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 Facebook and subscribe to the hUManities blog.

 

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.

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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”

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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”

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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”

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Wednesday, October 17 – Arts of Conversation

Doors 6:30 pm, Good Will Social Club, 625 Portage Ave.

Tipi Confessions: 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”

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Wednesday, October 31 – All Day Public Event

Frankenreads, Winnipeg – An international celebration of the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

Tipi Confessions in Bed with QPOC Call for Stories 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/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.ca

 

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