Thank you to all of our graduate students for helping El Instituto in research, teaching, and advising students. We appreciate you!

All graduate students are welcome to join us to celebrate their accomplishments with lunch and conversations with faculty, staff, and students.

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Tacos will be served!

The purpose of the Visiting Scholar in Gender & History series is to bring prominent and emerging scholars working on gender with an historical framework to campus. All historical periods and geographical areas come within the purview of the series. 

Susan McDonough specializes in the study of gender and sexuality in the Latin Mediterranean. Her first book was Witnesses, Neighbors, and Community in Late Medieval Marseille (Palgrave, 2013) and she co-edited Boundaries in the Medieval and Wider World: Essays in Honor of Paul Freedman (Brepols, 2017).

She is currently at work on a monograph exploring the role of sex workers as knowledge brokers in the port cities of the late medieval Mediterranean. Shifting attention away from their sex lives, this study examines how the women used institutions like notaries and law courts to stake out their community identities. https://events.uconn.edu/live/image/gid/197/width/609/height/815/5575_Screenshot_2024-04-03_114535_2.rev.1712159376.png" title="Screenshot 2024-04-03 114535" data-max-w="613" data-max-h="820" loading="lazy"/>

Sexual health is an important part of our overall health & wellbeing, and Student Health and Wellness (SHaW), is committed to providing you with comprehensive & inclusive sexual health education & services. Whether you’re having sex or abstaining, looking to seek out specific resources, or are just browsing, we hope this fair will provide you with knowledge, resources, and support to make decisions that feel right for you - now and in the future.

Our 2024 fair will feature over 30 UConn and off campus resources related to sexual wellbeing, chances to win over 15 prize baskets full of sexual health swag and pleasure items, and FREE chlamydia & gonorrhea testing for the first 200 students who sign-up!

If you have any questions about our annual Sexual Health & Wellness Fair or require an accommodation to participate, please reach out to Cassy Setzler at cassy@uconn.edu.

*Please note UConn may be taking photos and/or video at the SH&WF for educational or promotional purposes.

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Know Before you Go! Interested in getting tested for STIs at the upcoming Sexual Health & Wellness Fair? Here’s what you need to know before arriving:

• This year, Student Health and Wellness is partnering with the CT Department of Public Health to test 200 students for chlamydia and gonorrhea - for free!
• If you’d like to be tested, arrive early. Fair attendees will be asked if they are interested in getting tested at the main fair check-in and given a number, which will secure their spot in line.
• Tests will be conducted via urine sample, so if you plan on getting tested, be sure to hydrate and do not urinate 1 hour before arriving.
• You will receive instructions after you’re tested about any follow-up, including how to access to results. Any positive tests will be offered FREE treatment at Student Health & Wellness. Eligible partner(s) of students who have positives tests will also be offered FREE treatment without the need to see a medical provider.

If you have any questions about the STI testing portion of the event, please reach out to our Advice Nurse Line at 860-486-4700.

Can’t make the event, but still interested in getting tested for STIs? SHaW offers STI testing throughout the semester at our Hilda May Williams building. Please call 860-486-4700 for more information or to schedule an appointment.

*Please note that in addition to SHaW & DPH testing, Perceptions Programs is generously offering a limited number of spots for students interested in being tested for HIV. Please visit the Perceptions Program table the day of the fair if you’re interested in receiving a rapid HIV test!

This year, the theme of TBTN is ‘It Takes a Village’, highlighting the importance of community when it comes to healing from a sexual assault. We will have two fantastic speakers, a march to reclaim the darkness, and a candlelight vigil in honor of those who did not make it.