Join us to watch a movie to celebrate our cultures and heritage month. During this time we will provide popcorn and have a break as the week of midterms approaches.

A time where the Puerto Rican Student Association has their General Body Meetings! This is when members and people who are interested in joining the club come together and have events that cater to the organizations mission and interests!

In-Power is a student-led support group dedicated to building a gender-inclusive community that welcomes victim-survivors of sexual assault, stalking, and/or intimate partner violence at any point in their healing process. Through a focus on empowerment, autonomy, and resilience, the group aims to help participants claim agency over their own stories and experiences, as well as the direction of the group. We’ll be accomplishing this with a variety of discussion topics and self-care methods. If you are interested in joining the group, please reach out to facilitators at: in-power@uconn.edu

10/03: Mola Pillow Making - Teaching our members how to craft traditional Panamian mola pillows.

Dr. Tara J. Yosso will offer a workshop for UConn faculty demonstrating how she
applies a community cultural wealth model pedagogically, to facilitate a deeper
understanding of the ways we are connected across time and place in the struggle for justice. Together, we will identify points of praxis for our own work.

UCHI Dissertation Scholar David Evans will be giving a talk on “Rediscovering Hunger: The Human Right to Food and US Politics in the 1970s”

with a response by Kathryn Angelica

This event will also be livestreamed.

“Rediscovering Hunger” examines the political struggle surrounding the effort to embed the human right to food into US foreign and domestic policy in the mid-1970s. Following a disastrous world food crisis that lasted from 1973-1974, US citizens and political leaders re-awoke to the ethical problem that hunger presented. The promise of the modernization projects of the 1960s gave way to a reality in which wealthy countries remained well-fed, the global poor starved and suffered. Therefore in 1976, various US Congressional leaders, supported by a broad coalition of religious and secular activists, sought to establish the human right to food in US policy. The effort represented one of the earliest efforts in a wider human rights project that came to dominate US politics by the end of the decade. The episode also illustrated the constraints of effectively achieving human rights, as food producers and market fundamentalists contested the meaning and viability of the human right to food despite its moral universality.

More details.

Drop by the Rainbow Center Main Room on Wednesdays between 1pm and 4pm to chat with Nishelli Ahmed (she/her) about well-being. Among many other opportunities to engage with Nishelli, she serves to support a connection between historically marginalized students and SHaW services. Nishelli is here to validate our collective experiences, backgrounds, and provide a safer space to think about wellness.

Do you want to work in the U.S. after you graduate? Are you on an F-1 visa? Attend this workshop to learn more about Optional Practical Training (OPT) and how to apply for a work permit to stay in the U.S. and work in your field of study after graduation. This workshop is required for all students who will apply for OPT and will graduate in Fall 2023 semester. Attend this workshop BEFORE you apply for post-completion OPT.

A discussion group for women who love women… or think they might. Come and discuss fun topics, movies and more with women who share your feelings and experiences. For more information and the link to join, please email BetweenWomen@uconn.edu

General body meetings vary from collabs with other other organizations or just with the eboard, all students and staff are welcome.

Dr. Tara J. Yosso’s keynote will overview her community
cultural wealth model, which has been received nationally
and internationally as a paradigm shift for the ways we have
traditionally thought about schooling structures, practices,
and discourse. She will ask us to consider how we take up
this model fostering a critical historical perspective of the
communities we aim to serve. As an emerging Hispanic
Serving Research Institution building on dedicated efforts
carried forward over 52 years by the Puerto Rican/Latin
American Cultural Center. Dr. Yosso’s timely insights aim to
encourage us to draw on the ingenuity and courage of those
who have come before us in the struggle for justice and to
support our efforts cultivating a community of praxis at UConn.

A celebration of Millikan’s groundbreaking contributions to philosophy and the 40th anniversary of her seminal book Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories (LTOBC) bringing together researchers from a variety of disciplines - philosophy, linguistics, psychology, anthropology, and biology - to engage both critically and creatively with Millikan’s work. Registration form is here: https://ecomresearchgroup.com/millikanfest/

Join us for a community dialogue with Dr. Tara J. Yosso.

