Dear Friends of the hUManities,

Please join us for this week's UMIH talks: UMIH graduate fellowship recipient Jacqueline Jordaan (Anthropology) is presenting "Democra-tease, Museum Resources and the Presentation of the African Past in South Africa" Thursday October 17, 2019 2:30-3:30 PM 409 Tier Building

The Research Cluster on Power and Resistance in Latin America is hosting a talk by visiting guest lecturer, Kevin Coleman (Department of Historical Studies, University of Toronto) "Romero: The Making of an Icon" Friday, October 18, 2019 2:30 PM 409 Tier Building

Upcoming UMIH Events:

Join us on Halloween for "Specters of Modernism. Or Loose Ends Without Time to Spare: Repetition, Color and Allegory in Morris Louis"

Thursday, October 31, 2019

2:30-3:30 PM

409 Tier Building

UMIH CFPs:

UMIH is seeking proposals for our External Grant Support program. This funding source was established in order to help researchers in the Faculty of Arts who are seeking external funding for conferences, workshops, colloquia, and other local research events. This program has been devised with SSHRC Connections and SSHRC Partnership Engage grants in mind, but it is open to applicants targeting other funding agencies or organizations. Applicants are asked to contact the UMIH with the details of the grant before applying to ensure that their application can be supported under the UMIH mandate.

See the attached poster for more information.

Intersex and the Health and Medical Humanities

Edited Volume CFP (with interest from Emerald Press)

Editors: Dr. Katelyn Dykstra, Dr. Shoshannah Bryn Jones Square

The University of Manitoba’s Institute for the Humanities

We welcome abstracts of 500 words by December 15, 2019, with full articles of 5000 words required by mid-May 2020.

Submissions and questions can be directed to Drs. Dykstra and Jones Square at k.dykstra@umanitoba.ca.

See the attached poster for more information.

Of Interest:

For those interested in Create: Words and Art from WCC - copies are now available by donation at UMIH!

Serenity Joo has been volunteering inside Women's Correctional Centre in Headingley, MB for the past three years with the Prison Libraries Committee (PLC). PLC is a volunteer-run organization committed to literacy and supporting the right to read for those currently incarcerated. Recently, PLC published a chapbook entitled CREATE: Words and Art from WCC, partly based on writing workshops Serenity co-facilitated with Dr. Kate Ready from U of W. Serenity hopes to be able to offer U of M courses inside WCC in the near future. For now, the chapbook is available for purchase with donation to PLC in the UMIH office, and for free perusal online at the UMIH blog: https://umhumanities.com/2019/10/08/create-words-and-art-from-wcc/.

Faculty of Arts Opportunities:

The Faculty of Arts Student Conference Travel Award This fund is intended to provide graduate and senior undergraduate students in the Faculty of Arts with financial support to attend a conference in their discipline at which they will present a paper, or play a role of similar significance. There are two competitions each year, with deadlines of November 1 and April 1 -- application is to be made to Acting Associate Dean (Research) Heidi Marx C/O Jen Chappellaz, 307 Fletcher Argue Building.

TO GET TO MORE INFORMATION AND THE APPLICATION FORM FOR THIS AWARD, PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW: http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/awards/3006.html