University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities

ANNUAL REPORT 2013-2014 index

introduction 1

board of management 1 introduction

message from the director 2 The constitution of the Institute requires the Director to report annually to the Dean of Arts, the Vice-President (Academic) and Provost, and the Vice-President (Research). It is customary director’s 2013-14 research 3 for this report to be presented annually at the year-end meeting of the Board of Management. Copies are also distributed

on-campus to the President, the Associate Deans of Arts, the the research affiliates 5 Institute’s Board of Management, and many supporters who are members of the University of Manitoba community. Cop- the research clusters 5 ies are distributed off-campus to a selection of other Humani- film worlds 6 ties Institutes, and to other friends and supporters. This is group for premodern studies 7 the twenty-third report since 1990-91, there having been no passions, pedagogies, & publics 7 report in 1997-98. queer biopolitics 8

umih off-campus programming 9 board of management umih on-campus programming 9

The UMIH Board of Management met twice during 2013-14. co-sponsorships with other units 11 The Board’s principal tasks were to elect the research affiliates, select the research clusters, approve the asking budget, review terms of reference for affiliate and cluster programs, student training & outreach 13 and assist with the planning of the Institute’s programs.

umih write-on-site initiative 13 Board of Management Members 2013-14

Lisa Alexandrin (Religion) financial report 2013-14 13 Sharon Alward (School of Art) 2014-15 asking budget 14 Greg Bak (History) Tina Chen (History) Esa Diaz-Leon (Philosophy) publications 15 Russell Field (Kinesiology & Recreation) comprehensive Mark Hudson (Sociology) Serenity Joo (Chair) (English, Film, & Theatre) numbered summary of annual report Dana Medoro (English, Film, & Theatre) 1-6 16 Liz Millward (Women’s & Gender Studies) 7-9 18 Debra Parkes (Faculty of Law) 10-11 19 Vacant (Arts)

appended annual budget I financial report I director’s summary of budget II asking budget: schedule a III asking budget: schedule b IV Cover Images: Mike Latschislaw

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES / 1 University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities

ANNUAL REPORT 2013-2014

message from the director

As I noted in my message last year, I find it particularly helpful to think through books and that many of the books I spend my time thinking about at the moment are children’s books. This past year, I had the opportunity to think through a more adult book, Brené Brown’s Daring Greatly. However, its significance became particularly evident to me as I was watching the film Frozen with my children.

In Daring Greatly, Brown explains her research on vulnerability for a general audience. She was afforded this opportunity in part because of the success of her TEDTalk, “The Power of Vulnerability.” Thanks in part to Brown’s work and in part to our contemporary circumstances, vulnerability seemed to be everywhere this year. The presidential theme for the MLA convention in Chi- cago this past January was “Vulnerable Times.” While the topic for the colloquium organized by students in the Department of English, Film, and Theatre was not vulnerability, several participants noted that it was a recurrent theme throughout many of the presentations. Many of us have also likely been feeling vulnerable during an academic year when the threat of a strike loomed over us and when winter seemed like it would never end. Vulnerability is helpful to think about because it is something many of us feel I many different situations. According to Brown, this kind of thinking offers a profoundly helpful way for us to reflect on our relationships with our selves, our institutions, and our world.

I personally felt vulnerable for a variety of reasons during the past year, yet it was my experience of watching Frozen with my children that really focused my attention on why vulnerability is something we need to reckon with. As I watched the film for a second time after having read Brown’s work, I was struck by the way it animated her thesis about the ways in which our very human experience of vulnerability profoundly shapes our lives. Frozen reveals both how destructive it can be to deny our vulnerability and how generative the development of resilience can be.

Frozen tells the story of Elsa and Anna, two princesses (it is a Disney movie, after all) of Arendelle. The older daughter, Elsa, has an exceptional ability: she can create ice and snow. After hurting her sister accidentally while they play together one morning, Elsa builds barriers around herself to try to eliminate her sense of vulnerability and—even more importantly—her sense of her sister’s vulnerability. Anna, meanwhile, only remembers they were once “best buddies” and craves some explanation for why they no longer are. A shipwreck leaves the two princesses as orphans (it is a Disney movie, after all), leaving Anna so starved for affection that she tries to find love with the first person who pays any attention to her. These two young women represent two different, but equally destructive, directions in which a failure to come to terms with vulnerability can lead. Elsa builds boundaries—both literal and figurative—between herself and others while Anna has no boundaries at all, accepting a marriage proposal from the first prince she meets (it is a Disney movie, after all). What follows is a remarkable exploration of the need to come to terms with vulnerability if we hope to develop appropriate relationships at a personal, institutional, and environmental level.

In the relationship between Elsa and Anna (as well as their parents), I recognize moments from my own personal relationships, especially those moments when I feel I cannot possibly do enough to protect those I love. In the way that other princes and merchants attempt to exploit Arendelle’s vulnerability to their political and economic Photo: Ian McCausland advantage, having banished the newly-crowned Queen because of her exceptional pow- ers, I recognize the ways that our institutions can be abused, especially when they are used to establish or entrench privilege for a small group at the expense of many others. When winter blankets Arendelle during the summer, I can really only see Winnipeg this past winter, though I also recognize the way this film explores a more general failure to come to terms with human vulnerability in the world, something that has often led us to see nature as an antagonist to be overcome or kept at bay rather than an entity with which we are in relationship. In short, this film animates the centrality of vulnerability in the human experience and the extent to which we need to account for this. One of the implications of Brown’s research Director’s Message cont. on p. 3 UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES / 2 Director’s Messsage, cont.

is that we cannot become invulnerable without losing our humanity. However, we can respond to our vulnerability in a humane way by developing resilience. This is confirmed by one of the songs inFrozen : “People make bad choices if they’re mad or scared or stressed, / But throw a little love their way, and you’ll bring out their best!”

The Institute for the Humanities did not explicitly set out this year to come to terms with vulnerability. In retrospect, though, it seems as though many of our events provided opportunities for acknowledging vulnerability and developing resilience. This annual report provides many details about the kinds of activities undertaken at the Institute this year, I would like to take this opportunity to highlight a few of them.

In the Fall term, Louis Bucciarelli joined us to discuss his vision of a Bachelor of Arts in Engineering. In his view, the relationships that underlie every stage in the design—from the inception of an idea to its implementation through to the legacy the finished product will have—are not a variable that needs to be excluded in order to make the calculations clearer but an integral part of the process. Engineers can therefore learn a great deal from the Arts, both the humanities and social sciences, as they prepare for life after University. We were pleased to work with members of the Faculty of Engineering and the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics to welcome Dr Bucciarelli to speak with us about the need to embrace the human element in all kinds of decision-making. It was particularly helpful for me to think about not only what we in the humanities might offer to Engineering as a discipline but also about what we might learn from the processes engineers use at various stages in their work.

Again in retrospect, many of the scholars we worked with other centers and faculty members to invite seemed to touch on vulnerability—either personal or institutional—in a variety of ways. We cooperated with the Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture so that we could hear from Rosalyn Voaden, who shared her work on medieval women visionaries, whose gender certainly had significant impact on the way they experienced—and were thought to experience—the divine presence. We also worked with Mosaic to invite two speakers, Nicholas Royle and David Krell, who shared their work as well as their views “One of the key decisions that the Institute’s both on the current state of publishing in the humanities. We plan to continue these collaborations in the coming years, Board of Management made last spring was to most notably in our agreement to share the responsibility with award funding to four research clusters this year.” Mosaic to host at least one speaker on the topic of academic publication in the humanities each year. Sometimes, as in this year when we are also working with the U of M Press to help prepare scholars to propose and publish scholarly books, we will hold more than one event.

Working together with the Canada Research Chair in Western Canadian Social History and the Faculty of Law, we were able to invite Lisa Guenther to speak about her experience working with and writing about prisoners who experience solitary confinement. Her two talks—one held in the Faculty of Law and the other at the Millennium Library—certainly provided us with a great deal of insight into the experience of vulnerability and its relationship to the experience of humanity. They were also very hopeful, again suggesting that there is also a great deal of resilience in other human beings as well as a desire to help others to develop their own resilience.

The wide array of events organized by our Research Clusters this past year will become evident in the following pages. One of the key decisions that the Institute’s Board of Management made last spring was to award funding to four Research Clusters this year. This decision was made in part because of the outstanding applications we received but also from a sense that we could be better stewards of our resources by providing funding to groups so they could carry out the work they were already imagining rather than trying to imagine what programming people would like the Institute to provide. From my perspective, this worked remarkably well: our events were consistently well attended and organized and covered a wide range of topics. We hope this pattern will continue in the coming year, for resilience is often most effective when it is derived from building a series of strong, positive relationships.

One of the unexpected benefits of increasing support for cluster programming was that it allowed us to focus a little more carefully on supporting some of our long-standing programs in different ways. We reorganized the New Faculty Colloquium Series this year by holding a series of one-hour talks on Monday afternoons in March. We also connected these talks to presentations by two of our Research Affiliates. This led to increased audiences, perhaps because the time and place of the talks could be anticipated or perhaps because it allowed us to develop a group of people attending multiple talks. Whatever the case, we will employ this model once again next year (and perhaps beyond). Director’s Message cont. on p.4 UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES / 3 Director’s Messsage, cont.

While this model worked well for the presentations made by our Affiliates, we also witnessed a different model that other- Af filiates might follow as they consider how to share their work publicly. The one-day event on Indigenous Archives organized by Anne Lindsay, an Affiliate at the Institute last year, and Krista Walters was a remarkable success, surpassing even their -ex pectations when it came to presentations and attendance. The success of this day both enabled and encouraged us to support another event on Religion in South Asia in Winter term.

Our work with the Research Clusters also helped us to integrate undergraduate and graduate students throughout much of our programming. On the one hand, students were directly involved in many of the Cluster events, helping to organize, presenting papers, and attending. On the other hand, we were able to continue to provide events that would support student development through workshops on grant proposals, poster presentations, and even the 3MT (three-minute thesis) competition. This is an area of the Institute’s work which we aim to enhance in the coming year through the development of a graduate scholarship and renewed emphasis on providing support to students in a variety of humanities disciplines.

Practically speaking, we also developed some resilience in the management of the office this year. Faced with the personal and professional challenges presented by illness, the implementation of new systems, and the challenge of doing as much as we can with our budget, we sought help from others and found it. I would like to end by thanking all of the faculty and support staff who helped us to become resilient when we felt most vulnerable. Vulnerability might have seemed to be everywhere this year, but that should not be surprising. As part of our human experience, vulnerability has been around for a long time. What is perhaps new is the need to recognize it not as a problem to be overcome but as something to be reckoned with.

Dr David Watt, the Director of the Institute, is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, Film, and Theatre, and the 2013 St John’s College Fellow of the Year.

director’s 2013-14 research

Given that my book, The Making of Thomas Hoccleve’s Series, was scheduled to be published last June, I was somewhat surprised to find myself spending several months following last year’s annual report working on aspects of its publication. I expected to be reviewing several stages of proofs and to complete the index. I did not expect, but was delighted to complete, a request to provide keywords and abstracts for the book as a whole so that it could be published electronically by Liverpool Scholarship online: http://liverpool.universitypressscholarship.com. I am delighted to have brought this project to its completion, and I am now developing two other major literary projects. I will be presenting papers related to one of these projects at two conferences in May. I have also nearly completed an article that I am co-authoring with Dr Spencer Sealy. As I anticipated in last year’s report, I have also spent time working to transform my work with the manuscripts and rare books at the University of Manitoba into an opportunity for students to engage in primary research. One way in which I have undertaken this work is by teaching a class that focused on the collection. I taught “Old Books, New Science” last fall, and the result of the course was the creation of a virtual and material exhibition dedicated to conveying new knowledge about the old books in our collections. The website can be seen at the following address: http://engl7600.wordpress.com/. I will also present a paper on the collaborative experience of creating the exhibition and the website. The second way that I have begun to transform my work with the manuscripts and rare books at the University of Manitoba into an opportunity for students to engage in primary research is by employing a student research assistant to describe and catalogue all of the fragments in our collection; we expect to complete a co-authored article on this material this summer. Finally, I worked with two other scholars to author an article entitled “The Study of Renaissance and Reformation Books on the Canadian Prairies.” The article provides a survey of collections holding Renaissance and Reformation books in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, then focuses more carefully on the holdings in the Archives & Special Collections at the U of M in order to highlight the research opportunities afforded by individual collections and the potential benefits of exploring them in aggregate. It is our hope that this article will lead to greater awareness about the books on the prairies as well as to the development of stronger partnerships between scholars working with these books.

