ISSS Hartford will be closed on 10/29/18

Weekly meeting for the Pan Asian Council, an umbrella organization for Asian and Asian American affiliated student organizations.

PAC presents Homecoming activities, the annual IMPAACT leadership conference and the annual Asian Nite talent showcase.

All graduate students and young professionals at UConn are welcome to attend our Grads and Young Professionals Movie Night! We will be watching a Halloween themed movie and socialize over pizza.

AASI 3998 class for AMP mentors and Asian American studies minors meets weekly for the Fall 2018 semester.

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 Education Coordinators for the Graduate Certificate program, Dr. Katharina von Hammerstein 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.

Join the Human Rights Institute for a "Meet and Greet" Event for the Graduate Certificate in Human Rights!

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 education coordinators for the Graduate Certificate program, Dr. Katharina von Hammerstein and Dr. Glenn Mitoma respectively, will be available to answer any questions about the program.

Lunch will be served. Admission is FREE.

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.

Introduction to Social Justice Models of Disability.

Presenter: Julie Alexander, MA | Purdue University

Where can I go? How much does it cost? Come learn the basics of studying abroad through UConn! In this presentation, you will learn how to navigate the Education Abroad site, finance your time abroad, learn the different types of study abroad programs, and find out all you need to know about the application process. In addition, listen to UCONN Waterbury students who have been abroad and enjoy their photographs.

An FYE-Approved event.

MUST RSVP: susan.hyde-wick@uconn.edu

PIZZA/Beverages

With the midterm elections less than two weeks away we revisit our nation's history of voter purging, Voter-ID, "Use It or Lose It" and other voter suppression laws--including felony disenfranchisement (6.1 million incarcerated Americans today do not have the right to vote)--to more clearly understand the project of disenfranchisement and its stake in the United States. This panel will examine past and present structures of political power, criminal justice, health and community representation, and mass incarceration, to anchor a discussion of voting rights in America. Please join this distinguished panel of scholars and voting rights activists for a conversation about both our political present and future and the urgency of exercising your right to vote.

Please join the History Dept for the 2018 Fusco Distinguished Lecture Series, presenting

Heather Ann Thompson (Michigan)

who will deliver a talk titled

"The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Why It Matters Today"

based on research for her book Blood in the Water: The Attica Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy.

Dr. Heather Ann Thompson is a historian at the University of Michigan, and is the Pulitzer Prize and Bancroft Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books, 2016). Within the first week of its publication Blood in the Water was optioned by TriStar Pictures and will be adapted for film by acclaimed screenwriters Anna Waterhouse and Joe Shrapnel and produced by award-winning producers Amy Pascal and Rachel O’Connor.

Dr. Thompson’s audience goes well beyond her work in Blood in the Water. She also wrote the book Whose Detroit: Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City in 2001 which was republished in 2017 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Detroit Riot of 1967.

Dr. Thompson is also a public intellectual who writes extensively on the history of policing, mass incarceration and the current criminal justice system for The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Jacobin, The Atlantic, Salon, Dissent, NBC, New Labor Forum, The Daily Beast, and The Huffington Post, as well as for the top publications in her field. Her award-winning scholarly articles include: “Why Mass Incarceration Matters: Rethinking Crisis, Decline and Transformation in the Postwar United States,” Journal of American History (December 2010) and “Rethinking Working Class Struggle through the Lens of the Carceral State: Toward a Labor History of Inmates and Guards.” Labor: Studies in the Working Class History of the Americas (Fall, 2011).

LaDuke is a rural development economist and author working on issues of sustainable development, renewable energy, and food systems. LaDuke is a two time vice presidential candidate with Ralph Nader for the Green Party. Her work is primarily in the area of Indigenous Economics, Food and Energy Policy. She lives and works on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota. Come listen to Winona speak on the importance of acknowledging indigenous land.

Masud Bin Momen, Ambassador, Permanent Mission of the People's Republic of Bangladesh to the United Nations, and a line-up of distinguished speakers will address climate change as a global dilemma due to human causes, and what is being done and needs to be done to better the situation.

Co-sponsored by the Bangladeshi Student Association, USG (Undergraduate Student Government) and AsACC

Come read and discuss the award winning novel LaRose!

