Dear friends of the UMIH,

the UMIH is very glad to invite you this week to the UMIH International Conference- Identity in Motion: Literary Representations of Refugees, Exiles, and Immigrants

Venue: hybrid, Zoom and in-person. All sessions and keynote addresses will be held via Zoom and can be attended at the rooms mentioned below for each day.

Thursday, February 5th: 307 Tier Bldg, Zoom link: https://umanitoba.zoom.us/j/64360446545?pwd=lovbcd9Tud5lGLokLpEWyQy6FgaKlG.1

Friday, February 6th: Cross Common Room, 108 St. John's College, Zoom link: https://umanitoba.zoom.us/j/67829779443?pwd=S4E4RC5etHLE5Yg82JYkQE1HdWdDsa.1

For the full program, please see the attached program or visit our website

Over two days, this conference seeks to explore the diverse literary portrayals of displacement, migration, exile, and the refugee experience across genres, languages, and cultures. In addition to twenty presenters divided in panels, the conference will feature two keynote speakers:

-Dr. Alex Sager, (Professor of Philosophy and University Studies, Portland State University): "What If Refugees Designed Asylum", at the conference's opening session, February 5th, 10:15am

-Dr. Peggy Levitt (Professor, Mildred Lane Kemper Chair of Sociology, Wellesley College

Co-Founder, Global (De)Centre): "Move Over, Mona Lisa: Reimagining What We Read, Look at, and Learn", at the conference's closing session, February 6th, 12:30pm

The UMIH acknowledges the generous support of the University of Manitoba's Department of English, Theatre, Film, and Media and the Department of German and Slavic Studies for making this conference possible.

And for next week, mark your calendar for,

-"New and Curious Sights": Nineteenth-Century Literary Representations of Women's Encounters with Zoological Gardens and Menageries

Shelby Stymeist, UMIH Graduate Fellow

Monday, February 9th, 409 Tier, 2:30pm

Based on research on nineteenth-century literary representations of women's encounters with zoological gardens and menageries, this presentation examines the ways in which these spaces act as sites of liminality for women and girls in fictional and non-fictional texts of the period

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