October 2018 - UM-Humanities - University of Manitoba Mailing Lists

hUManities Rundown
by U Of M Institute For The Humanities 24 Oct '18

24 Oct '18

HALLOWE’EN EVENTS Thursday, October 25 – Arts 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” Event Calendar<http://events.umanitoba.ca/EventList.aspx?fromdate=10/1/2018&todate=10/31/2…> Event Poster<https://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1274> Wednesday, October 31 – All Day Public Event Frankenreads, Winnipeg<https://frankenreadswinnipeg.wordpress.com/> – An international celebration of the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Event Calendar<http://events.umanitoba.ca/EventList.aspx?fromdate=10/1/2018&todate=10/31/2…> Event Poster<https://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1227> 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. Event Calendar<http://events.umanitoba.ca/EventList.aspx?fromdate=10/1/2018&todate=10/31/2…> Event Poster<https://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1317> Monday, October 29 12:30 pm, 408 Tier Building—Please note the room change Dorothy Kim, (Brandeis University), “Race and the De/Post/Anti-Colonial Middle Ages” Event Calendar<http://events.umanitoba.ca/EventList.aspx?fromdate=10/1/2018&todate=10/31/2…> Event Poster<https://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1314> 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 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 Event Poster<https://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1288> Free registration at https://umhumanities.com Thursday, November 22, 2018 — The Futures of the Humanities Series 10:00 am – 4:00 pm, 230 University College Working Your Degree: Co-operative Education, Experiential Learning and the Twenty-first Century – A One-Day Symposium. Keynote: Julie Walchli, Executive Director, Work Integrated Education and Career Initiatives, Co-Director, Canada Japan Co-op Program, Faculty of Arts, The University of British Columbia Session 1 – What Are Co-ops and What Are They Not? Panel: TBC Session 2 – Challenges Facing CEWIL Programs Panel: TBC Session 3 – Keys to Successful CEWIL Programs Panel: TBC Session 4 – CEWIL and the Future Panel: TBC For news, events and much more, follow us on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/UMIHumanities/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel&eid=ARDm8FH…> and subscribe to the hUManities blog<https://umhumanities.com/> Paul Jenkins, PhD Programming Developer/Coordinator and Assistant Director Institute for the Humanities & Instructor, Dept. of History University of Manitoba 407 Tier Building 204 474 9599 umih(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:umih@ad.umanitoba.ca> umanitoba.ca/institutes/humanities<http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/humanities>

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Correction - Tipi Confessions - Doors 5:30
by U Of M Institute For The Humanities 17 Oct '18

17 Oct '18

Dear friends of the humanities, Apologies, but the doors for "Sex at the End of the World – Tipi Confessions in Bed with QPOC" event open at 5:30 pm tonight, and not 6:30 pm as listed. The show starts at 6:00 pm. 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(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:umih@ad.umanitoba.ca> umanitoba.ca/institutes/humanities<http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/humanities>

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Humanities Rundown
by U Of M Institute For The Humanities 17 Oct '18

17 Oct '18

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<https://www.facebook.com/tipiconfessions/>: “Sex at the End of the World–Tipi Confessions in Bed with QPOC” Event Poster<https://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1300> HALLOWE’EN EVENTS Thursday, October 25 – Arts 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” Event Calendar<http://events.umanitoba.ca/EventList.aspx?fromdate=10/1/2018&todate=10/31/2…> Event Poster<https://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1274> Wednesday, October 31 – All Day Public Event Frankenreads, Winnipeg<https://frankenreadswinnipeg.wordpress.com/> – An international celebration of the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Event Calendar<http://events.umanitoba.ca/EventList.aspx?fromdate=10/1/2018&todate=10/31/2…> Event Poster<https://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1227> 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. Event Calendar<http://events.umanitoba.ca/EventList.aspx?fromdate=10/1/2018&todate=10/31/2…> Event Poster<https://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1317> Monday, October 29 12:30 pm, 206 Tier Building Dorothy Kim, (Brandeis University), “Race and the De/Post/Anti-Colonial Middle Ages” Event Calendar<http://events.umanitoba.ca/EventList.aspx?fromdate=10/1/2018&todate=10/31/2…> Event Poster<https://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1314> 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 Event Poster<https://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1302> 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 Event Poster<https://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1288> Free registration at https://umhumanities.com For news, events and much more, follow us on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/UMIHumanities/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel&eid=ARDm8FH…> and subscribe to the hUManities blog<https://umhumanities.com/> 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(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:umih@ad.umanitoba.ca> umanitoba.ca/institutes/humanities<http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/humanities>

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UMIH - Weekly Humanities Rundown
by U Of M Institute For The Humanities 09 Oct '18

