The Marsha Hanen Global Dialogue and Ethics Program was established in 2007 through a generous donation Dr. Marsha Hanen, former President of The University of Winnipeg. Dr. Hanen’s gift supports faculty projects involving interdisciplinary research and dialogue.
From the applications received in 2014, the Selection Committee has awarded the following grants:
Caring for Difficult Knowledge: The Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Focus – $6,000
Principal Applicant: Angela Failler, Women and Gender Studies
The grant provides support for a Research Assistant and Community Outreach Coordinator for a workshop designed to contribute new concepts and terms of ethical engagement for learning from histories of violence and conflict, with particular attention to the possibilities and limits of a human rights framework. The project is a collaboration between UWinnipeg’s Cultural Studies Research Group, and colleagues at Concordia University.
An Ethical Affirmation of Indigenous Values in a Globalized World – $6,000
Principal Applicant: Gabriel Nemoga, Indigenous Studies
The grant provides partial support for a project that will examine and compare Indigenous educational experience in Colombia and Canada. The project includes exchanges and joint research between UWinnipeg and two organizations in Colombia: the Autonomous Indigenous Intercultural University (known by the Spanish acronym UAIIN) and the Cauca Indigenous Regional Council (known by the Spanish acronym CRIC).
Impact of International Intergenerational Gender Alliances Countering Violence Against Women and Girls in South Sudan and the DRC – $6,000.
Principal Applicant: Marilou McPhedran, Global College
This project aims to strengthen leadership capacity and gender alliances within the Winnipeg diaspora communities of South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo in order to raise awareness and implement harm prevention and reduction strategies for gender-based violence in those countries. The work includes participatory action research and capacity-building workshops, in support of the Girl Ambassadors for Peace project of the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders.
Returning Pīsm Finds Her Miskanow to O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation – $4,000Principal Applicant: Doris Wolf, English
Pīsm Finds Her Miskanow is a picture book published last year for young people about Kayasochi Kikawenow, a young Cree woman who lived in northern Manitoba in the late 17th Century. The book tells the story of a week in the life of thirteen year-old Pīsm, the fictional name storyteller William Dumas chose for Kayasochi.. The book, which incorporates archeology, maps, Cree wisdom and songs, has already won awards and high praise for its educational as well as storytelling excellence. The grant provides support for events in Thompson for O-Pipon-Na-Pwin Cree Nation (South Indian Lake), the community with which Pīsm Finds Her Miskanow and Kayasochi Kikawenow are rooted. This fulfills the researchers’ objective to return the story to the community in which Kayasochi Kikawenow lived, honouring the elders who provided information for the book, and educating young people about their cultural heritage.
