Visiting scholars to UConn on J-1 visas need to check-in with ISSS at the start of their program. To check-in, please visit ISSS in person on Tuesday or Friday afternoons between 2 and 4 pm. Scholars should bring: Passport, Visa and Form DS-2019, and medical insurance policy information.
For more information, visit https://isss.uconn.edu/check-in/

Center for Education Policy Analysis
2019 Speaker Series

"Are We Heading for a Charter
School 'Bubble'?:
Lessons from the Subprime Mortgage Crisis" 

Speaker:
Preston Green,
Professor, Neag School of Education

For more information and to RSVP, visit
http://s.uconn.edu/CEPAMarch25

HRI Lunchtime Seminar with Dr. Sandra L Sirota, University of Connecticut Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Humanities Institute

"From the curriculum to the classroom: The urgent need for pre-service human rights teacher education in the United States"

Tuesday, March 26, 2019, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m., Room 162 Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, Storrs Campus
**Lunch will be provided

The Human Rights Education (HRE) movement has made progress in recent decades towards ensuring all people across the globe, including in the United States, have access to HRE. Despite this, teachers have few opportunities to receive HRE themselves. In this talk, I make the argument that future teachers urgently need to receive pre-service human rights teacher education in the United States. Additionally, for HRE to contribute to ending human rights violations, teachers must teach HRE in a way that can help to dismantle oppression rather than perpetuate it. Thus, I present a framework for thoughtful pre-service human rights teacher education in the United States.

Dr. Sandra L. Sirota is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut where she conducts research on human rights education. She received her doctoral degree from Columbia University. Her research focuses on human rights, social justice, social movements, and education in sub-Saharan Africa and the United States. Recent publications appear in Comparative Education Review, Prospects, and the Journal of Human Rights (forthcoming 2019). Dr. Sirota has consulted on human rights and education for the United Nations as well as local and international non-profit organizations. She co-founded the Advocacy Lab, a nonprofit organization providing human rights education to secondary school students in New York City in 2007. She served on the founding steering committee of the human rights education network, Human Rights Educators USA, from 2012 to 2014 and is currently on the steering committee of the University and College Consortium for Human Rights Education.

Visiting scholars to UConn on J-1 visas need to check-in with ISSS at the start of their program. To check-in, please visit ISSS in person on Tuesday or Friday afternoons between 2 and 4 pm. Scholars should bring: Passport, Visa and Form DS-2019, and medical insurance policy information.
For more information, visit https://isss.uconn.edu/check-in/

Dangerous Speech and What to Do About It:
Fear and Loathing in Our Discourse
Dr. Cathy Buerger, Dangerous Speech Project

Wednesday, March 27, 2018
11:15am-12:15pm
Konover Auditorium

No one is born hating or fearing other people. That has to be taught – and those harmful lessons seem to be similar, though they’re given in highly disparate cultures, languages, and places. Leaders around the world use particular kinds of rhetoric to turn groups of people violently against one another. But this rhetoric is, of course, nothing new. The vocabulary varies, but the same themes recur: members of other groups are depicted as threats so serious that violence against them comes to seem acceptable or even necessary. In this talk, drawing from both historical and contemporary examples, Dr. Cathy Buerger will outline a framework for identifying Dangerous Speech – any form of expression that can increase the risk that its audience will condone or commit violence against members of another group. The lecture will conclude with a discussion of productive responses to dangerous and otherwise harmful speech.

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Post-Presentation Focus Group
12:30pm – 1:30pm
Room 162

Join us following the Dr. Buerger’s presentation for a focus group discussion designed to inform the Dangerous Speech Project’s efforts in developing educational resources. Participants will provide feedback on key elements of the presentation and resources, and consider strategies for educational impact. Lunch will be provided.

To RSVP for the focus group, please email doddcenter@uconn.edu.

Amanda J. Guzmán is a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in archaeology and minors in Latin American history and the Spanish language. Her dissertation project focuses on a range of major museums to analyze the history of North American museum collecting in, and representations of, Puerto Rico. In the context of Puerto Rico’s current environmental and economic uncertainty, her dissertation critically traces understudied museum acquisition narratives documenting the island’s material relations with the U.S. mainland. Guzmán’s research has been supported by the Smithsonian Institution’s Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology, a Smithsonian Institution graduate student fellowship, a Smithsonian Institution predoctoral student fellowship, and the Mellon Mays graduate initiatives program. She is the author of the recently published Museum Anthropology article, “Collecting the Puerto Rican Colony: Spanish-American War Material Encounters Between Officer-Wives and Puerto Ricans.”

Let’s travel to Puerto Rico on Wednesday, March 27, 2019 from 3pm-4pm, McMahon Hall: ISSS Lounge Room 183.
Pass by for an interactive presentation about the island, Puerto Rican inspired food, and a chance to network.
ISSS Coffee Hour is hosted by the International Student and Scholar Services Office.
Coffee Hours allow us to explore UConn through coffee, food, culture and conversation.
UConn Global.

ISSS Hartford will be closed on March 28.

Professor and Graduate Director of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, Puar's publications include "The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (2017)" and the award-winning "Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007)."

Visiting scholars to UConn on J-1 visas need to check-in with ISSS at the start of their program. To check-in, please visit ISSS in person on Tuesday or Friday afternoons between 2 and 4 pm. Scholars should bring: Passport, Visa and Form DS-2019, and medical insurance policy information.
For more information, visit https://isss.uconn.edu/check-in/

Join the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program in welcoming 8 impressive Feminist Scholars in this weekend-long Symposium Event.
If you require accommodations in order to attend, please contact Laura Mauldin at laura.mauldin@uconn.edu.
Please be sure to RSVP for this event at: https://wgsssymposium.app.rsvpify.com/

To register for Saturday's events, please RSVP at: https://wgssworkshoplunch.app.rsvpify.com/

To view the reader-accessible flyer that exhibits more details about this event, please follow this link: http://s.uconn.edu/wgsssymposiumcom

Join the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program in welcoming 8 impressive Feminist Scholars in this weekend-long Symposium Event.
If you require accommodations in order to attend, please contact Laura Mauldin at laura.mauldin@uconn.edu.
Please be sure to RSVP for this event at: https://wgsssymposium.app.rsvpify.com/

To register for Saturday's events, please RSVP at: https://wgssworkshoplunch.app.rsvpify.com/

To view the reader-accessible flyer that exhibits more details about this event, please follow this link: http://s.uconn.edu/wgsssymposiumcom

Asian Nite 2019 is the annual talent showcase presented by AsACC and PAC. Please join us for one of the most entertaining shows of the year!

Tickets available at the Jorgensen Box Office - call 860-486-4226 or on-line at http://jorgensen.uconn.edu

Tickets at prior sales are $12 for Students, $15 Others and $10 children under 10. ALL tickets at the door on 3/30/19 will be $20.