Centre for Research in Cultural Studies

The Centre for Research in Cultural Studies at the University of Winnipeg invites you to a public, virtual lecture by Dr Désha Osborne, Lecturer and Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Edinburgh on 23 February, 12.30pm CST.

Dr Osborne specialises in Caribbean history, the Garifuna, and Scottish presence (settlers and enslavers) in the islands of St Vincent and the Grenadines in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Dr Osborne has recently launched a new book series for the University of Edinburgh Press, with Dr Michael Morris, Scotland and Empire.

TOMORROW: This talk will consider the simultaneous settlement of Scottish, Irish and Welsh colonists to the Caribbean islands and Canadian territories and provinces from the mid seventeenth century to the eighteenth century. This talk considers Celtic identity in the Atlantic colonies through incomplete stories of people whose lives were forever affected by their presence.

Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/20Gdpk0mQFuSJnb2vEKwjg?fbclid=IwY2xjawQLU-NleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETJqQ29ORG9XVUN4V1FIaERGc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHqQbk6LGzHgc-QCPsq-DKFotl4HyJruAA3dJ6SJHRinTWiwATE60Yth8Wb-__aem_F-khAjkxAvr40pldmoe5ag #/registration

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The Centre for Research in Cultural Studies at the University of Winnipeg is pleased to host the Canadian virtual launch of The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory (2024), edited by Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores, Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Ana Carolina Díaz Beltrán, Sandeep Bakshi, Augustin Lao-Montes, and Flavia Rios.

Please join us on Friday 20 February at 11am(CST)/12pm (EST) for a discussion with editors and contributors about their work for the collection, ongoing commitments to decolonization, and their importance in a Canadian context.

Pinoy Tanghalian@UWinnipeg (Pinoy Gathering+Coming Together)



This event gathers University of Winnipeg's community members who are of Filipino heritage. Centering on the Filipino word, "Kapwa", the event seeks to invite students, faculty members, and staff who are of Filipino descent or allies of Filipino community in the university. This event will consist of conversation on community building, arts-based workshop on Filipino concept of relationality informed by Pakikipagkapwa as a worldview and its limits. Lunch will be served.

CRiCS Collaborative Research and Knowledge Mobilization Lab, 12.30pm-2pm
Friday, February 6, 2026

Archiving the Black Canadian
Experience: Education,
Innovation, Preservation
February 3, 2026 • 2:30-4:00 p.m. • Free event
University of Winnipeg Archives (5th floor, Library) • Light refreshments offered

Panel discussion with Nadia Thompson, Black History Manitoba •
Judy Williams, Black Canadian Experience Centre • Gabriel Bell-
Gam, Digital Cultural Heritage Centre.
Exhibition materials from the University of Winnipeg Archives and
the Black Canadian Experience Centre on display all afternoon.

Spotlight on the Crises in Sudan and DRC: A Community Roundtable on Imperialism and Global Indifference

University of Winnipeg
26 January
Room 2M70
10-11.30am

This University of Winnipeg Community Roundtable addresses the crises in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with attention on the recent escalations of decades-long incursions by Western imperialist and colonial forces. In recent weeks, the genocide in Sudan has gained wider attention, largely due to the catastrophic effects of mass starvation and the actions of the UAE and Western (including Canadian) sponsored Rapid Support Forces (RSF), particularly in El Fasher. Satellite imagery shared by global media has revealed several sites marked by pools of blood, providing rare visual confirmation of what Sudanese people have been telling the world. At the same time, the extreme conditions in the DRC, driven by both Western and Eastern greed for minerals, have intensified, resulting in genocidal atrocities, enforced starvation, and enslavement of mostly young people. This roundtable aims to engage speakers who will share their perspectives on these crises and explore the reasons for their persistence, as well as why African suffering is often met with global indifference.

Speakers:
Johise Namwira
Frederic Mirindi
Richard Boli
Moderators: Chigbo Anyaduba and Eliakim Sibanda
Facilitator: Kerry Sinanan

This event is free and open to the public.

