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April 2025

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Upcoming events featuring Dr. Sonja Boon––TODAY and Dr. Shiri Pasternak
by U Of M Institute For The Humanities 07 Apr '25

07 Apr '25

UMIH is pleased to share news of two upcoming events with you: Playing with Wor(l)ds: A Reflection and Celebration with Writer-in-Residence Dr. Sonja Boon Monday April 7; 2:30pm; 109 St. John’s College CCWOC- the Center for Creative Writing and Oral Culture- invites you to attend a final reception celebrating work undertaken during Winter 2025 by Writer-in-Residence Dr. Sonja Boon. Sonja will reflect upon her time at UM, share some of what she accomplished during her writing time, and reveal a quilt made from poetry by participants of the “Dear Alice” workshop. This event is free and open to the UM community and public. No registration required; light refreshments will be served. Please email questions to: ccwoc(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:ccwoc@umanitoba.ca> “Hello, Giant: Economic rent, colonialism, and monopoly in Canada” Friday April 11; 10:00 am; 409 Tier Building The Critical Environment Research Group invites you to attend a guest lecture by Dr. Shiri Pasternak. Dr. Shiri Pasternak is Associate Professor of Criminology at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is the author of Grounded Authority: The Algonquins of Barriere Lake Against the State (2017), and co-editor of Disarm, Defund, Dismantle: Police Abolition in Canada (2022). Her talk will take us through the resource hinterlands of hard rock northern Ontario mining, Maritime monopoly, the Family Compact, and NWT extraction to show how Canada’s colonial policies carved out a system of economic rent structured on Indigenous dispossession and global networks of capital. Ekene Maduka 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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UMIH welcomes applications for 2025-26
by U Of M Institute For The Humanities 02 Apr '25

02 Apr '25

Dear Friends of UMIH, Do you have a humanities topic you would like to explore with colleagues here at U of M? Are you a humanities graduate student in search of both funding and professionalization opportunities? Do you know humanities researchers who are not affiliated with the U of M but who would benefit from support from UMIH in the academic year ahead? April is application season at UMIH and we’d be glad for your help spreading the word about the following opportunities. Research Clusters Research clusters are groups of faculty and graduate students from different departments and disciplines with shared research interests. Successful groups are awarded up to $5,000 (subject to budgetary approval) annually. Goals for Research Clusters include: facilitating meaningful dialogue on humanities-related themes across disciplinary boundaries and fostering and promoting interdisciplinary research in the humanities. The application deadline is April 30, 2025. You can learn more about past Research Clusters here<https://umanitoba.ca/arts/institute-humanities>. Graduate Student Fellows We are delighted to welcome applications for the UMIH Graduate Fellowship. This an annual fellowship valued at up to $5,000 (subject to budgetary approval). The UMIH Graduate Fellowship will be offered to a UM graduate student who is enrolled full-time in the Faculty of Graduate Studies and is conducting research in the humanities. Applicants need to have achieved a minimum degree GPA of 3.5 (or equivalent) based on the previous 60 credit hours of study. While preference will be given to students at a late stage of their PhD program, all graduate students in the humanities at UM are welcome to apply. The application deadline is April 30, 2025. Learn more about this opportunity here<https://umanitoba.ca/arts/institute-humanities>. Research Affiliates The UMIH invites applications from prospective research affiliates. Affiliates work on a research project outlined in their application and present a colloquium on their research during or soon after their affiliation. These positions are non-stipendiary. Research affiliates may receive up to $3,000 (subject to budgetary approval) to support their research. Applications are welcome from: post-doctoral fellows, independent scholars, graduate students enrolled in the program generally considered to be the highest in their field (e.g. PhD, LLM, MFA), and individuals in full-time university appointments who wish to spend all or part of a sabbatical leave in Manitoba. The application deadline is April 30, 2025. Learn more about this opportunity here<https://umanitoba.ca/arts/institute-humanities>. In the case of all of these opportunities, we note that the UMIH is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from visible minority groups, women, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, persons of all sexual orientations and genders, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas. Ekene Maduka 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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