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.

How to Join:

Meeting link: https://uconnvtc.webex.com/uconnvtc/j.php?MTID=mcfd80952d2c585614d1dccbea350129e

Meeting number: 2622 508 8813

Password: Workshops23

AMP Ice Cream Social! This event is a closed AMP event that is only open to program mentors and mentees.

Please join us for a UCHI Virtual Open House! As the new leadership team embarks on our first year at UCHI, we’d like to invite you to a virtual gathering where we can discuss how to build community and enhance the visibility of the remarkable scholarship produced by humanities and social science faculty here at UConn. 

To attend please register at this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAlcuGgrDksHN0AgUoSCDPgvXAFq44k-hJB#/registration

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson works on disability culture, bioethics, and critical theory; she is a Hastings Center Fellow and Senior Advisor and professor emerita of English and bioethics at Emory University. This workshop offers knowledge case studies for how critical disability studies can and does appear in curriculum, research, teaching, practice, the arts, policy, and healthcare ethics. The workshop will provide academic resources as examples of this expansion of critical and cultural disability studies from theory into practice. Lunch will be provided to participants.

* Attendance will be capped — please RSVP by 9/8/23 at: https://forms.gle/5LBfMNmbK57d99Jt8

The academic field we now call critical
disability studies developed in the last
decades of the twentieth century from
sociology, medical anthropology, and
healthcare fields into a fuller disciplinary
knowledge enterprise, complete with
academic specializations, degree
programs, academic journals,
conferences, professional organizational
structures, and broad recognition as a
useful competence in employment. This
lecture traces this knowledge emergence
and some of the work it does in the
world.

The lecture will have CART captioning
and ASL interpretation. If you require
an alternative format flyer or
accommodation to participate, please
contact Carolyn Conway (AY23-24
WGSS Curriculum Coordinator) at
carolyn.conway@uconn.edu by 9/4/23.

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.

How to Join:

Meeting link: https://uconnvtc.webex.com/uconnvtc/j.php?MTID=m5e333298154d7689793f516b2ac3b9e5

Meeting number: 2620 945 9806

Password: Workshops23

LIVE PODCAST RECORDING: Join us for a live recording of the UConnPopCast featuring Prof. Danielle Lindemann, author of True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us. How do The Bachelor, Survivor, RuPaul’s Drag Race, Project Runway, and other reality shows reinforce and challenge our views of class, race, family, couples, sexuality, and gender?

Participate in this live recording as an audience member - and ask Prof. Lindemann your question about reality TV - from 12-1pm on Wednesday September 13th in the UCHI Conference Room (Homer Babbage Library, 4th Floor). FREE FOOD!

Prof. Danielle Lindemann is an associate professor of sociology at LeHigh University. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, and CNN.com. She recently featured in the Amazon Prime documentary Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets.

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

This is the first council meeting for new e-board members to learn about the requirements for PRLACC (Puerto Rican/Latin American Cultural Center). This social event is mandatory, one representative from each organization must attend. If you are unable to attend, please email lxslc@uconn.edu

Start off the school year with a sweet treat and setting some goals! 🧁🔮 Join us in decorating cupcakes and creating digital vision boards on Thursday, September 14 at 5pm in the PRLACC program room.

This event is closed to mentors and mentees of our program only, due to capacity limitations. Please RSVP using the QR provided or these link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeQvUD5LvisUM_qdMlgsQvflmjqdNWokOF4yKcir28KUM_HWw/viewform?pli=1

See you there!

Rainbow Center Closed.

The annual Rainbow Center Welcome Back Bash will be held on Friday Sep. 15, 2023 from 6-8pm in the Rainbow Center program room. Light refreshments will be served.

This event will be an all-day experience for new executive board members of our student organizations to gain a better sense of leadership and provide the necessary training that will benefit our organizations. If you have any questions, please contact lxslc@uconn.edu

With the STEM Career Fairs coming up later in the week, this event is a space for Latinx-identifying students to prepare and practice networking. The first portion of the event includes a workshop about how to efficiently and confidently market themselves to potential employers. Following this, we will open the floor for attendees to network with upperclassmen who have acquired relevant experience in their respective fields. 🧬🌱

RSVP: https://forms.gle/PHPTKst6UKGDZfuF7

 Attend this workshop to learn more about Optional Practical Training (OPT)  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.

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

GBM 10/03 “Molla Pillow Making:” Teaching our members how to craft traditional Panamian mola pillows.

UCHI Dissertation Scholar Xu Peng (LCL) will give a talk on “Reading Caribbean Chineseness: A Literary Migration”

with a response by David Evans.

