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Upcoming Women’s Center Events

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100 Years of Women Scholarship Award

The University of Connecticut’s Women’s Center is pleased to announce the granting of the 100 Years of Women Scholarship Award for the fourteenth year. The 100 Years of Women Scholarship Fund was established in 1992 to honor a current UCONN undergraduate or graduate student (who will be enrolled for the Fall 2008 semester) or high school senior planning to enroll in the University of Connecticut, who has demonstrated a commitment to women’s issues through service to their community or school. The scholarship award ranges from $500 to $1,000.

We would appreciate your sharing information about the award with students, staff, and faculty members. Copies can be made of the application and recommendation forms. These forms will also be available at the UCONN Women's Center and the Office of Student Financial Aid Services. Forms can be downloaded from the Women’s Center website (http://www.womenscenter.uconn.edu/Application_08.pdf).

The following eligibility criteria have been established as guidelines in the selection process:

The applicant must:

1. demonstrate a commitment to women’s issues through service to their community or school;

2. be a current UConn undergraduate or graduate student who will be enrolled for the Fall 2008 semester, or high school senior planning to enroll at UConn;

3. be in need of financial assistance; and

4. demonstrate high academic performance.

To apply, the applicant must: a) complete all items in the application form; b) enclose two letters of recommendation from individuals who can comment on their commitment and service to women’s issues; and

c) enclose an unofficial transcript. These documents must be turned in or forwarded to the UCONN Women's Center, 2110 Hillside Road, Unit 3118, Storrs, CT 06269-3118 by March 21, 2008. Previous recipients are eligible to apply.

For more information, please call the Women’s Center at (860) 486-4738, or the Office of Student Financial Aid Services at (860) 486-2819. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

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REQUEST FOR NOMINATIONS - WOMEN OF COLOR RECOGNITION AWARDS

The Women's Center Women of Color Events Committee, in accordance with the overall mission of the Women's Center, is responsible for sponsoring events that bring together faculty and staff women of color. We are asking your assistance in recognizing and honoring women of color who have made a significant contribution to the University of Connecticut.

Candidates may be nominated for excellence based on distinguishing qualities/characteristics and achievements and as determined through their work with others. Please include specific situations in which you observed the nominee or provide a relevant anecdote that could help to elucidate why they have been nominated. Nominations should include evidence based on, but not limited to:

· Distinguished service/contributions to the University of Connecticut

(for example: participation on committees, mentoring, leadership roles)

· Academic or career achievements

· Community service/Positive impact on community

· Commitment to enhancing quality of life for and/or service as a role model for Women of Color

Click on the following link, http://www.womenscenter.uconn.edu/ to access the nomination form beginning Wednesday, March 5. Please use the format of this form when submitting a nomination (add additional pages if needed). Other forms will not be accepted. Please print the form and mail to: Kathy Fischer, Women’s Center, Unit 3118.

The recipients of the awards and all other nominees will be acknowledged at the Women of Color Recognition Awards Luncheon to be held on Wednesday, April 9, 2008, in the Student Union Ballroom from 11:30 am to 1 pm. The recipients of the award will receive their awards at the luncheon.

Nomination forms will be carried over from previous submissions for two years (2005 - 2006 & 2006 - 2007) for the Women of Color Recognition Awards; however, resubmissions, and self-nominations are also welcomed. The award recipients have to be employed at the University for a minimum of twelve months and students are ineligible for this award.

Your time and effort are appreciated.

Deadline for nomination(s): March 21, 2008.

Thursday Night at the Movies –

Constructing Public Opinion: How Politicians and the Media Misrepresent the Public

Thursday, 7 pm, Women’s Center

The media regularly use public opinion polls in their reporting of important news stories. But how exactly do they report them and to what end? In this insightful and accessible interview, Professor Justin Lewis demonstrates the way in which polling data are themselves used by the media to not just reflect what Americans think but instead to construct public opinion itself. Addressing vital issues (e.g., the role the media play in "manufacturing consent" for political elites, what polls really tell us about public opinion, what Americans actually think about politics), Constructing Public Opinion provides a new way to think about the relationship between politics, media and the public.