The H.M.S. Ernaad: the King of the Seas, Servant to Capitalism - Bombay to Hong Kong and Beyond

Taken from work on the first book length survey of Asian American maritime history. The project expands upon the inter-imperial history of Chinese, Filipino and South Asian migration beyond the constructs of immigration and citizenship. In this revisionist design, the research establishes a trans-colonial historical framework to examine the development of maritime traditions that came to inform the patterns of Asian seafaring and maritime occupations migration encountered by Americans from the eighteenth century onward. These histories unmoor Asian America from its continental preoccupation.

This workshop is for students on F-1 visas.

What is Optional Practical Training (OPT) and how can you benefit from it after you graduate? The workshop is for students who plan to work or intern after they graduate, or while finishing up their thesis/dissertation. We will cover post-completion OPT basics, including filing procedures, employment requirements, OPT extension opportunities and MORE!

Sign-up is required. Please register for this session here: https://web2.uconn.edu/icworkshops/training/index.php?course=146. Contact international@uconn.edu if you have questions.

More information available at: http://www.isss.uconn.edu.

Visit the Elm City with ISSS! Participants will arrive in New
Haven and have a tour of the famous Yale University campus,
followed by free time to shop, eat and enjoy the city. Sign up required: https://isss.uconn.edu/news/isss-sponsored-bus-trips/.

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

This workshop is for F-1 visa holders from the Hartford, GBLC and Law School campuses.

Are you looking for internships off-campus? Does your academic program have a required internship or practicum? You MUST have proper work authorization before you can start any off-campus internships or practicum. This workshop will discuss the difference between CPT and Pre-Completion OPT and the application procedures for both.
Note: If you will be graduating soon and would like information on post-completion practical training, please attend the Post-Completion OPT Workshop instead of this one.


Advance registration is required. Please register at: http://www.icworkshops.uconn.edu

More information available at: http://www.isss.uconn.edu

Students committed to participation in the Spring 2019 Uconn in Perugia program are invited to learn more about the tasks and processes associated with arriving in-country and beginning their program. Education Abroad and a representative of the Umbra Institute will be on hand to answer student questions.

Professor STEPHEN CLINGMAN will read from Birthmark (University of Massachusetts Press, 2016), a memoir of divided vision in the divided world of apartheid South Africa. When Stephen was two, he underwent an operation to remove a birthmark under his right eye. The operation failed, and the birthmark returned. Clingman takes the fact of that mark — its appearance, disappearance, and return — as a guiding motif of memory. In a beguiling narrative set on three continents, this is a story that is personal, painful, comic, and ultimately uplifting: a book not so much of the coming of age but the coming of perspective.

Copies of Birthmark will be available for purchase and may be personalized at this open to the public event. Contact Barnes & Noble at Storrs Center to order your copy in advance.

Weekly meeting for the Pan Asian Council, an umbrella organization for Asian and Asian American affiliated student organizations.

PAC presents Homecoming activities, the annual IMPAACT leadership conference and the annual Asian Nite talent showcase.

This workshop is for F-1 visa holders.

Want to do an internship before you graduate? Or does your program have internships or clinical placements built into the curriculum? If so, then attend the Pre-Completion Practical Training workshop to learn about what type of visa authorization you need to participate. This workshop will discuss the difference between CPT and Pre-Completion OPT, and cover detailed application procedures.

Sign-up is required. Please register for this session through this website: https://web2.uconn.edu/icworkshops/training/index.php?course=147. Contact international@uconn.edu if you have questions. Learn more about CPT and pre-completion OPT on the ISSS Employment webpage: https://isss.uconn.edu/student-employment/.

Human Rights Institute Lunchtime Seminar with Kevin Johnson, Dean, Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law, and Professor of Chicana/o Studies at UC Davis School of Law

"Lessons About the Future of Immigration Law from the Rise and Fall of DACA"

Tuesday, November 6, 2018 12:30 - 2:00 p.m., Room 162 Thomas J. Dodd Center, Storrs Campus **Lunch will be provided

Kevin R. Johnson is Dean, Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law, and Professor of Chicana/o Studies at UC Davis School of Law. He joined the UC Davis law faculty in 1989 and was named Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in 1998. Johnson became Dean in 2008. He has taught a wide array of classes, including immigration law, civil procedure, complex litigation, Latinos and Latinas and the law, and Critical Race Theory. In 1993, he was the recipient of the law school's Distinguished Teaching Award.
Johnson has published extensively on immigration law and civil rights. His book How Did You Get to Be Mexican? A White/Brown Man's Search for Identity was nominated for the 2000 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. Johnson’s latest book, Immigration Law and the US-Mexico Border (2011), received the Latino Literacy Now’s International Latino Book Awards – Best Reference Book.
A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review, Dean Johnson earned an A.B. in economics from UC Berkeley, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and worked as an attorney at the international law firm of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe.
Dean Johnson has served on the board of directors of Legal Services of Northern California since 1996 and currently is President of the board.