Please join the History Department for our Fall 2023 Gender & History lecture “Writing the History of Sexual Assault: Fractured Narratives and Changing Stories.”

This talk will be delivered by Amy Stanley, the the Wayne V. Jones Research Professor of History at Northwestern University.

Primarily a social historian of early modern and modern Japan, she has special interests in global history, women’s and gender history, and narrative. She is the author of Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan (UC Press 2012), as well as articles in the American Historical Review, The Journal of Japanese Studies, and The Journal of Asian Studies. Her most recent book, Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World (Scribner, 2020), won the National Book Critics’ Circle Award in Biography and PEN/America Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award in Biography and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

Professor Stanley received her PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard in 2007 and she has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Japan Foundation, the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.  

Manas is a force committed to creating a safe space for Latinas to drive change within our culture and enhance our representation on a global scale. We acknowledge the unique challenges faced by Latinas at predominantly white institutions and are here to challenge stereotypes, marianismo, and machismo. Through open conversations, volunteering, and self-care events, we aim to achieve these goals. For further questions email us, uconnmanas@gmail.com and follow us on instagram to stay up to date with our events @Uconnmanas

A celebration of Millikan’s groundbreaking contributions to philosophy and the 40th anniversary of her seminal book Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories (LTOBC) bringing together researchers from a variety of disciplines - philosophy, linguistics, psychology, anthropology, and biology - to engage both critically and creatively with Millikan’s work. Registration form is here: https://ecomresearchgroup.com/millikanfest/

Africana Studies will be tabling during the major fair to talk to prospective students about Africana Studies. Please visit our table to find out more. 

All internships, work and placements off-campus must be authorized through Curricular Practical Training (CPT) or Pre-Completion Optional Practical Training (OPT), even if unpaid and required for your class or program. If you are considering a future off-campus work opportunity or placement, you are required to attend this workshop before you apply for CPT or Pre-Completion OPT with ISSS.

Dr. Lakeyta Bonnette-Bailey is a Professor of Africana Studies at Georgia State University and the Co-Director for the Center for the Advancement of Students and Alumni (CASA). Her research interests include Hip Hop culture, popular culture, political behavior, political attitudes, African-American politics, Black women and Politics, political psychology and public opinion.
Her current research examines the relationship between political rap music and racial attitudes in a book (with Adolphus Belk, Jr) tentatively titled, Check the Rhyme: Political Rap Music and Racial Attitudes (New York University Press).

She recently published a co-edited volume with Jonathan Gayles entitled Black Popular Culture and Social Justice: Beyond the Culture (Routledge Press 2023). Dr. Bonnette-Bailey has also published a co-edited volume with Adolphus Belk Jr entitled For the Culture: Hip-Hop and Social Justice (University of Michigan Press, 2022) examining the relationships between Hip-Hop culture and social justice. Additionally, Dr. Bonnette-Bailey published (2015) a book with the University of Pennsylvania Press entitled, Pulse of the People: Rap Music and Black Political Attitudes.
Dr. Bonnette-Bailey has published over 5 articles and 7 book chapters in addition to the three books she has authored. These articles have been published in a variety of journals including the journals, Ethnic Studies Review, New Political Science, and Du Bois Review. She is also the winner of numerous awards including the Provost’s Outstanding Tenure Track Faculty Achievement Award (2023) and their Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) (2022) award as well as the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Faculty Diversity Award (2020). Currently, she serves as the Co-Principal Investigator on two Mellon Foundation grants “Intersectionality in the American South,” and the “Humanities Inclusivity Program,” totaling over 2 million dollars.

In-Power is a student-led support group dedicated to building a gender-inclusive community that welcomes victim-survivors of sexual assault, stalking, and/or intimate partner violence at any point in their healing process. Through a focus on empowerment, autonomy, and resilience, the group aims to help participants claim agency over their own stories and experiences, as well as the direction of the group. We’ll be accomplishing this with a variety of discussion topics and self-care methods. If you are interested in joining the group, please reach out to facilitators at: in-power@uconn.edu

DeColores is dedicated to bringing Latine and LGBTQIA+ identities together and creating a safe space and community. General Body Meetings are open to anyone, and vary from discussions, activities, and collaborations with other clubs/orgs/centers. 

