Dear Friends of the hUManities,

Welcome to a new week

Upcoming Events:

Dance Like Nobody’s Watching: Student Experiences of Covid 19 in Canada. (UMIH + Desautels Faculty of Music + The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching & Learning + XiE + Department of Religion

+ University of Manitoba Faculty of Arts)

In the fall of 2020, during the heart of the global pandemic, students from Dr. Brenda Cantelo’s Religion and Dance course in the Faculty of Arts collaborated with students from Dr. Gordon Fitzell’s

eXperimental Improv Ensemble (XIE) in the Desautels Faculty of Music at the University of Manitoba to create a dance video on the theme of living through COVID-19. Each dance sequence and musical track was performed remotely by individual students and edited together to form a unified expression of our collective pandemic experience. Join us tomorrow, Tuesday 29th 2021 for the launch on Zoom. Please see attached poster for Zoom link details or visit the Post on our Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/UMIHumanities for access to the Zoom.

Care - In-person Exhibition of works by Microgrant recipients (UMIH + MAWA + QPOC Winnipeg) (Opening dates pending Government restrictions) at MAWA - 611 Main Street Join us in celebrating the opening of Care an in-person exhibition of works through microgrants showing at MAWA (611 Main Street). Please note we will update folks on the duration of the show and visiting hours pending the lifting of Government restrictions via the UMIH social channels. Follow the UMIH on our Instagram linked herehttps://www.instagram.com/umih___/ to view the show virtually and to see individual images of the works posted weekly.

Opportunities:

Seeking MA/MFA Student Assistant position (3-year term) for research related to the African Movie Festival in Manitoba (AM-FM) scheduled this year for September 24 to 25, 2021. The project is in need of an MA/MFA graduate student who is interested in research in the area of films, history, festivalization, culture, education or any discipline that is consistent with the aforementioned goals and objectives. This three-year project offers a stipend of $6000 per year. The student will receive training in festivalization and cultural production exhibition. They will help realize co-curation of the festival in Manitoba. PI Dr. Sheila Petty, University of Regina will co-supervise the student with Dr. Ben Akoh, the AM-FM festival director and include the student in the team training overall. The student will (co-) present a paper at a Canadian conference. Travel may be involved. Cost of any travel, per diems and accommodation, will be covered by the project. For more information please contact Ben Akoh at bakoh@am-fm.ca

Community Events: Prairie Asian Organizers is a collective (PAO!) - Discussing #CancelCanadaDayhttps://www.facebook.com/hashtag/cancelcanadaday?__eep__=6&__cft__[0]=AZUf4ZKIXu1y9Tazraj1jbQdnpUANNpTd4OBdlokOKmi0g2JT5d9ptL15BjKqFPylQUrChxMgwasCJL4b1Y6JyKOfGBlFx5lmhm3xDdOcuuHnw0uVDyIc3P24n206lQ2H_ithL2RoJ6TGqTcHeA7PMQSTm_V8E6Mi4aWRgNhUVuKnfY4F8Ksl5RrDSVkHW-ujQY&__tn__=*NK-R WEDNESDAY AT 7 PM – 9 PM CT "Prairie Asian Organizers is a collective of Asian community members resisting the model minority myth and organizing in solidarity with fellow BIPOC communities. As migrants and descendants of migrants, we would like to offer a space for people to process and share their thoughts about #CancelCanadaDayhttps://www.facebook.com/hashtag/cancelcanadaday?__eep__=6&__cft__[0]=AZUf4ZKIXu1y9Tazraj1jbQdnpUANNpTd4OBdlokOKmi0g2JT5d9ptL15BjKqFPylQUrChxMgwasCJL4b1Y6JyKOfGBlFx5lmhm3xDdOcuuHnw0uVDyIc3P24n206lQ2H_ithL2RoJ6TGqTcHeA7PMQSTm_V8E6Mi4aWRgNhUVuKnfY4F8Ksl5RrDSVkHW-ujQY&__tn__=*NK-R and the multiple truths that we must hold as settler Canadians and guests moving forward -- of refuge and genocide, prosperity and oppression, integration and assimilation. Everyone is welcome. This will be a facilitated session, and participants will have the option to join a mixed breakout room or a BIPOC-only breakout room". Please visit the Facebook Event Pagehttps://www.facebook.com/events/159092082828700/?ref=newsfeed for the link to attend.

The UMIH Newsletter will be put on hiatus for the rest of the summer. We will continue to share updates on our Instagram and Facebook accounts in the meantime. We wish everyone a restful and lovely summer ahead and warm regards dear friends.

Take care,

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

umanitoba.ca/institutes/humanitieshttp://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/humanities