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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.
[Read More]Upcoming Events
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Nov
4
Wednesday Workshops: Jesse Olsavsky “Frederick Douglass and the Trajectories of Pan-Africanism, 1876-1945.” 12:15pm
Wednesday Workshops: Jesse Olsavsky “Frederick Douglass and the Trajectories of Pan-Africanism, 1876-1945.”
Monday, November 4th, 2024
12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Walter Childs Wood Hall
The History Department hosts Wednesday Workshops several times throughout the semester to further scholarly dialogue among graduate students, faculty, and visiting scholars. In the form of a brownbag lunch, the speaker presents their research-in-progress and then engages in a Q&A with the audience.
Contact Information:
Please contact Assistant Professor Kaveh Yazdani at kaveh.yazdani@uconn.edu if you are interested in presenting at or attending a Wednesday Workshop.
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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
8
Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons 2:00pm
Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons
Friday, November 8th, 2024
02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Walter Childs Wood Hall
Join Saxaphonist and historian Ben Barson as he talks with Center for Popular Music director Jeffrey Ogbar about his new book, “Brassroots Democracy,” which recasts the birth of jazz, unearthing vibrant narratives of New Orleans musicians to reveal how early jazz was inextricably tied to the mass mobilization of freedpeople during Reconstruction and the decades that followed.
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Nov
11
Cláudio Luís Quaresma Daflon’s Doctoral Defense “Peripheral Vision: The New Conurbano Universities and the Struggles for a More Popular and Democratic Higher Education System in Argentina, 1980s-2010s” 10:00am
Cláudio Luís Quaresma Daflon’s Doctoral Defense “Peripheral Vision: The New Conurbano Universities and the Struggles for a More Popular and Democratic Higher Education System in Argentina, 1980s-2010s”
Monday, November 11th, 2024
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Please join us virtually for Cláudio Luís Quaresma Daflon’s Doctoral Defense titled “Peripheral Vision: The New Conurbano Universities and the Struggles for a More Popular and Democratic Higher Education System in Argentina, 1980s-2010s”
You may register for this event at: https://tinyurl.com/mtvyww2w
Contact Information:
Please contact Rachel Bobadilla rachel.bobadilla@uconn.edu with any questions
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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
Ryan Building
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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