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news home alumni arts humanities athletics campus life community impact science technology wes in the news all news all news in the media wesleyan in the news april 2024 mike mavredakis april 17 2024 8 min basinger recognized for contributions to film jeanine basinger corwin fuller professor of film studies emerita will receive the turner class movies classic film festival s robert osborne award which recognizes an individual who has helped keep the cultural heritage of classic film alive for future generations basinger spoke with the hollywood reporter magazine about her career it s a great honor to be associated in any way with tcm and the late bob osborne and to be in the company of martin scorsese leonard maltin who i ve known since he was a teenager and kevin brownlow and donald bogle basinger said we continue reading all news alumni arts humanities faculty wesleyan faculty alumnus awarded guggenheim fellowships in choreography theatre mike mavredakis april 17 2024 7 min a wesleyan university faculty member and alumnus were two of 188 newly announced guggenheim fellows according to the john simon guggenheim memorial foundation on april 11 hari krishnan professor of dance feminist gender and sexuality studies and global south asian studies received a fellowship for his work in choreography tavia nyong o 95 william lampson professor of theater and performance studies american studies and african american studies at yale university received one for theatre arts performance studies it means everything to me it s a recognition of the work i do the breadth of my eclectic choreography for over 30 years krishnan said this recognition from guggenheim is also a recognition continue reading all news arts humanities campus news events democracy demands passionate defense says adam gopnik of the new yorker jeff harder april 16 2024 6 min the word liberalism is a tricky thing as the new yorker magazine staff writer adam gopnik discovered while promoting his 2019 book a thousand small sanities the moral adventure of liberalism its variants carry different political baggage from one western country to the next its breadth renders it ideologically elusive encompassing societies with social democracies free markets and shades of grey lately its survival has come into question even in places where its future once seemed assured but last thursday in front of a near capacity audience at the frank center for public affairs gopnik spoke passionately of liberalism s origins what continue reading all news community impact students student veteran named truman scholar mike mavredakis april 12 2024 4 min student veteran desaree edwards 25 was one of 60 student leaders selected as truman scholars in 2024 the harry s truman scholarship foundation announced on april 12 truman scholars demonstrate outstanding leadership potential a commitment to a career in government or the nonprofit sector and academic excellence each truman scholar receives funding for graduate studies leadership training career counseling and special internship and fellowship opportunities within the federal government edwards aims to go to law school to become a legal advocate for adult survivors of human trafficking she said she specifically wants to see federal expansion of the trafficking victims protection continue reading all news campus news events community impact students student s agricultural project in rwanda wins davis projects for peace grant mike mavredakis april 10 2024 7 min when gad nkurunziza 27 excelled in sixth grade in the burera district of rwanda his school s headmaster gave him a chicken for his academic achievements that single chicken introduced nkurunziza s family to poultry farming and transformed their lives he said soon nkurunziza will bestow the same gift onto other families in his village with the hopes it will help bring prosperity to his home community we as youths are able to not only impact our own lives but also impact others nkurunziza said i believe that society can change for the better this can be done if we put creativity continue reading all news campus life campus news events science technology gallery wesleyan local communities flock to foss hill for eclipse mike mavredakis april 10 2024 4 min foss hill is the place for gatherings commencement spring fling baseball games the first snow fall they are all occasions for people to grace the grass some do it in the spirit of achievement and others in the name of pure good ole fashioned fun on april 8 hundreds of wesleyan students faculty staff and local community members came together on the university green for a different reason wonder as a partial solar eclipse passed above them the astronomy department hosted an eclipse viewing on foss hill and in the van vleck observatory in partnership with the russell library organizers passed out continue reading all news arts humanities students students research works in davison art collection for new print exhibition andrew chatfield april 10 2024 7 min the exhibition dürer and his time on display at the new pruzan art center is an example of a wesleyan art education at work students in the course curatorial workshop the northern renaissance print examined prints in the davison art collection from a pivotal moment in western tradition in order to pull together the exhibition it s a curation of works by renowned german painter and printmaker albrecht dürer 1471 1528 and select artists from the collection assistant professor of art history and medieval studies joseph salvatore ackley who teaches the course guided the student s research while miya tokumitsu the donald t continue reading all news arts humanities faculty did it happen here lorna grisby april 3 2024 6 min since the 2016 presidential election of donald trump legal scholars political pundits professors of history and others have debated whether the united states has taken a turn from democracy toward fascism some say it has others argue it has not the very uncertainty about what has or has not happened gave rise to assistant professor of history daniel steinmetz jenkins new book did it happen here perspectives on fascism and america it s an anthology of texts from thought leaders from certain periods in the 20th and 21st centuries who take positions on the state of fascism in america many of the continue reading all news arts humanities faculty wesleyan professor s art on display in london gallery editorial staff april 3 2024 6 min by anya kisicki 22 dante dinosaurs and geopolitics mingled at the opening of assistant professor of art tammy nguyen s newest art exhibition a comedy for mortals purgatorio at the lehmann maupin s london gallery on march 12 nguyen a 2023 guggenheim fellow in fine arts masterfully weaves disparate concepts together to create a new world of meaning that plays out on massive canvases works on paper and the intricate pages of her artbooks a comedy for mortals is the second installment in an ongoing trilogy of exhibitions by nguyen each iteration of a comedy for mortals maps geopolitical themes onto dante s continue reading all news campus news events faculty khalilah brown dean to lead the allbritton center lorna grisby april 2 2024 4 min khalilah brown dean award winning scholar and author dedicated to community building and access is wesleyan university s new executive director of the allbritton center for the study of public life and university professor i am a community engaged scholar and academic leader who creates spaces for collaboration and understanding i m passionate about confronting grand societal challenges like threats to democracy brown dean said this role affords me the opportunity to tackle some of the global conflicts that we all have to contend with while leveraging the resources of higher education the allbritton center is the nucleus of civic life at wesleyan and is where continue reading all news arts humanities berman 84 to premiere new work for piano at wesleyan on april 5 andrew chatfield april 2 2024 6 min donald berman 84 tried not to be musician but couldn t help himself i think that s the only reason to do it berman said of becoming a musician it s because you can t not do it berman studied music at wesleyan and has gone on to work as a pianist teacher and scholar adding over 200 commissioned musical works to the contemporary canon nearly 40 years after he finished his undergraduate studies berman will return to campus on april 5 at 8 p m to perform a solo piano program in the concert berman will pair two works by composer charles ives in continue reading all news campus news events hugo black lecturers establish what s at stake when free expression on campus is imperiled mike mavredakis march 27 2024 8 min from book bans to restrictions on teaching in recent years there have been clear infringements on first amendment rights in the u s and the problem may be more widespread than people realize there was for example a 33 percent increase in book bans in the 2022 23 school year from the 2021 22 school year largely targeting books about race racism and gender issues or featuring on lgbtq characters and characters of color meanwhile more than 300 gag order bills have been introduced across 46 state legislatures restricting the discussion of gender and racial identities censorship of teaching materials and in some continue reading older posts engage with us contact us