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- Postcard Based Research
Dodd Research Center, John P. McDon...
Wednesday, November 4 at 4:00pm - Are American's Human?
Starr Hall, UConn Law School
Thursday, October 22 at 4:00pm - Poetry Reading with Bill Berkson
Dodd Research Center, McDonald Read...
Wednesday, October 14 at 4:00pm - Global Campaign Against Impunity
Konover Auditorium, Dodd Research C...
Monday, October 5 at 2:00pm - Thomas J. Dodd Prize in Intern...
Dodd Center Plaza
Monday, October 5 at 11:00am - Human Rights Film Series Kicko...
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Tuesday, September 8 at 4:00pm - Archives on the Road
Second Congregational Church in Cov...
Thursday, April 16 at 7:00pm - Lecture by Elazar Barkan, Colu...
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Thursday, April 16 at 4:00pm
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center Even the New Haven Railroad would get into the Thanksgiving spirit and server turkey in the dining cars.
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Thomas J. Dodd Research Center The Dodd Research Center will be closed on Thursday & Friday this week. Wishing you all a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center There's still lots more happening today at the CT Children's Book Fair! Come on down!
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center This weekend is the book fair!! Join us for a weekend full of great children's authors and illustrators.
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This is the homepage for the Connecticut Children's Book Fair, a joint project of the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center and the UConn Co-op. The Connecticut Book Fair brings together prominent children's ...
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center Today we celebrate Veteran's Day by celebrating UConn's Role of Honor with the Alumni Association.
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When our liberty and security have been threatened and the nation has called, University of Connecticut alumni have answered.
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center Norman D. Stevens, Director of University Libraries Emeritus at UConn, is, among other things, an amateur library historian with an interest in such subjects as the image of the librarian, library humor, and what he defined as librariana. In his book A Guide to Collecting Librariana (1986), he identified that term as “...Those artifacts, including but by no means limited to printed materials, that depict any aspect of librarians, librarianship, and/or libraries; such artifacts, which are most typically of an ephemeral nature, may be those produced or used by librarians or libraries as well as those produced and used by others; they include, in particular,representations of librarians, librarianship, and/or libraries in the popular culture of society.” That book grew out of his own collection of over 25,000 postcards of library buildings, and much other material, that is now housed in the Canadian Centre of Architecture in Montreal. While building that collection, Dr. Stevens developed a broader interest in postcards and has established contacts with numerous major postcard collectors and collections. That led him to edit Postcards in the Library: Invaluable Visual Resources (1995). As part of that process, he conducted a thorough analysis of major scholarly articles in a number of fields that were based on the use of postcards. His presentation will focus on his own experiences with using postcards for research purposes, his knowledge of substantial postcard collections, and the extent to which such seemingly unimportant materials can be truly valuable research resources. The program will conclude with a short visual presentation of postcards depicting books and reading from another of his collections.
Time:4:00PM Wednesday, November 4th
Location:Dodd Research Center, John P. McDonald Reading Room
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center Join Norman D. Stevens, Director of University Libraries Emeritus for a look at his postcard collection and how it serves a research niche.
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Ms. Thomas is a 2008 visiting fellow at the London School of Economics' Centre for the Study of Human Rights. She is a 1998 MacArthur Fellow and a 1995 Bunting Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. In 1998 she received the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award from President Bill Cl...inton.
Until January 2007, Thomas was the senior program advisor to the U.S. Human Rights Fund, a collaborative grant making initiative that supports domestic human rights work in the United States. From 1990 – 1998, she served as the founding director of the Human Rights Watch Women's Rights Division. She is a member of the Board of the Ms. Foundation for Women and sits on the advisory boards of the ACLU Human Rights Project, the American Constitution Society Human Rights Working Group and the Human Rights Watch U.S. Program. Thomas speaks frequently on human rights in the United States and has published widely on the topic, including most recently "Against American Supremacy: Rebuilding a Culture of Respect for Human Rights in the United States," in Bringing Human Rights Home , Praeger, (2008). Other speeches and publications include "Ain't I American?: Women's Rights, Human Rights and US Identity in the 21 st Century," The Helen Pond McIntyre Lecture, Barnard College, October 30, 2007.