This event is sponsored by the Human Rights Institute. To request reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities and for any other questions regarding this event, please contact Lyndsay.Nalbandian@uconn.edu

Join the Africana Studies Institute as Dr. David Ikard discusses his latest book, Lovable Racists, Magical Negors and White Messiahs. A book signing will follow the discussion

David Ikard is professor of African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University. He has authored four books, including Breaking The Silence: Toward a Black Male Feminist Criticism, Nation of Cowards: Black Activism in Barack Obama's Post-Racial America (co-authored with Martell Teasley), Blinded by the Whites: Why Race Still Matters in the 21st Century and Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs (2017). In 2013 Nation of Cowards received the Best Scholarly Book Award from the DIOP organization. His essays have appeared in African American Review, MELUS, Palimpsest, African and Black Diaspora Journal, The Journal of Black Studies, and Obsidian III. In 2015 he received the William R. Jones Outstanding Mentor Award from the Florida Education Fund and the McKnight Fellows for his dedication and commitment to mentoring graduate students. He is also a Ford Fellow and a faculty mentor for the Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship. His new painting series, entitled “I Am A Man,” extends his scholarly investigations into black masculinity into the creative realm. More specifically, he renders the complexity of black boys and men’s humanity beyond dehumanizing stereotypes to call attention to their social vulnerability and plight.

The 2018 Robert G. Mead Lecture will be presented by Kevin Johnson, Dean, UC Davis School of Law.

AASI 3998 class for AMP mentors and Asian American studies minors meets weekly for the Fall 2018 semester.

Students committed to the Spring 2019 UConn in Florence program are invited to attend this pre-departure session to learn more about the tasks and processes associated with their arrival in country. Education Abroad and a representative from ISI Florence will be on hand to answer student questions.

HACHA: Informal graduate and faculty gathering to share research and experiences cross disciplines.

Please join us on Wednesday, November 7, when Dr. Tom W. Smith will present "Antisemitism in Contemporary America." A reception will follow. The evening is made possible by the Center for Judaic Studies Frances and Irving Seliger Memorial Endowment Fund and is co-sponsored by the American Studies Program, the Humanities Institute, the Department of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, and the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center.

This lecture is held in remembrance of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, when the Nazis orchestrated a pogrom during which German Jews were humiliated, beaten, and murdered and Jewish homes, businesses, hospitals, synagogues, and schools were looted and destroyed.

Guest speaker, Senior Fellow Tom W. Smith, directs NORC at the University of Chicago's Center for the Study of Politics and Society. He is also Director of the General Social Survey.

For more information, visit: https://judaicstudies.uconn.edu/2018/08/30/kristallnacht2018/

If you require an accommodation to participate, please contact Pamela Weathers at pamela.weathers@uconn.edu or 860-486-2271.

AMP & METAS present a night to indulge your creative side with various arts and crafts, and games to meet & compete with old and new friends.

Shira Dunsiger, PhD
Brown University

Thursday, November 8, 2018
12:30 – 1:30pm

"Patterns of Change in Behavioral Medicine: A Case Study"

**About the Speaker**

Dr. Dunsiger is currently a Research Scientist at The Miriam Hospital and Brown Medical School and an Assistant Professor (Research) in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Brown University. She received her PhD in Biostatistics from Brown University and completed a T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cardiovascular behavioral medicine before transitioning to a faculty position. Her research focus is on developing sophisticated statistical methodology for analyzing data from behavioral medicine, including smoking cessation, physical activity, mood, depression and adherence outcomes. Her broad research interests include pattern detection, “big data”, and statistical mediation.

InCHIP will send requests for RSVPs and updates through the CHIP-L listserv. To subscribe, visit: http://chip.uconn.edu/chip-business-office/listserv/.

