This event has been cancelled. We apologize for the inconvenience. 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

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.

The Pan Asian Council - PAC - meeting is a weekly gathering of affiliated Asian/Asian American student organization representatives that serves as a communication hub for current issues and happenings in the community.

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.

El Instituto presents Christian Pachecho to speak at our Tertulia on March 4, 2020 12:15PM-2:00PM. Lunch will be provided.
For additional information contact ELIN.

Have you considered studying abroad? Join academic advisors from Poli Sci, Econ and Ed Abroad to explore the opportunities! This session is ideal for students considering or motivated to participate in Education Abroad seeking to explore the development of goals in a group setting with the benefit of advising staff. The session will help students understand the types of goals to consider during this process, questions to ask when determining program selection, and to make an actionable plan by the end. To Register: https://nexus.uconn.edu/secure_per/events/event_registration.php?ser=2165&rc=6257717056

This workshop is for F-1 visa students who are currently studying in Masters or Doctoral program that has a thesis/dissertation requirement (Plan A Masters and PhD).



Are you interested in working in the U.S. after you graduate? You should attend this workshop to learn more about Optional Practical Training (OPT) and how you can use this benefit to legally work or intern in the United States after you graduate.
Sign up at:
http://icworkshops.uconn.edu/

Prof. Ishay will speak about her
2019 book, published by Yale
University Press.

Free and open to the public.


Sponsored by Global Affairs, the Human Rights Institute, Middle East Studies, and Sociology.

FOR SAMA is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war. A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria. Her camera captures incredible stories of loss, laughter and survival. The film is the first feature documentary by Emmy award-winning filmmakers, Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts. Winning the 2019 BAFTA for Best Documentary al-Kateab and Watts For Sama is a must-see!

Visit https://thedoddcenter.uconn.edu/2020/02/17/for-sama-film-screening/ for more information on the movie.

Free Admission.

“Pluralism about Ritual in the ‘Balancing
Customs’ Chapter of the Huainanzi,”
Alexus McLeod, Philosophy, UConn.

“From Nation-state to ‘New Civilization’:
Li Dazhao in the May Fourth Period,”
Lian DUAN, History, Hunan Normal University.

“Manchuria, 1930: The Year of No Return,”
Victor Zatsepine, History, UConn.

Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, Harriet tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes, whose courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
Co-sponsored with SUBOG.

Monthly gathering for our KUBE (Kids and UConn Bridging Education) youth mentoring program.

Monthly gathering of the students and families involved with the China Care Panda Playgroup program.

After Dawn: a Puppet Theater Performance
Written and Performed by Neda Izadi

Saturday, March 7, 2020 - 7:30pm
Sunday, March 8, 2020 - 2:00pm (discussion with creator to follow)

Nafe Katter Theatre
University of Connecticut
802 Bolton Road
Storrs, CT 06269

Free and open to the public

Join us for two performances of a powerful work of puppet theater about Sahar, a woman confronted with an impossible choice after she is both violently attacked and then unjustly persecuted. Sahar’s story is woven together with an allegorical tale, taken from Persian mythology, of Anahita, goddess of rain and childbirth, who is disfigured by the jealous god of fire. Featuring beautifully crafted puppets and dramatic staging, this performance grapples with issues of sexual violence, women’s human rights, and resilience.

Please note, this production includes depictions of violence and is intended for mature audiences.

Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, Harriet tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes, whose courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
Co-sponsored with SUBOG.

Please join the Human Rights Institute for a “Meet and Greet” event! All graduate students who are interested in learning more about the certificate program, application process, course offerings, and funding opportunities are encouraged to attend. Students who are currently pursuing the graduate certificate in human rights are also encouraged to attend the event. 

The CLAS and NEAG School of Education Coordinators for the Graduate Certificate program, Dr. Elizabeth Holzer and Dr. Glenn Mitoma respectively, will be available to answer any questions about the program. Lunch will be served.

To request reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities and for any other questions regarding this event, please contact Alyssa Webb at alyssa.webb@uconn.edu.

Spring 2020 Artist in Residence: Shinpei Takeda is a visual artist and filmmaker. His works involve a wide range of themes regarding memories and history. He uses multi-media installations, sound interventions, documentary films, large-scale photography installations, and collaborative community projects in various public contexts.

