Join us as we build an 18th century Chinese pirate ship out of LEGOS with the Director of the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute, Jason Oliver Chang.

Learn about Asian maritime history and find out more about minoring in Asian Studies or Asian American Studies.

Lunch will be provided as we build, learn, and discuss how Asian Studies and Asian American Studies can fit into your educational plan.

Dean of Students office personnel will be available at AsACC for students on a walk-in basis, for consultation on any issues or concerns.

ISSS Hartford will be closed on 2/26/19

Tuesday, February 26, 2019
9:30am - 10:45am

Storrs Campus
Konover Auditorium, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center

Please join us for a public talk by Svea Closser, PhD, MPH, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health

Community Health Workers increasingly are touted as a cost-effective solution to global shortages of doctors, nurses, and other trained health staff. In India, nearly a million women have been deployed as Accredited Social Health Activists, or ASHAs. The ASHA program was conceived both to support these women in advocating for the right to health in their communities and to fill human resource gaps. Following the program on the ground in a town in Rajasthan, India, this talk explores how ASHAs themselves experience their work. The program has shifted social relations at the family level in surprising ways, giving young married women more mobility and new opportunities. Yet they are also exploited workers, laboring at the bottom of a bureaucratic hierarchy with little opportunity to advocate for their own rights, much less those of their neighbors. Most of the women who take these positions do so in the hopes that these currently low-paying, contingent jobs will become “permanent” government positions with minimum-wage salaries, advancement opportunities, vacations, and retirement benefits. Many have been organizing to this end. Given their social position, however, creating an effective union that puts their needs first has thus far been a severe challenge.

Svea Closser, PhD, MPH is an anthropologist in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research focuses on the interaction between global health policy and local health systems. In her current project, funded by the Fulbright/Nehru program, she is studying the work experiences and social relations of female Community Health Workers in India. She is the author of Chasing Polio in Pakistan (Vanderbilt University Press, 2010), as well as many research articles. Dr. Closser is also co-editor of the undergraduate textbooks Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology (Routledge, 2016), and Foundations of Global Health (Oxford University Press, 2018).

This event is sponsored by the Research Program on Global Health & Human Rights at the Human Rights Institute.

Molly Land, JD(UConn Law School & Human Rights Institute) & Molly Waring, PhD (Allied Health Sciences & UConn Center for mHealth and Social Media) will lead a discussion around the ethical and social considerations of research using and developing technology.

This is an Honors Event. Category: Academic & Interdisciplinary Engagement

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Visiting scholars to UConn on J-1 visas need to check-in with ISSS at the start of their program. To check-in, please visit ISSS in person on Tuesday or Friday afternoons between 2 and 4 pm. Scholars should bring: Passport, Visa and Form DS-2019, and medical insurance policy information.
For more information, visit https://isss.uconn.edu/check-in/

Gathering for students interested in the Global Gateway discussions bringing together international and domestic students.

This workshop is for F-1 visa holders only!

What is Optional Practical Training (OPT) and how can you benefit from it after you graduate? The workshop covers the basics on post-completion OPT work authorization, including filing procedures, employment requirements, OPT extension opportunities and MORE! For students who plan on working after they graduate, or while finishing up their thesis dissertation.

Sign-up is required. Please register for this session through this website. Contact international@uconn.edu with any questions you may have.

Let’s travel to Brazil! Pass by for an interactive presentation about Brazil, free food and a chance to network. Explore the world at UConn through coffee, food, culture and conversation. All are welcome!!

Human Rights Institute Lunchtime Seminar with Rachel Chambers, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Human Rights Institute

"Modern Slavery in Global Supply Chains: From Disclosure to Accountability?"

Several governments have committed themselves to taking action to eradicate modern slavery in global supply chains. When it comes to the role of parent or lead companies, home state efforts primarily concentrate on increasing transparency. Laws mandating companies to disclose their efforts to detect modern slavery in their global supply chains have been enacted in California, the United Kingdom, and Australia. The paper highlights the potential contribution to corporate accountability, and the limitations of these transparency rules.

Rachel Chambers is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Business and Human Rights. Her background is in law: as a barrister called to the Bar of England and Wales she worked in private practice in London for almost a decade, specializing in employment, discrimination and human rights law. She moved into academia in 2013, joining the PhD program at the University of Essex (UK) and later becoming an adjunct professor at SOAS, University of London. Her doctoral research on ‘corporate misconduct and the challenges of extraterritorial solutions’ built on knowledge gained from research and practice in the field of business and human rights, and roles at the International Business Leaders Forum and Amnesty International.


Thursday, February 28, 2019
12:30pm - 1:45pm, Storrs Campus 4th floor, Homer Babbidge Library, Humanities Institute
** Lunch will be provided

Description: TBA

This workshop is for J-1 visa holders in the Student categories (no visiting scholars).

If you are on a J-1 visa and want to do an internship or work in a job related to your field of study then you need to have Academic Training authorization. J-1 students can get Academic Training that takes place before or after completing your program. Visit this workshop to learn more!

Sign-up is required. Please register for this session through this website. Contact international@uconn.edu with any questions you may have.

