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The Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute, situated in the University of Connecticut's Office of Global Affairs and housed in the Dodd Center for Human Rights, advances human rights research, education, and public engagement. In 2020, Dodd Human Rights Impact joined the Gladstein Institute to leverage the synergies of UConn human rights programs and create one of the most dynamic interdisciplinary institutes anywhere in the world.
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3/19
The Role of Latin American Indigenous Images & Narrations in Healing Colonial Wounds
The Role of Latin American Indigenous Images & Narrations in Healing Colonial Wounds
Tuesday, March 19th, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
The Dodd Center for Human Rights
ES: “El Papel de las Imágenes y Narrativas Indígenas Latinoamericanas en la Sanación de las Heridas Coloniales”
Language: Please note that this discussion will be held in Spanish with simultaneous translation provided to English. Those who would like to listen along in English are encouraged to bring a smartphone and headphones.
Please Register Below
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Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui is a Bolivian sociologist of Aymara and Sephardic descent. Her work focuses on the socio-political history of Bolivia, collective memory, and imagery as a social document. She served as a professor at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés for 35 years until her retirement in 2014. She currently teaches at various universities in Bolivia and abroad. In 2019, she was awarded honorary doctorates from UMSA and the University of San Luis (Argentina). In 1983, she co-founded the Andean Oral History Workshop with Tomás Huanca Laura, alongside students and faculty of the Public University of La Paz. During the challenging times of Bolivian ‘progressivism,’ she organized the Ch’ixi Collective with UMSA faculty and students, with its headquarters (Tambo Ch’ixi in Tembladerani) housing the Free Lecture, where she has directed the Sociology of Image Seminar since 2015.
Rivera Cusicanqui has authored several notable books, including Oprimidos pero no Vencidos: Luchas del Campesinado Aymara y Qhichwa, 1900-1980 [EN: “Oppressed but not Defeated: Peasant Struggles Among the Aymara and Qhechwa in Bolivia, 1900-1980”] (1984, 2003); Los Artesanos Libertarios y la Ética del Trabajo (co-authored with Zulema Lehm, 1988); Las Fronteras de la Coca (2003); Violencias (re)Encubiertas en Bolivia (2010); Mito y Desarrollo. El Giro Colonial del Gobierno del MAS (2015); Un Mundo Ch’ixi es Posible. Ensayos = un Presente en Crisis (2015, 2020); and Sociología de la Imagen (2018, 2023).
She has been a visiting professor at universities spanning Latin America including UNAM, Oaxaca, and Guadalajara (Mexico); FLACSO and Universidad Andina (Ecuador); and São Paulo and Santa Catarina (Brazil). In Europe, she has been invited to teach at universities and art spaces in Tenerife, Lisbon, Paris, and Barcelona. Rivera Cusicanqui has received several awards for her work, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Bolivia Strategic Research Program (PIEB, La Paz, 2014); the Culture 21 Award from the United Cities and Local Governments organization (CGLU, Barcelona/Mexico 2016); and the Ester Boserup Award (Copenhagen, 2023).
In the audiovisual field, she has written and directed documentaries and docu-fictions such as Khunuskiw: Recuerdos del Porvenir, Wut Walanti: Lo irreparable, and the series Las Fronteras de la Coca along with the fictional film Sueño en el Cuarto Rojo. She self-identifies as an Anarchist and Birchola.
Francisco Huichaqueo Pérez is an artist from the Indigenous Mapuche community in Chile whose work explores the social landscape, history, culture, and worldview of his people. His films use a variety of approaches to engage with, activate, and preserve Indigenous traditions and foster understanding. Kuifi ül (Ancient Sound) enacts the healing and awakening power of the trutruka, a traditional wind instrument. Trankal Küra presents a dance of resistance on stolen land, while reveries are re-created in Super 8 film and video in Los sueños de la Machi Silvia Kallfüman. Künü documents the commissioning and construction of a Mapuche ceremonial center, memorial, and place for parliament in Loncoche. It demonstrates the diplomatic prowess of the Mapuche leaders, who won consensus amongst disparate Indigenous communities, a forestry company, and the Chilean architects who helped them design the place.