The Pan Asian Council - PAC - meeting is a weekly gathering of affiliated Asian/Asian American student organization representatives that serves as a communication hub for current issues and happenings in the community.

Join us for an inspiring film about the courageous individuals battling sex trafficking and gender-based violence around the globe. This film introduces women and girls who are living under some of the most difficult circumstances imaginable — and fighting bravely to change them. Traveling with intrepid reporter Nicholas Kristof and A-list celebrity advocates America Ferrera, Diane Lane, Eva Mendes, Meg Ryan, Gabrielle Union and Olivia Wilde, the film reflects viable and sustainable options for empowerment and offers an actionable blueprint for transformation.
Co-sponsored with LOVE146

Pass by for this month's coffee hour, Iran! Enjoy an interactive presentation about Iran and its culture, taste FREE appetizers and network with students and staff. Coffee hour is hosted by the International Student and Scholar Services. Explore the world at UConn through coffee, culture and conversation.

Tuesday, March 10, 2020 from 2pm-3pm, McMahon Hall: ISSS Lounge Room 183.

Enjoy Chai Time at AsACC! We're brewing up the most authentic and delicious chai on campus and invite you to join an open and engaging discussion on contemporary issues in the South Asian community.

Today's discussion Coronavirus - COVID-19.

Sponsored with Delta Epsilon Psi, a South Asian fraternity, chartered at UConn in 2011. Free and open to all.

Please join us for a lunchtime seminar with Kerry Bystrom entitled: “Supporting Displaced Students and Threatened Scholars in Post 'Refugee Crisis' Germany: Reflections from Bard College Berlin”.

**Lunch will be provided.

Kerry Bystrom is Associate Dean of the College and Associate Professor at Bard College Berlin, a Liberal Arts University. Prior to joining Bard she was Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Research Program on Humanitarianism at the Human Rights Institute of the University of Connecticut. Bystrom is author and editor of numerous books and journal issues including "Humanitarianism and Responsibility," co-edited with Glenn Mitoma and published as a special issue of the Journal of Human Rights. Recent publications include the chapter "Humanitarianism's Way in the World," co-written with Eleni Coundouriotis. Since 2015, Bystrom has been involved in designing and managing a series of initiatives aimed at supporting displaced students and threatened scholars, including co-founding the scholarship program Program for International Education and Social Change and co-directing the Open Society Foundation funded project "Blended Learning for Higher Education Access and Enrichment." She serves on the Steering Committee of the Germany Section of Scholars at Risk.

This event is sponsored by the Human Rights Institute.

This workshop is for F-1 visa students who would like to do an internship or work off-campus before graduating, or for students who have internships and clinical placements as part of your academic curriculum. All internships, work and placements off-campus must be authorized through CPT or Pre-Completion OPT, even if unpaid and required for your class or program.

Come to this session to learn more about how you can benefit from CPT and pre-completion OPT, and how to apply.
Sign uo at:
http://icworkshops.uconn.edu/

The Dean of Students Office is hosting walk-in hours at the cultural centers, to give students easier access to help and support from their office.

This workshop is for F-1 visa students who are currently studying in a Bachelor's program, or a Master's program that has no thesis (Plan B Masters). It is also for students in any other degree program that does not include a Thesis/Dissertation as a graduation requirement (e.g. Juris Doctor, PharmD).

Are you interested in working in the U.S. after you graduate? You should attend this workshop to learn more about Optional Practical Training (OPT) and how you can use this benefit to legally work or intern in the United States after you graduate.
Sign up at: http://icworkshops.uconn.edu/

Mandated closure due to the COVID-19 health issue.

Mandated closure due to the COVID-19 health issue.

Mandated closure due to the COVID-19 health issue.

AsACC closed for the Spring Break Holiday.

Mandated closure due to the COVID-19 health issue.

AsACC closed for the Spring Break Holiday.

Mandated closure due to the COVID-19 health issue.

AsACC closed for the Spring Break Holiday.

Mandated closure due to the COVID-19 health issue.

AsACC closed for the Spring Break Holiday.

Mandated closure due to the COVID-19 health issue.

AsACC closed for the Spring Break Holiday.

Mandated closure due to the COVID-19 health issue.

Mandated closure due to the COVID-19 health issue.

Mandated closure due to the COVID-19 health issue.

