Welcome to a new week

Upcoming Events:

UMIH Fall Spotlight Event: In partnership with Critical Environments Research Group, we present On Climate Justice and Just Transitions by Dr. Julie Sze (University of California)

Monday, November, 14^th 2022 at 2:30 PM CT via Zoom

The UMIH and CERG are excited to present this lecture by Dr. Julie Sze (University of California). Join us on Monday, November 14th , 2022 at 2:30 PM CT with Dr. Julie Sze, professor of American Studies and founding Director of the Environmental Justice Project, focused on climate justice. There will be live ASL available for this event and a Q & A session to follow shortly after. Please email umih@umanitoba.ca with any questions or other accessibility needs. To attend this event, please use this Zoom link.

The Writing Towards a Just World Research Cluster presents: The Role of the Writer in the World by Jacob Scheier

Thursday, 25th October 2022 from 12 PM - 2 PM CT

We are super excited to invite folks to this hybrid workshop hosted by the Writing Towards a Just World Research Cluster with CCWOC's writer in residence, Jacob Scheier. In this workshop, we will explore the big question—why write? More specifically, we will discuss the role the writer and/or poet potentially plays in our society, particularly when it comes to social justice. We will look at our own writing (participants are encouraged to bring in their recent work (a poem, story, work of creative nonfiction) and consider the cultural impact we would like it to have and what techniques and devices we can employ to better achieve such aims. There will be ASL interpretation available for this event. Please contact us with any other accessibility requests by email. To Register, please visit this link.

Melanie Dennis Unrau, UMIH Research Affiliate and Max Karpinski, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto Mississauga present:

Forum on Poetics, Energy, and Extraction for a special issue of Canadian Literature Moderated by Dr. Warren Cariou (ETFM)

Thursday, October 27, 2022 from 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM CDT via Zoom

Please join us for a forum with poetry readings and statements of poetics on the theme of energy and/or extraction by poets Jennifer Wickham, Nduka Otiono, Rita Wong, Lindsay Bird, and Adam Dickinson. The event is held in preparation for a special issue of Canadian Literature on “Poetics and Extraction” and is hosted by Dr. Warren Cariou (University of Manitoba), Dr. Melanie Dennis Unrau (UMIH affiliate), and Dr. Max Karpinski (University of Toronto Mississauga). Please use this Zoom link to attend the event.

This is the second Forum on Poetics, Energy, and Extraction; the first forum was held in March 2022. A recording of the first forum, with readings and statements by Kazim Ali, Madhur Anand, Lesley Battler, Warren Cariou, Cecily Nicholson, and Douglas Walbourne-Gough, is available here.

Some say comedy is an innate gift that only a select few possess; others say it's a skill that anyone can learn. Writer, Frances, thinks it's a little bit of both! In this workshop, we'll explore the building blocks of humour, joke-writing, and comedy as well as our own individual lived experiences, perspectives, and ideas to exercise our comedic muscles and explore our authentic voice as writers. Through a combination of listening, watching and, most importantly, writing, we'll focus in on how humour can be used to challenge and re-imagine the rules, structures and practices that we have been taught – and hopefully have a few laughs along the way. Please stay tuned for the Zoom webinar link to register and event poster.

UMIH Sponsored Events:

University of Manitoba Press and the UMIH present RECIPES AND RECIPROCITY: BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS IN RESEARCH

Thursday October 27^th 2022 from 2 PM - 3 PM CT

Foyer of the UM Indigenous Student Centre

Join UMP and the UMIH for a free book talk on RECIPES AND RECIPROCITY: BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS IN RESEARCH, in the foyer of U of M Indigenous student center. Enjoy presentations from editor Hannah Tait Neufeld and contributing ⁠author Monica Cyr followed by light refreshments. We look forward to seeing you there.

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Upcoming Events Of interest:

Reckoning with Extraction roundtable CFP

UMIH Research Affiliate Dr. Melanie Dennis Unrau is co-organizing a joint Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) and Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada (ALECC) roundtable on the theme of “Reckoning with Extraction,” to be held at Congress at York University in May 2023. Please see the attached CFP and submit proposals using the ACCUTE online submission form. Feel free to contact Melanie at melanie.unrau@umanitoba.ca with any questions.

UMIH Features:

The Manitoban - Like Queer Animals - a bestiary of anthropomorphic creatures and poetry

The UMIH's collaborative exhibition We Hold Your Gaze_Remix and Public Lecture Like Queer Animals (part of programming for the exhibit) were recently reviewed in The Manitoban by Jessie Krahn (ETFM). Visit this link to read more about Dr. Chantal Nadeau's talk and the exhibition. The exhibition

We Hold Your Gaze_Remix runs until Oct. 28 at MAWA at 611 Main Street. The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday to Friday.

Take care, friends

Ekene Maduka

Assistant to the Director

Institute for the Humanities

University of Manitoba

407 Tier Building

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umih@umanitoba.ca

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