Department of English

Thursday, February 21, 2019

11:30am - 12:30pm

Young Building, Room 228

Graduate Students are welcome to a special lunch event with this week’s Teale speaker Dr. Liam Heneghan, author of Beasts at Bedtime, Environmental Wisdom in Children's Literature.


In Beasts at Bedtime, Liam Heneghan examines the environmental underpinnings of children’s stories. From Beatrix Potter to Harry Potter, Heneghan unearths the universal insights into our inextricable relationship with nature that underlie so many classic children’s stories. Some of the largest environmental challenges in coming years—from climate instability, the extinction crisis, freshwater depletion, and deforestation—are likely to become even more severe as this generation of children grows up. Though today’s young readers will bear the brunt of these environmental calamities, they will also be able to contribute to environmental solutions if prepared properly. Heneghan shows how the nature curriculum is already embedded in bedtime stories, from the earliest board books like The Rainbow Fish to contemporary young adult classics like The Hunger Games.

Liam Heneghan is an ecosystem ecologist, Professor, and Co-Director of DePaul University’s Institute for Nature and Children. He is a Dubliner, an occasional poet, a tin whistle player, and a father of two grown children to whom he read every night of their early years.

The Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series brings leading scholars and scientists to the University of Connecticut to present public lectures on nature and the environment. The lectures are open to the public and do not require registration.

For additional information: https://cese.uconn.edu/the-edwin-way-teale-lecture-series/

Engaging Students in Communities: A Faculty Forum on Place-Based Assignments. With David Olio (UConn) and Jeff Partridge (CCC).
Event is open to all faculty who teach writing courses at HCHE schools.

Teacher-as-Writer workshop. Please send RSVPs to dpieratti@swindsor.k12.ct.us.

More information on the workshop can be found on the CWP website.

This Wednesday Workshop will feature Professor Brendan Kane of the Department of History. Professor Kane's talk is titled "Digital humanities, language acquisition, and expanding the historical archive: 'Léhttp://amh.org - Learning Early Modern Irish."

Our UCHI Fellow will be presenting their research talk on “Expression, Communication, and Origins of Meaning” followed by a light reception.
For more information, please visit https://humanities.uconn.edu/2018-19fellows/.
If you require accommodation for this event, please contact uchi@uconn.edu at least one week prior to the event.

For more information, visit https://dhmediastudies.uconn.edu/upcoming-events/

Salon at the Benton: Art and Conversation
WHO IS THE REAL SUBJECT OF THE PORTRAIT? SITTER? SOCIETY? ARTIST?
Join the discussion

From the Mona Lisa to “selfies,” this salon will explore the artists’ and sitters’ intent, memorialization, branding, the influence of social trends, and other critical issues in portraiture using works from the Benton’s current exhibition and permanent collection.

5-5:30 pm Cash Bar; light hors d'oeuvres
5:30 pm Discussion commences.
FREE Donations are gratefully accepted.
RSVP appreciated by February 27.
Email benton@uconn.edu or call 860-486-5084.

PANELISTS
Pamela Bramble is Associate Professor of Painting at the University of Connecticut. Her teaching specialties include drawing, painting and art appreciation. Her work is represented in public and private collections and has been reviewed by The New York Times, The Hartford Courant, Hartford Advocate and Art New England.

Michael Bradford is Professor, Head of Dramatic Arts, and Artistic Director of Connecticut Repertory Theatre at UConn. He teaches theater history, dramatic literature and playwriting,is an award-winning playwright, and considered one
of the most promising African American playwrights today. His plays have been produced at various important venues regionally and internationally.

Susan Spiggle is Professor emeritus from the Department of Marketing in the School of Business at UConn. She worked with Alexis Boylan, Guest Curator on the current exhibition The Business of Bodies: Ellen Emmet Rand and the Persuasion of Portraiture exploring how Rand branded herself as an artist. Spiggle has written a chapter in the upcoming book on Rand.

MODERATOR
Veronica Makowsky is Professor of English and Women’s Studies at UConn. Her specialties include 20th- Century American literature (women’s, ethnic, Southern), ethnic American literature (multi-ethnic). She has written several books, most recently The Fiction of Valerie Martin: An Introduction (Louisiana State University Press, 2016).