October 2019 - UM-Humanities - University of Manitoba Mailing Lists

UMIH upcoming events - Shep Steiner on Halloween!
by U Of M Institute For The Humanities 21 Oct '19

21 Oct '19

Dear Friends of the hUManities, Upcoming UMIH Events: Join us on Halloween for "Specters of Modernism. Or Loose Ends Without Time to Spare: Repetition, Color and Allegory in Morris Louis" Thursday, October 31, 2019 2:30-3:30 PM 409 Tier Building UMIH CFPs: UMIH is seeking proposals for our External Grant Support program. This funding source was established in order to help researchers in the Faculty of Arts who are seeking external funding for conferences, workshops, colloquia, and other local research events. This program has been devised with SSHRC Connections and SSHRC Partnership Engage grants in mind, but it is open to applicants targeting other funding agencies or organizations. Applicants are asked to contact the UMIH with the details of the grant before applying to ensure that their application can be supported under the UMIH mandate. See the attached poster for more information. Intersex and the Health and Medical Humanities Edited Volume CFP (with interest from Emerald Press) Editors: Dr. Katelyn Dykstra, Dr. Shoshannah Bryn Jones Square The University of Manitoba’s Institute for the Humanities We welcome abstracts of 500 words by December 15, 2019, with full articles of 5000 words required by mid-May 2020. Submissions and questions can be directed to Drs. Dykstra and Jones Square at k.dykstra(a)umanitoba.ca. See the attached poster for more information. Of Interest: For those interested in Create: Words and Art from WCC - copies are now available by donation at UMIH! Serenity Joo has been volunteering inside Women's Correctional Centre in Headingley, MB for the past three years with the Prison Libraries Committee (PLC). PLC is a volunteer-run organization committed to literacy and supporting the right to read for those currently incarcerated. Recently, PLC published a chapbook entitled CREATE: Words and Art from WCC, partly based on writing workshops Serenity co-facilitated with Dr. Kate Ready from U of W. Serenity hopes to be able to offer U of M courses inside WCC in the near future. For now, the chapbook is available for purchase with donation to PLC in the UMIH office, and for free perusal online at the UMIH blog: https://umhumanities.com/2019/10/08/create-words-and-art-from-wcc/. Faculty of Arts Opportunities & Events: 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<http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/awards/3006.html><http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/awards/3006.html> The Decolonizing Lens series world premiere of Freedom Road Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at the Winnipeg Art Gallery FREE entry 6:30 doors open, 7:00 pm screening and panel discussion Reception to follow Freedom Road is a National Film Board of Canada five-film series presenting powerful accounts of lived history from band members of Shoal Lake 40 Anishinaabe First Nation – where Winnipeg gets its water. That the world premiere screening of this unique, community-led project is happening at “the other end of the pipe” is rich terrain for considering our collective relationship to water, and to each other. A post-screening panel with band members Daryl Redsky, Roxanne Greene, director Angelina McLeod and Winnipeg-based historian Adele Perry, will highlight the complex, ongoing work of Shoal Lake 40 in resolving a brutal colonial legacy – one that is inseparable from the history of this place. Other Opportunities: Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellowship in the Humanities The Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at Simon Fraser University (SFU) is pleased to announce five Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellowships in the Humanities for the 2020-21 academic year. Worth up to $60,000/year, these fellowships are designed for engaged scholars, artists, writers, and knowledge keepers who will help us imagine how we can make the world we live in better through the act of world-making in the creative arts and/or publicly engaged scholarship in the humanities, in alignment with the fundamental values of advancing reconciliation and equity, diversity and inclusion, communication, coordination, and collaboration. Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellows will: * deliver at least one public lecture, performance, or other form of community or public outreach based on their projects * be available for informal, occasional consultations with students and faculty Applicants are asked to submit (via email) a completed application form, a current CV, and a cover letter outlining: * the project the applicant intends to take up during the fellowship * the desired primary unit affiliation in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, as well as a secondary unit affiliation, as applicable * the length of fellowship desired * names and contact information of two references Applicants should consult www.sfu.ca/fass/shadbolt<http://www.sfu.ca/fass/shadbolt> to download the form and for more detailed information.<http://www.sfu.ca/fass/shadbolt> Apply by December 18, 2019 For more information, please visit www.sfu.ca/fass/shadbolt<http://www.sfu.ca/fass/shadbolt> or email shadbolt_fellows(a)sfu.ca<mailto:shadbolt_fellows@sfu.ca>

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UMIH Upcoming Events - talks by Jacqueline Jordaan and Kevin Coleman ... and more!
by U Of M Institute For The Humanities 15 Oct '19

15 Oct '19

Dear Friends of the hUManities, Please join us for this week's UMIH talks: UMIH graduate fellowship recipient Jacqueline Jordaan (Anthropology) is presenting "Democra-tease, Museum Resources and the Presentation of the African Past in South Africa" Thursday October 17, 2019 2:30-3:30 PM 409 Tier Building The Research Cluster on Power and Resistance in Latin America is hosting a talk by visiting guest lecturer, Kevin Coleman (Department of Historical Studies, University of Toronto) "Romero: The Making of an Icon" Friday, October 18, 2019 2:30 PM 409 Tier Building Upcoming UMIH Events: Join us on Halloween for "Specters of Modernism. Or Loose Ends Without Time to Spare: Repetition, Color and Allegory in Morris Louis" Thursday, October 31, 2019 2:30-3:30 PM 409 Tier Building UMIH CFPs: UMIH is seeking proposals for our External Grant Support program. This funding source was established in order to help researchers in the Faculty of Arts who are seeking external funding for conferences, workshops, colloquia, and other local research events. This program has been devised with SSHRC Connections and SSHRC Partnership Engage grants in mind, but it is open to applicants targeting other funding agencies or organizations. Applicants are asked to contact the UMIH with the details of the grant before applying to ensure that their application can be supported under the UMIH mandate. See the attached poster for more information. Intersex and the Health and Medical Humanities Edited Volume CFP (with interest from Emerald Press) Editors: Dr. Katelyn Dykstra, Dr. Shoshannah Bryn Jones Square The University of Manitoba’s Institute for the Humanities We welcome abstracts of 500 words by December 15, 2019, with full articles of 5000 words required by mid-May 2020. Submissions and questions can be directed to Drs. Dykstra and Jones Square at k.dykstra(a)umanitoba.ca. See the attached poster for more information. Of Interest: For those interested in Create: Words and Art from WCC - copies are now available by donation at UMIH! Serenity Joo has been volunteering inside Women's Correctional Centre in Headingley, MB for the past three years with the Prison Libraries Committee (PLC). PLC is a volunteer-run organization committed to literacy and supporting the right to read for those currently incarcerated. Recently, PLC published a chapbook entitled CREATE: Words and Art from WCC, partly based on writing workshops Serenity co-facilitated with Dr. Kate Ready from U of W. Serenity hopes to be able to offer U of M courses inside WCC in the near future. For now, the chapbook is available for purchase with donation to PLC in the UMIH office, and for free perusal online at the UMIH blog: https://umhumanities.com/2019/10/08/create-words-and-art-from-wcc/. Faculty of Arts Opportunities: 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

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UMIH Upcoming Events - Jill McConkey: The Ins and Outs of Scholarly Book Publishing AND MORE!
by U Of M Institute For The Humanities 07 Oct '19

07 Oct '19

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(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:umih@ad.umanitoba.ca> umanitoba.ca/institutes/humanities<http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/humanities>

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