Each year, the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress holds a reading and writing contest known as Letters About Literature for students in grades 4-12.

Students are asked to read a book, poem, or speech and write a letter to that author (living or dead) about how the text affected them personally. Letters are judged on the state and national levels. Tens of thousands of students from across the country enter Letters About Literature each year.

Nine winners will be honored at the State Capitol in April.

This small group discussion will focus on the dialogues faith-based groups have within their communities over the problems of dogma and conviction (in conjunction with the Midpoint Forum). In particular, it considers the broader social and political implications of unresolved internecine disagreement.

"If Maria strikes again...lessons learned working with affected communities," a talk by Blanca Ortiz-Torres, PhD., JD., Catedratica Universidad de Puerto Rico - Secretaria General Sociedad Interamericana de Psicologia.

The Humility and Conviction in Public Life Project will be sponsoring its Midpoint Forum, entitled "Talking about Faith and Politics: Navigating our differences with conviction and humility." Panel speakers will be David Gergen, Rabbi Melissa Weintraub, and Eboo Patel. This event will be moderated by Jon Dankosky.

To purchase tickets, please visit: https://ctforum.secure.force.com/ticket/?acode=e7d18d568b915a0db3953b20e9b91bdf#sections_a0F1Y00000ZFT60UAH

Faculty/graduate student workshop with Blanca Ortiz-Torres, PhD., JD, on Puerto Rico post-disaster displacement and recovery.

Drop in during our weekly open hours to see what we’re working on, grab a cookie, and join in on some friendly conversation!

Learn more about Greenhouse Studios | Scholarly Communications Design at UConn on our website: http://greenhousestudios.uconn.edu

Every Thursday, 4-5pm

Thursday, April 26, 2018

Long River Review Release Party

UConn Bookstore, Storrs Center, 6:00 pm

Dr. Susannah Heschel will present "Human Dignity in Judaism" on April 26, 7:00pm, at the Charter Oak Cultural Center (21 Charter Oak Avenue, Hartford).

The event is made possible by the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life Gene and Georgia Mittelman Lecture in Judaic Studies, Charter Oak Cultural Center, UConn Hartford, the Humanities Institute, and the Department of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages.

Susannah Heschel is the chair of the Jewish Studies Program and Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. Her numerous publications include Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus (University of Chicago Press), which won a National Jewish Book Award, and The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany (Princeton University Press).

Heschel has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Frankfurt and Cape Town as well as Princeton, and she is the recipient of numerous grants, including from the Ford Foundation, Carnegie Foundation, and a yearlong Rockefeller fellowship at the National Humanities Center. In 2011-12 she held a fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. She has received four honorary doctorates from universities in the United States, Canada, and Germany. Currently she is a Guggenheim Fellow and is writing a book on the history of European Jewish scholarship on Islam. In 2015 she was elected a member of the American Society for the Study of Religion.

If you need an accommodation to participate, please contact Pamela Weathers at pamela.weathers@uconn.edu or 860-486-2271.