War, Memory, and Museums
Insights from Mofidul Hoque
Founder Trustee, Liberation War Museum, Bangladesh

Monday, November 12, 2018
12:00 – 2:00 PM

Humanities Institute, Conference Room, 4th floor, Homer Babbidge Library

Mofidul Hoque, author and cultural activist, has written 15 books on history, liberation studies, arts, and genocide studies. He is the Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Justice, and is a recipient of the Bangla Academy Literary Prize and the national award Ekushey Padak. In 1996 he along with seven other Trustees established the Liberation War Museum, a private museum that became a people’s institution. Along with memorialization work, the museum also aims to uphold truth and justice.

Co-Sponsors: UConn Humanities Institute; The Thomas J. Dodd Research Center; Human Rights Institute; HRI Research Program on Humanitarianism; India Studies

Tom W. Smith
“Antisemitism in Contemporary America”

Wednesday, November 7, 2018
5:00pm

Konover Auditorium

Reception to Follow

The Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life presents this lecture in remembrance of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, when the Nazis orchestrated a pogrom during which German Jews were humiliated, beaten, and murdered and Jewish homes, businesses, hospitals, synagogues, and schools were looted and destroyed.

For more information and to RSVP visit: https://judaicstudies.uconn.edu/2018/08/30/kristallnacht2018/

Native American Heritage Month

Keynote speaker:

Winona LaDuke

Acknowledging Indigenous Land

Thursday, November 1, 2018
5:30pm – 6:30pm

Werth Tower Forum

Winona LaDuke is a rural development economist and author working on issues of sustainable development, renewable energy, and food systems. LaDuke is a two time vice presidential candidate with Ralph Nader for the Green Party. Her work is primarily in the area of Indigenous Economics, Food and Energy Policy. She lives and works on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota. Come listen to Winona speak on the importance of acknowledging indigenous land.

For more information, contact the Native American Cultural Programs at student5718@ad.uconn.edu.

The Dodd Center is delighted to welcome the Human Rights Institute’s 2018 Gladstein Visiting Professor of Human Rights,  André Keet.

André worked in national human rights institutions in post 1994 South Africa before joining the University of Fort Hare in October 2008. He also spent time at the University of the Free State as Director of the Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice, advisor to the university president and as Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Student Affairs and External Relations. He is an acknowledged social justice researcher, higher education transformation practitioner and academic citizen. André is presently the Chair for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation at Nelson Mandela University, the Chairperson of the Ministerial Oversight Committee on Transformation in South African Public Universities, Member of the Council on Higher Education, and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Race, Education and Decoloniality, Carnegie School of Education, Leeds Beckett University in the UK.