Upcoming Events
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UCHI Fellow’s Talk: David Evans on the Human Right to Food 12:15pm 10/4
UCHI Fellow’s Talk: David Evans on the Human Right to Food
Wednesday, October 4th, 2023
12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Homer Babbidge Library
UCHI Dissertation Scholar David Evans will be giving a talk on “Rediscovering Hunger: The Human Right to Food and US Politics in the 1970s”
with a response by Kathryn Angelica
This event will also be livestreamed.
“Rediscovering Hunger” examines the political struggle surrounding the effort to embed the human right to food into US foreign and domestic policy in the mid-1970s. Following a disastrous world food crisis that lasted from 1973-1974, US citizens and political leaders re-awoke to the ethical problem that hunger presented. The promise of the modernization projects of the 1960s gave way to a reality in which wealthy countries remained well-fed, the global poor starved and suffered. Therefore in 1976, various US Congressional leaders, supported by a broad coalition of religious and secular activists, sought to establish the human right to food in US policy. The effort represented one of the earliest efforts in a wider human rights project that came to dominate US politics by the end of the decade. The episode also illustrated the constraints of effectively achieving human rights, as food producers and market fundamentalists contested the meaning and viability of the human right to food despite its moral universality.
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Writing the History of Sexual Assault - Gender and History Lecture 4:30pm 10/5
Writing the History of Sexual Assault - Gender and History Lecture
Thursday, October 5th, 2023
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Homer Babbidge Library
Please join the History Department for our Fall 2023 Gender & History lecture “Writing the History of Sexual Assault: Fractured Narratives and Changing Stories.”
This talk will be delivered by Amy Stanley, the the Wayne V. Jones Research Professor of History at Northwestern University.
Primarily a social historian of early modern and modern Japan, she has special interests in global history, women’s and gender history, and narrative. She is the author of Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan (UC Press 2012), as well as articles in the American Historical Review, The Journal of Japanese Studies, and The Journal of Asian Studies. Her most recent book, Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World (Scribner, 2020), won the National Book Critics’ Circle Award in Biography and PEN/America Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award in Biography and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Professor Stanley received her PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard in 2007 and she has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Japan Foundation, the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. -
Gender and History Workshop All Day 10/6
Gender and History Workshop
Friday, October 6th, 2023
All Day
Wood Hall
Please join the History Department faculty and graduate students for discussion of Amy Stanley’s (Northwestern) pre-circulated paper “Revisiting the “Comfort Girls” of Report 49: Race, Sex, and Documentation on the Battlefield in Burma, 1944.”
To receive a copy of the paper in advance of the event, please contact Prof. Emma Amador (emma.amador@uconn.edu).
UConn History and Africana Studies Professor and EPOCH Director Fiona Vernal will present for the Hartford Lecture Series on October 5th at 5:4 p.m.m at CT`s Old State House. The event will also be live-streamed. For more information:
https://history.uconn.edu/2023/09/26/fiona-vernal-to-present-for-hartford-lecture-series-on-oct-5th/

Wednesday Workshop with History PhD Student Megan McGraw: "We of My Kind" Transnational Medical Discourse & Trans* Identity Formation in 1950s Italy. This event will take place in the basement lounge of wood hall and is also available on Zoom for virtual attendance. Link in Weekly Content highlights!

The Early Modern Reading Group brings together graduate students and faculty for lively, enriching conversations about texts with cross-disciplinary value. This semester, they are reading Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyles Sister. 😲😲
Come join the reading group today, Thursday April 13th from 1-2pm at the Humanities Institute!! 📖🧐
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Attention Huskies!!
Professor Cornelia Dayton and PhD candidate Yuhan Liang will be giving a research talk tomorrow Wednesday February 15, 2023 at the Humanities Institute Conference Room in the Storrs Campus. If you are interested, be sure to go and check it out! 😆
To attend virtually, register by copying and pasting with the link below: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_USZwAlPKTsahmykfAyC9XQ
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