Dear Friends of the hUManities,​

Welcome to a new week

Upcoming Events: UMIH Fall Spotlight Event: In partnership with Critical Environments Research Group, we present On Climate Justice and Just Transitions by Dr. Julie Sze (University of California) Monday, November, 14th 2022 at 2:30 PM CT via Zoom The UMIH and CERG are excited to present this lecture by Dr. Julie Sze (University of California). Join us on Monday, November 14th 2022, at 2:30 PM CT with Dr. Julie Sze, professor of American Studies and founding Director of the Environmental Justice Project, focused on climate justice. There will be live ASL available for this event and a Q & A session to follow shortly after. Please email umih@umanitoba.camailto:umih@umanitoba.ca with any questions or other accessibility needs. To attend this event, email umih@umanitoba.camailto:umih@umanitoba.ca.

The Writing Towards a Just World Research Cluster Present - Crafting Comedy: Humour as a Tool of Decolonization hosted by writer, Frances Koncan November 8th 2022. Hybrid workshop - in-person at 307 Tier and online via Zoom Some say comedy is an innate gift that only a select few possess; others say it's a skill that anyone can learn. Writer, Frances, thinks it's a little bit of both! In this workshop, we'll explore the building blocks of humour, joke-writing, and comedy as well as our own individual lived experiences, perspectives, and ideas to exercise our comedic muscles and explore our authentic voice as writers. Through a combination of listening, watching and, most importantly, writing, we'll focus in on how humour can be used to challenge and re-imagine the rules, structures and practices that we have been taught – and hopefully have a few laughs along the way. To register for this event, please use this linkhttps://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAld--uqzooHtDApzXPVQ8cmNl2dFEUqF4s

Upcoming Events Of interest: Reckoning with Extraction roundtable CFP UMIH Research Affiliate Dr. Melanie Dennis Unrau is co-organizing a joint Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) and Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada (ALECC) roundtable on the theme of “Reckoning with Extraction,” to be held at Congress at York University in May 2023. Please see the attached CFP and submit proposals using the ACCUTE online submission formhttps://accute.ca/accute-2022-2023-submission-form/. Feel free to contact Melanie at melanie.unrau@umanitoba.camailto:melanie.unrau@umanitoba.ca with any questions.

Take care, friends

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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