Book Sale — Sat., Nov. 2

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Friends of the Wesleyan Library Book Sale

Saturday, November 2, 2013 • 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.  – Homecoming Weekend

libraryOlin Memorial Library, 252 Church Street, Middletown, CT  06459

3500+ academic and popular, donated and ex libris books. 

Most books priced $1-$5.  Special books $10+.  Cash and checks accepted.

Bring friends and enjoy browsing the excellent selection. You never know what treasures you will find!

We are still looking for volunteers for that day, so please consider helping out for an hour or two.  It’s fun!

For more information or to volunteer to help, contact libfriends@wesleyan.edu or 860-685-3897.

Winter Session Course Enrollment–First-come, First-served

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Registration is now open for Winter Session courses at Wesleyan.

Please note that enrollment is “First-Come, First-Served” and spaces are already being filled.

Winter Session course descriptions:

http://www.wesleyan.edu/wintersession/courses.html

Registration form:

http://www.wesleyan.edu/wintersession/2014-wintersession-regform.pdf

For complete information about Winter at Wesleyan including Winter Session courses, the Fullbridge Internship Edge, and the workshops and events offered by the Career Center, please go to http://www.wesleyan.edu/winter.

If you have any questions, please send email to winter@wesleyan.edu.

GOVT Lecture: Fear & Loathing Across Party Lines–Thurs., 4:15 p.m.

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Thursday, October 24, 2013

4:15 p.m.

Public Affairs Center 002

Sponsored by the Government Department

 Fear and Loathing Across Party Lines: New Evidence on Group Polarization

Professor Shanto Iyengar

Department of Political Science, Stanford University

Professor Iyengar presents the results of three related studies showing that Americans today are divided even more strongly by party than by race.

Dr. Shanto Iyengar holds the Chandler Chair in Communication at Stanford University where he is also Professor of Political Science and Director of the Political Communication Laboratory. He is author or co-author of News That Matters (University of Chicago Press, 1987), Is Anyone Responsible? (University of Chicago Press, 1991), Explorations in Political Psychology (Duke University Press, 1995), Going Negative (Free Press, 1995), and Media Politics: A Citizen’s Guide (Norton, 2011).

Wes Media Project–Short-term Job Opportunity

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Short-Term Job Opportunity with the Wesleyan Media Project

Are you interested in the politics surrounding the Affordable Care Act? Want to know more about how it’s being covered in the media? Looking to get involved in faculty research at Wesleyan?

The Wesleyan Media Project and Professor Erika Franklin Fowler are seeking interested students for a short-term project related to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

The positions: We are looking to hire and train several students by Thursday, October 24. The positions will involve data collection and analysis of local television news coverage of the Affordable Care Act, also known as “Obamacare.”

Qualifications: Applicants should be highly motivated, detail oriented, and organized.

Compensation & Hours: $9.00/hour. Hours are somewhat flexible and students can work from their personal computers. We expect students to work 10+ hours/week (30-80 hours total) through November 15, with the potential for additional work depending on the project’s needs.

Application instructions: Send an email describing position fit and prior experiences and current resume or CV to:

Laura Baum, Project Manager, Wesleyan Media Project  lbaum@wesleyan.edu

Background: The Wesleyan Media Project tracks and analyzes all broadcast advertisements aired by or on behalf of federal and state election candidates in every media market in the country. In 2012, our data on ad spending were cited in over 550 stories (many thousand placements) by over 300 news organizations, including the Associated Press, New York Times, Washington Post, Politico, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, National Public Radio, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, MSNBC, and CNN.  Our primary goal is to enhance the ability of scholars, citizens, and journalists to hold government accountable by providing the only publicly available, real-time information on how special interests are attempting to influence American democracy, in general, and political campaigns, in particular.

 

Easin’ into Wes — Thursdays, 5:45-7 p.m.

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Are you a first-year or transfer student and having trouble adjusting to life at Wesleyan?  ImaginationMaybe 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

HIST Dept. Distinguished Lecture: Natalie Zemon Davis, 10/17 at 4:15 p.m.

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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.

Forum on Government Shutdown — Today! 4:30 p.m.

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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