Dear friends of the humanities,
Here is your rundown of upcoming events and announcements.
TONIGHT - Wednesday, October 17 – Arts of Conversation
Doors 6:30 pm, Good Will Social Club, 625 Portage Ave.
Tipi Confessions<https://www.facebook.com/tipiconfessions/>: “Sex at the End of the World–Tipi Confessions in Bed with QPOC”
Event Poster<https://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1300>
HALLOWE’EN EVENTS
Thursday, October 25 – Arts of Conversation
2:30 pm, 409 Tier Building
David Annandale (Dept ETFM), “The Darkest Timeline: Get Out, Hereditary, And The Horror Movie In The Age Of Trump”
Event Calendar<http://events.umanitoba.ca/EventList.aspx?fromdate=10/1/2018&todate=10/31/2…>
Event Poster<https://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1274>
Wednesday, October 31 – All Day Public Event
Frankenreads, Winnipeg<https://frankenreadswinnipeg.wordpress.com/> – An international celebration of the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Event Calendar<http://events.umanitoba.ca/EventList.aspx?fromdate=10/1/2018&todate=10/31/2…>
Event Poster<https://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1227>
RACE AND THE MIDDLE AGES
Monday, October 29
10:30 am, 409 Tier Building
Dorothy Kim (Brandeis University), “Embodying the Database: Race, Gender, and Social Justice”
This talk deals with Medieval Studies, Roberto Busa, S.J., The Index Thomasticus, alternative genealogies of the database that go back to Khipu, pre-contact American embodied databases, WWII, IBM and the Holocaust, and the possibilities of a decolonized history of science.
Event Calendar<http://events.umanitoba.ca/EventList.aspx?fromdate=10/1/2018&todate=10/31/2…>
Event Poster<https://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1317>
Monday, October 29
12:30 pm, 206 Tier Building
Dorothy Kim, (Brandeis University), “Race and the De/Post/Anti-Colonial Middle Ages”
Event Calendar<http://events.umanitoba.ca/EventList.aspx?fromdate=10/1/2018&todate=10/31/2…>
Event Poster<https://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1314>
Dorothy Kim teaches Medieval Literature at Brandeis University. Her research focuses on race, gender, digital humanities, medieval women’s literary cultures, medievalism, Jewish/Christian difference, book history, digital media, and the alt-right. A prolific scholar, Professor Kim has, among many other projects, two books, The Alt-Medieval: Digital Whiteness and Medieval Studies and Decolonize the Middle Ages, forthcoming with ArcPress, and a co-edited volume (with Kimberly Coles), A Cultural History of Race in the Renaissance and Early Modern Age (1350-1550) forthcoming with Bloomsbury.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
TOMORROW - Thursday, October 18
10:00 am, U of M Archives & Special Collections, 330 Elizabeth Dafoe
Book Launch of Evelyn Peters’ Rooster Town: The History of an Urban Métis Community, 1901-1961
Event Poster<https://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1302>
Tuesday, November 6 – Workshop Series—Register Today, space limited
10:30-4:00 – 409 Tier Building
PhDs That Work: Finding Success in an Uncertain Job Market,
with Maren Wood and Jennifer Polk of Beyond the Professoriate
Event Poster<https://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1288>
Free registration at https://umhumanities.com
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Paul Jenkins, PhD
Program Developer/Coordinator & Assistant to the Director
Institute for the Humanities &
Instructor, Dept. of History
University of Manitoba
407 Tier Building
204 474 9599
umih(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:umih@ad.umanitoba.ca>
umanitoba.ca/institutes/humanities<http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/humanities>
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Paul Jenkins, PhD
Program Developer/Coordinator & Assistant to the Director
Institute for the Humanities &
Instructor, Dept. of History
University of Manitoba
407 Tier Building
204 474 9599
umih(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:umih@ad.umanitoba.ca>
umanitoba.ca/institutes/humanities<http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/humanities>
Dear Friends of the Humanities,
As our programming for the academic year tapers down for the summer, we at the UMIH would like to thank you for so generously sharing your research, knowledge and expertise, for helping to sustain such vibrant and diverse research culture on campus, and beyond, and for generally making this a great place to think together. We hope that you found it as stimulating and rewarding as we did.
Of course, it should be noted that we are not finished and still have a number of exciting things planned for the summer, so stay tuned.
In the meantime, many of you may be interested in the following:
NEWS
Call for Applications:
UMIH call for Research Affiliate<http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/humanities/media/Call_2018-1…>, Research Cluster<http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/humanities/media/Call_2018-1…>, and Graduate Fellowship<http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/humanities/media/Call_2018-1…> applications is also open. The deadline for applications is April 30th.
EVENTS
The Critical Environments Research Group's Spring Workshop will take place April 26th, 10:30-3:00 in 320 Sinnott Bldg. See below for more details.
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Paul Jenkins, PhD
Program Developer/Coordinator & Assistant to the Director
Institute for the Humanities &
Instructor, Dept. of History
University of Manitoba
407 Tier Building
204 474 9599
umih(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:umih@ad.umanitoba.ca>
umanitoba.ca/institutes/humanities<http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/humanities>
EVENTS
Wednesday, 11 April— Presented by The Research Cluster on Power and Resistance in Latin America and The Canadian Consortium on Performance and Politics in the Americas
409 Tier Building
Cynthia Milton (Université de Montréal), “Counter Memories: How the Peruvian Military Performs and Curates a Contested Past”
Cynthia Milton is Professor of Latin American History at the Université de Montréal. She is the editor of Art from a Fractured Past: Memory and Truth-telling in Post–Shining Path Peru. She is the author of Conflicted Memory. Military Cultural Interventions and the Human Rights Era in Peru (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018). Her co-edited works include Curating Difficult Knowledge: Violent Pasts in Public Places (Palgrave, 2011) and The Art of Truth-Telling about Authoritarian Rule (University of Wisconsin Press, 2005).
NEWS
Call for Applications:
UMIH call for Research Affiliate<http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/humanities/media/Call_2018-1…>, Research Cluster<http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/humanities/media/Call_2018-1…>, and Graduate Fellowship<http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/humanities/media/Call_2018-1…> applications is also open. The deadline for applications is April 30th.
Paul Jenkins, PhD
Program Developer/Coordinator & Assistant to the Director
Institute for the Humanities &
Instructor, Dept. of History
University of Manitoba
407 Tier Building
204 474 9599
umih(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:umih@ad.umanitoba.ca>
umanitoba.ca/institutes/humanities<http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/humanities>
Dear friends of the humanities,
Well, I am a proper muppet. As I apologies again for all the confusion, I would ask that you please note that Julie Gibbings' workshop on “Labour, Violence and Death in the Remaking of Planter Modernity in Guatemala, 1898-1914,” will start at 2:30 pm on March 21st, (and not the 28th!) The corrected details are as follows:
Wednesday, 21 March – Power and Resistance in Latin America Research Cluster
2:30 pm, 409 Tier
Julie Gibbings (Department of History), “Labour, Violence and Death in the Remaking of Planter Modernity in Guatemala, 1898-1914.”
This event, open to any interested person, will be in the format of a workshop based on discussion of a text available upon request, please send a message to jorge.nallim(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:jorge.nallim@umanitoba.ca>
Paul Jenkins, PhD
Program Developer/Coordinator & Assistant to the Director
Institute for the Humanities &
Instructor, Dept. of History
University of Manitoba
407 Tier Building
204 474 9599
umih(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:umih@ad.umanitoba.ca>
umanitoba.ca/institutes/humanities<http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/humanities>