Accountability in Global Health: An Historical Perspective
a lecture by
Randall Packard, PhD

To whom are the designers and implementers of global health programs accountable? How have patterns of accountability changed over the course of the 20th and early 21st centuries? What kinds of mechanisms, metrics, and evidence have been used to account for, or demonstrate the results of, health interventions? What counts as success or failure? These are the questions to be examined in this talk, which will trace the history of accountability in global health over the past century.

**Reception to follow in the Dodd Lounge

Co-sponsored by the Research Program on Global Health & Human Rights at HRI

The Pan Asian Council - PAC - meeting is a weekly gathering of affiliated Asian/Asian American student organization representatives that serves as a communication hub for current issues and happenings in the community.

Join UConn Student Health and Wellness and The Benton Museum for guided meditation this evening. Especially at this time we could all use some time to be calm and reflect.

This program is open to students, staff, faculty, and the community.

To Join Zoom Meeting​ copy and paste this link into your browser:
https://zoom.us/j/837343536​
​
Meeting ID: 837 343 536​

Mandated closure due to the COVID-19 health issue.

Mandated closure due to the COVID-19 health issue.

Subversiones feministas de la dominicanidad postrujillista en las obras de Hilma Contreras, Rita Indiana Hernández, Aurora Arias y Josefina Báez

This workshop is for F-1 visa students who are currently studying in a Bachelor's program, or a Master's program that has no thesis (Plan B Masters). It is also for students in any other degree program that does not include a Thesis/Dissertation as a graduation requirement (e.g. Juris Doctor, PharmD).

Are you interested in working in the U.S. after you graduate? You should attend this workshop to learn more about Optional Practical Training (OPT) and how you can use this benefit to legally work or intern in the United States after you graduate.
Sign up at: http://icworkshops.uconn.edu/

Attend online: https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/j.php?MTID=mfc33197266e94cb9e01521c59a2a03db

Meeting number: 619 208 571
Password: optspring2020

International Student and Scholar Services and Student Health and Wellness will host Pet Therapy on Wednesday, March 25th, from 2-4pm in the International Student and Scholar Services Office lounge (McMahon Hall, 2011 Hillside Rd., second floor). Stop by for some pet therapy play time!

Mandatory dress rehearsal for all performers of Asian Nite 2020. Stage times TBA.

Learn more about applying for a program abroad through UConn! Join us for a presentation with a panel of past participants!

Mandated closure due to the COVID-19 health issue.

This workshop is for F-1 visa students who are currently studying in Masters or Doctoral program that has a thesis/dissertation requirement (Plan A Masters and PhD).

Are you interested in working in the U.S. after you graduate? You should attend this workshop to learn more about Optional Practical Training (OPT) and how you can use this benefit to legally work or intern in the United States after you graduate.
Sign up at:
http://icworkshops.uconn.edu/

Attend online: URL coming soon

Meeting number: coming soon
Password: coming soon

Join the Africana Studies Institute as our faculty discuss Ibram X. Kendi's latest book "How to be an Antiracist". We welcome you to a lively discussion!

Discussants:
Dr. Melina Pappademos, Director and Associate Professor, Africana Studies and History

Dr. David Embrick, Associate Professor, Africana Studies and Sociology

Dr. Alexis Boylan, Associate Director of the Humanities Institute, Associate Professor, Africana Studies, Art and Art History

Join us for an Opening Reception at The Benton Museum for "Noble Simplicity and Quiet Grandeur: Ancient Art at the Benton".

FREE. Open to everyone.
Cash Bar; Light hors d'oeuvres

The reception will be followed by an illustrated lecture at 6pm on Alexander Liberman by Amanda Douberley. Liberman’s sculpture, Arc (1968) was installed on the museum’s grounds in December 2019.

RSVP appreciated to benton@uconn.edu or 860-486-4520.

More information about the exhibition coming soon.

Mandated closure due to the COVID-19 health issue.

The Westerlies
Wherein Lies The Good - American Mavericks of the 20th Century

7:00 PM Performance
6:15 PM Pre-Performance Dialogue with Dr. Louis Hanzlik (American Brass Quintet & Associate Professor of Music) and Dr. Glenn Mitoma (Director, Dodd Center & Assistant Professor of Human Rights and Education)

General Admission: $10
UCONN Students, Faculty, Staff (with ID): Free
All Students (with ID): Free
Tickets available on the day of the event. First come first serve.