Please see the Publications: Comprehensive Section of the Report (page 17) for the Director’s publications.

Photo Credit: Elizabeth-Anne Johnson. Front cover of UMASC RBR Oversize BR 95 R34 1474, v. 2. Pantheologia by Rainerius de Pisis. UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES / 4 the research affiliates the research clusters

The Institute supported two new Research Affiliates for 2013- Research Clusters are research groups comprised of faculty 14: Dr Dina Guth (Classics) and Dr Paul Jenkins (History). members and graduate students from a variety of different departments and disciplines. Cluster members share common dr dina guth research interests and focus on interdisciplinary research. They Over the course of this year I have made progress on my book typically follow a theme or a topic across several disciplines. project, entitled “Deliberative Democracy in Classical Athens”. Many North American Humanities Centres or Institutes sup- In January I had a review of An- port Research Clusters. The University of Manitoba Institute for dreas Mehl, Alexander Makhlayuk, the Humanities has supported at least two Research Clusters and Oleg Gabelko (edd.), Ruthenia each year since 2005. Classica Aetatis Novae. A Collec- The four Research Clusters supported by UMIH during 2013-14 tion of Works by Russian Scholars in were the Film Worlds Research Cluster, the Group for Premodern Ancient Greek and Roman History. Studies (GPS), and two new Clusters: Passions, Pedagogies, and (2013) published in the Bryn Mawr Publics, and Queer Biopolitics. The Film Worlds cluster received Classical Review. I delivered a a third consecutive year of funding, while funding for GPS was paper in March entitled “If Not renewed for a second year. Now, When? Time and Decision- Making in Democratic Athens” at the Classical Association of Along with administrative support, photocopying, printing, the Canadian West conference held in Vancouver, and I will be and some office supplies, each of the Clusters was awarded delivering another paper in May, entitled “Tyranny and Persia financuial support for their programming. The two new Clus- in Archaic Miletus,” at the Classical Association of Canada ters, Passions, Pedagogies, and Publics, and Queer Biopolitics, Annual Meeting at McGill University. I have also received a Re- received $3,000 each, while the returning Clusters received search Scholarship from the Fondation Hardt to go work at the slightly reduced funding, Film Worlds having been awarded Fondation (in Geneva) for two weeks this June, and have been $2,000 and GPS receiving $2,500. The Institute was pleased accepted as a participant into the Summer Epigraphy Course to have once again received support from Dr Jeffery Taylor, at the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies at Dean of Arts, which is essential to the continued success of the Ohio State University, which will take place this coming May. Research Cluster program. In addition to the funding from the Institute, the groups received some financial assistance from dr paul jenkins other units at the University of Manitoba and from organizations outside the University of Manitoba. Additional funds As a Research Affiliate at UMIH for raised from other departments for their programming and 2013-14 I have been researching a series meetings totalled $1,050. of religious-intellectual debates that took place in late seventeenth-century All four Research Clusters were very active. In addition to Scotland, England and Europe. Taken to- regular meetings, each of them organized and co-sponsored a gether they help shed light on mystical variety of public events, including talks by guest speakers, film piety and the history of religious scepti- screenings, workshops, videoconferences, and panels, as well cism in Britain before Hume. I presented as a film festival. some of this research this past autumn at the North American Conference of British Studies, in a paper entitled “‘A Race of Renegados’: Quakers and Islam in late seventeenth-century Britain and Europe.” The findings contained in this paper have allowed me to push some of the conclusions of earlier research in new and exciting directions. These new directions informed my Affiliate research presentation, “Crypto-Catholics, Muslims, and Quakers: Religious Disguise and Intolerance in Early Enlightenment Britain”, and allowed me to expand my studies into the emerging early- modern field of comparative religion. While at UMIH I have also prepared and submitted an article for publication. My year as a Research Affiliate has been enjoyable, stimulating and productive, and I would like to warmly extend my thanks and appreciation.

UMIH wishes Dina and Paul all the best with their research. UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES / 5 film worlds research cluster • March 12, 2014 Screening of Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer and panel discussion The Film Worlds Research Cluster at the University of Manitoba Roewan Crowe (Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Winnipeg) is now in its third year. Film Worlds is an interdisciplinary Re- Noam Gonick (Independent Filmmaker) search Cluster organized by Jonah Corne (English, Film, & The- Tina Chen (History, University of Manitoba - Chair) atre) and Tina Chen (History). The Film Worlds Research Cluster Film sponsored by Film Worlds; also in conjunction with Cinema- had a very active year in 2013-2014. The emphasis for the year theque’s New Films on Human Rights, a series sponsored by the was on community partnering and collaborative activities that Canadian Museum of Human Rights broadened participation in dialogue about the relationship between film, visual aesthetics, and politicized spaces. We also • March 7-11, 2014, Plug In Gallery worked to promote the individual research of members of the “Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts” Film Worlds Research, specifically the Moholy-Nagy curated curated by Oliver Botar (School of Art, University of Manitoba) exhibition at the Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art by Film highlights include: Oliver Botar (School of Art). -Projection of Moholy-Nagy’s film of set designs for the film adapta- tion of H. G. Wells’ Things to Come, William Cameron Menzies, Director; The focus on visuality as political and politicized experimenta- Alexander Korda, Producer, 1936, silent. tion proved a productive theme and we anticipate continuing -Looped projection of: Andreas Haus, Nike Elena Arnold, Aline similar avenues of investigation in 2014-2015. This will also Helmcke, Frank Hopper, Frédéric Krauke and Walter Lenertz: Dynamik allow Film Worlds to examine state-sponsored filmmaking and der Gross-Stadt. Ein filmisches Experiment nach László Moholy-Nagy the spaces in which films come to have meaning (historically [Dynamics of the big city. A filmic experiment after László Moholy- and in the present day), as well as the ways in which move- Nagy], 2006. Three-channel DVD projection, silent. ments for social change have utilized film and film screenings - Moholy-Nagy’s Metropolitan Trilogy (off DVD) as means to promote engagement with specific issues, mobi- • March 18, 2014 lize communities, or facilitate new modes of self-expression. Sponsorship of Screening of The Lab (dir. John Greyson) This aspect of the original planning for 2013-2014 was set Film Screened and discussed by Winnipeg Coalition Against Israeli aside due to limited time and funds, as well as the availability Apartheid of people for specific sessions. The Cluster also runs a regular • March 27 and April 4, 2014 reading group to discuss common readings on issues related Metropolis to film, moving images, and their social worlds. Film Worlds organized two panel discussions in collaboration with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra on Fritz Lang’s 1927 Metropolis. film worlds reading group This was followed by the screening of the science fiction classic, with • October 4, 2013 the original orchestral score performed by the WSO. Seminar with Wayne Koestenbaum (City University of New York • March 27, 2014, McNally Robinson Graduate Center) Oliver Botar (School of Art, University of Manitoba) Reading: Wayne Koestenbaum, Humiliation Brenda Austin-Smith (English, Film, and Theatre, University of Mani- • December 9, 2013 toba) Reading: Jorg Schweintz, Film and Stereotype: A Challenge for Julian Pellicano (Resident Conductor, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra) James Manishen (Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra) Cinema and Theory (Columba University Press, 2011 • April 12, 2014, Pre-Concert Panel film worlds research cluster public events chaired by Tina Chen (History, University of Manitoba) • October 4, 2013 Oliver Botar (School of Art, University of Manitoba) Co-sponsorship of the Warhaft Memorial Lecture by Dr. Wayne Serenity Joo (Department of English, Film, and Theatre, University of Koestenbaum at Plug In ICA at 460 Portage Avenue Manitoba ) James Manishen (Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra) • February 8, 2014 Canadian Sport Film Festival Outdoor Screenings at The Forks • May 30-June 5, 2014, Cinematheque Sponsorship of Jia Zhangke, A Touch of Sin (2013) Faith’s Goal (Canada, documentary, 2013, 5 min, dir: Elizabeth Lee) The No Regretzkeys (Canada, documentary, 2009, 8 min, co-dirs: Derek Eidse, A Touch of Sin, by critically acclaimed Chinese director Zhangke Jia, Ruprict Haacke, Shira Newman, Kevin Nikkel) revolves around four stories from a range of locations including the The Basketball Game (Canada, animation, 2011, 5 min, dir: Hart Snider) metropolis of Guangdong and rural townships in Shanxi. The film The Perfect Fit (Scotland, documentary, 2011, 9 min, dir: Tali Yankelevich) draws on martial arts films to provide a critical commentary on lives The Toilers of ‘33 (Canada, documentary, 2010, 5 min, dir: Kevin Nikkel) affected by violence and materialism, and the need to fulfill basic Away (USA, documentary, 2012, 14 min, dir: Elisa Bates) moral obligations. The Oval: A Halifax Story (Canada, documentary, 2012, 5 min, dir: Jamie Tier- nay) (Please see the Publications: Comprehensive section for Film Worlds Rooting for the Home Team (Brazil, documentary, 2012, 5 min, Cluster publications.) dir: Erick Boustead through consultation with Comunidades do Trilho) UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES / 6 group for premodern studies (GPS) passions, pedagogies, and publics research cluster research cluster

The Institute was pleased to support the Group for Premodern The Passions, Pedagogies, and Publics cluster seeks to initiate Studies (GPS) for a second year. GPS aims to chart new direc- an interdisciplinary and inter-institutional dialogue around tions for the Humanities by providing a forum for the research writing in the humanities. The cluster’s aim is to create a “pas- of individual scholars at the University of Manitoba, the Uni- sionate affinity space” (Gee & Hayes, 2012) for those who care versity of Winnipeg, and CMU, and by promoting new syner- about writing and the teaching of writing, including faculty, gies among scholars from several disciplines. staff, and students from across the humanities, as well as other disciplines and Faculties at the University of Manitoba, and For 2013-14, GPS turned its attention to implementing many as our colleagues in K-12 schools and other informal learning of the ideas and insights that emerged during their round spaces across the province. table discussions and public events of last year. The cluster’s two main goals were: 1) to create a website devoted to the GPS, with the aim of raising awareness on campus and in the passions, pedagogies, and publics community regarding the group’s ongoing activities and the research cluster public events areas of research and collaboration of its members, and 2) to Passions, Pedagogies, and Publics held three events during the re-structure the Medieval and Renaissance Undergraduate Winter 2014 term; all three events were open to the pub- Program by broadening its disciplinary, geographical, and lic. Each symposium featured three panelists: a recognized chronological breadth with the aim of turning it into a pro- scholar from outside Canada, as well as two local panelists. gram for Premodern Studies. All three events were held on the U of M campus during early evening hours to accommodate full-time teachers. group for premodern studies (GPS) research cluster public events • February 3, 2014 • November 4, 2013 Dr Andrea Lunsford (Stanford): “How New Literacies are Af- ‘Restructuring the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program’: a fecting Writing and the Teaching of Writing” (via Skype) Panel discussion with Frank Klassen (University of Saskatchewan, Department of History, Faculty Member for the Classical, Medieval Dr Andrea Lunsford, Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor of English and and Renaissance Studies Program) and Greg Smith (University of Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric, joined the Stanford Manitoba, Department of History, Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts). faculty in March 2000. Prior to this appointment, Lunsford was Distin- guished Professor of English at The Ohio State University (1986-00), • February 7, 2013 where she served as Vice Chair of the Department of English, as Chair Dr Jeffrey J. Cohen(Professor of English, Director of the Institute for of the University Writing Board, and as Director of the Center for the Medieval and Early Modern Studies, George Washington University): Study and Teaching of Writing; and Associate Professor and Director “Geophilia or the Love of the Stone” of Writing at the University of British Columbia (1977-86).

