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@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:


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 to download the form and for more detailed information.

Apply by December 18, 2019
For more information, please visit www.sfu.ca/fass/shadbolt or email shadbolt_fellows@sfu.ca