Welcome to March - wishing everyone a great start to the month.

Updates:

Find the UMIH on YouTube:

Thank you, dear friends, for attending Johanna Hedva and Dr. Leslie McMurtry's talks last week, we hope you enjoyed them. The UMIH has a YouTube channel where past talks and programming recorded will be archived and accessible in case you missed them or would like to revisit your favourite lectures and events. Follow us on our YouTube linked here to access last week's talk with writer, artist, musician, and astrologer Johanna Hedva. ASL interpretation and closed captioning included.

On-going Opportunities:

UMIH External Grant Support:

The UMIH is seeking proposals for its External Grant Support program. An initiative to help researchers in the Faculty of Arts who are seeking external funding for conferences, workshops, colloquia, and other local research events.

This program was designed to provide opportunities for scholars to secure support, both cash and in-kind, from the UMIH in order to leverage funds from other agencies.

Please see attached, the poster for details on how to apply.

Our VIRTUAL WRITE-ON-SITES to help keep your writing on track: Share your writing goals and tips while working alongside others.
Join us Mondays 9 AM - 12 PM and Thursdays 2 PM - 4 PM CST
Email umih@umanitoba.ca for Zoom links.

Of Interest:

Solo Exhibition by Mariana Muñoz Gomez: A volar entre rocas (To fly between stones)
February 20th - April 4th, 2021

The UMIH extends a warm welcome to folks to attend the solo exhibition of artist and recipient of one of many CARE Microgrants. A volar entre rocas consists of photographic, text,

and video works about language, history, place, and memory along with a community workshop. For more details on how to attend and about the show please visit the Facebook events page linked Here

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