Schedule of Events
Friday, November 3, 2017
Attend a Class
Students may arrange with their professors for parents to visit classes, or parents and alumni may find the class schedule here and at Registration in the Usdan University Center. Please plan to arrive on time and to stay for the duration of the class.
Tour of Campus
Presented by: The Office of Admission
Meet in the lobby of the Stewart M. Reid House, Office of Admission
Registration and Information
Everyone--parents, families, and students--please check in at the Usdan University Center for a final weekend schedule (with updates and event locations), meal tickets, a welcome packet, and more.
Usdan University Center
Wesleyan Admission Information Session
Gather insight into the admission process at Wesleyan by attending this information session for prospective students.
Presented by: The Office of Admission
McKelvey Room, Stewart M. Reid House, Office of Admission
Tour of Campus
Presented by: The Office of Admission
Meet in the lobby of the Stewart M. Reid House, Office of Admission
IN THE GALLERIES: UP IN ARMS
UP IN ARMS presents a number of perspectives on the image and impact of guns in contemporary culture, though none endorse them as a means to an end. Works by fourteen artists touch upon a host of issues surrounding access to and the use of firearms, examining and representing the role that guns continue to play in our national mythologies and pathologies, suicide and homicide rates, domestic violence, and mass media.
Guest Curator: Susanne Slavick
This exhibition is being presented in conjunction with Wesleyan's annual Shasha Seminar for Human Concerns (October 27 & 28), which focuses on "Guns in American Society".
South Gallery, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
IN THE GALLERIES: SASHA RUDENSKY: ACTS AND ILLUSIONS
For more than a decade, Sasha Rudensky '01 has repeatedly returned to Russia and the post-Soviet territories with her camera. Her photographs track a lost generation that has come of age during the Putin Era—a time of political upheaval, ideological uncertainty, and unhinged materiality. This exhibition highlights more than thirty photographs from Rudensky’s series Remains (2004–2007), Eastern Eve (2009–2014), and Tinsel and Blue (2009–2015). Shifting between social document and fantasy, truth and illusion, and banality and decadence, these meticulously observed and constructed images present an unsettling view into contemporary life in the New East.
Davison Art Center
IN THE GALLERIES As Time Goes By... 75 Years of CASABLANCA
The Rick Nicita Gallery celebrates the 75th anniversary of the first theatrical screening of CASABLANCA in November 1942. The exhibit highlights materials from the Ingrid Bergman and Lloyd C. Clark Collections at the Wesleyan Cinema Archives. The exhibit includes stills from the film, behind-the-scenes photographs, publicity material, and a page from Ingrid Bergman’s handwritten diary, in which she describes her experience filming CASABLANCA.
Rick Nicita Gallery, Center for Film Studies
IN THE GALLERIES: Black Pulp!
Black Pulp! examines the evolving perspectives of black identity in American culture and history from 1912 to 2016 through rare historical printed media shown in dialogue with contemporary art. The exhibition highlights works by artists, graphic designers, writers, and publishers in formats ranging from little known comic books to covers for historic books and magazines, etchings, digital prints, drawings, and media-based works by an intergenerational selection of 21 of today’s leading artists from the black diaspora. The Black Pulp! exhibition tour is organized by International Print Center New York.
Guest Curators: William Villalongo and Mark Thomas Gibson
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
Wesleyan Real Estate Network: A Conversation on the Evolution of the Real Estate Industry
Join the leaders of the newly formed Wesleyan Real Estate Network, Matt Winn ’92 and Marshall Brozost ’89, for a conversation on the changing landscape of the real estate industry. Now, more than ever before, the real estate industry is undergoing dramatic shifts that are impacting how individuals live and interact with property. From changes in technology to the evolving demands of consumers, all forms of real estate have confronted unforeseen challenges as well as opportunities for growth. This informal discussion will address these topics as well as survey the spectrum of real estate career opportunities available for Wesleyan students and alumni. Open group chats with Matt and Marshall are available 1:15 – 3:30 p.m. Light lunch will be provided.
Room 112, Boger Hall
Muslim Jumu'ah Prayers
Please join the Muslim/Islam community at Wesleyan for Jummah prayer in the Muslim Prayer Room. This religious service will be led by Wesleyan’s Muslim Chaplain, Sami Abdul Aziz. Halal Ethnic Lunch will be served after the service. Take advantage of this opportunity to learn about the Muslim culture and Islamic faith on campus, from both a spiritual and sociological perspective as well as to try some amazing ethnic food! All are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please email saziz@wesleyan.edu to RSVP.
Muslim Prayer Room, 169 High Street, 2nd Floor
Gordon Career Center Open House and Wesleyan Summer Grants Showcase
Please stop by the Gordon Career Center to hear more about the resources available to students as they explore the future. Visit with the staff and the director, Sharon Belden Castonguay. Chat with the 2017 Wesleyan Summer Grant recipients about their internship experiences from over the summer. All are welcome!
Gordon Career Center, Boger Hall
Wesleyan Abroad: Everything Your Student Might Forget to Mention
Join the Office of Study Abroad staff and students to discuss what families need to know about study abroad for Wesleyan students. Topics will include affordability and financial aid, sites and kinds of programs, credit transfer, health and safety, and the benefits of spending a semester or year studying in another country. Please come with questions.
Presenters: Emily Gorlewski, Ed.D. is Associate Director, Study Abroad at the Fries Center for Global Studies. Student presenters: Guilu Murphy ’18, Taisa Vasilkova ’18, Jessica Wachtler ’18.
Fisk 208
Wesleyan Admission Information Session
Gather insight into the admission process at Wesleyan by attending this information session for prospective students.
McKelvey Room, Stewart M. Reid House, Office of Admission
WESEMINAR Social Entrepreneurship at Wesleyan
Social innovation has always been in the DNA of Wesleyan. Recently we were recognized by Princeton Review as the #1 “Best School for Making an Impact” and Forbes as the #9 college for entrepreneurship. During this panel discussion, we’ll hear from student entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, activists, and community leaders who are using their interdisciplinary liberal arts education to tackle the pressing problems of the world--starting right here on campus.
Moderator: Makaela Kingsley ’98, MALS ’05, Director of Wesleyan’s Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship
Speakers: Patricelli Center Fellows
Sponsored by the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship, the Jewett Center for Community Partnerships, and the Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life
Allbritton 311
Campus Tour
Presented by: The Office of Admission
Meet in the lobby of the Stewart M. Reid House, Office of Admission
WESEMINAR Expanding Access with the Center for Prison Education
Since 2009, the Center for Prison Education has brought the transformative power of a Wesleyan Education behind prison bars. Please join us for a panel discussion of why college-in-prison is important for reversing the trends of mass incarceration and fostering healthier communities and universities.