• February 24, 2013 Other panelists included Shelley Warkentin, one of two K-12 English Dr Blossom Stefaniw (Professor for Ethics in Antiquity and Christian- Language Arts and Literacy Consultants from Manitoba Education, ity, University of Mainz, Germany): “Re-reading the Classroom of Didy- and Brandi Nicholauson, a teacher librarian from Henry G. Izzat mus the Blind in the context of late antique paradigms of education” Middle School in Pembina Trails School Division. The event attracted a dozen teachers from a number of different schools, as well as writ- Group for Premodern Studies Meetings ing tutors from the U of M. • October 7, 2013 A New GPS Website - Group discussion and Website Subcommittee • February 24, 2014 Report Dr Kirsten Jamsen (Minnesota): “Everybody writes!: Tapping interdisciplinary, collaborative, and human-centric approaches • December 9, 2013 Research Round Table on group members’ current research. to writing and writing instruction, K-16” (via Skype) • March 17 and April 11, 2014 Dr Jamsen directs and teaches in the Center for Writing and teaches Restructuring the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program ongo- WRIT 3751W: The Theory and Practice of Writing Consultancy. With ing group discussion, and 2013-14 academic year wrap-up. her colleagues in the Center and across campus, she currently studies writing across the curriculum, composition pedagogy, the role of • February 19-20, 2014 technology in writing centers and classrooms, and the relationship GPS successfully raised awareness of the Medieval and Renaissance between writing centers and institutional change. Studies Program at the University’s Information Days. For the first time, Medieval and Renaissance Studies had its own booth and ban- Also on the panel that evening was Kathy Block, U of M Academic ner bug, and attracted dozens of high school students to the table Learning Centre and Director of Writing Services, and Kim Crass, a with a hands-on trebuchet demonstration. kindergarten teacher in Seven Oaks School Division. The event was attended by many of the same educators who had attended the first Future plans: GPS will continue to exist informally as a site for event, as well as new attendees who were connected to presenters research and teaching collaboration and discussion. and/or had heard about the event through various channels.

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES / 7 • March 21, 2014 faculty and students. We seek to work with the Institute and our F. Isabel Campoy (San Francisco): “Authors and Writers: cluster to grow the participation of our colleagues, U of M graduates and undergraduates. Awakening the Author’s ‘Voice’ as Life Protagonist to Foster the Writer’s Multiple Potentials” Ties with Other Initiatives We were able to link our third panel event with a closely related event the following day—a Center for Hu- Ms Campoy is a prolific and international man Rights Research forum on Writing for Social Justice and Human award-winning author of books for children Rights. Linking these events made it possible to distribute costs and youth that advance multicultural aware- across separate grants, so that we were able to bring an engaging ness, peace, and social justice. She also writes world-class speaker to the campus that would not otherwise have and speaks worldwide on the topic of second been possible. All three events have supported the building of the language acquisition, authentic authorship, social capital essential to the formation of a future K-16 Manitoba and transformative pedagogy. Writing Project. Also on the panel was Dr Karen Boyd, English Language Arts and Literacy Consultant from Manitoba Education and Instructor in Lan- guage and Literacy at the University of Manitoba, where she teaches queer biopolitics research cluster courses in Adolescent Literature. The third panelist was Chris Wiggles- worth, an Early Learning Support Teacher in Seven Oaks School Division. The event was held in the Faculty of Education, and was The Queer Biopolitics research cluster participated in diverse well attended by K-12 teachers as well as colleagues in the Faculty of forms of research activities throughout the academic year, Education and graduate students active with the Writing Centre. including a co-authored publication, group co-presentations, individual publications and presentations, a professional- What We Learned and Where We’re Headed: ization workshop for cluster graduate students, numerous Promoting Events For the first panel featuring Dr Lunsford, we were well-attended public lectures, and regular reading group able to advertise the event through the Winnipeg Free Press. Each discussions on literature, theory, and film pertaining to queer event was featured in a poster that was circulated electronically (e.g., studies. We made it a point to focus our reading groups through the school divisions, cluster) and displayed across campus, around other campus lectures of relevance, further as well as being included on our page on the Institute’s website. promoting cross-campus encounters and exchanges. Our However, we found we needed to promote these events through our personal contacts, as well as through provincial contacts (e.g., activities express our commitment to deep collaboration Manitoba Education). In the future, we would like to make better use and public humanities, as evidence in a co-authored article of social media, a website, and an ongoing list of contacts we have (published in a peer-reviewed, open-access, online journal), created to extend the reach of these events. numerous co-presented panels and lectures, a blog post, and a public lecture at the Millennium Library. Our activities drew Building Capacity The events were very successful at building capacity among a core group of people who attended each event. They upon our strengths as a diverse cluster that includes students were very appreciative of the scope of the series, and enjoyed com- and faculty, across two campuses, in a variety of disciplines. ing to each event as a way to extend their own thinking and teaching. We feel it is important to continue to support, as well as continue queer biopolitics research cluster to build capacity in this area. public events • November 1, 2013 Interdisciplinary and Inter-Institutional Perspectives We found that Dr Chantal Nadeau (University of Illinois): “Queering Pierre those who presented and attended greatly appreciated the dialogue across disciplines and institutions. This is a unique feature of this clus- Vallieres’ Negres blancs d’Amerique.” ter and of the events we were able to host this winter. We are truly Public lecture and workshop, co-sponsored by History and DEFT creating a new space for informed dialogue. • January 23, 2014 Writing Focus We learned that the focus of the cluster on writing is Dr Scott Herring (Indiana University): “Folk Devils and Object relevant to those in K-12 and post-secondary institutions and that the Panics: on the Psychopathology of Material Life” conversation has really just begun. We look forward to building on Co-sponsored by Women’s and Gender Studies, History, DEFT, Asso- what we have started, and to exploring the possibility of continuing ciation of Graduate English Students (pAGES), Centre for Aging, and to work with the Institute to create and mobilize knowledge in this the Centre for Globalization and Cultural Studies. area. Increasing Accessibility We would like to explore the possibility of queer biopolitics research cluster creating video content of future events and building opportunities workshop around it for ongoing conversation among writing educators. This • November 25, 2013 would be a way to engage educators from outside Winnipeg. Graduate School/Grant Proposal Workshop for students in the cluster. Each proposal was reviewed by one faculty member, and all propos- University Participation We were pleased with the number of K-12 als were workshopped together as a group. educators who attended these events and the enthusiasm they communicated about having professional conversations around writing—something that is rarely addressed in school professional development. However, we were disappointed by attendance of UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES / 8 queer biopolitics research cluster (cont.) umih on-campus programming meetings • October Wayne Koestenbaum’s Humiliation (in conjuncture For the 2013-14 academic year, in addition to Research Clus- with DEFT’s Warhaft Lecture Series) ter programming, many of the Institute’s on-campus events • November David Eng’s The Feeling of Kinship were directly sponsored and organized by or co-sponsored • December Behn Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild and organized collaboratively with UMIH. These included • January Scott Herring’s “‘Hixploitation’ Cinema, Regional Drive- public talks, a one-day colloquium, an undergraduate re- Ins, and the Cultural Emergence of a Queer New Right” search poster workshop, a workshop on teaching abroad, as • January Martin Manalansan et al.’s “Queering the Middle: Race, well as the Institute’s long-running New Faculty Colloquium Region, and a Queer Midwest” (in conjuncture with pAGES’s an- Series, highlighting the research of recently hired faculty nual colloquium) • February Timothy Morton’s “Queer Ecology” and Jeffrey J. members in Arts. Cohen’s “Geophilia or the Love of Stone” • February David Cronenberg’s The Fly Undergraduate Research Poster Workshop • April Heather Love’s “Just Watching: Autism, Animal Behavior, • September 30, 2013 and the Ethics of Observation (in conjuncture with the Affect This interactive workshop, run by Dr Richard Kruk (Psychol- Group) ogy), was designed for students interested in submitting Though the Cluster expects to be on hiatus for 2014-15, they posters to the U of M Undergraduate Research Poster Com- have already started their spring/summer reading group, and petition. Participants brought laptops along to work on their many members have committed to future events influenced posters on site. Time was spent exploring everything from by cluster research. (Please see the Publications: Comprehen- getting a poster started, to effective layout, to presenting a sive section for publications from the Queer Biopolitics cluster.) poster in person. Several participants said afterwards that the workshop helped them develop their posters, which they would have found challenging without assistance. umih off-campus programming Research Affiliate Public Talks The Institute for the Humanities hosted one off-campus event On Monday March 24th, UMIH Research Affiliate Dr Paul in the 2013-14, a public talk by Dr Lisa Guenther, Associate Jenkins (History) gave a public talk on his research: Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt. “Crypto-Catholics, Muslims, and Quakers: Religious Disguise and Intolerance in Early Enlightenment Britain.” Dr Guenther gave a public talk, ‘Solitary Confinement: A Living Dr Jenkins took his Ph.D. at the University of Glasgow, and Death Sentence’, on Thursday after serving as a researcher for the BBC and a philanthropic November 28, at 7:30 pm at foundation in the U.S., has recently returned to Canada to the Carol Shields Auditorium, teach history at the University of Manitoba. in the Millennium Library in downtown Winnipeg. Dr Guenther is the author of Research AffiliateDr Dina Guth Solitary Confinement: Social (Classics) gave a public talk Death and its Afterlives (Min- on Monday April 7th: “Public nesota University Press, 2013), Debate and Deliberation in a phenomenological critique of solitary confinement, drawing Democratic Athens.” on the work of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas, as well as legal and historical documents in the history of the US peni- Dr Guth received her Ph.D. in tentiary system, supermax prisons and detention camps such Classics from the University of as Guantanamo Bay. Michigan in 2011; since then she has been teaching at the Dr Guenther’s talk was co-sponsored by the Institute for the University of Manitoba and the Humanities, Faculty of Law, the Canada Research Chair in University of Winnipeg. Western Canadian Social History, Department of History, and the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of Manitoba. Both Affiliate talks were held in 409 Tier, and refreshments were provided for each well-attended event. Please see the This off-campus event was attended by faculty and students Affiliates section of theAnnual Report for more information from the University of Manitoba, as well as members of the on affiliate research for the 2013-14 academic year. public. Dr Guenther’s talk led to an engaging discussion period, and closed with an informal reception. Photo of Dr Dina Guth by Mike Latschislaw UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES / 9 ‘i have never forgotten his words: talking about indigenous archives, a colloquium

