Dear friends of the humanities,

Here is your weekly rundown of news and events.

THIS WEEK

11 February, 2019 – 1:30-3:30 pm

Pop-up Restoration Coffeehouse—Experience a 1660s coffeehouse in 2019. Join us for skits, dramatic readings, informational and satirical pamphlets and FREE hot coffee and tea.

Event Posterhttps://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1404

Event Calendarhttps://eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/arts/event/pop-up-restoration-coffeehouse/

11 February, 2019 – 6:00 pm – U of M Black History Month event:

409 Tier Building

Screening of the NFB film, The Ninth Floorhttps://www.nfb.ca/film/ninth_floor/

Free Registration - Event Calendarhttps://eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/arts/event/black-history-month---screening-of-nfb-film-the-ninth-floor/

All welcome

Thursday, February 14, 2019

2:30 pm, 409 Tier Building

Christopher Crocker, University of Iceland, “Narrating Disability Before Disability: Embodied Impairment in the Medieval Icelandic Sagas”

Event Posterhttps://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1426

Event Calendarhttps://eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/arts/event/c-crocker---narrating-disability-before-disability-embodied-impairment-in-the-medieval-icelandic-sa/

COMMUNITY EVENTS

Thursday, February 21, 2019

7:00 pm, aceartinc., 2-290 McDermot Ave

“Imaginative Spaces: A Public Discussion”

Mariana Muñoz Gomez and Gurpreet Sehra, members of the UMIH Citing, Collecting, Curating (CCC) research cluster, will engage in conversation with local artists Francesca Carella Arfinengo and Luther Konadu around themes of citation, archive, and imaginative practices.

Event Posterhttps://umhumanities.com/?customize_changeset_uuid=c479a77a-62f4-4520-a451-4a7a52d052f9&customize_autosaved=on#jp-carousel-1545

Friday, February 15, 2019

6:00 pm, X-Cues Café & Lounge, 551 Sargent Ave.

QPOC Winnipeg presents Drop the Mic #9, Featuring Queen Sheeba & Local Black Artists

Facebook Event Pagehttps://www.facebook.com/events/361556151095977/

Event Posterhttps://umhumanities.com/?customize_changeset_uuid=c479a77a-62f4-4520-a451-4a7a52d052f9&customize_autosaved=on#jp-carousel-1541

NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

UMIH Call for Affiliate, Cluster and Graduate Fellowship applications for the 2019-20 academic year.

Affiliate Applicationhttps://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1423

Cluster Applicationhttps://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1424

Grad Fellowship Applicationhttps://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1425

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Paul Jenkins, PhD

Programming Developer/Manager and Assistant Director

Institute for the Humanities &

Instructor, Dept. of History

University of Manitoba

407 Tier Building

204 474 9599

umih@umanitoba.camailto:umih@ad.umanitoba.ca

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