Readings by new creative writing faculty Salvatore Scibona and Tonya Foster — Tonight, 8 p.m.

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Please join us for a reading by new creative writing faculty:

Novelist SALVATORE SCIBONA  

And poet TONYA FOSTER

 Wednesday, September 25th at 8 pm

Russell House  350 High Street

 Salvatore Scibona’s first novel, The End, was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Young Lions Fiction Award from the New York Public Library.  His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s, The New Yorker, and he was among The New Yorker‘s list of “20 Under 40” writers to watch. He has received a Whiting Writers’ Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and he is a Visiting Writer in Wesleyan’s English Department.

Tonya Foster‘s collection of poetry, A Swarm of Bees in High Court, is coming out this fall from Belladonna/Futurepoem Books. She is also co-editor of Third Mind: Creative Writing Through Visual Art. The recipient of a Ford Foundation Fellowship and a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, she is an associate at the Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College and a Visiting Writer in Wesleyan’s English Department.

 Reception and book signing to follow the reading.

For more information, please call 860.685.3448 or visit http://www.wesleyan.edu/writing/community/writing-events.html.

 

Sexual Assault Survivors Support Group — Sign up deadline extended to Mon., 9/30

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sexual assault survivors workshop

IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO JOIN

THE SEXUAL ASSAULT SURVIVORS SUPPORT GROUP!

Connect with other survivors of sexual assault.

Learn new skills and tools to move forward in your healing.

Tuesdays beginning October 8th –December 3rd from 5:45PM-7PM

(location disclosed to group members)

Meetings will follow an open support group format and participants determine group topics each week.

Contact Alysha B. Warren, LPC, Therapist/Sexual Violence Resource Coordinator, for more information. Reference “Support Group” in the subject line.

Sign up by Monday, September 30th.

 

Lecture: “Wildlands, Woodlands, and Farmlands,” Wed., 9/25 7 p.m.

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“Wildlands, Woodlands, and Farmlands:

The Past and Future of New England Forests and Farming”

               Brian Donahue                                                                            

Wednesday, September 25, 2013 – 7pm – PAC 001

Brian Donahue.jpg Brian Donahue is Associate Professor of American Environmental Studies on the Jack Meyerhoff Fund at Brandeis University, and Environmental Historian at Harvard Forest.  He teaches courses on environmental issues, environmental history, and sustainable farming and forestry, and chairs the Environmental Studies Program.

Donahue holds a BA, MA, and PhD from the Brandeis program in the History of American Civilization.  He co-founded and for 12 years directed Land’s Sake, a non-profit community farm in Weston, Massachusetts, and serves today on the Weston Conservation Commission and the Community Preservation Committee.  For three years he was Director of Education at The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas.  He sits on several other boards including the Thoreau Farm Trust and The Land Institute.

Donahue is author of Reclaiming the Commons: Community Farms and Forests in a New England Town (Yale University Press, 1999), which was awarded the book prize from the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities.  He also wrote The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord (Yale Press, 2004), which won book prizes from the New England Historical Association, the Agricultural History Society, and the American Society for Environmental History.  His latest publication is American Georgics: Writings on Farming, Culture and the Land (Yale Press, 2011), an anthology co-edited with Edwin Hagenstein and Sara Gregg.

For more information, please contact Valerie Marinelli, 860-685-3733 or vmarinelli@wesleyan.edu

This lecture is sponsored by Wesleyan University’s Baldwin University Lectures, The Mellon Fund for Lectures in Ethics, Politics and Social Issues, The Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life, College of the Environment, Science in Society Program, Center for the Americas and History Department

VOTE in WSA Elections! Ends on 9/20

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Dear Students,

The Fall 2013 WSA Elections are now open at http://wsa.wesleyan.edu/voting. Voting will be open from now until 11:59pm on September 20th. We strongly encourage you to vote, and have your voice represented.

There are 10 spots available for representatives from the Class of 2017, and they may be voted on only by freshmen through the Frosh Election.

There are 7 spots available for members of the classes of 2014, 2015, and 2016, and may be voted on by members of any of those classes through the At-Large Election.

You may vote for as many people as there are spots thumbnailavailable, but once you have submitted your vote, you cannot vote again.

Your feedback is very important for all of us students here at Wesleyan to make our university what we all want it to be. As always, direct any thoughts, complaints, comments, concerns, etc. to wsa@wesleyan.edu or to any representative to the assembly.

Best,
The WSA Elections Committee
Jacob Musinsky ’15, Andrew Trexler ’14, Nicki Softness ’14

Usdan Rehearsal Space for Musicians

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Attention Musicians!

Did you know there is a Music Rehearsal space available in Usdan?  In this room are amps, a drum set, piano and microphones – all that thumbnailCAILI342you need to rehearse with your band or on your own! If you are interested in pre-reserving this room you must become a member of the Usdan Student Music Co-Op (USMC) – which is a WSA funded group that maintains the space.  Otherwise, you may only reserve the space on a “walk in” basis on the day of your request at the Usdan Information Desk or by calling ext. 3566.

For those of you who are already USMC members, you have been able to book the room thru the end of drop/add.  In order to be fair, any reservations that were made after September 15 have been cancelled.

To pre-reserve the room and become a USMC member please fill out this online form. Please fill out the form by Monday, September 16th (at the latest) so that we can begin the booking process and get everyone in the system as soon as possible. You can also access the form through the Usdan Website – www.wesleyan.edu/usdan

Thank you for your patience!

Constitution Day Lecture with Ted Shaw ’76: “Looking Backwards, Looking Forward: The Persistence of Race in Twenty-First Century American Life” — 9/17, 7:30 p.m.

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CONSTITUTION DAY LECTURE

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TED SHAW ’76

Looking Backwards, Lookng Forward:  The Persistence of Race in Twenty-First Century American Life”

Tuesday, September 17 at 7:30 p.m.

Smith Reading Room, Olin Library

Ted ShawTed Shaw is Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University Law School and of counsel at the international firm of Fulbright and Jaworski.  He served as director-counsel and president of the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund from 2004 through 2009 and as a Wesleyan Trustee for 15 years.

NOT TO BE MISSED!