Please join us for the Graduate Research Conference on Monday October 5th. Presentations will be from 1-4 (with some Zoom breaks built-in) and keynote will be 5-6.30.

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Fellows’ Talk from UCHI Draper Dissertation Fellow Nicole Breault

Registration for this event is online via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fellows-talk-nicole-breault-tickets-121054594551

In advance of the lecture by Multi-disciplinary Artist and New York Times Bestselling Author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (2019) Jenny Odell, Monday, October 26, 2020 at 6:00 pm (http://s.uconn.edu/5du) UCHI has organized an online book discussion group for UConn faculty and graduate students.

This event will take place online and will be led by Alexis Boylan and Yohei Igarashi. For this dialogue, we have limited free ebooks (only ebooks) of Jenny Odell’s How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy available on a first-come first-served basis. To sign up for an e-book and the book club, you must and register with a UConn email address by September 25, 2020 at noon. Register here: http://s.uconn.edu/5dv

UCHI Fellows’ Talk by Nu-Anh Tran

Registration for this event is online via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fellows-talk-nu-anh-tran-tickets-121069218291

The University of Connecticut Humanities Institute and the Digital Humanities and Media Studies Initiative are proud to announce

Multi-disciplinary Artist and New York Times Bestselling Author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (2019)

Jenny Odell

in conversation with Yohei Igarashi

co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program

Registration is required: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jenny-odell-tickets-120296711703

Ashley Graham, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Connecticut presents:
When is it Acceptable to Vaccinate Pregnant Women? Risk, Evidence, and Politics of Governance in Epidemics.

Colloquium Link: https://uconnvtc.webex.com/meet/anthrodept

Talk by UCHI Dissertation Research Fellow Kerry Carnahan

Registration for this event is online via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fellows-talk-kerry-carnahan-tickets-121074648533

Professor Dexter Gabriel is an Assistant Professor in History and the Africana Studies Institute and (with the Pen Name Phenderson Djéli Clark) is the award winning and Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, and World Fantasy nominated author of four novels including his newest, Ring Shout. Gabriel will speak about how he came to work on speculative fictions, the potential he sees between his academic work and his fiction writing, and the role of history and science in speculative pasts and Futures.

Before the event, please feel free to read Gabriel’s short story: “The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington” (link to the story available at the eventbrite registration page linked below).

Registration required. Please visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/speculative-pasts-and-futures-a-conversation-with-dexter-gabriel-tickets-123228370373
or http://s.uconn.edu/5gi