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This event is part of a series held by the Gladstein Visiting Professor of Human Rights. Other events during the residency include:
- Friday, March 22: “Anarchist Struggles in La Paz: Militant Repression of the Local Workers Federation and Women’s Workers Federation.” Photographic exhibition curated by Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui.
- Tuesday, March 26: “Collective Struggles in Defense of the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Populations Attacked by the Bolivian State, 2011-2023.” Public lecture by Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui.
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The Gladstein Visiting Professor is a distinguished scholar with international standing in the study of human rights, who participates in a 10-day visit to the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute at UConn. During that time, they deliver a major public lecture, teach a seminar in their specialty, and consult with the faculty and graduate students of the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute’s research programs.
This event is co-sponsored by the Buen Vivir and Collective Healings Initiative, El Instituto, the Departments of Anthropology and Digital Media & Design, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Native American Cultural Programs, as well as the Research Programs on Arts & Human Rights and Global Health & Human Rights at the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute.
Contact Information:
Alex Branzell, Events & Communications Coordinator, Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut
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3/19
Workshop: Work Authorization in the USA (Post-OPT)
Workshop: Work Authorization in the USA (Post-OPT)
Tuesday, March 19th, 2024
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Attend this workshop to learn more about Optional Practical Training (OPT) and how to apply for a work permit to stay in the U.S. and work in your field of study after graduation. This workshop is required for all students who will apply for OPT and will graduate in Spring 2024 semester. Attend this workshop BEFORE you apply for post-completion OPT.
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3/19
Networking Workshop for International Students
Networking Workshop for International Students
Tuesday, March 19th, 2024
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Center for International Students & Scholar Services (CISS)
Do you want to practice your networking skills and make a few contacts in the process. Please come to our in-person workshop. This is a great opportunity for students to learn:
- how to network
- work on an elevator pitch
- ask questions about networking etiquette and much more…
There will be information on career opportunities and employment services. Make connections and expand your professional network with us!
This is an interactive session - feel free to bring your technology. Consider trying out your business casual look. Food and beverages will be provided!
Sponsored by the Center for International Students & Scholars (CISS), the Center for Career Development, and the School of Business Career Development Office.
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3/20
Workshop: Internship Authorization (CPT & Pre-OPT)
Workshop: Internship Authorization (CPT & Pre-OPT)
Wednesday, March 20th, 2024
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Graduate Business Learning Center (Hartford)
This session is for F-1 students who will do an internship or work off-campus before graduating, or for students who have internships and clinical placements as part of your academic curriculum.
All internships, work and placements off-campus must be authorized through Curricular Practical Training (CPT) or Pre-Completion Optional Practical Training (OPT), even if unpaid and required for your class or program. If you are considering a future off-campus work opportunity or placement, you are required to attend this workshop before you apply for CPT or Pre-Completion OPT with ISSS. Advance registration is required for in-person workshops and seats are limited.To register for this workshop please sign up on the link below: https://icworkshops.uconn.edu/index.php?event=3394
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3/20
Reproductive Justice: The Intersection of Health, Rights, and Social Justice
Reproductive Justice: The Intersection of Health, Rights, and Social Justice
Wednesday, March 20th, 2024
06:30 PM
Student Union
Reproductive justice is a feminist framework, developed by women of color, that center’s the needs of the most marginalized and affirms our human right to bodily autonomy and to live healthy lives with access to the necessary physical, mental, political, economic, social, and sexual resources for the well-being of all people. The three core values of reproductive justice are the right to have a child, the right to not have a child, and the right to parent a child or children in safe and healthy environments.
This discussion will examine and highlight the disparities in care, access, and how it affects Black maternal health and mortality rates. Attendees will also understand the reproductive justice framework, learn about access and advocacy in Connecticut, and the barriers students have in accessing care.
Please register using the button to the left.
Join us at the Women’s Center for a Watch Party!
This panel is sponsored by the Women’s Center and the UConn Foundation as part of the #ThisIsAmerica series.
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3/21
WGSS @ 50
WGSS @ 50
Thursday, March 21st, 2024
10:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Graduate Storrs Hotel
UCONN Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality
Studies (WGSS) Program Presents
The Uses of Anger: WGSS@50
The Graduate Hotel, Storrs, CT
March 21-22, 2024The third annual NWSA conference was held at UCONN in
1981, themed “Women Respond to Racism”. This event and
the keynote “Uses of Anger” by Audre Lorde marked a
significant moment in feminist education, highlighting what
Lorde argued was the power to envision and reconstruct.
