Welcome to a new week!
Up-coming Public Lectures:
UMIH Research Cluster on Power & Resistance in Latin America Present: Dr. Jim
Handy - 'They Flattended our Milpa': Maya peasant productivity & Repression
in Guatemala.
Thursday, October 14th, 2021. 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM CT
Join Dr. Jim Handy, professor and chair in the Department of History, University of Saskatchewan, for the
second lecture organized by the Power and Resistance in Latin America Collective. Dr Handy's presentation will draw from chapter 4 of
Tiny Engines of Abundance: A History of Pesant Productivity and Repression, expected to be published in the spring of 2022 by
Fernwood Press. This lecture will be held live on Zoom. Please email landivan@myumanitoba.ca for
the link to attend and see the attached poster including a short bio on Dr. Handy.
We Don't Need Reform, We Need to Tear It Down!: A reading and conversation on prison abolition with
poet-educator, Mercedes Xue mei Eng
PLC
(Prison Libraries Committee) + PAO! (Prairie
Asian Organizers) + UMIH
October
28th, 2021, at 6:00 PM CT
Join poet-educator, Mercedes
Xue mei Eng reading her book Prison
Industrial Complex Explodes followed by a conversation focused on prison abolition. This
lecture is in collaboration with community partners Prairie Asian Organizers and the Prison Libraries Committee. There will be live ASL interpretation for this lecture.
Please see the attached poster for further details and email umih@umanitoba.ca for
the Zoom link to attend.
On Climate Justice: Dr Julie
Sze (University of California)
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021 at 12:00 PM
CT.
The UMIH is excited to invite
folks to this lecture focused on climate justice presented by Dr. Julie Sze, professor of American Studies and founding director of the Environmental Justice Project at the University of California.
More details coming soon.
Of
Interest:
MOSAIC Lecture
series
Friday, October 8th - Friday, December 3rd, 2021. Via Zoom.
Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal, invites
you to a series of digital lectures via Zoom. The lectures will concentrate on the flow or pace of
current time, especially in relation to past time. ​Lectures
will run from October through December via Zoom. For a list of upcoming lectures and to register please email mosatemp@umanitoba.ca.
Please also note that Registration
is free but required in order to attend the lectures. Future
presentations include; Dominic Pettman on Wednesday, November 3rd, Paul Huebener presenting on Monday, November 8th, Etienne Turpin & Anna-Sophie Springer on Monday, November 15th, Denise Ferreira da Silva on Friday, November 19th and more.