”I have never forgotten his words”: Talking about Indigenous 3:45-5:30 Session 3 Archives was organized by the Institute for the Humanities and Panel 6: Terrain and Trauma: Exploring Living Archives in Places held on October 5, 2013. Participants felt the event to be very and Memory successful in bringing together those interested in issues raised Chair: Camille Callison in the Call for Papers, as well as other topics that built on similar Carolyn Podruchny, “The Archive of Place: Travelling Through Metis discussion points, methodologies, and research. This colloquium History” was organized by Research Affiliate Anne Lindsay and Institute Jesse Thistle, “Archives as Good Medicine: Rediscovering Our Ances- Assistant/former Affiliate Krista Walters. tors and Understanding the Root Causes of Intergenerational Trauma” Victoria Freeman, “First Story Toronto: Accessing the Indigenous Colloquium Program: Archives of Toronto” Cara Krmpotich, “Exploring Cultural Archives: How the Senses and 9:00-10:30 Plenary: Indigenous archives: past, present, future Memory Form Relations” Chair: Adele Perry Marlene Atleo, Greg Bak, Camille Callison, Warren Cariou, Sherry Panel 7: Negotiating: A complex landscape of authority and Farrell Racette, Cara Krmpotich, Maureen Matthews, Ry Moran, and authenticity Winona Wheeler Chair: Winona Wheeler 10:45-12:30 Session 1 Jane Zhang, “Pictorial Form of Recordkeeping: Winter Counts” Josephine Sallis, “The George Swinton fonds at the Winnipeg Art Panel 1: Remembering: Memory, strategies, and structures Gallery” Chair: Terry Reilly Terry Reilly, “Legal value and the integrity of first nations archives a Helen Agger, “‘Baamaa giin, Miishiijiimin!’ - Some thoughts on Anishi- case for (miss and inter)connections” naabe archival practice” Timothy Maton, “How did colonial archives embody racism? Remem- Daniel Sioux-Ranville, “Superior Auditory Memory” bering and tracing the development of racist archival sciences” Winona Wheeler, “‘our memories are our books’: mnemonic and narrative strategies in Indigenous Oral Histories” Panel 8: Manitoba Research Alliance Panel 2: “Can You Have History Without an Archive? The Contem- Chair: Billy Nepinak porary Aboriginal Art History Project” (Urban Shaman) Part I: “Preserving the History of Aboriginal Institutional Develop- Chair: Shelley Sweeney ment in Winnipeg” Sherry Farrell Racette, Daina Warren, Jessica Jacobson-Konefall John Loxley, Kathy Mallet, Louise Chippeway, Larry Morrissette, and Crystal Greene 1:00-1:30 “Imagining Indigenous Archives” Ry Moran (Director, Statement Gathering and National Research Part II: “Preserving the History of Urban Aboriginal Organizations Centre, TRC); Introduction: Tom Nesmith in Winnipeg: Perspectives from the Archival Team on the Chal- 1:45-3:30 Session 2 lenges and Potentials of Archiving Winnipeg’s Urban Aboriginal Panel 3: Recalling and recounting: Connecting memory and the Records” present Sarah Story, Shelley Sweeney, and Jesse Boiteau Chair: Greg Bak Clare Cook and Jeff Muehlbauer, “Maintaining Oral Chains of Knowl- Poster Presentation: “Archives, Researchers and Indigenous Com- edge in Plains Cree” munities: ‘The duty to remember, the right to be forgotten’” Warren Cariou, “Archive, Memory and Repertoire in Cree Storytelling” Katherine Pettipas and Shelley Sweeney Michael Minor, “Living Archives, Frozen Books, and Cree Storytelling” Panel 4: “Preserving and promoting Métis history and culture one This colloquium was generously sponsored and organized click at a time: The Virtual Museum of Métis History and Culture” through the University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities, (Gabriel Dumont Institute) Faculty of Arts, with support from the Canada Research Chair in Chair: Tom Nesmith Western Canadian Social History. Darren Prefontaine and David Morin Thank you to the Colloquium Advisory Committee for their time Panel 5: Respectful relationships: exploring intersections between and contributions: people and archiving traditions Marlene Atleo Chair: Jesse Boiteau Shirley Delorme Russell Camille Callison, “Indigenous People and Archives” Sherry Farrell Racette Michelle Rydz, “A Community of Memory: Exploring the Aboriginal Kiera Ladner Societal Provenance of the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives” Maureen Matthews Evan J. Habkirk and Braden Te Hiwi, “Working Within the System: Mary Jane McCallum Challenges in Creating an Indigenous Archive from Western Sources” Winona Wheeler Lisa P. Nathan, “What is the Role of Academic Institutions in Sustaining Indigenous Archives?”

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES / 10 the new faculty colloquium series co-sponsorships with other units

This ongoing series of public research talks highlights the During the academic year 2013-14, the Institute continued the work of recently hired faculty members at the U of M in Arts, practice of providing financial assistance for guest lectures, and those in other faculties who are engaged in humanities- workshops, and conferences hosted by other units at the Uni- focused research. The series facilitates getting to know new versity. UMIH also co-organized public events with other units. members of the Faculty, making potentially important and rewarding connections, and hearing new and innovative Teaching Abroad Workshop research. • October 8, 2013 Organized in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts and the In the 2013-14 academic year, UMIH presented four talks. All Department of Extended Education, this workshop looked four talks were scheduled on Mondays in March, and held at setting up a new course for off campus teaching; teaching from 1:30-2:30 in the Institute’s boradroom. The talks were an existing course off campus; financial considerations and very well-attended by both faculty and students, and from available funding for course/program development; and con- people across departments and disciplines. Unlike previous cluded with Q & A with experienced instructors. Refreshments years, refreshments were provided for attendees. were provided to those in attendance.

Schedule of New Faculty Colloquium Series Talks: Rosalynn Voaden Guest Lecture • September 26, 2013

Dr Rosalynn Voaden (Arizona State): “Gossiping about God: March 3: Danielle Dubois (Religion) Oral Communication and Medieval Women Visionaries.” Co- sponsored by UMIH and the Centre for Creative Writing and “Natural and Supernatural Virtues in Oral Culture (CCWOC). Thirteenth-Century Vernacular Culture” Grant Proposal Workshop • September 30, 2013 The Interdisciplinary Research Circle on Globalization and Cosmopolitanism (IRCGC) hosted its annual grant proposal workshop. UMIH assisted with the planning and presentation of this workshop, which aims to provide extensive and March 10: Andrea Charron constructive criticism on research grants prepared for any (Political Studies) agency, including SSHRC, UM/SSHRC, URGP. Designed to maximize feedback on proposals through interdisciplinary “Canadian Myths and the Arctic: KD, and collegial interaction, proposals were pre-circulated, and best before dates and Arctic RV Parks” discussants were people whose research areas intersected with the proposal topic and/or someone with experience with the granting agency.

Many proposals were discussed at this well-attended event. March 17: Todd Scarth (History) Dr Tina Chen (coordinator of the IRCGC, and chair of the UMIH Board of Management) organized and directed the workshop. “Economic Populism and the New History of Capitalism” Distinguished Visiting Lecturer Louis Bucciarelli • October 24, 2013

‘Boundaries on Engineering Thought and Practice.’ Louis Bucciarelli received his his PhD. from MIT (Aeronautics and Astronau- tics/66). He was Director of MIT’s Tech- March 31: Royce Koop (Political Studies) nology Studies Program, and has been a Curator of Science and Technology at “The Process of Representation the Smithsonian. in Canadian Cities” Co-sponsored by Engineering with support from UMIH and the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics.

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES / 11 DISTINGUISHED VISITING LECTURER LOUIS BUCCIARELLI OCTOBER 24, 2013 – 7:30 PM ROOM E3-270, EITC

Boundaries on Engineering Thought and Practice

Louis Bucciarelli received his B.S.(Mech/59) and M.Aero.E (’60) from Cornell University and his PhD. from MIT (Aeronautics and Astronautics/66). He was Director of MIT’s Technology Studies Program, and has been a Curator of Science and Technology at the Smithsonian. He has received the Baker Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, has consulted for a wide range of industries, and has helped lead a coalition of engineering schools in the renovation of undergraduate education.

He is the author of Designing Engineers; Engineering Philosophy; Engineering Mechanics for Structures; and is currently working on a book tentatively titled “Re-envisioning Engineering Education.”

RSVP to [email protected] Mosaic and the Institute for the Humanities Present David Farrell Krell Open Seminar The Affect Group: Richard Bell • October 28, 2013 • March 19, 2014 TheDr. Affect David Group presented Farrell a lecture byRichard Krell Bell (Associ - ‘Recalcitrant Arts: Translation, Scholarship, Zoography, Fiction’ ate Professor of History, University of Maryland): “The Werther Mosaic and the Institute for the Humani- Effect: Suicide and the Reading Revolution in the newly United ties presented a talk by Dr David Farrell States.” Krell, Professor Emeritus, Philosophy, De- DAVID FARRELL KRELL is Professor Emeritus, Philosophy, DePaul Paul University and Brauer Distinguished Journée internationale de la Francophonie Visiting Professor of German Studies at University and Brauer Distinguished Visiting Professor of German Studies at • March 20, 2014 Brown University. The Institute for the Humanities et le Département de français, Brown University. espagnol & italien présentent: «Les visages de la francophonie: In this open seminar, based in part on his Conférence sur la diversité culturelle du monde francophone.» own experience as an academic and philosopher, translator, novelist, play- Dr Claudia Labrosse wright, and author of short fiction, Krell (Assistant Professor of French Studies, University of Winnipeg) discussed writing and writing across genres. His books «Les Franco-ManitobainsOpen etSeminar Gabrielle Roy» include Derrida and Our Animal Others. Krell’s seminar title is Dr Étienne-Marie Lassi taken from his novel, The Recalcitrant Art (SUNY, 2000). The "Recalcitrant(Assistant Arts: Translation,Professor of Francophone Scholarship, literature Zoography, and cinema, Fiction" four words in the subtitle refer to the task of translating, the University of Manitoba) scholarly apparatus that goes with all historical and biographi- «La francophonie populaire au Cameroun» cal writing, the desire on Jacques Derrida’s part to think of the Monday, October 28, 2013 autobiographical animal as something other than a cogito, Jacob Atangana-Abé2:30 – 5:15 pm and the indefensible, if inevitable, turn to fiction, to a pluralityInstit (Professeurute for the Humanities, agrégé de ManagementRoom 409 Tier, et University de stratégie of Man desitoba or- of voices. ganisations, ÉcoleRefreshments d’administration Provided des affaires, Université de St-Boniface) Laughter, Fear, and Loathing: Affect and PoliticalIn this open Satire seminar, based«Sommes-nous in part on his ownprêts? experience Préalables as an pour academic l’émergence and philosopher, translator, novelist, • January 21, 2014 playwright, and author oféconomique short fiction, David des pays Farrell de Krell l’Afrique will discuss francophone» writing and writing across genres. His A panel discussion with Professors Erin Keatingbooks (English, include Film, The Tragic Absolute; The Purest of Bastards; Intimations of Mortality; Lunar Voices; Son of Spirit; Canadian Studies Program: David E. Smith and Theatre), Greg Smith (History), and RobertPostponements O’Kell (Eng;- Of Memory, Reminiscence, Writing; Daimon Life; Infectious Nietzsche; Contagion; and, most • March 20, 2014 lish, Film, and Theatre) discussing some outrageousrecently, 18th Derrida and and Our Animal Others. Krell's seminar title is taken from his novel, The Recalcitrant Art The Canadian Studies Program presented a talk by David E. 19th-century cartoons and satires and the ways in which they (SUNY, 2000). The fourSmith words in(Distinguished the subtitle refer Visiting to the task Professor, of translating, Dept. the of scholarly Politics, apparatus Ryer- that goes shaped responses to public figures and politicians. Organized with all historical and biographicalson University): writing, “Thethe desire Senate on Jacques of Canada.” Derrida's part to think of the autobiographical by the Affect Group. animal as something other than a cogito, and the indefensible, if inevitable, turn to fiction, to a plurality of voices. Fort Garry Lectures in History: Student Conference Religion, Popular Practice, and Nation in South Asia Forum May 1-3, 2014 • March 7, 2014 UMIH supported the Department of History’s Fort Garry A day-long forum featuring a keynote address by Dr Arvind Lectures in History Graduate Student Conference, Gateways to S. Mandair (Michigan): “(Un)Inheriting the Religion-Secular the Past: Cultural Narratives of Place. Dialectic: The Case of the Sikhs.” The conference was held at the University of Winnipeg and St Margaret Laurence Endow- Diachronic Loops/Deadweight ment Fund Speakers’ Series Tonnage/Bad Made Measure: John’s College at the University The Poetic Science of Zong • March 20, 2014 Katherine McKittrick of Manitoba, and featured a Associate Professor, Gender Studies and Cultural Studies, Queen's University Author of Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle (University of Minnesota Press, 2006) Editor, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography keynote address by Dr. Sarah The Women’s and Gender Carter (University of Alberta): Studies Program presented “The Spade Work of Empire: The a talk in the Margarent Imperial Aspirations, Frustrations Laurence Endowment Fund and Follies of British Women Speakers’ Series by Dr Plan of the slave ship Brooks Farmers in Western Canada to Katherine McKittrick This talk sets out some preliminary conceptual ideas that Dr. McKittrick is the 1930s.” putting forth in a larger project, Dear Science, which will explore the promise (Gender Studies and Cultural of science in black creative texts. Studies, Queen’s University): Everyone Welcome