This is a general homework/study event hosted by the Hermanos of La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, Inc. where students are welcome to study and do school work in a quiet space.

Dissertation Research Scholar Geoffrey Hedges-Knyrim gives his fellow’s talk on “Political Power during the Iron Age of the Southern Levant Through the Lens of Agricultural Production.”

with a response by Xu Peng

Drop by the Rainbow Center Main Room on Wednesdays between 1pm and 4pm to chat with Nishelli Ahmed (she/her) about well-being. Among many other opportunities to engage with Nishelli, she serves to support a connection between historically marginalized students and SHaW services. Nishelli is here to validate our collective experiences, backgrounds, and provide a safer space to think about wellness.

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Queer UConn Employees celebrates LGBT History Month and Nat’l Coming Out Day!  First, join your colleagues 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. for some BYO food and beverage at Parkville Market (1400 Park Street, Hartford).  Then, head on over to the 7:30 p.m. screening of Mutt at the CT LGBTQ Film Festival held at Cinestudio on the Trinity College campus (300 Summit Street, Hartford).  Film general admission: $13.  Visit outfilmct.org to buy your ticket in advance, read about the film, and get parking details.  

A discussion group for women who love women… or think they might. Come and discuss fun topics, movies and more with women who share your feelings and experiences. For more information and the link to join, please email BetweenWomen@uconn.edu

Learn more about these works of art through close looking and discussion and then try your hand at designing a mosaic-style picture frame.

Materials kit available at the front desk one week before the program.

Free for UConn students and Museum members, $5 for non-members.

Register in advance for this Zoom meeting.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting and picking up your materials kit. 

Biweekly council meeting for e-board members. This event is mandatory, one representative from each organization must attend. If you are unable to attend, please email lxslc@uconn.edu

All internships, work and placements off-campus must be authorized through Curricular Practical Training (CPT) or Pre-Completion Optional Practical Training (OPT), even if unpaid and required for your class or program. If you are considering a future off-campus work opportunity or placement, you are required to attend this workshop before you apply for CPT or Pre-Completion OPT with ISSS. Advance registration is required for in-person workshops and seats are limited. To register for this workshop please sign up on the link below. http://www.icworkshops.uconn.edu/

Rainbow Center Closed.

The Rainbow Center will be hosting the second annual Rainbow Center Symposium on Friday October 13, 2023. The symposium is open to all UConn students, staff, faculty and community members. Presentation proposals are still open. Please go here to submit your presentation/workshop proposal.

To register to attend the symposium click here.

General body meeting, we would have activities, discussions, or event planned for our members

A time where the Puerto Rican Student Association has their General Body Meetings! This is when members and people who are interested in joining the club come together and have events that cater to the organizations mission and interests!

In-Power is a student-led support group dedicated to building a gender-inclusive community that welcomes victim-survivors of sexual assault, stalking, and/or intimate partner violence at any point in their healing process. Through a focus on empowerment, autonomy, and resilience, the group aims to help participants claim agency over their own stories and experiences, as well as the direction of the group. We’ll be accomplishing this with a variety of discussion topics and self-care methods. If you are interested in joining the group, please reach out to facilitators at: in-power@uconn.edu

10/03: Mola Pillow Making - Teaching our members how to craft traditional Panamian mola pillows.

Rahul Koonathara is a UConn graduate student in the Department of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, and a 12th-generation puppeteer in the Pulavar family of Tholpavakoothu shadow performers in Kerala, India. Dr. Claudia Orenstein is a professor of theater at Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center whose work focuses on performing object theatre and puppetry forms in India and Japan. Koonathara and Orenstein will discuss the spectacular South Indian shadow puppet traditions of Tolu Bommalatta and Tholpavakoothu, as well as recent innovations reflecting the changing nature of the form, all of which can be seen in the current Ballard Institute exhibit Tradition and Revolution in Indian Shadow Puppetry. The exhibition will be on display through Dec.17, 2023. To learn more about this forum, visit bimp.uconn.edu/2023/09/06/indian-shadow-forum.