Moderator: Sarah Williams ’88, P’21, Center for Prison Education Advisory Board co-chair
Speakers: Isabel Bartholomew '18, Center for Prison Education Undergraduate Volunteer; Peter Gottschalk, Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University; James Jeter, Policy Analyst at Hartford Community Loan Fund, Program Alumnus Sitar Terrass-Shah ’17, Center for Prison Education Fellow
Putnam Classroom (114), Boger Hall
Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies (FGSS) Annual Fall Symposium: The Politics of Knowledge
Each year, the Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies program hosts an annual Fall Symposium on a topic of importance to both our interdisciplinary field and to the world outside academia. It was forty years ago, in 1977, when a committee first convened to create a Women’s Studies program at Wesleyan University. Since then, the program (now Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies) has graduated roughly 275 majors. Our alumni are working in law, medicine, television, publishing and digital media, education, social policy, community organizing, international development, eco-tourism, the arts, and many other fields. This year, we host a panel of alumni who will share their insights about how the study of gender, sexuality and feminism (or women’s studies) has influenced them, and how they have put their learning into practice. We will host an alumni reception after the panel to celebrate 40 years of gender studies at Wesleyan. The event is open to all and we hope that you will join us!
Speakers: Deborah Cohler '91; Hope Dector '02; Vashti Dubois '83
Hansel Lecture Hall (001), Public Affairs Center (PAC); Reception 5-6 p.m. in PAC 229
WESEMINAR Celebrating Seniors: Research Excellence at Wesleyan and Abroad
Members of the Class of 2018 share their summer and fall projects, representing a cross-section of student research and creativity. Students will share their work and discuss the process that guided their explorations.
Moderator: Renée N. Johnson Thornton, Ph.D., Dean for the Class of 2018
Presenters in Arts and Humanities:
Monica Sun ’18, Major in Dance
This project was made possible by the Davenport Study Grant in 2016-2017 that sponsored the study to conduct fieldwork in China. The project is Performance and Poetics: A Healing Practice Based in Heritage and Traditional Chinese Medicine. The compressed modernization of metropolitan areas has resulted in a strange liminal space where public and private intersect, where the question of belonging may be heightened or even erased. While urbanism metastasizes in the rapid development of Eastern China, the dancing body becomes a vehicle for intervention and the lens an archive. I Country, I Uncountry (2017) is an ongoing performance series by Monica Sun, a Chinese-American choreographer interested in the negotiation of nuanced identities. These photographs taken by Julian M. Johnson document her body within the context of the social-ecological landscapes of seven different cities.
Jose L. Sanchez ’18, Double Major in Anthropology and Theater
This senior essay project on the gentrification of the Mission, in San Francisco, told in multi-media map format. The research draws on ethnography, interviews with family and friends who have been priced out of the neighborhood, and a method of "walking the city" to think about sedimented meanings of places and spaces that have been erased.
Presenter in Social and Behavioral Sciences:
Alec Shea ’18, College for Social Studies Major
Expanding on research facilitated by the Davenport Study Grant in 2016-2017 on the topic of “Vacation Days Versus the Far-Right: Anti-Fascism and Economic Policy in Popular Front France, this research has expanded to review representations of “anti-fascist” contemporary activities worldwide.
Presenter in Natural Sciences and Mathematics:
Hannah Fritze ’18, Double Major in Astronomy and Physics with German Studies Minor
This senior thesis research focuses on looking for nearby Intermediate Mass Black Holes (IMBHs), within a distance of 15 Megaparsecs (this corresponds to 48 million light years, and 0.1% of the observable universe). Hannah has been analyzing all of the data ever taken by the Chandra X-ray Observatory within that distance to look for bright X-ray sources that have IMBH-like characteristics. We now know that binary black holes and IMBHs form because of recent observations by LIGO. What we don’t know is how rapidly they grow, how frequently they merge, and whether they present a viable scenario for producing the supermassive black holes we see at the centers of galaxies. We hope that identifying more IMBHs will help address some of these questions, and help us understand just how common these objects are.
Judd 116
WESEMINAR Veterans at Wesleyan: An Informal Conversation
Since the fall of 2014, Wesleyan has worked with the Posse Foundation to bring cohorts of 10 undergraduate veterans to Wes each year; the first Wes Posse Veteran Scholars cohort will graduate this coming May. At this WESeminar, members of the Posse Veteran Scholars Program will talk informally about their experiences, their interactions with students and faculty, their impressions of Wesleyan, and their plans for the future.
Moderators: Antonio Farias, Vice President For Equity & Inclusion and Title IX Officer
Speakers: POSSE Veteran Scholars: Marisella Andrews ’20, Andrew Daggon ’20 and Michael Smith ’18, and POSSE faculty mentor, Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, Wesleyan’s Jane A. Seney Professor of Greek. Professor of Classical Studies and Professor of Environmental Studies
Room 112, Boger Hall
WESEMINAR Thirty Years of East Asian Studies at Wesleyan
A roundtable discussion with faculty and alumni of this vibrant field of study.
Introduction: Mary Alice Haddad, Chair, College of East Asian Studies
Presenters: Scott Aalgaard, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies; Steve Angle, Mansfield Freeman Professor of East Asian Studies; Joan Cho, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies; Naho Maruta, Assistant Professor of the Practice in East Asian Studies; Ying Jia Tan Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies
Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies
WESEMINAR UNPACKED: Refugee Baggage
UNPACKED: Refugee Baggage seeks to humanize the word “refugee.” Created during the summer of 2017, this multi-media installation is the work of Syrian-born, New Haven CT artist and architect Mohamad Hafez and Iraqi-born writer and speaker Ahmed Badr ’20.
For UNPACKED: Refugee Baggage, Hafez sculpturally re-creates rooms, homes, buildings and landscapes that have suffered the ravages of war. Each is embedded with the voices and stories of real people — from Afghanistan, Congo, Syria, Iraq and Sudan — who have escaped those same rooms and buildings to build a new life in America. Their stories are collected and curated by Badr ’20, who is himself an Iraqi refugee.
During this WESeminar, Hafez and Badr ’20 will share their personal experiences, along with photos from the exhibition and its 10 works of art.
