Dear friends of the humanities,

Here is your rundown of upcoming events and announcements.

TONIGHT - Wednesday, October 17 – Arts of Conversation

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

Tipi Confessions: “Sex at the End of the World–Tipi Confessions in Bed with QPOC”

HALLOWE’EN EVENTS

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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RACE AND THE MIDDLE AGES

Monday, October 29

10:30 am, 409 Tier Building

Dorothy Kim (Brandeis University), “Embodying the Database: Race, Gender, and Social Justice”

This talk deals with Medieval Studies, Roberto Busa, S.J., The Index Thomasticus, alternative genealogies of the database that go back to Khipu, pre-contact American embodied databases, WWII, IBM and the Holocaust, and the possibilities of a decolonized history of science.

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Monday, October 29

12:30 pm, 206 Tier Building

Dorothy Kim, (Brandeis University), “Race and the De/Post/Anti-Colonial Middle Ages”

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Dorothy Kim teaches Medieval Literature at Brandeis University. Her research focuses on race, gender, digital humanities, medieval women’s literary cultures, medievalism, Jewish/Christian difference, book history, digital media, and the alt-right. A prolific scholar, Professor Kim has, among many other projects, two books, The Alt-Medieval: Digital Whiteness and Medieval Studies and Decolonize the Middle Ages, forthcoming with ArcPress, and a co-edited volume (with Kimberly Coles), A Cultural History of Race in the Renaissance and Early Modern Age (1350-1550) forthcoming with Bloomsbury.