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

Today's PAC meeting will be presented by OiYan Poon from Colorado State University. She will present an interactive workshop on race-conscious holistic review followed by a Q&A discussion.

Dr. OiYan Poon is an Assistant Professor of higher education leadership in the School of Education and Director of the Center for Racial Justice in Education and Research. Her research focuses on the racial politics and discourses of college access, higher education organization and policy, affirmative action, and Asian Americans.

This is an Honors event.

J-1 Scholar Orientation

Visiting scholars to UConn on J-1 visas need to check-in with ISSS at the start of their program. To check-in, please visit ISSS in person on Tuesday or Friday afternoons between 2 and 4 pm. Scholars should bring: Passport, Visa and Form DS-2019, and medical insurance policy information.
For more information, visit https://isss.uconn.edu/check-in/

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. The course is held monthly through spring semester. Students attend both sessions offered in the month to complete the course. 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.

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 program.

AsACC's Chai Time hosts Dr. Renisa Mawani. Dr. Mawani has a PhD from the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. She is currently Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia and recurring Chair of the Law and Society Program.

Dr. Mawani will include research from her book "Across Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire" (2018). In 1914 the British-built and Japanese-owned steamship Komagata Maru left Hong Kong for Vancouver carrying 376 Punjabi migrants. Chartered by railway contractor and purported rubber planter Gurdit Singh, the ship and its passengers were denied entry into Canada and two months later were deported to Calcutta. In Across Oceans of Law Renisa Mawani retells this well-known story of the Komagata Maru. Drawing on "oceans as method"—a mode of thinking and writing that repositions land and sea—Mawani examines the historical and conceptual stakes of situating histories of Indian migration within maritime worlds. Through close readings of the ship, the manifest, the trial, and the anticolonial writings of Singh and others, Mawani argues that the Komagata Maru's landing raised urgent questions regarding the jurisdictional tensions between the common law and admiralty law, and, ultimately, the legal status of the sea. By following the movements of a single ship and bringing oceans into sharper view, Mawani traces British imperial power through racial, temporal, and legal contests and offers a novel method of writing colonial legal history. (Google Books)

This event is co-sponsored with Asian and Asian American Studies Institute.

Women’s Herstory Month Opening

Franchesca Ramsey is an actress, comedian and video blogger with over 29 million views on YouTube and over half a million followers across Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Her videos have been featured on MTV, The NY Times and The BBC. In 2012 “Sh*t White Girls Say…to Black Girls” was viewed 5 million times in 5 days, garnering coverage on MSNBC, ABC and Anderson Cooper. Most recently Franchesca worked as a writer and contributor for The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore on Comedy Central and is currently the host of the MTV web series Decoded.

Co-sponsored with SUBOG, WHUS Student Activities, WRAAP and Student Affairs.

UConn faculty, staff and students are invited to pick-up 2 tickets for this free, signature event for the Metanoia: Youth for Change.

Please visit http://www.metanoia.uconn.edu/hogg for detailed information.

If you are an individual who requires an accommodation to participate, please contact University Events and Conference Services at rsvp@uconn.edu or by calling (860) 486-1038.

There will be no walk-in hours at ISSS Hartford on Tuesday, March 5.

Human Rights Institute Lunchtime Seminar with Michael L. Rosino,Doctoral Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Connecticut

"Consequences of Consciousness: How White Racial Habits Shape Grassroots Political Strategies"

Tuesday, March 5, 2019, Room 162 Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, Storrs Campus
**Lunch will be provided

In the current political climate, grassroots democracy is often idealized as laden with agency and possibilities for strategic action for racially progressive politics. Yet democratic participation is not only shaped by overt barriers, such as resistance from elite political actors, but also the repertoires of discourse and action held by grassroots political actors. To illuminate the contours and operations of these barriers, this study draws on over a year of in-depth participant observation and 43 semi-structured interviews with participants of a progressive grassroots political organization in the Northeastern United States. While the organization’s stated goals include racial equity and the inclusion of people of color, it’s membership remains disproportionately white. I argue that even at the grassroots level, geospatial relations, social networks, and social cognitions generate racialized patterns of exclusion and homogeneity among white-dominated progressive political organizations. The findings specifically emphasize how the interplay between racial consciousness, racial habits, and political strategies deters racial justice praxis and helps reproduce the marginalization of people of color from these crucial spaces of political engagement.

Michael L. Rosino is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Connecticut. His areas of focus include racism and racial inequality, political sociology, collective action, mass media, and human rights. His current research examines how the participants in a progressive grassroots party in the Northeast engage with issues of racial inequality and injustice in their identities, habits, and political strategies.

