Dear friends of the Humanities,
Welcome to a new week!
Upcoming Events:
Pain and Healing Beyond the Neoliberal Framework: A Transnational Feminist Approach
UMIH Spotlight Lecture
Dr. L. Ayu Saraswati (Professor of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies; University of Hawai'i)
Tuesday, October 3rd
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
409 Tier Boardroom
Dr. L. Ayu Saraswati will use a transnational feminist autoethnography method of travelling to twenty countries in one year to offer thought-provoking theories and life-transforming ways to deal with pain outside of the neoliberal framework. This lecture invites us to reframe pain as a political and transnational feminist object and asks how we can carry it in a more humane, life-sustaining, enchanting, and feminist way.
WRITING WORKSHOP: Narrating the Personal, Transforming the Political
Facilitated by Dr. L. Ayu Saraswati (University of Hawai'i)
Wednesday, October 4th
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
409 Tier Boardroom
Seating is limited. To reserve your spot, register with the following linkhttps://forms.gle/fSDK9SoguLLz7oq58.
In this hands-on writing workshop, participants will learn why personal stories can be the most convincing tool to argue for political transformation, how to have a better understanding of their projects, and what kinds of tools they can employ to preempt writer's block–even before they start writing their projects.
Feeding the World: Competing Visions of Agriculture and Community in a Hog Factory Farm Fight
Dr. Nan Enstad (Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology; University of Wisconsin)
Hosted by the Food Matters Research Cluster
Thursday, October 5th
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
307 Tier Boardroom
Dr. Enstad will explore the dynamic struggle over concepts of nature and economic futures beyond left/right conflict. She uses a fight over a proposed hog factory farm in Polk and Burnett Counties, Wisconsin, to analyze the competing world-making discourses and community-making food practices around the concept of feeding the world. For more details, please see the attached event poster.
Recurring Events:
The Writing Room
Hosted by the Writing Towards a Just World Research Cluster
Tuesdays from September 26th until December 19th (10:30 AM – 12:30 PM CT)
St. John’s College, room 128
Please feel welcome to join in and invite Colleagues, Students, Faculty etc. to this writing-focused space scheduled every Tuesday until the 19th December. For more details email: jocelyn.thorpe@umanitoba.camailto:jocelyn.thorpe@umanitoba.ca
Sponsorships:
Another Place: Building Trans Solidarity
U of Winnipeg 2SLGBTQ+ Committee, AceartInc., with sponsorship from the UMIH
Sunday, October 1st
Doors at 7:00PM, show at 7:30PM
AceartInc. (206 Princess Street)
Performing and sound artists Hassan Ashraf, Mutable Body, Dasha Plett, Melody Mckiver, and M. Patchwork Monoceros will explore what "another place" might look like–intimacies found in rebellion and transmissions from utopias to come. To register for FREE, visit this linkhttps://www.uwinnipeg.ca/trans-solidarity/. The attached programming schedule and posters provide more details on this event.
Take care, friends
Ekene Maduka
Assistant to the Director
Institute for the Humanities
University of Manitoba
407 Tier Building
204 474 9599
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