Upcoming Events
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9/28
Disability Rights & Urban Development
Disability Rights & Urban Development
Wednesday, September 28th, 2022
02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Storrs Campus Hybrid: Dodd Center - Room 162
In the first meeting of the Economic & Social Rights Group for Fall 2022, we welcome Tina Kempin Reuter, Director of the Institute for Human Rights and Associate Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Dr. Tina Kempin Reuter will discuss how to transform cities into spaces that reflect fundamental human rights principles and prioritize inclusion and equity, especially for marginalized communities such as people with disabilities. Looking at both the built environment and the current trends towards technologization of cities, she will show how a human rights framework can change the urban discourse and how community-based participatory approaches can influence both research on urban development and smart cities as well as policy processes and empowerment of underserved communities.
For more info & to register: https://humanrights.uconn.edu/2022/09/01/disability-rights-and-urban-development/ -
9/29
D-I-Y Zine Basics
D-I-Y Zine Basics
Thursday, September 29th, 2022
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Storrs Campus via Zoom
Zines are DIY publications that have served as modes of expression as well as communication for underrepresented subcultures and social movements, including punk. They are analog and use a collage aesthetic to combine image and text in visually engaging ways.
In this virtual workshop, learn about DIY publications with Archivist Graham Stinnett and Metadata Librarian Rhonda Kauffman to get started making your own zines.
Held in conjunction with the exhibitions, Days and Nights of Print and Punk at UConn Archives’ Schimmelpfeng Gallery and Wild Youth: Punk and New Wave from the 1970s and 1980s at the William Benton Museum of Art.
Register in advance for this Zoom meeting:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpduCprz8pGtHUMziOpZ7V8gkvK6evYuix
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Suggested materials list:
• 1 sheet of letter sized paper
• Magazines, newspapers, stickers to collage with, preferably images with high contrast.
• Glue stick or tape
• Sharpie fine and ultra fine permanent markers
• 1-inch and ¾ inch alphabet stickers in various colors
• Patterned Washi tape
Level Up materials list:
• Label maker
• Plastic bone folder
• Alphabet stamps w/ink pad
• Long arm stapler
• Typewriter
• Photocopier
Speaker bios: Graham Stinnett is an Archivist overseeing the Human Rights and Alternative Press Collections at the UConn Library, Archives & Special Collections. He holds an M.A. in Archival Studies from the University of Winnipeg/University of Manitoba and a B.A. in History from the University of Manitoba. His work focuses on the archivist as activist and expanding access to archives for a diverse audience. He is the host of d’Archive, an archives radio show and podcast, as well as Curator of the traveling punk rock archives exhibition, Live at The Anthrax: Connecticut’s Hardcore History. Graham currently teaches undergraduate courses on archives, memory and popular culture.
Rhonda Kauffman is a Metadata Management Librarian, who manages metadata necessary for the discovery, access, and stewardship of UConn Library collections. Previously, she worked as metadata librarian at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and metadata/catalog librarian at Lehigh University. She is also an adjunct professor at Northampton Community College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where she teaches a course in library technical services. Rhonda holds a Master of Science in Library and Information Science (MSLIS) from Long Island University’s Palmer School of Information Science. She received her bachelor of arts in psychology from UConn, and is very happy to return to her alma mater as a member of the library. Her research interests include diversity, equity, and inclusion in library collections and technical services; and zine librarianship. -
9/29
Encounters-Facilitator Training
Encounters-Facilitator Training
Thursday, September 29th, 2022
01:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Storrs Campus Dodd center for Human Rights, Room 162
Facilitator Training
Hosted by the Democracy & Dialogues Initiative
Thursday, September 29. 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
Facilitators are fundamentally important to running a successful dialogue. They are the folks who work with the small breakout groups and keep the conversation moving and productive. Want to learn more about the theory and practice of facilitation? Join us in person at the Dodd Center for Human Rights, Room 162, on the UConn Storrs campus. -
10/1
Encounters: The Constitution of Connecticut
Encounters: The Constitution of Connecticut
Saturday, October 1st, 2022
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Other, Other Connecticut's Old State House
The Constitution of Connecticut
Hosted by Connecticut's Old State House
Saturday, October 1. 10:00 am-12:00 pm ET
Connecticut's Old State House
800 Main St., Hartford, CT 06103
Register in advance for this event:
https://bit.ly/CTConstitutionEncounters
We invite you to explore the concept of 'Constitution' through a look into Connecticut's constitutional history. Our state is known by many names, including the Nutmeg State and the Land of Steady Habits. But its official nickname is, of course, the Constitution State. From the Fundamental Orders of 1639, which some historians argue was the first American constitution, to the current state constitution passed in 1965, Connecticut has had many different documents serve as the basis of our state government. They define the powers and limits of elected officials, establish how new laws are made, and list the basic rights of all citizens. But what constitutes a constitution? How do constitutions affect the daily lives of citizens? What fundamental principles does a constitution need to meet to be legitimate? Join us in dissecting these issues through short readings, small group discussion, and engagement with specialists on the subject. Lunch will follow for all participants.
The Encounters Series is dedicated to fostering unexpected conversations around divisive issues and obscure knowledge. The program dives deeply into subjects that are of interest to the Greater Hartford community through facilitated, small-group dialogues followed by a question-and-answer style conversation with our UConn faculty and community partners. Resources are provided beforehand to encourage informed and informal dialogue within conversations that may otherwise prove to be polarizing, and thus unproductive. The aim is to strengthen our ability to know ourselves and to develop a forum for respectful and challenging dialogue. -
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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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
