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Bridging Differences Through Interfaith Community and Dialogue
In a time of division at home and abroad, building community through interfaith literacy is a focus of the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life. In September, Wesleyan’s three chaplains took a dozen students on an off-campus retreat to engage in interfaith conversation, introspection, and connection across differences.
October 8, 2024
Democracy in Action: Three Alumnae Discuss Collaboration on New Performance Work
On Oct. 2, three Wesleyan alumnae—Saidiya Hartman ’83, Hon. ’19, Kaneza Schaal ’06, and Kiara Benn ’20—joined in a conversation about the collaborative and democratic process that went into their new performance work Litany for Grieving Sisters.
October 2, 2024
New Motion Capture Studio Opens at Digital Design Commons
Students will now be able to create motion capture videos in the new Digital Design Commons (DDC), which opened on Sept. 27. The DDC offers students a space to create and collaborate, with editing bays, a co-working area, and rentable equipment to use as needed.
October 1, 2024
Faculty Member Revives French Baroque Dance Style in New Choreography
September 18, 2024
Wesleyan Veterans Lounge Creates Space for Community
September 17, 2024
Wes in the News
Associated Press
The Associated Press interviewed President Michael S. Roth ’78 for a story on campus free speech on the one-year anniversary of the attacks of October 7. He talked about the ways Wesleyan is trying to foster discourse, including new courses on civil disagreement and faculty facilitation of conversation. “It’s challenging for students, as it is for adults — most adults don’t have conversations with people who disagree with them,” Roth said. “We’re so segregated into our bubbles.”
The New York Times
Richard Slotkin, Olin Professor of English, Emeritus wrote a piece for The New York Times about how core American myths help explain the current state of our politics. “In the absence of a unifying national myth, the states are dividing along ideological lines, as they did before the Civil War period and again in the Jim Crow era, with radically different laws on voting, on abortion and public health, on racial discrimination, on gun rights, on fossil fuels and green alternatives, and on the teaching of history,” Slotkin wrote in the Times.
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