Welcome to a new week  

Upcoming Events:  

UMIH Fall Spotlight Event:

On Climate Justice and Just Transitions

Dr. Julie Sze (University of California, Davis) 

Monday, November, 14th 2022 at 2:30 PM CT via Zoom  

UMIH in partnership with the Critical Environments Research Group (CERG)

Dr. Julie Sze is professor of American Studies and founding Director of the Environmental Justice Project, focused on climate justice. There will be live ASL available for this public lecture and a Q & A session to follow. Please email umih@umanitoba.ca with other accessibility needs, and to request the Zoom link to attend.

The Writing Towards a Just World Research Cluster Presents

Crafting Comedy: Humour as a Tool of Decolonization hosted by writer, Frances Koncan  

November 8th , 2022 from 12 - 2 PM CT 

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  

Poetics and Politics of Extraction Reading Group

Please join UMIH Research Affiliates Melanie Dennis Unrau and Amal Majumder for the first session of the UMIH Poetics and Politics of Extraction Reading Group on Wednesday, November 16 from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m. in 409 Tier. This event will be in-person only.

We will discuss Macarena Gómez-Barris’s The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives, which is available as an e-book through the University of Manitoba library. Feel free to attend having read any portion of the book (for example, the introduction is a pretty manageable 16 pages).

Any questions or accessibility requests? Please email us at melanie.unrau@umanitoba.ca or majumdea@myumanitoba.ca.

Upcoming Events Of interest: 

Roundtable on Early-Career Publishing in the Environmental Humanities Research Affiliate Melanie Dennis Unrau will be part of the Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada’s roundtable on early-career publishing, "Choose Your Publishing Adventure: Embodied Perspectives,” on Tuesday, November 15 at 12:00 noon CDT. Everyone is welcome. Please use this Zoom link to attend. (Passcode is 607164.)

Take care, friends