Department of History

Upcoming Events

1/30 Humanities Fellow Research Talk: Jason Oliver Chang
3/13 Humanities Fellow Research Talk: Dexter Gabriel
3/13 Wallace Stevens Poetry Program
4/3 Humanities Institute Capstone Forum

Humanities Fellow Research Talk: Jason Oliver Chang

Wednesday, January 30th, 2019

04:00 PM - 05:30 PM

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

Humanities Fellow Research Talk: Jason Oliver Chang

Our UCHI Fellow will be presenting their research talk on âShore Leave: Asian Sailors, Maritime Culture, and the Making of Greater Asian Americaâ followed by a light reception.
For more information, please visit https://humanities.uconn.edu/2018-19fellows/.
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

Humanities Fellow Research Talk: Dexter Gabriel

Wednesday, March 13th, 2019

04:00 PM - 05:30 PM

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

Humanities Fellow Research Talk: Dexter Gabriel

Our UCHI Fellow will be presenting their research talk on âJubileeâs Experiment: The British West Indies and American Abolitionismâ followed by a light reception.
For more information, please visit https://humanities.uconn.edu/2018-19fellows/.
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

Wallace Stevens Poetry Program

Wednesday, March 13th, 2019

07:00 PM - 08:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Konover Auditorium

The 56th Annual Wallace Stevens Poetry Program with Claudia Rankine

Wednesday March 13, 2019

â¢Afternoon reading: c. 12:30 p.m. (time to be finalized shortly), Greater Hartford Classical Magnet School, 85 Woodland St, Hartford
â¢Evening reading 7 p.m., Konover Auditorium, UConn Storrs
Both readings are free and open to the public.

Claudia Rankine, a 2016 MacArthur Fellow, is the author of five collections of poetry including Donât Let Me Be Lonely (Graywolf 2008) and the bestselling Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf 2014), which uses poetry, essay, cultural criticism, and visual images, to explore what it means to be an American citizen in a âpost-racialâ society. A defining text for our time, Citizen was the winner of the 2015 Forward Prize for Best Collection, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, the NAACP Image Award, the PEN Open Book Award, and the LA Times Book Award for poetry.

In all her work, whether writing about intimacy or alienation, Rankineâs voice is typified by intensity and candor. Her poetry is both innovative and thoughtful, often crossing genres as it tracks startling yet precise leaps of the mind. As the Judges Citation for the Jackson Prize notes, âThe moral vision of Claudia Rankineâs poetry is astounding. In a body of work that pushes the boundaries of the contemporary lyric, Rankine has managed to make space for meditation and vigorous debate upon some of the most relevant and troubling social themes of the 20th and 21st centuriesâ¦. These poems do the work of art of the highest orderâteaching, chastening, changing, astounding, and humanizing the reader.â Among her numerous awards and honors, Rankine is the recipient of the Poets & Writersâ Jackson Poetry Prize and fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts.

For more information, please visit our website at http://wallacestevens.uconn.edu/

Contact Information: English Department, (860) 486-2141

Humanities Institute Capstone Forum

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019

08:00 AM - 09:00 PM

Storrs Campus
UConn - TBD

University-wide event commemorating the conclusion of the Humility & Conviction in Public Life Project. For more information please visit https://humilityandconviction.uconn.edu/.

Contact Information: uchi@uconn.edu

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Department Highlights

The History of the Largest Foreign-Born Population in the State
“No, Kanye, That’s Not How It Happened.”
Doctoral Student Wins Communal Studies Association Award
National Humanities Alliance Article on “The Encounter Series”
In Memoriam: Dr. Emiliana Pasca Noether

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