This event will also be livestreamed.

Since the first wave of indentured Chinese laborers arrived in the Caribbean in the mid-nineteenth century amid the abolition of slavery, Chinese migrants have appeared repeatedly in Caribbean histories and literatures. While historians of the Caribbean have unearthed the Chinese presence from government decrees, census records, local newspapers and magazines, nuanced articulations of Chineseness have also been rehearsed yet remained understudied in Caribbean literature and culture. Drawing on fictional and artistic representations of Sino-Caribbean experiences, this talk proposes a framework that Peng terms “literary migration” to study Caribbean Chineseness. Attentive to the fact that the Chinese not just physically crossed national borders in the past, they have also metaphorically “migrated” into contemporary Caribbean narratives of nation-building and people-making, Peng illuminates the literary functionality of Sino-Caribbean relationality. Using Cuban writer Lourdes Casal’s 1972 short story “Los Fundadores: Alfonso” as an example, this talk demonstrates how Chineseness is narrativized and repurposed in Caribbean literature to reconsider national histories, reconstruct national identities, and envision national futures.

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.

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. 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.

Dr. Alexander Diener
Associate Chair & Professor of Geography
Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science
University of Kansas

Abstract: 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

The AACC commemorates our annual Welcome Back Dinner. This event is a staple of the fall semester and features a full ethnic/soul food dinner. We take this opportunity to welcome new and returning students, faculty, staff and community members to celebrate the beginning of another academic year at the University of Connecticut. We would love for you to join us for an Evening of Celebration, Reflection, Affirmation, and Action.

Civil Rights Cinema

Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice

The Africana Studies Institute, in partnership with SCHOLA2RS House and BSOUL House, presents: Civil Rights Cinema on Freedom Fridays. Civil Rights Cinema is a semester-long film series, showcasing films that dramatize the Black freedom struggle in the United States.

Synopsis of the film

 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=7007&rc=6701921383

In collaboration with The Sikh Coalition and Sikh Art Gallery, the AAASI is presenting the first Sikh Studies Week featuring community leaders, scholars, and cultural workers to inspire connections for students, reveal hidden histories, share joy and tradition, discuss art and healing, and provide rich and extended professional development for educators.

Monday 9/25 @ 4:30pm “Sikhism 101” with Harman Singh in Babbidge 1947 Room; Co-Sponsored with UConn Neag School of Education

All events will be hybrid. Join us in person or online. Register online here:  https://tinyurl.com/SikhStudiesWK

Join the Puerto Rican/Latin American Cultural Center for an open house to kick-off the celebration of National Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month. Meet the staff, tour the center, and savor delicious appetizers while admiring our historical timeline celebrating our 50th anniversary. ¡Los esperamos!

In collaboration with The Sikh Coalition and Sikh Art Gallery, the AAASI is presenting the first Sikh Studies Week featuring community leaders, scholars, and cultural workers to inspire connections for students, reveal hidden histories, share joy and tradition, discuss art and healing, and provide rich and extended professional development for educators.

Tuesday 9/26 @ 4pm “Diasporic Peregrinations: Journeys of a Burmese Sikh” with Dr. Jaspal Kaur Singh in Babbidge 1947 Room

All events will be hybrid. Register online here: https://tinyurl.com/SikhStudiesWK

This is HSA first General Body Meeting: KAHOOT NIGHT

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

UCHI Dissertation Scholar Kathryn Angelica (History) will be giving a talk on “Public Patriotism: The United States Sanitary Commission and Black Women’s Interregional Grassroots Activism During the Civil War”

with a response by Geoffrey Hedges-Knyrim

This event will also be livestreamed.

This talk examines how histories of the Civil War have neglected the contributions of African American women within and beyond the United States Sanitary Commission during the Civil War. Exploring African American laborers as janitors, clerks, waiters, and cooks, Black women’s contributions to the Sanitary Commission, and African American women’s independent patriotic organizations this talk considers the many ways women of color claimed their rightful place under the banner of patriotic Northern womanhood. Importantly, it also demonstrates how African American women’s organizations diverged from the centralized goals of the Sanitary Commission to encompass Black community support, aid for refugees, and medical relief for disabled soldiers.

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.

Join UConn alum Constanza Cabello, Ed.D. ’2008 (CLAS) and Lakeesha
Brown, UConn’s Interim Chief Human Resources Officer, for a round table
discussion on the advancement of Latinx professionals in higher education.

