Dear friends of the Humanities,

Welcome to a new week

Upcoming Events: The Power and Resistance in Latin America Research Cluster presents Pachamama Politics Dr. Teresa Velásquez, Anthropology, California State University, San Bernardino Tuesday, October 17, 2:30 PM CT 307 Tier Building In this book talk, Pachamama Politics, Teresa Velásquez discusses her research among a group of Ecuadorian farmers organized to defend community watersheds from a proposed Canadian gold mine project. Her work exposes the rifts over government plans to pursue extraction in the name of Sumak Kawsay (to live well), and how farmers transformed their relationship to Indigeneity in unexpected ways. This book lecture is also supported by the Department of Anthropology and CERG (Critical Environments Research Group). Please see the attached poster for more details.

The Writing Towards a Just World Research Cluster presents Variations of Writing Practice: Ways to Get the Work Done Wednesday, October 25 from 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM CT St. John’s College room 111 U of Manitoba professors Diane Driedger, Christine Stewart and Niigaan Sinclair will explain the nitty-gritty processes of how they accomplish their tasks as writers of different genres, for example op-eds, creative nonfiction, and poetry. How do they discover ideas? How do they conduct research? How does revision and editing occur? How do they share and/or publish their work? There will be ample time for the audience to ask questions as well as for writing tips, strategies, and techniques to be shared.

Recurring Events: The Writing Room hosted by the Writing Towards a Just World Research Cluster Tuesdays from September 26 until December 19 (10:30 AM – 12:30 PM CT) St. John’s College, room 128 Please feel welcome to join in and invite Colleagues, Students, Faculty etc. to this writing-focused space scheduled every Tuesday until the 19th of December. For more details email: jocelyn.thorpe@umanitoba.camailto:jocelyn.thorpe@umanitoba.ca

Cosponsored Events: Caring Queerly: Queer Health Symposium UM Bannatyne Campus: 744 Bannatyne Avenue Thursday, 19 October 2023 10:00 AM - Fri, 20 Oct 2023 1:00 PM CT This event features guest speaker Dr. Jake Pyne from York University, an exciting lunch-hour drag show, a student art show and research workshop, and community research priority consultation. Food and refreshments will be provided, and the event is absolutely free! Please see the attached poster for more details. Queries: hunterm7@myumanitoba.camailto:hunterm7@myumanitoba.ca

Take care, friends

Ekene Maduka

Assistant to the Director

Institute for the Humanities

University of Manitoba

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