UMIH - Humanities Rundown

Dear friends of the humanities,

Here is a rundown of upcoming events and announcements.

EVENTS

Tuesday, October 2—TOMORROW

2:30 pm, 409 Tier Building

Graduate Student Grant Writing Workshop

Panel: Len Kuffert (Grad Chair, History), Erin Keating (Dept ETFM), David Watt (past-Director, UM Institute for the Humanities.

Event Calendarhttp://events.umanitoba.ca/EventList.aspx?fromdate=10/1/2018&todate=10/31/2018&display=Month&type=public&eventidn=16032&view=EventDetails&information_id=35113

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Thursday, October 4 – Arts of Conversation

2:30 pm, 409 Tier Building

Etienne-Marie Lassi (Dept of French, Spanish and Italian), “Environmental/Ecological Issues And The Aesthetics Of Detective Novels In Francophone Africa”

Event Calendarhttp://events.umanitoba.ca/EventList.aspx?fromdate=10/1/2018&todate=10/31/2018&display=Month&type=public&eventidn=16033&view=EventDetails&information_id=35115

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Thursday, October 11 – Arts of Conversation

2:30 pm, 409 Tier Building

Michael Sampson (Dept of Classics), “He Makes The Sort Of Marriage By Which He Is At Some Point Upset”: Myth And Misdirection In Prometheus Bound”

Event Calendarhttp://events.umanitoba.ca/EventList.aspx?fromdate=10/1/2018&todate=10/31/2018&display=Month&type=public&eventidn=16034&view=EventDetails&information_id=35117

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Monday, October 15 – Public Lecture

7:00 PM, Carol Shields auditorium, Millennium Library, 251 Donald St

Tracy Bear (University of Alberta), “Red Erotic: The Fall and Rise of Indigenous Erotica”

Event Calendarhttp://events.umanitoba.ca/EventList.aspx?fromdate=10/1/2018&todate=10/31/2018&display=Month&type=public&eventidn=15895&view=EventDetails&information_id=34746

Wednesday, October 17 – Arts of Conversation

Doors 6:30 pm, Good Will Social Club, 625 Portage Ave.

Tipi Confessionshttps://www.facebook.com/tipiconfessions/: Sexy storytelling, performances, and anonymous audience confessions. Sex, (almost) everybody does it and (almost) nobody talks about it — except at Tipi Confessions.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Tuesday, November 6 – Workshop Series—Register Today

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

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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

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