This workshop aims to introduce machine learning (ML) algorithms for text and unstructured data. You will start with an overview of Python programming and ML techniques and then turn to ML applications for text and unstructured data.

• In the first workshop (March 27), you will see applications to generate databases from PDF documents (historical censuses, reports, articles, and others).
• In the second workshop (April 3), you will examine the applications of news to create socioeconomic indicators. Finally, you will see applications to generate socioeconomic indicators using satellite images.

Limited Space.

Refreshments Served!

There are no minimum requirements for this event. All UConn faculty, staff and students are welcome! If you need parking accommodations, please contact El Instituto.

About This Event

How can we find balance when we are on opposite sides? Can we build spaces for listening and equality?

Künü, a film by Mapuche filmmaker Francisco Huichaqueo Pérez in collaboration with the Association of Mapuche Communities of Loncoche-Chile, captures the collaborative efforts of 80 Mapuche communities to reclaim part of their ancestral lands from a large transnational forestry company in the Araucanía-Loncoche region of Chile. Künü documents the creation of a space for difficult dialogue between groups with a long history of mistrust and power imbalances, centering the perspective of the local Mapuche communities as they work to exercise ancestral and political self-determination.

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Production

Produced by Imaginaria Audiovisual
Director: Francisco Huichaqueo Pérez
Screenplay: Francisco Toro Lessen and Francisco Huichaqueo Pérez
Production: Ramón Ávila
Photography: Jorge Aguilar and Francisco Toro Lessen
Sound: Pablo Pinochet
Editing: Francisco Toro Lessen and Francisco Huichaqueo Pérez
Music: Alvaro del Canto

About Francisco Huichaqueo Pérez

Francisco Huichaqueo Pérez is a Mapuche filmmaker, artist, curator, and a professor at the School of Visual Arts of the University of Concepción. His films have been showcased in various Chilean and international venues, including the Mother Tongue Film Festival at the Smithsonian, ImagineNATIVE in Toronto, Museo Reina Sofía, and the 11th Berlin Biennale. His video installation, documentary film, and essay films center on his Mapuche lineage and the Mapuche worldview. He also intervenes in colonial spaces with tangible and intangible heritage, such as archaeological collections in museums within Chile and abroad.

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This event is sponsored by the Research Program on Global Health & Human Rights and the Research Program on Arts & Human Rights at the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute, as well as the Buen Vivir & Collective Healings Initiative, El Instituto, the Departments of Anthropology and Digital Media & Design, Native American & Indigenous Studies, and Native American Cultural Programs.

Thank you to all of our graduate students for helping El Instituto in research, teaching, and advising students. We appreciate you!

All graduate students are welcome to join us to celebrate their accomplishments with lunch and conversations with faculty, staff, and students.

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Tacos will be served!

Please join El Instituto, the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, the Office of the Dean of Students, and the Department of Educational Leadership for our year-long interdisciplinary series on Latino/a/x Education. Light refreshments will be served. 

Dr. Bethsaida Nieves “Determining Biological Citizenship: Creating and Effacing Difference in Puerto Rico’s Education”

Dr. Bethsaida Nieves’ presentation will discuss the predictions and calculations of difference that defined the Puerto Rican child as one that needed to be reformed during the first years of US colonial rule.

The primary objective of this presentation is to examine the discontinuities within the history of discourses that “constructed” the Puerto Rican student as the object of reflection and action. Secondly, this presentation analyzes the ways in which institutional practices gave legitimacy to those conceptualizations of difference and to what counted as valuable knowledge.

Dr. Bethsaida Nieves is a Visiting Assistant Professor with UConn’s El Instituto. Dr. Nieves’ research focuses on the social epistemology of race, schooling, and educational reforms. Specifically, she examines the racialization of school data by educators and policymakers in Puerto Rico at the turn of the twentieth century.

About Angélica Giménez

Angélica Giménez is a Ph.D. student in Judaic Studies at the University of Connecticut. Her research focuses on the history of Latin American Jewry, particularly in Argentina. She wrote her master’s thesis on Jewish responses to the capture and trial of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina and is currently working on her dissertation project, which explores the role of American Rabbi Marshall Meyer in the fight for human rights during Argentina’s Dirty War. Her interests also encompass the memory of the Holocaust, Israeli history, and Argentine-Jewish literature and popular culture.

Lunch will be served alongside the talk.

About the Human Rights Graduate Research Forum

The Human Rights Graduate Research Forum provides an opportunity for graduate students in any discipline or school doing human rights-related work to receive feedback from peers and faculty in an informal and supportive environment. These forums occur once per month during the academic year. Each session is split between the student researcher’s presentation and time reserved for questions and feedback.

We welcome graduate students and faculty from any discipline or school to attend. UConn graduate students doing human rights-related work are encouraged to sign up to discuss their work in a future forum.

“Decoding the Psychedelic Narrative: Analyzing narratives and perspectives around potential psychedelics regulation in Colombia” by MA graduate student Levinson Niño.

Please only RSVP if you plan to come in person, as space is limited.

For virtual attendance please email Levinson for link.