Join Education Abroad Advisor, Valerie Nightingale and Political Science Academic Advisor,
Suzanne Waterman, for an informational session on education abroad opportunities! The presentation will include some basic information about the application process, types of programs, obtaining credit effectively as well as highlighting some relevant programs for political science students. Register to attend via Nexus https://nexus.uconn.edu/secure_per/events/event_registration.php?ser=1224&rc=4972433724

Visiting scholars to UConn on J-1 visas need to check-in with ISSS at the start of their program. To check-in, please visit ISSS in person on Tuesday or Friday afternoons between 2 and 4 pm. Scholars should bring: Passport, Visa and Form DS-2019, and medical insurance policy information.
For more information, visit https://isss.uconn.edu/check-in/

Latinos, peoples of Latin American ancestry in the United States, are the nation’s largest minority-majority but the most disenfranchised from circuits of power and political representation. This talk engages “the Latino Question” — What is the country to do with Latinos, and what are Latinos to do about their disenfranchisement from American civic life? —as an opportunity to reflect about the complexity of the country’s relationship to Latinos at a moment of profound demographic, economic, social, and political upheaval. The need to understand the current historical moment of unthinkable “blood and soil” Nazism, of blatant racism at the highest levels of government against Latinos, and politically disenfranchised cultural others, along with media induced “alternative facts,” make an historical accounting all the more necessary. This talk explains how this came to be and the intersectional politics required to reclaim the democratic commons.

Come and join us for an information session on the Urban Semester Program, an intensive internship experience in Hartford.

The Urban Semester Program offers students a tremendous opportunity for service learning and public service. Students intern in a variety of agencies in Hartford. Students have full choice in choosing their internship with the help of the Internship Coordinator. Please join us to learn more.

We hope to see you there.

This workshop is for F-1 visa holders only!

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 authorization you need! This workshop will discuss the difference between CPT and Pre-Completion OPT, and go over the application procedures.

Sign-up is required. Please register for this session through this website. Contact international@uconn.edu with any questions you may have.

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

Program:Pre-Completion Practical Training (CPT + Pre-OPT)

A collaboration with Counseling and Mental Health Services (CMHS), International Chat brings together international students, scholars, and their families in a warm and informal environment. This week, join ISSS and CMHS as we learn stress management tips to cope with the middle of the semester and engage in some peaceful meditation.

As part of the Gender and History Visiting Scholar Series, Dr. Keisha N. Blain, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh and President of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), will provide a public lecture, titled "Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom," inspired by her recently published first book. The lecture will be followed by a reception. For an abstract of the lecture, please see below:

In this talk, historian Keisha N. Blain discusses how black nationalist women engaged in national and global politics during the twentieth century. In Chicago, Harlem, and the Mississippi Delta, from Britain to Jamaica, these women built alliances with people of color around the globe, agitating for the rights and liberation of black people in the United States and across the African diaspora. As pragmatic activists, they employed multiple protest strategies and tactics, combined numerous religious and political ideologies, and forged unlikely alliances in their struggles for freedom. Their stories, which have been largely hidden in popular historical narratives, underscore the depth and complexities of the global black freedom struggle and offer valuable lessons for contemporary black politics and activism.

Weekly meeting for affiliated student organization members of the Pan Asian Council (PAC).

As part of the Gender and History Visiting Scholar Series, Keisha N. Blain, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh and President of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), will join UConn graduate students and faculty to workshop a pre-circulated paper titled "East Unites with West:Black Women, Japan, and Visions of Afro-Asian Solidarity". Professor Blain's research interests pertain to black internationalism, global feminisms, and radical politics. Her first book, recently published in 2018 by the University of Pennsylvania Press, is titled: Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom.

Please contact Professor Cornelia Dayton if interested in attending.

Join Education Abroad Advisor, Valerie Nightingale and Communications Advisor, Joel Nebres for an informational session on education abroad opportunities! The presentation will include some basic information about the application process, types of programs, obtaining credit effectively as well as highlighting some relevant programs for communications students. Register to attend via Nexus
https://nexus.uconn.edu/secure_per/events/event_registration.php?ser=1183&rc=8323341447

Visiting scholars to UConn on J-1 visas need to check-in with ISSS at the start of their program. To check-in, please visit ISSS in person on Tuesday or Friday afternoons between 2 and 4 pm. Scholars should bring: Passport, Visa and Form DS-2019, and medical insurance policy information.
For more information, visit https://isss.uconn.edu/check-in/

Monthly meeting of the ISSS Student Advisory Board. Open to ISAB members.

Mandatory Retreat for the Spring 2019 student staff of AsACC.

black./womyn.:conversations... is a feature-length documentary focusing on the lives and views of lesbians of African descent from various backgrounds. The documentary is structured by interviews-"conversations"-the director had with each of the women. It features candid interviews with black lesbian women discussing coming out, sexuality and religion, love and relationships, marriage, patriarchy, visibility in media, discrimination and homophobia, activism, gender identity, Black lesbian youth and elders, balancing gender/race/sexuality, and, finally, what it means to call oneself a Black lesbian today.

GET YOUR GAME ON!

Join the center in its first Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Tournament! Compete in friendly competition and possibly win some prizes! Bring your friends and try to see who can SMASH their way to the top!

Don't know how to smash? We can help with that! There will also be light snacks and food, so get excited!! Bring joy-cons, controllers and get ready to SMASH!

RSVP HERE https://goo.gl/forms/0C5lafFfr7kuh5Kr2

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. The course is held monthly through spring semester. Students attend both sessions offered in the month to complete the course. 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.

