Dear friends of the hUManities,

Welcome to a new week

Announcements:

Per requests, Ariel Gordon's Postcards from the World will now be accessible to attend online. The Zoom link for this workshop is linked in the description below. Thank you

Upcoming events:

On Caliban and Slavery in Shakespeare’s The Tempest by Dr. Jamie Paris (ETFM)

Thursday, February 9th, 2023 from 2:30 - 4:30 PM CT. In-person at 409 Tier Building

The UMIH is thrilled to present the New Faculty Colloquium in which we highlight the research-in-progress of new faculty members in Arts. In this talk, Dr. Paris will consider the enslavement and imprisonment of Caliban in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest in terms of the history of the enslavement of Indigenous peoples in the New World in the early modern period and with reference to the overrepresentation of Indigenous peoples in Canadian prisons. This talk will attempt to bridge ideas from premodern critical race studies with the emerging field of early modern Indigenous studies.

The Writing Toward a Just World Research Cluster Presents: Postcards from the World by Ariel Gordon

Thursday, February 16^th from 12 - 2 PM CT.

Hybrid workshop: In-Person at 111 St. John’s College and on Zoom

(Zoom Meeting ID: 849 8926 8850 & Passcode: 636051)

Ariel Gordon is a Winnipeg/Treaty 1 territory-based writer, editor, and enthusiast. She is the ringleader of Writes of Spring, a National Poetry Month project with the Winnipeg International Writers Festival that appears in the Winnipeg Free Press. In 2019 Wolsak & Wynn published Treed: Walking in Canada’s Urban Forests, a collection of essays that combines science writing and the personal essay. This workshop focuses on what it means to pay attention to the natural world, to stop and force yourself to observe. Participants will read and discuss writing about paying attention to the world and then observe the world for 30 minutes, taking notes. They will then spend time turning those observations into a poem or the beginnings of a story, which they might choose to share with the group. To join this workshop virtually, please use this link or the meeting ID & passcode above.

Open Calls:

Call for Applications 23-24 UMIH Grad Fellowship, Research Affiliates & Research Clusters:

Deadline: April 28th 2023

The UMIH call for applications for the 2023-24 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. Visit the UMIH webpage for more details on how to apply for each call. All questions regarding applications can be addressed to: umih@umanitoba.ca

Of Interest:

President’s Student Leadership Program (PSLP)

Application Deadline: February 19th, 2023.

PSLP is a unique-in-Canada Immersive learning opportunity that brings together a cohort of students each year across faculties, post-secondary institutions, interests, backgrounds and regions of the province to build their leadership potential. This program is an interdisciplinary co-curricular program that is hosted by the Burns Leadership Institute. This opportunity allows students a chance to be mentored by an inspiring leader and apply for the PSLP Fellowship to fund participation in the program. For details on how to apply and a list of requirements, please visit this page. More details can also be found in the attached PSLP program infosheets.

The Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics Graduate Fellowship 23-24

Deadline: February 28th, 2023

All applications to be submitted to Professor Neil McArthur via email: neil.mcarthur@umanitoba.ca

The Ethics Graduate Fellowship is open to all University of Manitoba graduate students, at any stage of their program. Applications from students in all fields are encouraged. The aim of the fellowship is to support graduate students who do research in the field of ethics, or to encourage students in other fields to consider the ethical implications of their work, to integrate ethics into their research, and to promote understanding of ethics as it relates to their areas of study. Two fellowships worth $3000 will be awarded to two successful applicants. Qualification and publication records and the significance of applicant's research will be considered. Please submit a curriculum vitae and a 500-word research proposal to the address above.

Take care, friends