This event was organized in partnership with the CT Collaborative to End Loneliness, with special guest co-host Catherine Shen, host of “Where We Live,” Connecticut Public Radio.

Panel 1:

• Keith Bellizzi, Professor, Human Development & Family Studies, UConn
• Mary Beth Osborne, Asst. Professor-in-Residence, Kinesiology, UConn
• Bobby Melley, 2016 UConn alumni, baseball player

Panel 2:

• Nick Mangene, 2022 UConn graduate
• Krista Mitchell, current UConn student
• Breanna Bonner, current UConn student

Light refreshments will be served. All are welcome!

Register to attend by completing this form: https://form.jotform.com/242383624270151

This is an Honors Event. Category: “Career, Professional, & Personal Development”

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Current Judicial Developments in the Relationship Between the United States, Puerto Rico & Other Territories is a three-part series of events sponsored by the University of Connecticut Puerto Rican Studies Initiative, El Instituto, and the University of Connecticut School of Law Latino Law Students Association and the Human Rights Law Association.

Gustavo A. Gelpí is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, which has appellate jurisdiction over cases from the Districts of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Maine and Puerto Rico.

As a U.S. District Judge, Gelpí presided over United States v. Vaello Madero. Therein, he held that the Equal Protection rights of US citizens in Puerto Rico were violated by Congress not extending SSI benefits by virtue of residence in a territory. On appeal, the First Circuit affirmed, however the Supreme Court subsequently reversed.

Judge Gelpí teaches at law schools in Puerto Rico and Hawai’i a seminar on U.S. Territories, and has lectured on territorial issues across the Nation, as well as in Puerto Rico, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands and Panama (formerly the U.S. Canal Zone). He is also the author of several articles on territorial issues and of the book The Constitutional Evolution of Puerto Rico and Other U.S. Territories (1898-Present).

‌1st series of events: Separate and Unequal: An Introduction to U.S. Territorial Governance

‌When: 11:15am - 12:05pm

Where: University of Connecticut

Room 204, 2nd Floor

J. Ryan Building

Storrs, CT 06269

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All are welcomed and all events are open to the public.

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For more information about series of talks, please contact Charles R. Venator-Santiago at charles.venator@uconn.edu. For more information about the School of Law meeting, please contact Micaela Oshea at micaela.oshea@uconn.edu.

Current Judicial Developments in the Relationship Between the United States, Puerto Rico & Other Territories is a three-part series of events sponsored by the University of Connecticut Puerto Rican Studies Initiative, El Instituto, and the University of Connecticut School of Law Latino Law Students Association and the Human Rights Law Association

Gustavo A. Gelpí is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, which has appellate jurisdiction over cases from the Districts of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Maine and Puerto Rico.

As a U.S. District Judge, Gelpí presided over United States v. Vaello Madero. Therein, he held that the Equal Protection rights of US citizens in Puerto Rico were violated by Congress not extending SSI benefits by virtue of residence in a territory. On appeal, the First Circuit affirmed, however the Supreme Court subsequently reversed.

Judge Gelpí teaches at law schools in Puerto Rico and Hawai’i a seminar on U.S. Territories, and has lectured on territorial issues across the Nation, as well as in Puerto Rico, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands and Panama (formerly the U.S. Canal Zone). He is also the author of several articles on territorial issues and of the book The Constitutional Evolution of Puerto Rico and Other U.S. Territories (1898-Present).

2nd series of events: The Impact of Race in Puerto Rico and A Discussion of Current Judicial Developments

Panel:

• Judge Gustavo Gelpí, 1st Circuit Court of Appeals,
• Professor Jasmine Gonzales Rose, Boston University School of Law
• Professor Charles R. Venator-Santiago, University of Connecticut

When: 2:30 - 4:00pm

Where: Legislative Office Building, Room 1(E),

300 Capitol Ave #5100,

Hartford, CT 06106

All are welcomed and all events are open to the public.

