About the Film

Speakers

Catherine Masud is an award-winning filmmaker and an Assistant Professor-in-Residence in the Department of Digital Media and Design and the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute.

Stephen Bingham, the protagonist of A Double Life, has dedicated his legal career to providing support and advocacy on behalf of the marginalized and disenfranchised.

Luca Falciola is a lecturer in history at Columbia University and the author of Up Against the Law: Radical Lawyers and Social Movements 1960s-1970s.

Sponsors

This event is supported by the Human Rights Film & Digital Media Initiative, a collaborative venture between the Department of Digital Media & Design and the Dodd Human Rights Impact Programs at the Gladstein Family Human Rights, as well as the Department of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages and the Humanities Institute.

About This Event

Are our buildings ethically sourced, as well as sustainably designed? This is the question at the core of Design for Freedom, the movement led by Grace Farms to eliminate forced and child labor from the building materials supply chain. As we confront the climate crisis, we must approach sustainable solutions that address the human suffering endured in the making of building materials, as well as the damage being done to the environment in the process.

This event explores ways in which companies and communities can work together to drive human rights-respecting market transformation and address the challenges and opportunities of ethical decarbonization in the construction sector.

Reception

Following the event, please join us for a catered reception in the Dodd Lounge.

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Our Speakers

Sharon Prince is the CEO and Founder of Grace Farms Foundation. Prince commissioned Pritzker Prize-winning SANAA architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa to design Grace Farms, which has become widely known as a global humanitarian and cultural center located in New Canaan, Connecticut.

The Foundation’s interdisciplinary humanitarian mission is to pursue peace through nature, arts, justice, community, faith, and Design for Freedom, a new movement to eliminate forced labor from the building materials supply chain.

Since opening, Grace Farms has garnered numerous prestigious awards for contributions to architecture, environmental sustainability, and social good, including the AIA National 2017 Architecture Honor Award and the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize.

For her work launching Design for Freedom, Prince was recognized by Fast Company as one of the Most Creative People in Business 2022 for “cleaning up construction” and the AIA NY and Center for Architecture recognized her with the NYC Visionary Award.

Nora Rizzo is the first Ethical Materials Director of Grace Farms Foundation, focusing on the Design for Freedom movement. She serves as Ethical Material Advisor on Design for Freedom Pilot Projects and led the development of the Design for Freedom Toolkit.

She previously spent over a decade as Director of Sustainability for Fusco Corporation and has dedicated more than 15 years to creating change in the built environment through her sustainability and social equity work. She is on the Board of Directors for mindful MATERIALS and the CT Green Building Council.

Anna Dyson is the Hines Professor of Architecture, with an appointment in the School of Environment (YSE) at Yale University. She teaches design, technology, and theory at the School of Architecture. At Yale, Anna has also founded a new research entity titled CEA - Center for Ecosystems in Architecture. CEA is a joint initiative between the Yale Schools of Architecture, Forestry & Environmental Studies to unite researchers across multiple fields to develop transformative systems for the Built Environment. CEA supports Masters and PhD level students as well as professional researchers towards the invention and development of building systems that metabolize energy, water and materials while supporting biodiverse ecosystems. CEA has its central think tank within the heart of Yale University in New Haven. Dyson was previously the Founding Director of CASE, The Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology (CASE) in 2007 which hosts the Graduate Program in Architectural Sciences / Built Ecologies. 

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Sponsors

This event is supported by the Business & Human Rights Initiative, Economic & Social Rights Program, and Engineering for Human Rights Initiative at the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute, as well as the Grace Farms Foundation.

Martin Doyle is Books Editor of the Irish Times and the author of Dirty Linen (Merrion/Irish Academic Press), an acclaimed 2023 memoir of growing up during the Northern Irish Troubles. Dirty Linen was shortlisted for the An Post Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year in 2023.

Martin Doyle is Irish Times Books Editor and author of Dirty Linen (Merrion), an acclaimed 2023 memoir of growing up during the Northern Irish Troubles. Dirty Linen was shortlisted for the An Post Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year, 2023. Martin Doyle will read at 7:00pm on April 2 at Alumni Center. A reception at that venue will precede the event at 6:00pm.

Free and open to all.

mary.burke@uconn.edu for accommodations

Sponsored by the Gerson Family Fund, Culture Ireland, Irish Studies, the English Department, & Creative Writing

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.

