Today's read: former UCHI fellow Fiona Vernal and UCHI graduate assistant Timothy Brown (@uconnhistory.bsky.social) premiered an exhibit titled: “Bloomfield Mosaic: Stories from our Jewish, African American, and West Indian Communities.” This exhibit features over 40 oral histories.

Congratulations to current UCHI fellow Harry van der Hulst on the publication of his new book: Genes, Brains, Evolution and Language: The Innateness Debate Continued. This book is a direct sequel to his 2023 book A Mind for Language: An Introduction to the Innateness Debate.

Join us Wednesday (11/19) at 3:30pm for Fumilayo Showers' fellow talk, "The 'Afropolitan Imaginary' and Migration Aspirations in a Migrant Sending Nation". Details below:

Today! Join us virtually at 4:00pm for an Undergraduate Research Fellowship Information Session. This session will go over the application process, share tips and tricks for a compelling application and answer questions about the Undergraduate Humanities Research Fellowship.

Today!! Join us in the Native American Cultural Programs Space at 1:00pm for Pick Up the Thread: One Year Later. Come to relax, reflect, and share in collective art-making and meaningful dialogue one year after the 2024 election.

Tomorrow! Join us virtually at 4:00pm for an Undergraduate Research Fellowship Information Session. This session will go over the application process, share tips and tricks for a compelling application and answer questions about the Undergraduate Humanities Research Fellowship.

Today!! Join us at 3:30pm for a Dissertation Fellowship Application Workshop. This workshop is geared to assisting UConn graduate students in the humanities and associated disciplines with preparing a UCHI dissertation fellowship application. Details below: buff.ly/AFdjdir

Tomorrow! Join us in the Native American Cultural Programs Space at 1:00pm for Pick Up the Thread: One Year Later. Come to relax, reflect, and share in collective art-making and meaningful dialogue one year after the 2024 election.

Tomorrow! Join us at 3:30pm for a Dissertation Fellowship Application Workshop. This workshop is geared to assisting UConn graduate students in the humanities and associated disciplines with preparing a UCHI dissertation fellowship application. Details below:

Congratulations to former UCHI fellow Serkan Gorkemli, whose short story collection, Sweet Tooth and Other Stories, was a finalist for the 2025 2025 Housatonic Book Award for Fiction.

Did you binge-watch Death by Lightning on Netflix and now wish you could enjoy another dramatization of the assassination of James Garfield? Check out former undergraduate fellow Evan Wolfgang's play "Going to the Lordy."

Today!! Join us virtually at 1:00pm for a panel on Applying to Graduate School. Hear advice from people who make the decisions about admitting students into graduate programs. buff.ly/zSVEgv3

Today! The Environmental Humanities Initiative working group will be hosting the first session of virtual lightning talks at 11am. Members will be giving 5-minute talks on their current areas of work and research related to the environment. More details about the working group below: buff.ly/UuTYfoS

Tomorrow! The Environmental Humanities Initiative working group will be hosting the first session of virtual lightning talks at 11am. Members will be giving 5-minute talks on their current areas of work and research related to the environment. More details about the working group below:

Next week! Join us in the Native American Cultural Programs Space at 1pm for Pick Up the Thread: One Year Later. Come to relax, reflect, and share in collective art-making and meaningful dialogue one year after the 2024 election.

Tomorrow! Join us virtually at 1:00pm for a panel on Applying to Graduate School. Hear advice from people who make the decisions about admitting students into graduate programs.

Next Week! Join us at 3:30pm for a Dissertation Fellowship Application workshop. This workshop is geared to assisting UConn graduate students in the humanities and associated disciplines with preparing a UCHI dissertation fellowship application. Details below:

Today!! Join us at 3:30pm for Jennifer Cazenave's fellow talk, "Memories of Public Television: Revisiting Frederick Wiseman's Deaf and Blind Series. Details below: buff.ly/Wvga089

Tomorrow! Join us at 3:30pm for Jennifer Cazenave's fellow talk, "Memories of Public Television: Revisiting Frederick Wiseman's Deaf and Blind Series. Details below:

Today's watch: our Asst. Director Heather Cassano's film "The Wild Girl of Brushvalley Township" will air at 8pm on Connecticut Public and stream on Connecticut Public+ later. The film tells the story of Minnie Adams, one of many people who died in American mental institutions.

Tomorrow's watch: our Asst. Director Heather Cassano's film "The Wild Girl of Brushvalley Township" will air on Connecticut Public at 8pm tomorrow. The film reconstructs the story of Minnie Adams, one of an estimated one million who died in American mental institutions. buff.ly/4cRz150

Next week! Join us virtually at 1:00pm for a panel on Applying to Graduate School. Hear advice from people who make the decisions about admitting students into graduate programs.

Today's read: Did you miss our international AI Symposium, What Are We Talking About When We Talk About AI?, from earlier this month? Catch what you missed in UConn Today:

Next Week! Join us at 3:30pm for Jennifer Cazenave's fellow talk, "Memories of Public Television: Revisiting Frederick Wiseman's Deaf and Blind Series. Details below:

Today!! Join us at 12:15pm for Sarah Williams' faculty talk on "Eugenic Eidolons: Birth Tourism and Specters of Ir/responsible Reproduction in Mexico." Details below: buff.ly/QSP3T1e

Tomorrow! Join us at 3:30pm for Asmita Aasaavari's fellow talk, "Aging and Care sans Rights: Portraits of Later Life in Northeast Connecticut." Details below:

Tomorrow! Join us at 12:15pm for Sarah Williams' faculty talk on "Eugenic Eidolons: Birth Tourism and Specters of Ir/responsible Reproduction in Mexico." Details below:

Today!! Join us virtually at 1:00pm for a panel with former UCHI fellows giving advice on How to Write Successful Fellowship Applications. Please be sure to bring along the first page of a draft of your own proposal (even in the very early stages) for workshopping and feedback. buff.ly/ZlbL9AM

Check it out! We are cosponsoring this book manuscript workshop with Dr. Derefe Chevannes on 11/12 at 2pm. Participants will offer feedback on Dr. Chevannes' book manuscript: Against Ethnocracy: Race, Sovereignty and the Myth of Black Citizenship.