09 Oct '18

Dear friends of the humanities, Here is your rundown of our community's upcoming activities. EVENTS Thursday, October 11 – Arts of Conversation 2:30 pm, 409 Tier Building Michael Sampson (Dept of Classics), “He Makes The Sort Of Marriage By Which He Is At Some Point Upset”: Myth And Misdirection In Prometheus Bound” Event Calendar<http://events.umanitoba.ca/EventList.aspx?fromdate=10/1/2018&todate=10/31/2…> Event Poster<https://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1273> Monday, October 15 – Public Lecture 7:00 PM, Carol Shields auditorium, Millennium Library, 251 Donald St Tracy Bear (University of Alberta), “Red Erotic: The Fall and Rise of Indigenous Erotica” Event Poster<https://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1291> Event Calendar<http://events.umanitoba.ca/EventList.aspx?fromdate=10/1/2018&todate=10/31/2…> Wednesday, October 17 – Arts of Conversation Doors 6:30 pm, Good Will Social Club, 625 Portage Ave. Tipi Confessions<https://www.facebook.com/tipiconfessions/>: “Sex at the End of the World–Tipi Confessions in Bed with QPOC” Event Poster<https://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1300> HALLOWE’EN EVENTS Thursday, October 25 – Arts 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” Event Calendar<http://events.umanitoba.ca/EventList.aspx?fromdate=10/1/2018&todate=10/31/2…> Event Poster<https://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1274> Wednesday, October 31 – All Day Public Event Frankenreads, Winnipeg<https://frankenreadswinnipeg.wordpress.com/> – An international celebration of the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Event Calendar<http://events.umanitoba.ca/EventList.aspx?fromdate=10/1/2018&todate=10/31/2…> Event Poster<https://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1227> ANNOUNCEMENTS 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 Event Poster<https://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1302> 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 Event Poster<https://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1288> Free registration at https://umhumanities.com For news, events and much more, follow us on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/UMIHumanities/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel&eid=ARDm8FH…> and subscribe to the hUManities blog<https://umhumanities.com/> 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(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:umih@ad.umanitoba.ca> umanitoba.ca/institutes/humanities<http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/humanities>

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UMIH - Humanities Rundown
by U Of M Institute For The Humanities 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

Dear friends of the humanities, Here is a rundown of upcoming events and announcements. EVENTS Tuesday, October 2—TOMORROW 2:30 pm, 409 Tier Building Graduate Student Grant Writing Workshop Panel: Len Kuffert (Grad Chair, History), Erin Keating (Dept ETFM), David Watt (past-Director, UM Institute for the Humanities. Event Calendar<http://events.umanitoba.ca/EventList.aspx?fromdate=10/1/2018&todate=10/31/2…> Event Poster<https://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1260> Thursday, October 4 – Arts of Conversation 2:30 pm, 409 Tier Building Etienne-Marie Lassi (Dept of French, Spanish and Italian), “Environmental/Ecological Issues And The Aesthetics Of Detective Novels In Francophone Africa” Event Calendar<http://events.umanitoba.ca/EventList.aspx?fromdate=10/1/2018&todate=10/31/2…> Event Poster<https://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1272> Thursday, October 11 – Arts of Conversation 2:30 pm, 409 Tier Building Michael Sampson (Dept of Classics), “He Makes The Sort Of Marriage By Which He Is At Some Point Upset”: Myth And Misdirection In Prometheus Bound” Event Calendar<http://events.umanitoba.ca/EventList.aspx?fromdate=10/1/2018&todate=10/31/2…> Event Poster<https://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1273> Monday, October 15 – Public Lecture 7:00 PM, Carol Shields auditorium, Millennium Library, 251 Donald St Tracy Bear (University of Alberta), “Red Erotic: The Fall and Rise of Indigenous Erotica” Event Calendar<http://events.umanitoba.ca/EventList.aspx?fromdate=10/1/2018&todate=10/31/2…> Wednesday, October 17 – Arts of Conversation Doors 6:30 pm, Good Will Social Club, 625 Portage Ave. Tipi Confessions<https://www.facebook.com/tipiconfessions/>: Sexy storytelling, performances, and anonymous audience confessions. Sex, (almost) everybody does it and (almost) nobody talks about it — except at Tipi Confessions. ANNOUNCEMENTS Tuesday, November 6 – Workshop Series—Register Today 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 Event Poster<https://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1288> Free registration at https://umhumanities.com For news, events and much more, follow us on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/UMIHumanities/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel&eid=ARDm8FH…> and subscribe to the hUManities blog<https://umhumanities.com/> <https://umhumanities.com> 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(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:umih@ad.umanitoba.ca> umanitoba.ca/institutes/humanities<http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/humanities>

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