Upcoming Events
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10/12
Myles Martel Lecture In Leadership And Public Opinion: As Ukraine Goes, So Goes The World - Thoughts On Propaganda, Violence, And Democracy
Myles Martel Lecture In Leadership And Public Opinion: As Ukraine Goes, So Goes The World - Thoughts On Propaganda, Violence, And Democracy
Wednesday, October 12th, 2022
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Storrs Campus Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center for Human Rights
The Myles Martel Lecture in Leadership and Public Opinion was established in 2001 to provide a platform for experts to lead conversations about leadership, communication, and public policy.
This year's lecture, "As Ukraine Goes, So Goes the World - Thoughts on Propaganda, Violence and Democracy" will feature Timothy Snyder, the Richard C. Levin Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.
Registration is required to attend this event. If you are an individual who requires
an accommodation to participate, please indicate when registering.
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10/12
HartBeat Encounters: 'My Children! My Africa!'
HartBeat Encounters: 'My Children! My Africa!'
Wednesday, October 12th, 2022
06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Other, Other The Carriage House Theater 360 Farmington Ave., Hartford, CT 06105
HartBeat Encounters: 'My Children! My Africa!'
Hosted by the HartBeat Ensemble
Wednesday, October 12. 6:00 pm-8:00 pm ET
The Carriage House Theater
360 Farmington Ave., Hartford, CT 06105
Register in advance for this event:
https://www.showclix.com/event/encounters-mcma
Please join us for Encounters: 'My Children! My Africa!,' a special dialogue event that features small group discussions on critical questions about the play, as well as specialist feedback and engagement. A light dinner will be served from 5:30 pm. Please note it is not required that you attend the show in order to participate in this community conversation. All participants are welcome and there is no cost to register or attend. -
10/13
Business and Human Rights Workshop: Upending Capitalism as We Know It? Public Policy Experimentation and Its Implications for Business
Business and Human Rights Workshop: Upending Capitalism as We Know It? Public Policy Experimentation and Its Implications for Business
Thursday, October 13th, 2022
02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Storrs Campus, Storrs Campus Dodd 162
Register Here: https://humanrights.uconn.edu/2022/09/01/public-policy-experimentation-and-its-implications-for-business-2/
The Business and Human Rights Workshop is dedicated to the development and discussion of works-in-progress and other non-published academic research.
Once thought to support democracy, contemporary global capitalism is contributing to its collapse. Despite the powerful systemic forces that propel it forward, though, citizens in many parts of the world are pushing back against systems that perpetuate climate change, corruption, and inequality. Simultaneously, innovative thinkers, alongside companies, citizen groups, and governments are experimenting to redress shortcomings in the status quo. Shifts in the way we define value (Mazzucato 2018), efforts to enact doughnut economies (Raworth 2017) or circular cities, and genuine corporate engagement (Knudsen and Moon 2017) each have important implications for a capitalism that is more supportive of democratic practice. In this paper we develop a framework that helps make sense of the varied implications such experiments have for business, trace how one successful experiment unfolded, and offer lessons it may hold for others. Doing so, we hope, will reinforce this trial, inspire others, and begin to help business leaders understand how they might engage in the various paths to a more democratic and prosperous future.
This hybrid event will be hosted both in person and on Zoom. Please register regardless of the modality in which you wish to participate. This event will not be recorded.
This event is hosted by the Business and Human Rights Initiative, a partnership founded by Dodd Human Rights Impact, the UConn School of Business, and the Human Rights Institute.
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10/17
Multi-gazed Ethnographies: Community Photographs and Narratives of the Heroin Epidemic in Colombia
Multi-gazed Ethnographies: Community Photographs and Narratives of the Heroin Epidemic in Colombia
Monday, October 17th, 2022
12:30 PM - 01:45 PM
Storrs Campus Hybrid: Beach Hall 404
Join us for the first lecture in our three-part series on "Critical, Community-Engaged Approaches in Medical Anthropology," sponsored by the Research Program on Global Health & Human Rights at the Human Rights Institute.
For our first lecture, Dr. Camilo Ruiz will present "Multi-gazed Ethnographies: Community Photographs and Narratives of the Heroin Epidemic in Colombia."
All events in this series are hosted in-person with the option to join by Zoom. Lunch will be served for those joining in-person.
For more information and to register, go to http://s.uconn.edu/ghhr-colloquium-series-2022
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10/19
Encounters- Moderator Training
Encounters- Moderator Training
Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
01:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Storrs Campus, Storrs Campus Dodd Center for Human Rights, Room 162 405 Babbidge Rd., Storrs, CT 06269
Moderator Training
Hosted by the Democracy & Dialogues Initiative
Wednesday, October 19. 1:00 pm-3:00 pm ET
Dodd Center for Human Rights, Room 162
405 Babbidge Rd., Storrs, CT 06269
Register in advance for this training:
https://forms.gle/ADE7e7frDyNx1UmS7
The role of moderators is to run or direct a dialogue. This is the "emcee" position and the person serving in it walks participants from welcome to closing. They manage the structure and timing of the event and provide support to the facilitators. And they are always in demand! Join us in person at the Dodd Center for Human Rights, Room 162, on the UConn Storrs campus. -
10/24
Activists/Scholars from Latin America at the Intersection of Medical Anthropology & Social Medicine
Activists/Scholars from Latin America at the Intersection of Medical Anthropology & Social Medicine
Monday, October 24th, 2022
12:30 PM - 01:45 PM
Storrs Campus Hybrid: Beach Hall 404
Join us for the second lecture in our three-part series on "Critical, Community-Engaged Approaches in Medical Anthropology," sponsored by the Research Program on Global Health & Human Rights at the Human Rights Institute.
