Are you a first-year or transfer student and having trouble adjusting to life at Wesleyan? 
Maybe you haven’t formed a solid friend group yet, or maybe you’re not into the drinking scene?
If you would like to meet students who are having the same experience, get support, advice, and maybe make some lasting connections — come to our new group!
Thursday Evenings 5:45-7:00 pm
Davison Health Center
Solarium, Room 201, 2nd floor
Email counseling@wesleyan.edu
to sign up
Thursday, October 17, at 4.15 pm in Beckham Hall,
the History Department is hosting its annual Distinguished Lecture,
being delivered this year by
Professor Natalie Zemon Davis,
Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emerita, Princeton University
A pioneering feminist historian who taught one of the earliest courses in North American on the history of women and became the second woman elected as president of the American Historical Association, Prof.
Davis broke new ground in the historical study of early modern European women’s lives and experiences in the 1970s, and shortly after began to develop new ways of thinking about gender and sexuality as categories of intersectional analysis in historically changing systems of power and meaning. Natalie Zemon Davis has received honorary degrees from numerous universities in the United States and Europe.
In recognition of her pathbreaking historical work, in 2010 she was awarded the Holberg International Memorial Prize, and in 2012 she received the National Humanities Medal. Her many books and articles include The Return of Martin Guerre (1983), Fiction in the Archives (1987), Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives (1995), The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France (2000), Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision (2002), and Trickster Travels (2006).
Tomorrow, Thursday, Oct. 17 at 4.15 pm, Professor Davis will be presenting a talk from her current research, “Leo Africanus” Discovers Comedy: A Mediterranean Adventure. This talk stages a dialogue between two theatrical traditions at the end of the Middle Ages: the popular theater of the Arabic and Islamic world and the theater of Christian Europe. It does so through the adventures of Hasan al-Wazzan (“Leo Africanus”), a Moroccan traveler and diplomat, who was captured by Christian pirates in 1518 and spent several years in Italy as a seeming convert before returning to North Africa. Her talk reflects on possible limits to cultural exchange and on the continuing vigor of alternate cultural traditions.
Her talk will be followed by a question and answer period and a campus wide reception with light refreshments and beverages.
All Students,
The first campus wide flu clinic will be on Thursday, October 17 from 12-4 in 108 Usdan. Click here for full details.
FORUM: Government Shutdown
Professor Logan Dancey, Department of Government
Professor Jennifer Smith, Department of Government
…will discuss the domestic and international implications of the recent Government shutdown
Thursday, October 10, 4:30 to 6:00 PM
Public Affairs Center 002
Free and open to the public
The Navaratri Festival of Indian music and dance is a grand Wesleyan tradition, now in its 37th year. It 
includes free workshops, concerts and a traditional Hindu ceremony. The CFA encourages first-year students to experience this important festival by offering you a free ticket to any concert during the Festival which runs from Thursday, October 10 through Sunday, October 13, 2013. Here’s the schedule:
37TH ANNUAL NAVARATRI FESTIVAL
1. Henna and Chaat hosted by Shakti – Thursday, October 10, 7pm, Olin Library Lobby
2. B. Balasubrahmaniyan: Vocal Music of South India – Friday, October 11, 8pm, Crowell Concert Hall
3. Talk by Assistant Professor of Dance Hari Krishnan: Celluloid Classicism—Intertwined Histories of the South Indian “Dance Revival” and Early South Indian Cinema – Saturday, October 12, 1pm, CFA Hall
4. Lecture/Demonstration: Shashank Subramanyam – Saturday, October 12, 3pm, Crowell Concert Hall
5. Shashank Subramanyam – Saturday, October 12, 8pm, Crowell Concert Hall
6. Saraswati Puja (Hindu Ceremony) – Sunday, October 13, 11am, World Music Hall
7. Aparna Ramaswamy: Sannidhi (Sacred Space) – Sunday, October 13, 3pm, Crowell Concert Hall (Connecticut Debut)
For tickets, visit the Box Office in Usdan or call 860-685-3355.
Are you a first-year or transfer student and having trouble adjusting to life at Wesleyan? Maybe you haven’t formed a solid friend group yet, or maybe you’re not into the drinking scene?
If you would like to meet students who are having the same experience, get support, advice, and maybe make some lasting connections — come to our new group!
Thursday Evenings 5:45-7:00 pm
Davison Health Center
Solarium, Room 201, 2nd floor
Email counseling@wesleyan.edu
to sign up
Please join us for the start of our First Friday Series, this Friday 10/4 at 4:30 in Allbritton 311. This month’s them is Art: Campus and Community. We will have folks from campus and the community discussing the local art scene.
All the details and panelist information is here:
We hope you can join us! Cathy Crimmins Lechowicz, Director, Center for Community Partnerships Wesleyan University, Allbritton Center, 3rd Floor, 860.685.2841, www.wesleyan.edu/ccp
The College of Letters cordially invites you to attend an Open House reception, which will be held on Wednesday, October 16 at 4:15 p.m. in the College of Letters Library, 41 Wyllys Ave. I will speak briefly about the Program and a number of COL students and faculty will be on hand to answer questions.
The College of Letters is an interdisciplinary major in Western literature, philosophy, and history, with a required area of foreign language concentration, and a semester in residence abroad (usually in France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Russia, or Israel.) To learn more about the COL, study abroad possibilities, and the application process please visit the COL website at: http://www.wesleyan.edu/col/
Unlike most majors, COL begins in the fall of the sophomore year, which is why application for it must be made in the spring of your first year.
This year the deadline for applications is Monday, March 26, the first day after the Spring vacation. We have limited number of places, and our admission process has to be completed before the university’s preregistration procedures, so it will be important to apply on time.
