In collaboration with the Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture, please join us on Friday, October 4th for a discussion with Anishinaabe-Ukrainian writer Patty Krawec on her book, Becoming Kin.

Patty Krawec is an Anishinaabe/Ukrainian writer and speaker belonging to Lac Seul First Nation in Treaty 3 territory and residing in Niagara Falls. She has served on the board of the Fort Erie Native Friendship Centre and co-hosted the Medicine for the Resistance podcast. She is a founding director of the Nii’kinaaganaa Foundation which challenges settlers to pay their rent for living on Indigenous land and then disburses those funds to Indigenous people, meeting immediate survival needs as well as supporting the organizing and community building needed to address the structural issues that create those needs. With a background in social work, Patty focused on supporting victims of sexual and gendered violence as well as child abuse. She is a strong believer in the power of collective organizing, and was an active union member throughout her career as a social worker. 

Her current work and writing focuses on how Anishinaabe belonging and thought can inform faith and social justice practices and has been published in Sojourners, Rampant Magazine, Midnight Sun, Yellowhead Institute, Indiginews, Religion News Service, and Broadview. Her first book, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future was published in 2022 by Broadleaf Books. Her second book about the ways that subaltern writing and storytelling can help us reimagine that future will be published in the fall of 2025. She lives on Twitter as @gindaanis and you can find her online at daanis.ca 

No registration is necessary.

For more information on getting to the University of Manitoba campus, please see: https://umanitoba.ca/about-um/our-campuses/getting-here. If you have any questions, please contact chrrman@umanitoba.ca.

On Thursday, October 24- Friday, October 25, 2024, the Queer & Trans Graduate Student Group and the Centre for Human Rights Research at the University of Manitoba are thrilled to host Pride in Health 2024 — a two-day conference that seeks to provide a space for 2SLGBTQIA+ students and researchers to present their work.

Our Day 1 Agenda is now available (subject to change), Register now to join us at Pride in Health.

On Tuesday, August 27th and Wednesday, August 28th, 2024, the Centre for Human Rights Research at the University of Manitoba and the Winnipeg School Division will welcome elementary, middle, and secondary educators to the “Putting the Knowing and Teaching of Canada’s Past in the Hot Seat” workshop. 

The free two-day workshop, held at the University of Manitoba and Wolseley School, will facilitate discussions of how we might best teach and learn Canadian history in a way that acknowledges Indigenous histories and ongoing histories of colonialism. This will include presentations from the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation and scholar of education, curriculum, and pedagogy, Dr. Lindsay Gibson.

Programs for each day of the workshop will be emailed closer to the dates.

Seats are limited! Register now to secure your space at the workshop! If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please contact the event coordinator, Hannah Belec at hannah.belec@umanitoba.ca.

This workshop is made possible by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada: Knowledge Synthesis Grant. For more information on the project, check out our web page.

On Wednesday, July 3, 2024, the Centre for Human Rights Research and the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Manitoba hosted Dr. Anne Lindsay for a seminar on “Archival Work for Social Justice Research, Indigenous Rights, and Human Rights Research.” This seminar is part of the CHRR’s Methods + Mediums in Human Rights Research series.

Dr. Anne Lindsay is a settler historian who has worked for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, and for the Office of the Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites Associated with Indian Residential Schools. Trained in both archival studies and history, she has been doing research in the areas of missing Indigenous children and Indian Residential School cemeteries in Manitoba and North-western Ontario for over ten years, and has been working with Indigenous individuals, families, and communities to locate records for over twenty. Her work with the Manitoba Indigenous Tuberculosis History Project has contributed to the creation of a research guide and related video modules designed to support families and communities searching for loved ones who were sent to Indigenous Hospitals and Sanatoria in Manitoba – including Indian Residential School students – in the period from the 1930s to the 1970s.

Dr. Lindsay shared the complex process she undertook, working alongside William Osborne, to locate the burial sites of his three aunties — Betsey, Isobel, and Nora Osborne — three sisters who were forced to leave their family and their Cross Lake Community and who never returned home. You can learn more about William and Anne’s work in their publication with At the Forks. The search to locate their burial sites anchors a broader conversation regarding the Indian Residential School System in Canada & how this living past continues to impact communities and families today.

Dr. Lindsay also shared her work with the Manitoba Indigenous Tuberculosis History Project and her dreams for a fully autonomous, Indigenous-led archives in Canada.