Dear Friends of the hUManities,
Join us this week for talks from some of our current Research Clusters as well as an introduction to scholarly book publishing from Jill McConkey of UM Press!
If you are in the Ottawa area on Wednesday, UMIH is supporting the Expert Roundtable on Canadian Economic Sanctions on October 9, 2019, from 8:30 am – 4:30 pm at the Museum of Nature.
Closer to home, the UMIH Research Cluster on Power and Resistance in Latin America will also be presenting a talk on Wednesday, October 9, 2019, in 409 Tier Building at 2:30 pm.
SUGAR CANE-BASED AGROFUELS IN SOUTHWEST ECUADOR: A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF NEW AGRO-EXTRACTIVISMS
Natalia Landívar
Natural Resource Institute
University of Manitoba
Natalia Landívar is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Manitoba’s Natural Resource Institute. She is a right to food activist and academic committed to socially-engaged research. Her research focuses on the sugar cane-based commodity chain and land grabbing in the Ecuadorian lower Guayas River Basin, using the conceptual frameworks of food sovereignty and feminist political ecology.
Thursday, October 10, 2019, UM Press' Acquisitions Editor, Jill McConkey, will be presenting on The Ins and Outs of Scholarly Book Publishing at 2:30 pm in 409 Tier. If you're curious about scholarly book publishing in Canada and learning about how to publish your work, this will be of interest! Jill has worked in scholarly publishing for twenty years, primarily in the fields of Canadian history, literature, and Indigenous Studies.
UMIH's Shelter Research Cluster will also be presenting a talk and workshop by guest speaker Adrian McKerracher.
TALK
How metaphor can change what you make and how you make it.
Think outside the box. Have a breakthrough. Get over writer’s block. How do metaphors affect the way we understand creative processes? And how can different metaphors change the way we engage with our own creative practices? In this talk, McKerracher draws on travel memoir, interviews, and research in Havana, Buenos Aires, and Vancouver to demonstrate how the language of creativity limits and liberates creative possibilities. Relevant to students and faculty of any discipline.
October 10, 2019 at 12 Noon, ARTlab 364
WORKSHOP
Why you are not stuck: Using metaphor to reimagine your art practice
Feeling stuck? Like things aren’t going anywhere? At a dead end? Participants will explore the implicit expectations of journey metaphors and how things could be otherwise. The workshop guides artists of any medium through a reflective process about the way they describe their practice, using metaphor to try out new ways of relating to their work. Participants are encouraged to bring a draft of their artist statement.
October 10, 2019 at 1:30 pm, ARTlab 364
Coming up:
The Research Cluster on Power and Resistance in Latin America Presents
ROMERO: THE MAKING OF AN ICON
Kevin Coleman
Department of Historical Studies
University of Toronto
409 Tier Building
Friday, October 18,2019 at 2:30 pm
The Faculty of Arts Student Conference Travel Award
This fund is intended to provide graduate and senior undergraduate students in the Faculty of Arts with financial support to attend a conference in their discipline at which they will present a paper, or play a role of similar significance. There are two competitions each year, with deadlines of November 1 and April 1 -- application is to be made to Acting Associate Dean (Research) Heidi Marx C/O Jen Chappellaz, 307 Fletcher Argue Building.
TO GET TO MORE INFORMATION AND THE APPLICATION FORM FOR THIS AWARD, PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW:
http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/awards/3006.html
Last, but not least of all, if anyone is interested in Create: Words and Art from WCC, we will have copies available at UMIH by donation!
Sabrina Sethi
Assistant to the Director
Institute for the Humanities
University of Manitoba
407 Tier Building
204 474 9599
umih@umanitoba.camailto:umih@ad.umanitoba.ca
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