Admission to this event is free (donations greatly appreciated!), and refreshments will be served. 

UCHI Fellow Alexander Diener (Geography, University of Kansas) will give a talk on “The Middle of Somewhere: Place Attachment and the Geographies of Being”

with response by Martine Granby (Journalism, UConn).

This event will also be livestreamed.

Place attachment is a burgeoning field of scholarship maturing in theory, method, and application. The phenomenon obviously relates to concepts of residency, including key questions such as: Who moves and why? Who stays and why? Who returns and why? But place attachment also encompasses broader networks of place and geographic contingency, including questions such as: How do place attachments form? Why do people form attachments to some places and not others? How are concepts of home and homeland negotiated within and across varied conditions of mobility? In this talk, Alexander Diener approaches place attachment as an assemblage of materiality, performance, and narration. Rather than being static or deterministic, this model points to people’s varied capacities to make and remake place attachments, and how this shapes everyday routines (e.g. routes to work, shopping, social interactions), major life choices (e.g. places of residence, education, vacations), and identities (e.g. civic, national, religious). Keywords: place attachment, territorialization, environmental psychology, homeland, place identity, place dependency).

Drop by the Rainbow Center Main Room on Wednesdays between 1pm and 4pm to chat with Nishelli Ahmed (she/her) about well-being. Among many other opportunities to engage with Nishelli, she serves to support a connection between historically marginalized students and SHaW services. Nishelli is here to validate our collective experiences, backgrounds, and provide a safer space to think about wellness.

A discussion group for women who love women… or think they might. Come and discuss fun topics, movies and more with women who share your feelings and experiences. For more information and the link to join, please email BetweenWomen@uconn.edu

General body meetings vary from collabs with other other organizations or just with the eboard, all students and staff are welcome.

This workshop is required for all students who will apply for OPT and will graduate in Fall 2023. Attend this workshop BEFORE you apply for post-completion OPT. This workshop will take place on the GBLC campus, but is open to all F-1 UConn students. Advance registration is required for in-person workshops and seats are limited. To register please sign up on the link below: http://icworkshops.uconn.edu** You must attend the workshop for the whole hour in order to obtain full credit. You will be required to check-in at the beginning of the workshop, if you are running more than 5 minutes late, please attend the next available workshop.

Attend this workshop to learn more about Optional Practical Training (OPT) and how to apply for a work permit to stay in the U.S. and work in your field of study after graduation. This workshop is required for all students who will apply for OPT and will graduate in Fall 2023 semester. Attend this workshop BEFORE you apply for post-completion OPT.

Sign up here: https://icworkshops.uconn.edu/index.php?event=3380 

 Attend this workshop to learn more about Optional Practical Training (OPT) and how to apply for a work permit to stay in the U.S. and work in your field of study after graduation. This workshop is required for all students who will apply for OPT and will graduate in Fall 2023 semester. Attend this workshop BEFORE you apply for post-completion OPT.

Please sign up in advance: https://nexus.uconn.edu/secure_per/events/event_registration.php?ser=7008&rc=5179562062

Leandra Manos has spent nearly three years as the full-time caregiver for her 86-year-old father who is in the late stages of dementia. The award-winning documentary “A Daughter’s Long Goodbye” chronicles Leandra’s journey balancing Covid-19, unemployment, and caring for her aging father. Filmmaker and photojournalist Steven G. Smith will join for a discussion and Q&A after the film screening.