Visit our webpage to view the 2018-2019 InCHIP Lecture Series lineup, access the live web stream (when available), view the archives, and learn more about the lecture series: https://chip.uconn.edu/lecture-series/2018-2019-lecture-series/.

Join ISSS for one Thursday each month from 3 pm to 4 pm for our “International
Chat” series. A collaboration with Counseling and Mental Health Services (CMHS), this event brings together international students, scholars, and their families in a warm and informal environment, where everyone is welcome. Share your experiences, coping strategies, or simply connect and talk over a cup of coffee, while engaging in a therapeutic activity or learning a new craft! This week, join ISSS and CMHS as we learn some basic knitting and welcome the holiday season!

Join members of Asian American Resource Groups at Target, The Hartford, Pratt & Whitney and Travelers to learn more about how cultural diversity is vital to the workforce and how your skills and background are essential to these and other companies.

This event is free and open to the public. Please contact AsACC if you need an accommodation.

Sponsored by AsACC, Center for Career Development, Alpha Kappa Psi, Korean Student Association and Queer, Asian, and Allies

Come read and discuss the award winning novel LaRose!

There will be no walk-in hours at ISSS Hartford on Friday, 11/9/18.

At the Interface of Tribe and State: The "Fourth Image" in World Politics - Tribal Homelands, Expanding States, and the Foundations of International Order

While the Arctic is perceived as a remote and isolated region, much the way Borneo and other remote regions are perceived in the West, it has in fact been part of a globally-integrated world economy for well over three centuries. Rather than directly address the Arctic, this talk will instead examine some commonalities shared by remote regions from the Arctic to the Tropics that experienced a similar wave of colonial expansion, globalization, and economic integration with the world economy, where tribal peoples remain(ed) demographically predominant, and where political order has come to depend on a reconciliation between tribal and state interests. A global comparative look at remote regions - from Borneo to Baffin Island - presents us with not only a new model for state formation and expansion rooted in a balancing of state and tribal interests, but an understanding of an enduring but often overlooked pillar of international order that suggests that the world system has been (and continues to be) defined not only by states and their economic, military and diplomatic powers as is commonly presumed by theorists of international relations, but also by tribal peoples in the more remote frontiers and interiors of former colonial states whose homelands were ultimately absorbed, but whose original peoples were neither displaced nor annihilated (as experienced in Europe and much of the Americas), but who instead became part of the very constitutional fabric of the polities that emerged during state formation. While neorealist IR theory was rooted in its Trinitarian structure of Individual, State and World System (the "three images"), there is in fact a "fourth image" (which can, more often than not, be described as tribal or neotribal) that has long been overlooked by western IR theorists, one that becomes increasingly obvious when examining remote regions far from the Westphalian core, where states and tribes have struck an enduring (though not always equal) balance. This paper will discuss these commonalities, and some preliminary insights gained from looking comparatively at the Arctic and Tropics - and how beyond the Westphalian core of Europe and the conquered indigenous territories of the Americas, world politics and international order are, have been, and will continue to be defined by the reconciliation of tribe and state, and a balancing of state and tribal interests.

Bi-weekly meeting for the student staff of AsACC for Fall 2018.

This is a meeting for members of the ISSS Student Advisory Board (ISAB). More information on the ISAB can be found at https://isss.uconn.edu/student-advisory-board/.

Please join the History Department for the 125th Foreign Policy Seminar: "Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism" - a roundtable discussion with Melvyn P. Leffler

Reception at 4:30pm
Talk at 5pm


Melvyn P. Leffler is a former Wilson Center public policy scholar and the Edward R. Stettinius professor of history in the department of history at the University of Virginia (UVA). Leffler has served as the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at UVA and as president of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations. Formerly, he has been a fellow at the Norwegian Nobel Institute and the United States Institute of Peace. Leffler served in the office of the Secretary of Defense during the Carter Administration, where he worked on arms control and contingency planning as a fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is now a Faculty Associate at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs.

In 1993 Leffler won the Bancroft Prize for A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration and the Cold War and, in 2008, won the George Louis Beer Prize for his book, For the Soul of Mankind: the United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War. Among his other books are The Specter of Communism: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1953 and The Elusive Quest: America's Pursuit of European Stability and French Security, 1919-1933. Most recently, he is the co-editor (with Odd Arne Westad) of the Cambridge History of the Cold War and (with Jeff Legro) In Uncertain Times: American Foreign Policy After the Berlin Wall and 9/11.

