The African Studies Faculty Cluster is pleased to announce the new African Studies minor!
The current course cluster has been very successful with students, many of whom already pursue academic research, thesis projects, and career internships related to Africa.
For more information, please look at the African Studies Cluster link on WesMaps and to their new website (http://www.wesleyan.edu/africanstudies/about.html)
Info session for Interfaith Trip to Harrisburg, PA!!!
Thursday (Feb 4), 12:00-12:45pm
Spirituality Lounge at the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life
169 High Street, 2nd floor
You are invited to enjoy some pizza and learn more about the first Wesleyan interfaith spring break service trip!!!! This trip will go from March 14-19 and will involve service work, community building, and spiritual reflection with an interfaith group. Don’t miss this chance to help struggling neighborhoods in Pennsylvania (a 5-hour drive from Wes), visit the Hershey Chocolate Factory (!!), and deepen our understanding of service and its connection with our spiritual identities.
If you are unable to come and would like more information, please contact our chaplain intern, Jon, at jonathan.heinly@yale.edu as soon as possible. We need to have deposits by the end of the day on Thursday, February 11. Generous financial assistance is available based on individual need.
The class meets every Tuesday and Thursday between 2.40pm and 4pm at PAC 136.
History 117–Chinese Cities
The first-year seminar introduces students to urban history in China and Chinese communities around the world. We will explore major cities along the Silk Road, ports of call with Chinese business communities, centers of revolutionary activity, and urban sprawls in modern China. We examine how cities supported massive populations with limited resources, inspired new forms of social organization, and transformed China’s political and economic order. We will be exploring major collections of artifacts on Chinese cities on campus and in Middletown. Students will visit the Wesleyan Archaeology and Anthropology Collection, Special Collections and Archives at the Wesleyan Library, and the Middlesex County Historical Society.
Stress Relief Practicum
Connect with others who are seeking self-care strategies for health and well-being.
Learn new skills and tools to manage stress and take care of yourself.
Mondays beginning
February 1st –29th from 5-6PM
Meetings will follow an exploratory workshop format and participants will learn and practice different techniques for mind-body wellness each week.
The group will be led by
Tanya Purdy, MPH MCHES Director of WesWell, Office of Health Education
& Colby Colbert-Sangree Wellness Intern, WesWell
To sign up fill out this registration form.
Sign up by Friday, January 29th at noon.
Space is limited and on a first come basis.
Participants will be expected to attend all 5 sessions.
Students requesting a specific housing accommodation due to a disability for 2016/17 must complete a Housing Accommodation Request Form and submit it to Dean Patey, Disability Resources, (North College – Room 021), no later than Thursday, February 5, 2016. This includes students who have previously requested and been approved for a housing accommodation in the past.
Housing assignments which are provided as an accommodation are only provided to students with documented disabilities. Please note that housing accommodations do not include current or potential roommates. Housing offers may not necessarily be considered class appropriate, or represent your first choice in housing, but will address your needs.
If you have any questions about the process, please contact Dean Patey at lpatey@wesleyan.edu or 860.685.2332.
Here is an announcement about a new course just added to the Spring roster. Anth 309/AMST 311, The Anthropology of Digital Media, taught by Jordan Kraemer, will meet on Tuesdays from 1:10-4 pm in Anthropology, Room 6.
Anthropology of Digital Media
Networked media technologies, from the Internet to mobile phones, are reshaping many aspects of daily life, selfhood, and society. While digital and electronic media seem to make the world smaller, ostensibly facilitating global flows of capital, people, goods, and ideas, this course examines how these technologies co-constitute particular kinds of subjects, accommodating some uses and modes of living more than others. Digital platforms and services, for example, are often designed with elite, technically savvy users in mind, yet are taken up transnationally in diverse and unexpected ways. Media, like other technologies, never exist separately from social life as independent agents of change, but instead emerge through contingent histories, material realities, constellations of discourse, and unequal distributions of power. This course introduces students to the anthropology of digital media and culture, drawing on empirical, ethnographic accounts from a variety of theoretical perspectives, including feminist technology studies, actor-network theory, queer theory critiques, new materialisms, postcolonial studies, and social informatics. Topics include space and place online, media publics, new transnationalisms, design anthropology, big data, social networks, virtuality and embodiment, the social construction of users, mobility and disability, and telecommunication infrastructures.
We will consider emerging media practices in cross-cultural and transnational settings, to examine the situated contexts of design and use, while asking broadly what consequences these technologies have for our social worlds. This course requires intensive reading and writing, including a final project that can be undertaken in a variety of ways, such as an original ethnographic or creative project exploring an emerging media practice.
Need help with your writing this semester?
Apply for a Writing Mentor!
Writing Mentors work with students one-on-one on all aspects of writing, from structure to grammar to time management.
Find the application at
www.wesleyan.edu/writing/workshop/applymentor.html
And fill it out by Friday, February 5
If you have any questions, contact
Ford Fellow Elana Rosenthal at writingworks@wesleyan.edu
Anthropology of Digital Media
Networked media technologies, from the Internet to mobile phones, are reshaping many aspects of daily life, selfhood, and society. While digital and electronic media seem to make the world smaller, ostensibly facilitating global flows of capital, people, goods, and ideas, this course examines how these technologies co-constitute particular kinds of subjects, accommodating some uses and modes of living more than others. Digital platforms and services, for example, are often designed with elite, technically savvy users in mind, yet are taken up transnationally in diverse and unexpected ways. Media, like other technologies, never exist separately from social life as independent agents of change, but instead emerge through contingent histories, material realities, constellations of discourse, and unequal distributions of power. This course introduces students to the anthropology of digital media and culture, drawing on empirical, ethnographic accounts from a variety of theoretical perspectives, including feminist technology studies, actor-network theory, queer theory critiques, new materialisms, postcolonial studies, and social informatics. Topics include space and place online, media publics, new transnationalisms, design anthropology, big data, social networks, virtuality and embodiment, the social construction of users, mobility and disability, and telecommunication infrastructures.
We will consider emerging media practices in cross-cultural and transnational settings, to examine the situated contexts of design and use, while asking broadly what consequences these technologies have for our social worlds. This course requires intensive reading and writing, including a final project that can be undertaken in a variety of ways, such as an original ethnographic or creative project exploring an emerging media practice.
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