{"id":6124,"date":"2016-01-12T17:22:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T17:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/?p=6124"},"modified":"2016-01-12T17:22:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T17:22:30","slug":"2016-events-spring-into-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2016\/01\/12\/2016-events-spring-into-view\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Events Spring Into View"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"edicionesvigia\"<\/a>Archives and Special Collections is excited to announce its preliminary schedule of programs and events for Spring 2016.\u00a0 In the months and weeks ahead, handmade books, photographs, and rarely-displayed visual materials highlighting\u00a0artists and artwork found in Archives and Special Collections will be featured in a series of exhibitions in the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center and Homer Babbidge Library.\u00a0 Below is a list of exhibitions and events coming your way. \u00a0All are free and open to the public<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Flight by Force or Free Will<\/strong> (exhibition)
\nOn view: 1 January – 26 February, 2016
\nGallery: Thomas J. Dodd Research Center Gallery, UConn
\nCurator: Graham Stinnett, Archivist for Human Rights and Alternative Press Collections<\/p>\n

Migration has occurred throughout human history.\u00a0 The fluctuations of population from one geographic location to the next has occurred in times of tragedy, opportunity and emergency; by flight, by force and free will. \u00a0This exhibition highlights selections from Archives & Special Collections about expressions of displacement, forced migration, coercive settlement, asylum under the state and the globalization of refuge-seeking. \u00a0Prints, illustrations, pamphlets, artists books, multimedia, and photographs\u00a0from the\u00a0Human Rights Internet Collection,\u00a0Mia Farrow Collection,\u00a0University of Connecticut Films Collection,\u00a0International Rescue Committee, (Central America) Records, Eric Reeves Papers, and\u00a0Artist\u2019s Book Collection, are represented.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf Mice and Men: Emerging Infectious Disease in a Warmer, More Fragmented World<\/strong>\u201d\u00a0<\/em>(Lecture, Teale Lecture Series<\/a>)
\nDate: 4 February 2016, 4:00 PM
\nLocation: Konover Auditorium, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, UConn
\nSpeaker:\u00a0Rick Ostfeld<\/a>,\u00a0Senior Scientist,\u00a0Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York<\/p>\n

Exhibition prepared by Guest Curator Elizabeth Barbeau (title forthcoming)
\nOn view: 7 March – 13 May 2016
\nGallery: Thomas J. Dodd Research Center Gallery, UConn<\/p>\n

Cyborgology: Female Automata and Science Fiction<\/strong>\u00a0(tent. title) (exhibition)
\nOn view: 1 March – 29 April 2016
\nGallery: John P. McDonald Reading Room, Archives and Special Collections, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, UConn
\nCurator: Giorgina Paiella<\/p>\n

\u201cComedy, Economics, and Climate Change<\/em><\/strong>\u201d (Lecture, Teale Lecture Series)
\nDate: 3 March 2016
\nLocation: Konover Auditorium, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
\nSpeaker:\u00a0Yoram Bauman<\/a>,\u00a0Author, “standupeconomist,” and carbon tax activist<\/p>\n

Cuban Bricolage: The Artists\u2019 Books of <\/strong>Ediciones Vig\u00eda<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>\/
\nBricolaje Cubano: Los libros artesanales de Ediciones V\u00edgia<\/em><\/strong> (exhibition)
\nOn view: 21 March – 21 May 2016
\nGallery: Homer Babbidge Library, UConn
\nCurator: Marisol Ramos, Librarian for\u00a0Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Latino Studies, Spanish, and Anthropology<\/p>\n

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