Registration is open for the UConn Women’s Advance Conference on May 15, 2024 at the Avery Point campus. Visit the 2024 conference website information and register HERE.
Events
Reproductive Justice – Health, Rights, & Social Justice
Reproductive justice is a feminist framework, developed by women of color, that center’s the needs of the most marginalized and affirms our human right to bodily autonomy and to live healthy lives with access to the necessary physical, mental, political, economic, social, and sexual resources for the well-being of all people. The three core values […]
Revolutionary Love: The Call of Our Times with Valarie Kaur
Join us for an evening with Valarie Kaur, civil rights leader, lawyer, award-winning filmmaker, educator, and author of the #1 LA Times Bestseller SEE NO STRANGER. Valarie has led visionary campaigns, including the Revolutionary Love Project, to tell untold stories and change policy on issues ranging from hate crimes to digital freedom. Book sale and […]
Call for Proposals – Women’s Advance Conference
The UConn Women’s Advance Conference is a professional development opportunity for women staff, graduate students and faculty at all levels of the University that is designed to expand skills, increase knowledge, and enhance networks to promote a more inclusive and supportive working and learning environment. The UConn Women’s Advance Conference Planning Committee is […]
Melissa Harris-Perry – Women’s Center’s 50th!
Women’s Center 50th Anniversary Celebration with Melissa Harris Perry Professor Melissa Harris-Perry is the Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University where she teaches courses on American politics and elections at the intersections of race, place, and gender. She is the founder and President of the Anna Julia Cooper Center, an independent organization with […]
Women’s Advance Conference – Registration Extended to Friday!
Registration has been extended! Register HERE by May 13, 2022
Women’s Advance Conference ~ Call For Proposals
The UConn Women’s Advance Conference Planning Committee has extended the deadline for proposals for workshops and presentations to March 25, 2022 for the 2022 UConn Women’s Advance Conference. More information and link for proposals can be found HERE.
Take Back the Night
Speak Out & Candlelight Ceremony honoring victim-survivors of sexual assault, dating and domestic violence, stalking, and harassment through poetry, stories, song, and open mic.
Family Weekend Open House and Virtual Tour
Date: Saturday, October 9, 2021 Time: 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Location: Student Union, Room 421, Women’s Center The Women’s Center welcomes all students and families to come by to meet our student staff, take a tour and learn more about who we are and what we do! Looking forward to seeing you! Learn more […]
LUNAFEST 2021
It’s time for LUNAFEST 2021! Wednesday, April 28 Now in its 20th year, LUNAFEST was the first traveling film festival celebrating stories by women, about women. We hope you will join us to hear these powerful untold stories & together we’ll raise awareness, support the UCONN WOMEN’S CENTER, and champion change directly with our […]