Olivia DrakeThe 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…
Charles Sanislow, assistant professor of psychology, and two members of his lab, Katie Marcus '13 and Liz Reagan '13 published an article on challenging old assumptions about about the outcome of borderline psychopathology in the February 2012 issue of Current Psychiatry Reports. The paper details current findings from major longitudinal psychiatry studies including the Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Study, which Sanislow has been as an investigator on for the past 16 years, and suggests new directions for clinical research. The article is online here. Also published in February is a work that Sanislow co-authored from the Collaborative Personality Study in the…
Government major Jourdan Khalid Hussein '11 has published an article based on his thesis at Wesleyan. The article "Not Secular Enough? Variation in Electoral Success of Post-Islamist Parties in Turkey and Indonesia" has been published in the journal STUDIA ISLAMIKA. Hussein currently works in the Indonesian "White House," as the assistant to the head, Indonesian President's Delivery Unit for Development Monitoring and Oversight." STUDIA ISLAMIKA is a journal published by the Center for the Study of Islam and Society. It specializes in Indonesian Islamic studies in particular, and South-east Asian Islamic Studies in general, and is intended to communicate original researches and…
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A show on bullying in a Middletown neighborhood ,produced by Maddie Neufeld '12 and Harry Bartle '12, was recently featured on WNPR and GPRX radio. Neufeld and Bartle are co-producers of the Middletown Youth Radio Project. After submitting a proposal to Generation Public Radio Exchange (GPRX), Middletown Youth Radio Project was selected to produce a piece on bullying in Traverse Square, a federally subsidized complex in Middletown. "We wanted to understand what bullying might look like in a community. DJ DZhane and DJ Elizabethyano took on the project and went around Traverse Square with a microphone and recorder in hand, interviewing…
Ron Jenkins, professor of theater, is featured in the Feb. 24 issue of The Boston Globe for teaching a class at York Correctional Facility. Jenkins and his Wesleyan students teach the "Activism and Outreach Through Theater" course to inmates. While behind bars at York, students take workshops with Jenkins, learning plays by Shakespeare and Dante. According to the article, Jenkins has focused his career on theater as a catalyst for social change. That has meant working in Italy with Nobel laureate Dario Fo (whose play “Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas’’ Jenkins directed at the American Repertory Theater in 2001)…