Hopeful performers for our spring Asian Nite talent show secure audition times in hopes of being part of the show!

Sign-up for audition times on form currently at AsACC's front desk. Deadline is Friday 11/9 at 3 pm.

International Student & Scholar Services (ISSS) invites community members, families, faculty, staff, and students to experience Worldfest Fall 2018 on Sunday, November 11th from 1-4pm in the Ballroom of the Student Union, 2110 Hillside Road in Storrs, Connecticut. Parking is available on campus in either the North or South parking garages.

ISSS Worldfest is an annual event to celebrate and show appreciation for UConn’s international student community and inspire interest in the world. Through performance, food, and activities, UConn Worldfest promotes global engagement and learning across cultures to UConn and the greater community. Stay tuned for this year’s theme.

Join us for traditional and contemporary dance and musical performances by student organizations. There will also be crafts, kids’ activities, a fashion show, light refreshments, and food, including appetizers from around the world. Admission is free; food is available for purchase, cash only.

War, Memory, and Museums
Insights from Mofidul Hoque, Founder Trustee, Liberation War Museum, Bangladesh

Monday, November 12, 2018, 12:00 - 2:00 PM, Humanities Institute, Conference Room, 4th floor, Homer Babbidge Library

Mofidul Hoque, author and cultural activist, has written 15 books on
history, liberation studies, arts, and genocide studies. He is the Director of
the Center for the Study of Genocide and Justice, and is a recipient of the
Bangla Academy Literary Prize and the national award Ekushey Padak. In
1996 he along with seven other Trustees established the Liberation War
Museum, a private museum that became a people’s institution. Along with
memorialization work, the museum also aims to uphold truth and justice.

Co-Sponsors:
UConn Humanities Institute; The Thomas J. Dodd Center; Human Rights Institute;
HRI Research Program on Humanitarianism; India Studies

International students, scholars and their dependents require a travel signature on their immigration documents along with a valid passport and visa to return from a trip outside the United States. Come to travel signature week to get your document signed if you will travel during Thanksgiving or Winter Break!

Weekly meeting for the Pan Asian Council, an umbrella organization for Asian and Asian American affiliated student organizations.

PAC presents Homecoming activities, the annual IMPAACT leadership conference and the annual Asian Nite talent showcase.

International students, scholars and their dependents require a travel signature on their immigration documents along with a valid passport and visa to return from a trip outside the United States. Come to travel signature week to get your document signed if you will travel during Thanksgiving or Winter Break!

AASI 3998 class for AMP mentors and Asian American studies minors meets weekly for the Fall 2018 semester.

Enjoy Pizza while learning to use English expressions associated with Thanksgiving and other U.S. Holidays.

Location: ISSS Lounge, McMahon Hall Room 183

Time: 12 - 1 PM

Register here: https://web2.uconn.edu/icworkshops/training/index.php?course=192

International students, scholars and their dependents require a travel signature on their immigration documents along with a valid passport and visa to return from a trip outside the United States. Come to travel signature week to get your document signed if you will travel during Thanksgiving or Winter Break!

Come learn more about one of our newest summer program offerings, UConn Summer Food and Revolution: the Cuban Experience!

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 will focus on the benefits and setbacks of the the rising cost of insulin.

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

This workshop is for students on F-1 visas.

What is Optional Practical Training (OPT) and how can you benefit from it after you graduate? The workshop is for students who plan to work or intern after they graduate, or while finishing up their thesis/dissertation. We will cover post-completion OPT basics, including filing procedures, employment requirements, OPT extension opportunities and MORE!

Sign-up is required. Please register for this session here: https://web2.uconn.edu/icworkshops/training/index.php?course=146. Contact international@uconn.edu if you have questions.

More information available at: http://www.isss.uconn.edu.

International students, scholars and their dependents require a travel signature on their immigration documents along with a valid passport and visa to return from a trip outside the United States. Come to travel signature week to get your document signed if you will travel during Thanksgiving or Winter Break!

University is closing at 3:30 pm today in advance of bad weather conditions.

This event is CANCELLED due to university bad weather closure.

Global Chat is an opportunity for international and domestic students to come together to build community, promote dialogue and global understanding.

For our last meeting of the Fall '18 semester, please join us in a holiday celebration @ AsACC. As we break bread together, we will be having traditional home-cooked foods like turkey, casserole, pumpkin pie and much more.

