Benjamin TraversEthan Kleinberg, director of the Center for the Humanities, professor of letters, professor of history, discusses the core mission of the Center and his vision for its future in this video: [youtube width="640" height="420"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_C6e9cR-m8[/youtube]
In the video below, Bruce Corwin '62 Hon '87 talks about his life, his career in the Motion Picture Exhibition Business, and his second career in philanthropy. Bruce founded the group "Alumni On Campus," to help address the social and educational issues that plague Los Angeles High School. [youtube width="640" height="420"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NUu9_Zso6g[/youtube]
Jeffrey Richards '69, Broadway producer and 2012 Tony Award winner for the Best Musical Revival (The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess) discusses life, his work on Broadway, and his love for Wesleyan in this video: [youtube width="640" height="420"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkDItIlWqCA[/youtube]
In the Spring semester of 2012, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Gillian Goslinga and Creative Campus Fellow Jill Sigman, co-taught a course titled Ritual, Health and Healing. The course consisted of a weekly seminar and movement lab where the students explored the moral and material worlds of ritual and religious healing through assigned reading, writing and physical exercises. A video of the class is below: [youtube width="640" height="420"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83YTKlRWl0A[/youtube]
Wesleyan alumni and their families participated in the annual Parade of Classes During Reunion & Commencement Weekend May 26. A video and photos of the event are below: [youtube width="640" height="420"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMwcMYSdhsc[/youtube] (more…)
On April 12, Julia Louis-Dreyfus P'14, producer and star of "VEEP," sat down with President Michael Roth '78 and nearly 300 Wesleyan students, alumni, and parents at The Times Center in New York City for a premiere screening and conversation about her new HBO show. A video of the event is below: [youtube width="640" height="420"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_xN9gls-6s[/youtube]
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The Recess at Wesleyan Program welcomed 100 students from a local intermediate school who were rewarded for exemplary behavior with a midday recess excursion to Wesleyan's Bacon Field House. Dozens of university student athletes hosted the children in a variety of play activities including basketball, kickball and capture the flag. Recess at WES is an ongoing partnership with regular visits by student athletes to the Intermediate school. It is supported by the Wesleyan Athletics Advantage Program, which integrates community service into the undergraduate student athlete experience. [youtube width="640" height="420"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc5CPIZI29Y[/youtube]
Rachel Levenson '12, saw a need for an elevated, intellectual based conversation on how to evaluate programs, scale up effective programs, and allocate funds in a way that will have the biggest positive impact. Levenson designed The Forum For International Development to create a space at Wesleyan for that discussion so people could learn from each other as well as from speakers that Wesleyan Students brought in from all over the country. [youtube width="640" height="420"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riwhO7r0YlU[/youtube]
TulaTelfair, professor of art, describes her passion for art and the capacity of Imaginary Landscapes to stir her viewers' memories. [youtube width="640" height="420"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8JRxNxvg6o[/youtube]