A 2-3 hour hike followed by some down time in Downtown Manchester.

The REP grad certificate program will bring Prof. Rob Nixon of Princeton University to campus on Mon, Mar 11 for a talk entitled: Environmental Martyrs and the Fate of the Forest.

The talk will take place in The Class of '47 Room in the Homer Babbidge Library at 12:15 pm. Refreshments will be served.

Rob Nixon holds the Barron Family Professorship in Humanities and Environment at Princeton. He is the author of four books, most recently Dreambirds: the Natural History of a Fantasy and Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, which won numerous awards, including an American Book Award and the Sprout prize from the International Studies Association for the best book in environmental studies. Nixon writes frequently for the New York Times. His writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, Aeon, Atlantic Monthly, The Guardian, The Nation, London Review of Books, The Village Voice, Slate, Truthout, Huffington Post, Edge Effects, Times Literary Supplement, and Chronicle of Higher Education. He has been the recipient of an NEH fellowship, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, and a Guggenheim, and has been awarded residencies at a number of artist colonies, including MacDowell and Yaddo.

Will you travel outside the U.S. during spring break or summer? Visit ISSS to get your travel signature in-person!

To apply: Complete the Travel Information Record on the ISSS website, and bring to ISSS your most recent Form I-20 or Form DS-2019. if you are an enrolled student, also bring a recent Enrollment Verification from the UConn Registrar, listing all terms you have been enrolled. If you have a J-1 visa, complete the Medical Insurance Confirm Record IF your insurance information has changed since your last record was submitted.

Travel signatures are valid for one year (OPT students, 6 months). If your most recent form will have a valid travel signature for return, you only need to submit the Travel Information Record. No need to visit ISSS in-person.

When? March 11 - 15, 1:30 - 3:30
Where? ISSS Storrs, McMahon Hall Room 185

Dean of Students office personnel will be available at AsACC for students on a walk-in basis, for consultation on any issues or concerns.

Will you travel outside the U.S. during spring break or summer? Visit ISSS to get your travel signature in-person!

To apply: Complete the Travel Information Record on the ISSS website, and bring to ISSS your most recent Form I-20 or Form DS-2019. if you are an enrolled student, also bring a recent Enrollment Verification from the UConn Registrar, listing all terms you have been enrolled. If you have a J-1 visa, complete the Medical Insurance Confirm Record IF your insurance information has changed since your last record was submitted.

Travel signatures are valid for one year (OPT students, 6 months). If your most recent form will have a valid travel signature for return, you only need to submit the Travel Information Record. No need to visit ISSS in-person.

When? March 11 - 15, 1:30 - 3:30
Where? ISSS Storrs, McMahon Hall Room 185

Visiting scholars to UConn on J-1 visas need to check-in with ISSS at the start of their program. To check-in, please visit ISSS in person on Tuesday or Friday afternoons between 2 and 4 pm. Scholars should bring: Passport, Visa and Form DS-2019, and medical insurance policy information.
For more information, visit https://isss.uconn.edu/check-in/

This workshop is for F-1 visa holders only!

What is Optional Practical Training (OPT) and how can you benefit from it after you graduate? The workshop covers the basics on post-completion OPT work authorization, including filing procedures, employment requirements, OPT extension opportunities and MORE! For students who plan on working after they graduate, or while finishing up their thesis dissertation.

Sign-up is required. Please register for this session through this website. Contact international@uconn.edu with any questions you may have.

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

In Between Neoliberalism and Nationalism: the practices of Indian Classical Dance
by Koyel Khan

In this talk, I discuss the implications of local social, political, and economic factors that lead to cultural erasure of particular vulnerable groups through not only appropriation, but appropriation that dissociates particular cultural practices from the groups from whom it is appropriated. By analyzing the cultural antagonisms and negotiations that occur between different groups while also considering the relations that marginalized groups have with the nation state under neoliberal globalization, I bring in a transnational feminist approach to the study of cultural globalization while recognizing the interrelationship between the political, economic, and cultural sphere of globalization.

Will you travel outside the U.S. during spring break or summer? Visit ISSS to get your travel signature in-person!

To apply: Complete the Travel Information Record on the ISSS website, and bring to ISSS your most recent Form I-20 or Form DS-2019. if you are an enrolled student, also bring a recent Enrollment Verification from the UConn Registrar, listing all terms you have been enrolled. If you have a J-1 visa, complete the Medical Insurance Confirm Record IF your insurance information has changed since your last record was submitted.

Travel signatures are valid for one year (OPT students, 6 months). If your most recent form will have a valid travel signature for return, you only need to submit the Travel Information Record. No need to visit ISSS in-person.

When? March 11 - 15, 1:30 - 3:30
Where? ISSS Storrs, McMahon Hall Room 185

Our UCHI Fellow will be presenting their research talk on “Jubilee’s Experiment: The British West Indies and American Abolitionism” followed by a light reception.
For more information, please visit https://humanities.uconn.edu/2018-19fellows/.
If you require accommodation for this event, please contact uchi@uconn.edu at least one week prior to the event.