Please RSVP on AsACC's FB event page!

Come learn more about one of our great summer program options - UConn Summer Brain & Behavior in Tel Aviv!

This event is CANCELLED due to university bad weather closure.

The film "Daze of Justice" is the intimate story of trailblazing Cambodian-American women who break decades of silence, abandoning the security of their American homes on a journey back into Cambodia's killing fields, only this time not as victims but as witnesses determined to resurrect the memory of their loved ones before the UN Special Tribunal prosecuting the Khmer Rouge. Only Daze of Justice takes us beyond the Killing Fields. The women must not only find the courage to remember their past, they also face an unexpected and agonizing predicament when they come face to face with Phang, the son of Kaing Guek Eav (Alias "Duch"), one of Pol Pot's most notorious torturers. And in the process, on the margins of the UN tribunal, the seekers become the source of Justice. The women not only generate a vocabulary for reclaiming the past but pave a path that extends the promise of redemption to future generations. (http://www.dazeofjustice.com)

After the film screening, Director MICHAEL SIV and Researcher DR. LEAKHENA NOU will discuss their work on this groundbreaking and critically acclaimed documentary.

This event is free and open to the public. If you need an accommodation, please contact asacc@uconn.edu or call 860-486-0830.

This event is co-sponsored by the Asian & Asian American Studies Institute, AsACC, the Human Rights Institute, the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, and TLC (Thai, Laotian Cambodian Student Association)

Come read and discuss the award winning novel LaRose!

Alima International Dance Association is a student group that spreads awareness and understanding for diverse cultures through music and dance. The annual fall showcase is a celebration featuring a variety of student groups and raising money for the Sexual Assault Crisis Center of Eastern CT.

For more information: https://humilityandconviction.uconn.edu/events-2/workshops/

International students, scholars and their dependents require a travel signature on their immigration documents along with a valid passport and visa to return from a trip outside the United States. Come to travel signature week to get your document signed if you will travel during Thanksgiving or Winter Break!

If you want to apply for a Connecticut Driver's License, you need to take an 8 Hour Safe Driving Course before you can obtain your license. ISSS has partnered with AAA Driving schools to offer the 8 Hour Safe Driving Course at the UConn Storrs campus. Students attend both sessions offered that month to complete the course (e.g. Nov 17 & 24, Dec 8 & 15). Please direct any questions about the course, or course registration to the AAA contact information listed on the flyer. Register for the course online at http://www.aaa.com/drivingschool

AsACC will be closed during the Thanksgiving break.

AsACC will be closed during the Thanksgiving break.

Come share a traditional thanksgiving meal with other UConn students and share what you are thankful for this year.

Registration required: https://web2.uconn.edu/icworkshops/training/.

The event is now full, but check back on the Registration Link to see if space opens up.

AsACC will be closed during the Thanksgiving break.

AsACC will be closed during the Thanksgiving break.

ISSS Hartford will be closed from Nov 22-23

Come read and discuss the award winning novel LaRose!

AsACC will be closed during the Thanksgiving break.

ISSS Hartford will be closed from Nov 22-23

If you want to apply for a Connecticut Driver's License, you need to take an 8 Hour Safe Driving Course before you can obtain your license. ISSS has partnered with AAA Driving schools to offer the 8 Hour Safe Driving Course at the UConn Storrs campus. Students attend both sessions offered that month to complete the course (e.g. Nov 17 & 24, Dec 8 & 15). Please direct any questions about the course, or course registration to the AAA contact information listed on the flyer. Register for the course online at http://www.aaa.com/drivingschool

Weekly meeting for the Pan Asian Council, an umbrella organization for Asian and Asian American affiliated student organizations.

PAC presents Homecoming activities, the annual IMPAACT leadership conference and the annual Asian Nite talent showcase.

AsACC and Salaam present:

Muslim Student Athlete Panel

College. Athletics. Religion.

Join us for a panel discussion of the experiences of Muslim student athletes at UConn.

This event is free and open to the public.

Let's travel to Egypt!
Join us for our ISSS Coffee Hour: EGYPT

Pass by to enjoy free Middle Eastern food and coffee as we travel to Egypt through an interactive presentation. Get a henna tattoo and a chance to network!

The ISSS Coffee Hour is about Exploring the World at UConn through Coffee, Culture and Conversation.

