Dear Friends of
the hUManities,
Happy New Year! and welcome back to the semester
Up-coming
Public Lectures:
The UMIH Research Cluster on Power and Resistance in Latin America presents:
The
Historical and Contemporary Causes of «Survival Migration». From Central America’s Northern Triangle by Dr.Liisa
North (York University).
Thursday,
13th January 2022 from 3:30 - 5:00 PM CT
Liisa L. North (Professor Emeritus, York University) has
written numerous journalistic pieces published in various magazines and national newspapers in Canada and Ecuador. She has been Director of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC, York University), President of the Canadian Association
of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS), and director of various institution-building projects financed by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) in Ecuador and other Andean countries. To learn more about Dr.North's research work, see
the attached two-page poster including a short bio. To attend this presentation, email: landivan@myumanitoba.ca for
the Zoom link.
The UMIH Research
Cluster on Death as Transformative Experience presents: Inaugural Symposium
Friday, 14th January 2022 from 1:30
- 5:00 PM CT
This symposium features talks
by: Dr.Simone Mahrenholz speaking on Death
and Self-Transformation - Introduction to the Cluster and Key Philosophical Motives,
Dr.Harvey Chochinov discussing Death, Dying and Dignity in
the Terminally Ill, Dr.George
Toles discussing The Theatre of Aloneness: The Depiction of Grief in Todd Field’s
In the Bedroom
and Dr.Colette
Simonot-Maiello on Death in Sonic Detail: Madness and Death
in Francis Poulenc’s
Dialogues des Carmélites. To
view the symposium schedule, view page two of the attached poster enclosed in the PDF. To attend,
please email simone.mahrenholz@umanitoba.ca for
the Zoom link.