UConn Today – #Global
- UConn Partners with FutureLearn to Expand Digital Education Presence Globally February 23, 2021The University of Connecticut has partnered with FutureLearn, one of the world’s leading social learning platforms, to begin offering courses globally as massive open online courses.Emily Zangari
- VIDEO: UConn Students From China Get to Attend In-Person Classes at Home February 3, 2021UConn students from China are taking in-person classes 7,300 miles from Connecticut, thanks to partnerships with two Chinese universities.Mike Enright '88 (CLAS), University Communications
- ‘These Were Haunting Events’: Researchers Study Migrant Precarity During Pandemic in US, India January 5, 2021An interdisciplinary group of researchers is designing a toolkit of methods to study the problems faced by migrant workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.Tom Breen
- UConn Magazine: For Scott Wallace, Remote Learning Means Getting Off the Beaten Path December 16, 2020The photographer and National Geographic contributor shares some of the hard-won wisdom he imparts to UConn’s lucky journalism students.Lisa Stiepock
- A Call to Action for Science December 8, 2020Three UConn researchers are among a group of scientists calling on policymakers and the public to put data and scientific evidence at the heart of fraught questions like the COVID-19 pandemic.Elaina Hancock
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9/26
Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) - Tips You Need
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9/27
DDI Fellows Drop-In Workshop Session
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9/28
ISSS Coffee Hour: Party In The USA
ISSS Coffee Hour: Party In The USA
Tuesday, September 28th, 2021
08:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Storrs Campus Online via Webex
Party in the USA with Huskies International!
Get ready for a fun night of trivia about US culture. Join us on Tuesday, September 28 at 8pm via Webex https://uconnvtc.webex.com/uconnvtc/j.php?MTID=m5efafbc573953003f176225e9c847e86 Your next cup of coffee might be on ISSS. All students have the chance to win a coffee gift card by attending.
Travel with us to a new place every month! ISSS Coffee Hour brings together students, staff and faculty to enjoy some refreshments and learn more about a country, culture or student group through an informal and fun presentation. If you would like to work with ISSS to present at Coffee Hour please contact Nadine Boudissa at nadine.boudissa@uconn.edu. -
9/29
Claim-making As Rights-making: Undocumented Migrants Reshaping International Human Rights Law
Claim-making As Rights-making: Undocumented Migrants Reshaping International Human Rights Law
Wednesday, September 29th, 2021
02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Storrs Campus Virtual Event
In this colloquium presentation, Jordan Dez will present her dissertation research, which explores the political rights of undocumented migrants using doctrinal analysis and qualitative fieldwork in Amsterdam. Despite their formal exclusion from political rights, migrants have long been politically active community members, playing an integral role in mobilizations that impact the scope of international human rights law (IHRL), domestic immigration policies, and the effective protection of human rights. Legal scholarship traditionally focuses on migrants as objects of IHRL, analyzing whether courts and states exclude migrants based on lack of migration status. Most pronounced among these doctrinal foreclosures is the exclusion of migrants from traditional political participation rights, such as the right to vote. This research project shifts the vector of investigation, focusing on the role of migrant political activity in developing the scope of rights protection, rather than the extent of the state’s right to exclude. Calling upon the work of political theorists who explore how rights subjectivity is constituted through the act of claim-making, this research explores the human rights to expression, assembly and association, which include undocumented migrants within their scope, as political rights. To this end, Jordan is currently engaged in fieldwork with three groups of undocumented migrant claim-makers in Amsterdam to learn how they use the protections of expression (PrintRights), assembly (Amsterdam City Rights) and association (Migrant Domestic Workers unionized with the FNV) to claim other human rights. This is an alternative read on Arendt’s proverbial “right to have rights” that goes straight to the democratic paradox between the liberal ideals of the IHRL system and the violent exclusion of democratic closure on which that system depends.
For registration;
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrcO-hpjMqGNIRic2yBilCzQM__Y22AOvi
Jordan Dez is a PhD researcher with the Faculty of Law at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Before joining the law faculty, Jordan practiced international and migration law in Salt Lake City. She studied anthropology at the University of Connecticut (BA), international development at the School for International Training (MA), and law at the University of Utah (JD). In her current research, Jordan combines her social sciences and legal backgrounds, employing an empirical legal methodology to study the human rights and rights claiming practices of undocumented migrants. This research project is funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). -
9/29
The Evolution Of Evelyn Serrano, A Play
The Evolution Of Evelyn Serrano, A Play
Wednesday, September 29th, 2021
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Storrs Campus Student Union Theatre
Based on the award-wuinning young adult novel, this new play with music written and directed by Associate Professor, Tlaloc Rivas, tells the story of a young woman who learns about important truths about her Latinx identity. -
9/30
Optional Practical Training (OPT) Workshop
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9/30
What Is Your Superpower?
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10/1
Stay Informed @ the ISSS Student & Scholar Meeting
Stay Informed @ the ISSS Student & Scholar Meeting
Friday, October 1st, 2021
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Storrs Campus Online via WebEx
ISSS hosts a monthly virtual meeting for international students and scholars the first Friday of each month from 12:00 -1:00 p.m. We will share important news and updates for international students and scholars and host guest speakers from different academic and support departments as well as student organizations with important events and activities to share.
Join us this Friday for important updates from ISSS, UConn Payroll, the Academic Achievement Center and the Cross Cultural Connections program in Community Outreach. We will record this meeting for those students who cannot attend. Join: https://uconnvtc.webex.com/uconnvtc/j.php?MTID=m5370c0679cc1501d46f1763cff64b07e
Meeting number (access code): 2622 292 0139
Meeting password: stayinformed -
10/1
Salon: An Immigrant's Vision
Salon: An Immigrant's Vision
Friday, October 1st, 2021
05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Storrs Campus, Storrs Campus Wilbur Cross North Reading Room
Salon at the Benton: An Immigrant's Vision
Note: this salon will take place in the North Reading Room of Wilbur Cross Building.
AN IMMIGRANT’S VISION
What would it mean for refugees and immigrants to the US to be seen and recognized as part of the fabric of everyday life? How can portraiture forge connections between strangers, and potentially foster community? These questions lie at the heart of Joe Standart’s public art and community engagement initiatives, currently displayed at the William Benton Museum of Art in the exhibition Immigrant Eyes.
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10/4
Careers In Advocacy
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10/5
Academic Job Search Overview
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10/6
DDI Fellows Meeting
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10/6
The Eduardo Halfon Mini-Symposium
The Eduardo Halfon Mini-Symposium
Wednesday, October 6th, 2021
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Other Zoom
Come join us in this two day event. This event will focus on two guest speakers mentioned below.
Marilyn Miller is the Sizeler Professor of Jewish Studies and professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Tulane University. She is the author of Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race: The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America (2004) and Port of No Return: Enemy Alien Internment in WWII New Orleans (LSU Press, May 2021).
Eduardo Halfon is the author of fourteen books published in Spanish and three novels published in English: Mourning, winner of the International Latino Book Award and Edward Lewis Wallant Award, finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Neustadt International Prize, and Palcones Fiction Prize, and longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize; Monastery, longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award; and The Polish Boxer, a New York Times editors' Choice selection.
Register here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAlf-GgqD8vHdB74QR_aGO96cyqBNEEC_P8
