David PesciFeature on a grant-funded prison education program created by two Wesleyan students.
Priscilla Meyer, professor of Russian language and literature, was awarded the University of Southern California Book Prize by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) during their annual conference. The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europe, or Eurasia in the field of literary and cultural studies. Meyer is the author of How the Russians Read the French. She speaks about her book online here. More than 2,100 scholars attended the conference.
Asst. Prof. Kirk Swinehart calls the book ‘Cheerful Money,’ the “memoir of the season—and one for all time.”
According to Gary Yohe and other IPCC members the risks of global warming are increasing at a rapid rate.
As the College of Letters (COL) celebrates its 50th anniversary, we asked Ethan Kleinberg, associate professor of history and letters, director of the COL, about his life in two departments, his views on interdisciplinary teaching, how this impacts his own scholarship, and the future of the COL. Q. How did you end up with a joint appointment in the College of Letters and History Department? EK: As an undergraduate at U.C. Berkeley I created my own curriculum combining philosophy, history and religion as a “Humanities Field Major.” In graduate school at UCLA I combined work in History and Comparative Literature…
Rich Benjamin ’93 on his book, "Searching for Whitopia," an exploration of white-dominated enclaves.
President Michael S. Roth shares a heartfelt story about the vote on Maine's gay marriage initiative.
Gary Yohe: Federal cost vs. benefit formulas may not tell the whole story on climate change.
Julie Lasky '82 will be one of the exhibit curators at the opening of the new Holon Design Museum in Israel.
Angus McCullough '10 is a finalist in a redesign contest for the Grand Concourse in Bronx, N.Y.
ABC News Reporter Bill Blakemore '65 will deliver a presentation titled "The Psychologies of Global Warming" in Memorial Chapel at 8 p.m. on Nov. 3. Blakemore has been reporting on climate change for the last several years. His talk will include "examples displaying different 'psychologies, as well as manmade global warming’s place in the long history of narcissistic insults to humanity itself.'”
Wesleyan President Michael S. Roth reviewed Daniel Goldhagen's Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the the Ongoing Assault on Humanity recently for The San Francisco Chronicle. In the book, Goldhagen attempts to show that "that genocide is an extension of the politics of 'eliminationism,' which is decisively shaped by political leaders and fueled by profound and widely shared hatred. However, Roth found Goldhagen simple-minded in many of his conclusions and proposed solutions.