“Diachronic Loops/Dead- Presented by the Margaret Laurence Endowment Fund and Women’s and Gender Studies Co-sponsored by the University of Manitoba weight Tonnage/Bad Made Institute for the Humanities UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES / 12 student training and outreach financial report 2013-14 UMIH remains committed to providing support for students The Institute for the Humanities’s asking budget for supplies working in the humanities through research training oppor- and programs for 2013-2014 was $28,000, matching the actual tunities. These include Research Assistantships, public talks, budget of 2012-2013. On September 4, 2013, we were informed Research Clusters, workshops, and Research Affiliateships for by Dean Dr Jeffery Taylor that the Institute had been awarded the students from other institutions. In 2013-14, the Institute con- full amount of $28,000. The Institute is extremely grateful for the tinued to facilitate student training and outreach and looked continuing generous support from the Dean of Arts. at how UMIH can support student research in new ways. This has involved continuing initiatives from 2012-13 and a ongo- The Institute has a small endowment of $92,096 (Market Value). As in previous years the endowment income was reinvested in ing commitment to programmes already in place. the fund itself. The endowment fund is the result of several fund- Undergraduate Poster Workshop raising efforts. Earlier this year, we were asked by the Dean’s Office • September 30, 2013 to consider spending some of the endowment every year. The (Please see page 9 of the Report for details.) Board of Management asked the director to develop a proposal to use some of this income to support a fellowship for graduate Student Research Assistants students in the humanities. As part of the UMIH’s ongoing commitment to student training in the humanities through research opportunities, Direc- In addition to the $28,000 provided to UMIH by the Faculty of Arts tor David Watt employed Archival Studies/History MA student for supplies and programs, Arts supplied a further $44,922 for Elizabeth-Anne Johnson again this past year. Ms Johnson has support staff salaries and benefits. The entire Institute budget— been working on a project to identify and catalogue all of the supplies, programs, and support staff salaries—for 2013-2014 was leaves and fragments from medieval books at the U of M. She will $72,922. be working with the Director to develop an article to disseminate her findings and her research will ultimately contribute to a larger UMIH spent $24,557 on Supplies and $3,259 on Programs, total- project designed to raise the profile of the University’s manu- ing $27,816 during 2013-14. The Institute was left with a small scripts and rare books. surplus of $184 in April 2014. Fort Garry Lectures in History Graduate Student Conference • May 1-3, 2014 Much of our 2013-14 Programs budget was directed towards UMIH supported the student-organized Fort Garry Lectures in support of four Research Clusters, the most the Institute has ever History Graduate Student Conference, Gateways to the Past: supported. The clusters were awarded the following: Film Worlds, Cultural Narratives of Place, held at the Universities of Winnipeg in its third year, received $2,000; Group for Premodern Studies, and Manitoba, in the form of publicity and design of promotional in its second year, received $2,500; two new clusters - Passions, materials. Pedagogies, and Publics and Queer Biopolitics - each received $3,000. Because all four clusters spent beyond their awarded budgets, the total support towards the Research Cluster program research initiative: write-on-site for 2013-14 was $11,431. It should be noted that this difference was primarily due to unexpectedly high exchange rates and taxes Our Write-on-Site program continued throughout part of the on honoraria processed for guest speakers. In addition to support summer of 2013 and the Fall term, and continued to be a success. from the Institute, two of our four Research Clusters successfully The program went on hiatus during Winter term for reasons beyond obtained additional funding from other units: the Group for Pre- our control, but we plan to start back up again next year. The purpose modern Studies received $500, and the Queer Biopolitics Cluster of Write-on-Site is to devote uninterrupted time to writing each received $1,140 ($550 in support from other units, as well as $590 week—even during the busiest parts of term. At the beginning of in direct coverage of guest travel and reception expenses by CRC the term, each member of the group shares goals for the term; at Diana Brydon). the beginning of each session, each member shares a goal for that session. These goals ranged from revising footnotes in a chapter to proof reading a book manuscript. As happens most years due to fiscal year-end falling in the middle of Research Affiliate appointments (July 1-June 30) and It sounds simple, and it is. Simply by committing to be in a room just before some of the larger Humanities conferences, sum- with colleagues to write for a short period of time each week, the mer language institutes, research trips, and related activities are members of our group have changed their perspective on writing. scheduled each year, some of the Institute’s Research Affiliates Each member felt this scheduled writing time kept their work on expenses from 2012-13 were taken from the 2013-14 budget. track not only during the session but also throughout the term. It Similarly, some of the 2013-14 Affiliate expenses will come out of has led to the completion of a number of conference presentations, our 2014-15 budget. These funds were budgeted into our 2013- articles, and at least one book. 14 Asking Budget, and due to smaller amounts being spent by There are many versions of programs that encourage scholars to the 2012-13 affiliates, the 2013-14 affiliates were able to use funds write every day, and we found this one suited our needs very well. from the same budget line to attend conferences in the Fall and We hope it will help others in the coming years, too. We encourage Winter terms. anyone interested in joining the program or seeking support to start another group to get in touch with the Institute.

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES / 13 The Institute is pleased both to have stayed within the budget the current affiliates and one third to the affiliates who will be and to have completed another successful and busy year of appointed in the coming year. Although this was not as evenly programs. We are especially pleased with the extended sup- weighted as we had anticipated based on previous years, it port towards Research Cluster programming. We believe the should also be noted that the numbers balanced out due clusters are beneficial to the Institute, the Faculty, the Univer- to an unexpected shift in plans by an Affiliate from 2012-13. sity, and also the public, particularly as clusters begin to work Ms Anne Lindsay was expecting to use her research funds in interdisciplinary circles that include communities outside towards attending a conference in June 2013 and to support of the University (e.g., the Passions, Pedagogies, and Publics a colloquium she co-organized with UMIH Assistant and past cluster). Affiliate, Krista Walters. Ms Lindsay no longer needed support for the conference in June (her registration fees were waived), 2014-15 UMIH Asking Budget and the colloquium she and Ms Walters organized was nearly fully subsidized by registration fees. This allowed the current The Institute is asking for the same amount of money that the Faculty of Arts provided us with last year. Our asking year affiliates to use two-thirds of their research support in the budget for 2013-14 was $28,000, which was the amount we current fiscal year. Based on this, we are asking for the remain- were awarded. We believe this level of funding enabled us to ing third of Affiliate support for the coming year and budget- provide excellent programming, and we have made plans to ing for a slight increase to the total available for affiliates in the make the same amount of money go even further again this coming year from $3,350 in total to $3,600. This will be accom- year. There are small changes to both the Programs and Sup- modated in part by a $50 reduction in my own travel budget plies & Equipment Schedules, but this mainly reflects a change as well as a more accurate reflection of our advertising and in how we budget for and report items. publicity budget from $500 to $400 to reflect recent practices. In keeping with the Institute’s increasing commitment to The Programs budget is $24,080, which is equal to the amount from last year’s asking budget. After we had submitted our students, $2,000 has been designated to pay a student or asking budget last year, the Board of Management decided students to do research either for the Director, a UMIH project, to alter amounts within the budget as a whole in order to in- or for one of the Research Clusters or, as was done this year, to crease the budget for our Research Cluster Program, which is support a workshop for students. flourishing. This increase was accommodated by re-allocating budgeted amounts in the programs and supplies budgets. Finally, we are continuing to fund new or recently devel- I offered to reduce the Director’s research budget by $250 oped programs using existing budget lines. For instance, we and we agreed to reduce the Guest Speaker budget by $800, will draw on UMIH Project money to provide some funds to which meant we would plan to invite only one guest speaker Write-on-Site Winnipeg. We will draw on money from our Co- independently. We also reduced our budget for other program sponsorship budget to explore offering community outreach expenses, including non-project entertainment. projects in conjunction with other faculties.

Our Research Clusters appreciated the fact they received Our Supplies & Equipment budget has remained at $3920 this sufficient funds to organize a substantial number of events. year. The main change in this budget is that we have slightly Several of the Clusters still raised additional funds in order to increased the money available for computers and software support specific or larger-scale events. Overall, though, the in order to upgrade our software and to purchase a device to level of funding was substantial enough that the clusters did be used to scan documents in the office. We had anticipated not need to spend a great deal of time looking elsewhere to not needing to make this purchase because of the agreement support their events. All four clusters spent over their awarded with Xerox. With no clear timeline indicating when to expect amounts, though this was due almost entirely to the differ- equipment from them, and with many expense claims to be ence between the exchange rate at the time of budgeting made, we are finding it necessary have the capability to scan and the time of payment for honoraria. I informed each of documents in the office. The increase in this budget line this the clusters that we could absorb the difference by cutting year still leaves this amount below the budgeted amount back in some of our supplies this year so that none of the in previous years. This is because, with permission from the programming would be at risk of cancellation over what was a Dean’s Office, we made some purchases at the end of 2012-13 small amount for each of the clusters (though a slightly larger that allowed us to reduce our budget line for this past year. As amount when considered collectively). reported in our 2013-14 Asking Budget, we anticipate asking for an increased budget in 2014-15 to account for computer Both of our Research Affiliates spent most of their research upgrades, since the Assistant’s computer and one of the Affili- funds during the academic year, which is an unusual occur- ates' computers are aging. rence at the Institute. Affiliates frequently attend conferences in the summer months, which regularly puts the Institute in the position of awarding travel and research funds to current- Institute for the Humanities Asking Budget 2014-15 year Affiliates in the following fiscal year (affiliateships run most often from July through June each year, while year-end Supplies & Equipment $3,920 for the Institute is in March). This past year, we budgeted to Programs: $24,080 allocate approximately two thirds of the 2013-14 budget to TOTAL: $28,000

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES / 14 umih 2013-2014 publications: comprehensive

Please find below a listing of publications and presentations by the Institute for the Humanities Director, Research Affiliates, and Research Cluster members (relevant to the cluster’s theme) for 2013-14. publications

Abdulrehman, Sameera, Hee-Jung S. Joo, Riley McGuire, Caitlin McIntyre, Jeremy Strong, and Katie Thorsteinson. “Riding Renga: Low Theory and Collective Critical Dissatisfaction,” Writing from Below 1.2 (2013): 45-60.

Corne, Jonah. “Emotion, Truth, and Space in Heat,” in Michael Mann and Philosophy, eds. Steven Sanders, Aeon J. Skoble, and R. Barton Palmer, University of Kentucky Press, 2014.

Dykstra-Dykerman, Katelyn. “The Censorship of Female Pleasure: Cleland, Charlie Countryman, Cunnilingus,” Notches: Re(marks) on the History of Sexuality. 20 March 2014. 9 April 2014. http://notchesblog.com/2014/03/20/the-censorship-offemale- pleasure-cleland-charlie-countryman-cunnilingus/#comments. [Public humanities blog hosted by the Raphael Samuel History Centre.]

Joo, Hee-Jung S. “Reluctant Heroes and Petty Tyrants: Race, Illegality, and the Global War on Terror in Children of Men and Dis- trict 9,” Arizona Quarterly. Accepted with revisions.

Thorsteinson, Katie. “From Escape to Ascension: The Effects of Aviation Technology on the Flying African Myth,”Criticism . Ac- cepted with revisions.

Watt, David. The Making of Thomas Hoccleve’s Series. Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013).

