Canada’s past and what it means to learn and teach it, considering ongoing histories of colonialism and Indigenous dispossession.
History in the Hot Seat will provide valuable and portable knowledge about the current reckoning with Canada’s past and what it means for how we might rethink Canada’s history and how we research, commemorate, and study it. These findings will be relevant for academics, public history professionals and organizations, educators and others working to develop and sustain visions of Canada’s past that recognize the role of colonization, dispossession, and systemic racism in Canada’s past, present, and future. Learn more about History in the Hot Seat here!
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Just Waters:Thinking with Hydro-Social Relations for a More Just and Sustainable World is an interdisciplinary research project that is housed at the Centre for Human Rights Research at the University of Manitoba. This three-year project, funded by the UM IGNITE Program, will nurture new and ongoing relationships to mobilize and connect individuals locally and internationally to better address the ongoing issues surrounding water justice.
Just Waters is led by Dr. Adele Perry, Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Arts & Director of the CHRR at the University of Manitoba. Just Waters will apply an interdisciplinary lens to water (in)justice and work to move research to the next steps. By establishing an interdisciplinary approach and centering the hydro-social, the project will nurture new and ongoing relationships to mobilize and connect individuals locally and internationally to better address the ongoing issues surrounding water justice.
Just Waters will provide and support relevant, original, and timely responses through three overlapping and interrelated clusters: climate change and water; histories and futures of water; and Indigenous peoples and water (in)justice. These clusters will draw on wide interdisciplinary and interfaculty expertise to shed light on the relationship between water, water injustice, and water justice. For more information, check out the project’s webpage.
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CHRR welcomes Visiting Community Researcher Sandra Delaronde
May 16, 2024
Author
Angela Ciceron
By Angela Ciceron
The CHRR is thrilled to announce Sandra Delaronde as this year’s Visiting Community Researcher. Sandra Delaronde is Project Lead of Giganawenimaanaanig (we take care of them all), the Manitoba MMIWG2s+ Implementation Committee. Sandra is a passionate advocate for Indigenous people in Manitoba, working tirelessly to end gender-based violence and support families of MMIWG2S+. She has supported efforts by (inter)national, provincial, and local organizations to find a collective way through genocide to address MMIWG2S+.
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The Centre for Human Rights Research, along with other leading pan-Canadian labour, faith, Arab, Jewish and civil society organizations, has signed an open letter calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
As representatives of leading pan-Canadian labour, faith, Arab, Jewish, and civil society organizations, we are calling on the Government of Canada to take these steps:
Call for an immediate ceasefire of all hostilities in Israel-Palestine
Call for an end to the blockade of Gaza and for the restoration of humanitarian aid and access to the basic necessities of life
Whether you are passionate about interdisciplinary human rights research, social justice programming, or student training and mentorship, the University of Manitoba offers opportunities to support the opportunities most important to you.
The Centre for Human Rights Research (CHRR) invites proposals for its Small Grants program from University of Manitoba faculty members who want to explore new collaborative and interdisciplinary research projects. CHRR’s Small Grants program may be able to help you get a research project off the ground by connecting you to other researchers and/or community groups, providing organizational or administrative assistance, and offering startup financial support.
Eligibility criteria:
This program focuses on new research projects.
You must be on faculty at the UM; or partnered with a UM faculty member.
Priority will be given to pre-tenure faculty.
Priority will also be given to research projects that fit in one of the CHRR’s four focus areas: Borders and Human Rights; Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights; Right to Food and Water; Reproductive and Bodily Justice.
Feel free to email Dr. Adele Perry to discuss a proposal prior to submission.
Amount:
We anticipate small grants of $500 – $2,500. Funds may be used to cover such expenses as student research assistant wages, travel to meet with a research partner, or focus group expenses. Funds are not intended to support bringing in speakers, dissemination of research (such as publication support or conference travel) or academic programming.
Some information about the applicants (such as a CV or link to your web page)
Budget
Timeline (indicating start and end dates)
How CHRR may be able to help
Whether the work to be aided by CHRR requires and has received ethics approval. (We recommend that you start drafting your ethics proposal when applying for a CHRR grant, to prevent delays in receiving funds).
Evaluation criteria include:
alignment with CHRR mission;
evidence of collaboration across disciplines;
intention to use this project as a springboard for applying for larger grants;
our capacity to meet your needs; and
feasibility of the proposed project.
Successful applicants must:
To receive any money awarded by CHRR, you must contact Office of Research Services (ORS) to set up a research fund. ORS will require a signed Funding Application Approval Form (FAAF) available via UM Intranet, the original proposal, CHRR’s funding confirmation letter and any applicable ethics approvals.
Remind ORS to contact Research Accounting to allocate a Fund number, which will be in a format like this: 31XXXX XXXXXX 2000. Once you have the fund number, forward it to the CHRR manager and ask them to confirm to research accounting that they can transfer the funds. Note that any funds not transferred by Mar. 31 may need to be forfeited by the applicant.
Provide a short title and 50-100 word description of the project to use on the CHRR website and in promotional and reporting materials.
Meet with CHRR director Adele Perry at the start of the project to work out details of CHRR’s role.
Submit a short report to the CHRR on how the funds were used.
Return any unused funds to CHRR.
Acknowledge the University of Manitoba Centre for Human Rights Research as a funder in any resulting research publications and in any event promotional material related to the research.
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CHRR Project “Period Poverty and Equity, on Campus and Beyond” Featured in The Manitoban
July 04, 2023
Author
Corey Petsnik
Image by Ebunoluwa Akinbo
Period Poverty and Equity, on Campus and Beyond is a one-year project funded by the University of Manitoba’s Strategic Initiatives Support Fund that utilizes a menstrual justice lens to bring together faculty and staff, with students and organizations, to address period poverty and promote period equity here on the University of Manitoba campuses.
Dr. Lindsay Larios from the Faculty of Social Work, who will lead the interdisciplinary team alongside CHRR director Dr. Adele Perry and Dr. Julia Smith from UManitoba Labour Studies, was recently interviewed about the project by the Manitoban.
“We’ve identified this as a really crucial moment to assess what the available resources are,” Larios said, “and consider kind of a wider justice-based model for thinking about how we distribute menstruation products and how this might be affecting students, but also other community members.”
To learn more about the project – including its goals and approach – read the full story on the Manitoban’s website.
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