Written by UCHI Fellow Evan Wolfgang through his Undergraduate Fellowship, Going to the Lordy is an original play that examines the real-life assassination of President James Garfield through the eyes of the assassin’s sister as she attempts to contend with her past. Going to the Lordy will run at the Nafe Katter Theatre on February 28 at 8pm, March 1 at 8pm, and March 2 at 2pm, where it will run as a double bill alongside her sister production, I am the Seagull.

The play is free and does not require registration or rsvp.

Written by UCHI Fellow Evan Wolfgang through his Undergraduate Fellowship, Going to the Lordy is an original play that examines the real-life assassination of President James Garfield through the eyes of the assassin’s sister as she attempts to contend with her past. Going to the Lordy will run at the Nafe Katter Theatre on February 28 at 8pm, March 1 at 8pm, and March 2 at 2pm, where it will run as a double bill alongside her sister production, I am the Seagull.

The play is free and does not require registration or rsvp.

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 Spring 2025 semester. Attend this workshop BEFORE you apply for post-completion OPT.

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

This session is for F-1 students who will do an internship or work off-campus before graduating, or for students who have internships and clinical placements as part of your academic curriculum. 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.

International Student & Scholar Services will hold a “Listening Hour” for international students to voice concerns and ask questions about recent immigration-related changes and executive orders. 

This informative and interactive workshop will increase graduate students’ knowledge of the range of mental health resources on campus as well as helpful self-care and stress management strategies.

Facilitator:

• Alyson Faires, PsyD, Staff Psychologist, SHaW Mental Health

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Please register to receive a Webex link for this event.

ISSS will offer a virtual workshop on Tax Filing Requirements for International Students and Scholars especially for those international students and scholars who need to file a 2024 tax return. International students and scholars who were present in the U.S. in 2024 have certain tax forms they need to fill out, even if they didn’t work or earn income.

We should understand better the histories of computing in humanities disciplines. Focusing on literary studies, this talk offers an explanation of a particular event: the emergence of a practice called “literary data processing” around 1960, and the methodological revolution which—while projected from this practice—did not quite happen. Working outward from the writing of the literary scholar Stephen Parrish (1921–2012), this talk uncovers the questions that exercised literary computing and literary criticism alike at this historical moment, questions about humans, machines, language, and minds.

Yohei Igarashi is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of The Connected Condition: Romanticism and the Dream of Communication (2020) and other writing, most recently a chapter on literary data in the Cambridge Companion to Literature in a Digital Age (2024). In 2023–2024, he was the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow at the National Humanities Center.

Hana Maruyama is an assistant professor in history and social and critical inquiry at the University of Connecticut. Her current manuscript discusses how the federal government exploited Japanese Americans’ World War II incarceration to dispossess American Indians and Alaska Natives and advance U.S. settler colonialism.

Access note

If you require accommodation to attend this event, please contact us at uchi@uconn.edu or by phone (860) 486-9057. We can request ASL interpretation, computer-assisted real time transcription, and other accommodations offered by the Center for Students with Disabilities.

Spring 2025 Schedule

Wednesdays, 4-6pm. 1/29/25 – 4/16/25 (10 weeks)
Location: CISS 202

English workshops are available for 10-weeks in the Fall and Spring semesters. These workshops will help participants develop the speaking skills needed to convey their ideas clearly when presenting in front of an audience. Students will practice presenting information relevant to their field of study and be actively involved in self-assessment and peer assessment. Content will be adapted to suit the group’s needs.

Who can register? UConn undergraduates, graduates, J1 scholars, J2, F2, exchange students (EGL).

Register at the link below:

https://ita.uconn.edu/english-support/

Attend this session if you meet ALL of these criteria:
• You were in the US on an F or J visa for any days during 2024 AND
• You don’t have work or scholarship income AND
• You are a student who has been here 5 years or less

If all three bullet points are true for you, come to the workshop and we will assist you with completing this required form!
sign up required

***Please note that this session is only for students who DID NOT have paid employment. If you had paid employment at any time in 2024, please utilize the tax resources on our website such as Sprintax, VITA workshops, etc.***

This session is for F-1 students who will do an internship or work off-campus before graduating, or for students who have internships and clinical placements as part of your academic curriculum. 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. 

Are you a social crusader? Do you care about equal representation? If you answered yes to one or both questions, we want you to join us. Art+Feminism is an initiative that seeks to improve coverage of feminism, gender, and the arts on Wikipedia. The goal of this event is to increase representation of cis and trans women, non-binary people, and Black, Indigenous, and people of color on the internet. Help us build out the Wikipedia page for Minnie Negoro, subject of the current exhibition, Minnie Negoro: From Heart Mountain to UConn. Bring your laptop and learn how to research and edit Wikipedia to make it more inclusive. Led by UConn professor Kelly Dennis, the Edit-a-Thon is held in conjunction with the 2025 Digital Media & Design Faculty Exhibition and Minnie Negoro: From Heart Mountain to UConn.