_____. “Thomas Hoccleve’s Particular Appeal.” Pedagogy 13.2 (Spring 2013): 337-355.

_____. “Thomas Hoccleve’s Regiment of Princes.” A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry. Eds. Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2013): 47-57.

_____. Sally Ito. Alert to Glory (Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 2011). In Canadian Ethnic Studies 45.1-2: 287-289.

_____. “The Study of Renaissance and Reformation Books on the Canadian Prairies.” Submitted in March 2014 to Renaissance and Reformation Studies for a special 50th Anniversary edition. presentations

Abdulrehman, Sameera. “Policing Bodies: The Effect of Police Kettlings on the Citizen Body,” Thinking/Feeling, York and Ryerson University Communication and Culture Graduate Student Association Conference, March 2014.

Churchill, David. “The Politics of Sexual Liberation,” Critical Conversations on Sexual and Reproductive Rights, Centre for Human Rights Research, University of Manitoba, January 2014.

Dystra-Dykerman, Katelyn. “‘Two by Two’: The Affective Potential of Alternative Intimacies in Timothy Findley’sNot Wanted on the Voyage, Thinking/Feeling, York and Ryerson University Communication and Culture Graduate Student Association Conference, March 2014.

Elliott, Mandy. “White Chick, ‘Yellowed’ Men: Gendering Race in Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (SCMS), March 2014.

Guth, Dina. “Public Debate and Deliberation in Democratic Athens.” University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities, April 2014.

Jenkins, Paul. “Crypto-Catholics, Muslims, and Quakers: Religious Disguise and Intolerance in Early Enlightenment Britain.” Uni- versity of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities, March 2014.

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES / 15 umih 2013-2014 presentations (cont.)

McGuire, Riley. “Rethinking the Place of Identity Politics and Collaboration in Contemporary Canadian and American Literary Criticism,” Developing Transnational Literacies, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (Brazil), July 2013.

_____. “Making Over Gender and Sexuality: Queer Exploration and Commodification of YouTube,” Gender, Sexuality, and the Body Interdisciplinary Conference, Pacific University, October 2013.

Strong, Jeremy. “We Are not the Walking Dead: An Examination of Biopolitics and Posthumanism in Zombie Film and Fiction,” Elizabeth Dafoe Library Graduate Student Lecture Series, November 2013.

_____. “Queer Zombies and Modern Media,” Little Queer School House public lecture, Millennium Public Library, October 2013.

Thorsteinson, Katie. “Life Sentences: Experiencing Time through the Narrative Structure of Prison Memoirs,” Thinking/Feeling, York and Ryerson University Communication and Culture Graduate Student Association Conference, March 2014. [co-organizer of panel, “Feeling Structures: Rethinking Raymond Williams”]

Chen, Tina Mai. “Talking Multi-Media Methodologies: Research(ers) and the digital economy,” workshop presentation, Media and Anthropology group, Columbia University (New York), 1 April 2014.

_____. “Rural Film Projection and Rural Subjectivity in the People’s Republic of China,” paper presented at the Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, 2014.

_____. “Village Projections: Socialist film practices and their post-socialist adaptations”, paper presented at the Socialist Culture in China Reconsidered Workshop, University of Michigan, 25-26 October 2013.

Corne, Jonah. “After Life, Early Cinema: Re-Making the Past with Hirokazu Kore-eda,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Seattle, WA, March 2014

_____. Organized and moderated “Tick Tock: A Panel Discussion on Christian Marclay’s The Clock,” Winnipeg Art Gallery, Novem- ber 22, 2013.

McGuire, Riley, Caitlin McIntyre, and Katherine Thorsteinson. “After Putting down the Pen,” Elizabeth Dafoe Library, Graduate Student Lecture Series, February 2014.

Watt, David. “Teaching things With—and Without—Books.” New Chaucer Society (Reykjavik, Iceland): July 16-19.

_____. “Of Romayn Dedys’ in Thomas Hoccleve’s Series.” Canadian Society of Medievalists (St Catherines, ON): May 24-26 2014.

_____. “‘Of Mescrauntz’ in Lancastrian England: Hoccleve and Gower.” International Medieval Congress (Kalamazoo, MI): May 8-11 2014.

_____. ““What were they thinking? The Evidence for Scribal Thought in an Early Thirteenth-Century Copy of Peter Lombard’s Commentary on the Psalms.” Canadian Society of Medievalists (Victoria, B.C.): June 2-4 2013. R

_____. Session organizer: “From Codices to Roles: What books reveal about the people who work with them.” Canadian Society of Medievalists (Victoria, B.C.): June 2-4 2013.

_____. “Strange Brew: British Literature and Canadian Tastes.” International Medieval Congress (Kalamazoo, MI): May 9-12 2013.

_____. Session organizer and Presider: “‘Take Anothir Forme:’ The Selection of Forms in Thomas Hoccleve’s Work.” International Medieval Congress (Kalamazoo, MI): May 9-12 2013.

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES / 16 01 Name: Institute for the Humanities 02 Type I Research Institute

03 Name & position of person reporting: Ms Elizabeth-Anne Johnson, Assistant to the Director

04 Director: Dr David Watt

05 Personnel: Total of four 5.1 1: Dr David Watt 5.2 2: Dr Dina Guth; Dr Paul Jenkins 5.7 1: Ms Elizabeth-Anne Johnson (from August 2014 on; Ms Krista Walters was Assistant until July 2014 and Ms Tara Ferreira was interim Assistant from July through August, 2014)

06 Academic Contributions 6.1 Dr David Watt’s Publications (A) Books and monographs Watt, David. The Making of Thomas Hoccleve’sSeries. Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press), 2013

(B) Books to which I have contributed _____. “Thomas Hoccleve’s Regiment of Princes.”A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry.Eds. Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2013): 47-57.

_____. Sally Ito. Alert to Glory (Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 2011). Canadian Ethnic Studies 45.1-2 (2013): 287-289. Print.

_____, ed. and intro. Sir Thomas Malory.The Tale of Gareth. The Broadview Anthology of British Literature. Vol. 1, The Medieval Period, 2nd ed. Online Supplement. Edited by Joseph Black et al. (Peterborough: Broadview, 2012): 40 pages. Online.

_____. Kathy Cawsey. Twentieth-Century Chaucer Criticism: Reading Audiences. (Aldershot, GB: Ashgate, 2011). In The Medieval Review 2011). Online. [https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/3631]

_____, ed. and intro. Thomas Hoccleve. “Ballad on the Reburial of Richard II” and Complaint.The Broadview Anthology of British Literature. Vol. 1, The Medieval Period, 2nd ed. Edited by Joseph Black et al. (Peterborough: Broadview, 2009): 555-566. Print.

_____, ed. and intro. Thomas Hoccleve, “La Male Regle,” “Ballad for Master H. Somer,” “Another Poem about the Blessed Virgin,” and “The Letter of Cupid.”The Broadview Anthology of British Literature. Vol. 1, The Medieval Period, 2nd ed. Edited by Joseph Black et al. (Peterborough: Broadview, 2009): 20 pages. Online.

_____. Candace Barrington. American Chaucers. The New Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. InThe Medieval Review (2009). Online. [http://hdl.handle.net/2022/6585]

(C.1) Refereed Papers contributed to Learned Journals _____, Spencer Sealy, and Mélanie F. Guigueno. “Antoine Joseph Lottinger’s first book on the cuckoo and its fosterers: a rare book with three title-pages.” Archives of natural history 42.2 (Forthcoming in 2015): 13 pp.

_____, Sharon Wright, and Paul Dyck. “The Study of Renaissance and Reformation Books on the Canadian Prairies.”Renaissance and Reformation Studies 37.3. (2014): 235-262.

_____. “Thomas Hoccleve’s Particular Appeal.”Pedagogy 13.2 (Spring 2013): 337-355. Print.

_____. “Thomas Hoccleve’s 'La Male Regle' in the Canterbury Cathedral Archives.”Opuscula: Short Texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance 2:4 (2012): 1-11. Online.

_____. “Compilation and Contemplation: Beholding Thomas Hoccleve’s Series in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 53.” The Journal of the Early Book Society 14 (2011): 1-30. Print.

_____. “Does Size Matter to Students Working with Manuscripts Today? A Case Study.” SMART: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching. 17.2 (Fall 2010): 27-46. Print.

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES / 17 _____. “‘Olde Bokes...Newe Science’: Remediation in the Medieval Classroom.” SMART: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 17.2 (Fall 2010): 7-10. [An introduction to a set of three articles edited for a special section in the issue. Other articles are Alex Mueller, “Wikipedia as Imago Mundi” and Sonja Drimmer, “Illuminating Remediation: Recapturing Medieval Modes of Reading and Looking in the Classroom.”]. Print.

(C.2) Papers of more general interest contributed to periodicals of recognized cultural standing _____. “The Importance of Being Earnest about the Future of Print.”Feliciter 57.6 (2011): 189-90; 92. Print.

(H) Creative Works such as “exhibitions, films, programs, etc.” Multimedia _____. “How the Bible Looks.” “This Booke of Starres”: 400 Years of the King James Bible. A website to accompany an exhibition at the Elizabeth Dafoe Library: University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, CAN): October 2011-April 2012. Online. [http://umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/digital/bible/look.html]

_____ and Rob Ross. The Rare Book Collection, Elizabeth Dafoe Library. A video introduction to the Manuscripts and Rare books in the Archives & Special Collections of the Elizabeth Dafoe Library. Online. [http://umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/collections/rarebooks/index.html]

_____. “Is There a blog in dis(course)?” Faculty Reflections on Teaching and Learning at the University of Manitoba. Online. [http:// umanitoba.ca/academic_support/ltc/reflections/index.php]

Exhibitions Dyck, Paul, David Watt, Shelley Sweeney, and Jason Peters. “This Booke of Starres:” 400 Years of the King James Bible. Elizabeth Dafoe Library: University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, CAN): October 2011-April 2012. [http://umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/digital/bible/index.html]

Watt, David. To Judge a Book by its Cover. Elizabeth Dafoe Library: University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, CAN): October 15-November 15.

_____. Medieval and Early Modern Books in the Archives and Special Collections of the University of Manitoba. Elizabeth Dafoe Library: University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, CAN): April 29-October 15.

Dr Dina Guth’s Publications Guth, Dina. “The King’s Speech: Philip’s Character and Political Authority in the Debate over the Peace of Philocrates.”Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric. (forthcoming 2015).

_____. Review of Andreas Mehl, Alexander Makhlayuk, and Oleg Gabelko (edd.), Ruthenia Classica Aetatis Novae. A Collection of Works by Russian Scholars in Ancient Greek and Roman History. (2013), for BMCR January 24, 2014. Online. [http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2014/2014-01-24.html]

6.3 Academic Activities (Please see the contents of the Annual Report for detailed information on academic activities for 2013-14) UMIH Research Clusters Programme: The University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities has supported at least two Research Clusters each year since 2005. The four Clusters supported during 2013-14 were the Film Worlds Research Cluster, the Group for Premodern Studies (GPS), and two new clusters: Passions, Pedagogies, and Publics (PPP) and Queer Biopolitics. The two new clusters, Passions, Pedagogies, and Publics, and Queer Biopolitics, received $3,000 each, while the returning clusters received slightly reduced funding: Film Worlds was awarded $2,000 and GPS received $2,500. The Institute was pleased to have once again received support from Dr Jeffery Taylor, Dean of Arts, which is essential to the continued success of the Research Cluster program. In addition to the funding from the Institute, the groups received some financial assistance from other units at the University of Manitoba and from organizations outside the University of Manitoba. Additional funds raised from other departments for their programming and meetings totalled $1,050. Please see pages 5-9 of this Report for details on the Clusters and their work during this year.