The Centre for Research in Cultural Studies with the Departments of English, Indigenous Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, and the Disability Studies program invite you to a public screening of the award-winning NFB film, The Nest, written and directed by University of Winnipeg graduate Julietta Singh. The screening will be followed by a virtual Q&A with the director which will be hosted by Dr. Aarzoo Singh from the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies. The screening will be closed captioned and is free and open to the public.

Time: 2:30-5:30pm
Date: Jan 27, 2026
Location: EG Hall, University of Winnipeg (3rd floor of Centennial Hall, 515 Portage Avenue)

The Nest: At the end of her mother’s life, decolonial writer Julietta Singh returns to say goodbye to her haunted childhood home in Winnipeg, located just a few blocks south of the university. As she digs into the history of the house, she uncovers 140 years of forgotten matriarchs and political rebels she never knew. Singh teams up with acclaimed filmmaker Chase Joynt (Framing Agnes, No Ordinary Man) for a politically charged cross-community collaboration that deftly interweaves Indigenous, Deaf, Japanese and South Asian histories, all connected through the home. A reckoning with memory, matriarchy and the enduring legacies of silenced voices, the film questions who gets lost in the archives of history, and what we stand to gain by resurrecting them. The Nest transforms a single home from a place of siloed histories into a site of radical collective potential.

Dr. Julietta Singh (Director) is Professor of English and Stephanie Bennet-Smith Chair of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Richmond. A postcolonial scholar and nonfiction writer, her work engages the enduring effects of colonization through attention to race, ecology, and inheritance. In addition to writing and co-directing The Nest, she is the author of three books: Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements (Duke UP, 2018). No Archive Will Restore You (Punctum Books, 2018), and The Breaks (Coffee House Press, 2018).

Dr. Aarzoo Singh (Q&A Moderator) is an Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Winnipeg. As an interdisciplinary scholar, her research focuses on the theoretical and experiential connections between storytelling, objects, locations, and displacement for the South Asian Diaspora. Her research was rewarded the Chancellor Henry N. R. Jackman Junior Fellowship from 2014-2020 and she was a nominee for the Christopher Knapper Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2013. Her current research and teaching interests focus on reparative justice narratives, alternative epistemologies, affective and personal archives, and postcolonial subjectivity. She was interviewed on her research for the British Museum of Colonisation’s platform Paper Trails and her published work can be found in DisClosure: A Journal of Social Theory and in the forthcoming anthology Monsters and Monstrosity in Media (Vernon Press).

For more information about this event please contact the Centre for Research in Cultural Studies (CRiCS) at: [email protected]

Dr. Jane Barter is Professor in the Department of Religion and Culture at the University of The University of Winnipeg, where her research focuses on the areas of modern Christianity. In her new book, Theopolitics and the Era of the Witness (Routledge, 2025), Dr. Barter examines “the act of witnessing in the aftermath of tragedy” in the Jewish and Christian faiths, moving from the period of the post-Shoah writings of Paul Celan and Primo Levi to the more contemporary Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in Canada and South Africa.

rel-profs-new-book-is-a-study-in-theopolitics | Faculty of Arts | The University of Winnipeg Dr. Jane Barter is Professor in the Department of Religion and Culture, where her research focuses on the areas of modern Christianity. In her new book, Theopolitics and the Era of the Witness (Routledge, 2025), Dr. Barter examines “the act of witnessing in the aftermath of tragedy” in the Jewis...

Registration reminder for “Exterminating the Idea of Freedom: The Underlying Logic of Scholasticide” with Prof. Steven Salaita (American University in Cairo), October 18 at 12:30pm (EST/Toronto), hosted by the Canadian Association of Cultural Studies | Association canadienne des études culturelles. Register here: https://cacs-acec.org/upcoming-conferences/

We encourage participants to learn more about CACS/ACEC and consider an annual membership which will support our upcoming hybrid conference planned for Trent University, Fall 2026.

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