Upcoming Events
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Mar
22
Bearing the Burden: Legislative Responses to Firearm Violence Against Women12:00pm
Bearing the Burden: Legislative Responses to Firearm Violence Against Women
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023
12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Other Zoom
ARMS/Brown Webinar Series 2023
The University of Connecticut’s Center for Advancing Research, Methods, and Scholarship (ARMS) in Gun Injury Prevention and Brown University’s Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy have jointly collaborated to host a four-part webinar series entitled Bearing the Burden. The series focuses on gun violence in America, its
intersection with domestic violence, and its disproportionate impact on women, especially women of color. This series will bring together those focusing on these crucial issues across multiple domains and academic disciplines.
Part 2 - Legislative Responses to Firearm Violence Against Women
Date: Wednesday March 22, 2023 | 12PM-1:30PM (Eastern Time)
Format: Via Zoom
Description: This panel brings together legislators and scholars who study the creation of firearm laws to understand how state and federal governments create firearm policy. Topics to be discussed include when laws are too vague, who fills the gaps, what laws have been effective, and what happens when people in power do not want to comply with the law.
Panelists:
US Congressman David Cicilline (D-RI), Congressman, Rhode Island’s First Congressional District, U.S. House of Representatives
Gretta Gardner, Esq., Chief Legal Officer, Ujima Inc., The National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community
Lisa Geller, Director of State Affairs, Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions
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Moderator: Professor Kaitlin Sidorsky (Coastal Carolina University)
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Mar
23
M3EWB Talk @ InCHIP: "Using Culture as the Vehicle to Emotional Well-being"12:30pm
M3EWB Talk @ InCHIP: "Using Culture as the Vehicle to Emotional Well-being"
Thursday, March 23rd, 2023
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Other Virtual
Jeffrey Proulx, PhD, Brown University
March 23, 2023 | 12:30 - 1:30 PM
“Using Culture as the Vehicle to Emotional Well-being: Results from the IndigenousMIND Project”
Dr. Proulx’s work focuses on the development of mindfulness programs in underserved communities and how these programs may be protective for health in those communities. His efforts bridge Native American and African-American traditional contemplative and healing practices and mainstream mindfulness practices and how mindfulness affects resilience and well-being across a person's developmental trajectory. Dr. Proulx’s work includes studying changes in physiological markers, such as cortisol or blood sugar levels, their relationship to stress and how responses to stress earlier in life may affect health later in life. Stress in minority communities is also influenced by historical and cultural traumas and his work is designed to address the loss of culture and traditions by relying on community input to assimilate community strengths and traditions that are already “mindful” into the mindfulness intervention. The goals of these interventions reflect the distinct cultures of the people he works with and affect health disparities in conditions such as diabetes and dementia. Dr. Proulx is recognized as a developmental health psychologist and his work integrates other disciplines including public health, medicine, molecular biology, and lifecourse sociology.
View the upcoming series, access RSVP's, and watch archived lectures: https://chip.uconn.edu/lecture-series-2/