In our second lecture, Dr. César Abadía-Barrero will present "Activists/Scholars from Latin America at the Intersection of Medical Anthropology & Social Medicine."
All events in this series are hosted in-person with the option to join by Zoom. Lunch will be served for those joining in-person.
For more information and to register, go to http://s.uconn.edu/ghhr-colloquium-series-2022
This series is co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology. -
10/25
The Shape of Justice: Spatializing Public Memory
The Shape of Justice: Spatializing Public Memory
Tuesday, October 25th, 2022
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Storrs Campus Class of '47 Room, Homer Babbidge Library
Members of MASS Design Group will speak on their transformative practice of "spatializing memory.” In projects such as The National Memorial for Peace and Justice (Alabama) and the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial (Boston), MASS Design explores new ways to shift narratives, serve as a catalyst for truth-telling, and advance collective healing through the built environment.
For more info & to register:https://humanrights.uconn.edu/2022/09/01/the-shape-of-justice-spatializing-public-memory/ -
10/27
Picturing the Pandemic Exhibition Opening Reception
Picturing the Pandemic Exhibition Opening Reception
Thursday, October 27th, 2022
05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Other Hartford Public Library
Exhibition opening at the Hartford Public Library.
Join us to celebrate how pandemic picture-making can spark new ways of claiming our voices, learning from others, and creating meaningful change in the world.
This innovative exhibition—a partnership between the Pandemic Journaling Project (PJP) and Seeing Truth: Art, Science, Museums, and Making Knowledge—will feature images created by people around the globe in telling their pandemic stories. At once devastating, joyful, funny, and tragic, the exhibition asks: What does a pandemic look like? What has COVID-19 helped us, or made us, see? How has it changed our sense of what counts as true—or whose truth counts?
See details at https://picturingthepandemic.org/events -
10/31
Grassroots Collaborative Ethnography & Archival Activism as Medical Anthropology Research Strategies
Grassroots Collaborative Ethnography & Archival Activism as Medical Anthropology Research Strategies
Monday, October 31st, 2022
12:30 PM - 01:45 PM
Storrs Campus Hybrid: Beach Hall 404
Join us for the third lecture in our three-part series on "Critical, Community-Engaged Approaches in Medical Anthropology," sponsored by the Research Program on Global Health & Human Rights at the Human Rights Institute.
In the final lecture, Drs. Katherine A. Mason, Heather Wurtz, & Sarah Willen will present "Grassroots Collaborative Ethnography & Archival Activism as Medical Anthropology Research Strategies."
All events in this series are hosted in-person with the option to join by Zoom. Lunch will be served for those joining in-person.
For more information and to register, go to http://s.uconn.edu/ghhr-colloquium-series-2022
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11/15
Picturing the Pandemic: Curation, Collaboration, and the Power of Journaling
Picturing the Pandemic: Curation, Collaboration, and the Power of Journaling
Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Other via Zoom
A faculty dialogue with Sarah S. Willen (Anthropology) and Alexis L. Boylan (Africana Studies/Art and Art History), co-curators of "Picturing the Pandemic: Images from the Pandemic Journaling Project" at Hartford Public Library Downtown. Held in conjunction with the upcoming exhibition, "Seeing Truth: Art, Science, Museums, and Making Knowledge"
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Zoom webinar registration link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5v2nhX1wSY2LquocxUukgQ
The exhibition "Picturing the Pandemic: Images from the Pandemic Journaling Project", features a selection of the images created as part of an innovative experiment with online journaling. Exhibition collaborators Sarah S. Willen, UConn Associate Professor of Anthropology and Pandemic Journaling Project (PJP) co-founder, and Alexis L. Boylan, Director of Academic Affairs at UConn Humanities Institute and Professor of Africana Studies and Art and Art History, discuss the power of journaling, what it was like to collaboratively curate a show, what truth we can find in images of the pandemic, and the importance of our communal participation in visual record and memory of the pandemic. Held in conjunction with the upcoming exhibition, "Seeing Truth: Art, Science, Museums, and Making Knowledge".
The Pandemic Journaling Project is a historical archive effort created in partnership between UConn and Brown University. It is a project dedicated to remembering the experiences and perspectives of a wide range of people living through the COVID-19 pandemic. The PJP recognizes that the narrative of history is usually dominated by the powerful, so the project aims to tell the stories of ordinary people when recounting this historical pandemic. Participants answer a set of survey questions and a few open-ended journaling questions; they are asked to follow up with answering a new set of questions every week until the pandemic is over. Participation is voluntary and anonymous. So far, the PJP has collected over 14,000 submissions from more than 45 countries. For more information, visit https://pandemic-journaling-project.chip.uconn.edu/
"Seeing Truth: Art, Science, Museums, and Making Knowledge" (January 17 to March 10, 2023 at the Benton Museum) seeks to challenge audiences to see art, science, and truth anew in this political moment. Through innovative curation, critical dialogue, a drive to engage new and diverse voices, and creative strategies for constructing a socially just and sustainable traveling exhibition, Seeing Truth will join with the public in wrestling with important questions concerning truth and knowledge-making.
The exhibition at the Benton puts instigator objects from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City in dialogue with items from UConn collections, including the William Benton Museum of Art; Archives & Special Collections, UConn Library; and the Biodiversity Research Collections in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; in addition to works from area museums
