Prevent Violence Against Women

The University of Connecticut-Storrs  is planning a University Metanoia on Preventing Violence Against Women. Metanoia, a time for campus-wide reflection and engagement with a critical issue, is an institutional tradition that was introduced at UConn in 1970. Our Metanoia on Preventing Violence Against Women will begin Saturday, October 3, with a Community Service Day. A panel discussion on Sunday, October 4 featuring speakers from the 1979 Mentanoia (”Violence in the Community”) will officially kick off the week of events. The times and locations of events are posted on the Metanoia website:

http://www.metanoia.uconn.edu

UConn Stamford Metanoia Events

The following co-curricular events are being sponsored by the Center for Women’s Studies:

1.  Thursday, October 8 at 1:10 pm in the MPR:  Kathleen Bogle, author of _Hooking Up_ (2008, published by NYU Press), will give a talk titled “Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, Relationships, and Sexual Assault on Campus”   http://www.kathleenbogle.com/

2.  Tuesday, October 27 at 6pm in MPR,”No!  The Rape Documentary” http://notherapedocumentary.org/   The filmmaker MIGHT be present for Q and A…

3.  Tuesday, November 3 at 3:35 in the MPR, Alisa Klein will give a talk titled, “As the Storm Subsides: Poverty, Race and Neglect As Risk Factors for Sexual Violence in Disasters”

Alisa Klein is the author of http://www.nsvrc.org/_cms/fileUpload/Projects/NSVRCPUB_SV_Disaster_web.pdf