HALLOWE’EN EVENTS
Thursday, October 25 – Arts of Conversation
2:30 pm, 409 Tier Building
David Annandale (Dept ETFM), “The Darkest Timeline: Get Out, Hereditary, And The Horror Movie In The Age Of Trump”
Event Posterhttps://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1274
Wednesday, October 31 – All Day Public Event
Frankenreads, Winnipeghttps://frankenreadswinnipeg.wordpress.com/ – An international celebration of the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Event Posterhttps://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1227
RACE AND THE MIDDLE AGES
Monday, October 29
10:30 am, 409 Tier Building
Dorothy Kim (Brandeis University), “Embodying the Database: Race, Gender, and Social Justice”
This talk deals with Medieval Studies, Roberto Busa, S.J., The Index Thomasticus, alternative genealogies of the database that go back to Khipu, pre-contact American embodied databases, WWII, IBM and the Holocaust, and the possibilities of a decolonized history of science.
Event Posterhttps://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1317
Monday, October 29
12:30 pm, 408 Tier Building—Please note the room change
Dorothy Kim, (Brandeis University), “Race and the De/Post/Anti-Colonial Middle Ages”
Event Posterhttps://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1314
Dorothy Kim teaches Medieval Literature at Brandeis University. Her research focuses on race, gender, digital humanities, medieval women’s literary cultures, medievalism, Jewish/Christian difference, book history, digital media, and the alt-right. A prolific scholar, Professor Kim has, among many other projects, two books, The Alt-Medieval: Digital Whiteness and Medieval Studies and Decolonize the Middle Ages, forthcoming with ArcPress, and a co-edited volume (with Kimberly Coles), A Cultural History of Race in the Renaissance and Early Modern Age (1350-1550) forthcoming with Bloomsbury.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Tuesday, November 6 – Workshop Series—Register Today, space limited
10:30-4:00 – 409 Tier Building
PhDs That Work: Finding Success in an Uncertain Job Market,
with Maren Wood and Jennifer Polk of Beyond the Professoriate
Event Posterhttps://umhumanities.com/#jp-carousel-1288
Free registration at https://umhumanities.com
Thursday, November 22, 2018 — The Futures of the Humanities Series
10:00 am – 4:00 pm, 230 University College
Working Your Degree: Co-operative Education, Experiential Learning and the Twenty-first Century – A One-Day Symposium.
Keynote: Julie Walchli, Executive Director, Work Integrated Education and Career Initiatives, Co-Director, Canada Japan Co-op Program, Faculty of Arts, The University of British Columbia
Session 1 – What Are Co-ops and What Are They Not?
Panel: TBC
Session 2 – Challenges Facing CEWIL Programs
Panel: TBC
Session 3 – Keys to Successful CEWIL Programs
Panel: TBC
Session 4 – CEWIL and the Future
Panel: TBC
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Paul Jenkins, PhD
Programming Developer/Coordinator and Assistant Director
Institute for the Humanities &
Instructor, Dept. of History
University of Manitoba
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