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9/24 Shusenjo Film Screening & Discussion

Shusenjo Film Screening & Discussion

Tuesday, September 24th, 2019

04:00 PM - 07:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Konnover Auditorium, Dodd Center

Miki Dezaki, a Youtuber who was threatened and harassed by Japan`s notorious netouyo (cyber neo-nationalists) for his video on racism in Japan, is not shying away from controversial topics with his debut feature length documentary on the comfort women issue. The film, titled “Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue,” dives deep into the most contentious dispute between Japan and Korea, and finds answers to hotly debated questions, such as: Were the comfort women “sexual slaves” or prostitutes? Were they coercively recruited? Were there really 200,000 comfort women? And, does Japan have a legal responsibility to apologize?

Dezaki masterfully interweaves footage from demonstrations, man-on-the-street interviews,
news and archival clips with in-depth interviews with the most prominent scholars and
influencers from both sides of the debate, including Yoshiko Sakurai (journalist), Kent
Gilbert (lawyer/celebrity), Mina Watanabe (secretary-general of the Women`s Active
Museum), Koichi Nakano (political science professor) and Yoshiaki Yoshimi (historian).

The screening will take place from 4-6 pm, followed by a discussion with director Miki Dezaki until 7 pm.

Contact Information: Alexis Dudden, alexis.dudden@uconn.edu
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9/25 [PTR] Department Faculty Meeting (2)

[PTR] Department Faculty Meeting (2)

Wednesday, September 25th, 2019

12:15 PM - 02:15 PM

Storrs Campus
Wood Hall 4A

PTR Department Faculty Meeting
Tentative

Contact Information: Mark Healey
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9/25 Humanities Fellow Research Talk: Daniel Cohen

Humanities Fellow Research Talk: Daniel Cohen

Wednesday, September 25th, 2019

04:00 PM - 05:30 PM

Storrs Campus
Humanities Institute Seminar Room, Babbidge Library 4th Floor

Our UCHI Fellow will be presenting their research talk on “Burning the Charlestown Convent: Private Lives, Public Outrage, and Contested Memories in America’s Civil War Generation” followed by a light reception. For more information, please visit https://humanities.uconn.edu/fellowships/current-and-previous-fellows/. If you require accommodation for this event, please contact uchi@uconn.edu at least one week prior to the event.

Contact Information: uchi@uconn.edu
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9/26 Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead

Thursday, September 26th, 2019

04:30 PM - 06:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Konover Auditorium

The Africana Studies Institute is hosting #1 bestselling author Colson Whitehead.

Colson Whitehead is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad (an Oprah’s Book Club selection and winner of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize), The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt, and one collection of essays, The Colossus of New York. He was named New York’s 11th State Author in 2018. His next book, The Nickel Boys, is set for release in July 2019.
Colson Whitehead’s reviews, essays, and fiction have appeared in a number of publications, such as the New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Harper’s and Granta.
He has received a MacArthur Fellowship, A Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, the Dos Passos Prize, a fellowship at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for John Henry Days.
He has taught at the University of Houston, Columbia University, Brooklyn College, Hunter College, New York University, Princeton University, Wesleyan University, and been a Writer-in-Residence at Vassar College, the University of Richmond, and the University of Wyoming.
He lives in New York City.

This event is cosponsored by the Provost's Office, the Humanities Institute, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of History, the Department of English and the Creative Writing Program

Contact Information: Africana Studies Institute, africana@uconn.edu
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9/27 Key Texts in Modern Chinese Political Thought: Late Wing to Republican China

Key Texts in Modern Chinese Political Thought: Late Wing to Republican China

Friday, September 27th, 2019

08:00 AM - 06:00 PM

Hartford Campus
Hartford, CT

International Conference on
“Key Texts in Modern Chinese Political Thought: Late Qing to Republican China”

Hartford, CT

Contact Information: Peter Zarrow
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