Monthly Archives: November 2007

Lecture: Human Rights, Gender and International Relations

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Come and hear a talk by Rebekka Friedman of Brandeis University on Human Rights, Gender and International Relations. 

When: 1:00 pm, Saturday, December 1, 2007

Where: Room, 1.29, UConn Stamford Campus

Questions? sponsored by Prof. Eugene Kogan at eugene.kogan “at” uconn.edu


Her lecture will address two major issues. First, she will present gendered approaches to International Relations and why the feminist critique came relatively late to the discipline. Second, she will discuss international human rights law’s protection of women from violations during wartime and peacetime. Specifically, she will look at how international law’s treatment of rape during war evolved in response to the wars in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and how these rulings were incorporated into the ICC. Ms. Friedman will conclude with an analysis of how international law has progressed in protecting women’s human rights during wartime and peacetime and what obstacles remain.

The University now offers access to RefWorks

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What is RefWorks?

RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic management program which allows you to:

  • Create a personal database of citations from journal articles, books, book chapters or other sources
  • Automatically generate a bibliography (works cited page) in APA, MLA, or other bibliographic styles in MS Word after downloading the RefWorks Write-N-Cite plugin
  • Export search results from the UConn Libraries’ research databases directly to RefWorks
  • Link to the full text of online articles from your RefWorks database using the ‘UConn Links’ button
  • Share your RefWorks database with others using RefShare

Go to http://refworks.uconn.edu/to create your account.

HOMER (library catalog) Alternatives

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You may have experienced difficulties accessing HOMER, the Libraries’ online catalog, over the past few days.
The problems have been sporadic and unevenly distributed across the Storrs and the regional campuses, so you may or may not have encountered problems connecting to HOMER.

If you experience difficulties connecting to HOMER, the following link leads to a brief list of library catalogs to serve as alternatives. While none of these catalogs replaces HOMER, you can use them to help identify materials: http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/homer_alternatives.html

Alternatively, we would be happy to help you with additional strategies for finding the materials you need.