The Affect Project is a collaboration of researchers interested in the role of affect in cluture and lived experience. The potential for intellectual cross-fertilization between psychology and literary studies is significant. The members of the Affect Projec, each working individually on research that fits into a large general rubric of psychology and literature, or psychology and film, are taking advantage of the potential for more immediate intellectual cross-fertilization across the Faculty.

Mamawipwin (Cree for gathering space) is a Canada Foundation for Innovation funded research space for community-based research with Indigenous peoples. It occupies the fourth floor, Isbister Building, at the University of Manitoba and will have an adjacent lab to record interviews and house a digital archive. Mamawipiwin will facilitate scholars and Indigenous communities in working together to create an innovative understanding of Indigenous governance and solutions for political decolonization.

COMEMS: Circle of Medieval and Early Modern Scholars is an interdisciplinary and inter-University research cluster that brings together researchers interested in the Medieval and Early Modern European world.

Film Worlds Research Cluster is a forum for researchers and artists from across the disciplines whose work explores and employs the moving image. As one of its primary goals, the cluster aims to draw attention to those less familiar and overlooked sites on the continuum of the moving image. The cluster will look at essay films, ethnographic films, propaganda films, scientific films, sport films, among others, paying special attention to manifestations of hybrid forms, and to the ways in which minor modes can be seen to inform and even subtend major ones. Its activities consist of reading groups, lectures, and screenings followed by panel discussions.

The Histories of the Body Research Group is an interdisciplinary group of scholars from English, Film, and Theatre; History; Religion; French, Spanish, and Italian; as well as outside of the Faculty of Arts, including Kinesiology, Nursing, Medicine, and Disability Studies.  The cluster, who has received two previous years of support from the UMIH, will focus much of its efforts on a major colloquium surrounding the theme, Human Rites/Animal Bodies.

The Human-Animal Research Group The academic goals of the group involve exploring the concept of human rights as these rights relate to what is specifically human. That is, the category of the “human” as a species with rights is not an a priori fact; it is produced, ritualized, understood in relation to other species.

Interdisciplinary Research Circle on Globalization and Cosmopolitanism (IRCGC) was formed to critically examine the cultural and political implications of an increasingly globally integrated world.

Law & Society Research Cluster brings together faculty and students from across the humanities and social science disciplines at both the University of Manitoba and Winnipeg interested in the social, cultural, and political dimensions of the law and its role in society. The goal of the cluster is to create a community of mutually supportive scholars and to foster interdisciplinary collaborative research.

Representations of War Research Cluster  This research cluster gathers together faculty and graduate students from departments across the Humanities and Social Sciences with a view to stimulating research and teaching on the representation of war.

Postcolonial South Asian and African Studies Group (PSA&AFSG) Since colonialism and imperialism as a social, cultural and political project has shaped the modern world including the west, our group considers it as its mission to broaden the scope of western scholarship by championing postcolonial writings and scholarship.

Power and Resistance in Latin America  The goal of the research cluster is to foster dialogue among members, graduate and undergraduate students, and the wider community on the varied nature and multiple aspects of power relations in Latin America.