Speakers: Ahmed Badr ’20 is a writer, social entrepreneur, poet, and former refugee from Iraq. With work featured by Instagram, NPR, The Huffington Post, Adobe, United Nations, and others, Ahmed explores the intersection between creativity, the refugee experience, and youth empowerment. At Wesleyan, Ahmed is a Fellow at the Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life. He spent this past summer working with the UN Migration Agency, hosting a podcast titled "TOGETHER,” which is centered around the stories of refugee and migrant youth across the world.
A Syrian artist and architect, Mohamad Hafez was born in Damascus, raised in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and educated in the Midwestern United States. Expressing the juxtaposition of East and West within him, Hafez’s art reflects the political turmoil in the Middle East through the compilation of found objects, paint and scrap metal. With four highly acclaimed exhibits under his belt, Hafez creates surrealistic Middle Eastern streetscapes that are architectural in their appearance yet politically charged in their content. His work has been profiled by NPR and New Yorker Magazine.
The creation and initial exhibition of Unpacked: Refugee Baggage is supported by the Connecticut Office of the Arts, Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Fisk 208
Homecoming/Family Weekend Dinner
Parents, families, friends, and other guests are invited to join students for dinner at the Usdan University Center. Sample a variety of fresh, local, and made-to-order options from Bon Appetit, Wesleyan’s on-campus dining service. Enjoy salad bars, carving stations, hot entrees, numerous side dishes, beverages, and desserts. Vegetarian and vegan options are available.
Tickets: $20 adults, $10 children 12 and under (Wesleyan students use their meal plans and should not buy tickets).
Note: A select menu of a la carte food and beverages will also be available for purchase on-site at the Usdan Café, or you can visit one of the many restaurants in downtown Middletown.
Marketplace, Usdan University Center
Shabbat Services
Please join Wesleyan’s Jewish chaplain, Rabbi David Leipziger Teva, and the Wesleyan Jewish community for Shabbat services. All are welcome. No reservations necessary.
The Bayit, 157 Church Street
Dinner Celebrating the Freeman Asian Scholars Program and Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies
Join in celebrating the 23rd Annual Freeman Asian Scholars Program and the 30th Anniversary of the Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies.
Beckham Hall, Fayerweather
WESEMINAR WHY ARE ALL THE BLACK KIDS SITTING TOGETHER IN THE CAFETERIA? And Other Conversations About Race with Dr. Beverly Tatum ’75, HON ’15, P’04
The Wesleyan R.J. Julia bookstore welcomes Beverly Daniel Tatum ’75, HON ’15, P’04, renowned authority on the psychology of racism, for a discussion about her critically acclaimed work, WHY ARE ALL THE BLACK KIDS SITTING TOGETHER IN THE CAFETERIA? And Other Conversations About Race. Her book, originally published in 1997 and revised for its twentieth anniversary, is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the dynamics of race in America. Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? Dr. Tatum argues that straight talk about our racial identities is essential if we are serious about enabling communication across racial and ethnic divides. These topics have only become more urgent as the national conversation about race is increasingly acrimonious.
Speaker: Beverly Daniel Tatum ’75, HON ’15, P’04, PhD, is president emerita of Spelman College and in 2014 received the Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contribution to Psychology, the highest honor presented by the American Psychological Association. Beverly, a former member of the Wesleyan Board of Trustees, received a Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2000 at her 25th Reunion and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters in 2015. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
The Wesleyan R.J. Julia Bookstore, 413 Main Street
Shabbat Dinner
A special Shabbat dinner is planned for all family members and friends of Wesleyan students. Together with students, faculty, and staff, we will welcome Shabbat with song, food, and our special joyful Ruach. We invite you to be a part of a memorable celebration of the Wesleyan Jewish family.
Tickets: $20 adults, $10 children 12 and under; free for Wesleyan students.
Daniel Family Commons, Usdan University Center
Improv Comedy Show
Come laugh at/with Wesleyan’s two long-form improv groups! New Teen Force (NTF) and Gag Reflex have both been around for over 25 years and have performed at schools such as Harvard, Columbia, and Skidmore. This is both NTF and Gag Reflex's first on-campus show of the year, so don’t boo too much.
Room 58, Exley Science Center
Fall Senior Thesis Dance Concert
A collection of new works presented by senior choreographers as part of their culminating project for the dance major. Tickets can be purchased through the University Box Office.
Patricelli '92 Theater
Wesleyan Film Series: Atomic Blonde
Admission: $5
Goldsmith Family Cinema, Center for Film Studies
Circles & Ciphers Restorative Justice Freestyle Circle
Chicago based organization, Circles & Ciphers, will partner with Rap at Wesleyan (RAW) to host a peace-circle jam session at Movement House. Circles & Ciphers is a hip-hop infused restorative justice organization led by young people who are prison, court, gang, and DCFS- involved. Youth Leaders of the organization will be hosting a weekend of hip-hop infused events that engage participants in discourse around community-led alternatives to incarceration. Join us for this freestyle circle - rap, sing, drum, and make music - alongside some of Chicago’s leading artists and activists. All Circle attendees will consider: what role does improvisation play in discovering who we are? And how is this integral to building alternatives to the prison industrial complex?
Psi Upsilon
Saturday, November 4, 2017
Registration and Information
Everyone--parents, families, and students--please check in at the Usdan University Center for a final weekend schedule (with updates and event locations), meal tickets, a welcome packet, and more.
Usdan University Center
50th Reunion Planning Meeting
Welcome remarks from Donna Morea ’76, P’06, Chair of the Wesleyan University Board of Trustees, and Barbara-Jan Wilson, Vice President for University Relations.
Andersen Meeting Room (Usdan 110)
WESEMINAR The Annual Robert F. Schumann Symposium: Where on Earth Are We Going? Stories From The Aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in Houston and the Legacy of Fukushima
Over the past 20 years, Jake Price has witnessed firsthand the impact of climate change on coastal communities, documenting the profound changes that these communities must contend with. Most recently he was in Houston where he accompanied first responders as they saved Houston residents form the rising waters and then recorded their testimony. His presentation will explore long-term options that communities should adopt after the water recedes. We have reached a point where renewable energy has become more accessible than ever, so why isn't it being utilized in the regions most affected by climate change as rebuilding commences? What can be done to help get storm battered communities to become leaders in renewable energy and how might universities, government and industry play a part in that?
As challenging as current events may seem, there is also reason for hope: In each aftermath, Jake was profoundly moved by the decisions that people made as it relates to their relationships to others and how they came to a deeper awareness of what's important in life—an awareness that those of us who have not lived through the direct impacts of climate change could learn from. Jake will share stories of his personal experiences with the displaced and will screen selections from his upcoming films from Fukushima and Houston.
