Dear Friends of the hUManities,

Welcome to a new week, we hope this letter meets you well. 

Up-coming events: 

PATHWAYS OF RECONCILIATION VIRTUAL BOOK LAUNCH Please join the UM-Press, supported by the UMIH for the virtual launch of Pathways of Reconciliation: Indigenous and Settler Approaches to Implementing the TRC's Call to action. Editors Aimée Craft and Paulette Regan will be joined by contributors Régine Uwibereyeho King, Sheryl Lightfoot, David B. MacDonald, and Andrea Walsh. Wednesday, November 25th, 2020. 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM CST. Please see the following link for more details and registration: https://uofmpress.ca/events/entry/pathways-of-reconciliation-virtual-launch


Public Lecture - What does the “K” stand for in K-pop?  Deconstructing Koreanness in K-pop: Please join Dr Tina Chen and the Asian Studies Centre for an upcoming public lecture: What does the “K” stand for in K-pop?  Deconstructing Koreanness in K-pop. With increasing numbers of non-Korean members in K-pop groups, K-pop as a music genre, cultural product and system has become increasingly more transnational and hybrid than ever before.  This lecture questions what constitutes K-pop and discusses what is specifically Korean about K-pop. The lecture first introduces various ways in which we understand K-pop and then discusses K-pop’s racial imagination by looking at fans’ reaction to and discourse around K-pop groups without Korean members. In doing so, the lecture addresses how the boundary of K-pop is made and re-made. Friday, December 4th 2020 from 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM. Please email  Asian.Studies@umanitoba.ca  for the Zoom link. See Attachment for the event poster. 

On-going Opportunities: 

We will like to continue to highlight that the UMIH welcomes opportunities to spotlight teaching this term for teaching staff in Arts that would like support for a remote guest lecture in their class to be made a broader, public event. We can provide some financial support for guest lecture honoraria, as well as logistical support for a live-streamed event online. Email heejungserenity.joo@umanitoba.ca for more details.

Announcements: 

Congratulations to the winners of the third round of the CARE Microgrants! 
Following the conclusion of the third round of the CARE Microgrant call for submissions, we are proud to reveal the list of finalists! proposals from students and community members that explored the multiple dimensions of care, caring, and being careful. This included the (gendered and raced) labor of healthcare, the physical and/or emotional aspects of care, caring for or about a certain cause, or what it means to be careful in this moment of social distancing, for example, projects that center queer and critical race approaches were the focus of our selection. Please see the list of recipients below: 

Kelly Campbell
Christine Brouzes
Jessie Jannuska
Cari-Lynn Jessica Birdwise Lecocq
Erin Laye 
Candace Neumann
Candace Lipischak
melannie monoceros
Renu Shonek
Tiff Bartel
Ryan Ad
Nicole Laurendeau 
Mariana Munoz-Gomez
Kat Nancy
Albyn Carias
kathleen shellrude

Weekly Wrap Up - A Teaching Happy Hour Sessions are back! Ongoing, casual drop-ins for all Arts instructors to share and discuss tips, strategies, and all things related to remote teaching this term. With special guest, Jonathan Dyck. These sessions will be hosted Friday afternoons from 3:30-4:30 PM with our first starting this Friday, October 30th, 2020.
Please email umih@umanitoba.ca for the Zoom link.

Take care, friends. 

--UMIH 



Ekene Maduka

Assistant to the Director 

Institute for the Humanities 

University of Manitoba

407 Tier Building

204 474 9599

umih@umanitoba.ca

umanitoba.ca/institutes/humanities