Rethinking Borders: A panel on Transnational Movements, Resistance, Identity, and Gender
April 3, 2023
Dr. Lorena Fontaine, Dr. Shauna Labman, Dr. Rob Lorway, Dr. Shayna Plaut, Dr. Lori Wilkinson
In collaboration with Global College at the University of Winnipeg, our third critical conversation took place on Apr. 3, 2023 and featured Drs. Lorena Fontaine, Shauna Labman, Rob Lorway, Shayna Plaut, and Lori Wilkinson.
The conversation was wide-ranging and touched on a variety of topics. Panelists identified – based on their research and expertise – the borders that matter, how they matter, who made them and why, as well as what they cross, both literally and metaphorically. They also discussed the limits and power of borders, the ways in which their research (or the subjects of their research) cross borders, the research and/or activism that has most guided or inspired them, and the kind of research that is most needed to meet the challenges of the present.
Thinking in Pictures
March 15, 2023
Dr. Sean Carleton, Gord Hill, Kara Sievewright, Dr. Julia Smith
On March 15th, 2023, CHRR hosted a virtual workshop learning from activists, artists, writers, and researchers passionate about comics, history and social change.
Water and Borders - A Roundtable
February 28, 2023
Dr. Cary Miller, Dr. Teresa Montoya, Dr. Emma Norman, Dr. Nicole J. Wilson
Does water have a border? When do the politics of water cut across borders, and when are they shaped, or even determined, by them? How does water challenge our conventional understanding of borders, including geopolitical ones, and how does it alert us to histories that pre-date the power of the colonial state? Can struggles around water – whether for decent drinking water, or against mega-projects and their impact on Indigenous communities – on different sides of North America’s settler borders be understood in common, or as discrete and different?
In collaboration with the University of Manitoba’s United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6 (Water and Sanitation) Group, on Feb. 28, 2023 the CHRR welcomed Drs. Cary Miller, Teresa Montoya, Emma Norman, Adele Perry, and Nicole J. Wilson for an exploration of borders and the politics of water.
Imagining the Peg as a Human Rights City
December 9, 2022
Dr. Warren Clarke, Dr. Nathan Derejko, Reanna Merasty, Dr. Joel R. Pruce, Karen Sharma
Human Rights Day is celebrated by the international community every year on 10 December. It commemorates the day in 1948 that the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.In recognition of Human Rights Day, the CHRR alongside the Centre for Social Science Research and Policy at the University of Manitoba will host a virtual conversation entitled ‘Imagining the ‘Peg as a Human Rights City.’
Fighting for Reproductive Rights in 2022
July 13, 2022
Karen Sharma, Nahanni Fontaine, Kemlin Nembhard, Dr. Sarah Elvins, Dr. Lindsay Larios
On July 13, 2022 the Centre for Human Rights Research at the University of Manitoba hosted an informative, webinar roundtable discussion “Fighting for Reproductive Rights in 2022.”
This discussion brought together a variety of scholars and advocates – and those who identify as both – including Karen Sharma, Nahanni Fontaine, Kemlin Nembhard, Dr. Sarah Elvins, and Dr. Lindsay Larios, to provide context, information and solidarity as we move forward.
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The Patients who never came home: 'Indian' Tuberculosis and Indigenous Health Care in Manitoba, 1930s-1970s
March 28, 2022
Dr. Anne Lindsay, Dr. Erin Millions
In 2022, the University of Manitoba’s Centre for Human Rights Research annual seminar series was held online, and ran in conjunction with a senior/honours course in the Department of History, Faculty of Arts. Our theme was “Historic Wrongs and Human Rights in Canada.” Leading scholars from across Canada discussed their research examining different moments of dispossession, unfreedom, incarceration, and expulsion, and how researchers and curators have navigated them.
Across Oceans of Law
March 14, 2022
Dr. Renisa Mawani
In 2022, the University of Manitoba’s Centre for Human Rights Research annual seminar series was held online, and ran in conjunction with a senior/honours course in the Department of History, Faculty of Arts. Our theme was “Historic Wrongs and Human Rights in Canada.” Leading scholars from across Canada discussed their research examining different moments of dispossession, unfreedom, incarceration, and expulsion, and how researchers and curators have navigated them.
Civilian Internment in Canada: Histories & Legacies
March 2022
Dr. Rhonda Hinther, Dr. Jim Mochoruk
In 2022, the University of Manitoba’s Centre for Human Rights Research annual seminar series was held online, and ran in conjunction with a senior/honours course in the Department of History, Faculty of Arts. Our theme was “Historic Wrongs and Human Rights in Canada.” Leading scholars from across Canada discussed their research examining different moments of dispossession, unfreedom, incarceration, and expulsion, and how researchers and curators have navigated them.
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Working with Journalists: Human Rights, Research and the Realities of the Newsroom
March 10, 2022
Lenard Monkman, Helen Fallding
In this interactive workshop Lenard Monkman (CBC Indigenous) and Helen Fallding (former political reporter, Winnipeg Free Press) provide guidance on how students and researchers doing human rights work can appropriately and effectively disseminate their research to a broader audience and get their work “out there”.
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Experiences of Enslaved Black People in Colonial Canada
April 7, 2022
Dr. Harvey Amani Whitfield
In 2022, the University of Manitoba’s Centre for Human Rights Research annual seminar series was held online, and ran in conjunction with a senior/honours course in the Department of History, Faculty of Arts. Our theme was “Historic Wrongs and Human Rights in Canada.” Leading scholars from across Canada discussed their research examining different moments of dispossession, unfreedom, incarceration, and expulsion, and how researchers and curators have navigated them.
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