Speaker: Jake Price is a filmmaker and photojournalist, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, TIME, The New Yorker, and the BBC, among others, and is featured in performances by movement-based artist Eiko Otake P’07, ’10.
Please find more information here.
Tishler Lecture Hall (150), Exley Science Center
Wesleyan Crew Row and Reception
No rowing experience necessary. Parents of current team members will have the opportunity to get out on the water and row in a racing shell. Meet members of the current men's and women's teams and enjoy a light breakfast. At 10 a.m. we'll dedicatie the new women's 8-oared shell purchased last spring to be named in honor of Fin and Nancy Meislahn. Nancy is our Dean of Admissions at Wesleyan and Fin was the former crew coach at Cornell and has acted as our informal advisor on all things rowing. We've had many generations of Wesleyan rowers spend time with Fin and Nancy and we'd love to have you back to celebrate this special relationship.
Macomber Boathouse
Wrestling Homecoming Breakfast and Team Training Session
Alumni, parents, family, & friends of Wesleyan Wrestling are invited to join us for coffee, catch up with the coaches, wrestlers, and alumni. View the unveiling of the teams on our Hall of Fame Wall who are being inducted into the Hall of Fame later in the evening. Team introductions and team goals will take place after the workout and then it is off to Andrus Field to watch the Homecoming Football game vs. Williams. Coffee service is available between 9-11 a.m. and the team workout is 9:30-10:50 a.m., then we will unveil the 1984, 2012, & 2002 team’s names on our Hall of Fame wall.
Biddiscombe Wrestling Room, Freeman Athletic Center
Annual Parents Assembly
President Michael S. Roth '78 will provide remarks. Introduction by Michael Whaley, Vice President for Student Affairs. All Wesleyan families are welcome.
Crowell Concert Hall, Center for the Arts
Team Tailgates on Andrus Field
Many teams will host tailgates on Andrus Field during the football game. Check back as more teams are added.
Baseball (concessions in the end zone area)
Men’s & Women's Basketball (halftime tailgate reception at approximately 2:15 p.m.)
Men's Ice Hockey
Men's Lacrosse
Women's Lacrosse
Swimming & Diving (11 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.)
Track & Field
Wrestling
Tailgating and Parking on Andrus Field
The Wesleyan men's and women's swimming and diving teams oversee and direct visitor parking at all home football games. In return, many visitors choose to make a donation to the swimming and diving program which helps defray equipment, travel, and other program costs. The suggested donation is $5 per car, but any amount is graciously accepted.
Open Container Policy: University policy and NESCAC regulations state that alcohol is not allowed at any sporting event with the exception of the tailgate area on Andrus Field. Open containers are not allowed near the football field.
Andrus Field and Foss Hill
Squash Team Open House and Match
The Wesleyan squash teams will host an open house at the squash courts along with an opportunity to play against the 2017-2018 men's and women's teams. Bring your families/friends to try squash or just come and watch the action. All are welcome to play. Match play against the team members will begin at 11am. This is a wonderful opportunity to connect with the current student athletes, introduce friends and family to the sport of squash and/or to reminisce about past experiences at Wesleyan. Please contact Shona Kerr at skerr@wesleyan.edu if you would like to play.
Rosenbaum Squash Courts, Freeman Athletic Center
#WESelfie Station
Show off your #CardinalPride inside the #WESelfie Station! The photo booth will be conveniently located next to tailgating fun on Andrus Field, stocked with fun props and Cardinal accessories. Share your photos from the weekend with #WesHCFW and #WESelfie. Don’t forget to tag @wesleyan_u on Instagram!
Huss Courtyard, Usdan University Center
Student Affairs Office Hours
An opportunity for parents to have brief informal one-on-one meetings with their student’s class dean and/or the associate dean for student academic resources.
Louise Brown, Dean for the Class of 2021— North College, Room 202
David Phillips, Dean for the Class of 2020 – North College, Room 215
Jennifer Wood, Dean for the Class of 2019 — North College, Room 203
Renee Johnson Thornton, Dean for the Class of 2018 – North College, Room 217
Laura Patey, Associate Dean for Student Academic Resources — North College, Room 021
Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore Book and Merchandise Sales: Pop-up Store
Tent on the lawn in front of North College (Andrus Field side of building)
Friends of the Wesleyan Library Book Sale
Over 3,000 books for sale! Please contact libfriends@wesleyan.edu for more information
Lobby, Olin Memorial Library
Wesleyan Admission Information Session
Gather insight into the admission process at Wesleyan by attending this information session for prospective students.
Presented by: The Office of Admission
McKelvey Room, Stewart M. Reid House, Office of Admission
Family Swim
Bring your suit and goggles, and join swim team alumni for a morning of friendly competition and fun.
Pool, Freeman Athletic Center
The Big Roll
The Wesleyan Mathematics and Science Scholars (WesMaSS) Program plans to break the Guinness world record for the largest number of people rolling down a hill within an hour. Come join the fun and raise Cardinal spirit by having students, staff and the Middletown community work together to break a world record and get into the Guinness Book!
Foss Hill
Alumni Volunteer Leaders Meeting
Wesleyan alumni volunteer leaders from the Professional Networks, Affinity Networks, and Regions, along with members of the Alumni Association Executive Committee, Alumni of Color Council, Young Alumni Advisory Council, and Wesleyan Fund Volunteer Leadership Committee, will meet to discuss and advance the common goal of strategic and relevant alumni engagement.
Led by the officers of the Alumni Association: Tracey K. Gardner ’96, chair; Nyasha Foy ’06, vice-chair; Joseph McElligott ’06, vice-chair; and Joseph Giaimo ’11 MALS '15, secretary.
Huddleston Lounge, Downey House
WESEMINAR Fries Center for Global Studies Open House and Student Panel
The Fries Center for Global Studies is committed to supporting Wesleyan University students and alumni interested in pursuing international opportunities grounded in language building, intercultural development, academic research interests, and professional advancement. Oftentimes, study abroad or international experiences inspire applications for prestigious fellowships and scholarships such as the Fulbright and Watson. Join us for an open house at 10:30am to meet faculty and staff to learn more about our areas of study and newly renovated center. At 11am, hear from a panel of student participants from the Center’s programs to understand their international trajectory from language learning, to study abroad, developing intercultural skills, and now pursuing international fellowships and scholarships.
