Dear Friends of the hUManities, 

Welcome to a new week! 

Up-coming Public Lectures: 
The UMIH Research Cluster on Power and Resistance in Latin America presents: 
Agrarian Extractivism in Latin America by Dr.Ben M. McKay (University of Calgary) 
Friday, February 4th 2022 from 2:30 - 4:00 PM CT
Join Dr Ben M. McKay, Assistant Professor of Development and Sustainability at the University of Calgary, discussing agrarian extractivism. Dr. McKay's research focuses on the political economy and ecology of agrarian change in Latin America, agrarian extractivism, and food sovereignty alternatives. For more details on this event and a short bio on Dr. McKay, please view the attached two-page PDF. For the Zoom link to attend, email: landivan@myumanitoba.ca

UMIH Sponsored events: 
PAO! (Prairie Asian Organizers) presents: Model Minority Munity Workshop
Sunday, January 30th 2022 from 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM CT via Zoom 
PAO! invites members of the Asian community across Canada to join this teach-in centered on exploring Asian identity and the model minority myth. Details on the teach-in can be found via PAO!'s Instagram. To attend, please register via this link which is also accessible in PAO!'s Instagram bio. Please see the event poster attached. 

Mosaic Journal presents: Relative Time/Little Time Speaker Series
Tuesday, January 25th - Friday, January 28th 2022 
We are happy to announce the Relative Time/Little Time Speaker Series, a collaborative project between Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal and Bik Van der Pol, will be re-commencing next week. The schedule for the first week include; Denise Ferreira da Silva presenting on Tue, Jan 25th, Paul Huebener presenting on Wednesday, January 26th and Elsa Dorlin on Friday, January 28th 2022. To register for these talks and future presentations, please visit the Eventbrite link. 

Of-Interest:
Critical Environments Research Group presents: Emerging Research in the Arctic Social Science and Humanities Lecture series
with Support from Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth and Resources
Remote Control: Chinese Infrastructure In and Above the Arctic by Dr. Mia Bennett (University of Washington) 
Thursday, January 27th, 2022 at 12:30 PM CT 
Dr. Mia Bennett is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography. Dr.Bennett has conducted fieldwork along the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway in Canada’s Northwest Territories and is particularly interested in the role of Indigenous Peoples in leading infrastructure development in the North American Arctic. To attend this event, please email: bruce.erickson@umanitoba.ca for the Zoom link. 

pAGES - Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media 
Call for Submission to Loose Threads (Summer 2022 virtual colloquium)
Deadline: April 8th 2022 
pAGES, the Association of Graduate English Students, from the University of Manitoba’s Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media invites folks to submit proposals for their Summer 2022 virtual colloquium titled “Loose Threads” to be held over zoom on Friday June 10th, 2022. Please see the attached call for papers and poster for details. If you have any questions about submission guidelines, accessibility, or anything else, please send inquiries to pages.info@umanitoba.ca  

 

Take care, friends


Ekene Maduka

Assistant to the Director 

Institute for the Humanities 

University of Manitoba

407 Tier Building

204 474 9599

umih@umanitoba.ca

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