Dear Friends of the hUManities,​

Welcome to a new week

Upcoming Events: The Writing Towards a Just World Research Cluster presents: The Role of the Writer in the World by Jacob Scheier Date Change: Thursday, 25th October 2022. 12 PM - 2 PM CDT We are super excited to invite folks to this hybrid workshop hosted by the Writing Towards a Just World Research Cluster with CCWOC's writer in residence, Jacob Scheier. In this workshop, we will explore the big question—why write? More specifically, we will discuss the role the writer and/or poet potentially plays in our society, particularly when it comes to social justice. We will look at our own writing (participants are encouraged to bring in their recent work (a poem, story, work of creative nonfiction) and consider the cultural impact we would like it to have and what techniques and devices we can employ to better achieve such aims. There will be ASL interpretation available for this event. Please contact us with any other accessibility requests by email. To Register, please visit this linkhttps://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nyxGbuDGSDe4HXOqBx2ueQ.

Melanie Dennis Unrau, UMIH Research Affiliate and Max Karpinski, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto Mississauga present: Forum on Poetics, Energy, and Extraction for a special issue of Canadian Literature Moderated by Dr. Warren Cariou (ETFM) Thursday, October 27, 2022 from 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM CDT via Zoom Please join us for a forum with poetry readings and statements of poetics on the theme of energy and/or extraction by poets Jennifer Wickham, Nduka Otiono, Rita Wong, Lindsay Bird, and Adam Dickinson. The event is held in preparation for a special issue of Canadian Literature on “Poetics and Extraction” and is hosted by Dr. Warren Cariou (University of Manitoba), Dr. Melanie Dennis Unrau (UMIH affiliate), and Dr. Max Karpinski (University of Toronto Mississauga). Please use this Zoom linkhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/85452138692?pwd=VUt6alh1OEtmdWxzZVFKeGVlUysrUT09 to attend the event.

This is the second Forum on Poetics, Energy, and Extraction; the first forum was held in March 2022. A recording of the first forum, with readings and statements by Kazim Ali, Madhur Anand, Lesley Battler, Warren Cariou, Cecily Nicholson, and Douglas Walbourne-Gough, is available herehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOChl4AE_wQ&t=1s.

Upcoming Events Of interest: Decolonizing Lens, Hallowe'en edition Doors open: 6:15 PM, Thursday, October 27th , 2022 at the WAG (300 Memorial Blvd) Screening at 7:00 PM followed by a discussion To celebrate the spooky season, please join the Decolonizing Lens for a free screening of Nyla Innuksuk's Slash/Back! Afterwards, stay to hear director Nyla Innuksuk in conversation with local filmmaker Sonya Ballantyne. Please invite your brave teens and their friends! There will be prizes for the scariest, funniest, and most original costumes! (We ask that everyone be respectful in their costume choices and ensure they do not promote sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, or appropriation of cultures.) A section of seats will be saved for Urban Inuit community members. This program is also accessible online via this linkhttps://watch.eventive.org/.../play/633c76db546fc50808677f2d

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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