Dear friends of the humanities,


Here is your rundown of upcoming events and announcements.


TONIGHT - Wednesday, October 17 – Arts of Conversation

Doors 6:30 pm, Good Will Social Club, 625 Portage Ave.

Tipi Confessions: “Sex at the End of the World–Tipi Confessions in Bed with QPOC”

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HALLOWE’EN EVENTS

 

Thursday, October 25Arts of Conversation

2:30 pm, 409 Tier Building

David Annandale (Dept ETFM), The Darkest Timeline: Get Out, Hereditary, And The Horror Movie In The Age Of Trump”

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Wednesday, October 31 – All Day Public Event

Frankenreads, WinnipegAn international celebration of the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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RACE AND THE MIDDLE AGES

 

Monday, October 29

10:30 am, 409 Tier Building

Dorothy Kim (Brandeis University), Embodying the Database: Race, Gender, and Social Justice”

This talk deals with Medieval Studies, Roberto Busa, S.J., The Index Thomasticus, alternative genealogies of the database that go back to Khipu, pre-contact American embodied databases, WWII, IBM and the Holocaust, and the possibilities of a decolonized history of science.

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Monday, October 29

12:30 pm, 206 Tier Building

Dorothy Kim, (Brandeis University), “Race and the De/Post/Anti-Colonial Middle Ages”

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Dorothy Kim teaches Medieval Literature at Brandeis University. Her research focuses on race, gender, digital humanities, medieval women’s literary cultures, medievalism, Jewish/Christian difference, book history, digital media, and the alt-right.  A prolific scholar, Professor Kim has, among many other projects, two books, The Alt-Medieval: Digital Whiteness and Medieval Studies and Decolonize the Middle Ages, forthcoming with ArcPress, and a co-edited volume (with Kimberly Coles), A Cultural History of Race in the Renaissance and Early Modern Age (1350-1550) forthcoming with Bloomsbury.


ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

TOMORROW - Thursday, October 18

10:00 am, U of M Archives & Special Collections, 330 Elizabeth Dafoe

Book Launch of Evelyn Peters’ Rooster Town: The History of an Urban Métis Community, 1901-1961

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Tuesday, November 6 – Workshop Series—Register Today, space limited

10:30-4:00 – 409 Tier Building

PhDs That Work: Finding Success in an Uncertain Job Market,

with Maren Wood and Jennifer Polk of Beyond the Professoriate

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Free registration at https://umhumanities.com

 

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Paul Jenkins, PhD

Program Developer/Coordinator & Assistant to the Director

Institute for the Humanities &

Instructor, Dept. of History

University of Manitoba

407 Tier Building

204 474 9599

umih@umanitoba.ca

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