Exploring these past and future liberation efforts, the WGSS
program will celebrate their 50 year anniversary with
presentations by: M. Jacqui Alexander, Beverly Guy-Sheftall,
Alexis De Veaux, and many more.Thursday, March 21st
10:00 am - 6:30 pm - Panels and Keynote (Graduate Hotel)
Dinner - 6:30 pm
Friday, March 22nd
10:00 am - 2:30 pm
WGSS Alum Panel - Room TBA
Creative Writing Workshop with Cecilia Caballero - Room TBA
WGSS at 50 - Art Exhibit at the Benton Museum of Art
Bobby Sanchez Concert at the Benton
Lunch in the ODI Commons
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3/21
Tax Workshop: 8843 Party
Tax Workshop: 8843 Party
Thursday, March 21st, 2024
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Center for International Students & Scholar Services (CISS)
You are required to fill out the 8843 tax form is:
- You re here on an For J visa in 2023
- You don’t have work or scholarship income
- You are a student who has been here 5 years or less
- You are a visiting Scholar who has been here 2 years or less.
Sign up is required:
https://icworkshops.uconn.edu/index.php?event=3418
**Free pizza will be provided while supplies last.
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3/21
Latino Education Series SP24 with Dr. Michele Back
Latino Education Series SP24 with Dr. Michele Back
Thursday, March 21st, 2024
05:00 PM
Gentry Building
Dr. Michele Back “Performing Knowledge and Identity in Native/Heritage Spanish Peer Tutoring Interactions”
Dr. Back offers a retrospective analysis of three previously published works (Back, 2020; Back, 2016a; Back, 2016b) about native/heritage speaker interaction in Spanish peer tutoring contexts. She first examines how knowledge is negotiated and co-constructed in peer tutoring sessions, particularly when gaps in lexical knowledge are evident on the part of the peer tutor. She discusses how these peer tutors draw upon embodied, artifactual, and historical resources, as well as “social others” (Lantolf, 2015) to resolve lexical gaps and position themselves as experts or non-experts. She then moves to an examination of a peer tutoring session in which knowledge of a popular Mexican television personality led to resistance and interactional asynchrony between the tutor and tutee. She outlines possible reasons for this asynchrony, with a focus on the difficulties of negotiating cultural and symbolic knowledge among native/heritage speakers, despite the potential richness that peer tutoring environments could provide for this type of language learning. She concludes with implications for language learning, including the potential the benefits of peer tutoring programs for both native/heritage and L2 Spanish learners, as well as the need for more transformative approaches in language learning for these programs to be truly enriching.
Dr. Michele Back is Associate Professor of World Languages Education at the University of Connecticut’s Neag School of Education, where she works with Spanish, French, Chinese, and ASL language teacher candidates. Dr. Back’s research interests include teacher development and professionalization; cultivating global citizenship; the ethical and equitable use of language learning technology, intersections of race, discourse, and identity; developing a pedagogy of symbolic competence; and the role of translanguaging and multilingual ecology in transforming schools and other communities of practice. She has published articles in the Modern Language Journal,Foreign Language Annals, TESOL Quarterly, and CALICO, as well as the books Transcultural Performance: Negotiating Globalized Indigenous Identities (Palgrave, 2015) and Racialization and Language: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Peru (co-edited with Virginia Zavala, Routledge, 2019).
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3/22
WGSS @ 50
WGSS @ 50
Friday, March 22nd, 2024
12:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Graduate Storrs Hotel
UCONN Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality
Studies (WGSS) Program Presents
The Uses of Anger: WGSS@50
The Graduate Hotel, Storrs, CT
March 21-22, 2024The third annual NWSA conference was held at UCONN in
1981, themed “Women Respond to Racism”. This event and
the keynote “Uses of Anger” by Audre Lorde marked a
significant moment in feminist education, highlighting what
Lorde argued was the power to envision and reconstruct.
