UConn Today – #Global
- Study: When More Pain Means More Gain September 3, 2019Researchers found positive psychological outcomes and increased well-being in participants who performed an extreme annual ritual as part of a national celebration.Elaina Hancock
- Snapshot: Elic Weitzel in Kosovo June 28, 2019A UConn graduate student in archaeology just returned from a research trip to Kosovo, where he is helping collect and identify artifacts to help understand the history of the region.Elaina Hancock
- Education Abroad: Drew-Asia Keating ’20, London, England April 24, 2019First-generation college student Drew Asia-Keating '20 (CLAS) says her Education Abroad experience in London took her out of her comfort zone.Mike Enright '88 (CLAS), University Communications
- Education Abroad: Luis Rivera ’19, Prague, Czech Republic April 19, 2019Accounting major Luis Rivera '19 (BUS) says his Education Abroad experience in Prague, Czech Republic, helped him grow as a person.Mike Enright '88 (CLAS), University Communications
- Education Abroad: Omaniel Ortiz ’20, London, England April 11, 2019For first-generation college student Omaniel Ortiz, his Education Abroad experience in London was the first time he traveled outside the U.S.Mike Enright '88 (CLAS), University Communications
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2/24
OPT Workshop (Post-Completion) - Hartford
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2/25
How Dehumanization Works
How Dehumanization Works
Tuesday, February 25th, 2020
12:30 PM - 01:45 PM
Storrs Campus UCHI Conference Room, Babiddge Library, 4th Flour South
Please join us for a talk with David Livingstone Smith entitled; "How Dehumanization Works".
Professor David Livingstone Smith; author of Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave and Exterminate Others (2002), How Biology shapes Philosophy (2019), On Humanity (2020) and more.
For accommodations, please contact philosophy@uconn.edu -
2/25
The State and the Market in Indian Education
The State and the Market in Indian Education
Tuesday, February 25th, 2020
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Storrs Campus Class of 1947 Room, Library
The State & the Market in Indian Education:
Evidence & Policy Implications
Karthik Muralidharan
Tata Chancellor’s Professor of Economics
University of California, San Diego
Professor Muralidharan is actively involved in advising and capacity building in India at both the central and state government levels. He is co-chair of the education research program of the Poverty Action Lab at MIT and a Research Associate of the National Bureau for Economic Research. His research spans development, as well as public, and labor economics with a focus on improving public spending in the social sector.
In this lecture Professor Muralidharan will discuss the deep structural challenges of the Indian education system and will suggest reforms based on his extensive research.
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2/26
Pre-Completion Practical Training (CPT + Pre-OPT) - Hartford
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2/26
Wednesday Workshop: "Connecticut's Tobacco Valley: Imperialism, Migration, and Internal Colonization"
Wednesday Workshop: "Connecticut's Tobacco Valley: Imperialism, Migration, and Internal Colonization"
Wednesday, February 26th, 2020
12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Storrs Campus Wood Hall Basement Lounge
The first History Department Wednesday Workshop of 2020 will feature Professor Jason Chang, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute.
Professor Chang will present on new research in a lecture titled "Connecticut's Tobacco Valley: Imperialism, Migration, and Internal Colonization". -
2/27
Lecture: “Flesh Into Blossom”: The Queer Poetics of Radical Pleasure
Lecture: “Flesh Into Blossom”: The Queer Poetics of Radical Pleasure
Thursday, February 27th, 2020
12:30 PM - 01:45 PM
Storrs Campus Rainbow Center; Student Union 403
The Out to Lunch Gender, Sexuality, and Community is a weekly academic lecture and discussion series with guest scholars and community activists from various disciplines examining a variety of topics related to gender identity, gender expression, and sexuality. Each semester offers a broad sampling of the areas.
The Spring 2020 semester is co-sponsored by the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department (http://wgss.uconn.edu).
Today's lecture is entitled, "'Flesh Into Blossom': The Queer Poetics of Radical Pleasure" and will be presented by Mick Powell (she/her/hers).
