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La Plaza Virtual is a digital discussion space and educational resource dedicated to enlightening and informing teachers, students, and the community of New England on issues of Latina/o, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies. La Plaza Virtual has a variety of topics, including labor, immigration, social justice, and human rights, and can be used to aid high school curricula.
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Oct
23
Wednesday Workshops: Julio Vezub “Maps, sketches, and strategies for invading the Argentinian desert: Francisco Host’s explorations in Salta, Neuquén and Chaco, 1871-1886” 12:15pm
Wednesday Workshops: Julio Vezub “Maps, sketches, and strategies for invading the Argentinian desert: Francisco Host’s explorations in Salta, Neuquén and Chaco, 1871-1886”
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024
12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Walter Childs Wood Hall
The History Department hosts Wednesday Workshops several times throughout the semester to further scholarly dialogue among graduate students, faculty, and visiting scholars. In the form of a brownbag lunch, the speaker presents their research-in-progress and then engages in a Q&A with the audience.
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Please contact Assistant Professor Kaveh Yazdani at kaveh.yazdani@uconn.edu if you are interested in presenting at or attending a Wednesday Workshop.
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Oct
23
LECTURE: Women’s Health in Latine & Afro-American Communities 2:30pm
LECTURE: Women’s Health in Latine & Afro-American Communities
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024
02:30 PM
Student Union
Lecture: Women’s Health in Latine & Afro-American Communities with Dr. Martas, OB/GYN
Dr. Yvette Martas is an obstetrician-gynecologist in Willimantic, CT. She is a first-generation Puerto Rican from the South Bronx and has been in Obstetrics and Gynecology for 30 years. After graduating from Yale and receiving her medical education from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, she trained in OB-GYN at NYU-Bellevue.
Dr. Martas will be teaching in the spring semester. Are you interested in women’s health? Come learn more about the course topic and her work in Willimantic and beyond. Dr. Martas will address health care issues and disparities experienced by women in the Latine and Afro American communities. Women in these communities experience less access to health care and a higher burden of diseases when compared to those of the white community.
LLAS 3998/WGSS 3998/AFRA 3898, spring course meets from 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm on Wednesdays and has no prerequisites.
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Oct
28
A conversation about the African National Congress (ANC), University of Fort Hare, and UCONN Archives Project, We Are Not Afraid, an interview-based documentary about music and resistance in Apartheid prisons, and the Liberation Sound Archives 4:00pm
A conversation about the African National Congress (ANC), University of Fort Hare, and UCONN Archives Project, We Are Not Afraid, an interview-based documentary about music and resistance in Apartheid prisons, and the Liberation Sound Archives
Monday, October 28th, 2024
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Homer Babbidge Library
Please join Global Affairs, History, HRI, IIREP, & POLS for a conversation about the African National Congress (ANC), University of Fort Hare, and UCONN Archives Project, We Are Not Afraid, an interview-based documentary about music and resistance in Apartheid prisons, and the Liberation Sound Archives!
October 28th, 4-5:30p.m., HBL Class of 1947 Room
FeaturingSinazo Mtshemla, Betsy Pittman, and Janie Cole
Moderated by Fiona Vernal
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