Exploring these past and future liberation efforts, the WGSS
program will celebrate their 50 year anniversary with
presentations by: M. Jacqui Alexander, Beverly Guy-Sheftall,
Alexis De Veaux, and many more.Thursday, March 21st
10:00 am - 6:30 pm - Panels and Keynote (Graduate Hotel)
Dinner - 6:30 pm
Friday, March 22nd
10:00 am - 2:30 pm
WGSS Alum Panel - Room TBA
Creative Writing Workshop with Cecilia Caballero - Room TBA
WGSS at 50 - Art Exhibit at the Benton Museum of Art
Bobby Sanchez Concert at the Benton
Lunch in the ODI Commons
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3/22
Tax Workshop: Form 8843
Tax Workshop: Form 8843
Friday, March 22nd, 2024
10:00 AM
Graduate Business Learning Center (Hartford)
Attend this session if you meet all of these criteria:
- You were here on an F or J visa in 2023 and
- You didn’t have work or scholarship income in 2023 and
- You are a student who has been here 5 years or less
We will assist you with completing this required form during the workshop.
Advance Registration Required: Sign up here: icworkshops.uconn.edu
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3/22
Workshop: Internship Authorization (CPT & Pre-OPT)
Workshop: Internship Authorization (CPT & Pre-OPT)
Friday, March 22nd, 2024
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Center for International Students & Scholar Services (CISS)
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All internships, work and placements off-campus must be authorized through Curricular Practical Training (CPT) or Pre-Completion Optional Practical Training (OPT), even if unpaid and required for your class or program. If you are considering a future off-campus work opportunity or placement, you are required to attend this workshop before you apply for CPT or Pre-Completion OPT with ISSS. Advance registration is required for in-person workshops and seats are limited.Sign up required: https://icworkshops.uconn.edu/index.php?event=3404
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3/22
Exhibition - Anarchist Struggles in La Paz: Militant Repression of the Local Workers Federation and Women’s Workers Federation
Exhibition - Anarchist Struggles in La Paz: Militant Repression of the Local Workers Federation and Women’s Workers Federation
Friday, March 22nd, 2024
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
The Dodd Center for Human Rights
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui is a Bolivian sociologist of Aymara and Sephardic descent. Her work focuses on the socio-political history of Bolivia, collective memory, and imagery as a social document. She served as a professor at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés for 35 years until her retirement in 2014. She currently teaches at various universities in Bolivia and abroad. In 2019, she was awarded honorary doctorates from UMSA and the University of San Luis (Argentina). In 1983, she co-founded the Andean Oral History Workshop with Tomás Huanca Laura, alongside students and faculty of the Public University of La Paz. During the challenging times of Bolivian ‘progressivism,’ she organized the Ch’ixi Collective with UMSA faculty and students, with its headquarters (Tambo Ch’ixi in Tembladerani) housing the Free Lecture, where she has directed the Sociology of Image Seminar since 2015.
Rivera Cusicanqui has authored several notable books, including Oprimidos pero no Vencidos: Luchas del Campesinado Aymara y Qhichwa, 1900-1980 [EN: “Oppressed but not Defeated: Peasant Struggles Among the Aymara and Qhechwa in Bolivia, 1900-1980”] (1984, 2003); Los Artesanos Libertarios y la Ética del Trabajo (co-authored with Zulema Lehm, 1988); Las Fronteras de la Coca (2003); Violencias (re)Encubiertas en Bolivia (2010); Mito y Desarrollo. El Giro Colonial del Gobierno del MAS (2015); Un Mundo Ch’ixi es Posible. Ensayos = un Presente en Crisis (2015, 2020); and Sociología de la Imagen (2018, 2023).
She has been a visiting professor at universities spanning Latin America including UNAM, Oaxaca, and Guadalajara (Mexico); FLACSO and Universidad Andina (Ecuador); and São Paulo and Santa Catarina (Brazil). In Europe, she has been invited to teach at universities and art spaces in Tenerife, Lisbon, Paris, and Barcelona. Rivera Cusicanqui has received several awards for her work, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Bolivia Strategic Research Program (PIEB, La Paz, 2014); the Culture 21 Award from the United Cities and Local Governments organization (CGLU, Barcelona/Mexico 2016); and the Ester Boserup Award (Copenhagen, 2023).