Synopsis: Over 40 years out from Audre Lorde’s formative essay “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power,” queer feminist poets of color continue to consider how we create new work about the erotic, the intimate, and the sensual; work that illuminates the beauties and complexities of loving others and ourselves in the bodies we inhabit. In this lecture, we’ll explore how contemporary queer and trans poets of color decenter white, patriarchal, heteronormative, and cisnormative narratives around the body and intimacy through gurlesque, afrofuturistic, and liberatory aesthetics. Mick will read from her chapbook chronicle the body (2019) and highlight other poets narrating from new spaces of sensuality and pleasure.
Biography: Mick Powell (she/her/hers) is a queer black fat femme feminist poet based in Connecticut. She is an Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Connecticut. Mick earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Southern Connecticut State University in 2018 and her Bachelor’s in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Africana Studies from UConn in 2015. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Frontier Poetry, Tinderbox Poetry, Columbia Journal, Apogee Journal, Winter Tangerine, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, chronicle the body, won Yemassee Journal‘s 2nd Annual Chapbook Contest and was published in March 2019. You can find her at http://www.mickpowellpoet.com.
The lectures are open to all to attend. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own lunches. -
2/27
Black, Queer, & Proud!
Black, Queer, & Proud!
Thursday, February 27th, 2020
01:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Hartford Campus HSSW LL Community Room
RSVP at http://uconnblackhistory365.eventbrite.com
Facilitated by former UConn School of Social Work professor and Queer Black Activist, Regina Dyton. Regina is a member of Journey Writers Inc., an organization where poets, performers, writers, and educators dedicate their time to creating work around activism for social justice.
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2/27
CPT/Pre-OPT
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2/27
ISSS Coffee Hour: Poland
ISSS Coffee Hour: Poland
Thursday, February 27th, 2020
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Storrs Campus The Benton, 245 Glenbrook Road Storrs, CT 06269-3140
Let's travel to Poland on Thursday, February 27 from 2pm-3pm at The Benton Connecticut State Art Museum on the UConn campus. Pass by for an interactive presentation about the Polish culture and to see the museum's temporary exhibition on DEMOKRACJA GRAFIKA: The Democracy of Print. The museum's exhibition celebrates UConn Professor Emeritus of Printmaking Gus Mazzocca’s gift to the Benton of more than 150 prints by Polish artists. The prints came to Mazzocca through the exchange program that he established in 1984 with the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland
ISSS Coffee Hour is sponsored by the International Student and Scholar Services and hosted by the William Benton Museum of Art. -
2/28
J1 Academic Training Workshop
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3/2
Wannsee Conference Exhibit Opening Reception
Wannsee Conference Exhibit Opening Reception
Monday, March 2nd, 2020
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Storrs Campus Dodd Center, Konover Auditorium
Wannsee Conference Exhibit Opening Reception starts at 4:00 pm at the Dodd Center Lounge, followed by the talk "The Wannsee Conference-State Bureaucracy and the Holocaust" by Matthias Haas. The talk will be followed by Q&A and will focus on the conference on January 20, 1942, the setting, the participants, and the Wannsee Conference as an example of the involvement of large parts of the German administration in the persecution and murder of the European Jews. -
3/2
ISSS International Student Meeting
ISSS International Student Meeting
Monday, March 2nd, 2020
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Storrs Campus Oak Hall, Room 101
ISSS invites all international students, scholars and family to our new monthly International Student Meeting. This is a time for ISSS and campus partners to share important updates and information on life in the United States, and give students the chance to meet each other and ISSS staff. All are welcome!
March's meeting:
-Looking for an off campus apartment? What you should know, from Off Campus Student Services.
-Recent immigration/visa updates - what do you need to know?
-Spring break and summer travel reminders
-Tax filing resources -
3/3
Wannsee Conference Exhibit Opening Reception
Wannsee Conference Exhibit Opening Reception
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Storrs Campus Dodd Center, Konover Auditorium
Wannsee Conference Exhibit Opening Reception starts at 4:00 pm at the Dodd Center Lounge, followed by the talk "The Wannsee Conference-State Bureaucracy and the Holocaust" by Matthias Haas. The talk will be followed by Q&A and will focus on the conference on January 20, 1942, the setting, the participants, and the Wannsee Conference as an example of the involvement of large parts of the German administration in the persecution and murder of the European Jews.