In connection with the theatrical premier of "The Trial of Radko Mladić" (Thursday, March 14, on the main UConn campus), the Law School will host a panel discussion with a witness, a former member of the ICTY prosecution team, and a defense lawyer involved in the trial, to explore the trial from the perspective of witnesses, including with respect to the rights of victims and the ethics of engagement.

https://www.law.uconn.edu/calendar/event/2019/03/13/trial-radko-mladic

An InCHIP and Rainbow Center Collaboration!

Stephen Russell, PhD
University of Texas at Austin

Thursday, March 14, 2019
12:30 – 1:30pm

"LGBTQ Youth Today: (Why) Aren’t Things Better?"

**About the Speaker**
Stephen Russell is Priscilla Pond Flawn Regents Professor in Child Development chair of the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. He is an expert in adolescent and young adult health, with a focus on sexual orientation and gender identity. He is on the Board of Directors of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), a fellow and former Board member of the National Council on Family Relations, an elected member of the International Academy of Sexuality Research, and was President of the Society for Research on Adolescence.

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/.

Dorcas Tang is a third-generation Chinese-Malaysian whose diasporic identity drives her work as an artist, photographer, and storyteller. She is currently a senior at Swarthmore College, majoring in Studio Art and double minoring in Spanish and Educaitonal Studies, although her parents still hold out hope for her to be a lawyer.

In recognition of her potential, she has been nominated as a Richard Rubin Scholar and has received the Lang Center Summer Internship Grant, the Genevieve Ching-wen Lee Grant, and the Favianna Rodriguez Artistic Activism Award.

Her most recent work is Los Paisanos del Puerto. Dorcas' current interests include big themes like intersectional identities, ethnic studies, and photography as a tool of decolonization, probably terms picked up by osmosis from her Liberal Arts environment.

Looking towards the future, she is excited to continue bridging communities and fostering critical dialogue through creating socially engaged visual narratives. If she could have any superpower in the world, it would be the ability to completely understand other human beings. And cats.

Will you travel outside the U.S. during spring break or summer? Visit ISSS to get your travel signature in-person!

To apply: Complete the Travel Information Record on the ISSS website, and bring to ISSS your most recent Form I-20 or Form DS-2019. if you are an enrolled student, also bring a recent Enrollment Verification from the UConn Registrar, listing all terms you have been enrolled. If you have a J-1 visa, complete the Medical Insurance Confirm Record IF your insurance information has changed since your last record was submitted.

Travel signatures are valid for one year (OPT students, 6 months). If your most recent form will have a valid travel signature for return, you only need to submit the Travel Information Record. No need to visit ISSS in-person.

When? March 11 - 15, 1:30 - 3:30
Where? ISSS Storrs, McMahon Hall Room 185

Teaching Genocide with Film
Educator Workshop

March 14, 2019
3:00pm - 4:30pm

followed by a special preview and discussion of
The Trial of Ratko Mladic
5:00pm - 7:00pm

Join us for a workshop exploring the challenges and opportunities of teaching genocide with film. Designed for both high school and college educators, this workshop will examine why and how to use both feature and documentary films to spur deep learning about one of the difficult subjects in any curriculum. Participants will reflect on what it means to teach "difficult histories", consider how film can be effectively deployed in different classrooms settings, and explore examples of specific strategies and films.

At the conclusion of the workshop, participants are invited to a special preview of the new documentary The Trial of Ratko Mladic.

For more information and to register visit:

https://thedoddcenter.uconn.edu/2019/02/05/mar-14-2019-teaching-genocide-with-film-workshop/

Weekly meeting for affiliated student organization members of the Pan Asian Council (PAC).

The Trial of Ratko Mladic

Join us for a special preview of the film and post show discussion with the directors

This event is part of the Symposium on International Justice taking place March 13-14, 2019

For more information and a full schedule of events, visit http://humanrights.uconn.edu

Will you travel outside the U.S. during spring break or summer? Visit ISSS to get your travel signature in-person!

To apply: Complete the Travel Information Record on the ISSS website, and bring to ISSS your most recent Form I-20 or Form DS-2019. if you are an enrolled student, also bring a recent Enrollment Verification from the UConn Registrar, listing all terms you have been enrolled. If you have a J-1 visa, complete the Medical Insurance Confirm Record IF your insurance information has changed since your last record was submitted.

Travel signatures are valid for one year (OPT students, 6 months). If your most recent form will have a valid travel signature for return, you only need to submit the Travel Information Record. No need to visit ISSS in-person.

When? March 11 - 15, 1:30 - 3:30
Where? ISSS Storrs, McMahon Hall Room 185

Visiting scholars to UConn on J-1 visas need to check-in with ISSS at the start of their program. To check-in, please visit ISSS in person on Tuesday or Friday afternoons between 2 and 4 pm. Scholars should bring: Passport, Visa and Form DS-2019, and medical insurance policy information.
For more information, visit https://isss.uconn.edu/check-in/

AsACC closed for the Spring Break Holiday.