Moderator: Kate Smith, Associate Director of Fellowships, Internships & Exchanges, Fries Center for Global Studies
Presenters: Elijah Jimenez ’18, African American Studies and East Asian Studies; Kamla Kumar ’18; English and University Major (South Asian Diaspora); Sophia Shoulson ’18, COL and German Studies; Hai Lun Tan ’18, College of Letters and History; Zach Tan ’18, College of Social Studies
Commons, Fries Center for Global Studies, Fisk Hall
WESEMINAR The Annual Robert F. Schumann Symposium: Where on Earth Are We Going? A Body in Places -- Making Distance Malleable
This year’s College of the Environment (COE) Think Tank Fellow and Menakka & Essel Bailey ’66 Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Eiko Otake P’07, ’10 (of Eiko & Koma), dances alone in odd places: a train station, a library, a cathedral, an observatory, Wall Street. Eiko’s presentation of her current work, A Body in Places, brings to the audience two critical themes that require connection: disaster and indifference. Disasters, such as Fukushima, Chernobyl and Hurricane Harvey are not mere disruptions. Disasters need to be remembered because so much suffering has been caused and magnified by human recklessness. By performing in public places, Eiko makes herself and her performances radically available to a wide range of audiences and invites her viewers to discover that distance, which is often a cause of people’s indifference, is indeed malleable. Someone else's pain far away can become achingly immediate. That sense of immediacy CAN help us to resist our collective forgetfulness.
Eiko’s work was inspired by and contextualized with her multiple visits to post-nuclear-disaster Fukushima Japan. Performing with the same costumes and props as she did in Fukushima, Eiko offers her body as a conduit to connect places: a here and now of her performances for audience with Fukushima where she danced for no one but a camera and irradiated landscape. Sharing her video and photos, Eiko will speak about the why, what and how of her four-year, and ongoing, project.
Katja Kolcio, Chair of the Dance Department and this year’s COE Think Tank Fellow; and William Johnston, Professor of History, Science in Society, and the College of East Asian Studies and photographer of the project, will join Eiko in a conversation. All videos were shot and collaboratively edited with Eiko by Alexis Moh ’15, Wesleyan Film major. Mark McCloughan ’10, Wesleyan Theater major, has worked with Eiko as a dramaturge from the beginning of the project.
Please find more information here.
Tishler Lecture Hall (150), Exley Science Center
Legacy Family Photo
Alumni who are parents and grandparents of current students are invited, along with their children, to be part of this year’s legacy photograph for the Wesleyan magazine. Please be prompt; the photo will be taken at 10:45 a.m. sharp.
Denison Terrace (behind Olin Memorial Library) (show in map), Rainsite: Olin Memorial Library
Celebrating Wesleyan’s Koeppel Journalism Fellows
WESEMINAR Journalism in The Trump Era: Public Media’s Role as a Trusted News Source and Convener of Public Discourse
Speaker: Laura R. Walker ’79, P’21 is President and CEO of New York Public Radio (NYPR), the largest public radio station group in the nation. Ms. Walker led New York Public Radio through a period of dramatic growth and innovation. Under her leadership, NYPR has increased its audience from 1 million to 23.9 million, raised more than $150 million in long term investment, created WNYC Studios, the second largest podcast producer in the country, and been described by Neiman Lab’s Ken Doctor as being on “innovation overdrive.” She has established NYPR as a place that produces award-winning enterprise journalism, nurtures today’s most creative talent, and creates innovative products that bring the best of public radio to listeners everywhere. Ms. Walker holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a BA in History, magna cum laude, from Wesleyan University where she was an Olin Scholar.
Moderator: Anne Greene, University Professor of English; Director, Wesleyan Writing Certificate
Taylor Meeting Room (Usdan 108)
Homecoming Day Lunch
Parents, families, friends, and other guests are invited to join students for lunch at the Usdan University Center. Sample a variety of fresh, local, and made-to-order options from Bon Appetit, Wesleyan’s on-campus dining service. Enjoy salad bars, carving stations, hot entrees, numerous side dishes, beverages, and desserts. Vegetarian and vegan options are available and you do not need to specify your meal preference in advance.
Tickets: $15 adults, $5 children 12 and under (Wesleyan students use their meal plans and should not buy tickets in advance).
Note: A select menu of a la carte food and beverages will also be available for purchase on-site at the Usdan Café, some athletic teams may be selling concessions on Andrus Field, or you can visit one of the many restaurants in downtown Middletown.
Marketplace, Usdan University Center
Tour of Campus
Presented by: The Office of Admission
Meet in the lobby of the Stewart M. Reid House, Office of Admission
Wesleyan Athletics: Looking Back, Moving Forward
Since launching in 2007, the Athletics Advisory Council (AAC) has collaborated with the university to enhance and support Wesleyan Athletics – with remarkable results. Mike Whalen ’83, Frank V. Sica director of athletics, will reflect on a decade of challenges and achievements and share his vision for ensuring continued success. This is a town hall format-- bring your questions!
Note: Following the program, attendees are invited to stay for a "meet & greet" located in the adjacent Zelnick Pavilion.
Memorial Chapel
President's Reception Honoring Leadership Donors and Volunteers
Please join President Michael Roth '78 and the Wesleyan Board of Trustees at a reception celebrating members of the Wesleyan Leadership Societies. The Wesleyan Circle, the 1831 Society, and the Olin Associates recognize members of the Wesleyan community who put the University first in their philanthropy—as donors and volunteers. By invitation only.
Daniel Family Commons, Usdan University Center
Special Collections & Archives Open House
Drop in to Special Collections & Archives to learn about its rich resources, which can enhance your student’s educational experience.
Chat with SC&A staff about the University’s rare books, artists’ books, and archival collections and how they are used by Wes students. Yearbooks, The Argus, Hermes, face books, and other historical Wesleyan primary sources will be on view.
Special Collections & Archives and Davison Rare Book Room, Olin Memorial Library
Freeman Asian Scholars and Alumni Meet & Greet and Discussion on What it Means to be a Freeman Scholar
CSS Lounge, Public Affairs Center (PAC)
IN THE GALLERIES: UP IN ARMS
UP IN ARMS presents a number of perspectives on the image and impact of guns in contemporary culture, though none endorse them as a means to an end. Works by fourteen artists touch upon a host of issues surrounding access to and the use of firearms, examining and representing the role that guns continue to play in our national mythologies and pathologies, suicide and homicide rates, domestic violence, and mass media.
Guest Curator: Susanne Slavick
This exhibition is being presented in conjunction with Wesleyan's annual Shasha Seminar for Human Concerns (October 27 & 28), which focuses on "Guns in American Society".
