Upcoming Events
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Oct
24
Admissions Fall Campus Visit Day: Cultural Centers & Programs Session11:00am
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Oct
25
oSTEM organization group meeting6:30pm
oSTEM organization group meeting
Monday, October 25th, 2021
06:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Storrs Campus Rainbow Center, Student Union 403
Out in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (oSTEM) is a national student society, dedicated to increasing the participation of people who identify with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, asexual, intersex, or ally (LGBTQ+) communities in disciplines related to science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM). The primary function of oSTEM is to educate and foster leadership among STEM students from LGBTQ+ communities.
oSTEM has chapters from over 50 universities in the US. Some goals of oSTEM are:
(a) To serve and affirm people who identify as LGBTQ+.
(b) To promote the participation from and development of LGBTQ+ communities in STEM disciplines.
(c) To educate and develop students of STEM disciplines, preparing them for graduation.
(d) To support and contribute to the dynamic network sustained by oSTEM Incorporated.
(e) To provide education, outreach, and professional resources to local high schools when appropriate.
(f) To actively recruit and address the needs of diverse LGBTQ+ groups within the University community, inclusive of those who are historically underrepresented with regards to gender, gender identity or expression, and ethnic background.
For a more information, click on the link: http://www.ostem.org/.
Join in the weekly meetings held at the Rainbow Center, SU403, outside (weather permitting), and digitally.
Sept 20: oSTEM will meet on the SU Mall (lawn)
Sept 27: oSTEM will meet digitally at its oSTEM UConn channel at DISCORD
Follow on Instagram: @uconnostem
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Oct
26
Queering ELA12:45pm
Queering ELA
Tuesday, October 26th, 2021
12:45 PM - 01:30 PM
Storrs Campus Gentry 140C or Zoom
The Secondary English Education program at the Neag School presents "(Re)Imagining a More Just English Education" series.
This session, "Queering ELA," will focus on discussing the article titled “#Sounding OutMySilence: Reading a LGBTQ Youth’s Sonic Cartography as Multimodal (Counter)Storytelling.” It features Dr. Jon Wargo of Boston University.
Taking place from September through November, these presentations will be accessible on Zoom. You can also join in-person viewing sessions in the Gentry Building.
For more information or to request the Zoom link, please contact Danielle Filipiak.
JON M. WARGO, PH.D. IS AN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN THE LYNCH SCHOOL OF EDUCATION & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AT BOSTON COLLEGE. AN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHER WHO ATTENDS CLOSELY TO QUALITATIVE METHODS, WARGO ENGAGES COMMUNITY-BASED, ETHNOGRAPHIC, AND MULTIMODAL METHODOLOGIES TO EXAMINE HOW DIGITAL MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY MEDIATES CHILDREN’S AND YOUTHS’ SOCIAL AND CIVIC EDUCATION.
A 2020 NAED/SPENCER POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW, WARGO’S CURRENT RESEARCH EXAMINES THE MATERIAL AND IDEOLOGICAL AFFORDANCES AND CONSTRAINTS ELEMENTARY TEACHERS IDENTIFY AS OBSTACLES AND SUPPORTS FOR TEACHING LGBTQ-INCLUSIVE SOCIAL STUDIES. -
Oct
26
Oein DeBhairduin, co-founder of LGBT+ TARA, and Leanne McDonagh, guest presenters2:00pm
Oein DeBhairduin, co-founder of LGBT+ TARA, and Leanne McDonagh, guest presenters
Tuesday, October 26th, 2021
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Storrs Campus Webex/Virtual
As a follow-on to UCHI’s UConn Reads panel on Irish Travellers (April 2021), Oein DeBhairduin, multi-award-winning Irish Traveller activist, scholar, and co-founder of LGBT+ Tara (Traveller and Roma Alliance) will discuss Why the Moon Travels (Skein, 2020), his retelling of Irish Traveller oral lore illustrated by Traveller artist Leanne McDonagh. This is the first book of Traveller folktales by a member of that indigenous and historically non-literature and nomadic Irish minority.
Why the moon travel's is a haunting collection of 20 tales rooted in the oral tradition of the Irish Traveller community. Brave vixens, prophetic owls and stalwart horses live alongside the human characters as guides, protectors, friends and foes while spirits, giants, and fairies blur the lines between this world and the otherworld. Collected by Oein DeBhairduin throughout his childhood and retold in his lyrical style.
In a public event open to all, DeBhairduin and McDonagh will speak to Mary Burke’s Honors Short Story online class about the opportunities and challenges of gathering and illustrating the oral tales. Contact mary.burke@uconn.edu for WebEx link and accommodations. Sponsored by Irish Studies/English Department.
Tuesday, October 26, 2:00-3:00pm on WebEx
Mary Burke
https://english.uconn.edu/person/mary-burke/
Professor & Director, Honors (English) &Director, Irish Literature Concentration, UConn -
Oct
26
Platonic Stargazing (Aces + Aros Collab)5:30pm
Platonic Stargazing (Aces + Aros Collab)
Tuesday, October 26th, 2021
05:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Storrs Campus Rainbow Center
Platonic Stargazing is an event open to the UConn community that helps introduce our community of different identities on the asexual and aromantic spectrums
The event is first come, first serve ! -
Oct
27
FAMILEE Craft Night5:30pm
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