Dear Friends of the hUManities,

Welcome to a new week, we hope this email meets you well - as always.

Of Interest:

ONLINE SCREENING & PANEL DISCUSSION: AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY - THE EVOLUTION OF GRACE LEE BOGGS: Please join Prairie Asian Organizers with the UMIH for an online screening and panel discussion of the documentary, American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs. This event is free and open to all Black, Indigenous and People of Color identified folks who are interested in learning and thinking more about interracial solidarity. Saturday, November 14th, 2020 at 2 PM. See attachment for the event poster.

Please feel welcome to access the screening and Zoom invite here: http://bit.ly/grace-lee-boggs-doc

For detailed information, please visit the Facebook Events page and Prairie Asian Organizer's Instagram. Respective links are listed below:

Facebook Events page: https://fb.me/e/1HR8bbD9t

Prairie Asian Organizers on Instagram: https://instagram.com/prairieasian.organizers?igshid=19waz88ronx4m

Upcoming Events:

PATHWAYS OF RECONCILIATION VIRTUAL BOOK LAUNCH Please join the UM-Press, supported by the UMIH for the virtual launch of Pathways of Reconciliation: Indigenous and Settler Approaches to Implementing the TRC's Call to action. Editors Aimée Craft and Paulette Regan will be joined by contributors Régine Uwibereyeho King, Sheryl Lightfoot, David B. MacDonald, and Andrea Walsh. Wednesday, November 25th, 2020. 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM CST. Please see the following link for more details and registration: https://uofmpress.ca/events/entry/pathways-of-reconciliation-virtual-launch

On-going Opportunities & Events:

In case you missed the PUBLIC LECTURE BY R.F. KUANG The Poppy War in Context: Asian American Speculative Fiction please visit the UMIH's Facebook page to watch the full lecture: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1040735456366806 A closed-captioned version is also now available on Dr Keating's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9xxcOh6Rg0 We will also like to highlight that the UMIH welcomes such opportunities to spotlight teaching this term. If you are teaching in Arts and would like support for a remote guest lecture in your class to be made a broader, public event, please reach out to us. We can provide some financial support for guest lecture honoraria, as well as logistical support for a live-streamed event online. Email heejungserenity.joo@umanitoba.ca for more details.

Announcements:

Please note the Weekly Wrap Up: A Teaching Happy Hour session is currently on hold to resume on Friday, November 20th, 2020.

Our Write On-Site Sessions are also paused for the reading week break and will resume Monday, November 16th, 2020.

--Take Care, Friends.

Ekene Maduka

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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