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Upcoming Events
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Oct
12
UCHI Fellow's Talk: Julia Brush3:30pm
UCHI Fellow's Talk: Julia Brush
Wednesday, October 12th, 2022
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Storrs Campus Humanities Institute Conference Room
Research talk by Julia Brush with response by Elva Orozco Mendoza.
Register to attend virtually:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bPTxJYOyQxeAbqiCP58FcQ -
Oct
13
Reading Group: The Practical Renaissance9:30am
Reading Group: The Practical Renaissance
Thursday, October 13th, 2022
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Storrs Campus UCHI Conference Room / Virtual
The Early Modern Reading Group brings together graduate students and faculty for lively, enriching conversations about texts with cross-disciplinary value. Participants benefit from encountering field-specific approaches and methodologies different from those they know, and from having to articulate their own field’s methodologies to others. In addition to discussing the content and arguments of each given monograph, we attempt to break down how individual texts are constructed so as to keep a running dialogue about conceptualizing, composing, and eventually publishing relevant and persuasive research in the field. -
Oct
13
Landfall Documentary Screening And Q&A With Director Cecilia Aldarondo And Associate Producer Lale Namerrow Pastor2:00pm
Landfall Documentary Screening And Q&A With Director Cecilia Aldarondo And Associate Producer Lale Namerrow Pastor
Thursday, October 13th, 2022
02:00 PM - 03:40 PM
Storrs Campus UCHI ConferenceRoom
LANDFALL
Documentary Screening and Q&A with Director Cecilia Aldarondo and Collaborator/Associate Producer Lale Namerrow Pastor.
Through shard-like glimpses of everyday life in post-Hurricane María Puerto Rico, LANDFALL is a cautionary tale for our times. Set against the backdrop of protests that
toppled the US colony’s governor in 2019, the film offers a prismatic portrait of collective trauma and resistance. While the devastation of María attracted a great deal
of media coverage, the world has paid far less attention to the storm that preceded it: a 72-billion-dollar debt crisis crippling Puerto Rico well before the winds and waters hit. LANDFALL examines the kinship of these two storms—one environmental, the other economic—juxtaposing competing utopian visions of recovery. Featuring intimate
encounters with Puerto Ricans as well as the newcomers flooding the island, LANDFALL reflects on a question of contemporary global relevance: when the world
falls apart, who do we become?
