Please join us for a conversation with Professor Bryant Simon (History & American Studies, Temple University) about Writing, Creativity & Historical Imagination on Friday, October 19, from 2:30-4:00 in the UCHI seminar room. The workshop is aimed at all graduate students and faculty interested in the creative practice of writing for academic and popular audiences. Professor Simon will share aspects of his own experience as a writer and scholar, including past experiments with short historical fiction and insights from writing his most recent book, The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives (New Press, 2017). A selection of pre-circulated short readings will provide common foundation for a free-ranging interdisciplinary discussion. Among his many diverse publications, Bryant Simon is also author of Everything But the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks (California, 2009); Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America (OUP, 2004); and A Fabric of Defeat: The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910-1948 (UNC, 1998).

For copies of the readings, please email Micki McElya at micki.mcelya@uconn.edu.

Many thanks to workshop co-sponsors: the American Studies Program, Department of History, and the Humanities Institute!

The Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life at UConn will be hosting a performance of Savyon Liebrecht's play, The Strawberry Girl, followed by a dialogue led by the play's director, Guy Ben-Aharon. The show will take place on Monday, October 22 at 6PM in the Konover Auditorium at the Dodd Research Center on the Storrs campus. The program is free and open to the public.

Founder of Israeli Stage and director of the play, Guy Ben-Aharon, brings Savyon Liebrecht's heart-wrenching story, The Strawberry Girl, to life on the stage. The one-woman show, presented in English, tells the haunting, WWII era story of a German woman and her son Ludwig who live in Poland, where her husband works at a “factory.” Their lives change after she meets a Jewish girl who grows strawberries, as big as a man’s fist. The play deals with the confrontation of blissful ignorance and a tragic personal intimacy.

The Strawberry Girl has toured to Boston College (sponsored by the Laura and Lorenz Reibling Foundation, German Consulate of Boston), Brandeis University (Center for German and European Studies, Hadassah Brandeis Institute), Goethe Zentrum Atlanta, Lesley University (Lesley Hillel, CJP), NewBridge on the Charles, Temple Emmanuel of Newton, Temple Isaiah of Lexington, Trinity College (Trinity Hillel), Wellesley College (German Studies Department, Jewish Studies Department, English Department, Theatre Department).

If you require an accommodation to participate, contact Pamela Weathers at pamela.weathers@uconn.edu.

Dr. Roger Nicoll
Professor,
Department of Cellular Molecular Pharmacology,
UCSF School of Medicine,
San Francisco, CA

Talk Title: “Long-term potentiation: Still going strong after 40 years”

Host: Dr. Anastasios Tzingounis

If you are in a STEM course or are a STEM major, this is the workshop for you. Learn ways to be successful in your courses including how to approach your assignments and studying.

The 6th annual Fall Frontiers Poster Exhibition is a celebration of student research, scholarship and creative projects. Fall Frontiers provides an opportunity for undergraduate students to share their work with the UConn community. More information is available at https://ugradresearch.uconn.edu/fall-frontiers-in-undergraduate-research/.

This event is open to the entire UConn community.

If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Jodi Eskin (jodi.eskin@uconn.edu) by October 15, 2018.

Chemistry Colloquium "Terahertz Spectroscopy of Semiconductors and Semiconductor Nanostructures"

Charlie Schmuttenmaer
Yale University
Host: Tomoyasu Mani


Refreshments will be served at 3:15pm. All are welcome.