Welcome to a new week! Thanks to everyone who joined us last Friday, for the Filipino Canadian Comis Symposium. The live version of the talk is currently available on Facebook via this link.

Upcoming Events:

UMIH Research Affiliate, Dr Melanie Dennis Unrau (Colombia University), Dr Max Karpinski (University of Alberta) & Dr Warren Cariou (University of Manitoba) present:

Forum on Poetics, Energy, and Extraction in preparation for a special issue of Canadian Literature on the same theme

Monday, March 21, 2022, from 7:00-8:30 PM CDT via Zoom

In preparation for a special issue of Canadian Literature on the theme of Poetics, Energy, and Extraction, join Dr Melanie Dennis Unrau (Colombia University) & Dr. Max Karpinski (University of Alberta)

for this event. There will be Poetry readings and statements of poetics by; Kazim Ali, Madhur Anand, Lesley Battler, Warren Cariou, Cecily Nicholson, and Douglas Walbourne-Gough.

A closing discussion among the poets and Q&A will also be facilitated by Warren Cariou. To attend, email umih@umanitoba.ca for the Zoom link.

The Power & resistance in Latin America Research Cluster presents Agrarian Extractivisms, land, and social reproduction: a feminist political ecology approach. Cases from Colombia and Ecuador

By Natalia Landívar (University of Manitoba) and Diana Ojeda (Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia)

Wednesday, March 23rd 2022 at 2:30 PM CT

We are excited to welcome folks to this lecture presented by Natalia Landívar (University of Manitoba) and Diana Ojeda (Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia). This talk will combine the research and activist works of Natalia Landivan and Dr Ojeda which ranges from right-to-food socially engaged research work and the bridging of feminist political ecology. For a short bio on Natalia Landivan and Dr Ojeda, please view the attached two page PDF poster. To attend this event, email: landivan@myumanitoba.ca for the Zoom link.

Expanding Our Perceptual Possibilities: Empathy, Creativity, and Interdisciplinarity presented by Dr Shoshannah Bryn Jones Square

(Oxford University) with special guest performers Emmanuel Juma & Naaz Sidhu

Thurs, March 24th 2022, at 2:30 PM CT via Zoom

Join UMIH research affiliate Dr Shoshannah Bryn Jones Square (Oxford University), with presenters Emmanuel Juma & Naaz Sidhu for this upcoming event. This talk will explore the ways in which we can heighten our empathy through imaginative and creative activities, collaboration, and interdisciplinary thinking to bring about a more compassionate, caring, and sustainable society. For more details, please refer to the attached event poster. To attend this program, email: umih@umanitoba.ca for the Zoom link.

The Occupy Bartleby Research Cluster presents From Tombs to Parchman: The Prison and the Plantation in US Experimental Fiction by Dr. Caitlin Mcintyre (State University of New York at Buffalo)
Mar 29, 2022, at 02:30 PM Central Time

This talk will argue, figure the ruptures of enslavement—a figuring extant in modern and contemporary novels by women of colour including Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017) and Gayl Jones’s Eva’s Man (1976), owing to the violent afterlives of the plantation long after the Civil War. Ultimately, in seeing literary experimentation as a specific engagement with the prison/plantation complex in the United States, this talk ultimately asks: how can reading Melville shift how modernism is conceived and periodized? Please see the attached event poster for more details. To attend this talk, email: umih@umanitoba.ca

UMIH Sponsored Events:

UMIH + QTWOC Writing Group & QPOC Winnipeg are thrilled to present a virtual open mic hosted by Mee Ok Icaro

Call for QTBIWOC identifying writers: Deadline March 22^nd 2022.

Open Mic scheduled for Saturday, March 26^th (with more details for time to follow)

We are thrilled to welcome folks to this open mic featuring readings by queer and trans-Black, Indigenous, and other women of colour. If you are a QTBIWOC writer and would like to participate, please send a writing sample to meeok.author@gmail.com (doc/pdf) by March 22 for consideration. An honorarium will be provided for chosen participants. For updated information on this event, please visit our Facebook page linked here

Calls for Applications:

2022-23 UMIH Research Clusters, Graduate Fellowship & Research Affiliates calls for applications

Application Deadlines: May 6th 2022 at Midnight

The UMIH call for applications for the 2022-23 Graduate Fellow, Research Clusters and Research Affiliates are now open! These unique

opportunities were designed by the institute to support scholars doing important research in the humanities.

See the attached posters for more details on how to apply for different openings.

Further details are also available through our linked Instagram feed.

Take care, friends