Kelly Dennis is Associate Professor of Visual Studies in the Department of Digital Media & Design at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. She is also Affiliated Faculty in the American Studies program. Like 25 percent of students at UConn, Professor Dennis was a first generation college student.

Dr. Dennis’s research focuses on the histories of visual communications technologies as they impact the production and consumption of images, both analog and digital. She is the author of Art/Porn: A History of Seeing and Touching (Berg, 2009), which critically analyzes—from Plato to the Internet—the rhetoric of taste and the senses as they relate to class distinctions surrounding reception of the nude. Her current book project focuses on the impact of photography’s dual role in post-WWII western promotion and in a regional aesthetics of landscape photography.

Professor Dennis organizes the UConn node of the annual Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon.

Bracelet making event for international students.

Tickets :

• UConn Students – $15
• Regular – $20
• Kids ages 6-12 – $10
• Kids 5 and under – FREE
• Day of Purchase – $25

Tickets are on sale now at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts Box Office.

Visit the Box Office, call at 860.486.4226 or go online at http://bit.ly/3EwmdCZ. If you would like more information, please contact the Asian American Cultural Center, 860.486.0830 or asacc@uconn.edu.

Get your tickets now!

Join Prof. Nicola Rollock author of “The Racial Code: Tales of Resistance & Survival” & Dr. Saran Stewart author of “Black Women Academics & Intersectional Erasure in the Netherlands” in conversation with Else Delacruz (Dir. of the Women’s Center).

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International Student & Scholar Services will be on the Avery Point campus on Tuesday, March 11 for in-person drop-in advising/consultation. Please feel free to stop in if you need assistance or have questions.  We will be in room 230 of the Lowell Weicker Building (formerly the Marine Sciences Building) from approximately 8am – 1pm.

Join us for a book talk and fireside chat, where Scott presents images and stories from his new book, based on seven years of frontline reporting from the warzones of Central America in the 1980s.

Scott will be joined by award-winning novelist, journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist Francisco Goldman for a lively discussion about the current relevance of those events on immigration, our treatment of immigrants, the treatment of civilians in wartime, and the critical role of independent journalists in an age rife with disinformation and deception.

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

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 Spring 2025 semester. Attend this workshop BEFORE you apply for post-completion OPT.

Many American families with deaf and hard-of-hearing children are unaware of the potential benefits of using a bimodal bilingual approach that embraces the use of both spoken English and American Sign Language (ASL). This can exacerbate detrimental effects that may result when audism and linguicism prioritize the use of spoken language exclusively. This presentation busts some widely-held myths about sign languages, and shows the results of integrating ASL into a family’s language plan.

Diane Lillo-Martin is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor and Head of the Department of Linguistics at UConn. Her research focuses on the acquisition of ASL and its linguistic properties.

International Student & Scholar Services and the Graduate International & Non-JD Programs Team will hold a “Listening Hour” for international students to voice concerns and ask questions about recent immigration-related changes and executive orders. Please RSVP for this session by completing the form below, by the end of the day on Monday, March 10th. Food will be served. 

Please register at this link: https://forms.office.com/r/y7ukta48xw 

On Wednesday, March 12, 2025, from 3:00-4:00 pm in CISS rm 202 on the Storrs Campus, Center International Students and Scholars will hold an International Student/Scholar Meeting - “Listening Hour” for international students to voice concerns, ask questions about recent immigration-related changes and executive orders, and learn about how they can stay informed and how UConn can support them. 

What are your questions for Wednesday’s Listening Session?

This event will be held both in person and online. 

In the wake of the Civil Rights Act and before the advent of the Black Power Movement, the year 1965 was a turning point for African American politics and culture, embodied in the radical turn taken by Malcolm X in the months leading up to his assassination. This talk reads Ronald L. Fair’s 1965 novel Many Thousand Gone: An American Fable as a counterpoint to Malcolm X, in the light of the globalization of Black politics.

Grégory Pierrot is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut at Stamford where he teaches American and African American literature. His research bears on the cultural networks of the Black Atlantic. He is the author of The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture (UGA, 2019) and Decolonize Hipsters (OR Books, 2021). He is co-editor with Marlene L. Daut and Marion Rohrleitner of Haitian Revolutionary Fictions: An Anthology (UVA, 2021), and co-author with Paul Youngquist of a scholarly edition of Marcus Rainsford’s An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti (Duke 2013). He is also part of a team of researchers led by Dr. Maria Baelieva Solomon (UMD) working on a digital edition of the 19th-century, French-language abolitionist review La Revue des colonies, recipient of a NHPRC grant. He will be spending his fellowship year working on his next project, a French-language monograph tentatively titled “Le Temps d’une nation noire: fictions révolutionnaires du Black Power” that will explore how American writers imagined imminent African American revolution through fiction during the Black Power era.