Over the last 75 years, debates in the human rights field have largely focused on specifying the content and legal implication of rights. This talk will suggest that, in the next 75 years, scholars and practitioners will be debating the other component of the term: What does it mean to be a human –or, more broadly, a legal person? In other words, the question about the who will be as important as question about the what of human rights. Based on research and advocacy on rights of nature around the world, Rodríguez-Garavito proposes the idea of “more-than-human (MOTH) rights” in order to capture the ongoing ecocentric turn in the field and the growing interest in extending rights to the more-than-human world.

About the Speaker

César Rodríguez-Garavito is Professor of Clinical Law and Chair of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Open Global Rights, and the Founding Director of the More-Than-Human Rights and the Future of Rights and Governance (FORGE) programs at NYU Law. He has published widely on international human rights, climate litigation, comparative constitutionalism, and Indigenous rights. His most recent book is “Litigating the Climate Emergency: How Courts, Human Rights, and Legal Mobilization Can Bolster Climate Action” (ed., Cambridge University Press, 2022).

This is an Honors Event. See tags below for categories. #UHLevent10824

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Sponsors

This event is sponsored by the Connecticut / Baden-Württemberg Human Rights Research Consortium (HRRC), a collaborative group that provides an international, interdisciplinary and inter-institutional platform to promote and support academic collaboration between researchers and research groups at universities and other research institutions in the State of Connecticut (USA) and the Land Baden-Württemberg (Germany).

HRRC is supported by the Office of Global Affairs and the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut, as well as the Ministry of Science, Research, and Arts for the state of Baden-Württemberg.

Dr. Edward Carr

Clark University

Professor, Sustainability and Social Justice

https://www.clarku.edu/faculty/profiles/edward-carr

Climate Services as Tools for Transformative Change

Climate services are often framed as tools of protection.  This is as true of early warning systems for hydrometeorological hazards as it is of seasonal forecasts aimed at facilitating farmer decision-making to preserve production in an increasingly variable climate. Protecting “what is” might seem, at the surface, to run contrary to the calls for transformation emerging from recent IPCC and IPBES assessments. This contradiction can be resolved if one understands the socio-ecologies of climate service end users, specifically the ways in which reducing risk is one way of creating
space for transformative socio-ecological change.

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Master’s Thesis Defense: “Exploring Staff Perceptions of SEL in the School-Based Diversion Initiative”

Human Development and Family Sciences

Join us in the Logic Colloquium!

Andrew Tedder (Vienna)

“Relevant Logics as Topical Logics”

There is a simple way of reading a structure of topics into the matrix models of a given logic, namely by taking the topics of a given matrix model to be represented by subalgebras of the algebra reduct of the matrix, and then considering assignments of subalgebras to formulas. The resulting topic-enriched matrix models bear suggestive similarities to the two-component frame models developed by Berto et. al. in Topics of Thought. In this talk I’ll show how this reading of topics can be applied to the relevant logic R, and its algebraic characterisation in terms of De Morgan monoids, and indicate how we can, using this machinery and the fact that R satisfies the variable sharing property, read R as a topic-sensitive logic. I’ll then suggest how this approach to modeling topics can be applied to a broader range of logics/classes of matrices, and gesture at some avenues of research.

All welcome!

https://logic.uconn.edu/calendar/

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.

RSVP today!

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Tacos will be served!

The purpose of the Visiting Scholar in Gender & History series is to bring prominent and emerging scholars working on gender with an historical framework to campus. All historical periods and geographical areas come within the purview of the series. 

Susan McDonough specializes in the study of gender and sexuality in the Latin Mediterranean. Her first book was Witnesses, Neighbors, and Community in Late Medieval Marseille (Palgrave, 2013) and she co-edited Boundaries in the Medieval and Wider World: Essays in Honor of Paul Freedman (Brepols, 2017).

She is currently at work on a monograph exploring the role of sex workers as knowledge brokers in the port cities of the late medieval Mediterranean. Shifting attention away from their sex lives, this study examines how the women used institutions like notaries and law courts to stake out their community identities. https://events.uconn.edu/live/image/gid/197/width/609/height/815/5575_Screenshot_2024-04-03_114535_2.rev.1712159376.png" title="Screenshot 2024-04-03 114535" data-max-w="613" data-max-h="820" loading="lazy"/>

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.