Ms. Thomas is a graduate of Georgetown University, which awarded her an honorary doctorate in 1995.
In addition to the Sackler Lecture, this is also the keynote address for this year's Human Rights Institute Conference "Human Rights in the USA". More information on the conference.
An Ex-Patriot's Guide to the Future of Progressive Politics in the U.S.
Time:4:00PM Thursday, October 22nd
Location:Starr Hall, UConn Law School
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Join us as we celebrate American Archives Month and mark a recent addition to the Dodd Research Center’s literary manuscripts collections.
Poetry Reading by Bill Berkson
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
4:00pm
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
McDonald Reading Room
The Dodd Research Center will host a reading by poet, critic, publi...sher and sometime curator Bill Berkson on Wednesday, Oct. 14 at 4:00, of new and old works from a literary career spanning nearly 50 years.
The Dodd Research Center holds the comprehensive archive of Bill Berkson’s papers, including literary manuscripts, letters, records of his small press Big Sky, photographs, broadsides, and rare publications. The archive spans from 1960 to the present day and documents the poet’s diverse body of work, his collaborations in and among the realms of visual art, media, and literature, and his affinities with poets and poetics of the New York School. The Dodd Center recently acquired a large collection of the poet’s papers and print publications that will be added to its present holdings.
Berkson’s recent books of poetry include Gloria, Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently, and Goods and Services. Other books include a collection of his criticism, The Sweet Singer of Modernism & Other Art Writings: 1985-2003; Sudden Address: Selected lectures 1981-2006; and an epistolary collaboration with Bernadette Mayer entitled What’s Your Idea of a Good Time?: Interviews & Letters 1977-1985. His Portrait and Dream: New & Selected Poems appeared from Coffee House Press in early 2009. Berkson was the 2006 Distinguished Mellon Fellow at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and received the 2008 Goldie for Literature from the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
Berkson entered the worlds of art and literature in his late teens, and during the 1960s worked in various capacities at Artnews, the Museum of Modern Art, and as associate producer of a show on art for public television. He moved to northern California in 1970 and during the next decade edited a series of little magazines and books under the Big Sky imprint. He now lives in San Francisco and New York.
The event is free and open to the public and we encourage you to forward this on to any students, faculty and staff you feel might be interested. An exhibit of materials from the Berkson papers will be on display. Refreshments immediately following.
Time:4:00PM Wednesday, October 14th
Location:Dodd Research Center, McDonald Reading Room
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Didn't make it to the Dodd Prize ceremony? It's being streamed at http://hwcdn.net/b2v2d4x3/wms/34172/3417
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Thomas J. Dodd Research Center Today we awarded the Dodd Prize in Human Rights to the Committee to Protect Journalists!
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Murder is the ultimate form of censorship. One reporter is killed, and hundreds are sent a message that certain topics are too dangerous to be discussed. According to research done by the Committee to Protect Journalists, over the last 15 years, about 500 journalists have been murdered in direct relation to their work.... While hundreds more have died in combat or other dangerous circumstances, murder is the leading cause of work-related deaths.
Justice is served in less than 15 percent of these murder cases.
Join us as we hear about the global campaign launched by the Committee to Protect Journalists and the effects of impunity on press freedom worldwide.
Panelists include Terry Gould, Author of "Marked for Death:Dying for the Story in the World's Most Dangerous Places"; Nina Ognianova, Europe and Central Asia Program Coordinator, Committee to Protect Journalists; Joel Simon, Executive Director, Committee to Protect Journalists
Panel Discussion
Time:2:00PM Monday, October 5th
Location:Konover Auditorium, Dodd Research Center
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center Please join Senator Christopher J. Dodd and UConn President Michael J. Hogan as we award the Committee to Protect Journalists with the fourth Thomas J. Dodd Prize in International Justice and Human Rights. Accepting the award on behalf of the Committee to Protect Journalists will be Joel Simon, Executive Director for C...PJ; Michael Massing, Co-Founder of CPJ; and Mariane Pearl, author and wife of slain Wall Street Journal Reporter Daniel Pearl.
Time:11:00AM Monday, October 5th
Location:Dodd Center Plaza
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