Danielle Pieratti (she/her) is a doctoral candidate in the English Department. She holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, SUNY at Albany, and Columbia University, where she earned an MFA in poetry. She is the author of two poetry collections: Approximate Body (2023), and Connecticut Book Award winner Fugitives (2016). Transparencies, her translated volume of works by Italian poet Maria Borio, was published by World Poetry Books in 2022. Danielle was a 2023 poetry and translation fellow of the Connecticut Office of the Arts, and currently serves as poetry editor for the international literary journal Asymptote.

Spring 2025 Schedule

Wednesdays, 4-6pm. 1/29/25 – 4/16/25 (10 weeks)
Location: CISS 202

English workshops are available for 10-weeks in the Fall and Spring semesters. These workshops will help participants develop the speaking skills needed to convey their ideas clearly when presenting in front of an audience. Students will practice presenting information relevant to their field of study and be actively involved in self-assessment and peer assessment. Content will be adapted to suit the group’s needs.

Who can register? UConn undergraduates, graduates, J1 scholars, J2, F2, exchange students (EGL).

Register at the link below:

https://ita.uconn.edu/english-support/

The presentation highlights the significance of Indigenous research methods prioritizing community needs over conventional academic objectives. It advocates for acknowledging Indigenous knowledge systems and calls for the decolonization of urbanism, geography and mobilities studies, promoting a more context-driven analysis of Amazonian urbanism that recenters Indigenous perspectives, agency, and experiences. Additionally, it underscores the contributions of Kichwa women in transforming urban areas through placemaking initiatives. These initiatives focus on revitalizing Indigenous geographies that celebrate their cultural knowledge and lived experiences, thus confronting colonial approaches to urban development.

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 Spring 2025 semester. Attend this workshop BEFORE you apply for post-completion OPT.

Remember that even if you did not work in the US, you are still required to complete the tax form 8843. We can help with this!
Attend this session if you meet ALL of these criteria:
• You were in the US on an F or J visa for any days during 2024 AND
• You don’t have work or scholarship income AND
• You are a student who has been here 5 years or less
If all three bullet points are true for you, come to the workshop and we will assist you with completing this required form!
sign up required

Please join us for a fun day exploring New York City on Wednesday, March 19, 2025. Pick-up and drop-off location in front of the Center for International Students and Scholars (CISS) - 2019 Hillside Road. Students are free to do their own activities while in NYC. You will have the day to enjoy the city as you like! Your ticket covers transportation to and from NYC - 42nd Street Grand Central Terminal.

Bus leaves CISS at 8am. Bus leaves NYC at 8pm. Register for the trip at the link below. Tickets are $50.

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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 Spring 2025 semester. Attend this workshop BEFORE you apply for post-completion OPT.

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 Summer 2024 semester. Attend this workshop BEFORE you apply for post-completion OPT.

Sponsored by USG Chief Diversity Office

Faculty and Staff are welcome to join in fellowship with other faith communities. An Iftar is a meal eaten by Muslims both before sunrise and after sunset to break their fast every day during Ramadan. It is part of the sacred ritual of Ramadan. This year Ramadan officially began on Friday, February 28th at sundown and concludes on the evening of Sunday, March 30th. Please join us in celebration of Ramadan!

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This session is for F-1 students who will do an internship or work off-campus before graduating, or for students who have internships and clinical placements as part of your academic curriculum. 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.

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

Sponsored by USG Chief Diversity Office

Join us as we celebrate women’s achievements, raise awareness about work still to be done, and take action to drive gender parity. We will have speakers, performances, activities, snacks and flowers for everyone!

Co-sponsored with the African American Cultural Center, Asian American Cultural Center, Native American Cultural Programs, Puerto Rican Latin American Cultural Center, and Rainbow Center.

When the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade (1973) in 2022, many abortion rights activists responded with the slogan “Roe was never enough!” The phrase invoked a reality that had long defined legal abortion in the U.S.: Roe’s standing did not translate into widespread access to the procedure. But exactly how long have supporters of abortion rights wielded this criticism of Roe, and what would the feminist movement for legalization have thought about this rallying cry? In this paper, Professor Sara Matthiesen recovers feminist responses to the legalization of abortion in 1973, and asks what their varied assessments can teach us about the contemporary struggle over bodily autonomy. 

