Samara Joy Cabaret (11/18)

November 2, 2022

The H. Fred Simons African American Cultural Center (AACC) & the UConn Women's Center are excited to cohost the Samara Joy Cabaret!

Rising star Samara Joy’s velvety, smooth voice puts her own enchanting interpretation on jazz standards from the Great American Songbook. After winning the 2019 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition at the age of 19, she released her debut album Samara Joy. One of the most promising young vocalists, she has already performed in many of the great jazz venues in New York, including Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola, The Blue Note and the Apollo. On her latest release, Linger Awhile (Verve Records), the 22-year-old makes her case to join the likes of Sarah, Ella and Billie as the next jazz singing sensation.

This in-person event will be held in the Jorgensen Center on Friday, 11/18, at 8:00 PM. Tickets are available through the Jorgensen Center.

First Generation Week Events and Breakfast (11/7-11/11)

Join First Generation UConn for a week of events celebrating and supporting first-generation college students.

On Friday, the Puerto Rican / Latin American Cultural Center (PRLACC) will host the First Gen Breakfast. Come hear stories of inspiration form first-generation graduate students while grabbing a coffee and eating a delicious breakfast

This in-person event is open to all first-generation undergrads, grad students, staff, and faculty. It will be held on Friday, 11/11, from 9:30 to 11:30 in SU 331. Please RSVP in advance.

VAMP Veterans Day Ceremony (11/11)

October 31, 2022

What’s Happening in Iran? (11/2)

AACC Meet the Faculty: Dr. Blackman Carr of the RENEW Lab (11/11)

October 26, 2022

Come to the AACC on Friday, 11/11, from 2:00 - 3:30 to meet Dr. Blackman Carr from Department of Nutritional Resources!

Dr. Blackman Carr leads the Reaching Equity in Nutrition, Exercise & Weight (R.E.N.E.W.) Lab, which develops weight control interventions to treat high weight and improve health, especially for Black women.

She welcomes undergrad students enrolled at UConn who are interested in gaining research experience in obesity and intervention research. Her expertise is in behavioral weight control and involves developing more effective interventions for Black women.

This in-person event will be held on Friday, 11/11, from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in the AACC Community Room (SU 407). Refreshments will be served!

Women’s Center 50th: Melissa Harris-Perry (11/4)

October 24, 2022

The Women’s Center 50th invites you to come celebrate its 50th Anniversary with Melissa Harris Perry.

Professor Melissa Harris-Perry is the Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University where she teaches courses on American politics and elections at the intersections of race, place, and gender. She is the founder and President of the Anna Julia Cooper Center, an independent organization with a mission to advance justice and alleviate harm for women and girls of color in American higher education. Along with Dorian Warren, she is co-host of the podcast System Check, with The Nation.

For nearly two decades, Harris-Perry has contributed to American public life through her distinct combination of scholarly analysis and grounded wisdom applied to analysis of race, gender, politics, and power. She hosted the award winning television show “Melissa Harris-Perry” from 2012-2016 on weekend mornings on MSNBC and in 2016, won the Hillman Prize for broadcast journalism.

This hybrid event will be held on Friday, 11/4, at 7:00 PM at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts, immediately followed by a reception at the Alumni Center. Guests can watch the keynote virtually via livestream or in-person.These and other anniversary events are free, but RSVP is required.

Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children’s Literature (11/5)

The 2022 Malka Penn Award will be presented to author Wade Hudson on November 1, 2022 in the Dodd Center for Human Rights. Hudson will speak about his career, the inspiration behind his memoir Defiant: Growing Up in the Jim Crow South, and the founding of his and wife Cheryl Hudson's publishing outlet Just Us Books. Following the ceremony will be a reception with light refreshments, copies of the winning book available for purchase, and time reserved for book signings by the author.

The Malka Penn Award is given annually to the author of an outstanding children’s book addressing human rights issues or themes such as discrimination, equity, poverty, justice, war, peace, slavery or freedom. Named in honor of author Michele Palmer, who writes under the pseudonym Malka Penn, the award recognizes works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, memoir, or biography which are written for children from preschool to high school. Within these larger themes, the award committee is particularly eager to recognize stories about individuals – real or fictional, children or adults – who have been affected by social injustices, and who, by confronting them, have made a difference in their lives or the lives of others.

This in-person event will be held on in the Dodd Center's Konover Auditorium on Tuesday, November 1, from 5:00 to 6:00 PM with a book signing and reception to follow. Click here to register.

Equity Now: The Midterm Election’s Impact on DEI (11/14)

The University of Connecticut School of Business is proud to present the EQUITY NOW Speaker Series, featuring expert insights on how law and policy can promote diversity, equity, and fairness in organizations and society.

We invite you to join us on Monday, November 14, at 6 p.m. ET, for "Legislative Momentum and Disparities by State: The Midterm Election’s Impact on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion," a talk by Jehan El-Jourbagy (Associate Professor of Business Law & Ethics, Georgia College) and Joanna Schwartz (Professor of Marketing, Georgia College).

With recent United States Supreme Court decisions increasingly deferential to state’s rights, driving across state lines can result in being treated very differently in regard to a number of important personal rights. From access to abortion and marijuana to the rights of LGBTQ+ individuals, those living in the United States may be subject to a different reality depending on their zip code. Using maps, recent court cases, and results from the November election, the speakers will address the impact of states taking the lead on defining the rights of individuals, resulting in a scattershot approach to employment laws, discrimination in the workplace, and legal treatment of personal rights.

You can register for this online event here. For more information about the series, please contact Robert Bird, Professor of Business Law and Eversource Energy Chair in Business Ethics, at robert.bird@uconn.edu.

representASIAN in Sports & Games- Boston (11/5)

The UConn Asian American Alumni Association (UConn4A) and the UConn Asian American Cultural Center (AsACC) are so excited to announce that they will be hosting an in-person event in Boston, MA!

Come meet the Boston Hurricanes, a 9-man volleyball team, enjoy refreshments from local Asian restaurants, and play games of Asian origin with the alumni community!

This event is open to families and guests as well!

When: Saturday Nov. 5th at 5pm
Where: Pao Arts Center - 99 Albany Ave. Boston, MA
Cost: $5

See the Alumni webpage for more information and to buy tickets.

“My Life After Hate,” an Evening with Arno Michaelis (11/8)

October 19, 2022

Phi Sigma Alpha, the Office for Diversity and Inclusion, and UConn Hillel invite you to "My Life AFter Hate," an evening with Arno Michaelis.

Arno Michaelis will share how compassion helped him transform from skinhead to peacemaker and member of The Forgiveness Project. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Arno was a founding member of a notorious worldwide racist skinhead organization, a reverend of a self-declared racial holy war, and frontman of the hate-metal band Centurion, which sold 20,000 CDs by the mid-nineties and is still popular with racists today.

Single parenthood, love for his daughter, and the forgiveness shown by people he once hated all helped to turn Arno's life around, bringing him to embrace diversity and practice gratitude for all life. After spending over a decade as a successful information technology consultant and entrepreneur, Arno is now a speaker, author of My Life After Hate, and very fortunate to be able to share his ongoing process of character development with the world in an effort to counter the cycle of violence he once fueled.

This in-person event will be held on Tuesday, 11/8, at 8:00 PM in the ODI Commons. Please RSVP here.