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The Romance Languages and Literatures Department hosted a Pan-Romance Carnival Celebration Feb. 19. The event was open to all students studying French, Spanish and Portuguese. Costumes were required. Below are photos of the event: (more…)
In this video, Artist-in-Residence Keiji Shinohara introduces "A Late Christmas Gift: Contemporary Prints from Japan" at the Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies on Feb. 1. The 46 prints in this exhibition represent a wide range of contemporary Japanese printmakers, from established artists to graduate students and includes works in all print media. Shinohara is an internationally known woodblock printer who has been at Wesleyan for almost 20 years. [youtube width="640" height="420"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc9W9uZzKYg&list=UUxYjyka74gKQqR_tJz8jB-A&index=28&feature=plcp[/youtube]
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Rob Rosenthal, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs, has announced that Ellen Nerenberg, chair and professor of romance languages and literatures, was named the Hollis Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, and Alex Dupuy, chair of the African American Studies Program, professor of sociology, was named the John E. Andrus Professor of Sociology. Ellen Nerenberg has been at Wesleyan since 1994. She is a specialist in 20th-century Italian literature and contemporary Italian cultural studies. She received the Modern Language Association’s Howard R. Marraro prize for Prison Terms: Representing Confinement During and After Italian Fascism (University of Toronto Press, 2001) and was awarded the…
Q: Rachel, please explain what acrobatic yoga is, and how you got involved. A: AcroYoga, as it's called, is acrobatic partner yoga that mostly involves a "base" who uses their legs to hold a "flyer" in the air as they both collaborate to move through therapeutic poses as well as acrobatic maneuvers. I got involved when Ryan Rogers and Miles Bukiet '11 led an AcroYoga student forum last year. Q: What is the partner class you teach and how many students are in the class? A: Lizzie Simon '12 and I teach a student forum class called Acrobatic Partner Yoga and…
David LowPaul Weitz ’88 is the director of the film Being Flynn (Focus Features), which he adapted from an acclaimed memoir by Nick Flynn and which opened in theaters on March 2. The movie drama deals with a young, self-destructive writer (played by Paul Dano) who works in a homeless shelter where he reconnects after 18 years with his alcoholic father (played by Robert De Niro), also a writer, who comes to stay at the shelter. The film also stars Julianne Moore and Olivia Thirlby. Weitz’s film had a long journey to the screen and along the way, the director wrote…
Cynthia RockwellArchitect Andre Kikoski ’90 received the Institute Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects (the “AIA”), their highest recognition nationally for his creation of The Wright, the new restaurant in the Guggenheim Museum. Kikoski’s work was selected from more than 700 total submissions and was one of only 27 recipients worldwide who will be honored at the AIA 2012 National Convention and Design Exposition in Washington, D.C., in May. The Institute highlights the award winners on their web site, including photographs and a discussion of the design elements that the architects considered and reasoning for their solutions, as well…