Dear Friends of the hUManities,
This week, UMIH is
supporting TWO events
featuring Larissa Lai, CRC in Creative Writing at the University of Calgary and author of
Salt Fish Girl
and The Tiger
Flu.
The Fox Lady's Gamble: Embodied Solidarities and the Speculative Tao
Thursday,
March 12, 2020
2:30
- 4:00 pm
409
Tier Building
For
more information, click here.
An
Evening with Larissa Lai: A Drop the Mic Conversation
presented by QPOC and UMIH
Thursday, March 12, 2020
7:00
- 9:00 pm
Fools and Horses, 379 Broadway
For
more information, click here.
We're
hosting Write On Sites every Monday and Thursday from 9
am - 12 pm in 409 Tier.
Drop in to work on your writing projects in a community environment.
For more information, click here.
For an overview of our upcoming programming for Winter term, check out our
events at a glance poster here!
Upcoming UMIH Calls:
Find attached
UMIH's calls for Graduate Fellowship, Research Cluster, and Research Affiliate applications for the 2020-21 year. Please circulate to anyone you know who may be interested in applying. Questions can be directed to: umih@umanitoba.ca
Upcoming
UMIH Events:
Wet'suwet'en Solidarity: Local Resonances
Monday, March 16, 2020
1:30-3:30 pm
306 Tier Building
A free screening of the film
Invasion, followed by a panel discussion. Donations for the Unist'ot'en Legal Fund will be accepted.
Panelists:
Jenna Vandal (UM Graduate) - Rooster Town Blockade
Taylor Galvin (Student)) - Wa Ni Ska Tan
Kayla Lariviere (Student) - CFS
Drey Smith - Founder of Camp Morningstar
Annie Beach (Student) - Moderator
Celiese Lypka - UMIH Arts of Conversation Series
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
2:30-3:30 pm
409 Tier Building
UMIH
Supported Events:
The UMIH
office is a drop-off location for donations of travel-sized toiletry items to be donated to Mama Bear Clan & the North Point Douglas Women's Centre.
Donations can also be dropped off at 215 Isbister.
Starting Monday, March 9, 2020.
For more information, click
here.
Laughter
is Medicine: A Youth Comedy Night!
Saturday,
March 14, 2020
7:00-11:00
pm
West
End Cultural Centre, 586 Ellice Ave.
For
more information, click here.
Faculty and graduate students are invited to submit proposals for the annual
meeting of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS)
“Translation and Appropriation in the Long Eighteenth
Century” to be held in Winnipeg October
21-24, 2020.
Cary Miller, Native Studies is one of the three plenary speakers at the event.
Deadline for submission of individual papers is March
15, 2020.
Please visit the webpage for full information in both English and French:
UMIH Research
Affiliate, Murray Leeder, will be presenting the keynote at this year's Supernatural
Studies Annual Conference
The
third annual conference will take place in New Rochelle, NY
Friday
March 20, 2020
For
more information, click here.
Bauhaus
(Canada) 101
The School of Art Gallery at the University
of Manitoba, Curated by Dr. Oliver A. I. Botar
Exhibition: February
13, 2020 to March 27, 2020
For more information,
click here.
Other Opportunities and
Events:
Plug
In ICA 2020 Summer Institutes are now
accepting applications!
The
Summer Institute is an international artist research program for professional artists and cultural workers in all disciplines and media.
Summer
Institute I: SPARKLE PLANET: We
have lift-off! will be led by Toronto-based artist Tau Lewis, and will run from July
13 to 24, 2020. Participants will build and create with a focus on non-traditional methods of physical and conceptual construction.
Summer
Institute II: Water Knowledge will
be led by social practice artist KC Adams. This residency is about passing on water knowledge bundles to better understand our relationship with water. The residency is open to visual artists, writers, critics and scholars who identify as women and non-binary
and will run from August 17th to August 28th, 2020. https://plugin.org/summer-institute/