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9/19
CV to Résumé Conversion - Graduate Students & Postdocs
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9/20
ECOM Spotlight Series: Jenelle Salisbury
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9/20
Developing Your Academic Job Search Materials
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9/21
Optional Practical Training (OPT) Workshop
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9/21
Tips For Writing Diversity Statements
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9/22
Confronting History: The Legacy Of Alexander von Humboldt's Encounter With The Americas In The Twenty First Century
Confronting History: The Legacy Of Alexander von Humboldt's Encounter With The Americas In The Twenty First Century
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Other, Other Register for Zoom Link
The University of Connecticut Office of Global Affairs and the German Consulate General Boston present a discussion on colonialism, imperialism, slavery, and their afterlives featuring Sandra Rebok, Visiting Scholar, University of California San Diego and Prof. Manisha Sinha, James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History, University of Connecticut. For more information and to register, visit: https://global.uconn.edu/confronting-history-event/ -
9/22
Música de Latinoamérica
Música de Latinoamérica
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Hartford Campus Virtual via Zoom
Join us for a night with the Cortés-Chávez Duo to hear the traditional beautiful sounds of the rich cultures of Latin America! Learn more about the influence of the sounds and instruments and how music identifies these communities around the world.
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9/23
From Afghanistan To Connecticut: Afghan Perspectives On Forced Migration
From Afghanistan To Connecticut: Afghan Perspectives On Forced Migration
Thursday, September 23rd, 2021
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Storrs Campus, Storrs Campus, Storrs Campus, Storrs Campus, Storrs Campus Zoom
With the United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan last month, tens of thousands of Afghans who had worked with the U.S. military forces or other governmental and non-governmental organizations have been evacuated. Thousands still remain in Afghanistan seeking pathways to leave the country.
The vast majority of the nearly 60,000 who have already arrived in the U.S. are being housed temporarily in military bases or other sites around the country. This panel provides an opportunity to consider the context of forced migration from Afghanistan over the past twenty years, as well as to better understand what it means to be resettled in the United States through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program. Focusing on Connecticut as a model, the panelists will highlight the role communities play in welcoming Afghans and aiding in successful resettlement.
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9/23
Financial Services Human Rights Benchmark
Financial Services Human Rights Benchmark
Thursday, September 23rd, 2021
05:30 PM - 06:30 PM
Other, Other Virtual
A presentation and discussion on the Financial Services Human Rights Benchmark by:
David Kinley, University of Sydney Law School, and Kym Sheehan
Response by:
Ariel Meyerstein
Please register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwudeuhrDouE93kISzTjb47Qvmhz4oEsbOk -
9/26
Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) - Tips You Need
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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). -
9/30
Optional Practical Training (OPT) Workshop
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10/1
Salon: An Immigrant's Vision
Salon: An Immigrant's Vision
Friday, October 1st, 2021
05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
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.
Link to more information about this program:
https://benton.uconn.edu/salon-at-the-benton-an-immigrants-vision/