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For more information about series of talks, please contact Charles R. Venator-Santiago at charles.venator@uconn.edu. For more information about the School of Law meeting, please contact Micaela Oshea at micaela.oshea@uconn.edu.

This talk will focus on the “ludic” or gamified nature of the 16th century Italian courtly manual, The Book of the Courtier. As this text has long been read in a games studies context, this talk will both present the scholarly consensus on the ludic nature of the text and identify structural similarities (homologies) between the text and video games. In taking this next step, we can better understand not only the gamified structure of such early modern texts, but how and why those features appear and function in video game adaptations and appropriations of those texts.

Julia Wold is a PhD Candidate in the English department and Dissertation Fellow at the UCHI. Her research centers on Shakespeare/early modern drama and adaptation theory, with a focus on new media, specifically video games. Her work has recently been published in Adaptation, and she is the author of a forthcoming essay on Shakespeare as genre marker inStar Wars in a collection onShakespeare and Science Fiction from Arden Bloomsbury. She is also the co-host and editor of the podcastStar Wars English Class,an ongoing publichumanities project that recently started its fourth season. 

Current Judicial Developments in the Relationship Between the United States, Puerto Rico & Other Territories is a three-part series of events sponsored by the University of Connecticut Puerto Rican Studies Initiative, El Instituto, and the University of Connecticut School of Law Latino Law Students Association and the Human Rights Law Association

Gustavo A. Gelpí is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, which has appellate jurisdiction over cases from the Districts of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Maine and Puerto Rico.

As a U.S. District Judge, Gelpí presided over United States v. Vaello Madero. Therein, he held that the Equal Protection rights of US citizens in Puerto Rico were violated by Congress not extending SSI benefits by virtue of residence in a territory. On appeal, the First Circuit affirmed, however the Supreme Court subsequently reversed.

Judge Gelpí teaches at law schools in Puerto Rico and Hawaii a seminar on U.S. Territories, and has lectured on territorial issues across the Nation, as well as in Puerto Rico, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands and Panama (formerly the U.S. Canal Zone). He is also the author of several articles on territorial issues and of the book The Constitutional Evolution of Puerto Rico and Other U.S. Territories (1898-Present).

3rd series of events: The Rule of Law in U.S. Territories: A conversation with Judge Gustavo Gelpí

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When: 5:00 – 6:30pm

Where: University of Connecticut School of Law, Room Chase 110

55 Elizabeth St,

Hartford, CT 06105

All are welcomed and all events are open to the public.

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For more information about series of talks, please contact Charles R. Venator-Santiago at charles.venator@uconn.edu. For more information about the School of Law meeting, please contact Micaela Oshea at micaela.oshea@uconn.edu.

University of Connecticut

Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series on Nature and the Environment

Thursday, October 10, 2024 at 4:00pm (EST)

John Vaillant

Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-nominated author of

Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World

“Fire and Oil: Coming to Terms with a More Flammable World”

Please join us for an in-person Teale lecture, on Thursday, October 10 at 4:00pm in the Konover Auditorium in the Dodd Center for Human Rights on the UConn Storrs campus.

John Vaillant is an author and freelance writer based in Vancouver, BC whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and The Guardian, among others. His journalism, fiction, and non-fiction explore collisions between human ambition and the natural world. His latest book is the 2024 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in General Nonfiction, Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World (Knopf, 2023), a stunning account of a colossal wildfire and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind.

One of his earlier books, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (Knopf, 2010), won the B.C. Achievement Award for Non-Fiction and was lauded as a “masterpiece” by OutsideMagazine: “What elevates The Tiger from adventure yarn to nonfiction classic is Vaillant’s mastery of language.”

