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10/15 Fat Talk Free Week

Fat Talk Free Week

Tuesday, October 15th, 2019

12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Union Street, Student Union

10 million women are dealing with eating disorders in this country, which is more than are suffering from breast cancer. It’s time we take control over our own destinies, our own bodies, and our own inner dialogues. We’re changing the conversation to create a more positive body image for women everywhere!
Stop by our table for information, activities and giveaways.

Contact Information: Kathy Fischer at kathy.fischer@uconn.edu
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10/15 Tough Tea Time

Tough Tea Time

Tuesday, October 15th, 2019

07:00 PM - 08:30 PM

Storrs Campus
Women's Center, Student Union 421

Spill the tea! Let’s talk about how body image has changed throughout history! Come join the Women’s Center for a night of discussion on the ways in which beauty ideals for women have changed over time, how unattainable they have become, and how to challenge them. We’ll also be having tea, coffee, hot chocolate, and snacks!

Contact Information: Kathy Fischer at kathy.fischer@uconn.edu
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10/16 Fat Talk Free Week

Fat Talk Free Week

Wednesday, October 16th, 2019

12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Union Street, Student Union

10 million women are dealing with eating disorders in this country, which is more than are suffering from breast cancer. It’s time we take control over our own destinies, our own bodies, and our own inner dialogues. We’re changing the conversation to create a more positive body image for women everywhere!
Stop by our table for information, activities and giveaways.

Contact Information: Kathy Fischer at kathy.fischer@uconn.edu
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10/16 The Illusionists

The Illusionists

Wednesday, October 16th, 2019

06:00 PM - 08:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Women's Center, Student Union 417

Sex sells. What sells even more? Insecurity. Multi-billion dollar industries saturate our lives with images of unattainable beauty, exporting body hatred from New York to Beirut to Tokyo. Their target? Women, and increasingly men and children. The Illusionists turns the mirror on media, exposing the absurd, sometimes humorous, and shocking images that seek to enslave us.

The Illusionists examines how global advertising firms, mass media conglomerates, and the beauty, fashion, and cosmetic surgery industries are changing the way people around the world define beauty and see themselves. Taking us from the halls of Harvard to the galleries of the Louvre Museum, from a cosmetic surgeon's office in Beirut to the heart of Tokyo's Electric Town, the film explores how these industries saturate our lives with narrow, Westernized, consumer-driven images of beauty that show little to no respect for biological realities or cultural differences.

Contact Information: Kathy Fischer at kathy.fischer@uconn.edu
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10/17 Fat Talk Free Week

Fat Talk Free Week

Thursday, October 17th, 2019

12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Union Street, Student Union

10 million women are dealing with eating disorders in this country, which is more than are suffering from breast cancer. It’s time we take control over our own destinies, our own bodies, and our own inner dialogues. We’re changing the conversation to create a more positive body image for women everywhere!
Stop by our table for information, activities and giveaways.

Contact Information: Kathy Fischer at kathy.fischer@uconn.edu
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10/18 Fat Talk Free Week

Fat Talk Free Week

Friday, October 18th, 2019

12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Union Street, Student Union

10 million women are dealing with eating disorders in this country, which is more than are suffering from breast cancer. It’s time we take control over our own destinies, our own bodies, and our own inner dialogues. We’re changing the conversation to create a more positive body image for women everywhere!
Stop by our table for information, activities and giveaways.

Contact Information: Kathy Fischer at kathy.fischer@uconn.edu
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10/19 Witchcraft in Connecticut: Past & Present Persecution of the "Other"

Witchcraft in Connecticut: Past & Present Persecution of the "Other"

Saturday, October 19th, 2019

12:30 PM - 04:30 PM

Hartford Campus
Hartford Public Library Center for Contemporary Culture

Come learn about CT’s notorious witch persecution that pre-dated Salem’s; experience a trial through a dramatic poetry performance; listen to discussion of how women are being demonized today; and participate in a Wiccan Samhain ritual. Featuring:
Keynote Speaker Cindy Wolfe Boynton, author of Connecticut Witch Trials: The First Panic in the New World and President of the CT chapter of the National Organization for Women.
State Historian Walter Woodward, UCONN History Professor, author of Alchemy, & the Creation of New England Culture in the 17th Century, and the forthcoming book Creating Connecticut: Critical Moments That Shaped a Great State.
Priestess Suzanne Wingrove, poet, drummer, and author of the awarding play, Maleficia: A Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches.
With:
Lawrence B. Goodheart, UCONN History Professor Emeritus, and author of The Solemn Sentence of Death: Capital Punishment in Connecticut.
Poets Sheryll Bedingfield, Ginny Lowe Connors, Antoinette Brim, Margaret Plaganis, Pegi Deitz Shea.

This program is sponsored by the UCONN-Hartford Campus, UCONN English and History Departments, UCONN Women’s Center, and the Women’s Studies Program, with thanks to the Hartford Public Library. For more info: margaret.shea@uconn.edu

Contact Information: Pegi Deitz Shea, 860-878-7016, margaret.shea@uconn.edu
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10/20 Body Project

Body Project

Sunday, October 20th, 2019

12:00 PM - 02:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Women's Center, Student Union 4th floor

The Body Project is a peer led, group-based program that provides a forum for women and girls to confront unrealistic beauty ideals and engages them in the development of healthy body image. Workshops are led by trained women identified student leaders who are passionate about promoting positive body image. The workshops are held in 2 two hour sessions a week apart. In order to get the most out of the program, students are asked to register only if they are able to attend both 2-hour sessions.

