Welcome to a new week!
Up-coming
Public Lectures:
The UMIH Research Cluster on Power and Resistance in Latin America presents:
Agrarian
Extractivism in Latin America by Dr.Ben
M. McKay (University of Calgary)
Friday,
February 4th 2022 from 2:30 - 4:00 PM CT
Join
Dr Ben M. McKay, Assistant Professor of Development and Sustainability at the University of Calgary, discussing agrarian extractivism. Dr. McKay's research focuses on the political economy and ecology of agrarian change in Latin America, agrarian extractivism,
and food sovereignty alternatives. For more details on this event and a short bio on Dr. McKay, please view the attached two-page PDF. For the Zoom link to attend, email: landivan@myumanitoba.ca
UMIH
Sponsored events:
PAO!
(Prairie Asian Organizers) presents: Model Minority Munity Workshop
Sunday,
January 30th 2022 from 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
CT via Zoom
PAO! invites members of the Asian community across Canada to join this teach-in centered on exploring Asian identity and
the model minority myth. Details on the teach-in can be found via PAO!'s
Instagram. To attend, please register via this
link
which is also accessible in PAO!'s Instagram bio. Please see the event poster attached.
Mosaic Journal presents: Relative Time/Little
Time Speaker Series
Tuesday, January 25th - Friday, January 28th 2022
We are happy to announce the Relative Time/Little Time Speaker Series, a collaborative project between
Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal and Bik Van der Pol, will be re-commencing
next week. The schedule for the first week include; Denise Ferreira da Silva presenting on Tue, Jan 25th, Paul
Huebener presenting on Wednesday, January 26th and Elsa Dorlin on Friday, January 28th 2022. To register for these talks and future presentations, please visit the
Eventbrite
link.
Of-Interest:
Critical Environments Research Group presents: Emerging
Research in the Arctic Social Science and Humanities Lecture series
with
Support from Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth and Resources
Remote
Control: Chinese Infrastructure In and Above the Arctic
by Dr. Mia Bennett (University of Washington)
Thursday,
January 27th, 2022 at 12:30 PM CT
Dr. Mia
Bennett is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography. Dr.Bennett has conducted fieldwork along the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway in Canada’s Northwest Territories and is particularly interested in the role of Indigenous Peoples in leading infrastructure
development in the North American Arctic. To attend this event, please email: bruce.erickson@umanitoba.ca for
the Zoom link.
pAGES - Department
of English, Theatre, Film & Media
Call for Submission to Loose
Threads (Summer
2022 virtual colloquium)
Deadline: April 8th 2022
pAGES, the Association of Graduate English Students, from the University of Manitoba’s Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media invites folks to submit proposals for
their Summer 2022 virtual colloquium titled “Loose Threads” to be held over zoom on Friday June 10th,
2022. Please see the attached call for papers and poster for details. If you have any questions about submission guidelines,
accessibility, or anything else, please send inquiries to pages.info@umanitoba.ca
Take
care, friends