Although the talk will be in-person, it is also available to watch (live) on Kaltura. The live stream link is on the Teale Series web page: https://cese.uconn.edu/the-edwin-way-teale-lecture-series/

This event is free and open to the public. If you need accommodation to access or participate, please contact CSMNHinfo@uconn.edu

• 10/10/24 - Fire and Oil: Coming to Terms with a More Flammable World
  • This is an Honors Event. See tags below for category information. #UHLevent10933

This panel discussion will feature advice from past and present UCHI fellows Yohei Igarashi, Laura Mauldin, and Anna Ziering, who have all been successful in their applications for different kinds of fellowships. Please be sure to bring along the first page of a draft of your own proposal (even in the very early stages) for workshopping and feedback.

Attendees will also have the opportunity to sign up for a fellowship application peer review group.

https://prelaw.uconn.edu/lawfair/

Title: Inquiry and Higher-Order Evidence

Abstract:                                                                                                                                                                                    What is the epistemic significance of higher-order evidence? Recently, philosophers have defended zetetic approaches to higher-order evidence, which appeal to factors related to inquiry and deliberation. According to these views, in response to higher-order evidence – for example, when you find out that an epistemic peer or superior disagrees with you concerning the answer to a question – you should open inquiry and deliberate upon the question further. While it can often be productive to deliberate or to double-check one’s reasoning when confronted with higher-order evidence, I argue that zetetic accounts are bound to be incomplete. They are unable to explain a range of important cases. Reflecting on these cases helps to make vivid a broader lesson concerning the relationship between inquiry and epistemic normativity. Epistemology never requires us to perform specific actions, such as evidence gathering, deliberation, or double-checking, even when these acts are required to settle the answers to our questions.

Oct. 25 will feature an exhibit tour and keynote address by curator Dr. Paulette Richards, followed by a screening of In Black, a documentary on African American puppeteers by Jacqueline Wade. There will then be a post-screening discussion with the director.

On Oct. 26, there will be three panels to highlight some of the themes related to the exhibit, including;

• “’The Marriage Agreement’: Women Artists Navigate Gendered Divisions of Labor will examine how women artists like Swann and Schmale navigated traditional gender roles. Panelists include Dr. Nancy Naples, Dr. Alissa Mello, and Jacqueline Wade.
• “Residential Segregation” will explore the progress of desegregation since the creation of Concord Park by Morris Milgram in 1954. Panelists include Dr. Stephen L. Ross, Dr. Jeffrey Ogbar.
• “Children’s Media: Literature, Television, Theater” will reflect on the influence of Swann and Schmale’s work in children’s television and how much progress has been made in diversifying children’s media today. Panelists include Dr. Vibiana Bowman, Dr. Katherine Capshaw, and Khalilah Brooks.

The symposium is free and open to the public, but registration is required. To register to attend in person, visit: bimp.ticketleap.com. The symposium will be live streamed via Zoom. To register to attend virtually, please visit: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rQdSZJe8TOmmETxtwng3Xw.

The “Wonderland Puppet Theater Symposium” is supported by a UConn School of Fine Arts Anti-Racism grant and University of Connecticut Humanities Institute Speaker, Conference, and Workshop funding; and is co-sponsored by UConn’s African American Cultural Center and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program.

For more information, visit bimp.uconn.edu/2024/10/07/wpt-symposium.

Oct. 25 will feature an exhibit tour and keynote address by curator Dr. Paulette Richards, followed by a screening of In Black, a documentary on African American puppeteers by Jacqueline Wade. There will then be a post-screening discussion with the director.

On Oct. 26, there will be three panels to highlight some of the themes related to the exhibit, including;

• “’The Marriage Agreement’: Women Artists Navigate Gendered Divisions of Labor will examine how women artists like Swann and Schmale navigated traditional gender roles. Panelists include Dr. Nancy Naples, Dr. Alissa Mello, and Jacqueline Wade.
• “Residential Segregation” will explore the progress of desegregation since the creation of Concord Park by Morris Milgram in 1954. Panelists include Dr. Stephen L. Ross, Dr. Jeffrey Ogbar.
• “Children’s Media: Literature, Television, Theater” will reflect on the influence of Swann and Schmale’s work in children’s television and how much progress has been made in diversifying children’s media today. Panelists include Dr. Vibiana Bowman, Dr. Katherine Capshaw, and Khalilah Brooks.

