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Interim Director selected for CLAS Award
Interim Director Charles Venator-Santiago was recently selected as the winner of the 2024 Broader Impacts, Service, and Visibility Award. This award, as the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) explains, recognizes UConn Faculty members for their work in “outstanding initiatives that visibly impact the welfare of Connecticut and beyond” through community engagement, and developing […]
[Read More]ELIN Affiliate Faculty César Abadía-Barrero Research Update
César Abadía-Barrero is a jointly appointed Associate Professor of Anthropology and Human Rights. He is also an affiliate faculty member for El Instituto. Check out his spotlight video from the UConn Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute YouTube Page.
[Read More]New book by UConn History PhD alumna Rosa Carrasquillo
Out soon, a new book on the historical memory of slavery and the slave trade in Santo Domingo, by UConn History alumna Rosa Carrasquillo (Prof. at College of the Holy Cross). Follow Editora Educación Emergente in X for more information.
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Oct
16
Waffle Wednesday at CISS! 9:00am
Waffle Wednesday at CISS!
Wednesday, October 16th, 2024
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Center for International Students & Scholar Services (CISS)
Swing by CISS for Waffle Wednesday! We will have fresh waffles and toppings, fruit, coffee, and tea. This is a great opportunity to meet other international students, reconnect with friends, and chat with CISS staff.
Start your day with a sweet breakfast treat on Waffle Wednesday at CISS!
Registration for this event is now closed.
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Oct
29
“Humility in Practices of Transitional Justice: the case of Campo Algodonero, Mexico.” 3:30pm
“Humility in Practices of Transitional Justice: the case of Campo Algodonero, Mexico.”
Tuesday, October 29th, 2024
03:30 PM
The Dodd Center for Human Rights
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.
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Nov
8
Blocked Access to Birth Registration: Implications for Migrant Families’ Economic & Social Rights 12:00pm
Blocked Access to Birth Registration: Implications for Migrant Families’ Economic & Social Rights
Friday, November 8th, 2024
12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
The Dodd Center for Human Rights
About This Event
Around the world children born to migrant parents with precarious status face difficulties obtaining birth certificates, and may become stateless as a result. This has important implications for migrant families’ economic and social rights. Conversely, points of access to social and economic rights are often the very sites where migrant families’ exclusion from birth registration becomes apparent. Nevertheless, global campaigns to achieve “legal identity for all” in pursuit of the SDG target 16.9 promote the linkage of birth registration with social welfare entitlements or health service delivery. How might such ‘good practices’ have negative outcomes for migrant families? And what would inclusive and non-discriminatory birth registration look like?
Dr. Allison Petrozziello will join us virtually from Toronto Metropolitan University to discuss selected findings from her dissertation (and forthcoming book) Birth Registration as Bordering Practice, which garnered the International Studies Association-Human Rights section’s 2024 Best Dissertation Award.
While our guest speaker will join us virtually, we welcome you to join us on UConn’s campus in Dodd 162, or online via Zoom.
About Our Guest
Assistant Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University
Allison Petrozziello is Assistant Professor of Global Migration & Inequality at Toronto Metropolitan University. Dr. Petrozziello is a global governance scholar specialized in gender and human-rights based approaches to the governance of migration and citizenship. Her academic work builds on over 15 years of experience in international research, teaching, and policy advocacy work, mostly in Latin America and the Caribbean, with stakeholders ranging from grassroots organizations to policymakers to the United Nations. She has consulted for UN Women, the International Labour Organization (ILO), Inter-American Development Bank, and the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), among others. At TMU, she teaches courses in comparative and global politics for undergraduate programs in the Department of Politics and Public Administration as well as the PhD program in Policy Studies.
Contact Information:
Alex Branzell, Events & Communications Coordinator, Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut
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Nov
14
ELIN Seed Grant Presentation with Dr. Lisa Werkmeister Rozas 3:30pm
ELIN Seed Grant Presentation with Dr. Lisa Werkmeister Rozas
Thursday, November 14th, 2024
03:30 PM
Pending
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. Everyone is welcomed! There is limited space, RSVP today!
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Nov
21
ELIN Seed Grant Presentation with Dr. Milagros Castillo-Montoya 12:00pm
ELIN Seed Grant Presentation with Dr. Milagros Castillo-Montoya
Thursday, November 21st, 2024
12:00 PM
Pending
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 in October and November.
Light refreshments served. Everyone is welcome!
RSVP today!
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