We hope your Fall Reading Week is off to a good start. We are pleased to share the following UMIH news with you.

 

POETRY EVENTS

 

 

 

UMIH BOOK GROUP MEETING

 

On Tuesday November 19, UMIH’s book group will meet to discuss Dr. Tiya Miles’ All That She Carried. We’ll be discussing the second half of the book (from page 164 onward). Snacks will be served and all are welcome to attend. Come to participate in the discussion or to listen and learn.

 

WARHAFT LECTURE AND SEMINAR

 

UMIH is pleased to support two events featuring Dr. Urvashi Chakravarty (University of Toronto). Both are organized by the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media. Here are the details:

 

Sidney Warhaft Memorial Lecture for 2024

Racial Futurity: Gender, Whiteness, and Heritable Slavery in Early Modernity

Presented by Dr. Urvashi Chakravarty

Thursday November 21 at 5:30 p.m.

108 St John’s College (Cross Common Room)

All are welcome; reception to follow.

 

Engaging Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, Heminge’s The Fatal Contract, and Milton’s Paradise Lost, Dr. Urvashi Chakravarty’s talk will both examine the intersection (and co-construction) of race and gender in early modern England and explore the articulation and authorization of frameworks of heritable slavery in the Atlantic world.

 

Warhaft Seminar: Race and the Archive

Led by Dr. Urvashi Chakravarty

Friday November 22, 2:30 - 4:00 p.m.

409 Tier; Refreshments Provided

This seminar is open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty.

 

CRAFTERNOON: BLOCK PRINTING

 

On Wednesday November 27 at 2:30, join us for this semester’s third and final UMIH Crafternoon. We’ll be exploring BLOCK PRINTING, a technique used to print patterns on both paper and fabric. We have tools for 18 makers to join us; first come, first served. We provide all the supplies and instruction you’ll need. There is no cost and zero experience is required. You can take your printed pieces and the block you carved home with you. If you prefer, you can bring a craft of your own. We’ll meet in Tier 409. All are welcome.

 

HANDS-ON HUMANITIES VISITING SPEAKER

 

And last but not least, please save the date for a lecture celebrating UMIH’s semester-long exploration of hands-on humanities:

 

“Public Humanities on the Ground: Cultivating Flax for Papermaking in a Campus Community Garden” with Dr. Maria Zytaruk (University of Calgary)

Friday November 27 at 2:30 on Zoom

Please email umih@umanitoba.ca for the link.

All are welcome. Here is some information about this talk:

 

This lecture treats the more than year-long project that Zytaruk and a group of students, university staff, and community members undertook to cultivate flax for hand papermaking in the campus garden. From the sixteenth century to about the mid nineteenth century, paper in Europe was made from linen and hemp rags. Timothy Barrett has written of the ways in which rag paper embeds an “intimacy between the fibre and its human handlers.” Zytaruk’s project made tangible the labour, agricultural and creative, that coalesces in each piece of handmade paper. In cultivating flax during a time of climate crisis, and against the backdrop of smoke-filled skies due to forest fires, questions about the sustainability of paper and books, in the hand-press period and today, became pressing matters.

 

As always, UMIH welcomes your suggestions for ways to support your teaching, learning, research, and outreach in the humanities! Don’t hesitate to be in touch.