AsACC closed for the Spring Break Holiday.

Visiting scholars to UConn on J-1 visas need to check-in with ISSS at the start of their program. To check-in, please visit ISSS in person on Tuesday or Friday afternoons between 2 and 4 pm. Scholars should bring: Passport, Visa and Form DS-2019, and medical insurance policy information.
For more information, visit https://isss.uconn.edu/check-in/

Klezmer: Music, History and Memory
with Professor Walter Zev Feldman

Tuesday, March 19, 2019
7:00pm

The Emanuel Synagogue
160 Mohegan Drive
West Hartford, CT

Since the 1990s, the so called “klezmer music” became immensely popular both among Jews
and non-Jews. Emerging in 16th century Prague, and spreading throughout the broad territory of the Eastern Ashkenazim, the Jewish musical guild-member, the klezmer (pl. klezmorim) shaped this unique musical and
choreographic repertoire.

This lecture, with the use of musical examples and demonstration in dance, will discuss why the knowledge of its history and aesthetics is crucial to the understanding of the culture of
the Jews, and of modern Europe at large.

Walter Zev Feldman is a leading researcher
in both Ottoman Turkish and Jewish music. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at NYU
in Abu Dhabi.

Registration required.

Visit: http://jhsgh.org/klezmer/

Sponsored by:
Jewish Hartford European Roots
The Emanuel Synagogue Adult Education Program
Jewish Historical Society

AsACC closed for the Spring Break Holiday.

AsACC closed for the Spring Break Holiday.

AsACC closed for the Spring Break Holiday.

Visiting scholars to UConn on J-1 visas need to check-in with ISSS at the start of their program. To check-in, please visit ISSS in person on Tuesday or Friday afternoons between 2 and 4 pm. Scholars should bring: Passport, Visa and Form DS-2019, and medical insurance policy information.
For more information, visit https://isss.uconn.edu/check-in/

Center for Education Policy Analysis
2019 Speaker Series

"Are We Heading for a Charter
School 'Bubble'?:
Lessons from the Subprime Mortgage Crisis" 

Speaker:
Preston Green,
Professor, Neag School of Education

For more information and to RSVP, visit
http://s.uconn.edu/CEPAMarch25

Dean of Students office personnel will be available at AsACC for students on a walk-in basis, for consultation on any issues or concerns.

HRI Lunchtime Seminar with Dr. Sandra L Sirota, University of Connecticut Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Humanities Institute

"From the curriculum to the classroom: The urgent need for pre-service human rights teacher education in the United States"

Tuesday, March 26, 2019, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m., Room 162 Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, Storrs Campus
**Lunch will be provided

The Human Rights Education (HRE) movement has made progress in recent decades towards ensuring all people across the globe, including in the United States, have access to HRE. Despite this, teachers have few opportunities to receive HRE themselves. In this talk, I make the argument that future teachers urgently need to receive pre-service human rights teacher education in the United States. Additionally, for HRE to contribute to ending human rights violations, teachers must teach HRE in a way that can help to dismantle oppression rather than perpetuate it. Thus, I present a framework for thoughtful pre-service human rights teacher education in the United States.

Dr. Sandra L. Sirota is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut where she conducts research on human rights education. She received her doctoral degree from Columbia University. Her research focuses on human rights, social justice, social movements, and education in sub-Saharan Africa and the United States. Recent publications appear in Comparative Education Review, Prospects, and the Journal of Human Rights (forthcoming 2019). Dr. Sirota has consulted on human rights and education for the United Nations as well as local and international non-profit organizations. She co-founded the Advocacy Lab, a nonprofit organization providing human rights education to secondary school students in New York City in 2007. She served on the founding steering committee of the human rights education network, Human Rights Educators USA, from 2012 to 2014 and is currently on the steering committee of the University and College Consortium for Human Rights Education.

Visiting scholars to UConn on J-1 visas need to check-in with ISSS at the start of their program. To check-in, please visit ISSS in person on Tuesday or Friday afternoons between 2 and 4 pm. Scholars should bring: Passport, Visa and Form DS-2019, and medical insurance policy information.
For more information, visit https://isss.uconn.edu/check-in/

Dangerous Speech and What to Do About It:
Fear and Loathing in Our Discourse
Dr. Cathy Buerger, Dangerous Speech Project

Wednesday, March 27, 2018
11:15am-12:15pm
Konover Auditorium

No one is born hating or fearing other people. That has to be taught – and those harmful lessons seem to be similar, though they’re given in highly disparate cultures, languages, and places. Leaders around the world use particular kinds of rhetoric to turn groups of people violently against one another. But this rhetoric is, of course, nothing new. The vocabulary varies, but the same themes recur: members of other groups are depicted as threats so serious that violence against them comes to seem acceptable or even necessary. In this talk, drawing from both historical and contemporary examples, Dr. Cathy Buerger will outline a framework for identifying Dangerous Speech – any form of expression that can increase the risk that its audience will condone or commit violence against members of another group. The lecture will conclude with a discussion of productive responses to dangerous and otherwise harmful speech.

