Dear Friends of UMIH,

The next few weeks offer us many opportunities to connect with one another AND with the humanities here at the University of Manitoba. Here is a list of some exciting upcoming events:

At 2:30 today (Monday Oct. 21) on Zoom, UMIH Cluster Leader Dr. Jamie Paris will host a poetry reading featuring the editors of the forthcoming collection Workers of the Warming World Unite (Fernwood Press). Please email umih@umanitoba.camailto:umih@umanitoba.ca for your copy of the link. All are welcome.

This Thursday (Oct. 24), UMIH welcomes Dr. Emily Maggiacomo for an event supporting graduate students. Our topic will be “Managing Challenges as an ABD Humanities Student.” If you are working on (or planning for) an ambitious research and writing project, such as a dissertation, please attend. This event will be held at 2:30 on Zoom; you can email umih@umanitoba.camailto:umih@umanitoba.ca for your copy of the link. You can learn more about this and other UMIH events on Instagram @umih___https://www.instagram.com/umih___/?hl=en .

On Monday Oct. 28 at 3:45, please join us for a special screening of a NYC stage performance of Lord Byron’s SARDANAPALUS. This screening, which will take place in Tier 408, will be moderated by Dr. Michelle Faubert. UMIH is delighted to partner with the Byron Society of America and the Keats-Shelley Association of America to bring this screening to our campus. Popcorn, like admission, will be free.

UMIH’s second CRAFTERNOON takes place on the afternoon of Wed. Oct. 30. Please join us at 2:30 to learn how to make a rug (or similarly useful item) out of repurposed fabric. We’ll provide the supplies and all the instructions you’ll need. There is no cost; zero experience is required; all are welcome. You are, of course, welcome to bring a craft of your own. We’ll meet in Tier 409.

On Friday Nov. 1 at 2:30, with thanks to Dr. Erin Keating, two speakers from Editors Canada will make a virtual visit to UMIH for a career-themed event: “SO YOU WANT TO BE A PROFESSIONAL EDITOR? A Discussion with Lisa Hislop and Michelle Waitzman from Editors Canada.” As always, you can send an email to umih@umanitoba.camailto:umih@umanitoba.ca to request your copy of the Zoom link. All are welcome.

And on Wed. Nov. 6 at 2:30, we will gather for a UMIH Roundtable on Object Lessons. Attend to hear about a diverse set of objects that are changing the direction of our speakers’ teaching, research, or outreach. Join us in Tier 409 for this event.

Looking further forward, into late November, please save the date for a very special lecture by Dr. Maria Zytaruk (U of Calgary). To celebrate a term of exploration of hands-on humanities work, UMIH will welcome Dr. Zytaruk on Friday Nov. 29 (2:30, via Zoom). Dr. Zytaruk is a professor, curator, and radio documentary maker and her lecture is tentatively titled “Public Humanities on the Ground: Cultivating Flax for Papermaking in a Campus Community Garden.”

And, lastly-- if you’ve been reading Dr. Tiya Miles’ All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake, please join us in Tier 409 at 2:30 TOMORROW (Tuesday Oct. 22) for the first meeting of UMIH’s Fall 2024 Book Group. We’ll be discussing up to page 163.

If you have suggestions for future requests or suggestions for how UMIH can better support your work in the humanities, please reach out. We hope to see you at an event soon.

Ekene Maduka

Assistant to the Director

Institute for the Humanities

University of Manitoba

407 Tier Building

204 474 9599

umih@umanitoba.camailto:umih@ad.umanitoba.ca

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