- Sep 2712:20 PMANSC Seminar: Dr. Breno FragomeniANSC Seminar: Dr. Breno FragomeniDate: 09/27/2024Time: 12:20 PMLocation: George White Building, Room 209If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Rich Mancini at860-486-1775 (tel:8604861775)orrichard.mancini@uconn.edu (mailto:richard.mancini@uconn.edu)at least 5 days in advance of the seminar
- Sep 2712:20 PMMCB Research in Progress: Akshada Shankar GaneshSkshada Shankar GaneshErceg Lab (https://erceg.lab.uconn.edu/)
- Sep 2712:30 PMArt Encounters: The Power of PortraitureThe Power of Portraiture is an interactive two-part workshop exploring portraits as activist statements. Learn more about portraits as activist statements through close looking and discussion of work by Ben Shahn, Zanele Muholi, and David LaChapelle. Then decorate a frame for your own Polaroid portrait. FREE
- Sep 271:00 PMGrad School Prep WorkshopThis workshop will help undergraduate students interested in graduate school consider their options. The event will cover topics like: - Whether you need graduate school to pursue your career path. - Types of graduate programs. - Choosing a program that is best for you. - Application process and timelines. - Tips for being a competitive applicant. This workshop is great for students of all years who are thinking about grad school in the future.
- Sep 271:00 PMIntro to MindfulnessIntroduction to Mindfulness SHaW's Introduction to Mindfulness is a skill-based workshop meant to support stress reduction and overall wellbeing. Skills and Concepts Introduced: • Definition and benefits of mindfulness • Present moment awareness • Noticing • Accepting DROP-IN (no appointment required)
- Sep 271:00 PMResume Lab-Business Career Development OfficeNo appointment necessary. Get help starting or updating your resume. Occurs most Fridays. (https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/meet/shl15105) Join Sue Landolina virtually in https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/meet/shl15105
- Sep 271:30 PMDoctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Maggie KhuuTitle: Investigation of thyrotropin-releasing hormone neurons in the mouse lateral hypothalamic area Department: Physiology and Neurobiology
- Sep 272:00 PMAstronomy SeminarDr. Eric Koch, Harvard Smithsonian Center for AstrophysicsTitle and abstract TBA
- Sep 272:00 PMEvery Body WelcomeEvery Body Welcome The Every Body Welcome group is a semi structured therapy group dedicated to improving the relationships students have with food, eating, and exercise. It will focus on practicing body neutrality, developing self-compassion, and coping skills relating to eating and body image concerns. This session is held by Amy Parent, MSW (https://studenthealth.uconn.edu/person/amy-parent/) 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 272:00 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 272:00 PMGroup Fitness Class – Spin (45)For the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).
- Sep 272:00 PMGroup Fitness Class – Yoga FlowFor the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).
- Sep 272:00 PMLogic Colloquium: Yale Weiss (CUNY)Join us for a talk in the Logic Colloquium by Yale Weiss (CUNY Graduate Center): "A relevant framework for barriers to entailment" In her recent book, Russell (2023) examines various so-called "barriers to entailment", including Hume's law, roughly the thesis that an 'ought' cannot be derived from an 'is'. Hume's law bears an obvious resemblance to the proscription on fallacies of modality in relevance logic, which has traditionally formally been captured by the so-called Ackermann property. In the context of relevant modal logic, this property might be articulated thus: no conditional whose antecedent is box-free and whose consequent is box-prefixed is valid (for the connection, interpret box deontically). While the deontic significance of Ackermann-like properties has been observed before, Russell's new book suggests a more broad-scoped formal investigation of the relationship between barrier theses of various kinds and corresponding Ackermann-like properties. In this talk, I undertake such an investigation by elaborating a general relevant bimodal logical framework in which several of the barriers Russell examines can be given formal expression. I then consider various Ackermann-like properties corresponding to these barriers and prove that certain systems satisfy them. Finally, I respond to some objections Russell makes against the use of relevance logic to formulate Hume's law and related barriers.https://logic.uconn.edu/calendar/ (https://logic.uconn.edu/calendar/) All welcome!