Sara Matthiesen is Associate Professor of History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at George Washington University. Her first book, Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice after Roe v. Wade (University of California Press, 2021), shows how incarceration, for-profit and racist healthcare, HIV/AIDS, parentage laws, and poverty were worsened by state neglect in the decades following Roe. In 2022, Reproduction Reconceived received the Sara A. Whaley Prize for best monograph on gender and labor from National Women’s Studies Association. Professor Matthiesen’s current project, “‘Free Abortion on Demand’ after Roe: A Reproductive Justice History of Abortion Organizing in the United States,” traces the multi-racial feminist activism that opposed state and medical control of abortion throughout the era of choice. At GWU, she regularly teaches Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, for which she was awarded the Kenny Teaching Prize in 2022.

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As late 19th century Germany struggled to define the terms and conditions as a strong, unified nation-state, it was forced to wrestle with an internal dilemma: what to do with its Jews, whom the nascent German nation had come to define itself against. Meanwhile, a young Black American scholar named W.E.B. Du Bois had ventured across the Atlantic to study at the prestigious University of Berlin for two years, where he hoped to sharpen his own analysis of Black people’s social and living conditions in the United States. This talk examines how Du Bois’s time spent in Germany - including his exposure to German antisemitism - shaped his own understanding of anti-Black racism in the United States and the global color-line more broadly. 

This event is also co-sponsored by UConn Center for Judaic Studies & Contemporary Jewish Life, Research on Resilient Cities, Racism, and Equity at UConn Hartford, Africana Studies Institute, Intersectional Indigeneity, Race, Ethnicity & Politics, Department of Philosophy, Department of Social and Critical Inquiry, and Department of Sociology.

Spring 2025 Schedule

Wednesdays, 4-6pm. 1/29/25 – 4/16/25 (10 weeks)
Location: CISS 202

English workshops are available for 10-weeks in the Fall and Spring semesters. These workshops will help participants develop the speaking skills needed to convey their ideas clearly when presenting in front of an audience. Students will practice presenting information relevant to their field of study and be actively involved in self-assessment and peer assessment. Content will be adapted to suit the group’s needs.

Who can register? UConn undergraduates, graduates, J1 scholars, J2, F2, exchange students (EGL).

Register at the link below:

https://ita.uconn.edu/english-support/

The UConn Women’s Center and WiMSE Learning Community are collaborating to host a Women in STEM Networking Night, a dynamic event designed to connect undergraduate women in STEM with faculty and career professionals from diverse fields. This event offers a valuable opportunity for students to build their professional networks, gain insights into various STEM career paths, and receive guidance from experienced mentors. Attendees will engage in meaningful conversations, learn about research opportunities, and explore potential career development resources. Whether students are just beginning their academic journey or preparing for their professional careers, this event aims to provide a supportive environment to help them thrive in their chosen fields.

The quality of the advisor-advisee relationship is known to be an important factor in the success and wellbeing of graduate students. Neurodiverse graduate students, including, but not limited to students with ADHD, dyslexia, or those on the autism spectrum, often encounter stereotypes and negative perceptions from faculty; the tenor of this key relationship may make or break the graduate school experience. Research suggests that a strength-based approach to neurodiversity may be one way to support and empower neurodiverse graduate students, while enhancing motivation and agency. This session aims to provide insights into neurodiverse graduate student experiences and provide practical strength-based strategies for advising neurodiverse graduate students.

FACILITATOR

• Connie Syharat, Research Assistant and INCLUDE Project Manager

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Please register to receive a Webex link for this event.

Dr. Nettrice Gaskins’ Art Talk dives into the evolving world of AI-driven creativity, exploring how race, class, and culture intersect with emerging technologies. Part of Contemporary Art Galleries’s Data Infused series, this engaging discussion examines the ethical implications of AI in art and the importance of Black voices in shaping the digital future.

Learn More about Dr. Nettrice Gaskins.

Six students will perform their personal stories in an intimate show reflecting on issues of social isolation and connection.

Stories stick with us. They connect us to each other. In a world where we are more disconnected from each other than ever, stories can be healing. They help us see new perspectives and share ideas, building identity and community.

From finding connection in the boxing ring to understanding identity through language, six students will share their unique perspectives on what it means to find connection. UCHI Student Ambassadors will work with Story Slam coaches Jon Adler and Gillian Epstein to craft their stories into a performance, culminating in the UConn Story Slam where they will tell their stories in front of a live audience.

 Learn more about the UConn Story Slam

This is an Honors Event. See tags below for categories. #UHLevent11110

Dear Undergraduate International Students & Friends!

Please join UISA for a Board Game Night on Thursday, March 27 from 6-7pm in The Center for International Students and Scholars (CISS), Room 202.

UISA is a registered student organization affiliated with CISS to make connections between international students and build community. If you have a favorite board game you would like to bring, you are welcome to do so. There are many more games waiting to be played!

We hope to see you there,

Undergraduate International Student Association (UISA)

FREE.

The Writing Center is hosting a multilingual coffee hour at the Center for International Students and Scholars (CISS). Featuring: Spanish, Arabic, German, Kinywarwanda, Tamil, Korean, and more.