Dear
Friends of the hUManities,
Welcome
to a new week
Upcoming
Events:
UMIH
Fall Spotlight Event: In partnership with Critical Environments Research Group, we present On Climate Justice and Just Transitions by Dr. Julie Sze (University of California)
Monday,
November, 14th 2022 at 2:30 PM CT via Zoom
The UMIH
and CERG are excited to present this lecture by Dr. Julie Sze (University of California). Join us on Monday, November 14th 2022, at 2:30 PM CT with Dr. Julie Sze, professor of American Studies and founding Director of the Environmental Justice Project, focused
on climate justice. There will be live ASL available for this event and a Q & A session to follow shortly after. Please email umih@umanitoba.ca with
any questions or other accessibility needs. To attend this event, email umih@umanitoba.ca.
The
Writing Towards a Just World Research Cluster Present - Crafting Comedy: Humour as a Tool of Decolonization
hosted by writer,
Frances Koncan
November 8th 2022.
Hybrid workshop - in-person at 307 Tier and online via Zoom
Some
say comedy is an innate gift that only a select few possess; others say it's a skill that anyone can learn. Writer, Frances, thinks it's a little bit of both! In this workshop, we'll explore the building blocks of humour, joke-writing, and comedy as well as
our own individual lived experiences, perspectives, and ideas to exercise our comedic muscles and explore our authentic voice as writers. Through a combination of listening, watching and, most importantly, writing, we'll focus in on how humour can be used
to challenge and re-imagine the rules, structures and practices that we have been taught – and hopefully have a few laughs along the way. To register for this event, please use this
link
Upcoming
Events Of interest:
Reckoning
with Extraction roundtable CFP
UMIH Research
Affiliate Dr. Melanie Dennis Unrau is co-organizing a joint Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) and Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada (ALECC) roundtable on the theme of “Reckoning with Extraction,”
to be held at Congress at York University in May 2023. Please see the attached CFP and submit proposals using the ACCUTE
online submission form.
Feel free to contact Melanie at melanie.unrau@umanitoba.ca with
any questions.
Take
care, friends
Ekene Maduka
Assistant to the Director
Institute for the Humanities
University of Manitoba
407 Tier Building
204 474 9599
umanitoba.ca/institutes/humanities