Exploding the myth that most Americans are moderate or conservative, Constructing Public Opinion demonstrates the way in which political elites help to promote the military industrial complex and how the media sustains belief in an electoral system with a built-in bias against the interests of ordinary people. Well illustrated with graphics and many examples of media coverage, it is the first film of its kind to present a critical analysis of media and public opinion.

$mart $tart Workshop

March 26, 6 pm, Puerto Rican Latin American Cultural Center

Negotiating salaries is a challenge for women at all stages of their careers, as women are less likely than men to ask for what they want. The WAGE Project will conduct a 3 hour workshop for juniors and seniors. This workshop is highly interactive, including a role-playing exercise to enable students to assess how well they understand the principles of salary negotiation presented in the workshop.

The $tart $mart Workshop will cover the following topics: The personal consequences of the gender wage gap: what a $1.2 million loss over one’s working lifetime means. Resources for benchmarking reasonable salaries and benefits: learn about job titles, their functions and salary ranges, the impact of market realities on salaries; compare skills and accomplishments to job requirements and market to target a realistic salary range. Negotiation: how to aim high and be realistic; practice negotiation through role play exercises. Know your bottom line: develop a "bare bones" budget to pay rent, buy groceries, repay student loans, and other basic expenses.

This is a free workshop, but registration is required by 3/21.

Graduate Women’s Group Event

Negotiation 101: Getting What You Need from Your Graduate School Experience

Thursday April 10, noon to 1:30 pm, Women’s Center Program Room

Many students enroll in a graduate program expecting to clarify research interests and define career goals, only to find themselves repeatedly steered off-course by trusted friends, teachers, and advisers. While compromise is part of the grad school game, bend too much and you may find your transcript filled with unfulfilling classes, and your CV packed with projects that fail to reflect your passions. This doesn’t have to be you! If you’re a female graduate student looking for strategies to get what you need from your graduate student experience, the Women’s Center can help. First, register to attend the March 26, 2008 $tart $mart Workshop on negotiating in the job market. Then join us on April 10th for a seminar on negotiation and upward management in grad school.

For information about the $tart $mart Workshop, contact Women’s Center Associate Director, Kathy Fischer.

For information about the Graduate Women’s Group workshop on negotiation in grad school contact Erin Sullivan at erin.e.sullivan@uconn.edu.

Am I A Dirty Word? Feminist Art Show

Ongoing, SU Art Gallery

Beth Barbeau, curator, describes the show this way, “Feminism has become a dirty word in the minds of many contemporary Americans, including many educated, liberal, progressive women and men. I do not believe the claims from popular culture that feminism is dead or has out-grown its usefulness. I know that I am not the only person out there who still claims the word ’feminist’ as their own and finds power and inspiration for their work through this identity. For myself, and the other women struggling through this, I needed a context of other artists who come to their work from a similar place. This show has grown out of my desire to gather these artists together and give them a space to show how feminism has informed and inspired their artwork. The work shown is the result of critical engagement of feminism. I wanted to give young women the opportunity to show how they take feminism into their work and deal with issues such as sexuality, body image, gender and identity. Each participant has self-identified as a feminist and chosen a piece of work they consider to be informed by their feminism. By putting our work out there, we are engaging in a tradition of feminist artists/activists sharing themselves and their stories in an effort to initiate a conversation about issues we consider very important and very personal. We hope you enjoy the show!”

For information, Beth Barbeau: elizabeth.barbeau@uconn.edu

Ongoing Groups

Between Women: A discussion group for women who love women… or think they might.

Every Wednesday, 8 pm, at the Women’s Center.

First meeting – 1/30

Come and discuss fun topics, movies and more with women who share your feelings and experiences.

Topics for the semester: TBD

Stronger: A support and discussion group for UConn Women

Thursdays, 4:30 pm – 6 pm, Women’s Center Lounge

Beginning February 9

“I’ve lost myself.”

“What is a healthy relationship?”

“How do I ‘get strong’ after an abusive relationship?”

“How do I heal from sexual assault or abuse?”

For more information and to register, contact Betsy Cracco at 486-4738 or elizabeth.cracco@uconn.edu.