South Gallery, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
IN THE GALLERIES: SASHA RUDENSKY: ACTS AND ILLUSIONS
For more than a decade, Sasha Rudensky '01 has repeatedly returned to Russia and the post-Soviet territories with her camera. Her photographs track a lost generation that has come of age during the Putin Era—a time of political upheaval, ideological uncertainty, and unhinged materiality. This exhibition highlights more than thirty photographs from Rudensky’s series Remains (2004–2007), Eastern Eve (2009–2014), and Tinsel and Blue (2009–2015). Shifting between social document and fantasy, truth and illusion, and banality and decadence, these meticulously observed and constructed images present an unsettling view into contemporary life in the New East.
Davison Art Center
IN THE GALLERIES As Time Goes By... 75 Years of CASABLANCA
The Rick Nicita Gallery celebrates the 75th anniversary of the first theatrical screening of CASABLANCA in November 1942. The exhibit highlights materials from the Ingrid Bergman and Lloyd C. Clark Collections at the Wesleyan Cinema Archives. The exhibit includes stills from the film, behind-the-scenes photographs, publicity material, and a page from Ingrid Bergman’s handwritten diary, in which she describes her experience filming CASABLANCA.
Rick Nicita Gallery, Center for Film Studies
IN THE GALLERIES: Black Pulp!
Black Pulp! examines the evolving perspectives of black identity in American culture and history from 1912 to 2016 through rare historical printed media shown in dialogue with contemporary art. The exhibition highlights works by artists, graphic designers, writers, and publishers in formats ranging from little known comic books to covers for historic books and magazines, etchings, digital prints, drawings, and media-based works by an intergenerational selection of 21 of today’s leading artists from the black diaspora. The Black Pulp! exhibition tour is organized by International Print Center New York.
Guest curators: William Villalongo and Mark Thomas Gibson
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
WESEMINAR Teacher, Banker, Coder, Artist: Learning Career Management in a Liberal Arts Environment
Every day, we are exposed to stories demonstrating how challenging it is for college graduates to find jobs. Sharon Belden Castonguay, the Director of the Gordon Career Center, will draw on both her doctoral research and career advising experience to discuss what factors lead to career success.
Presenter: Sharon Belden Castonguay joined the Gordon Career Center at Wesleyan in May 2013 from Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business, where she was the Director of the Graduate Career Management Center. She holds a doctorate in human development & psychology from Harvard.
Shanklin 107
WESEMINAR Photographing Russia and Ukraine Today: Conversation in the gallery with Sasha Rudensky ’01
Join us for a conversation in the gallery discussing Sasha Rudensky’s photography in Russia, Ukraine, and the greater New East region, currently on display in the exhibition, Sasha Rudensky: Acts and Illusions. Her work examines the slow dissolution of Soviet consciousness, the ideological vacuum left in its wake, and reconstitution of new post-Soviet identities.
Introduction: Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, Wesleyan’s Jane A. Seney Professor of Greek. Professor of Classical Studies and Professor of Environmental Studies
Speakers: Sasha Rudensky ’01 is Assistant Professor of Art at Wesleyan. She received an M.F.A. from the Yale University School of Art. Her photography has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, Aperture, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel. She has exhibited widely in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Her work is in public collections including the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson.
Davison Art Center Main Gallery
Football vs. Williams College
To view a live streaming video of the game, log on to http://wescast.wesleyan.edu/ approximately 1/2 hour prior to game time and follow instructions.
Corwin Stadium, Andrus Field
Campus Tour
Presented by: The Office of Admission
Meet in the lobby of the Stewart M. Reid House, Office of Admission
Alumni Association Tailgate
Celebrate game day with friends, food, and fun. Be sure to stop by during the game. All are welcome! GO WES, BEAT WILLIAMS!
Tent in the tailgate area parallel to the Fayerweather parking lot on Andrus Field
WESEMINAR The U.S. Immigration Mess: Reflections on our Continuing Inability to Resolve this Profound National Dilemma
Moderator: Antonio Farias, Vice President For Equity & Inclusion and the Title IX Officer at Wesleyan University
Speakers: Max Hadler ’03 is the New York Immigration Coalition's Senior Health Policy Manager. He works on issues and campaigns at the city and state levels to improve health access, coverage, and delivery for immigrant communities. Prior to joining the NYIC team he worked in many capacities related to access to care for immigrants, including project director and research associate at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, researcher at the UCLA North American Integration and Development Center, and Spanish-English medical interpreter at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Max received an MPH from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and an MA in Latin American Studies from the UCLA International Institute. Meghann LaFountain is an immigration attorney and owner of LaFountain Immigration Law, LLC, in Middletown, CT. Her interest in immigration stemmed from her passion for human rights work and interest in international relations, and after working at other firms for years, Meghann opened her own specialty practice in January 2017. She received her juris doctorate at the University of Connecticut School of Law, graduating with honors in 2011. She was the recipient of multiple awards for excellence in class performance, earned a position on the Connecticut Law Review and served as its Symposium Editor. She also holds a Graduate Certificate in Human Rights. Stephen Oleskey ’64, P’00 is Of Counsel in the Barclay Damon Law firm in its Boston Office and a member of it Commercial Litigation practice area. He has represented a wide range of corporations, partnerships, joint ventures, individuals and government entities, in civil jury and jury-waived trials, arbitrations and mediations. He has a lifetime commitment to pro bono legal work. From 2004 to 2013, he co-led the case of Boumediene v. Bush, a federal habeas corpus suit challenging the imprisonment of six men from Bosnia held in Guantánamo Bay without charge or trial. In 2008 the Supreme Court held 5-4 that Steve’s clients were entitled to a habeas trial. Steve has received numerous awards including the American Bar Association's Pro Bono Publico Award, the Boston Bar Association’s Thurgood Marshall Award for exemplary commitment to public service and outstanding advocacy on behalf of low-income citizens of Massachusetts, and the Community Dispute Settlement Center's Community Peacemaker Award. He was Massachusetts Deputy Attorney General and Chief of the Public Protection Bureau in 1987 and 1988. He has also served as director and president of Greater Boston Legal Services, general counsel and national board member of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund (now Legal Momentum), and chairman of the Massachusetts Equal Justice Coalition , as well as of Pact, Inc., an INGO focused on local capacity development in Africa and Asia. Steve is a former member of the Wesleyan Board of Trustees. Dennis White ’19 is a current POSSE Veteran Scholar, majoring in the College of Social Studies. He works to support undocumented and deported veterans through fundraising and advocacy with local elected officials.
