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Feb 27 Writers Who Edit, Editors Who Write Series6:00pm

Writers Who Edit, Editors Who Write Series

Thursday, February 27th, 2020

06:00 PM - 07:00 PM

Storrs Campus
UConn Bookstore

Writers Who Edit, Editors Who Write Series with Jennifer N. Baker. February 27th at the UConn Bookstore in Storrs Center. 6:00 pm reading. Readings are free and open to the public.

Jennifer N. Baker is a long-time publishing professional, creator and host of the Minorities in Publishing podcast, and contributing editor to Electric Literature. In 2017, she received a NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship and a Queens Council on the Arts New Work Grant for Nonfiction Literature. Her essay “What We Aren’t (or the Ongoing Divide)” was listed as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2018. She is also the editor of the BIPoC short story anthology Everyday People: The Color of Life (2018). Her fiction, nonfiction, interviews and criticism have appeared in various print and online publications.

Contact Information: sean.forbes@uconn.edu
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Mar 1 NECCCC Summer Conference Proposals Due11:00pm

NECCCC Summer Conference Proposals Due

Sunday, March 1st, 2020

11:00 PM - 12:00 AM

Storrs Campus
Austin, 161

We invite you to contribute to this exciting conversation surrounding the relationship between reading and writing instruction.
http://necccc.org/

Contact Information: Jason Courtmanche, jason.courtmanche@uconn.edu
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Mar 3 Lukas Rieppel: "Assembling the Dinosaur"4:00pm

Lukas Rieppel: "Assembling the Dinosaur"

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020

04:00 PM - 05:30 PM

Storrs Campus
UCHI

Dinosaur fossils were first found in England, but a series of spectacular discoveries in the American West turned the United States into a world center for vertebrate paleontology during the late nineteenth century. Around the same time, the U.S. also emerged as an economic powerhouse of global proportions, and large, fierce, and spectacular creatures like Tyrannosaurus, Brontosaurus, and Triceratops became powerful emblems of American capitalism. In this presentation, Lukas Rieppel reveals how these giant extinct reptiles became entwined with commercial culture, philanthropy, and the popular imagination during America’s Long Gilded Age.

Lukas Rieppel is the David and Michelle Ebersman Assistant Professor of History at Brown University. He works at the intersection of the history of science and the history of capitalism, focusing especially on the life sciences in 19th and 20th century America. He is especially interested in evolution and development, as well as geology and paleontology, in addition to the history of museums, the organism, and the corporation.

Contact Information: Helen Rozwadowski, helen.rozwadowski@uconn.edu
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