The South Asian Tree (TSAT)

Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka. Do you identify with one of the countries listed above either through self or family? If so, come join in on dialogues of balancing South Asian heritage with North American ideologies and the implications it has on day to day experiences including life at UConn. For more information contact Bidya Ranjeet at 6-5460.

UConn Men’s Project

The newly established Men’s Project will consist of a ten-week training beginning on Tuesday February 5^th at 7pm at the Women’s Center. Meetings will be held weekly and will focus on topics relating to gender socialization, masculinities, privilege and gender violence prevention. Our goal is to train men who will then positively influence their peers by challenging other men to examine their own socialization, and to prevent things like sexual assault and domestic violence. If you are interested or know of men who may be, please forward potential candidates’ names and all known contact information, to Betsy (VAWPP Coordinator) at 860-486-4738 or at Elizabeth.Cracco@uconn.edu or Ryan (Men’s Project Facilitator) at ryan.barone@uconn.edu.

On-campus Events

OMIA Collaborative Symposia Series

Engendering Race & Class in a Globalizing World: Transnational Perspectives

Dr. Joyce Hamilton Henry

Adjunct Professor, University of Hartford

“Between Two Worlds: Issues of Race, Ethnicity and Identity”

Friday, March 21, 2008

Time: 4:30 PM

Location: Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center

Faculty & Student Focus Group discussion

Friday, March 21, 2008

Time: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Location: The Rainbow Center, Student Union Room 403

Joyce Hamilton Henry received a Bachelor of Science degree in Human Development and Family Relations from the University of Connecticut, a Masters of Social Work degree from the University of Connecticut School of Social Work, and a doctorate degree from the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. She was the former Director of the Office of Multicultural Programs at the University of Hartford. In that capacity, she developed and implemented programs to assist with the recruitment and retention of students of color and to address broader issues of diversity and inclusion on the college campus. Since 1988, Joyce has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of Hartford in African American Studies and the Departments of Sociology and Psychology. She has presented numerous papers regionally, nationally, and internationally on race and ethnic relations, Caribbean immigrants, cross cultural counseling and supervision, consulted with many organizations, and has conducted numerous workshops regarding workplace diversity. She is published and is known nationally and internationally for her contributions in the field of social work. In June 2001, she was the recipient of the National Association of Social Workers (Connecticut Chapter) Social Worker of the Year Award. Joyce is a staunch advocate of issues pertaining to immigrants and is co-chair of the Connecticut Immigrant and Refugee Coalition. Joyce Hamilton Henry is committed to racial, social, and economic justice.

Dr. Hamilton Henry is the second of three speakers in this symposia series for Spring 2008. Additional speakers will be on campus in February and April - please visit www.womens.studies.uconn.edu for more information.

Co-Sponsored by: Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Institute for African-American Studies, Institute for Asian-American Studies, Institute for Puerto Rican & Latino Studies, Women’s Studies Program

& the Office of the Vice Provost for Multicultural and International Affairs

Dr. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes

American Cultures and Romance Languages &

Literatures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

“Translocas: Migration, Homosexuality, and Transvestism in Recent Puerto Rican Performance”

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Time: 4:30 PM

Location: Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center

Faculty & Student Focus Group discussion

Wednesday April 16, 2008

Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 Noon

Location: The Women’s Center, Student Union Room 421

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes is Assistant Professor of American Cultures and Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he specializes in Latina/o studies; Puerto Rican and Hispanic Caribbean studies; women’s, gender, and sexuality studies; lesbian, gay, and queer studies; and theater and performance. He was born and raised in Puerto Rico, and received his BA from Harvard College (1991) and MA and Ph.D. from Columbia University (1999). He is the author of Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora (forthcoming, University of Minnesota Press, 2009) and of a book of short stories called Uñas pintadas de azul/Blue Fingernails (forthcoming, Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, Arizona). He was one of the co-editors of a special issue of CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies on Puerto Rican Queer Sexualities (19, no. 1 [Spring 2007]).

Dr. La Fountain-Stokes is the third of three speakers in this symposia series for Spring 2008. Additional speakers will be on campus in February & March - please visit www.womens.studies.uconn.edu for more information.