Hansel Lecture Hall (001), Public Affairs Center (PAC)
WESEMINAR Roche and Dinkeloo’s Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University: Classical, Vernacular, and Modernist Architecture in the 1960s
From 1965 to 1973, Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo created the buildings and their landscape known as the Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. These buildings appear to be essays in mid-twentieth century modernism, directly expressing their varied interior programs in cubic volumes of limestone walls and reinforced concrete spans for floors and roofs. Yet the Wesleyan Center for the Arts is tellingly described as a condensation of ideas from the pre-existing built environment, including the seventeenth-century regional vernacular, and the local Greek Revival. The center’s originality also condenses ideas from earlier and contemporaneous modern architecture, including works of Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Louis Kahn. Thus an account of this architecture broadens our understanding of the creative process as an integration of multiple sources, and our view of modernism’s potential to innovate while fittingly engaging with earlier periods without duplicating their historical vocabularies. A brief CFA walking tour will follow the session, weather permitting.
Speaker: Joseph Siry, Kenan Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Art History at Wesleyan University.
Introduction: Matt Winn ’92, leader of Wesleyan’s Real Estate Professional Network. Matt has a breadth and depth of knowledge that has made him a trusted partner in the growth, operations and development of many companies and billions of dollars of transactions. He was the Global Retail COO and head of the Americas retail brokerage platform at Cushman & Wakefield where he led a global team and worked in over 20 countries on four continents. Previously, Matt oversaw corporate and project-specific operations for some of Starwood Capital Group’s joint ventures and managed a diverse retail, residential and mixed-use portfolio. Considered by many to be a turnaround specialist, his recent work has been strategic consulting, asset management and fee development for restaurateurs, retailers and developers to enhance underperforming mixed use real estate and retail concepts.
Sponsored by Wesleyan’s Real Estate Professional Network. Network leaders Marshall Brozost ’89 and Matt Winn ’92 will be on site following the seminar. Say hello and learn more about how to get involved!
Room 112, Boger Hall
WESEMINAR A Look Inside the College of Film and the Moving Image: Cinema and the Liberal Arts
The College of Film and the Moving Image is one of Wesleyan’s oldest “new” colleges. Wesleyan announced CFILM in 2013, and the Mellon Foundation recognized it with a matching grant which was fully funded in 2015. Yet film has been part of Wesleyan’s liberal arts tradition since at least the 1960s, progressing from a major, to a program, to a department. Join Professor Scott Higgins, the director of CFilm, for a look at the history and future of Wesleyan’s unique liberal-arts approach to the moving image. You will see images move!
Goldsmith Family Cinema
East Asian Cultural Activities at the Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies
Come help us celebrate thirty years of East Asian Studies with a tour of our Japanese Garden with Garden Curator Stephen Morrell and East Asian cultural activities with our student Outreach group.
Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies
WESEMINAR Restorative Justice, Music Therapy, and Beyond: Transforming our Understanding of Violence
This panel will be facilitated by Circles & Ciphers, a hip-hop infused restorative justice organization led by young people who are court, gang, and DCFS- involved. It will explore innovative strategies for supporting young people who are impacted by violence. Panelists will be asked one simple question: "What have you seen work?" Speakers will touch on a range of approaches from restorative justice to music therapy. Attendees are invited to a complimentary meal immediately following to connect with local leaders about how to get involved!
Speakers: This session features Circles & Ciphers team members Evan Okun ’13 and Sherrif Polk; Arthur Moore, President of Middletown’s North End Action Team; Lori Williams, Music Therapist at Connecticut Juvenile Training School; and local leaders from Boys & Girls Club. Additional speakers TBA.
Putnam Classroom (114), Boger Hall
WESEMINAR Keeping It Real: The Importance of Student Engagement in Science Education
Science is all around us! Our very existence is predicated on the complex chemical reactions that drive the biological processes that occur in our bodies every day. Breaking down complex scientific principles and relating them to phenomena students encounter in their everyday lives is one way to increase understanding and retain students in STEM fields by making a powerful impact on them. This interactive seminar will demonstrate engaging ways in which science can be taught to students of any age. Bring an open mind and your powers of observation. You may never think of science in the same way again!
Speaker: Andrea Roberts is Associate Professor of the Practice in Chemistry at Wesleyan University. Using her 15 years of experience in the chemical industry, she has developed curricula for the general, organic, and the advanced integrated laboratory courses. She also teaches science outreach classes that introduce STEM lab activities to Middletown-area school children.
Shanklin 107
WESEMINAR Gamelan Workshop
Dominated by colorful, bronze percussion instruments, the Gamelan ensemble features gongs, bronze and wooden xylophones, two-headed drums, a female soloist, and a male chorus. Some of the instruments date back to the 12th century in Java, an Indonesian island located between Sumatra and Bali. Get some real experience playing the Gamelan in this lively, hands-on workshop.
Presenter: I.M. Harjito, artist-in-residence
Please note: space is limited and will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. This session often reaches capacity.
World Music Hall
The 25th Annual Dwight L. Greene Symposium: From Foss to the Bench- One Alumna's Journey to a Career as a Federal Judge
The Dwight L. Greene Symposium honors Dwight L. Greene ’70 as a memorial and tribute to his life and work as a professor of law, mentor and friend.
Speaker: Judge Denise Jefferson Casper '90 has been serving as a district judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts since 2011. In 2014, she received the Trailblazer Award from Massachusetts Black Lawyers’ Association in recognition of her contributions to both the bench and the bar. In 2015, Wesleyan University honored her with a Distinguished Alumna award.
Note: All are welcome, and seating for the symposium is available on a first-come, first-served basis. More details can be found here.
Sponsors: The Black Alumni Network and the Alumni of Color Council
Memorial Chapel
Alpha Delta Phi Cocktail Reception
Celebrating the Alpha Delta Phi exhibit of materials from the acrhives. This event is sponsored by the Adelphic Educational Fund, Inc.
Smith Reading Room, Olin Memorial Library
Alumni and Student of Color Reception
We all share a common thread as people who have experienced the unique environment that Wesleyan offers, and we have all had unique experiences here. The Alumni and Student of Color Reception/Celebration is a wonderful opportunity for students to share with their families the lessons learned, the passions ignited and the unforgettable experiences that Wesleyan has to offer-where their experience at Wesleyan will potentially take them. Please join us in celebrating and recognizing student accomplishments.
Resource Center, 167 High Street
Alpha Delta Phi Banquet Dinner
For current members, alumni, and families. Reception begins at 4:30 p.m.
Alpha Delta Phi
Wesleyan Wrestling Night of Champions
Wesleyan Athletics will host its first Wrestling Night of Champions event in celebration of the program’s exceptional past, present, and future. Find more details and register here.