Manas is a force committed to creating a safe space for Latinas to drive change within our culture and enhance our representation on a global scale. We acknowledge the unique challenges faced by Latinas at predominantly white institutions and are here to challenge stereotypes, marianismo, and machismo. Through open conversations, volunteering, and self-care events, we aim to achieve these goals. For further questions email us, uconnmanas@gmail.com and follow us on instagram to stay up to date with our events @Uconnmanas

From single hours carved out of the teaching week to hard-won sabbatical leaves, finding time for research can feel like an achievement in itself for most academics. Because we strive and strategize to create this time, it’s particularly frustrating when we still can’t seem to use it the way we want. At the very moment we finally have the brain space to start reading or writing, we often find ourselves doing something else instead. If you’ve experienced this dynamic, you know it can feel almost like an out-of-body experience. One minute, you’re reviewing the chapter outline you drafted months ago, the next you’re in your email replying to a message about committee work that could definitely wait. Although this dynamic feels mysterious, what’s actually happening is very concrete and technical. There’s a specific feedback loop that gets created between our sense of how precious and rare this time is, and our resistance to using it fully. It comes down to the expectations, thoughts and feelings we bring to these moments—all of which can be changed.

In this workshop, I’m going to explain exactly how this feedback loop gets activated, what its component parts are, and how to dismantle them so you can use your research time with ease. Although you won’t need to share any of your personal reflections with the group if you don’t want to, you will have time to practice with tools and bank some progress in real time. Along the way, you’ll learn:

• Why this resistance can’t be resolved via time-management techniques (spoiler alert: it’s not because you’re not trying hard enough!)
• How the perception of time-scarcity and urgency actually create resistance
• When enforcing strict research goals backfires and why
• Why understanding resistance as ‘procrastination’ isn’t helpful
• How to reframe your relationship to research time in a way that will actually work.

Jane Elliott is a professor of contemporary literature at King’s College London, a coach and a writer. Her coaching practice grew from her experience mentoring students and junior colleagues. She specializes in helping smart people get out of their own way.

A panel discussion and live podcast recording featuring AI expert Dan Rockmore (Dartmouth College), UCHI Director Anna Mae Duane, UCHI Associate Director Stephen Dyson, and Jeffrey Dudas (UConn Political Science).

How will current and next generation AI reshape our understanding of conversation, companionship, and even love? Taking in the latest technical developments and inspired by movies such as Spike Jonze’s Her, join us! Catered reception to follow. Sponsored by the Popular Culture Initiative of the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute.

In-Power is a student-led support group dedicated to building a gender-inclusive community that welcomes victim-survivors of sexual assault, stalking, and/or intimate partner violence at any point in their healing process. Through a focus on empowerment, autonomy, and resilience, the group aims to help participants claim agency over their own stories and experiences, as well as the direction of the group. We’ll be accomplishing this with a variety of discussion topics and self-care methods. If you are interested in joining the group, please reach out to facilitators at: in-power@uconn.edu

DeColores is dedicated to bringing Latine and LGBTQIA+ identities together and creating a safe space and community. General Body Meetings are open to anyone, and vary from discussions, activities, and collaborations with other clubs/orgs/centers. 

UCHI Fellow Birgit Brander Rasmussen (English, Binghamton University SUNY) will give a talk on “Signs of Resistance, Signs of Resurgence: Indigenous Literacies, New Media, and Anti-Colonial Imaginaries in Native American Literature and Culture”

with a response by Zehra Arat (Political Science, UConn)

This event will also be livestreamed.

Drop by the Rainbow Center Main Room on Wednesdays between 1pm and 4pm to chat with Nishelli Ahmed (she/her) about well-being. Among many other opportunities to engage with Nishelli, she serves to support a connection between historically marginalized students and SHaW services. Nishelli is here to validate our collective experiences, backgrounds, and provide a safer space to think about wellness.

A discussion group for women who love women… or think they might. Come and discuss fun topics, movies and more with women who share your feelings and experiences. For more information and the link to join, please email BetweenWomen@uconn.edu

Biweekly council meeting for e-board members. This event is mandatory, one representative from each organization must attend. If you are unable to attend, please email lxslc@uconn.edu

Rainbow Center Closed.

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General body meeting, we would have activities, discussions, or event planned for our members