“Skilled interpreters who are also adept improvisers” (NPR’s Fresh Air)

The Westerlies residency was made possible by the generous support of the Filip Concert Fund

The Westerlies are a New York-based brass quartet comprised of childhood friends from Seattle: Riley Mulherkar and Chloe Rowlands on trumpet, and Andy Clausen and Willem de Koch on trombone.

Formed in 2011, the self-described “accidental brass quartet” takes its name from the prevailing winds that travel from the West to the East. “Skilled interpreters who are also adept improvisers” (NPR’s Fresh Air), The Westerlies explore jazz, roots and chamber music influences to create the rarest of hybrids: music that is both "folk-like and composerly, lovely and intellectually rigorous” (NPR Music). Equally at home in concert halls and living rooms, The Westerlies navigate a wide array of venues and projects with the precision of a string quartet, the audacity of a rock band, and the charm of a family sing-along.

The ensemble has produced two critically acclaimed albums of genre-defying chamber music: its 2014 debut, Wish the Children Would Come On Home: The Music of Wayne Horvitz (Songlines), and a 2016 double-CD of primarily original compositions, The Westerlies (Songlines). Sought-after collaborators, The Westerlies are also featured on recordings by Fleet Foxes (Nonesuch), Vieux Farka Touré (Six Degrees Records), Common (Lakeshore) and Dave Douglas (Greenleaf). The group will be releasing their third full-length album, Wherein Lies the Good, in early 2020.

The Westerlies’ 2019-20 season includes engagements at Dumbarton Concerts, Soundings: New Music at the Nasher, Noe Valley Chamber Music, Earshot Jazz Festival, Mayo Performing Arts Center, and Choate Rosemary Hall. In addition, the ensemble is producing the second annual Westerlies Fest, February 3-9, 2020 in Seattle. Combining evening performances with daytime in-school concerts and a weekend creative music workshop, The Westerlies will reach over 1,000 students in Seattle and surrounding underserved areas to give back to the city that raised them.

Recent performances include the Norton Center for the Arts, the Moore Theatre, Shenandoah University, Purdue Convocations, the Oxford Performing Arts Center, Luther College, the Schubert Club, St. John’s University, and the University of Washington. The ensemble was featured with Fleet Foxes at Coachella, the Hollywood Bowl, the Greek Theatre Berkeley, Red Rocks, the Newport Folk Festi

Shadow master Gusti Sudarta from Bali, Indonesia and the string-band group Rumput from Richmond, Virginia collaborate in an intercultural performance involving traditional arts from Indonesia—specifically wayang kulit (shadow puppet theatre) and keroncong (string-band music)—with crankies, or moving panoramas, at a performance to be presented at the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry on March 27. This production will focus on the history of the global tobacco industry, with an emphasis on Virginia and western Indonesia.

When the American tobacco industry was hit with lawsuits in the late 90s, companies rebranded and reoriented towards international markets such as Southeast Asia. In Indonesia, tobacco is poorly regulated, ads regularly target children (remember the “smoking baby” on Youtube?), and lung cancer deaths have gone through the roof. Cigarette taxes are now an important source of national income and politicians receive regular kickbacks from the industry. The story of tobacco is a tale of global exploitation in which American capitalists have benefitted wildly from the suffering of Native Americans, African American slaves, blue-collar labor, and the engineered addiction of billions of smokers across the globe. This new “crankie” and shadow play about the story of tobacco, shows how Richmond, Virginia and, today, Indonesia are two of the most important chapters of tobacco as a global industry.

Tobacco: A Crankie Shadow Play will feature shadow puppetry by the renowned Balinese shadow master Gusti Sudarta. In addition to the main feature, there will also be several traditional and new works for keroncong (Indonesian string band music) and several other crankies included in the program.

Sponsored by the UConn Asian and Asian American Studies Institute, Puppet Arts Program, and Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry

Mandated closure due to the COVID-19 health issue.

Asian Nite 2020 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

IN ADVANCE
$12 - Students (UConn & Other)
$10 - Kids 10 and under
$15 - All others

AT THE DOOR
$20 for all

Mandated closure due to the COVID-19 health issue.

Your salary is only one component of what might be negotiated. Join this webinar to enhance your preparation to negotiate multiple aspects of a job offer, and to gain tips on how to effectively talk about your needs and value.