Co-Sponsored by: Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Institute for African-American Studies, Institute for Asian-American Studies, Institute for Puerto Rican & Latino Studies, Women’s Studies Program & the Office of the Vice Provost for Multicultural and International Affairs

OMIA Collaborative Symposia Series

"Engendering Race & Class in a Globalizing World: Transnational Perspectives"

Dr. Joyce Hamilton Henry

Adjunct Professor, University of Hartford “Between Two Worlds: Issues of Race, Ethnicity and Identity”

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Time: 4:00 - 5:30 PM

Location: The Rainbow Center, Student Union Room 403

Faculty & Student Focus Group discussion

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Time: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Location: The Rainbow Center, Student Union Room 403

-- Dr. Hamilton Henry is the second of three speakers in this symposia series for Spring 2008. The third speaker will be here in April - please visit www.womens.studies.uconn.edu for more information, or email kate.hurley@uconn.edu.

Co-Sponsored by: Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, the India Studies Program, Institute for African-American Studies, Institute for Asian-American Studies, Institute for Puerto Rican & Latino Studies, Women’s Studies Program & the Office of the Vice Provost for Multicultural and International Affairs

Out to Lunch Lecture Series

Wednesday, March 26th @ 12 noon

The Out to Lunch Lecture Series continues the semester with Imani Henry, an activist, writer, and performer, as he discusses, "Color Me Queer: The History of Trans and LGB People of Color Political Organizing in the US." The discussion and workshop will focus on the history of transgender and lesbian, gay, and bisexual of color political organizing in the United States of America. Since 1993, Imani has been a Staff Organizer at the International Action Center (IAC), where his work has focused on national organizing of communities of color and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movement toward broader social justice and anti-war campaigns.

This event will be held at the Rainbow Center and is free and open to the public. The Rainbow Center is located in Room 403 of the Student Union.

"Hospice Care: Changing the Way We Live and Die"

The Department of Human Development and Family Studies’ Foote Lecture Fund is sponsoring a free seminar on

Wednesday, March 26th, 3pm - 5pm.

D. Brookes Cowan, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer at UVM, will deliver a presentation entitled "Hospice Care: Changing the Way We Live and Die", and show the movie Pioneers of Hospice: Changing the Face of Dying.

Dr. Cowan is a medical sociologist and gerontologist, and Senior Lecturer in the Sociology Department, at the University of Vermont. She specializes in end-of-life care issues and gerontology. Throughout her career she has been an advocate for quality end-of-life care and a volunteer for local and statewide hospice care.

Dr. Cowan is Founding Chair of the Madison-Dean Initiative, a non-profit organization created to educate the general public and the medical profession about care at the end of life. She served from the group's founding in 1998 until 2005. As Chair, she was instrumental in the making of the critically acclaimed documentary, Pioneers of Hospice: Changing the Face of Dying, which earned the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization's 2004 award for best documentary for professional audiences.

A grief therapist and hospice volunteer since 1978, Dr. Cowan had the privilege of being called to Arizona to coordinate the care of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross during the last week of her life in August 2004.

PLEASE RSVP to Lainie.Hiller@uconn.edu by 3/19, so the venue can be determined.

Venue details will be posted on http://www.familystudies.uconn.edu/events.html

University of Connecticut Creative Writing Program of the English Department

Visiting Authors, Spring 2008

All readings are free and open to the public

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Patricia Hampl

Wednesday, March 26: Aetna Celebration of Creative Nonfiction 7:30 pm, Konover Auditorium

Co-sponsored with the Aetna Chair of Writing

Patricia Hampl, called the queen of memoir by the Los Angeles Times, first won recognition for A Romantic Education, her 1981 memoir about her Czech heritage. Hampl’s other nonfiction works include the 2007 New York Times Notable Book The Florist’s Daughter, praised by critics for its indelible portraits (People) and enchanting prose (Publisher’s Weekly). She is also the author of Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime, listed by the New York Times as a Notable Book of 2006; I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory, a finalist for the 2000 National Book Critics Circle Award; and Virgin Time: In Search of the Contemplative Life.