UConn Global
Sponsored by the International Student and Scholar Services Office

AASI 3998 class for AMP mentors and Asian American studies minors meets weekly for the Fall 2018 semester.

Dr Campbell is a linguistic and cultural anthropologist and Postdoctoral Research
Associate in theDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction,
UConn School of Education.

RSVP to elinstituto@uconn.edu if you will be attending.

Lunchtime seminar with Dilsa Deniz, Visiting Professor, University of Connecticut Human Rights Institute.

“The ‘Regular’ Forest Fires in Dersim: Ecocide and the Violation of the Human Rights of Kurdish Alevis in Turkey”

Wednesday, November 28, 2018 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. 4th floor Homer Babbidge Library, Humanities Institute
**Lunch will be provided

This workshop is for F-1 visa holders.

Want to do an internship before you graduate? Or does your program have internships or clinical placements built into the curriculum? If so, then attend the Pre-Completion Practical Training workshop to learn about what type of visa authorization you need to participate. This workshop will discuss the difference between CPT and Pre-Completion OPT, and cover detailed application procedures.

Sign-up is required. Please register for this session through this website: https://web2.uconn.edu/icworkshops/training/index.php?course=147. Contact international@uconn.edu if you have questions. Learn more about CPT and pre-completion OPT on the ISSS Employment webpage: https://isss.uconn.edu/student-employment/.

"Tales of Ghosts and Exiles: A bilingual reading of stories by Miguel Gomes"

Join us for an evening of bilingual fiction reading by Professor of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages Miguel Gomes,
a recently-named UConn Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor and author of short stories, novellas, and novels about the Latin American experience. Gomes will bring his expertise in modern Spanish-American literature and culture to the reading, which will be translated by UConn Ph.D. student Charles LeBel and followed by a moderated discussion and a reception.

Register at http://s.uconn.edu/gomesreading

For more information about this event, or if you are an individual who requires special accommodation to participate, please contact the CLAS Dean’s Office at (860) 486-2713.

Lisa B. Hightow-Weidman, MD, MPH,
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Thursday, November 29, 2018
12:30 – 1:30pm

"Innovations in Mobile Technology for Engaging Youth in Treatment and Prevention"

**About the Speaker**

Lisa B. Hightow-Weidman, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Departments of Infectious Diseases and Health Behavior, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Dr. Hightow-Weidman completed her medical school training at the University of Virginia and became board certified in Internal Medicine in 2001 after completing residency training at Stanford University. She completed fellowship training in Infectious Diseases and earned a Masters in Public Health in Epidemiology at UNC-Chapel Hill. Dr. Hightow-Weidman is an expert on mhealth, social media and utilization and evaluation of technology-based interventions to address the HIV Care Continuum for youth and young adults, particularly among young men who have sex with men (YMSM). She has published >90 peer-reviewed articles on these topics. She has developed technology-based interventions to address uptake and adherence to biomedical HIV prevention technologies, as well as intervening to increase HIV diagnosis, linkage and retention in care for YMSM. She is the PI of iTech, The UNC/Emory Center for Innovative Technology Across the Prevention and Care Continuum. This grant, part of the Adolescent Trials Network for HIV Interventions (ATN), seeks to develop a technology center to address the domestic epidemic of HIV among at risk and HIV-infected youth.

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Fall 2018 Gender and History Seminar

With

Sabine Fruhstuck
Professor
East Asia Center, Director
University of California Santa Barbara

4:30 PM
Homer Babbidge Library
Class of 1947 Room, 1st Floor

About the speaker:

Sabine Frühstück is interested in the study of modern and contemporary Japanese culture and its relationship to the rest of the world. Her research has engaged several intellectual fields. Playing War: Children and the Paradoxes of Modern Militarism in Japan (2017) is a cultural history of the naturalized connections between childhood and militarism. It analyzes the rules and regularities of war play, from the hills and along the rivers of 19th century rural Japan to the killing fields of 21st century cyberspace. The ethnography, Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army (2007) employs gender, memory and popular culture as technologies of engagement with a number of debates that centrally involve the ambivalent status and condition of Japan’s contemporary military. Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan (2003) is a sociohistorical study of the creation, formation, and application of a “science of sex” from the late 19th through the mid-20th century.

Come read and discuss the award winning novel LaRose!

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