Inspired by the powerful art of German printmaker Käthe Kollwitz, The UConn Grief Project brings together reflections on loss, and creates a space for acknowledging the emotional impacts of this moment in history.

The zine features UConn students’ responses to the challenges we have faced, both as individuals and as a community, over the past year. Submissions juried by UConn’s Art & Art History Club, Poetic Release, and UCCOx. Zine designed by Design Center and published by Counterproof Press. Copies available in the museum and online.

See the Zine here: https://benton.uconn.edu/thursdays-with-the-benton-the-uconn-grief-project/

Join this panel discussion by Native scholars and artists on climate justice, part of the UConn Reads program. With Sandy Grande (moderator), Emily Johnson, Anne Spice, and Melanie Yazzie.

To register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/uconn-reads-native-scholars-and-artists-on-climate-justice-tickets-141199251763

Please join us for the digital campus visit of University of Texas Professor Geraldine Heng. The focus of the talk will be her recent book.

Her book, The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, (Cambridge, 2018) argues that the medieval period was not a pre-political, pre-racial era. Religion then (and now) – as much as science, in later eras – was selectively deployed to identify differences among humans that were essentialized as absolute and fundamental, distributing positions and powers differentially to human groups in practices that we would today call acts of race. The book has won numerous prizes including the 2019 PROSE prize in Global History, the 2019 Robert W. Hamilton Grand Prize, the 2019 Academy of American Religion prize in Historical Studies, and the 2020 Otto Gründler Prize.

Geraldine Heng is Perceval Professor at the University of Texas in Austin, and Founder and Director of the Global Middle Ages Projects (G-MAP): http://www.globalmiddleages.org Heng co-edits the University of Pennsylvania Press’s new book series, RaceB4Race: Critical Studies of the Premodern, and Cambridge University Press’s 40-title Elements series on The Global Middle Ages. She is also the editor of a forthcoming volume in the Modern Language Association of America’s Options for Teaching series, entitled The Global Middle Ages. The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages (Cambridge, 2018) is Professor Heng’s second book. Her third book is England and the Jews: How Religion and Violence Created the First Racial State in the West (Cambridge, 2019). Her new title for Cambridge, The Global Middle Ages: An Introduction, will appear in 2021. Heng is currently researching and writing a fifth book, Early Globalities: The Interconnected World, 500-1500 CE.

Free copies of her book are available to UConn faculty, staff, and graduate students.

Contact Professor Fred Lee for book copies and/or WebEx links.

This event is sponsored by Indigeneity Race Ethnicity Politics/Political Science, Medieval Studies, and the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute.

PETER CONSTANTINE is Professor of Translation Studies, Director of the Program in Literary Translation and publisher of World Poetry Books at the University of Connecticut. His recent translations include works by Augustine, Machiavelli, Gogol and Tolstoy. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and was awarded the PEN Translation Prize for Six Early Stories by Thomas Mann, and the National Translation Award for The Undiscovered Chekhov. As a terminal speaker of Corinthian Arvanitika, he is currently involved in the documentation and conservation of this severely endangered language of Greece.

MICHELANGELO LA LUNA (Harvard University and University of Calabria, http://Ph.Ds.) is Professor of Italian Language and Literature at the University of Rhode Island. His research activity focuses on Girolamo De Rada (1814-1903), the major Italian-Albanian poet of the Romantic period. Moreover, he wrote articles and books about Carmine Abate, Luigi Capuana, Dante Alighieri, Dacia Maraini, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. He belongs to the Arbëresh minority and writes poems in the Arbërisht dialect of Southern Italy.

Please join us for the latest installment of UConn History's Wednesday Workshop. Associate Professor Daniel Hershenzon (from UConn's
Department of Literatures, Cultures & Languages) will discuss, "Islamic Institutions and Slaves’ Collective Action in 18th Century Spain.”

The talk, on Zoom, is from 12:15-1:15 PM EST. All are welcome!

Here is the Zoom link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85124238323?pwd=WTByM2haK1l0eGdKYjBqN2xrWnM2QT09

Vin Moscardelli & LuAnn Saunders-Kanabay from the UConn Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships offer grant application advice.

