UConn Library
Jeremy Richard Library, StamfordWednesday, May 10: Sue Delaney, Presentation on Domestic Violence
6pm, Room 340
Friday, May 12: Bob Giolitto, “Men and Feminism”
6pm, Room 340
Tuesday, May 16: Diane Murphy, “Surviving Domestic Violence”
6pm, Room 340
Thursday, May 18: Self-Defense Workshop
6pm, Schreiber Reading Room
Monday, May 22: Fran Ryan, “An Incest Survivor’s Art Exhibit and Presentation”
6:30pm, Center for Women’s Studies
Tuesday, May 23: Ellen Dubrovsky, “HIV Prevention”
6pm, Room 340
The World Affairs Forum Distinguished Authors Series
Presents
An Evening with James L. McGregor
Author of ONE BILLION CUSTOMERS:
Lessons from the front lines of Doing Business in China
Date: May 4, 2006
UCONN-Stamford
General Re Auditorium
Reception 6:00-6:30PM
Presentation 6:30-7:30PM
Book Signing 7:30-7:45PM
James McGregor, Former CEO of Dow Jones-China and Beijing Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Jornal, is a leading authority on China. He is founding partner of BlackInc China, a boutique advisory firm specializing in Chinese-American business activities.
$20 for members, $30 for public, $10 for students (ID required)
Please reply by April 28, 2006
(203) 356-0340 or ehaeaphy@worldaffairsfourm.org
The Library User Survey deadline has been extended until April 28th in the interest of gathering as many responses from faculty and students as possible.
The University of Connecticut Libraries continuously strive to improve the quality of our library and information services. As part of this commitment we are conducting a Web-based user survey to assess your satisfaction with the Libraries’ resources, services, collections facilities, and staff. The information you provide will assist the Libraries in identifying strengths and weaknesses and to plan for the future.
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Please join the UConn Stamford Campus Staff & Faculty for a special evening honoring the graduating seniors of the University of Connecticut~Stamford!
Friday, April 28, 2006
5:00-7:00PM
Location: General Re Auditorium
Please RSVP by Friday, April 21, 2006 to Student Life at 203-251-8484 or Gayle. Riquier@uconn.edu.
A Trip to The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Sunday April 30, 2006
You are invited to join Professor Frederick Roden’s medieval literature class on a field trip to
The Cloisters, the medieval division of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Set on a palisade in Fort Tryon Park overlooking the Hudson River, The Cloisters is constructed from
various European medieval sites imported in the early 20th century. The collection includes works of art, sculpture, manuscripts — set in a lovely garden environment.
For more information, go to
www.metmuseum.org for great pictures!
We will meet as a group in the waiting room of the Stamford train station at approximately 11:30 a.m. You
will be accompanied to and from NYC, which will include traveling on NYC subways and buses (please be
aware that this trip involves considerable walking and not all spaces are fully accessible). At The Cloisters,
you will receive an hour lecture by an art historian and then have free time to explore the museum and
gardens. We will return to Stamford by the early evening. You may wish to pack a lunch or snacks.
If you are interested in joining the trip, please contact Professor Roden at 203-251-8559 or fsroden@aol.com
You MUST RSVP by Friday April 28 because space is limited for our group.
Please come to a discussion and reading by Irena Klepfisz
11 am on Friday, April 21
UConn-Stamford’s Center for Women’s Studies (Rm. 311)
Irena Klepfisz is a poet, essayist, Yiddish translator, and political activist. She is a founder of the contemporary lesbian-feminist and Jewish feminist movements. Born in Warsaw, Poland in 1941, Irena Klepfisz narrowly escaped Nazi persecution with her mother who was able to disguise them both as non-Jews.
Her father was a leader in the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis. She arrived in the United States when she was eight years old, speaking only Polish and Yiddish. Today, she is an internationally acclaimed Yiddish scholar, with an expertise in Jewish women writers. She has been teaching Jewish women’s courses at Barnard College for ten years.
Co-sponsored by Center for Women’s Studies and Faculty Program Committee
Supported by a grant from the Daniel Berdon Memorial Fund
Myths and Urban Legends about Immigration and Immigrants: Pretty Much Everything You Thought You Knew About Immigration is Totally Wrong
Guest Speaker: Philip Berns
Thursday, April 13
7:30 PM
Room 107
University of Connecticut at Stamford
Washington and Broad Street
Philip Berns, currently represents the 16th district on the City of Stamford Board of Representatives. In the early 1980s he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador and in Haiti. After Law School, he worked with Bronx Legal Services to protect children from lead poisoning due to lead paint in old housing. Since opening his own law office in Stamford in 1996, he specializes in Immigration Law and also handles a large personal injury caseload. He has concentrated in some areas of immigration that many private attorneys avoid: family immigration, deportation, asylum, temporary protective status, NACARA, HRIFA, TPS, etc. He frequently gives presentations to immigrant groups in Spanish and Haitian Creole on ways to protect their legal rights in a complex immigration law system.
For more information contact: Mary.Cygan@uconn.edu
Co-sponsored by Amnesty International, USA, Group 13
The campus Computer Lab (room 3.05) will be closed this Saturday, April 15th.
ATTENTION STUDENTS:
UITS (University Information Technology Services) will be upgrading network equipment on campus on Thursday April 13th. The JRL library’s wireless access will be affected.
Please be aware that your laptops via wireless access will be down Thursday, April 13th from 9-12 on the SECOND FLOOR.
Your wireless access should work on the 1st floor in the library.
Thanks you,
Library Stafff
P.S.
There will be network outages in the designated areas anywhere from 1-3 hours. If you are in any of these areas and you need to be connected to the internet during the down time, you can use the Academic Computing Area (aka Microlab, Room 305). This upgrade is needed to improve the performance of our campus’ network. I thank you in advance for your patience during this time.
1.) 3rd Floor Northwest (Rooms 320-365) 9am-12pm
2.) 2nd Floor Northwest (Rooms 205-212, 235-245) 9am-12pm
3.) 2nd Floor Southeast (Rooms 216-234, 260-265) 9am-12pm
4.) 2nd Floor Northeast (Rooms 266-267, 257-259) 1pm-4pm
The Career Center Workshop Series Presents: “Yes, you can! Define your success.”
Wednesday, April 19th, 206
12 Noon- 1:00PM
Room 2.19
Career Center
Website
Presenter: Richard Motasky, Motivational Speaker.
Lunch will be served. All students are cordially invited to attend.