Welcome to a new week!

Up-coming Public Lectures:

The Power & Resistance in Latin America Research Cluster + UMIH: Dr. Javier Mignone - Indigenous Governance and Intellectual Health in Latin America

Monday, October 4th, 2021. 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM CT

Join Dr. Javier Mignone, professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences for the first lecture series organized by the Power and Resistance in Latin America Collective. This lecture will be held live on Zoom. Please email landivan@myumanitoba.ca for the link to attend and see the attached poster including a short bio on Dr Mignone.

We Don't Need Reform, We Need to Tear It Down!: A reading and conversation on prison abolition with poet-educator, Mercedes Xue mei Eng

PLC (Prison Libraries Committee) + PAO! (Prairie Asian Organizers) + UMIH

October 28th, 2021, at 2:30 PM CT

Join poet-educator, Mercedes Xue mei Eng reading her book Prison Industrial Complex Explodes followed by a conversation focused on prison abolition. This lecture is in collaboration with community partners Prairie Asian Organizers and the Prison Libraries Committee. There will be live ASL interpretation for this lecture. Please email umih@umanitoba.ca for the Zoom link to attend.

The Institute is also looking forward to welcoming Dr Julie Sze, professor of American Studies and founding director of the Environmental Justice Project at the University of California later this fall. More details coming soon.

Publications:

Congratulations to UMIH research affiliate, Dr Melanie Dennis Unrau (SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University) on recently publishing three poems: Envoi, The Goose: My Northland Symphony! and The Goose: Fancy featured in the spotlight series curated by Canadian writer, editor and publisher, Rob Mclennan. Please visit this link to read these works and learn more about Dr Unrau's research.

Of Interest:

MOSAIC Lecture series

Friday, October 8th - Friday, December 3rd, 2021. Via Zoom.

Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal, invites you to a series of digital lectures via Zoom. The lectures will concentrate on the flow or pace of current time, especially in relation to past time. Lectures will run from October through December via Zoom. For a list of upcoming lectures and to register please email mosatemp@umanitoba.ca. Please also note that Registration is free but required in order to attend the lectures.

Meeting of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Midwestern Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies + University of Manitoba + University of Winnipeg & Université de St. Boniface

October 13th to 16th, 2021

The conference will feature plenary lectures by Ros Ballaster (Oxford), Cary Miller (Manitoba) and Reginald McGinnis (Arizona) as well as a series of special panels and round tables on the Indigenous eighteenth century. There will also be a number of live and pre-recorded special events, including a walking tour of Winnipeg by Owen Toews (author of Stolen City: Racial Capitalism and the Making of Winnipeg). Registration is $30.00, please visit the link to register.

Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowships in the History of Art
Application Deadline October 27, 2021, 9 pm EDT.

This fellowship supports an academic year of research by early-career scholars from around the world for projects that will make substantial and original contributions to the understanding of art and its history. ACLS will award up to 10 fellowships for the 2022-23 academic year, each carrying a stipend of $60,000, plus $5,000 for research and travel during the award period. More information about the program, including eligibility requirements and how to apply, is available here. Questions may be directed to fellowships@acls.org.

Take care, friends