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Learn what happens when the Humanities goes digital! Researchers in the Faculty of Humanities and developers in the Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC) regularly work together to create inventive digital projects, teaching tools, maps, and online archives. This open house event will showcase the work of 11 projects, from mapping literary placenames inThe Map of Early Modern London to revealing the unknown in Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History. Humanities professors, programmers, and students will be on-hand to guide you through these digital resources and the rare materials, artifacts, and archives that inspired them. Refreshments will be served.

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Eighty one per cent of white evangelical Christians voted for President Donald Trump in the 2016 American election. That statistic might strike many people as strange, given Trump’s seemingly unchristian behavior. But English Professor Chris Douglas’s research into evangelical literature, history, and uses of the Bible suggests we shouldn’t be surprised. Hear why Douglas believes that President Trump will be able to count on this demographic’s support in the 2020 election.

• Tickets available through the Belfry Theatre
• $5 for adults (all proceeds go towards travel awards for UVic students)
• Free for seniors and students

Read more: from Religion Dispatches.

Open Scholarship for the 2020s is the seventh annual Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) partnership winter gathering. This event draws together researchers, academic partners, and engaged members of the public to discuss how to model open social scholarship practices and behaviour within and beyond the university. Participants will explore the following questions: How do we foster humanities and social sciences research in open community spaces? How should we adapt existing open scholarship training opportunities? How can humanities researchers collaborate more closely with the general public? How do we ensure that research on pressing open scholarship topics is accessible to a diverse public? For more information, including registration, please visit https://inke.ca/projects/victoria-gathering-2020/

The female body, although praised for its beauty, has long been ignored and even despised in Western culture. Described in the pre-modern science as an incomplete copy of the male body, it was thought as feeble, mysterious and unknowable. Observations and descriptions of the female anatomy revolutionized the theory of the human body and of sexual differences in Early Modern Europe. Still, the knowledge about female bodies has remained fragmentary and unequal, focused on reproduction and difficult to represent with visual means. Female body parts are often misunderstood or ignored, even in our age of scientific communication; in spite of the liberation of discourse about sexuality, there is still a general knowledge deficit regarding female anatomy. Join Dr. Hélène Caze (French) for this exploration of the politics of the female body.

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Can a free, “amateur” encyclopedia be trusted? We think so. Join UC San Diego’s Dr. Erin Glass for a free public talk about Wikipedia at Point Ellice House Museum and Gardens. Glass is the 2019-20 Honorary Resident Wikipedian for the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab and UVic Libraries. Following her talk, Glass will invite participants to put their knowledge to work online by learning to edit Wikipedia. Please bring a laptop and material to contribute to Wikipedia. Otherwise, you can draw from resources from UVic Libraries and Point Ellice House. For more information, including (free!) registration, please visit https://etcl.uvic.ca/2019/10/31/community-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-january-15-2020/

In this hands-on session on book and newspaper history, you will be invited to explore how Victorians illustrated and told stories about the pregnant body. From press coverage of Queen Victoria’s first pregnancy to novels that depicted pregnant characters, UVic Special Collections holdings reveal the tensions surrounding this most “interesting condition.”

Dr. Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Dr. Lisa Surridge (English)

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All Humanities graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty at UVic are invited to an evening of food and drink at the UVIC Libraries Digital Scholarship Commons as part of Humanities Literacy Week. Mingle with colleagues from other departments while enjoying free food and a cash bar (first 100 grad & postdoc attendees receive a free drink ticket). Space is limited. Register now. Sponsored by UVic Libraries and the Faculty of Humanities. Contact the Digital Scholarship Librarian, Matt Huculak: huculak@uvic.ca for further information.

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Why bother with archives? What can they offer a society still struggling with questions of sex and gender? Join a panel of scholars and librarians in UVic Libraries Special Collections as they discuss the importance of using archival research to recover lost and historically marginalized voices. What can archives teach us about gender equality and discrimination? How might they teach us to better understand our differences, identities, and sexualities? Please note, this panel discussion will be live recorded for a podcast.

Joel Hawkes (English), Rachel Cleves (History), Christine Walde (Libraries), and (Lara Wilson (Libraries)

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Watch the award-winning film about South African women sowing the seeds of change in the context of poverty, climate change, and HIV/AIDS.

This screening will be followed by a discussion with writer, producer, and Associate Professor of History, Dr. Elizabeth Vibert.

To learn more about this project visit: womensfarm.org
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