Inn at Middletown, 70 Main Street
Remembering Coach Bill Macdermott
Join Wesleyan University athletics and friends of Wesleyan football during Homecoming/Family Weekend for a dinner and memory sharing of former head coach Bill Macdermott who passed away May 5, 2016 at the age of 79. Find more details and register here.
Daniel Family Commons, Usdan University Center
WESEMINAR Patti Cake$, a Wesleyan Movie
Join us for the campus premiere of Patti Cake$ (2017), the hit of last year’s Sundance Film Festival written and directed by Geremy Jasper ’98. The movie, which touched off a bidding war at Sundance, is a Wesleyan film through and through. It was produced by Michael Gottwald ’06 and Dan Janvey’06 and distributed by Fox Searchlight where Matthew Greenfield ’90 is senior vice-president of production. The underdog story of a young rapper from New Jersey, Patti Cake$ delivers a star-making turn for Danielle MacDonald. The Washington Post critic Ann Hornaday calls the film “a celebration of art, enterprise and self-invention that’s as tough as it is touching.” Producer Michael Gottwald ’06 will be on hand to introduce and discuss the film.
Goldsmith Family Cinema
Fall Senior Thesis Dance Concert
A collection of new works presented by senior choreographers as part of their culminating project for the dance major. Tickets can be purchased through the University Box Office.
Patricelli '92 Theater
Sunday, November 5, 2017
WESEMINAR Solving Crosswords is Good for Your Health!!??
An emphatic YES! This will be the 18th puzzle seminar for Ed Stein ’60 as he demonstrates the theme of this session via a “chalk talk “on health and crosswords. This will be followed up with solving a crossword puzzle together. It all promises to be an invigorating Sunday morning!
Speaker: Ed Stein ’60 has long been a crossword solver and a sometime constructor of Times’ crosswords. He also teaches puzzle-solving at adult education programs, senior centers, and nursing homes.
Hansel Lecture Hall (001), Public Affairs Center (PAC)
Red & Black Swimming & Diving Meet
Swimming and Diving Alumni are welcome to join in on the fun as Wesleyan's varsity team kicks off their 2017-18 season with their traditional Red & Black Intersquad Meet. Break-out that old Speedo and put together an alumni Co-ed 4 x 50 Medley, 4 x 50 Free, 3 x 50 Fly, 3 x 50 Back, or 3 x 50 Breast Relay. Warm-ups start at 9 a.m. There will be a Welcome Social on the pool deck at 12 p.m. with light refreshments and apps after the meet.
Natatorium, Freeman Athletic Center
WESEMINAR Solving the Rubik’s Cube with Group Theory
Beyond its role as a captivating puzzle, the Rubik’s cube provides an excellent introduction to group theory. This talk will explain how just a few standard moves can be used to solve the Rubik’s cube. While the presented solution is far from optimal, it will be relatively easy to learn and will illustrate the utility of permutations, conjugates, and commutators.
Speaker: Amy Bigelow M.Phil ’17 is the Mathematics Department Chair at Franklin Academy. She was Wesleyan’s recipient of the 2017 Rulewater Prize and a winner of the Mathematical Association of America’s Edyth May Sliffe Award for Distinguished Mathematics Teaching in Middle School and High School.
Sponsored by Graduate Liberal Studies and Wesleyan’s Mathematics and Computer Science Department
Room 116, Judd Hall
Fall Harvest Brunch
Parents, families, friends, and other guests are invited to join students for brunch at the Usdan University Center. From seasonal, locally-grown fruit to made-to-order waffles piled high with delicious toppings, there will be something for everyone at this traditional Homecoming/Family Weekend festivity. Vegetarian and vegan options are available.
Tickets: $15 adults, $5 children 12 and under. (Wesleyan students use their meal plans and should not buy tickets.)
Note: A select menu of a la carte food and beverages will also be available for purchase on-site at the Usdan Café.
Marketplace, Usdan University Center
IN THE GALLERIES: UP IN ARMS
UP IN ARMS presents a number of perspectives on the image and impact of guns in contemporary culture, though none endorse them as a means to an end. Works by fourteen artists touch upon a host of issues surrounding access to and the use of firearms, examining and representing the role that guns continue to play in our national mythologies and pathologies, suicide and homicide rates, domestic violence, and mass media.
Guest Curator: Susanne Slavick
This exhibition is being presented in conjunction with Wesleyan's annual Shasha Seminar for Human Concerns (October 27 & 28), which focuses on "Guns in American Society".
South Gallery, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
IN THE GALLERIES: SASHA RUDENSKY: ACTS AND ILLUSIONS
For more than a decade, Sasha Rudensky '01 has repeatedly returned to Russia and the post-Soviet territories with her camera. Her photographs track a lost generation that has come of age during the Putin Era—a time of political upheaval, ideological uncertainty, and unhinged materiality. This exhibition highlights more than thirty photographs from Rudensky’s series Remains (2004–2007), Eastern Eve (2009–2014), and Tinsel and Blue (2009–2015). Shifting between social document and fantasy, truth and illusion, and banality and decadence, these meticulously observed and constructed images present an unsettling view into contemporary life in the New East.
Davison Art Center
IN THE GALLERIES: Black Pulp!
Black Pulp! examines the evolving perspectives of black identity in American culture and history from 1912 to 2016 through rare historical printed media shown in dialogue with contemporary art. The exhibition highlights works by artists, graphic designers, writers, and publishers in formats ranging from little known comic books to covers for historic books and magazines, etchings, digital prints, drawings, and media-based works by an intergenerational selection of 21 of today’s leading artists from the black diaspora. The Black Pulp! exhibition tour is organized by International Print Center New York.
Guest curators: William Villalongo and Mark Thomas Gibson
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
Campus Tour
Presented by: The Office of Admission
Meet in the lobby of the Stewart M. Reid House, Office of Admission
The 7th Annual Stone A Cappella Concert: Sponsored by the Charles B. Stone, Jr. A Cappella Fund
The Charles B. Stone, Jr. A Cappella Fund was established through the generosity of Sarah Stone Maynard ’79, P’11 and Fred Maynard ’80, P’11 in honor of Sarah’s father, Chip Stone ’49, P’79, P’82, GP’11, GP’15, and in celebration of the Stone family’s long Wesleyan legacy. Once called the “singing college of New England,” Wesleyan still boasts a strong musical tradition and the annual Stone A Cappella Concert provides an extraordinary showcase of the vocal talent and stage presence of Wesleyan undergraduates.
Note: This is not a ticketed event, however seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. This event will be webcast.
Memorial Chapel