Hampl’s many awards include fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. Her writing, remarks The Chicago Tribune, links the intellectual inquisitiveness of the essay with the narrative drive of the memoir to create nothing less than a conduit between self and culture.

Alice Fulton

Tuesday, April 22 & Wednesday, April 23

45th Annual Wallace Stevens Poetry Program Tuesday, April 22

1:15 pm, Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts Wednesday, April 23

8 pm, Konover Auditorium, UConn, Storrs

Alice Fulton is not a safe poet; she’s a daring, ambitious, and risk-taking one. So begins the Harvard Review’s description of Fulton’s most recent book, Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems. Fulton’s previous book, Felt, was chosen by the Los Angeles Times as one of the Best Books of 2001 and as a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. It also won the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress. Fulton’s earlier books of poetry include Sensual Math, Powers of Congress, Palladium, and Dance Script with Electric Ballerina, and she has also authored a collection of prose, Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry. Her work has also been adapted for musical and theatrical productions.

Anthony Cornicello's ...turns and turns into the night, a setting of four poems from Sensual Math, premiered at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2001, while William Bolcom's setting of Fulton’s How to Swing Those Obbligatos Around was first performed by Marilyn Horne at Carnegie Hall's Centennial Celebration. Ms. Fulton has received fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Reviewers have delighted in her broad range of interests and her continual and evolving sense of how to use the most seemingly insignificant details to illuminate the nuances of difficult moral ideas.

Peace Corps Informational Meeting

Student Union, Room 320

Thursday, March 27^th

6:30 – 7:30 pm

Life in the Peace Corps will not be easy.....Men and women will be expected to work and live alongside the nationals of the country in which they are stationed--doing the same work, eating the same food, talking the same language. But if the life will not be easy, it will be rich and satisfying. For every young American who participates in the Peace Corps--who works in a foreign land--will know that he or she is sharing in the great common task of bringing to man that decent way of life which is the foundation of freedom and a condition of peace."
- President Kennedy

Are you interested in making a difference in the lives of women across the world? Join the Peace Corps.

Over 8,000 Americans are currently serving in over 70 countries to help better the lives of community members in a variety of areas including; education, health, the environment, business development, informational technology and agriculture. How far are you willing to go to make a difference?

Apply today to schedule an on-campus interview with a Peace Corps Representative on March 27^th! www.peacecorps.gov

UCPEA’s Women’s Issues Committee Presents

Work & Life: UConn, Legislation and Women

Friday, March 28, 12 – 1 pm, SU Ballroom

Provost’s Commission on the Status of Women

Lunch will be provided

RSVP by March 21 to roslyn.ucpea@snet.net

Off-campus Events

Women and Colon Cancer

Tuesday, March 25, 6 to 7:15 p.m.

Henry Low Learning Center, UConn Health Center

Speakers: Joseph Anderson, M.D., Colon Cancer Prevention Program; Bruce Brenner, M.D., assistant professor of surgery Colon cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer in the United States in both men and women. In honor of National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, Dr. Anderson will discuss the unique challenges regarding women and the colorectal cancer screening. He will also present his research findings, which include the prototype scope that he helped develop, and examination of risk factors in women.

Dr. Brenner will discuss the surgical treatments of colon cancer.

The University of Connecticut Institute of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies and the University of Connecticut School of Law Present

LAURA E. GOMEZ

Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Professor of Law & American Studies, University of New Mexico School of Law

"Manifest Destiny: Race in America at the Turn of the 20th Century"

Tuesday, March 25, 2008, 1:00 PM

William R. Davis Courtroom

UConn School of Law

Professor Gomez is a prominent "law and society" scholar whose research and writing focuses on issues of law, race and gender. Her most recent book, Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race (NYU Press 2007), spans the disciplines of law, history and sociology and argues that the construction of Mexicans as an American racial group was central to the restructuring of the American racial order following the Mexican-American and Civil Wars. She is also the author of Misconceiving Mothers: Legislators, Prosecutors and the Politics of Prenatal Drug Exposure (Temple University Press 1997), as well as numerous other publications. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of New Mexico, she held a joint faculty appointment in law and sociology at UCLA. Additional information about Professor Gomez is available at http://lawschool.unm.edu/faculty/gomez/index.php.

