All graduate students and young professionals at UConn are welcome to attend our Grads and Young Professionals Movie Night! We will be watching a Halloween themed movie and socialize over pizza.

The International Studies Association is pleased to
announce that the 2018-2019 James N. Rosenau
Postdoctoral Fellow, Jamie J. Hagen, Ph.D., will
discuss her research on Queering Women, Peace and Security.
Beginning in 2000, the first Women, Peace and Security (WPS) resolution passed by the Security Council called for inclusion of a gender-perspective in all peace and security work. Despite the groundbreaking work of the now 8 WPS resolutions, homophobic and transphobic violence in conflict-related environments is largely overlooked. This is in part because gender analysis prompted by the WPS architecture remains limited by binary sex categories with heteronormative assumptions. Understanding why this occurs and how to respond to this shortcoming requires investigating how lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LBT) women fit into WPS discourse. In her presentation, Dr. Hagen reviews the troubled discourse of “women” and “gender” in the WPS architecture and what the three “P’s” of the WPS agenda (protection, prevention and participation) look like if applied to the lives and needs of LBT women. In conclusion, participants will consider next steps for bridging WPS conversations with LGBTQ human rights conversations.

Please RSVP to Dr. Kristy A. Belton (kbelton@isanet.org) by Nov. 2, 2018. Light refreshments will be served.

Do you ever feel like you are eating your food without ever remembering what it tastes like? Do you think that your eating habits can be improved? Come join the UConn Dietetics students in learning about mindful eating! This presentation will provide some guidance on how to eat for your health and wellness!
Co-sponsored with UConn Dietetics and Nutrition and Physical Activity Services at Student Health Services.

"Surveilling Sex: FDR and the Section A Crusades"
Dr. Sherry Zane is an Assistant Professor in Residence and the Associate Director of WGSS at UConn. She recently published an article in the New England Quarterly titled, "I Did It for the Uplift of Humanity and the Navy: Same Sex Acts and the Origins of the National Security State, 1920-1921." Her current work examines the enduring importance of gender, race, and sexual identity in shaping a U.S. national security state.

***NOTE TIME CHANGE***. Because of the inclement weather the time for this talk has changed to NOON,
The Annual Gene and Georgia Mittelman Lecture in the Arts.

“(Self) Portrait of the Artist as a Mad Witch: Being Gertrude Abercrombie”

A Talk by Sarah Burns. The Ruth N. Halls Professor Emerita in the Department of the History of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington.

5:30 Cocktails and light hors d'oeuvres
6pm Talk commences

RSVP appreciated to 860-486-4520

Sarah Burns is Professor Emerita of Art History at Indiana University in Bloomington. She holds a Ph.D. from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Burns has published widely: she is the author of Pastoral Inventions: Rural Life in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture (Philadelphia, 1989); Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America (New Haven, 1996); and Painting the Dark Side: Art and the Gothic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2004).
In 2008-9, she held the Terra Foundation for American
Art Fellowship in American Art History at the Newberry Library in Chicago where she researched the dark side of modernism in America between the world wars. Other honors include the Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Inventing the Modern Artist, and the Charles Rufus Morey Prize for Painting the Dark Side.