Get ready to reflect, discuss, and take charge of your story with this insightful exploration through personal narratives. We will have guest panelists, including faculty, staff, students, and alumni, who will address disability as a lived experience at Connecticut College from 1985 to 2025 and how disability advocacy will continue to change that experience. The panel speakers will share their perspectives on accessibility, programming, academics, culture, and more at Connecticut College.

We will work on direct and cross examinations, practice statements, work with witnesses, and prepare for competition.Hosted by: Mock Trial Competition TeamAdditional Information can be found at: https://connquest.conncoll.edu/event/10825985 (https://connquest.conncoll.edu/event/10825985)

Murial Design ContestCreate a mural for the Disability Cultural Center (DCC)!Contest winner receives a $75 shopping spree.Submit entries to sas@conncoll.eduSubmission deadline is April 15, 2025Good luck!Hosted by: Office of Student Accessibility ServicesAdditional Information can be found at: https://connquest.conncoll.edu/event/11124370 (https://connquest.conncoll.edu/event/11124370)

Rising SeniorsDream of graduate study in the UK or Ireland? Learn what makes a competitive candidate for the Marshall, Rhodes, and Mitchell Scholarships. We'll cover crafting a strong leadership statement, securing institutional endorsement, and key steps for your application.

We will meet on Chapel green for ultimate frisbee practice as a team from 4:00-6:00 pmHosted by: Women's and Non-Binary Disc ClubAdditional Information can be found at: https://connquest.conncoll.edu/event/11143236 (https://connquest.conncoll.edu/event/11143236)

Women's and Nonbinary Team Rugby Practice. No experience needed and open to all! Hosted by: Women's/Nonbinary Rugby ClubAdditional Information can be found at: https://connquest.conncoll.edu/event/11140945 (https://connquest.conncoll.edu/event/11140945)

Connecticut College faculty will present three recently published projects that demonstrate how digital publishing and open pedagogical practices can enhance teaching, learning, and scholarship. Speakers will include Kris Klein Hernández (History), Beyond the Archives (https://kkh.digital.conncoll.edu/westernreserveproject/); Anthony Graesch (Anthropology), The Kw'éts'tel Project (https://kwetstel.conncoll.edu/); and Ross Morin (Film Studies), Filmmaking Unpacked Podcast and OER. (https://www.rossmorinfilm.com/unpacked.html) A celebratory reception will follow in the Library Living Room.

The Daniel Klagsbrun Symposium was established in 1989 to create a positive, living memorial to Daniel Klagsbrun, a 1986 graduate of Connecticut College. Through the generosity and commitment of Daniel's parents, Emilie and Herbert Klagsbrun, the symposium has brought to the College an impressive array of authors, including: Saul Bellow, Adrienne Rich, Elie Wiesel, Sandra Cisneros, Joseph Brodsky, Jhumpa Lahiri, Michael Cunningham, Dorothy Allison, Tobias Wolff, Amy Tan, Hannah Tinti '94, E.L. Doctorow, Jay McInerney, Art Spiegelman, David Sedaris and Dorothy Allison.This year's speaker is Suzan-Lori Parks, a multi-award-winning American writer/musician and the first African-American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Topdog/Underdog which recently enjoyed its twentieth anniversary Broadway revival. The production won both the 2023 Tony Award, (Best Revival Of A Play) and the Outer Critics Circle Award. Just last year, in 2023, Parks also had three new works which all received world premieres: at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Sally & Tom (Steinberg New Play Award finalist) at Joe's Pub in New York City, Plays for the Plague Year (winner of The Drama Desk Award for Best Music in a Play), and, at the Public Theatre, Parks world-premiered a musical adaptation of the 1972 film The Harder They Come (winner: Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical.)In 2023 Parks was named among "TIME MAGAZINE'S 100." Other notable accolades and awards include the prestigious Gish Prize for Excellence in the Arts, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is also a recipient of a Lila-Wallace—Reader's Digest Award, a CalArts/Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.In November 2022, Parks was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame. She is Writer in Residence of the Public Theater, a professor at New York University, and an alumna of New Dramatists and of Mount Holyoke College where she studied creative writing with James Baldwin, who encouraged Parks to begin writing for the theatre. In her spare time, Parks also writes songs and fronts her band Sula and The Joyful Noise.

Connecticut College Women's Lacrosse vs Trinity College (Conn.)Streaming Video: https://www.nsnsports.net/colleges/connecticut-college/ (https://www.nsnsports.net/colleges/connecticut-college/)

We will be watching a certain superhero movie/TV show episode(s) and explore the representation within them throughout the film and afterwards there will be a small discussion about what we watched and how we felt about it, in and outside of representation. There will be snacks and an opportunity to sit back, chill, and enjoy the film. Come for as long as you can. Hosted by: Blackness In Superhero On-Screen Media ClubAdditional Information can be found at: https://connquest.conncoll.edu/event/10830789 (https://connquest.conncoll.edu/event/10830789)

Connecticut College Men's Lacrosse at Trinity CollegeStreaming Video: https://www.nsnsports.net/colleges/trinity/ (https://www.nsnsports.net/colleges/trinity/)

Our regular meetings to have fun and play games for a few hours, all are welcome to come and enjoy a variety of (mostly) tabletop games provided by our club collection.Hosted by: Connecticut College Gaming ClubAdditional Information can be found at: https://connquest.conncoll.edu/event/10868844 (https://connquest.conncoll.edu/event/10868844)

The Bactrian team will meet to work on direct and cross examinations and statements, practice with witnesses, and prepare for competition.Hosted by: Mock Trial Competition TeamAdditional Information can be found at: https://connquest.conncoll.edu/event/10825917 (https://connquest.conncoll.edu/event/10825917)

We will practice squash and play games.Hosted by: Club SquashAdditional Information can be found at: https://connquest.conncoll.edu/event/11140919 (https://connquest.conncoll.edu/event/11140919)

Scuds Rehearsal Practice Hosted by: SCUDSAdditional Information can be found at: https://connquest.conncoll.edu/event/11013491 (https://connquest.conncoll.edu/event/11013491)