The New Faculty Colloquium Series: This ongoing series of public research talks highlights the work of recently-hired faculty members at the U of M in Arts and those in other faculties who are engaged in humanities-focused research. The series facilitates getting to know new members of the Faculty, making potentially important and rewarding connections, and hearing new and innovative research. In the 2013-14 academic year, UMIH presented four talks. Please see page 11 of this Report for details.

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES / 18 6.3 Academic Activities (continued) Write-on-Site: Inspired by Dr Serenity Joo of the Department of English, Film, and Theatre, a small group of faculty members gathered for two hours on Wednesday mornings in the Institute Boardroom through Winter Term 2014. The other members of the group were Dr Fabiana Li, Dr Esa Diaz-Leon, and Dr David Watt. The purpose of the sessions was to devote uninterrupted time to writing each week, even during the busiest parts of term. At the beginning of the term, each member of the group shared goals for the term; at the beginning of each session, each member shared a goal for that session. These goals ranged from revising footnotes in a chapter to proofreading a book manuscript. Please see page 13 of this Report for details.

Graduate and Undergraduate Student Training and Support: UMIH remains committed to providing support for students working in the humanities and in other departments with a focus on humanities-themed research through research training opportunities. These include Research Assistantships, public talks, research clusters, conference support, workshops, and Research Affiliateships for students from other institutions. In 2013-14, the Institute continued to facilitate student training and outreach for undergraduate students. This involved the continuation of our successful Undergraduate Poster Workshop and a continued commitment to programmes already in place, such as public talks by graduate students. Please see page 13 of this Report for details.

Co-Sponsorships with Other Units: During the academic year 2013-14, the Institute continued the practice of providing financial assistance for guest lectures, workshops, and conferences hosted by other units at the University of Manitoba. Beyond this, UMIH also actively co-organized some of these public events in collaboration with other units. Co-sponsorships include: the Teaching Abroad Workshop (with the Faculty of Arts and the Department of Extended Education); the Interdisciplinary Research Circle on Globalization and Cosmopolitanism’s Grant Proposal Workshop; a guest lecture by Distinguished Visiting Lecturer in Engineering Dr Louis Bucciarelli (with Engineering and the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics); “Religion, Popular Practice, and Nation in South Asia,” a day-long forum (with the South Asian Studies Forum); “Les visages de la francophonie: Conférence sur la diversité culturelle du monde francophone” (with the Department of French, Spanish, and Italian); and the Fort Garry Lectures in History (a graduate student conference co-organized with the History Graduate Students’ Association and the Department of History). Please see pages 11-12 of this Report for details of these and other co-sponsorships, as well as pages 8-9 for details of other Institute-organized events.

07 Sources of Funding Authorized for the Past Year (Please also see page 13-14 of this Report, as well as the appended annual budget.)

7.1 External Grants: NA

7.2 Endowment Fund: The Institute for the Humanities has a small endowment fund, $92,096, which is the result of several fundraising efforts. The endowment fund’s income was reinvested in the fund itself. The Institute’s Board of Management will meet in fall of 2014 to review the fund’s terms of reference.

7.3 University Support: In addition to the $28,000 provided to UMIH by the Faculty of Arts for supplies and programs, Arts supplied a further $44,922 for support staff salaries and benefits. The entire Institute budget—supplies, programs, and support staff salaries—for 2013-2014 was $72,922. The Institute offices include a reception and assistant’s space, two Research Affiliate offices, and the office of the Institute’s Director, all housed in 407 Tier Building (4092 ft /approximately 39 m2). The Institute also oversees a boardroom in 409 Tier Building with AV equipment (593 ft2/approximately 55 m2). Capital equipment is roughly $12,000, including all equipment in the Institute Boardroom.

7.4 Other: Two of our four research clusters successfully obtained additional funding from other units: the Group for Premodern Studies received $500 and the Queer Biopolitics Research Cluster received $550. As in previous years, the Institute co-sponsored and collaboratively organized with other units on several public talks, workshops, conferences, colloquia, and other events.

08 Financial Stability Please see Appended Annual Budget. Please also see pages 13-14 of this Report for the Institute’s Financial Report and Asking Budget.

09 Institute’s Objectives and Functions The University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities (UMIH) was established in 1990 to foster research and scholarship in the Humanities at the University of Manitoba, to promote cross-disciplinary research in the Humanities, and to help obtain external funding for Humanities research. Its objectives and functions have not deviated from its original functions and objectives, though its activities have changed slightly over the past two decades to reflect changing circumstances.

The Institute addresses the needs and interests of researchers in a broad range of subjects including literature and languages, film and visual culture, philosophy, history and religion, and also the literary, philosophical, theological and historical aspects of the social and physical sciences, mathematics, the arts, and professional studies.

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES / 19 UMIH directly supports researchers through our Research Cluster and Research Affiliate programs. The Institute is located within the Faculty of Arts but is intended to serve the entire Humanities constituency in the University and the general community; accordingly, we are committed to community outreach through programs and lecture series for the general public.

The Institute is also involved in various interdisciplinary, humanities-themed research initiatives. In addition to the events listed above, the Institute has co-sponsored a number of other activities with several different units, including the School of Art and the Faculties of Education, Engineering, and Law. Our aim is to ensure that there is ongoing dialogue between the various units at the University of Manitoba and that we can work together to serve the wider community. Please see pages 11-12 of this Report for a complete list of co-sponsorships with other units.

10 Expected Future Growth of the Institute In the coming years, we plan to enhance the Institute’s commitment to the University of Manitoba and the wider community by building on its strengths, the two biggest of which are the Research Cluster and Research Affiliate programs.

The Research Cluster program encourages scholars from a variety of disciplines to work together in order to explore important topics or methodologies. These clusters both draw on and help to support a committed network of scholars, and they have proven to be highly successful. The success of these clusters can be measured in part by the success of the activities they have sponsored: lectures and events developed by the clusters are very well attended and often reach a broad audience. For example, as a co-sponsor of the Canadian Sport Film Festival, the Film Worlds Research Cluster has brought many new films to the public. The clusters’ success can also be seen through the collaborative work that they have often encouraged, as in the recently published collection of essaysFighting Words and Images: Representing War Across the Disciplines (U of T Press, 2012). We allocate substantial resources to our cluster program each year because it has proven so successful at meeting a variety of the institute’s objectives.

The Research Affiliate program provides scholars with institutional support for ongoing research projects. The success of this program can in part be seen in the organization of events like the Talking About Indigenous Archives Colloquium and the publication record of many of our recent affiliates. We have recently strengthened this program by rewriting the application guidelines in order to allow a wider range of scholars to participate.

We also plan to use our strengths to enhance our commitment to the University of Manitoba and the wider community. We have had a great deal of success working closely with other units across campus to promote dialogue between humanities scholars who work in different faculties as well as to promote dialogue between humanities scholars and those working in other disciplines. We have used the Research Clusters in order to promote the first kind of dialogue especially. Thanks to advertising and networking in other faculties over the past several years, we have been able to diversify our clusters, which are now comprised of researchers from across campus. We have also developed our relationship with colleagues in the Faculties of Education, Engineering, Law, and Medicine in order to present public lectures.

11 General Difficulties The two main difficulties that the Institute for the Humanities is currently facing have not changed fundamentally from last year, though we have begun to develop a more comprehensive plan to address these issues.

1. Many scholars in the humanities today feel that their disciplines are under threat. Whether or not humanities disciplines are actually under threat or not, the sense that they are under threat seems to be creating stress for many scholars. It is also creating stress within the Faculty since the continued threat of funding cuts is acutely felt in Arts, where much of our budget is devoted to paying the salaries of people who undertake research, teaching, and service on behalf of the University. The UMIH is addressing this difficulty in the same two ways we identified last year, though we are now in a position to provide more detail in our responses.

First, the UMIH is providing opportunities for more scholars in the humanities to hear from colleagues in other faculties and members of the public who highly value the humanities as well as those who question its purpose or viability. We have altered the structure of our seminar series this year to make it a more established part of the University schedule and we have planned meetings for students and faculty members to discuss issues that pertain to the humanities. We have also provided more time for student events, bringing together students and faculty in several disciplines to discuss topics in the humanities more generally and outreach specifically.

Second, we will provide the opportunity for scholars in the humanities to engage deliberately in dialogue with both those who support and those who question the humanities in order to make our case about the role that the humanities can and should play in society. The Institute aims to engage people in dialogue about the humanities by offering opportunities for scholars in the humanities to serve the University and the wider community, sharing their work and responding to the needs that arise. Our sessions focused on engaging in a national dialogue on the future of humanities education will be part of this strategy. Our focus on providing a forum for discussing outreach in the humanities and our plans to support programs through the work of our members (e.g., our collaborations with schools) should also help us to create new avenues for dialogue.

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES / 20 11 General Difficulties (continued) 2. The challenge of running a small unit. We faced two major challenges in the past year.

First, we continue to have concerns about the way that the Institute for the Humanities Boardroom (409 Tier) is booked and used. In previous years, this room was booked through the Institute for the Humanities itself. While we have been happy to host a variety of different kinds of events in the room, we were previously able to ensure that we always had access to a suitable room for our own events. Since the introduction of the centralized booking system, we have found it difficult at times to schedule our own activities, particularly when we hope to arrange for an activity in response to current events. We have a good relationship with Arts regarding the booking of this room, and we will continue to work with our home faculty to ensure it is available as much as possible for a variety of events. We have also found that it is frequently left in an unsuitable condition following events that are held by units that have a limited relationship with the UMIH or the Faculty of Arts. It would help our long-term planning a great deal if the room were to be removed from the centralized booking system.

Second, we face an acute difficulty as a small unit when it comes to supporting activities in the period between March and August (from the period immediately before year-end to the period when we have our budget allocated). This is a period when many academics are able to travel more freely and, consequently, when many conferences our held. The way in which we are compelled to spend our budget by the end of the year—again, as most units are obliged to do—generally means that we have to make it very clear that we cannot host speakers or—more problematically—that we may not be able to ensure that our research affiliates, who are often younger scholars, can attend conferences during this important time of the academic year. We know this is not an issue that we face alone and we will also continue to work as hard as we can to make the best use of our funds given the circumstances. However, it seems like there should be a way to have a high level of budget accountability as well as the flexibility to support activities when they are appropriate.

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES / 21 The University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities (UMIH) was established in 1990 to foster research and scholarship in the Humanities at the University of Manitoba, to promote interdisciplinary research in the Humanities, and to help obtain external funding for Humanities research. The Institute addresses the needs and interests of researchers in a broad range of subjects including literature and languages, philosophy, history and religion, and also the literary, philosophical, theological and historical aspects of the social and physical sciences, mathematics, the arts, and professional studies. UMIH is located within the Faculty of Arts, but is intended to serve the entire Humanities constituency in the University and the general community. The Institute is, accordingly, committed to community outreach through programs and lecture series for the general public.

Director: Dr David Watt Assistant: Ms Krista Walters, MA (Winter 2013, Spring 2014) Ms Tara Ferreira, MA, and Ms Michelle Thomas(Fall 2013, Summer 2014) Ms Elizabeth-Anne Johnson (Fall 2014) 407 Tier Building University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2 (204) 474-9599 [email protected]

umanitoba.ca/institutes/humanities Appended Annual Budget, Institute for the Humanities

Financial Report, University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities 2013-2014

The Institute for the Humanities’s asking budget for supplies and programs for 2013-2014 was $28,000, matching the actual budget of 2012-2013. On September 4, 2013, we were informed by Dean Dr Jeffery Taylor that the Institute had been awarded the full amount of $28,000. The Institute is extremely grateful for the continuing generous support from the Dean of Arts.

The Institute has a small endowment of $92,096 (Market Value). As in previous years the endowment income was reinvested in the fund itself. The endowment fund is the result of several fundraising efforts. Earlier this year, we were asked by the Dean’s Office to consider spending some of the endowment every year. The Board of Management asked the director to develop a proposal to use some of this income to support a fellowship for graduate students in the humanities.