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Post-Presentation Focus Group
12:30pm – 1:30pm
Room 162

Join us following the Dr. Buerger’s presentation for a focus group discussion designed to inform the Dangerous Speech Project’s efforts in developing educational resources. Participants will provide feedback on key elements of the presentation and resources, and consider strategies for educational impact. Lunch will be provided.

To RSVP for the focus group, please email doddcenter@uconn.edu.

Amanda J. Guzmán is a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in archaeology and minors in Latin American history and the Spanish language. Her dissertation project focuses on a range of major museums to analyze the history of North American museum collecting in, and representations of, Puerto Rico. In the context of Puerto Rico’s current environmental and economic uncertainty, her dissertation critically traces understudied museum acquisition narratives documenting the island’s material relations with the U.S. mainland. Guzmán’s research has been supported by the Smithsonian Institution’s Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology, a Smithsonian Institution graduate student fellowship, a Smithsonian Institution predoctoral student fellowship, and the Mellon Mays graduate initiatives program. She is the author of the recently published Museum Anthropology article, “Collecting the Puerto Rican Colony: Spanish-American War Material Encounters Between Officer-Wives and Puerto Ricans.”

Let’s travel to Puerto Rico on Wednesday, March 27, 2019 from 3pm-4pm, McMahon Hall: ISSS Lounge Room 183.
Pass by for an interactive presentation about the island, Puerto Rican inspired food, and a chance to network.
ISSS Coffee Hour is hosted by the International Student and Scholar Services Office.
Coffee Hours allow us to explore UConn through coffee, food, culture and conversation.
UConn Global.

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.

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

ISSS Hartford will be closed on March 28.

Professor and Graduate Director of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, Puar's publications include "The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (2017)" and the award-winning "Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007)."

Weekly meeting for affiliated student organization members of the Pan Asian Council (PAC).

Visiting scholars to UConn on J-1 visas need to check-in with ISSS at the start of their program. To check-in, please visit ISSS in person on Tuesday or Friday afternoons between 2 and 4 pm. Scholars should bring: Passport, Visa and Form DS-2019, and medical insurance policy information.
For more information, visit https://isss.uconn.edu/check-in/

Mandatory dress rehearsal for all performers of Asian Nite 2019. Stage times TBA.

Join the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program in welcoming 8 impressive Feminist Scholars in this weekend-long Symposium Event.
If you require accommodations in order to attend, please contact Laura Mauldin at laura.mauldin@uconn.edu.
Please be sure to RSVP for this event at: https://wgsssymposium.app.rsvpify.com/

To register for Saturday's events, please RSVP at: https://wgssworkshoplunch.app.rsvpify.com/

To view the reader-accessible flyer that exhibits more details about this event, please follow this link: http://s.uconn.edu/wgsssymposiumcom

Join the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program in welcoming 8 impressive Feminist Scholars in this weekend-long Symposium Event.
If you require accommodations in order to attend, please contact Laura Mauldin at laura.mauldin@uconn.edu.
Please be sure to RSVP for this event at: https://wgsssymposium.app.rsvpify.com/

To register for Saturday's events, please RSVP at: https://wgssworkshoplunch.app.rsvpify.com/

To view the reader-accessible flyer that exhibits more details about this event, please follow this link: http://s.uconn.edu/wgsssymposiumcom

Asian Nite 2019 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

Tickets at prior sales are $12 for Students, $15 Others and $10 children under 10. ALL tickets at the door on 3/30/19 will be $20.

ZOU ZHAO's solo exhibition and Opening Reception as part of the Protests, Proclamations & Celebrations exhibition

Zou Zhao is involved with video, performance, and writing, and has taken to task an examination of colonial legacy through the materiality of voice. Zou’s work questions perceived notions of ‘autonomy’ within language, especially the neo-colonial role of the English language in the distribution on knowledge. Zou Zhao credits her interest in utilizing her voice and language as art content as the direct result of living as a member of the Chinese diaspora in various cities. She states, “Through the materiality of the voice, I’d like to direct focus on the performativity of language: an important, albeit often neglected, element in the field of visual arts.”

Zhao was born Fujian, China, and at age six emigrated with her parents to Singapore. Raised there, she completed her formal education in London, first at the Slade School of Fine Art (BA) followed by a Master’s degree in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London. Subsequently she earned an MFA from Columbia University, in New York City.

Her Performance/Presentation will be at the Dodd Center from 1 to 3 pm.

An opening reception for Zou Zhao will be hosted on Monday, April 1st from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m., at the Contemporary Art Galleries at 830 Bolton Road on the UConn Storrs Campus.

Co-Sponsors: Asian & Asian American Studies Institute, Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies, The Human Rights Institute, Asian American Cultural Center, Art & Art History, and the School of Fine Arts.

Dean of Students office personnel will be available at AsACC for students on a walk-in basis, for consultation on any issues or concerns.

Join us! Art+Feminism editathon an annual, global collaborative effort to redress the under representation of women, gender fluid, and WOC women editors and artists to the global online encyclopedia. 2019 marks the A+F editathon’s 5th year, and UConn Storrs fourth year hosting a node. Any one can edit with us! Computers, instructions, and pizza provided!