Following the talk, the Latino Law Students Association will host an informal discussion with Professor Gomez in the Starr Reading Room. Light refreshments will be served.

For further information, please contact Claudette Landry at 860-570-5390 or claudette.landry@law.uconn.edu.

14th ANNUAL BOOK AUTHOR BRUNCH

AAUW STORRS-WILLIMANTIC BRANCH

TO BENEFIT THE AAUW EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

SATURDAY, April 5th at 11:00 A.M.

Eastern Connecticut State University, President’s Dining Room, Hurley Hall

Women's Issues and Programs at UConn – March 21 to March 28, 2008

Women's Center, University of Connecticut 2110 Hillside Road, Unit 3118. Storrs, CT. 06269-3118 Tel: (860) 486-4738 Fax: (860)486-1104 Email: womensctr@uconn.edu / www.womenscenter.uconn.edu

March 21 Deadline: 100 Years of Scholarship Award

March 26: PATRICIA HAMPL: University of Connecticut Creative Writing Program Visiting Authors, Spring 2008

Summer Institute: MEDIA MADNESS: The Impact of Sex, Violence, and Commercial Culture on Adults, Children, and Society

Click here to see news headlines

The following eligibility criteria have been established as guidelines in the selection process:

The applicant must:

1. demonstrate a commitment to women’s issues through service to their community or school;

2. be a current UConn undergraduate or graduate student who will be enrolled for the Fall 2008 semester, or high school senior planning to enroll at UConn;

3. be in need of financial assistance; and

4. demonstrate high academic performance.

To apply, the applicant must: a) complete all items in the application form; b) enclose two letters of recommendation from individuals who can comment on their commitment and service to women’s issues; and

c) enclose an unofficial transcript. These documents must be turned in or forwarded to the UCONN Women's Center, 2110 Hillside Road, Unit 3118, Storrs, CT 06269-3118 by March 21, 2008. Previous recipients are eligible to apply.

For more information, please call the Women’s Center at (860) 486-4738, or the Office of Student Financial Aid Services at (860) 486-2819. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Between Women: A discussion group for women who love women… or think they might.

Every Wednesday, 8 pm, at the Women’s Center.

First meeting – 1/30

Come and discuss fun topics, movies and more with women who share your feelings and experiences.

Topics for the semester: TBD

Stronger: A support and discussion group for UConn Women

Thursdays, 4:30 pm – 6 pm, Women’s Center Lounge

Beginning February 9

“I’ve lost myself.”

“What is a healthy relationship?”

“How do I ‘get strong’ after an abusive relationship?”

“How do I heal from sexual assault or abuse?”

For more information and to register, contact Betsy Cracco at 486-4738 or elizabeth.cracco@uconn.edu.

Dr. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes

American Cultures and Romance Languages &

Literatures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

“Translocas: Migration, Homosexuality, and Transvestism in Recent Puerto Rican Performance”

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Time: 4:30 PM

Location: Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center

Faculty & Student Focus Group discussion

Wednesday April 16, 2008

Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 Noon

Location: The Women’s Center, Student Union Room 421

Dr. La Fountain-Stokes is the third of three speakers in this symposia series for Spring 2008. Additional speakers will be on campus in February & March - please visit www.womens.studies.uconn.edu for more information.

Co-Sponsored by: Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Institute for African-American Studies, Institute for Asian-American Studies, Institute for Puerto Rican & Latino Studies, Women’s Studies Program & the Office of the Vice Provost for Multicultural and International Affairs

All readings are free and open to the public

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Wednesday, March 26: Aetna Celebration of Creative Nonfiction 7:30 pm, Konover Auditorium

Co-sponsored with the Aetna Chair of Writing

Tuesday, April 22 & Wednesday, April 23

45th Annual Wallace Stevens Poetry Program Tuesday, April 22

1:15 pm, Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts Wednesday, April 23

8 pm, Konover Auditorium, UConn, Storrs

Sponsored with The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., & The Hartford Friends and Enemies of Wallace Stevens