In addition to the $28,000 provided to UMIH by the Faculty of Arts for supplies and programs, Arts supplied a further $44,922 for support staff salaries and benefits. The entire Institute budget—supplies, programs, and support staff salaries—for 2013-2014 was $72,922.

UMIH spent $24,557 on Supplies and $3,259 on Programs, totaling $27,816 during 2013-14. The Institute was left with a small surplus of $184 in April 2014.

Much of our 2013-14 Programs budget was directed towards support of four Research Clusters, the most the Institute has ever supported. The clusters were awarded the following: Film Worlds, in its third year, received $2,000; Group for Premodern Studies, in its second year, received $2,500; two new clusters—Passions, Pedagogies, and Publics and Queer Biopolitics—each received $3,000. Because all four clusters spent beyond their awarded budgets, the total support towards the Research Cluster program for 2013-14 was $11,431. It should be noted that this difference was primarily due to unexpectedly high exchange rates and taxes on honoraria processed for guest speakers. In addition to support from the Institute, two of our four research clusters successfully obtained additional funding from other units: the Group for Premodern Studies received $500, and the Queer Biopolitics Cluster received $1,140 ($550 in support from other units, as well as $590 in direct coverage of guest travel and reception expenses by CRC Diana Brydon).

As happens most years due to fiscal year-end falling in the middle of Research Affiliateship appointments (July 1-June 30) and just before some of the larger Humanities conferences, summer language institutes, research trips, and related activities are scheduled each year, some of the Institute’s Research Affiliates expenses from 2012-13 were taken from the 2013-14 budget. Similarly, some of the 2013-14 Affiliate expenses will come out of 2014-15 budget. These funds were budgeted into our 2013-14 Asking Budget, and due to smaller amounts being spent by the 2012-13 affiliates, the 2013-14 affiliates were able to use funds from the same budget line to attend conferences in the fall and winter terms.

The Institute was pleased both to have stayed within the budget and to have completed another successful and busy year of programs. We are especially pleased with the extended support towards Research Cluster programming. We believe the clusters are beneficial to the Institute, the Faculty, the University, and also the public, particularly as clusters begin to work in interdisciplinary circles that include communities outside of the University (e.g., the Passions, Pedagogies, and Publics cluster). Director’s Summary of Asking Budget The Institute is asking for the same amount of money that the Faculty of Arts provided us with last year. Our asking budget for 2013-14 was $28,000, which was the amount we were awarded. We believe this level of funding enabled us to provide excellent programming, and we have made plans to make the same amount of money go even further again this year. There are small changes to both the Programs and Supplies & Equipment, but this mainly reflects a change in how we budget for and report items.

The Programs budget is $24,080, which is equal to the amount from last year’s asking budget. After we had submitted our asking budget last year, the Board of Management decided to alter amounts within the budget as a whole in order to increase the budget for our Research Cluster Program, which is flourishing. This increase was accommodated by re-allocating budgeted amounts in the programs and supplies budgets. I offered to reduce the director’s research budget by $250 and we agreed to reduce the Guest Speaker budget by $800, which meant we would plan to invite only one guest speaker independently. We also reduced our budget for other program expenses, including non-project entertainment.

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES / I Our Research Clusters appreciated the fact they received sufficient funds to organize a substantial number of events. Several of the Clusters still raised additional funds in order to support specific or larger-scale events. Overall, though, the level of funding was substantial enough that the clusters did not need to spend a great deal of time looking elsewhere to support their events. All four clusters spent over their awarded amounts, though this was due almost entirely to the difference between the exchange rate at the time of budgeting and the time of payment for honoraria. I informed each of the clusters that we could absorb the difference by cutting back in some of our supplies this year so that none of the programming would be at risk of cancellation over what was a small amount for each of the clusters (though a slightly larger amount when considered collectively).

Our Supplies & Equipment budget has been reduced this year from $5,720 to $3,820. The main reason for this decrease is that we made several computer purchases last year instead of in the coming year. We therefore require only a limited budget for the purchase of software or to make minor upgrades. This is one place where our budget will increase next year when we return to regularly scheduled upgrades. The other reason for the decrease in this budget is that we moved the CHCI dues ($430) to the Programs budget.

Both of our Research Affiliates spent most of their research funds during the academic year, which is an unusual occurrence at the Institute. Affiliates frequently attend conferences in the summer months, which regularly puts the Institute in the position of awarding travel and research funds to current-year Affiliates in the following fiscal year (affiliateships run most often from July through June each year, while year-end for the Institute is in March). This past year, we budgeted to allocate approximately two thirds of the 2013-14 budget to the current affiliates and one third to the affiliates who will be appointed in the coming year. Although this was not as evenly weighted as we had anticipated based on previous years, it should also be noted that the numbers balanced out due to an unexpected shift in plans by an Affiliate from 2012-13. Ms Anne Lindsay was expecting to use her research funds towards attending a conference in June 2013 and to support a colloquium she co-organized with UMIH Assistant and past Affiliate, Krista Walters. Ms Lindsay no longer needed support for the conference in June (her registration fees were waived), and the colloquium she and Ms Walters organized was nearly fully subsidized by registration fees. This allowed the current year affiliates to use two-thirds of their research support in the current fiscal year. Based on this, we are asking for the remaining third of Affiliate support for the coming year and budgeting for a slight increase to the total available for affiliates in the coming year from $3,350 in total to $3,600. This will be accommodated in part by a $50 reduction in my own travel budget as well as a more accurate reflection of our advertising and publicity budget from $500 to $400 to reflect recent practices.

In keeping with the Institute’s increasing commitment to students, $2,000 has been designated to pay a student or students to do research either for the Director, a UMIH project, or for one of the Research Clusters or, as was done this year, to support a workshop for students.

Finally, we are continuing to fund new or recently developed programs using existing budget lines. For instance, we will draw on UMIH Project money to provide some funds to Write-on-Site Winnipeg. We will draw on money from our Co-sponsorship budget to explore offering community outreach projects in conjunction with other faculties.

Our Supplies & Equipment budget has remained at $3920 this year. The main change in this budget is that we have slightly increased the money available for computers and software in order to upgrade our software and to purchase a device to be used to scan documents in the office. We had anticipated not needing to make this purchase because of the agreement with Xerox. With no clear timeline indicating when to expect equipment from them, and with many expense claims to be made, we are finding it necessary have the capability to scan documents in the office. The increase in this budget line this year still leaves this amount below the budgeted amount in previous years. This is because, with permission from the Dean’s Office, we made some purchases at the end of 2012-13 that allowed us to reduce our budget line for this past year. As reported in our 2013-14 Asking Budget, we anticipate asking for an increased budget in 2014-15 to account for computer upgrades, since the Assistant’s computer and one of the Affiliates’ computers are aging.

Institute for the Humanities Asking Budget 2014-15

Supplies & Equipment $3,920 Programs: $24,080 TOTAL: $28,000

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University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities Schedule A University Asking Budget of Manitoba Supplies Institute and Equipment for the 2014 Humanities-2015 Schedule A Asking Budget Supplies & Equipment 2014-2015

13-14 Asking 13-14 Actual Asking 14-15 Computers Computer/Software 400 389.02 6001 Courses 0 0 0 Sub Total 400 389.02 600

Telephone Sub Total 1,470 1344.89 1,470

Other Office Expenses Stationery/Supplies 500 286.44 5002 Printing/Photocopying 300 238.18 300 Postage /Courier/Shipping 100 25.50 100 Water/Cooler Rental 100 141.09 100 Furnishings/Equipment 0 33.96 0 Sub Total 1,000 725.17 1,000

Art Rental 800 800 800

Equipment Rental 50 0 50

Outstanding Expenses 200 0 0

TOTAL 3,920 3,259.08 3,920 (Total Schedules A+B) 28,000 27,870.28 28,000

1 We cut this budget line substantially last year because of purchases at the end of the previous fiscal year; we are increasing it slightly this year in order to upgrade some software and peripherals. We urgently need to purchase a device that has the capability to scan documents for reconciliation in Concur. 2 Thanks to purchases made in the previous budget year, we were able to under-spend this allocation during the past year and provide more money for programming. This was necessary to account for a substantial change in the foreign exchange rate. We anticipate expenditures in this category will return to normal levels in the coming year.

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UniversityUniversity ofof ManitobaManitoba InstitInstituteute for for the the Humanities Humanities Schedule B Asking Budget Programs 2014-20152014-2015

13-14 13-14 13-14 Actual 14-15 Asking Asking Revisedi Support for Research Director 2,000 1,750 1,732.23 1,750 Affiliates 3,350 3,223.72 3,600 2012/13 2,400 2,400ii 933.30 2013/14 950 950 2,290.42 Sub Total 5,350 5,100 4,955.95 5,350

Director’s Travel 1,750 1,750iii 1881.76 1,700

UMIH Projects Conferences/Workshops 1,000 1,000iv 1003.90 1,000 Research Clusters 9,000 10,500 11,417.09v 10,500 UMIH Guest Speakers 2,000 1,200 1,164.32 1,200 Student Researchers 2,000 2,000 1,464.89 2,000 Sub Total 14,000 14,000 15,104.20 14,400

CHCI Membership 430 430vi 436 480vii

Co-Sponsorships 1,000 1,000 1,275.81 1,000viii

Other Program Expenses Advertising/Publicity 750 500 299.84 400 Non-project Entertainment 500 300 456.98 300 Sub Total 1,250 800 756.82 700

Outstanding Expenses 400 300ix 200.66x 150xi

TOTAL 24,180 24,080 24,611.20xii 24,080 (Total Schedules A+B) 28,000 28,000 27,870.28 28,000

i As indicated in the Director’s Comments on the Asking Budget, after we had submitted our asking budget last year, the Board of Management decided to slightly alter amounts within the budget as a whole in order to increase the budget for our Research Cluster Program, which is flourishing. This increase was accommodated by re-allocating budgeted amounts in the programs and supplies budgets. The Director reduced his research budget by $250 and we reduced the Guest speakers budget by $800, deciding to invite only one guest speaker on our own. We also reduced our budget for other program expenses, including non-project entertainment. ii Both Research Affiliates are attending conferences in June 2013. iii 2013-14 Director’s Travel Breakdown: $725 May 2013 Summit for Humanities in Regina, SK; $1,025 June 2013 Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences in Victoria, BC.

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______iv 2013-14 Breakdown: $500 Archives Colloquium; $200 Write-on-Site; $300 Other Projects. v As noted in the Report on the Asking Budget, much of this overage was due to unexpectedly high exchange rates and taxes on honoraria processed for guest speakers. Total honoraria requested in US dollars: $2,680; total actually paid in Canadian dollars: $3,445; difference: $765. In addition, unexpected expenses incurred by clusters included two lengthy flight delays for Queer Biopolitics guest Herring, for whom the cluster compensated extended parking and meals amounting to $156, as well as $200 in Film Worlds catering expenses from 2012-13 that Supplier Payment Services declined until March 2014. vi Moved from Supplies Budget and given its own line. vii CHCI Membership rate has stayed consistent, but conversion from USD to CAD has increased the annual amount UMIH must budget. viii This includes $100 support for the October 2014 Department of French, Spanish & Italian conference, “The Marquis de Sade: 1814-2014. Two Hundred Years of Controversy.” ix This reflects two outstanding cluster claims ($343) and Director’s taxis for a meeting ($57) that were not processed before year- end. x Some outstanding cluster claims were reversed and taken from the 2012-13 budget at year-end, leaving cluster expenses of $143.86 and $56.80 in local taxi expenses outstanding and taken from 2013-14. xi Passions, Pedagogies, and Publics Cluster expense through Amazon.ca with items not available to ship before year-end. xii Of this, $931.14 was due to all four clusters slightly over-spending, with permission from the Director. All of the clusters budgeted for honoraria in USD when the Canadian dollars was at par, but the conversion rate at the time of payment was substantially different. We balanced the budget overall by decreasing the amount spent on supplies.

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