Join ISSS Hartford for a FREE tour of the State Capitol Building in Hartford! The State Capitol is a National Historic Landmark building and is architecturally impressive both outside and inside. You will learn about the history of the building as well as learn how the legislative process in CT works. The tour will last approximately one hour and you will have the option of visiting the Museum of CT History (located directly across the street) immediately following. Advance registration is required so that we have an accurate tour number. PLEASE NOTE: This trip will begin at the Graduate Business Learning Center in downtown Hartford and will involve a walk of approximately 1 mile. Please register at www.icworkshops.uconn.edu NO LATER than Sept 23. (Event is called ISSS Outings: State Capitol Tour)

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.

In collaboration with The Sikh Coalition and Sikh Art Gallery, the AAASI is presenting the first Sikh Studies Week featuring community leaders, scholars, and cultural workers to inspire connections for students, reveal hidden histories, share joy and tradition, discuss art and healing, and provide rich and extended professional development for educators.

Friday 9/29 @ 4pm “Visual Cultures of ‘Communal’ Violence in India: Media Failures and Activist Artists” with Dr. Inderpal Grewal in Babbidge 1947 Room

All events will be hybrid. Register online here: https://tinyurl.com/SikhStudiesWK

Domestic Violence is a pervading issue across our world. During the fiscal year of 2021, over 38,989 people sought domestic violence services in our state of Connecticut alone. This number is not reflective of all those who endure domestic violence, as violence often goes unreported. We need to shatter the silence. Through education, engagement, and empowerment, this program will shed light on domestic violence and create social change.

Join us as we learn, listen, and reflect through small group discussions with facilitators, and engage with experts in domestic violence services about this critical issue.

This event is hosted by the Democracy & Dialogues Initiative, a program of Dodd Human Rights Impact, and The Alyssiah Wiley Program at Western Connecticut State University.

A light dinner will be provided.

Domestic Violence is a pervading issue across our world. During the fiscal year of 2021, over 38,989 people sought domestic violence services in our state of Connecticut alone. This number is not reflective of all those who endure domestic violence, as violence often goes unreported. We need to shatter the silence. Through education, engagement, and empowerment, this program will shed light on domestic violence and create social change.

Join us as we learn, listen, and reflect through small group discussions with facilitators, and engage with experts in domestic violence services about this critical issue.

This event is hosted by the Democracy & Dialogues Initiative, a program of Dodd Human Rights Impact, and The Alyssiah Wiley Program at Western Connecticut State University.

A light dinner will be provided.

Saturday, September 30th - Film: 4PM Talk Back 6PM
Cinestudio in Hartford - 300 Summit St, Hartford, CT
Complimentary tickets are available at the box office for UConn students with Student ID!

Synopsis: “In 1948, decades after fleeing Armenia to the US as a child, Charlie returns in the hope of finding a connection to his roots, but what he finds instead is a country crushed under Soviet rule. After being unjustly imprisoned, Charlie falls into despair, until he discovers that he can see into a nearby apartment from his cell window — the home of a prison guard. As his life unexpectedly becomes entwined with the man’s, he begins to see that the true spirit of his homeland is alive in its passionate people. Filled with warmth and humor, Amerikatsi celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the bonds that unite us all.” View trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXp-8SiqLfI

Our data-intensive world is here to stay, but does that come at the cost of our humanity in terms of autonomy, community, dignity, and equality? In We, the Data, Wendy H. Wong argues that we cannot allow that to happen. Exploring the pervasiveness of data collection and tracking, Wong reminds us that we are all stakeholders in this digital world, who are currently being left out of the most pressing conversations around technology, ethics, and policy. This book clarifies the nature of datafication and calls for an extension of human rights to recognize how data complicate what it means to safeguard and encourage human potential. 

This event is sponsored by the Economic & Social Rights Program, Business & Human Rights Initiative, Engineering for Human Rights Initiative, and Human Rights Research & Data Hub at the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute, as well as the UConn School of Law.

Do you want to work in the U.S. after you graduate? Are you on an F-1 visa? 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 Fall 2023 semester. Attend this workshop BEFORE you apply for post-completion OPT.

