The Neag School of Education

invites you to attend the

Center for Education Policy Analysis
2018 Speaker Series

Featuring our special guest speaker

Kirabo Jackson

Professor of Human Development & Social Policy
Northwestern Institute for Policy Research

RSVP below
http://s.uconn.edu/cepa2018

UCHI Fellow will be presenting their research talk on “Oil Palm: a Global History of an African Tree” 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.

Dr. Keith E. Whittington, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at
Princeton University AND author of the forthcoming book, Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech (Princeton University Press, 2018)

Universities have a distinctive and important mission in American society. They assemble and nurture an open and diverse community of scholars, teachers and students dedicated to the production and dissemination of knowledge. The robust protection of free speech and civil discourse is essential to that mission. Better understanding the relationship between the critical functions of the university and the principles of free speech can help guide us in resolving the difficult challenges that confront the members of modern universities such as UConn.

Kate COSTELLO-SULLIVAN talk on Carmilla critical edition
Sept. 27, AUST 216 at 1:00pm
Costello-Sullivan is Professor of Modern Irish Literature and Dean of CAS at Le Moyne College, NY, where she founded the Irish literature program. She has published widely on contemporary Irish fiction, including the first monograph on Colm Tóibín. Trauma and Recovery in the 21st-Century Irish Novel was published this spring by Syracuse UP, where she has just been appointed General Editor. She is current VP of the American Conference for Irish Studies. She has edited a critical edition of J.S. Le Fanu’s Carmilla, the challenges of which will be the subject of her talk. Contact mary.burke@uconn.edu to RESERVE A SEAT

Our ACLS Burkhardt Visiting Fellow Katherine Grandjean will be presenting their research talk on “In the Kingdom of Devils: The Harpe Murders and the Legacies of the American Revolution” 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.

Wednesday, October 10 -- Marjorie Perloff, Professor Emerita at Stanford University, distinguished scholar and literary critic, will speak on “’The Malady of the Quotidian’: From Wallace Stevens’ The Rock to Susan Howe’s The Quarry.”
We often think of Wallace Stevens’s poetry as being abstract and difficult, but, as another great Connecticut poet teaches us in her recent prose poem, The Quarry, Stevens has an uncanny sense of the everyday—especially the everyday of weather and seasonal change—of the bleak light and bare boughs of winter that, in this poet’s imagination, take on a special magic and unique perspective. Howe’s own poem builds on citations and images from the late Stevens to create an equally imaginative—but also very different—personal landscape of memory and desire. His “Vacancy in the Park” becomes her “Vagrancy in the Park”—a delicate and compelling transformation that makes us see Hartford’s Elizabeth Park and related sites anew.
3:00 p.m. at the Hartford Public Library.

The Chair of the Speakers and Symposia Committee for this academic year has officially announced the dates and times for the following Brown Bag talks for the fall semester:

Wednesday, October 10th @ 2:30-4:00pm    Debapriya Sarkar (title TBA)

Meeting of the Leadership Council