Curious about the Senior Trip to Europe? Attend our in-person information session to learn more and ask questions. Before attending, we recommend reviewing the full brochure and pricing (https://res.aesu.com/stw/STWProduct.aspx?Theme=AWT&ProductCode=25-CEU-UCONN&Custom=AFF&CustomCode=CUCAF06269&groupid=awt#trip-home). 

As part of International Education Week, the Office of Global Affairs invites faculty, staff and administrators to join us on Wednesday, November 20 from noon to 1 PM ET to learn more about the Fulbright Specialist Program (https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffulbrightspecialist.worldlearning.org%2F&data=05%7C02%7Crae.alexander%40uconn.edu%7Ce3e2f93e070e482706a808dcd7f2a28c%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C638622684337054252%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=uKQ3FlTbCJeF2EBrXliwrhb2%2FadKcyPKYjIEdmQuFRs%3D&reserved=0), a program of the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The Fulbright Specialist Program provides U.S. citizens who are established professionals or academics and possess expertise in qualifying disciplines with the opportunity to engage in short-term (2-6 week) project-based exchanges at host institutions around the globe.During this information session, you will hear from Senior Outreach Officer for the Fulbright Specialist Program, Amirah Nelson, and Dr. Greg Kivenzor, Professor in the Field (Emeritus) at the School of Business and Senior Advisor to the Vice President of Global Affairs, and recent Fulbright Specialist to Lithuania.You will gain an in-depth look at the program and an overview of topics such as:eligibility requirements;grant benefits;application process; andexamples of past Fulbright Specialist projects.In addition, time will be available for an audience Q&A. This event will be recorded, and a recording will be shared with all registrants after the event has concluded. Please register for this online event athttps://s.uconn.edu/fulbrightspecialist (https://s.uconn.edu/fulbrightspecialist). —-  Amirah Nelson serves as the Senior Outreach Officer for the Fulbright Specialist Program at World Learning, connecting U.S. academics and professionals with opportunities to share expertise, gain international experience and develop sustained collaborations with a range of institutions abroad. She has over a decade of experience working with U.S. government-funded international exchange programs, and started her journey in international education as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant to Indonesia.

For the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).

For the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).

Theatre and other forms of cultural production provide a valuable means to discover how populations respond to forms of oppression and political processes connected to attempts at reconciliation in post-conflict. To attain a renewed national unity in some post-conflict settings, states and international organizations who pursue the dual objectives of peace and reconciliation utilize forms of transitional justice that emphasize the "healing" of victims and the reintegration of perpetrators as a higher priority than criminal accountability through rule of law. A dialectic, or dichotomy, then emerges between the objectives of justice, through accountability, and reconciliation such that imperatives for peace and stability allow one to be sacrificed to achieve the other. Employing research connected to the emerging discourse on irreconciliation and dynamics related to the dualities of "memory and forgetting" and "justice and reconciliation" Gary English explores how theatre production critiques this dichotomy by insisting that justice and a positive peace cannot be achieved without criminal accountability regarding the most egregious violations of international law. In addition, this talk examines how accountability through international law becomes frustrated by the strategic interests of donor states who utilize coercive approaches in development to enforce an unjust, or negative peace that essentially maintains the underlying forms of oppression as historically practiced.Gary M. English is stage director, designer, and a Distinguished Professor of Drama at the University of Connecticut and Affiliate Faculty with the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute with whom he has taught Theatre and Human Rights for ten years. From 2010 through 2018, he lived and worked in the West Bank for a total of four years, including two years in the Jenin Refugee Camp where he served as Artistic Director of The Freedom Theatre, (2012–13). He also served as Visiting Professor and Head of the Media Studies program at Al/Quds Bard College in Abu Dis, in the West Bank, (2017–18). His research focuses on theatre as a methodology to study human rights, and the use of theatre and cultural production to investigate the political conflict between Israel and Palestinians. His most recent book, Theatre and Human Rights: The Politics of Dramatic Form was published by Routledge in August, 2024. Previous publications include the volume, Stories Under Occupation and other Plays from Palestine, co-edited with Samer Al-Saber, and published by Seagull Press in 2020, and "Artistic Practice and Production at the Jenin Freedom Theatre" within the anthology, Theater in the Middle East: Between Performance and Politics. His most recent essay, "Palestinian Theatre: Alienation, Mediation and Assimilation in Cross Cultural Research" was recently released in the volume, Arabs, Politics and Performance, by Routledge in September, 2024.