Storrs Workshop: Talking to Professors
Thursday, September 19, 2024 4:00–5:00 PM
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- Sep 194:00 PMStorrs Workshop: Talking to Professors
- Sep 194:15 PMGroup Fitness Class – TRX CircuitFor the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).
- Sep 194:15 PMGrowth Through GriefGrowth Through Grief This weekly clinical group supports students grieving the death of a loved one and students coming together to support and empower each other during times of grief.To join this group therapy session, please call SHaW at 860-486-4705 (tel:+18604864705) This session is held by Jennifer Fox, PhD (https://studenthealth.uconn.edu/person/jennifer-fox/) For many concerns that students face – like overwhelming stress, anxiety, difficult relationships, depression, academic difficulties, and more – group therapy is the best option for support and healing. Facilitated by Student Health and Wellness (SHaW) counselors, our therapy groups encourage peer support, promote emotional wellbeing, and increase a felt sense of connection. Participants often find that they feel less alone in their struggles, and walk away with newfound support and ideas for coping.
- Sep 195:00 PMGroup Fitness Class – Dance FitFor the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).
- Sep 195:00 PMGroup Fitness Class – SpinFor the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).
- Sep 195:00 PMJason Stanley on 'Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future'Space is limited. Please RSVP below.After the event, join us for a reception in the Dodd Lounge. _______________ In Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future, Jason Stanley, Ph.D., makes an urgent, fact-intensive call on behalf of democracy, showing it requires what is now being threatened: a common understanding of reality; a shared view of what has happened, that informs ordinary citizens' decisions about what should happen, now and in the future. Authoritarians, he shows, have learned from the past and present how to attack this shared understanding, seeking to separate us from our own history to destroy our self-understanding and leave us unmoored, resentful, and confused. By setting us against each other, he writes, authoritarians represent themselves as the sole solution.In authoritarian countries, critical examination of those nations' history and traditions is discouraged if not an outright danger to those who do it. And it is no accident that local and global institutions of education have become a battleground, the authoritarian right's tip of the spear, where learning and efforts to upend a hierarchal status quo can be put to end by coercion and threats of violence. In Erasing History, Stanley exposes the true danger of the authoritarian right's attacks on education, identifies their key tactics and funders, and traces their intellectual roots. He illustrates how fears of a fascist future have metastasized, from hypothetical threat to present reality. And he shows that hearts and minds are won in our schools and universities—places that democratic societies across the world are now ill-prepared to defend against today's fascist assault. Deeply informed and urgently needed, Erasing History is a global call to action for those who wish to preserve democracy—in America and abroad—before it is too late. _______________This event is the public keynote address of a workshop on 'Sustaining Human Rights in the Face of Far-Right Extremism.'Manisha Sinha (https://history.uconn.edu/person/manisha-sinha/), James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History (UConn), will provide comments. Rolf Frankenberger (https://kopfmaennchen.net/mein-zuhause/), Director of the Institute for Research on Far-Right Extremism (University of Tübingen) will moderate. It is sponsored by the Connecticut-Baden Württemburg Human Rights Research Consortium (https://hrrc.bwgermany.uconn.edu/), the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute (https://humanrights.uconn.edu/), UConn Philosophy (https://philosophy.uconn.edu/), and the Office of Global Affairs (https://global.uconn.edu/). _______________