- Sep 273:00 PMGroup Fitness Class – HIIT the Step (45)For the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).
- Sep 273:00 PMGroup Fitness Class – Spin (45)For the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).
- Sep 273:15 PMGroup Fitness Class – Total Body Strength (45)For the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).
- Sep 274:00 PMECOM Speaker Series: Prof. Mark JaryMark Jary is currently a María Zambrano Research Fellow at the Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies in the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). He is also Emeritus Professor in Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Roehampton (London, UK), where he taught Linguistics and Philosophy of Language for over 20 years. He received his PhD in Linguistics from University College London and has written extensively on subjects relating to linguistic mood, speech acts and associated topics. As well as articles in journals such as Mind and Language and Linguistics and Philosophy, he has published three books: Assertion (Palgrave, 2010), Imperatives (CUP, 2014 – co-authored with Mikhail Kissine) and Nothing is Said (OUP, 2022). Abstract: What is what is said? The models of utterance interpretation that we build will be determined to a significant extent by how we characterise linguistic communication. The dominant characterisation sees linguistic communication as a case of saying something and thereby conveying both what is said and something extra. Given this characterisation, a model of linguistic communication is required to have what is said as an output of the process of interpretation, or of some sub-part of this. In this talk, I present an alternative characterisation of utterances in terms of pairs of situation types linked by a situation-theoretic constraint (in the sense of Barwise and Perry, 1983). Because this characterisation makes no mention of saying, any appeal to what is said in a model of linguistic communication must be independently motivated. Building on ideas developed in Nothing is Said (OUP, 2022), I will suggest that such motivation is not readily available, and that we are better off thinking of what is said as a second-order reflective category, rather than as a fundament of linguistic communication. Topic: ECOM Speaker Series: Prof. Mark Jary Time: Sep 27, 2024 04:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://uconn-edu.zoom.us/j/91377026240?pwd=mVwH20DYeEJCa6nq85bRegvEAjGxUI.1 Meeting ID: 913 7702 6240 Passcode: 112917
- Sep 274:00 PMGroup Fitness Class – Spin (45)For the full class schedule, descriptions, and to register, please visit the UConn Recreation website (https://recreation.uconn.edu/group-fitness-schedule/).
- Sep 274:30 PMForeign Policy Seminar "Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper" with Brooke BlowerBrooke Blower received her PhD from Princeton and is currently Associate Professor of History at Boston University. Her latest book is "Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper" (Oxford University Press, 2023). Please join us as she speaks about it, focusing on stories of noncombatants aboard a seaplane bound for Lisbon in 1943. Attendance in person is welcome, and you may also join virtually at https://tinyurl.com/mr23w8h4 (https://tinyurl.com/mr23w8h4). Please note: Prior registration for the virtual meeting is required!
- Sep 275:00 PM150th Foreign Policy Seminar with Brooke Blower (BU)Professor Blower's research focuses on modern American political culture, travel, and war especially in urban and transnational contexts. Her most recent book is Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper(Oxford University Press, 2023). Combat GIs dominate the history of Americans abroad during World War II. But these soldiers constituted only a small fraction of the unprecedented millions of Americans stationed on six continents, both in and out of uniform, during the twentieth century's signal conflict. Americans in a World at War tells a panoramic story of seven worldly noncombatants, their personal histories, their politics, and the paths that led them to all board the same seaplane bound for Lisbon in February 1943. When the Yankee Clipper crashed in the Tagus River, it took five of their lives but left a paper trail that leads to a richer, deeper understanding of the cross-cutting political and ideological dimensions of Americans' war efforts. Reception starts at 4:30pm; the talk will begin at 5pm. Please RSVP to Prof. Frank Costigliola if you would like to join us for dinner.
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