UCONN School of Social Work, Community Organization Concentration presents:
What Social Workers Can Learn from Casino Maids and Cocktail Waitresses
Dr. Susan Chandler
Associate Professor of Social Work
University of Nevada
Tuesday, October 11th
6:00 PM- 8:00 PM
Zachs Community Room
“Casino Women” is a pioneering look at the female face of corporate gaming. Based on extended interviews with maids, cocktail waitresses, cooks, laundry workers, dealers, pit bosses, and vice-presidents, the book describes in compelling detail a world whose enormous profitability is dependent on the labor of women assigned stereotypically female occupations—making beds and serving food on the one hand and providing sexual allure on the other. But behind the neon lies another world, peopled by thousands of remarkable women who assert their humanity in the face of gaming empires’ relentless quest for profits.”
This event will be held at the University of Connecticut School of Social Work, 1798 Asylum Avenue, West Hartford CT 06117. Please park in Area B on Trout Brook Drive. Visitors who park in unauthorized lots are subject to ticketing. If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please contact Marilyn Cardone at 860-570-9157 or marilyn.cardone@uconn.edu
For more information, please see the flyer: Casino Women Flyer
Free event open to faculty, staff, students and the community.
For further information, please contact Dr. Scott Harding at scott.harding@uconn.edu
The CT Asian Pacific American Affairs Commission is seeking information regarding any professionals working in the legal, medical or mental health field with Asian language skills. If you are a professional working in the legal, medical or mental health field, or know of any such professional in the Connecticut area, please contact Bill Howe at bill@billhowe.org.
http://www.cga.ct.gov/asianamerican/Professional%20Services.html
Note: The Commission provides these links as a community service, for informational purposes only. No specific endorsement is offered.
PAACT, CT Chapter APPNA and NED Alumni Association of New England has organised Urdu Mushaira. We have invited poets from Pakistan & India. Invitees include:
Saleem Kausar (Pakistan)
Farhat Ullah Khan (Pakistan)
Khushbeer Singh Shad (India)
Iqbal Ashar (India)
Humara Rehman (New York USA)
Hawthorne Inn
2421 Berlin Tpke
Berlin 06037.
Date:
September 23, 2011
Time:
7:30 PM
Tickets:
Patron: $50
General $20
Please contact for tickets
Zaheer Sharaf (860) 881-6435
Aslam Siddiqui (860) 593-2527
Atique Mirza (860) 670-2999
Greetings Friends,
There is nothing more powerful than the stories of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Our stories define who we are, and they reflect our impact on the community around us. At the White House Initiative on AAPIs, we seek to amplify these voices nationally. We are pleased to announce the first ever White House Initiative Video Challenge, called “What’s Your Story?”
We’re calling on you to produce a video, up to three minutes long, telling us who you are and how you have impacted those around you. In your video, answer the questions: How have your unique experiences shaped who you are today? And in what ways are you making a difference in your community? Everyone is welcomed to participate.
We will review the submissions and post a select number of entries on the White House website. In addition, we’ll invite a group of exceptional AAPI leaders to share their stories in person at the White House this fall as special guests in a White House Initiative on AAPIs event. To learn more about the challenge, watch our call-out video here: http://www.youtube.com/WhiteHouseAAPI.
To submit your video and learn more about the challenge, go to www.whitehouse.gov/whatsyourstory. The deadline for video submissions is midnight on November 1, 2011.
Thank you and we look forward to hearing your stories.
Sincerely,
The White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
>16th Annual New England Conference on Multicultural Education (NECME)
Register at www.necme.org. There is no limit to the number of educators or students that an individual school can send.
Thanks to all those who came out to the Riverfront Dragonboat and Asian Festival this past weekend! We handed out a lot of materials on Diabetes and the CT Asian Pacific American Affairs Commission’s voter registration was a success! Can’t wait to see you all next year!
APAC will be at the 2011 Riverfront Dragon Boat and Asian Festival at the Mortensen Riverfront Plaza in Hartford on Saturday, August 20th-Sunday, August 21st.
Please come stop by our booth to learn more about Diabetes as well as APAC’s initiatives for the year!
For more information about the Riverfront Dragon Boat and Asian Festival, please click here.
Hello Connecticut! We hope you are keeping cool this summer. Welcome to APAC’s brand new website! In an effort to try to keep Connecticut Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders informed of all APA happenings around the state, we have launched this new website!
Please take a look around and we hope you enjoy it!
The APAC Board of Directors
APAC is a non-partisan group of concerned citizens who are leaders in their respective Asian communities volunteering their time and resources to work on behalf of the Connecticut Asian Pacific Americans. Our current efforts are aimed at being in the Advisory role for the Connecticut Asian Pacific American Affairs Commission that would work to advise the Governor, the Legislature, state agencies, departments, and commissions on issues relating to the social, educational, health, economic development, rights, concerns and interests of the APA (Asian Pacific American) community.
The diverse APA community in Connecticut includes individuals who are Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Taiwanese, Burmese, Cambodian, Filipino, Hmong, Indonesian, Laotian, Thai, Vietnamese, Singaporean, Malaysian, Timorese, Bruneian, Bangladeshi, Bhutanese, Indian, Indo-Caribbean, Maldivian, Nepalese, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Tibetan, Hawaiian, and other people of Asian and/or Pacific Islander descent.
May 23 – Post Bin-Laden: Has the Terrorism Ended?
May 23, 2011, 4:30 – 6:30 PM at the Legislative Office Building, Room 2C in Hartford, Connecticut.
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