Tomorrow! Join us virtually at 1:00pm for a panel with former UCHI fellows giving advice on How to Write Successful Fellowship Applications. Please be sure to bring along the first page of a draft of your own proposal (even in the very early stages) for workshopping and feedback.

Join us Wednesday (10/29) at 3:30pm for Asmita Aasaavari's fellow talk, "Aging and Care sans Rights: Portraits of Later Life in Northeast Connecticut." Details below:

Next week! Join us at 12:15pm for Sarah Williams' faculty talk on "Eugenic Eidolons: Birth Tourism and Specters of Ir/responsible Reproduction in Mexico." Details below:

Today!! Join us virtually at 3:30pm for Catalina Alvarado-Cañuta's fellow talk, "Collective Healings from Wallmapu in Creative Mapuche Spirits." Details below: buff.ly/cAPQ6Rl

Today!! Join us at the Benton Museum of Art for Common Ground, a community building and networking event, part of our Environmental Humanities Initiative. Contribute to an interactive community tree art project and connect with others who care for the environment. buff.ly/rmR1eeA

Tomorrow! Join us virtually at 3:30pm for Catalina Alvarado-Cañuta's fellow talk, "Collective Healings from Wallmapu in Creative Mapuche Spirits." Details below: buff.ly/cAPQ6Rl

Tomorrow! Join us at the Benton Museum of Art for Common Ground, a community building and networking event, part of our Environmental Humanities Initiative. Contribute to an interactive community tree art project and connect with others who care for the environment.

Today!! Join us at 2pm for The Strategic Pitch Workshop, the latest in the Incubator for Collaborative Grants Series with Greenhouse Studios at Internal Insights & Innovation (GS@i3). Workshop attendees will learn to turn a project idea into a brief written pitch. buff.ly/pkyr4x1

Tomorrow! Join us at 2pm for The Strategic Pitch Workshop, the latest in the Incubator for Collaborative Grants Series with Greenhouse Studios at Internal Insights & Innovation (GS@i3). Workshop attendees will learn to turn a project idea into a brief written pitch. Details below:

Today's read: UConn Today features current undergraduate fellow Bryce Turner's research into the closure of Windham Hospital's Labor and Delivery Unit and its impact on health outcomes.

Next Week! Join us virtually at 1:00pm for a panel with former UCHI fellows giving advice on How to Write Successful Fellowship Applications. Please be sure to bring along the first page of a draft of your own proposal (even in the very early stages) for workshopping and feedback.

Today!! Join us at 3:45pm for the Humanities Student Support Open House, an initiative of our Undergraduate Advisory Council. You will be able to get advice from peers about undergraduate life as a humanities scholar while also enjoying free pizza and snacks. buff.ly/kSKr63y

Tomorrow! Join us at 3:45pm for the Humanities Student Support Open House, an initiative of our Undergraduate Advisory Council. You will be able to get advice from peers about undergraduate life as a humanities scholar while also enjoying free pizza and snacks.

Tomorrow! We are co-sponsoring this conference on Dr. John Bell's contributions to the art of puppetry. International artists and scholars will gather to discuss Bell's decades of contributions to performance, curatorship, and scholarship. Details here: buff.ly/N2GTKwP

Next week! Join us virtually at 3:30pm for Catalina Alvarado-Cañuta's fellow talk, "Collective Healings from Wallmapu in Creative Mapuche Spirits." Details below:

Join us next Wednesday (10/22) at the Benton Museum of Art for Common Ground, a community building and networking event, part of our Environmental Humanities Initiative. Contribute to an interactive community tree art project and connect with others who care for the environment.

Join us next Tuesday (10/21) at 2pm for The Strategic Pitch Workshop, the latest in the Incubator for Collaborative Grants Series with Greenhouse Studios at Internal Insights & Innovation (GS@i3). Workshop attendees will learn to turn a project idea into a brief written pitch.

Check it out! Next Saturday (10/18) we are co-sponsoring this conference on Dr. John Bell's contributions to the art of puppetry. International artists and scholars will gather to discuss Bell's decades of contributions to performance, curatorship, and scholarship. buff.ly/WyJjEOQ

Join us next Friday (10/17) at 3:45pm for the Humanities Student Support Open House, an initiative of our Undergraduate Advisory Council. You will be able to get advice from peers about undergraduate life as a humanities scholar while also enjoying free pizza and snacks.

Check it out! Next Friday (10/17) The Benton Museum of Art is hosting a two-part interactive workshop examining clouds in photography and how they influence the ways we interpret landscapes.

Today!! Join us for our symposium: “What Are We Talking About When We Talk About AI?” This symposium of scholars in Connecticut and Morocco will define terms associated with artificial intelligence and address the challenges posed by AI on the future of the humanities. buff.ly/69yt5aw.