In collaboration with The Sikh Coalition and Sikh Art Gallery, the AAASI is presenting the first Sikh Studies Week featuring community leaders, scholars, and cultural workers to inspire connections for students, reveal hidden histories, share joy and tradition, discuss art and healing, and provide rich and extended professional development for educators.

Wednesday 9/27 @ 5pm “History of Sikhs in Connecticut” with Manmohan Singh Bharara at the Sikh Art Gallery in Norwich, CT

All events will be hybrid. Join us in-person or online. Register here: https://tinyurl.com/CTSikhs

Join us for an interactive and conversational performance including themes of Asian American & Vietnamese identity and LGBTQ+ histories; queer liberation and justice.

Sponsored by the Women’s Center, Rainbow Center and Poetic Release.

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

Join the Africana Studies Institute to learn more about our major and minor, recent changes to the plan of study, and learn about other opportunities like internships, study abroad, and research experiences with ASI faculty mentors.

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.

Sign up here: https://icworkshops.uconn.edu/index.php?event=3378 

Rainbow Center Closed.

In collaboration with The Sikh Coalition and Sikh Art Gallery, the AAASI is presenting the first Sikh Studies Week featuring community leaders, scholars, and cultural workers to inspire connections for students, reveal hidden histories, share joy and tradition, discuss art and healing, and provide rich and extended professional development for educators.

Join Gurmeet Kaur Singh and the UConn Sikh Student Association for a Traditional Kirtan performance

All events will be hybrid. Register online here: https://tinyurl.com/SikhStudiesWK

Join ISSS Hartford for a FREE tour of the State Capitol Building in Hartford! The State Capitol is a National Historic Landmark building and is architecturally impressive both outside and inside. You will learn about the history of the building as well as learn how the legislative process in CT works. The tour will last approximately one hour and you will have the option of visiting the Museum of CT History (located directly across the street) immediately following. Advance registration is required so that we have an accurate tour number. PLEASE NOTE: This trip will begin at the Graduate Business Learning Center in downtown Hartford and will involve a walk of approximately 1 mile. Please register at www.icworkshops.uconn.edu NO LATER than Sept 23. (Event is called ISSS Outings: State Capitol Tour)

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. Kelsey Leonard

University of Waterloo

Colloquium topic:  Water Back: Advancing Indigenous Water Justice

Dr. Kelsey Leonard is a water scientist, legal scholar, policy expert, writer, and enrolled citizen of the Shinnecock Nation. Her work focuses on Indigenous water justice and its climatic, territorial, and governance underpinnings for our shared sustainable future. Dr. Leonard represents the Shinnecock Nation on the Mid-Atlantic Committee on the Ocean, which is charged with protecting America’s ocean ecosystems and coastlines. She also serves as a member of the Great Lakes Water Quality Board of the International Joint Commission. Dr. Leonard has been instrumental in safeguarding the interests of Indigenous Nations for environmental planning, and builds Indigenous science and knowledge into new solutions for sustainable water and ocean governance.

This event is co-sponsored by UConn NRE, WGSS, and Geography.

In collaboration with The Sikh Coalition and Sikh Art Gallery, the AAASI is presenting the first Sikh Studies Week featuring community leaders, scholars, and cultural workers to inspire connections for students, reveal hidden histories, share joy and tradition, discuss art and healing, and provide rich and extended professional development for educators.

Friday 9/29 @ 4pm “Visual Cultures of ‘Communal’ Violence in India: Media Failures and Activist Artists” with Dr. Inderpal Grewal in Babbidge 1947 Room

All events will be hybrid. Register online here: https://tinyurl.com/SikhStudiesWK

Please join the History Department for this semester’s first Foreign Policy Seminar!

Michele Louro (Salem State University) will give a talk on “Intimacy, Gender, and Anticolonial Internationalism: The Case of Agnes Smedley.”

The talk begins at 5pm with Q&A after. Light refreshments will be served.

Michele L. Louro is a Full Professor of History at Salem State University. She received her Ph.D. from Temple University and is broadly trained in the fields of modern South Asian history, British imperial history, and international and transnational history.

Her first book, Comrades against Imperialism: Nehru, India and Interwar Internationalism (Cambridge University Press, 2018), is set between the world wars and recovers the debates, introduces the personalities, and reveals the ideas that seeded Jawaharlal Nehru’s political vision for India and the wider world. Louro is author to essays on this topic that appear in several journals including the Journal of Contemporary History (forthcoming), Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013), and Third Frame: Literature, Culture and Society (2009), as well as an essay in the edited volume, The Internationalist Moment: South Asia, Worlds and Worldviews (2014).