R. Joseph Rodríguez is a literacy educator, researcher, and author of Enacting Adolescent Literacies across Communities: Latino/a Scribes and Their Rites (2017), Teaching Culturally Sustaining and Inclusive Young Adult Literature: Critical Perspectives and Conversations (2019), This Is Our Summons Now: Poems (2022), and several academic articles, book chapters, critical essays, and narrative poems. Rodríguez is a teacher educator at St. Edward’s University and teaches secondary English language arts and reading. A graduate of public schools in Houston, he grew up in a bilingual, bicultural home and pursued university studies in language learning, literary criticism, and literacy education. Rodríguez has a BA from Kenyon College (Modern Languages and Literatures, BA, 1997), University of Texas at Austin (English, MA, 1999), and University of Connecticut (Curriculum and Instruction, PhD, 2001). He is coeditor of English Journal, a publication of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Rodríguez is the recipient of awards and grants from NCTE, National Endowment for the Humanities, and National Education Association Foundation. He lives in Austin and Fredericksburg, Texas.

The 27th annual Frontiers in Undergraduate Research Poster Exhibition will take place on April 12-13, 2024.

Frontiers is the annual showcase of undergraduate research and creative activity at UConn. Undergraduate students from across the disciplines will be presenting posters about their work.

Four in-person poster sessions will be held over two days.

• Session 1: Friday, April 12, 2:00pm-3:30pm
• Session 2: Friday, April 12, 4:00pm-5:30pm
• Session 3: Saturday, April 13, 11:00am-12:30pm
• Session 4: Saturday, April 13, 1:00pm-2:30pm

Presenters include Honors Scholars, University Scholars, SURF Award recipients, IDEA Grant recipients, OUR award recipients, and students participating in the Health Research and Work-Study Research Assistant Programs.

This event is open to the entire UConn community. We hope you will join us as we celebrate the accomplishments of UConn’s talented undergraduates.

Frontiers 2024 also includes a virtual component which may be viewed beginning Friday, April 14 on the Frontiers website - https://ugradresearch.uconn.edu/frontiers2024/

If you require an accommodation to attend this event, please contact Jodi Eskin (jodi.eskin@uconn.edu) by April 5th.

This is an Honors Event. Category: Academic & Interdisciplinary Engagement. Honors students may only count presenting at and/or attending Frontiers in Undergraduate Research as one Honors Event, even if multiple sessions are attended.

#UHLevent10776 (for presenting your research/creative activity)

#UHLevent10782 (for attending as an audience member in Storrs)

#UHLevent10781 (for attending as an audience member in Stamford)

The 27th annual Frontiers in Undergraduate Research Poster Exhibition will take place on April 12-13, 2024.

Frontiers is the annual showcase of undergraduate research and creative activity at UConn. Undergraduate students from across the disciplines will be presenting posters about their work.

Four in-person poster sessions will be held over two days.

• Session 1: Friday, April 12, 2:00pm-3:30pm
• Session 2: Friday, April 12, 4:00pm-5:30pm
• Session 3: Saturday, April 13, 11:00am-12:30pm
• Session 4: Saturday, April 13, 1:00pm-2:30pm

Presenters include Honors Scholars, University Scholars, SURF Award recipients, IDEA Grant recipients, OUR award recipients, and students participating in the Health Research and Work-Study Research Assistant Programs.

This event is open to the entire UConn community. We hope you will join us as we celebrate the accomplishments of UConn’s talented undergraduates.

Frontiers 2024 also includes a virtual component which may be viewed beginning Friday, April 14 on the Frontiers website - https://ugradresearch.uconn.edu/frontiers2024/

If you require an accommodation to attend this event, please contact Jodi Eskin (jodi.eskin@uconn.edu) by April 5th.

This is an Honors Event. Category: Academic & Interdisciplinary Engagement. Honors students may only count presenting at and/or attending Frontiers in Undergraduate Research as one Honors Event, even if multiple sessions are attended.

#UHLevent10776 (for presenting your research/creative activity)

#UHLevent10782 (for attending as an audience member in Storrs)

#UHLevent10781 (for attending as an audience member in Stamford)

The 27th annual Frontiers in Undergraduate Research Poster Exhibition will take place on April 12-13, 2024.

Frontiers is the annual showcase of undergraduate research and creative activity at UConn. Undergraduate students from across the disciplines will be presenting posters about their work.

Four in-person poster sessions will be held over two days.

