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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