Steven On (Political Science, National Sun Yat-sen University) will present “Dialectic of Culture and Autonomy.”

If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Humanities Institute staff (Jo-Ann Waide/Nasya Al-Saidy) by email at uchi@uconn.edu or phone (860) 486-9057 by March 25, 2018.

POLS Colloquium

Dr. Peter Thomas (Brunel University)

Talk title TBD

HACHA is an informal gathering of graduate students and faculty to share research and experiences across disciplines. Special Guest: Shareen Hertel who will speak on "Business and Human Rights: Insights from fieldwork in the Dominican Republic."

UConn Forum: Mark Twain, Race, and Anti-Racism: Lessons from Pudd’nhead Wilson

A panel of UConn faculty will discuss Mark Twain’s groundbreaking depiction of race in America in his novel, The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson, and its contemporary relevance. This conversation, co-sponsored by UConn and the Mark Twain House & Museum, will ground efforts against racism today.

UConn Panelists:
Martha Cutter, Professor of English and Africana Studies;
David Embrick, Associate Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies;
Shayla Nunnally, Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies;
Shawn Salvant, Associate Professor of English.

Moderator:
Davita Silfen Glasberg, Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of Sociology.

Wednesday, April 11th, 7:00 p.m., Lincoln Financial Theatre, The Mark Twain House & Museum. Free.

For more information, visit: https://marktwainhouse.org/event/uconn-forum-mark-twain-race-and-anti-racism-lessons-from-puddnhead-wilson/

The Political Science Honor Society is hosting "Meet the Mayor" an event for the UConn community to meet the mayor of Mansfield, Paul Shapiro. Mayor Shapiro will share is background, experiences, and political views followed by a Q&A and light reception.

POLS Colloquium:
Katherine Rye Jewell

"Regional Identity and Political Economy: Tracing the Geography of Southern Economic Conservatism"

Monday, April 16 at 12:15pm in Oak 438

Research Excellence in Political Science poster session featuring POLS Honors Students

Citizens United (2010) provoked outrage at the idea of corporations having free speech rights. Drawing upon benchmark Supreme Court decisions, this talk looks at how US law has developed inconsistent rationales to theorize corporate rights. These incongruities should be exposed and corporate personhood abolished because this “legal fiction” (as it is called by legal scholars) has become a zero-sum game in which extending rights to corporations becomes the pretext for curtailing the rights of actual human citizens. Corporate personhood is also a metaphor, and literary writers have much to teach us about it. This talk therefore also examines recent novels that expose the incommensurability of the corporate and the human, such as Richard Powers’s Gain, Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story, Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, and Chang-Rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea.

Economic & Social Rights Program of the Human Rights Institute, cohosted with Asian & Asian-American Studies, India Studies, ISA, and The Thomas J. Dodd Center

Lunchtime talk with author Rachel Wahl (U-VA Curry School of Education) on human rights education and police violence in India.

Thursday, April 19, 2018, 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m., Humanities Institute, 4th floor, Babbidge Library, Storrs Campus

Economic & Social Rights Program of the Human Rights Institute, co-hosted with Political Economy Workshop (Lyle Scruggs)

Talk with Prakash Kashwan (UConn Political Science), "When do economic rights work for the marginalized groups? Lessons from a comparative research and future directions for a global research on economic rights”

Friday, April 10, 2018, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. Room 162 Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, Storrs Campus

Information session to learn more about the CGA Internship Program from current interns.