Upcoming Events
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Mar
30
Carl Wennerlind: "Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis"12:30pm
Carl Wennerlind: "Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis"
Thursday, March 30th, 2023
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM
Storrs Campus Humanities Institute HBL 4-209
You are invited to the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute (HBL 4-209) on March 30, at 12:30PM to attend a talk by Carl Wennerlind, Professor of History at Barnard, on his new book on the history of capitalism: Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis (Harvard UP, 2023). -
Mar
30
Reading Group1:00pm
Reading Group
Thursday, March 30th, 2023
01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Storrs Campus Online
The Early Modern Reading Group brings together graduate students and faculty for lively, enriching conversations about texts with cross-disciplinary value. This semester we are reading Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle's Sister. -
Mar
30
Anne Enright/Gerson Irish Reading7:00pm
Anne Enright/Gerson Irish Reading
Thursday, March 30th, 2023
07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Storrs Campus Alumni House
The Gerson Irish Reader 2023 will be Anne Enright, one Ireland’s most renowned contemporary fiction writers. Enright has published seven novels and received the 2007 Man Booker Prize for her best-selling novel, The Gathering. Enright’s second novel, What Are You Like?, was shortlisted for a 2000 Whitbread Award. Her writing consistently explores family, love, identity and motherhood, and her most recent novel, Actress, was published in 2020. -
Apr
3
Young Adult Publishing5:00pm
Young Adult Publishing
Monday, April 3rd, 2023
05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Other virtual
Stephanie Stein (Editor, Harper Collins) Peter Knapp (partner and agent, Park & Fine) and Crystal Maldonado (author and UConn alum) demystify the world of young adult publishing.
Please register to attend: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMsd-CrqjkiH9dzveVapCZmAqSCZZFo9APF
And submit any questions you have for our panelists to this Google form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeH5OespyYcPnTGwce6_YQmEfLZmU-XghPAWhwGAT8xMJWAZw/viewform?usp=sf_link -
Apr
3
Film Screening of Marianne and Discussion with Director Valentina Canavesio6:00pm
Film Screening of Marianne and Discussion with Director Valentina Canavesio
Monday, April 3rd, 2023
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Storrs Campus Oak Hall 101
Join us for this beautiful documentary film featuring seven Muslim French women who share their unique stories about life in secular France. The 75 minute film will be followed by a discussion with the film's director, Valentina Canavesio.
