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, 408 Tier Building—Please note the room change

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.

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

Tuesday, November 6 – Workshop Series—Register Today, space limited

10:30-4:00 – 409 Tier Building

PhDs That Work: Finding Success in an Uncertain Job Market,

with Maren Wood and Jennifer Polk of Beyond the Professoriate

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Free registration at https://umhumanities.com

 

Thursday, November 22, 2018 — The Futures of the Humanities Series

10:00 am – 4:00 pm, 230 University College

Working Your Degree: Co-operative Education, Experiential Learning and the Twenty-first Century – A One-Day Symposium.

     

   Keynote: Julie Walchli, Executive Director, Work Integrated Education and Career Initiatives, Co-Director, Canada Japan Co-op Program, Faculty of Arts, The University of British Columbia

   Session 1 – What Are Co-ops and What Are They Not?

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   Session 2 – Challenges Facing CEWIL Programs

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   Session 3 – Keys to Successful CEWIL Programs

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   Session 4 – CEWIL and the Future

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