In the audiovisual field, she has written and directed documentaries and docu-fictions such as Khunuskiw: Recuerdos del Porvenir, Wut Walanti: Lo irreparable, and the series Las Fronteras de la Coca along with the fictional film Sueño en el Cuarto Rojo. She self-identifies as an Anarchist and Birchola.
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This event is part of a series held by the Gladstein Visiting Professor of Human Rights. Other events during the residency include:
- Tuesday, March 19: “The Role of Latin American Indigenous Images & Narrations in Healing Colonial Wounds.” Panel with acclaimed Mapuche filmmaker Francisco Huichaqueo.
- Tuesday, March 26: “Collective Struggles in Defense of the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Populations Attacked by the Bolivian State, 2011-2023.” Public lecture by Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui.
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The Gladstein Visiting Professor is a distinguished scholar with international standing in the study of human rights, who participates in a 10-day visit to the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute at UConn. During that time, they deliver a major public lecture, teach a seminar in their specialty, and consult with the faculty and graduate students of the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute’s research programs.
Contact Information:
Alex Branzell, Events & Communications Coordinator, Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut
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3/22
Fiber Arts Friday (Knit and Crochet)
Fiber Arts Friday (Knit and Crochet)
Friday, March 22nd, 2024
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Center for International Students & Scholar Services (CISS)
Learn to Knit! Learn to Crochet! - Beginners Welcome! Experienced knitters welcome!
Make new friends, learn a craft, knitting supplies provided!Contact Information:
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3/25
Workshop: Work Authorization in the USA (Post-OPT)
Workshop: Work Authorization in the USA (Post-OPT)
Monday, March 25th, 2024
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
UConn Stamford
Attend this workshop to learn more about Optional Practical Training (OPT) and how to apply for a work permit to stay in the U.S. and work in your field of study after graduation. This workshop is required for all students who will apply for OPT and will graduate in Spring 2024 semester. Attend this workshop BEFORE you apply for post-completion OPT.
Registration is required:
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3/25
‘Sama in the Forest’ with Coralynn V. Davis
‘Sama in the Forest’ with Coralynn V. Davis
Monday, March 25th, 2024
03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Homer Babbidge Library
About the Film
Sama in the Forest is a hybrid documentary set in contemporary Mithila, where a rich cultural identity extends from the mythical past into a globalized present in which pressures on tradition are accelerating. Maithil identity is passed on in part through its renowned painting tradition, as well as through its lesser known wealth of orally transmitted folktales. Women play a central role in both of these expressions. In a creative collaboration with local community members, we highlight the tale of Sama, a young princess who wanders into the forest and befriends a young man, only to be slandered by a muckraking confidante of the king, and subsequently cursed and banished by her father.
The film combines footage of women telling different versions of the tale, the making of elaborate narrative paintings, a dramatization of the story, a yearly festival that celebrates Sama, and in-depth conversations about the morals and meanings of this and other traditional tales. The girls and women at the heart of our film are students and teachers at the Mithila Art Institute, a small school for young aspiring artists. Additional participants — community members of different genders, castes, and generations — help paint a complex picture of the social tensions evident in Mithila today.
About the Producer
Coralynn V. Davis is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Anthropology at Bucknell University. An award-winner teacher, Dr. Davis holds a PhD (1999) in Anthropology at the University of Michigan, where she also earned a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies (1994).
She has held Research Associateships at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center (2005-2006) and at the Harvard Divinity School Women’s Studies in Religion Program (2008-2009). Her ethnographic research with communities in Nepal and India has been supported by three Fulbright Grants (1994-1995; 2003-2004; 2016-2017).
In addition to having published peer-reviewed articles in journals centered in several disciplines, her book Maithil Women’s Tales: Storytelling on the Nepal-India Border was published by University of Illinois Press in 2014. She is the producer of the hybrid documentary film, Sama in the Forest (Dir. Carlos Gómez), which is based on her research. She has also created a public digital archive of Maithil women’s oral tales.
Sponsors
This event is supported by the Human Rights Film & Digital Media Initiative (Dodd Human Rights Impact Programs and Department of Digital Media & Design), Research Program on Arts & Human Rights (Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute), and the Department of Art & Art History (School of Fine Arts).
Contact Information:
Alex Branzell, Events & Communications Coordinator, Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut
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