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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

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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.

Can Bolivia's White Gold Power a Green Revolution?

An attempted coup and socioeconomic instability have put Bolivia in the headlines, but could a treasure trove of untapped lithium be the answer to long-term stability? Diego Von Vacano ’93 unpacks the tangled geopolitical knots that are keeping this Bolivian “white gold” from seeing the light of day.

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