• Session 1: Friday, April 12, 2:00pm-3:30pm
• Session 2: Friday, April 12, 4:00pm-5:30pm
• Session 3: Saturday, April 13, 11:00am-12:30pm
• Session 4: Saturday, April 13, 1:00pm-2:30pm

Presenters include Honors Scholars, University Scholars, SURF Award recipients, IDEA Grant recipients, OUR award recipients, and students participating in the Health Research and Work-Study Research Assistant Programs.

This event is open to the entire UConn community. We hope you will join us as we celebrate the accomplishments of UConn’s talented undergraduates.

Frontiers 2024 also includes a virtual component which may be viewed beginning Friday, April 14 on the Frontiers website - https://ugradresearch.uconn.edu/frontiers2024/

If you require an accommodation to attend this event, please contact Jodi Eskin (jodi.eskin@uconn.edu) by April 5th.

This is an Honors Event. Category: Academic & Interdisciplinary Engagement. Honors students may only count presenting at and/or attending Frontiers in Undergraduate Research as one Honors Event, even if multiple sessions are attended.

#UHLevent10776 (for presenting your research/creative activity)

#UHLevent10782 (for attending as an audience member in Storrs)

#UHLevent10781 (for attending as an audience member in Stamford)

The 27th annual Frontiers in Undergraduate Research Poster Exhibition will take place on April 12-13, 2024.

Frontiers is the annual showcase of undergraduate research and creative activity at UConn. Undergraduate students from across the disciplines will be presenting posters about their work.

Four in-person poster sessions will be held over two days.

• Session 1: Friday, April 12, 2:00pm-3:30pm
• Session 2: Friday, April 12, 4:00pm-5:30pm
• Session 3: Saturday, April 13, 11:00am-12:30pm
• Session 4: Saturday, April 13, 1:00pm-2:30pm

Presenters include Honors Scholars, University Scholars, SURF Award recipients, IDEA Grant recipients, OUR award recipients, and students participating in the Health Research and Work-Study Research Assistant Programs.

This event is open to the entire UConn community. We hope you will join us as we celebrate the accomplishments of UConn’s talented undergraduates.

Frontiers 2024 also includes a virtual component which may be viewed beginning Friday, April 14 on the Frontiers website - https://ugradresearch.uconn.edu/frontiers2024/

If you require an accommodation to attend this event, please contact Jodi Eskin (jodi.eskin@uconn.edu) by April 5th.

This is an Honors Event. Category: Academic & Interdisciplinary Engagement. Honors students may only count presenting at and/or attending Frontiers in Undergraduate Research as one Honors Event, even if multiple sessions are attended.

#UHLevent10776 (for presenting your research/creative activity)

#UHLevent10782 (for attending as an audience member in Storrs)

#UHLevent10781 (for attending as an audience member in Stamford)

Join us for for a panel discussion to hear CLAS alumni talk about their successful career journeys working in the business industry. This is a great opportunity to gain insight from industry professionals (who were once in your shoes!). Come prepared to listen, ask questions, and learn about how your major can prepare you for a career in many different business areas.

Join us in the Logic Colloquium for a talk by

Jonas Raab (Trinity College Dublin)

“Modal QUARC and Barcan”

I develop a modal extension of the Quantified Argument Calculus (QUARC)—a novel logical system introduced by Hanoch Ben-Yami. QUARC is meant to better capture the logic of natural language. The purpose of this paper is to develop a variable domain semantics for modal QUARC (M-QUARC), and to show that even if the usual restrictions are imposed on models with variable domains, M-QUARC-analogues of the Barcan and Converse Barcan formulas still are not validated. I introduce new restrictions—restrictions on the extension of the predicates—and show that with these in place, the Barcan and Converse Barcan formulas are valid. The upshot is that M-QUARC sheds light on the in-/validity of such formulas.

https://logic.uconn.edu/calendar/

Join us in the Logic Colloquium!

Xinhe Wu (NCSU):

“Vague Identity: A Uniform Approach”

There are numerous apparent examples of vague identity, i.e. examples where two objects appear to be neither determinately identical nor determinately distinct. Philosophers disagree on whether the source of vagueness in identity is semantic or ontic/metaphysical. In this talk, I explore the use of Boolean-valued models as a many-valued semantic framework for identity. I argue that this semantics works well with both a semantic and ontic conception of vague identity. I also discuss, in the context of Boolean-valued logic, responses to the Evans’ argument under the two conceptions.

All welcome!

https://logic.uconn.edu/calendar/