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Why Technology Alone Cannot Solve the Climate Crisis1:15pm
2/7
Why Technology Alone Cannot Solve the Climate Crisis
Tuesday, February 7th, 2023
01:15 PM - 02:45 PM
Storrs Campus Vernon Cottage, Depot Campus
This talk uses the case study of surface transportation to illuminate the concept of Technosalvation—the idea that technologi cal innovations will solve the climate crisis and makes the case that social equity is crucial to creating sustainable cities.
Tuesday, February 7, 1:15 to 2:45 Carol Atkinson-Palumbo, Department of Geology, UConn -
Gun Violence: Prevention and the Politics of Worthiness1:15pm
2/9
Gun Violence: Prevention and the Politics of Worthiness
Thursday, February 9th, 2023
01:15 PM - 02:45 PM
Storrs Campus Vernon Cottage, Depot Campus
Headlines regularly assail us with the horror of mass shootings taking the lives of schoolchildren, college students, grocery shoppers, African Americans or Jewish people at their places of worship, patrons of an LGBTQ club, Walmart employees. Yet community gun violence, the result of radicalized urban disadvantage, is ignored. In this talk, the speaker explores how cultural understandings of worthiness shape gun violence prevention efforts.
Thursday, February 9, 1:15 to 2:45 Mary Bernstein, Associate Dean of the Graduate School and Professor of Sociology, UConn -
The Environmental Costs and Consequences of the United States Food System1:15pm
2/15
The Environmental Costs and Consequences of the United States Food System
Wednesday, February 15th, 2023
01:15 PM - 02:45 PM
Storrs Campus Vernon Cottage, Depot Campus
The U.S. industrial agricultural system is enormously productive, but does it serve the needs of our bodies and our environment? It is resource- intensive and contributes about a quarter of our greenhouse gas emissions. Learn how thoughtful dietary choices can improve not only our own health but also that of the planet.
Wednesday, February 15, 1:15 to 2:45 Hedley Freake, Professor Emeritus, Nutritional Science, UConn -
The Asian American Community in Connecticut1:15pm
2/22
The Asian American Community in Connecticut
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023
01:15 PM - 02:45 PM
Storrs Campus Vernon Cottage, Depot Campus
Connecticut’s diverse and vibrant Asian American community grew 27% in the past decades, from 134,091 to 170,459 in 2020. Their contributions to the state range from politics to entrepreneurship. Learn more about them and the issues they have faced, particularly during the Covid pandemic, and how the “model minority” label must be understood and dispelled.
Wednesday, February 22, 1:15 to 2:45
Angela Rola, Founding Director, Asian American Cultural Center and Affiliate Faculty, UConn Asian and Asian American Studies Institute. -
Why the Jews? Confronting Antisemitism1:15pm
2/23
Why the Jews? Confronting Antisemitism
Thursday, February 23rd, 2023
01:15 PM - 02:45 PM
Storrs Campus Vernon Cottage, Depot Campus
What accounts for the contemporary rise in antisemitism? What are the best strategies to respond? This talk analyzes the Jewish encounter with antisemitism in America and globally, addressing its rise in all forms across the political spectrum from left to right, including conspiracy theories, and when anti-Zionism becomes antisemitism.
Thursday, February 23, 1:15 to 2:45
Avinoam Patt, Director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, UConn -
Abortion in the Colonial Period1:15pm
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Abortion in the Colonial Period
Thursday, March 2nd, 2023
01:15 PM - 02:45 PM
Storrs Campus Vernon Cottage, Depot Campus
This talk will cover abortion in the colonial period and into the early 19th century, when Connecticut passed the first statute introducing some restrictions.
Thursday, March 2, 1:15 to 2:45
Cornelia Dayton, Professor of History, UConn -
Building Thread City: The Early Industrial Revolution in Willimantic CT, 1822-18721:15pm
3/7
Building Thread City: The Early Industrial Revolution in Willimantic CT, 1822-1872
Tuesday, March 7th, 2023
01:15 PM - 02:45 PM
Storrs Campus Vernon Cottage, Depot Campus
The speaker will cover the industrial revolution coming to Willimantic, with the building of the first cotton mills, which gave it the name “Thread City.” A recent donation of 19th century drawings of dozens of city buildings as they appeared in 1860 allows us today to visualize the early Thread City.
Tuesday, March 7, 1:15 to 2:45
Jamie Eves, adjunct professor, ECSU and UConn, Hartford. Former Executive Director of the Windham Textile and History Museum, Municipal Historian, Town of Windham -
The Formulation of Galaxies Over the History of the Universe1:15pm
3/15
The Formulation of Galaxies Over the History of the Universe
Wednesday, March 15th, 2023
01:15 PM - 02:45 PM
Storrs Campus Vernon Cottage, Depot Campus
How do galaxies like our own Milky Way form and evolve across cosmic time? We will discuss what we know, how we know it, and what we don’t know. We will then discuss the revolutionary science being carried out by the James Webb Space Telescope, and how this observatory is helping reveal galaxies near and far in new and astonishing detail.
Raymond Simon, Department of Physics, UConn
Wednesday, March 15, 1:15 to 2;45 -
Northern Ireland Protocol1:15pm
3/16
Northern Ireland Protocol
Thursday, March 16th, 2023
01:15 PM - 02:45 PM
Storrs Campus Vernon Cottage, Depot Campus
The speaker will address the new political reality in Northern Ireland. Is Irish unity possible? How and why now?
Thursday, March 16, 1:15 to 2:45
Sean Kennelly, laicized priest and CLIR’s resident Irishman -
Queen Victoria and her Descendants1:15pm
3/23
Queen Victoria and her Descendants
Thursday, March 23rd, 2023
01:15 PM - 02:45 PM
Storrs Campus Vernon Cottage, Depot Campus
Queen Victoria and her beloved Prince Albert were the parents of nine children and the grandparents of 42.Among these people were thecrowned heads or consorts of eightEuropean countries. The Queen wasactively involved in arranging manyof the marriages of her children andgrandchildren. Notable descendantsinclude the German Kaiser, KingGeorge V of Britain and the lastTsarina of Russia.
Thursday, March 23, 1:15 to 2:45
Janet Avery, avid British history researcher and member of the Richard II Society. -
Horses in Art and History1:15pm
3/28
Horses in Art and History
Tuesday, March 28th, 2023
01:15 PM - 02:45 PM
Storrs Campus Vernon Cottage, Depot Campus
The speaker is an author and artist based in Hampton, CT. A lifelong horse lover, dressage rider and former groom, she writes and illustrates primarily equine-related books that appeal to both adults and children.
Tuesday, March 28, 1:15 to2:45
Helen Scanlon, equine artist and author -
The Development of the Shores of Coventry’s Lake Wangumbaug1:15pm
3/30
The Development of the Shores of Coventry’s Lake Wangumbaug
Thursday, March 30th, 2023
01:15 PM - 02:45 PM
Storrs Campus Vernon Cottage, Depot Campus
A talk about the development of the shoreline of the lake from the earliest times through the Actor’s Colony period. What does “Wangumbaug” mean? How big was the lake originally? Do the residents of South Coventry drink lake water? Learn these answers and more during this lecture about Coventry’s history from the perspective of its lake.
Thursday, March 30, 1:15 to 2:45
John Holmy, Coventry Town Historian and Member of the Coventry Historical Society