Registration is online, via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/graduate-fellowships-in-the-humanities-and-social-sciences-tickets-133240085683

Organized by the UConn Humanities Institute, the Office of National Scholarships and Fellowships, and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

UCHI Fellow's talk by Scott Wallace, with a response by Erica Holberg.

Registration for this event is online, via eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fellows-talk-scott-wallace-tickets-128520501279

This event is sponsored by the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute.

Join Malcolm Sen (UMass Amherst) and Jamie Johnson (Photographer), with moderator Mary Burke (UConn English) for a presentation on:

"Irish Travellers: The Nation State, a Marginalized Minority, and Climate Crisis".

Part of the UConn Reads series, centering this year around The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh.

To register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/uconn-reads-irish-travellers-tickets-138854061235

Simon Burrows (Western Sydney) will present on "Enlightenment in Ledgers: Digitally Mapping the French Book Trade".

Registration for this event is online, via eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/133021299287

This event is sponsored by the Digital Humanities and Media Studies initiatuve at the UConn Humanities Institute

We are pleased to announce that the last talk in the speaker series of the Expression, Communication, and Origins of Meaning Research Group for this academic year will be given by Emeritus Prof. Peter Gärdenfors from Lund University (co-hosted with the Dartmouth PhilLab).

The title of his talk is “Theory of Mind and the Evolution of Cognition”.

For event link please register here: https://ecomresearchgroup.com/prof-peter-gardenfors-talk/

Please join us for an exciting UConn History Department event, “Hispanic/Latinx Antifascism and the Spanish Republican Cause in the United States, 1936-1977.”

The panel will meet on Friday, April 23rd from 12:00-1:15 PM EST. This talk will be on Zoom and will include panelists Dr. Ariel Mae Lambe (Assistant Professor of History at the University of Connecticut), Dr. Cristina Pérez Jiménez (Assistant Professor of English at Manhattan College), and Dr. Montse Feu (Associate Professor of Spanish at Sam Houston State University).

Dr. Chris Vials, Professor of English and Director of American Studies at the University of Connecticut, will serve as moderator and commentator. All are welcome.

For more information about the talk, contact the event's organizer, Dr. Ariel Mae Lambe (ariel.lambe@uconn.edu).

Please register in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Here is the link for registration:

https://tinyurl.com/LatinxAntifascism

The Virtual International Consortium for Truth Research (VICTR) will have a talk by Eduardo Barrio (University of Buenos Aires), on “Anti-exceptionalism, Truth, and the BA-Plan” on April 26, 10:00am EDT / 14:00 UTC.

Abstract: Anti-exceptionalism about logic states that logical theories have no special epistemological status. Such theories are continuous with scientific theories. Contemporary anti-exceptionalists include data about semantic paradoxes as a part of the logical evidence. Exploring the Buenos Aires Plan, the recent development of the metainferential hierarchy of ST-logics shows that there are multiple options to deal with such paradoxes. There is a whole ST-based hierarchy, of which LP and ST themselves are only the first steps. The logics in this hierarchy are also options to analyze the inferential patterns allowed in a language that contains its own truth predicate. This talk explores these responses analyzing some reasons to go beyond the first steps. I will show that LP, ST, and the logics of the ST-hierarchy offer different diagnoses for the same evidence: the inferences and metainferences the agents endorse in the presence of the truth-predicate. But even if the data are not enough to adopt one of these logics, there are other elements to evaluate the revision of classical logic. How close should we be to classical logic? Which logic should be used during the revision? Should a logic be closed under its own rules? How could a logic obey the validities it contains? And mainly, which is the best explanation for the logical principles to deal with semantic paradoxes? I will argue that, if the answers to these questions are provided from an anti-exceptionalist perspective, ST-metainferential logics in general are the best available options.

You can register for this event at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIocu-prj4iGdY0NwHUWjPYWLvywnGfLeku

VICTR is sponsored by the Future of Truth Project at the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute, the University of Alabama, and the University of Waikato