Welcome to a new week
Upcoming Events:
The
Death as Transformative Experience Research Cluster Presents: Death Scripts: A personal reflection on the healing properties of dialogic writing
presented by
Dr. Rebecca Duclos (Concordia University)
Friday,
March 11th 2022 at 2:30 PM CT
In this informal conversation, Rebecca Duclos will share and reflect on the
process of her own unexpected production of a recent theatrical script-in-progress that emerged during the pandemic when she took time to reflect on the death of her mother by VSED (voluntarily stopping eating and drinking) in 1998. As an Art History professor,
a certified death doula, a palliative care volunteer, and a nascent script-writer,
she will discuss new ways to consider the role of dialogic writing as a form of “alternative accounting” of death as a transformative
experience, for both the living and the dying.
The Power & resistance in Latin America Research Cluster presents: Waves
of Departure and Return: Mennonite Migration Between Canada and Latin America.
Presented by Ben
Nobbs-Thiessen (University of Winnipeg)
Wednesday,
March 16th 2022
at 2:30 PM CT
Ben Nobbs-Thiessen is the Chair in Mennonite Studies at the University of Winnipeg and editor of the Journal
of Mennonite Studies. He has conducted research in Bolivia, Paraguay, Mexico, the U.S. and
Canada with a focus on the transnational history of Mennonite settlement throughout the Americas.
His new SSHRC funded research examines the return migration of Mennonites
from Latin America to Canada. To attend this event, email: landivan@myumanitoba.ca
The UMIH research cluster,
Graphic Narratives beyond the Gutter presents: Filipino
Canadian Comics
symposium
March
18th 2022 from 1:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. CST.
We welcome comic fans
and scholars to join us for this symposium featuring perspectives from panellists; J. Torres (Teen Titans Go!), April dela Noche Milne (The Blue Road: A Fable of Migration), Allan Matudio (Kasama) and more! We hope this event will bring awareness to some of
the creative minds in Canada's Filipino communities and, we look forward to seeing you there.
UMIH Research Affiliate, Dr. Melanie Dennis Unrau (Colombia University), Dr.
Max Karpinski (University of Alberta) & Dr. Warren
Cariou (University of Manitoba) present:
Forum on Poetics, Energy, and Extraction in
preparation for a special issue of Canadian Literature on the same theme
Monday, March 21, 2022, from 7:00-8:30
PM CDT via Zoom
In preparation for a special issue of Canadian
Literature on the theme of Poetics, Energy,
and Extraction, join Dr.
Melanie Dennis Unrau (Colombia University) & Dr.
Max Karpinski (University of Alberta)
for
this event. There will be Poetry readings and statements of poetics by; Kazim
Ali, Madhur Anand, Lesley Battler, Warren
Cariou, Cecily Nicholson, and Douglas Walbourne-Gough.
A closing discussion among the poets and Q&A will also be facilitated by Warren Cariou. To
attend, email umih@umanitoba.ca for
the Zoom link.
Calls
for Applications:
2022-23
UMIH Research Clusters, Graduate Fellowship &
Research Affiliates calls for applications
Application
Deadlines: May 6th 2022 at Midnight
The UMIH call for
applications for the 2022-23 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.
See
the attached posters for
more details on how to apply for different openings.
Further details are also available through our linked Instagram feed.
Of Interest:
Stateless Histories: A Project by Dr Jennifer
Dueck (Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in Modern History of the Middle East and North Africa)
and
Dr. Laura Robson (Oliver-McCourtney
Professor of History at Penn State University).
Stateless Histories is a collection
of digital resources – essays, podcasts, documents, and short videos – exploring the manifestations, meanings, and experiences of statelessness in the modern era with particular emphasis on the non-European world. From
national politics to diasporic organizations to international legal regimes, stateless places and populations appear everywhere in the modern world. Stateless
Histories is
a project by Dr Jennifer Dueck (University
of Manitoba) and Laura Robson
(Penn State University). To
engage with more of this work, visit the website
Take
care, friends