Dear friends of the humanities,
We have full and exciting month of programming in October. If you want to keep up to date with all we have going on, follow us on Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/UMIHumanities/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel and subscribe to the hUManities bloghttps://umhumanities.com/.
EVENTS
Tuesday, October 2
2:30 pm, 409 Tier Building
Graduate Student Grant Writing Workshop
Panel: Len Kuffert (Grad Chair, History), Erin Keating (Dept ETFM), David Watt (past-Director, UM Institute for the Humanities.
Event Posterhttps://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1260
Thursday, October 4 – Arts of Conversation
2:30 pm, 409 Tier Building
Etienne-Marie Lassi (Dept of French, Spanish and Italian), “Environmental/Ecological Issues And The Aesthetics Of Detective Novels In Francophone Africa”
Event Posterhttps://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1272
Thursday, October 11 – Arts of Conversation
2:30 pm, 409 Tier Building
Michael Sampson (Dept of Classics), “He Makes The Sort Of Marriage By Which He Is At Some Point Upset”: Myth And Misdirection In Prometheus Bound”
Event Posterhttps://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1273
Monday, October 15 – Public Lecture
7:00 PM, Carol Shields auditorium, Millennium Library, 251 Donald St
Tracy Bear (University of Alberta), “Red Erotic: The Fall and Rise of Indigenous Erotica”
Wednesday, October 17 – Arts of Conversation
Doors 6:30 pm, Good Will Social Club, 625 Portage Ave.
Tipi Confessionshttps://www.facebook.com/tipiconfessions/: Sexy storytelling, performances, and anonymous audience confessions. Sex, (almost) everybody does it and (almost) nobody talks about it — except at Tipi Confessions.
Thursday, October 25 – Arts of Conversation
2:30 pm, 409 Tier Building
David Annandale (Dept ETFM), “The Darkest Timeline: Get Out, Hereditary, And The Horror Movie In The Age Of Trump”
Event Posterhttps://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1274
Wednesday, October 31 – All Day Public Event
Frankenreads, Winnipeghttps://frankenreadswinnipeg.wordpress.com/ – An international celebration of the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Event Calendarhttp://events.umanitoba.ca/EventList.aspx?fromdate=10/1/2018&todate=10/31/2018&display=Month&type=public&eventidn=16036&view=EventDetails&information_id=35121 Event Posterhttps://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1227
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Tipi Confessions in Bed with QPOC Call for Storieshttps://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1230 for Sex at the End of the World
Submit your story by Sept 28. Decisions made by Oct 5.
For submission instructions, visit facebook.com/tipiconfessionshttps://www.facebook.com/tipiconfessions/.
To all Graduate Students and Postdocs in Arts—Are you on the job market? Contact the UMIH to organize a Mock Job Talk. Work out the rough edges among friendlies and receive valuable feedback and experience BEFORE the big interview!
Contact: Dr Paul Jenkins umih@umanitoba.camailto:umih@umanitoba.ca
Also, follow us on Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/UMIHumanities/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel and subscribe to the hUManities bloghttps://umhumanities.com/ (UMHumanities.com).
Paul Jenkins, PhD
Program Developer/Coordinator & Assistant to the Director
Institute for the Humanities &
Instructor, Dept. of History
University of Manitoba
407 Tier Building
204 474 9599
umih@umanitoba.camailto:umih@ad.umanitoba.ca
umanitoba.ca/institutes/humanitieshttp://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/humanities