Registration is required by Friday, October 11 at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/UConnBodyProject102019

Contact Information: Kathy Fischer at kathy.fischer@uconn.edu
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10/24 Critical & Historical Investigations into Women and Puppetry

Critical & Historical Investigations into Women and Puppetry

Thursday, October 24th, 2019

07:00 PM - 08:30 PM

Storrs Campus
Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry, 1 Royce Cir, Downtown Storrs

For its second installment of the 2019 Fall Puppet Forum Series, the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry will host "Critical & Historical Investigations into Women and Puppetry" with Claudia Orenstein, Alissa Mello, and Theodora Skipitares, moderated by UConn Puppet Arts student Felicia Cooper. Join us on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019 at 7 p.m. at the Ballard Institute Theater, located at 1 Royce Circle in Downtown Storrs.

This forum will present editors of and contributors to an important new work of puppetry studies: "Women and Puppetry: Critical and Historical Investigations." The anthology, dedicated to the study of women in the field of puppetry arts, and representing female writers and practitioners from across the globe, includes critical articles and personal accounts that interrogate specific historical moments, cultural contexts, and notions of "woman" on and off stage. The "Women and Puppetry" forum will feature editors Claudia Orenstein and Alissa Mello, as well as famed New York puppeteer Theodora Skipitares. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and book signing, courtesy of Barnes and Noble at UConn. This event is co-sponsored by UConn's Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and the UConn Women's Center.

Theodora Skipitares is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist and theater director based in New York. Trained as a sculptor and designer, she is the author/director of 30 performance works, each featuring documentary texts, original music, video, and as many as 300 puppet figures. She is a resident artist at La MaMa Theater. Skipitares has worked and taught master classes in Brazil, India, Vietnam, Cambodia, South Korea, and Iran. She is a professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.

Alissa Mello is the Managing Director at Sandglass Theater and an independent scholar. She has presented at numerous international conferences; and is a co-editor of "Women and Puppetry: Critical and Historical Investigations" (2019). Her writing includes book chapters in "Undisciplining Dance in 9 Movements and 8 Stumbles" (2018) and "Playing with Theory in Theatre Practice" (2011); articles in "Performance Research," "Puppetry International," "PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art," "Animations Online," and "Puppet Notebook" and theater criticism for www.offoffonline. As a founding member of Inkfish (http://www.inkfishart.com), she has directed numerous experimental puppet productions. As a performer and choreographer, she has worked with Theodora Skipitares, Anna Kiraly, Jane Catherine Shaw, and Ishara Puppet Theater.

Claudia Orenstein is Professor of Theatre at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She has spent over a decade writing on contemporary and traditional puppetry in the US and Asia. Recent publications include the co-edited volumes "Women and Puppetry" (with Alissa Mello and Cariad Astles, and "The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance" (with John Bell and Dassia Posner). She served a

Contact Information: Ballard Institute, bimp@uconn.edu, 860-486-8585
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10/24 The Wolves

The Wolves

Thursday, October 24th, 2019

07:30 PM - 09:30 PM

Storrs Campus
Studio Theatre

The Wolves are the best of the best. A pack of warriors protecting their undefeated record. But are they ready for the challenges they face on and off the field? The absorbing story of a high school girls’ soccer team combines the tumult of teenage self-discovery and the journey of finding your place in a group. Teamwork, competition and camaraderie of sport transcends the playing field in Sarah DeLappe’s compelling debut. A 2017 Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Contact Information: Matthew Pugliese, (860)486-4799, matthew.pugliese@uconn.edu
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2019 Outstanding Senior Women Academic Achievement Awards
The Provost’s Office, UConn Alumni, and the Women’s Center annually sponsor the Outstanding Senior Women Academic Achievement Awards Ceremony, which recognizes women undergraduate and graduate students who have excelled academically within each school/college and demonstrated high achievement in research and service to the University community. The program also celebrates the recipients of the 100 Years […]
Posted on October 4, 2019

Student Health Adjustment and Relationship Experiences (SHARE) Study
The Student Health Adjustment and Relationship Experiences (SHARE) Study aims to evaluate undergraduate students’ perceptions of campus life and experiences with relationships. There are two surveys – one for undergraduate students and one for staff and faculty. Participants have the chance to win a $50 Amazon gift card. For more information and links […]
Posted on September 17, 2019

Inviting applications for our Women’s Center Assistant position
Under the direction of the Women’s Center Director, this position coordinates the overall office management and complex support for one of five University cultural centers. The department addresses private, controversial, and highly sensitive data related to gender equity issues, coupled with the requirement to coordinate multiple projects with accuracy and short timelines. Requires a high […]
Posted on July 16, 2019

Take Back The Night
Join us for an evening of empowerment and healing for survivors of sexual violence.
Posted on April 9, 2019

Women’s Advance Conference Registration Closes Friday, April 19.
Register today for the 27th Annual Women’s Advance, featuring Dr. Carol Gilligan! Visit our conference page for information and the link for registration.
Posted on March 18, 2019