Abstract

Professor Krajewski will speak on experience(s) with German law, the status quo of the European Union’s EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), and the complementarity of human rights due diligence laws (HRDD) and UN treaty processes.

Professor Shareen Hertel will discuss the implications of due diligence legislation globally – both in countries where it originates and in the global South – using a “stakeholder” framework for understanding obligations and participation in norms development and implementation. 

Speakers:

Markus Krajewski is University Professor at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and holds the Chair in Public Law and Public International Law. He is one of the programme directors of the MA in Human Rights and chairperson of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (CHREN). Professor Krajewski also chairs the Board of Trustees of the German Institute for Human Rights and is Secretary-General of the German Branch of the International Law Association. He is coeditor of the European Yearbook of International Economic Law (EYIEL) and routinely advises international governmental and non-governmental organizations on European and international economic law. Krajewski holds degrees in law, economics and political science from the University of Hamburg (Germany) and Florida State University, and has held previous positions at King’s College London, University of Potsdam, and the Collaborative Research Centre Transformations of the State at the University of Bremen.

Shareen Hertel is the Wiktor Osiatyński Chair of Human Rights and Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut. She holds a joint appointment in the Department of Political Science and the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute. Her research focuses on changes in transnational human rights advocacy, with a focus on labor and economic rights issues. Her most recent book (Tethered Fates: Companies, Communities and Rights at Stake – Oxford University Press 2019) explores these themes. Hertel has served as a consultant to foundations, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and United Nations agencies in the United States, Latin America and South Asia. She is editor of The Journal of Human Rights, serves on the editorial boards of Human Rights Review as well as Human Rights and Human Welfare, and is co-editor of the International Studies Intensives book series of Routledge.

Moderator:

Janne Mende is Senior Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, where her Research Group MAGGI (“The Multiplication of Authorities in Global Governance Institutions”) analyzes the governance authority of state, inter-state and non-state actors in the United Nations and the European Union. She also heads several projects in the issue area of business and human rights. She holds degrees from the University of Kassel, University of Giessen, and Free University Berlin, and has served previously in positions at the Technical University of Darmstadt, the University of Giessen and the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences. In her latest publication (Der Universalismus der Menschenrechte utb 2021), she develops a contextual and normatively open universalism of human rights. 

For more on the Connecticut/Baden-Württemberg Human Rights Research Consortium (HRRC), visit our website.

Media is under heavy censorship under the Taliban in Afghanistan. Many Afghan journalists have been forced to flee the country. Those remaining face the Taliban’s oppressive restrictions on free expression, including widespread political imprisonment and targeted violence. Based on extensive fieldwork and data collection in Afghanistan, we will examine how journalists navigate these risks and challenges under the Taliban regime. 

This event is a collaboration between the Human Rights Research & Data Hub and the Graduate Research Forum at the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute.

About the Speaker

Ahmadullah Archiwal is a doctoral candidate in Political Science at the University of Connecticut. He is interested in state collapse, informal institutions, democratization, nonviolence, and social movements. His research is specifically focused on the question of how the Afghan elites failed the nation in August of 2021.

Africana Studies will be tabling during the major fair to talk to prospective students about Africana Studies. Please visit our table to find out more. 

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.

Between 2016 and 2019, Dr. Emma Shaw Crane worked with migrant and asylum-seeking children who were detained at the Homestead Temporary Shelter, a detention camp just south of Miami, Florida. Though ostensibly a place of humanitarian refuge, detained children were separated from their families and exposed to harmful sounds and toxic debris from an adjacent military base. This talk takes up racialized hazard at the detention camp in relation to the adjacent military base, a crucial node in the hemispheric circulation of weapons, soldiers, and military expertise.

Sponsor

This event is presented by the Research Program on Global Health & Human Rights at the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute, and co-sponsored by El Instituto, the Department of Anthropology, and American Studies.

Associated Seminar

Following this lecture, a seminar with Dr. Emma Shaw Crane will take place down the hall from 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm. See Research Justice Against Migrant Detention for more information. Lunch will be served; please register to attend.