The symposium is free and open to the public, but registration is required. To register to attend in person, visit: bimp.ticketleap.com. The symposium will be live streamed via Zoom. To register to attend virtually, please visit: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rQdSZJe8TOmmETxtwng3Xw.

The “Wonderland Puppet Theater Symposium” is supported by a UConn School of Fine Arts Anti-Racism grant and University of Connecticut Humanities Institute Speaker, Conference, and Workshop funding; and is co-sponsored by UConn’s African American Cultural Center and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program.

For more information, visit bimp.uconn.edu/2024/10/07/wpt-symposium.

UConn’s El Instituto (Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies) awarded small seed grants to support faculty-led workshops, reading groups or other research, on any theme of relevance to Latine, Latin American or Caribbean studies in the academic year 2023. Please join us this fall semester in this 4 part series of events to hear about their research accomplishments. Light Refreshments Served. There is limited space, RSVP today!

2nd Event:

“Humility in Practices of Transitional Justice: the case of Campo Algodonero, Mexico,” by Dr. Robin Adèle Greeley 

In 2009, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered the Mexican state to carry out a comprehensive program of reparations in the landmark case of Campo Algodonero. The Court found the Mexican state had failed to prevent the murders in 2001 of three young women in Ciudad Juárez. Part of a wave of femicides that continue to afflict women in Mexico, the Campo Algodonero murders sparked a pivotal turn in the Court’s rulings in cases of gender violence. As part of the reparations, the Court ordered the Mexican state to apologize and to build a memorial. Yet since its inauguration in 2011, the Campo Algodonero memorial has been a site not of public commemoration, but of vociferous contestation by the principal audience for which it was intended: the families of the murdered women. This talk explores why the seemingly humble State apology, delivered at the memorial site, was vehemently rejected by the victims’ families, and what this can tell us about the role of humility in practices of transitional justice.

The “cruelty of the barbarian” is a well-worn orientalizing trope that traces a continuous line from the literature of fifth-century Athens to the movie 300 (2006) and beyond. In his life of the Persian king Artaxerxes [Artaxerxes II Mnemon, 404-365 BCE], the Greek biographer Plutarch devotes an entire chapter to a detailed description of an exceptionally gruesome method of torture and execution known as “scaphism” or, more informally, “the torture of the boats.” Evidence suggests that Plutarch found the description in the now lost but notoriously sensational history of Persia by Ctesias, a Greek doctor who served as physician to the royal family at the court of Artaxerxes.

This talk explores the unexpected afterlife of scaphism, from its origins in Ctesias and Plutarch, through the 12th-century Byzantine historian Zonaras, by way of nineteenth-century encyclopedias of torture, to its present-day vogue on the internet and in the death metal music community. It ponders the uneasy intersection between orientalizing discourse and the visceral—pun intended—pleasures of horror.

Sara Raup Johnson is Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies in the Department of Literatures, Cultures and Languages at the University of Connecticut. Her publications include Historical Fictions and Hellenistic Jewish Identity: Third Maccabees in Its Cultural Context (2004), the edited volume Reading and Teaching Ancient Fiction (lead editor, 2018), and articles and book chapters on topics ranging from the date of the book of Esther to classical allusions in the Japanese manga Fullmetal Alchemist. She is currently working on a book-length project on historical fictions centered around Greeks, Jews, and the Persian court in the fourth century BCE.

A research talk by UCHI dissertation research scholar Danielle Pieratti on her project “Unoriginal: Transvocal works from Dante’s Purgatorio,” with a response by César Abadia-Barrero.