Welcome to a new week!

Thanks to everyone who joined us at last week's events. We look forward to seeing folks again in the coming weeks (:

Upcoming Events:

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 Via Zoom

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 for the Zoom link.

The Power & resistance in Latin America Research Cluster presents Lessons from the Argentine Destape: Sex and Culture in the Transition to Democracy

presented by Dr Natalia Milanesio (University of Houston)

Wednesday, April 6^th, 2022, at 4:15 PM CT

How did the restoration of democracy in 1983, after years of repression and censorship, transform sexuality and representations and ideas about sexuality? This talk answers this question by examining the unparalleled sexualization of Argentine culture and society after the fall of the last military dictatorship that contemporaries called the destape. Omnipresent, sex was not only about fantasies and indulgence but was also imbued with a myriad of social, political, and cultural positive meanings—including citizenship, social progress, national development, and modernity—that made sexual culture into a powerful metaphor for democracy and the reconstruction of Argentine society. Event poster coming soon. To attend, please email landivan@myumanitoba.ca for the Zoom link.

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.

Please see the attached posters for more details on how to apply for each call. All questions regarding applications can be addressed to: umih@umanitoba.ca

Of Interest:

Critical Environments Research Group Presents: Being Whole - Yukon First Nation’s Science and Storytelling for Transformation and Hope

Dr Jocelyn Joe-Strack, Indigenous Knowledge Research Chair, Yukon University

Thursday, March 31st, 2022 at 12:30 CST

Join Jocelyn Joe-Strack, Daqualama, a Yukon First Nation’s scientist, philosopher, and leader. She will share stories from long ago to today then envision our role to create a better tomorrow. Jocelyn uses her knowledge as a microbiologist, hydrologist, policy analyst and Auntie to explore new understandings for social transformation and responsibility in our crisis of mental health, climate change and inequality. Attend the event via this Zoom link.

Please address all questions regarding this event to: bruce.erickson@umanitoba.ca

Take care, friends