Flames of My Homeland: The Cultural Revolution and Modern Tibet
Works by Tsering Dorje, Tsering Woeser, and Ian Boyden ‘95
Now through Thursday April 1, 2021
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Main Gallery
Ellie Ga: Gyres 1-3
Now through Thursday March 25, 2021
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, South Gallery
For more information, please go to:
https://www.wesleyan.edu/cfa/galleries/zilkha-exhibition/
What is be-friend?
BE-FRIEND aims to pair Wes students with each other to connect and share thoughts, ideas, and themselves. It is open to all Wed students regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or ability. We hope to foster connections in the midst of a time characterized by social distancing and disconnect.
How it works:
Interested participants will complete an initial survey designed to help the chaplain’s office pair you with someone based on your preferences, including faith or no-faith tradition, gender identity, race/ethnicity/ethnic identity, and any specific preference you might have.
The program will begin on March 22 and go through the end of April. If the pair of “friends” want to continue to meet, in-person or online, that’s up to them. We will gather safely outside in early May to enjoy a celebratory meal (provided by a local restaurant). For those participating from elsewhere, we will mail a care package to their preferred address. Each participant will receive a free t-shirt.
Here is the link to the survey: https://forms.gle/qE1HTwXpPQJMm9GZ8
Apply to work with the Writing Workshop! Applications due March 26. We encourage writers from all backgrounds, majors, and class years to apply. We want our Workshop to look like you!
The Sleep and Psychosocial Adjustment Lab at Wesleyan University has launched a new longitudinal research study – “Share Your Voice”. To be eligible, you must be a member of the class of 2024 and identify as a member of a socio-demographic minority group in the U.S. (e.g., racial-ethnic minority, LGBTQ+, non-binary, first generation, low-income, or religious minority). The goal of the study is to better understand identity development, social adjustment, and psychological well-being among a sample of Wesleyan students, whose transition to university overlapped with the COVID-19 pandemic and racial protests during the summer of 2020. Participants will be compensated $10 for each interview, for a maximum of $80.
If interested, please fill out this brief screening form or email: spalab@wesleyan.edu.
The GEM is a unique opportunity for second-semester freshmen at Wes. This minor seeks to cultivate students’ intercultural development and global engagement by integrating:
To apply, you only need to submit a 500-word max letter of interest, a list of your courses taken at Wes, and a brief recommendation from a professor (which can be submitted by the extended deadline of March 22).
Learn more about the Global Engagement Minor application, timeline, and requirements here: https://www.wesleyan.edu/cgs/GEM/index.html.
Contact Natalia Román Alicea at nromanalicea@wesleyan.edu for more information.
Please join us for an open house to learn more about the College of Letters on Friday, March 5 (tomorrow) from 11:30am-12:30pm over Zoom at the following link:
https://wesleyan.zoom.us/my/tushar.irani
This event will include the opportunity to chat with current COL majors as well as some of our faculty. We’ll explain the various requirements for the COL major, the possibility of double majoring, and the community-based nature of the program, and will also happily field any questions.
This year the COL is switching to a new more inclusive declaration process for incoming majors. First-year students will declare the major during the COL Major Declaration Period. The declaration period this semester began on Tues. February 23, 2021 and runs through Tues. March 23, 2021. Total enrollment in the major is limited to 25 students.
The College of Letters is a three-year, interdisciplinary major for the study of European literature, history, and philosophy. During these three years, students participate as a cohort in a series of colloquia in which they read and discuss works together (in English), learn to think critically about texts in relation to their contexts and influences—both European and non-European—and in relation to the disciplines that shape and are shaped by those texts. Majors also become proficient in a foreign language and study abroad in order to deepen their knowledge of another culture. The COL, a unique college within Wesleyan University, has its own library and workspace where students can study together, participate in seminars and workshops, attend lectures, and meet informally with their professors, whose offices surround the library.
The COL is unique at Wesleyan in its dedication to the study of the Mediterranean world and the various origins of Europe from antiquity to the present. In our history as a department, we have moved from an oversimplified model of the formation of Europe (with Athens and Jerusalem as points of origin) to a multicausal, more complex model of plural origins. A genealogical approach of this sort to the study of European culture has the benefit of enabling students in our courses throughout the university to regard Europe no longer as the “old world” but as a continent still in transition as it becomes more multilingual, more multicultural, and more religiously diverse.
RSVP HERE: https://wesleyan.campuslabs.com/engage/event/6944530
With a wide array of campus employers and departments in attendance, this virtual, school-wide event will provide a valuable opportunity for you to connect with campus employers, discuss available job positions, and schedule interviews.
The fair will run from 12-3pm and you will be able to pop into virtual “booths” to meet with representatives from the campus employers that are of interest to you. Connect with staff and faculty and learn about all of the different types of positions and opportunities available for student employment this spring and in the future.
In addition to campus employers, staff will be on-hand to answer questions about work-study, student employment and payroll, help searching and applying for jobs on Handshake, and support in crafting a professional resume and navigating the hiring process.
RSVP HERE: https://wesleyan.campuslabs.com/engage/event/6944530
You are invited to participate in a two-part series we will be offering to students in the Wes community regarding personal trauma and substance use on campus.
In the first part, Understanding, Validating & Healing From Trauma, Demetrius Colvin (SRC), Jami Carlacio (ORSL), and September Johnson (WesWell) will speak about various forms of trauma they have encountered and the coping mechanisms- both healthy and unhealthy- that they have used to deal with it. In the second part, Coping and Connecting in Crisis: Substance Use and Self-Care During College, the speakers will share their experience as it relates to substance use (in the family and personally) and again, how they found hope by using effective coping skills and seeking help.
The presentation blends storytelling with professional knowledge and aims to reach students through presenters personal accounts of trauma and substance use. The focus ultimately centers on coping, recovery, and resilience, with the message being that life is messy but/and that we can emerge from it whole when we have the right support and resources. We ask that you promote these two events with students, staff, and/or faculty you know who may benefit from it, whether as a trauma sufferer/survivor or as a resource for anyone who might need help. To be clear, we hope to start a campus-wide conversation about the increased intensity of challenges facing college students today as they navigate illness, death, isolation, fear, and insecurity due to the pandemic and to the effects of structural racism.
The presentations will be held on:
Wednesday March 3 from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Zoom Link: https://tinyurl.com/validatingtrauma
Facebook Link
Wednesday March 10 from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Zoom Link: https://tinyurl.com/copingincrisis
Facebook Link
Please reach out to us if you have questions or comments, and thank you in advance for spreading the message.
Sincerely,
Demetrius Colvin, Jami Carlacio, and September Johnson
Are you a second-semester frosh? Come learn about the GEM, a unique program for rising sophomores!
Thursday March 4 | 4:30pm | Meeting ID 947 8714 0639 or join here
Learn more about minor requirements & application process at bit.ly/GEMinor
Apply by March 15th!
Swipe right, Swipe Left! WesWIS is inviting you to a Student-Faculty Speed Networking event. There will be one faculty member from every NSM department. Students of all backgrounds, identities, interests and class year are encouraged to participate.
We will use a platform that allows students and faculty to be matched according to interests, sounds familiar? Both faculty and student will have the option to skip or accept the match. If both student and faculty accept the match, they have 5 minutes to chat and have the possibility to extend the meeting to 9 minutes. But do not worry about this now, we will spend the first few minutes of the event on Zoom to go over the logistics.
Please sign up here with your Wesleyan Email or RSVP to nharzallah@wesleyan.edu to get the Zoom link.