ZOU ZHAO's solo exhibition and Opening Reception as part of the Protests, Proclamations & Celebrations exhibition

Zou Zhao is involved with video, performance, and writing, and has taken to task an examination of colonial legacy through the materiality of voice. Zou’s work questions perceived notions of ‘autonomy’ within language, especially the neo-colonial role of the English language in the distribution on knowledge. Zou Zhao credits her interest in utilizing her voice and language as art content as the direct result of living as a member of the Chinese diaspora in various cities. She states, “Through the materiality of the voice, I’d like to direct focus on the performativity of language: an important, albeit often neglected, element in the field of visual arts.”

Zhao was born Fujian, China, and at age six emigrated with her parents to Singapore. Raised there, she completed her formal education in London, first at the Slade School of Fine Art (BA) followed by a Master’s degree in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London. Subsequently she earned an MFA from Columbia University, in New York City.

Performance/Presentation at the Dodd Center from 1 to 3 pm.

An opening reception for Zou Zhao will be hosted on Monday, April 1st from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m., at the Contemporary Art Galleries at 830 Bolton Road on the UConn Storrs Campus.

Co-Sponsors: Asian & Asian American Studies Institute, Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies, The Human Rights Institute, Asian American Cultural Center, Art & Art History, and the School of Fine Arts.

Visiting scholars to UConn on J-1 visas need to check-in with ISSS at the start of their program. To check-in, please visit ISSS in person on Tuesday or Friday afternoons between 2 and 4 pm. Scholars should bring: Passport, Visa and Form DS-2019, and medical insurance policy information.
For more information, visit https://isss.uconn.edu/check-in/

Public event commemorating the conclusion of the Humility and Conviction in Public Life Project, run by the University of Connecticut's Humanities Institute. HCPL is pleased to announce a conversation with comedian, author, and host W. Kamau Bell.

For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit https://humilityandconviction.uconn.edu/forums/.

Human Rights and the Politics of Solidarity Conference

A Conference in Honor of Wiktor Osiatyński
University of Connecticut, Storrs
April 4-5, 2019

Taking inspiration from Osiatyński’s words, this conference will consider the meaning of solidarity and its role in creating an affirmative agenda for responding to the challenges facing the human rights movement in the 21st century. The conference will begin with a high level discussion of current threats to solidarity in human rights work, followed by panels designed to consider these issues in historical perspective as well as addressing the particular challenges in areas such as international criminal law and economic justice.

Please visit http://www.humanrights.uconn.edu
for more information

This workshop is for F-1 visa holders only!

What is Optional Practical Training (OPT) and how can you benefit from it after you graduate? The workshop covers the basics on post-completion OPT work authorization, including filing procedures, employment requirements, OPT extension opportunities and MORE! For students who plan on working after they graduate, or while finishing up their thesis dissertation.

Sign-up is required. Please register for this session through this website. Contact international@uconn.edu with any questions you may have.

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

Weekly meeting for affiliated student organization members of the Pan Asian Council (PAC).

Human Rights and the Politics of Solidarity Conference

A Conference in Honor of Wiktor Osiatyński
University of Connecticut, Storrs
April 4-5, 2019

Taking inspiration from Osiatyński’s words, this conference will consider the meaning of solidarity and its role in creating an affirmative agenda for responding to the challenges facing the human rights movement in the 21st century. The conference will begin with a high level discussion of current threats to solidarity in human rights work, followed by panels designed to consider these issues in historical perspective as well as addressing the particular challenges in areas such as international criminal law and economic justice.

Please visit http://www.humanrights.uconn.edu
for more information

Discussion of Prof. Fred Lee’s book Extraordinary Racial Politics: Four Events in the Informal Constitution of the United States with Lisa Lowe (Yale) as discussant

J-1 Scholar Orientation

This workshop is for F-1 visa holders from the Hartford and GBLC 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

Visiting scholars to UConn on J-1 visas need to check-in with ISSS at the start of their program. To check-in, please visit ISSS in person on Tuesday or Friday afternoons between 2 and 4 pm. Scholars should bring: Passport, Visa and Form DS-2019, and medical insurance policy information.
For more information, visit https://isss.uconn.edu/check-in/

Mandatory Retreat for the Spring 2019 student staff of AsACC.

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. The course is held monthly through spring semester. Students attend both sessions offered in the month to complete the course. 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.

“I have here unjustly suffered so much, and seen, and heard so much, that I am not as I was; my nature has become changed and hardened against my race—I feel myself let loose from all the ties of society—and that I have lost almost all the feelings of humanity.” This quote from an unnamed prisoner of Old Newgate Prison, the nation's first state prison, speaks to the dehumanizing and life-altering impact of imprisonment. Join us as we discuss both the historical and contemporary issue of incarceration at the local and national level to get a better understanding of how prisons function in American society. To reserve a seat and lunch, please RSVP to jeagosto@hplct.org.

For more information on the Encounters Series, please see: https://humilityandconviction.uconn.edu/encounter-series/#

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