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Universidad de La Habana (University of Havana). Image courtesy of Ariel M. Lambe.
Dome of the Rock and the Wailing Wall, Jerusalem. Image courtesy of Michael Limberg.
Partial crew list of the whaling ship, Adeline, May 25, 1843. Image courtesy of the National Archives at Boston and Nancy Shoemaker.
Statues of Presbyterian ministers outside the Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA. Image courtesy of Michael Limberg.
Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland. Image courtesy of Eddie Guimont.
National Monument of Scotland. Image courtesy of Eddie Guimont.

Upcoming Events

1/30 Wednesday Workshop
1/30 Humanities Fellow Research Talk: Jason Oliver Chang
2/7 Asia Maritime Panel
2/8 Foreign Policy Seminar Series
2/15 Geography Colloquium - Asher Ghertner

Wednesday Workshop

Wednesday, January 30th, 2019

12:15 PM - 01:15 PM

Storrs Campus
Wood Hall Basement Lounge

Wednesday Workshop Series
Speaker: TBD
Topic: TBD

Contact Information: Victor Zatsepine

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

Asia Maritime Panel

Thursday, February 7th, 2019

04:00 PM - 06:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Konover Auditorium, The Dodd Center

Ambassador (ret.) Kathleen Stephens will lead a panel of experts in a timely discussion surrounding the seas of Northeast and Southeast Asia. Topics range from strategic and international law issues involving American and Chinese competition over the western Pacific to humanitarian and environmental problems such as human trafficking and the depletion of fisheries. Our distinguished panel features speakers with specializations in security, history, law, and geography.

Speakers include Professor Lee Sung-Yoon (Tufts), Professor Geoffrey Gresh (National Defense University), and Dr. Kevin Evringham (Department of Defense).

The Department of History is grateful for the generous sponsorship of the CLAS Humanities Institute, the Office of the Dean, the Office of the Provost, the Department of Geography, the Asian and Asian-American Studies Institute, and the Asian American Cultural Center.

Contact Information: Alexis Dudden, alexis.dudden@uconn.edu

Foreign Policy Seminar Series

Friday, February 8th, 2019

04:30 PM - 06:30 PM

Storrs Campus
Wood Hall Basement Lounge

This UConn Foreign Policy Seminar will feature Dr. Gretchen Heefner of Northeastern University to speak on "Hiding Tanks in the Desert: U.S. Military Engineers and Extreme Environments."

Heefner's first book, The Missile Next Door: The Minuteman in the American Heartland, was published by Harvard University Press in 2012.

The reception will begin at 4:30 pm, followed by the presentation at 5:00 pm. If interested in attending the catered dinner, please RSVP to Frank Costigliola at frank.costigliola@uconn.edu.

Contact Information: Frank Costigliola

Geography Colloquium - Asher Ghertner

Friday, February 15th, 2019

12:20 PM - 01:15 PM

Storrs Campus
AUST 445

Postcolonial Atmospheres: How Delhi's Air Pollution Crisis is Shaped by Colonialism.

Asher Ghertner
Department of Geography
Rutgers University

This presentation examines how popular and governmental responses to extreme air pollution levels in Delhi-which the WHO declared the most air-polluted city in the world in 2014-draw from spatial logics, aesthetic orientations, and scientific protocols with roots in colonial rule. Using three case atmospheres-the Indian lung, the hill station, and the air-purified home-it argues that a geographical imaginary institutionalized in colonial urban planning has led spatial practices of sequestration to supersede post-colonial investment in pollution abatement. By focusing on the infrastructures through which urban air pollution is rendered a tropical norm, it argues that until the colonial ontology of sequestration is broken down, investment in prosthetic technologies of seclusion will detract from structural efforts to produce air otherwise. It concludes with reflections on how we might conceptualize a postcolonial Anthropocene.

Contact Information: Scott Stephenson [stephenson@uconn.edu]

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Department Highlights

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