Research talk by Stefan Kaufmann with response by Kareem Khalifa.

Register to attend virtually:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_O2BggnyFRoOVv7KFjwjYJw

Our first Transcribathon for Spring 2023 will start on the 2nd of February. We will share the document closer to the first meeting.

Join: EMSWG- Transcribathon
https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/j.php?MTID=m3f488af42e86df49819687d3112650eb

The Museum’s homeschool programs, designed for aspiring artists ages 6-12, are the perfect opportunity to view special exhibitions, try new art techniques, and explore creative writing activities.

To register for a program please contact Mollie Sixsmith, Curator of Education, at 860-486-1711 or  via email mollie.sixsmith@uconn.edu .

Sailor Valentines
$10 per student

After viewing sea-themed artwork and objects in the special exhibition Seeing Truth: Art, Science, Museums and Making Knowledge, students will use seashells and mixed media to construct their own undersea-fantasy valentine cards.

Join Benton educators for an interactive two-part workshop exploring Seeing Truth: Art, Science, Museums, and Making Knowledge. Learn more about works of art and objects in the exhibition through close looking and discussion. Then design and construct an accordion pocket journal to record your own truths. 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: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAsd-uqrT8vGdIEEwMwgqZFCKZ6maKwF-Wy

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

The exhibition, Seeing Truth: Art, Science, Museums, and Making Knowledge, and related public programs are generously supported by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation

Research talk by Hind Ahmed Zaki with response by Britney Murphy.

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https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_34DgOpOkS7WPKH44PfGCmg

Join us for our first reading group meeting of the Spring 2023 semester. Our book this semester is Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle's Sister by Michelle DiMeo. We will be covering the introduction and first chapter during our first meeting.

We will be holding these meetings in a hybrid format. In person at the UCHI Conference Room and online at the link included in the email

Janet L. Pritchard will introduce her book "More than Scenery: Yellowstone, an American Love Story", with a reception to follow. Through captivating photographs and insightful text, the artist surveys how generations of visitors have invested Yellowstone—the world’s first national park—with ideas, beliefs, and values reflecting their historical moment.

Janet L. Pritchard is a landscape photographer and Professor of Photography at the University of Connecticut. Her photographs have appeared in FlakPhoto Projects, Fine Art Photography Daily, Fraction Magazine, LensCulture, Lenscratch, The Photo Review, and View Camera Magazine, among others. Her awards and fellowships include a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Photography, a Jay and Deborah Last Fellowships at the American Antiquarian Society, and a National Endowment for the Arts Summer Institute Fellowship at the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Her Artist-in-Residence awards include the Institute for Electronic Arts, Jentel Foundation, Millay Colony for the Arts, Ucross Foundation, and Vindolanda Trust, UK. Her artist Website is http://www.janetpritchard.com.

Held in conjunction with the exhibition, "Seeing Truth: Art, Science, Museums, and Making Knowledge", which features work by Janet L. Pritchard. The exhibition and related public programs are generously supported by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.

ECOM Speaker Series will host Alison Springle (Oklahoma University, Philosophy). The title of her talk is "Radicalizing Practical Representations." The event will be held in Family Studies 220, and will be broadcasted via Zoom. For details, contact aliyar.ozercan@uconn.edu

Research talk by Cornelia Dayton with response by Yuhan Liang.

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“Transcribathon” describes the full range of the Early Modern Studies Working Group’s efforts to teach and develop the skills of paleography. Critical to researching the early modern period is the ability to read manuscripts. This is not always so easy! Thus, our ongoing paleography workshop is designed to provide introductory tutelage and regular practice.

UConn faculty Alexis L. Boylan (Africana Studies and Art and Art History), guest curator of Seeing Truth, and Sandy Grande (Political Science and Native American and Indigenous Studies), will discuss the Night at the Museum franchise and representations of Indigeneity, art, and museums. Positioned as a light, family-friendly comedy, the films use the American Museum of Natural History as the backdrop for antics about a night guard and objects and people that come to life in the museum after dark. Yet amidst the humor are in fact some very complicated and dark suggestions about the authority of museums, historical memory, and the role of Indigenous peoples and their participation in contemporary culture. The discussion will suggest how we as audiences might resist and reimagine traditional thinking about museums and knowledge making.

The exhibition, Seeing Truth: Art, Science, Museums, and Making Knowledge, and related public programs are generously supported by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.

Speaker bios:

Alexis L. Boylan is the director of academic affairs of the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute (UCHI) and a professor with a joint appointment in the Art and Art History Department and the Africana Studies Institute. She is the author of Visual Culture (MIT Press, 2020) and Ashcan Art, Whiteness, and the Unspectacular Man (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017). Her next book focuses on the visual culture of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in the 20th century and how art and science antagonize and inspire cultural dialogues about truth, knowledge, race, and authority.

Sandy Grande is a Professor of Political Science and Native American and Indigenous Studies at the University of Connecticut with affiliations in American Studies, Philosophy, and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Across her work, she aims to produce more nuanced analyses of the colonial present. She was recently awarded a Fellowship through the UConn Humanities Institute for a project on Indigenous Elders and aging. She was also a recipient of the Ford Foundation, Senior Fellowship. Her book, Red Pedagogy: Native American Social and Political Thought was published in a 10th anniversary edition and a Portuguese translation is anticipated to be published in Brazil in 2023. In addition to publishing numerous articles and book chapters, she is a founding member of New York Stands for Standing Rock. As one of their projects, they published the Standing Rock Syllabus. In addition to her academic and organizing work, she has provided eldercare for her parents for over ten years and remains the primary caregiver for her 94-yr. old father.

Research talk by Sandy Grande with response by Joseph Darda.

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The Early Modern Reading Group brings together graduate students and faculty for lively, enriching conversations about texts with cross-disciplinary value. This semester we are reading Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle's Sister.

Our fourth graduate conference will take place virtually on Sat Feb 25. Our keynote speakers will be Prof. Jon Schwenkler (Philosophy, Florida State) and Prof. Lucy O'Brien. Please check our website (http://ecomresearchgroup.com/) for updates and full line-up.