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09/30/2026

Some photos from our booth at the Tabletop Games Market and Festival this past weekend! Clavis and Professor Ryan were promoting the Manitoba Games Research & Pedagogy Conference and the Game Studies Society's Upcoming Game Over 3 Convention🕹️🎮

(Which speaking of, if you're still thinking of submitting something to the Manitoba Games Research & Pedagogy Conference... the deadline is tomorrow!!)

08/28/2026

Reminder ‼️ Call for Abstracts is open for the Manitoba Games Research & Pedagogy Confetence!!

Have a paper related to games, gamification, play, or any of the other categories listed?

Submit it for the 2026 Manitoba Games Research & Pedagogy Conference!🎮🎲🎳 Top submissions will receive a monetary award!!💰💸

This conference is being held at UWinnipeg from November 27-28 as a part of the HYPER technology conference.

Interested? Submit your name, institution, email, biography (under 50 words), presentation title and 100-300 word abstract to Dr. Ryan Clement ([email protected]) by September 30th!

08/06/2026

‼️🔔Call for Papers Alert!

Have a paper related to games, gamification, play, or any of the other categories listed?

Submit it for the 2026 Manitoba Games Research & Pedagogy Conference!🎮🎲🎳

This conference is being held at UWinnipeg from November 27-28 as a part of the HYPER technology conference.

Interested? Submit your name, institution, email, biography (under 50 words), presentation title and 100-300 word abstract to Dr. Ryan Clement ([email protected]) by September 30th!

07/15/2026

Congratulations to our winners for this year's English-Speaking Union Prize! 🏆👏🏼

The ESUP is offered annually to rhetoric majors, presenting the best piece of expository writing in an upper level (2000-4000) rhetoric or writing course.

Indie Dufour (he/they)
The Commodification of the Student Body: The University of Winnipeg as Political Battleground
RHET-4138 Modern Rhetorical Theory with Professor Jason Hannan

Carly Wurz (she/her)
Governing Bodies as Biohazard: A Dramatist-Pentadic Analysis of the Canadian Blood Services' Applogy to the 2SLGBTQIA+ Community
RHET-2143 Rhetoric of Medicine with Professor Jason Hannan

Lauren MacGill (she/they)
Death On Trend: How Metaphor and Commodification Transformed Death and Dying
RHET-2143 Rhetoric of Medicine with Professor Jason Hannan

Kaleigh Solinski (she/her)
The 'Monstrous' V***a: Analyzing Male Disgust of Female Anatomy Within the Comedy Scene
RHET-3153 Rhetorics of Gender with Professor Bong-gi Sohn

06/19/2026

The countdown is on!! ⏰
Looking forward to welcoming you all next week for at the University of Winnipeg ()

06/18/2026

Hats off to the grads! 🎓

Here are some pictures from last week's convocation of our outgoing rhetoric grads! We're so proud of you and we can't wait to see what amazing things you'll continue to accomplish.

And a big congratulations to our gold medal recipients for having the highest GPA in their programs!🏅🌟:

Juscenta Haligowski (.mh) for the Honours program
Caelin Brunette ( ) for the 4-year program

06/12/2026

Please join us next week for Weaving Worlds at St. Vital Mall ( ), an art exhibit that brings together student voices and perspectives from 6 universities around the world! 🌎🇨🇦🇧🇭🇶🇦🇨🇳🇬🇧🇺🇸

06/05/2026

Tons of representation this week at the 2026 Society for Socialist Studies Conference!

Robert Neubauer, Etta Stevens Potter (.steviepotter), Josh Potter () and Jason Hannan presented on Barriers to Socialist Projects: Rhetorical and Media Strategies of the Reactionary Right

Juscenta Haligowski (.mh) presented in the Indigenous Locations II session with "In Good Conscience: The Freedom Flotilla Coalition as Unprecedented Body Rhetoric"

(And lastly but not least!) Jason Hannan also contributed in sessions "AUTHOR MEETS CRITICS: Mobilizing Data for Justice" and "Marx and Nature: Political Challenges, Non-Identity and Nature - Critical Politics After Critical Theory"

05/25/2026

Congratulations to rhetoric grads Clay Mykietowich () and James Webster () on being celebrated and honoured at the 2026 Lavender Grad! We are so proud of you 💜🪻

05/14/2026

Congratulations to Professor Jason Hannan on getting his article, "Reactionary Speech: The Art of Political Gaslighting" published in the current issue of Social Research: An International Quarterly.

The theme of this year's issue is "Gaslighting" 👀 take a look!

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