Opening Reception & Archives Open House
Exhibition - Respond Personally: Commemorating the 1974 Black Student Sit-In
March 28, 3-5pm
Archives & Special Collections
Dodd Center for Human Rights
Two great events on one night! Join us for a curated celebration of the UConn Archives & Special Collections, including behind-the-scenes tours, new collection highlights, finds like old varsity letter jackets and banners from the UConn memorabilia collections on display, and so much and more. You can also check out our newest exhibit - Please Respond Personally: Commemorating the 1974 Black Student Sit-In which commemorates the 50th Anniversary of the Black Student Sit-In at Wilbur Cross Library in 1974.
Film Screening and Discussion of Vincent Who?: The Murder of a Chinese-American Man
April 1, 5:00-6:30pm
Homer Babbidge Library, Room 2119A
Film screening of Vincent Who?: The Murder of a Chinese-American Man followed by a discussion with students from the Pan Asian Council (PAC) and the Asian American Cultural Center, and a viewing of the exhibit ‘Please Reduce Racism at UConn: The December 3, 1987 Incident’. The exhibit is on display through May 5.
Did you know we offer great workshops?
Lots of great opportunities this month to learn about citation management, Google tools, PubMed, and market & industry research. Register at https://lib.uconn.edu/workshops
Upcoming Events
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3/26
UConn Reads Lecture/Q&A with Robin Wall Kimmerer
UConn Reads Lecture/Q&A with Robin Wall Kimmerer
Tuesday, March 26th, 2024
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Homer Babbidge Library
Join us in person or virtually for a discussion of this year?s UConn Reads selection, Braiding Sweetgrass
Event Agenda
4:30 pm: Screening of the pre-recorded lecture on Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
5:30 pm: Live, virtual 30-minute Q&A with author Robin Wall Kimmerer
About Braiding Sweetgrass
Braiding Sweetgrass is a Bestseller in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times, named a ?Best Essay Collection of the Decade? by Literary Hub, and a Book Riot Favorite Summer Read of 2020.
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on ?a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise? (Elizabeth Gilbert).
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3/28
Archives & Special Collections Open House
Archives & Special Collections Open House
Thursday, March 28th, 2024
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
John P. McDonald Reading Room, Dodd Center for Human Rights
Join us for a curated celebration of the UConn Archives & Special Collections, including behind-the-scenes tours, new collection highlights, finds like old varsity letter jackets and banners from the UConn memorabilia collections on display, and so much and more. You can also check out our newest exhibit - Please Respond Personally: Commemorating the 1974 Black Student Sit-In which commemorates the 50th Anniversary of the Black Student Sit-In at Wilbur Cross Library in 1974.
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3/28
Exhibit Reception - Respond Personally: Commemorating the 1974 Black Student Sit-In
Exhibit Reception - Respond Personally: Commemorating the 1974 Black Student Sit-In
Thursday, March 28th, 2024
03:00 PM - 05:00 PM
The Dodd Center for Human Rights
50th Anniversary Exhibition commemorating the direct action taken by Black and Brown students on the Storrs campus to challenge structural racism in higher education by sitting in at the Wilbur Cross Library on April 22nd 1974. This historic event of activism, where roughly 370 students occupied the library at varying times across 3 days, was the culminating event during a semester long campaign of student organizing to demand representation and resources for students of color at the University of Connecticut. Through curated documents this exhibition will feature the perspectives of the student organizers, the Afro-American Cultural Center, the University and its administration to portray this campus-wide call to action which resonates to our present day. This 50th anniversary is also an opportunity to highlight approaches to student activism and the centrality of the library as an institutional setting both for democracy and also one vulnerable to upholding systems of oppression.
This exhibition draws from the experiences of alumni Rodney Bass (’75BA/’76MA) who read the demands during the sit-in and was co-chair of the Organization of African American Students (OAAS). The archives podcast d’Archive produced an interview with Rodney about Black student organizing in the mid-1970s on the Storrs campus which is revealing in understanding their approach to making demands upon the university for their representation in the student body.
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4/1
Film Screening and Discussion of Vincent Who?: The Murder of a Chinese-American Man
Film Screening and Discussion of Vincent Who?: The Murder of a Chinese-American Man
Monday, April 1st, 2024
05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Homer Babbidge Library
In 1982, at the height of anti-Japanese sentiments arising from massive layoffs in the auto industry, a Chinese-American named Vincent Chin was murdered in Detroit by two white autoworkers. Chin?s killers, however, got off with a $3,000 fine and 3 years probation, but no jail time. Outraged by this injustice, Asian Americans around the country united for the first time across ethnic and socioeconomic lines to form a pan-Asian identity and civil rights movement.
Among its significant outcomes, the movement led to the historic broadening of federal civil rights protection to include all people in America regardless of immigrant status or ethnicity.
Vincent Who? explores this important legacy through interviews with the key players at the time as well as a whole new generation of activists whose lives were impacted by Vincent Chin. It also looks at the case in relation to the larger narrative of Asian American history, in such events as Chinese Exclusion, Japanese American Internment in WWII, the 1992 L.A. Riots, anti-Asian hate crimes, and post-9/11 racial profiling.
Ultimately, Vincent Who? asks how far Asian Americans have come since the case and how far they have yet to go.
For in spite of Vincent Chin?s monumental significance in both the Asian American experience and the civil rights history of America, the vast majority of people today (including most Asian Americans) have little or no knowledge of him.
Film screening will be followed by a discussion with students from the Pan Asian Council (PAC) and the Asian American Cultural Center, and a viewing of the exhibit ?Please Reduce Racism at UConn: The December 3, 1987 Incident?
Exhibitions
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