Dear Friends of the hUManities,

We have a very exciting roster of events coming up in the next two weeks! Please join us for this jam-packed end to January.

Tomorrow:
Precarious Work: Discussion on Sessional Labour in Academia
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Sarika Bose (UBC) 
Panelists: Dr. Katelyn Dykstra (UM), Dr. Alyson Brickey (UW), Dr. Melissa Funke (UW), Dr. Mandy Elliott (Booth)
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Keynote: 10:30 AM -12 PM
Panel: 12:30 - 2:00 PM
111 St. John's College (Quiet Room)
Lunch provided!
For more information, click here.

Thursday:
(Re)Imagining Embodiment: Approaches to teaching, Research, and Programming in Health Humanities
Dr. Roberta Barker
Thursday, January 23, 2020
3:00-4:30 pm
409 Tier Building
For more information, click here. 

Coming Up:
UMIH and UM Press are pleased to present two launches for books exploring the Indigenous Experience

Tuesday, January 28, 2:30 pm
Cross Common Room, St. John’s College (92 Dysart Road)
This event features Warren Cariou, who directs the Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture, teaches in the Department of English, Theatre, Film and Media, and makes art.
Join us for art, music, and bannock/jam!

Settler City Limits: Indigenous Resurgence and Colonial Violence in the Urban Prairie West
Friday, January 31, 2:00 - 4:00 pm
409 Tier Building

More information can be found here!

The Research Cluster on Power and Resistance in Latin America will be hosting two guest speakers from Colombia
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
2:30 - 4:30 pm
303 Tier Building

Two Stitches, Hers Then Mine: Experiences Working with the Manitoba Museum Ethnographic Collection
Katherine Boyer (School of Art)
Thursday, January 30, 2020
2:30 - 3:30 pm
409 Tier Building
For more information, click here.

We're hosting Write On Sites every Monday and Thursday from 9 am - 12 pm in 409 Tier. Drop in to work on your writing projects in a community environment.
For more information, click here.

For an overview of our upcoming programming for Winter term, check out our events at a glance poster here!


UMIH Supported Events:
The Impact of Creative Expression Workshops on Resilient 2SLGBTQ Communities 
Drop In Workshops 
Sunshine House, 646 Logan Ave.
For more information, click here.
 
 
Other Opportunities and events:
Graduate Research Awards for Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation 2019-2020
Offered by The Simons Foundation Canada and the International Security Research and Outreach Programme (ISROP) of Global Affairs Canada (GAC) with a primary objective to enhance Canadian graduate level scholarship on disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation issues.
A total of four awards of CAD $5,000 are available to Canadian Master’s and/or Doctoral candidates to support the independent research and writing of an academic paper responding to a specific Non-Proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament (NACD) topic.  Awards also include domestic travel support to Ottawa where successful candidates will present their completed papers during a special event at Global Affairs Canada Headquarters in March 2020. 
Deadline for applications: Monday, 3 February 2020
For more information, click here.

UM Black Alliance (UBA) presents two events for Black History Month in February:
Where we live now: Black liberation struggles and the university as white property, led by Dr. Delia Douglas, anti-racism practice lead, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences.
Wednesday February 5, 2020
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Marshall McLuhan Hall (UMSU University Centre)
Registration: https://eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/ist/event/um-black-history-month-event/

On February 26, Dr. Cary Miller, native studies department head, along with Valerie Williams, equity, diversity and inclusion facilitator, will be facilitating a conversation titled, Where Do We Go From Here. The discussion will include suggestions for continuing the work of anti-racism; exploring the successes and challenges of implementing the strategies; and defining individual and collective follow-up actions.
Date: Wednesday February 26, 2020
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Location: Room 141, Education Building
Registration: https://eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/ist/event/where-do-we-go-from-here/
 
Participants are strongly encouraged to attend Dr. Robin DiAngelo’s presentation, “White Fragility” on February 6 or read her book before attending this conversation.

UM Black Alliance (UBA) has been formed to coordinate and promote Black History Month events; address challenges and continue to honour and remember the important history, people and experiences of Black communities in February and throughout the year.

 

Institute for the Humanities 

University of Manitoba

407 Tier Building

204 474 9599

umih@umanitoba.ca

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