Missing and Murdered Indigenous Girls

November 13, 2021

Native American Cultural Programs are happy to announce that Sarah Deer, Native American lawyer and professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies and Public Affairs and Administration at the University of Kansas, will be speaking at UConn as part of Native and Indigenous History

Topic: The Beginning and End of Rape: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, a Conversation with Sarah Deer about Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America

Date: November 18, 2021

Time: 6:00 – 7:30

Format: Virtual

Gender Affirming Closet Kickoff

November 12, 2021

The Rainbow Center is thrilled to hold our annual Gender Affirming Closet Kickoff! The Gender Affirming Closet (GAC) was started by Lucas Brunt as an Individual Project in the Spring of 2020. It is now a permanent project taken on by the Rainbow Center to provide gender-affirming clothes and shapewear to those who need it.

The kickoff event will celebrate the opening of the GAC by providing attendees with information, opportunities to donate clothes, and time to "shop" the closet. Light refreshments will be available!

Topic: Gender Affirming Closet Kickoff

Date: November 12, 2021

Time: 5:30 – 7:30 PM,

Format: In-Person, Rainbow Center

We thank the Asian American Cultural Center, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Native American Cultural Programs, the Women’s Center, and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program the Puerto Rican/Latin American Cultural Center for supporting us with this event.

Red Pedagogy: Native American Social and Political Thought

November 11, 2021

Native American Cultural Programs is excited to co-sponsor a book talk for Professor Sandy Grande of the UConn American Studies, Philosophy, and Indigeneity, Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Programs. Grand will be discussing her book, Red Pedagogy, a ground-breaking exploration of critical education theory that argues that Indigenous People and Indian education have either been ignored or indiscriminately rolled into critical theories. This is the 10^th anniversary of the book.

Date: November 11, 2021

Time: 1:00 – 3:00 PM

Format: In-Person, Oak 408

NACP is cosponsoring this event along with Indigeneity, Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, Native American and Indigenous Studies, the American Studies Program, Asian/Asian American Studies, El Institute, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, the NEAG School of Education, and the Humanities Institute.

Healthcare for Immigrants Student Forum

November 10, 2021

Committed: Remembering Native Kinship In and Beyond Institutions

The Native American Cultural Programs are thrilled to host Susan Burch, professor of American Studies at Middlebury College, to discuss her new book about Native Kinship.

Topic: Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions.

Date: November 10, 2021

Time: Informal Conversation from 2:00 – 3:00 PM; Public Talk from4:00 – 5:15

Format: Virtual

Thanks to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, the English and Political Science Departments, The American Studies Program, the Aetna Chair of Writing, and UConn Interpreting Services (UCIS) for co-sponsoring the event.

Stop Honor Killings

November 9, 2021

The Women’s Center is pleased to announce a seminar on gender-based violence with Dr. Rezvan Moghaddam, founder of the Iranian organization, “Stop Honor Killings,” along with an exhibition curated by Dr. Moghaddam and the Dodd Center’s Neda Izadi.

Topic: Stopping Honor Killings

Date: November 9, 2021

Time: 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Format: Virtual

We thank the Dodd Center, the Women’s Center, the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) program, and the Stop Honor Killings Campaign for co-sponsoring and co-hosting the event.

Black Leadership Town Hall

The African American Cultural Center (AACC) is hosting a Black Leadership Town Hall featuring members of UConn’s Black leadership.

Date: November 9, 2021

Time: 6:30 PM

Format: In-Person, Student Union Theater

Guest speakers include:

Eboni Nelson; Dean, UConn Law
Dr. Frank Tuitt; UConn VP and Chief Diversity Office
Letissa Reid; AVP, Title IX Coordinator, ADA Coordinator for UConn; OIE attorney
Dr. Willena Price; Director, African American Cultural Center (AACC)
AVP Lakesha Brown; AVP of Human Resources, UConn Health

Diwali 2021

November 3, 2021

Land Back and Land Art: Discussion with Navajo Artists

Using Literature in Anti-Racism Education toward Civic Readiness

November 2, 2021

The Dodd Center will be offering a workshop for pre-and in-service educators to explore the use of literature in Anti-Bias and Anti-Racism (ABAR) education towards civic activism. Participants will engage with the novel This is My America by Kim Johnson. In addition to the broad ABAR education practices using literature, the workshop will also engage educators in the civic aspect of literature instruction - issues such as intellectual freedom, selecting diverse texts and authors, responding to book censorship and text selection mandates. We will put This is My America in conversation with The Students' Right to Read, a position statement by the National Council of Teachers of English. The workshop will focus on two areas of professional development: ABAR Literature instruction (In the Classroom) and A Program of Action (beyond the classroom). A Q&A with author Kim Johnson will follow the workshop.

Kim Johnson was awarded the Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children's Literatures for her novel, This is My America. The Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children's Literatures 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.

This event is sponsored by Human Rights Close to Home, an initiative of Dodd Impact. With the overall objective of transforming civics education within and beyond Connecticut, the Human Rights Close to Home initiative is designed to directly engage key stakeholders including educators and youth in the development and implementation of a model of human rights education for civic action. HRCH empowers teachers with the knowledge, skills, values, and relationships necessary to become expert human rights and civics educators. Moreover, HRCH fosters youth leadership with experiential learning opportunities that have a direct impact on them and their communities.

Date: November 2, 2021

Time: 2:00 – 4:00 PM

Format: Virtual