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National Teach-In on the Presidential Executive Order Banning Muslims, Immigrants, and Refugees

February 8th
Teach-In, 4:00-5:30pm
Individual Consultations, 5:30-7:00pm
Daniel Family Commons, Usdan

Organized by the Kharij Collective and UPenn’s Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education, the National Teach-In on the Presidential Executive Order will include lawyers, activists, and academics with experience working with Muslim and immigrant communities. Wesleyan has arranged for immigration lawyers to meet with interested students, faculty and staff to discuss individual situations after the teach-in concludes.

DACA and Immigration Legal Briefing & Activism Workshop

February 17th
General Session, 12:15pm-1:15pm
Individual Consultations, 1:30-3:00pm
Campus/Community Activism Workshop, 1:30-3:00pm
Exley 58

Principal Presenters:
Joanne Lewis
http://www.ctlegal.org/about
Meghann E. LaFountain
http://howardmcmillan.com/about-us/meghann-e-lafountain/
Lucas Codognolla
http://unitedwedream.org/lucas-codognolla-connecticut/

Now more than ever we need to build and refine our leadership skills to impact social change. The Office of Student Activities and Leadership Development invites you to participate in the 2017 WesLead Conference, Saturday, February 18th. WesLead is an annual conference aimed at providing participants with the tools and skills needed to continue to influence their communities. This year’s theme is “Ignite Leadership. Influence Change”.

Local activists and community organizers will be sharing their stories and information about how to take action. Our opening keynote speaker is class of 2005 Alum, Melissa Rosario, who has established a non-profit organization in Puerto Rico called CEPA. Our closing keynote speaker is former Wesleyan Professor, Clemmie Harris.

The conference will also feature a workshop from Climbing PoeTree, which is the combined force of two boundary-breaking soul sisters who have sharpened their art as a tool for popular education, community organizing, and personal transformation. Alixa and Naima interweave spoken word, hip hop, and award-winning multimedia theater to expose injustice, channel hope into vision, and make a better future visible, immediate, and irresistible. With flawless cadence and impeccable lyricism, Alixa and Naima weave together their voices to tell powerful stories of love and liberation, state and personal violence, social, environmental, racial, and sexual justice, woman’s empowerment, and human transcendence. Check out their video here! Climbing PoeTree will also perform at 7pm in the Ring Family Performing Arts Hall.

Those who attend the conference will receive a complimentary ticket to the show. Registration is FREE and open to the first 100 students – breakfast and lunch will be provided. We hope you can join us for what we believe will be an inspiring and transformative day!

THE COLLEGE OF THE ENVIRONMENT
ANNOUNCES 2017 SUMMER AND FALL INTERNSHIPS!

The College of the Environment announces 2017 summer and fall internships. This year, we are using an online application process that can be accessed from our website – www.wesleyan.edu/coe under the column labeled COE INTERNSHIPS. Please read the memorandum from Director Barry Chernoff for the details. (http://www.wesleyan.edu/coe/internships/index.html)

The summer internship will run from May 31, 2017 – August 3, 2017 with a stipend payment of $4,000. The deadline for the application and two letters of recommendations are due on or before Monday, February 27, 2017, 5pm.

SPANISH FOR NATIVE SPEAKERS
Wesleyan SPAN 203
M-W, 2:50-4:10 FISK 101

Do you speak Spanish at home and with some friends, but feel like there are gaps in your language ability? SPAN 203 is for you!

SPAN 203 is designed for heritage speakers of Spanish who feel that they need to gain confidence and ability to take their fluency in Spanish to another level. In this course you will
– expand your vocabulary and your understanding of grammar
– recognize a shared “standard”, while appreciating the many dialects and registers of Spanish
– work on formal and academic registers
– develop a critical attitude towards language use and language learning, as well as issues of identity
– learn strategies for the life-long adventure which is being an educated speaker of a language

Recognizing that Spanish is an essential element of the Hispanic identity, as well as an important professional and social asset, SPAN 203 guides students through projects that develop their ability to express themselves in Spanish in a variety of contexts.

The class involves intense reading and writing, presentations, group work, and constant assessment.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Rethinking the Italian Renaissance

FIST 224 – COL 224 – ITAL 224 – MDST 223 (Discrepancies with WesMaps are being fixed on the website)
Prof. F.M. Aresu | Monday and Friday, 10:50 AM – 12:10 PM | FISK210

In this course we explore the intellectual achievements of the Italian Renaissance. We study the development of new secular values and the quest for the fulfillment of body and soul, glory, and exuberant pleasures. We question notions of beauty, symmetry, proportion, and order. We also unveil often-neglected aspects of Renaissance counter-cultures, such as the aesthetics of ugliness and obscenity and practices of marginalization (misogyny, homophobia). We inquire into the rediscovery of classical civilizations. We consider how the study of antiquity fundamentally changed the politics, literatures, arts, and philosophies of Italy at the dawn of the modern era. Through a close reading of texts by authors such as Francesco Petrarca, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Michelangelo, we investigate continuities and ruptures between their quest for human identity and ours.
* Fear not! All readings in English.

Selected Bibliography

N. Machiavelli, The Prince and The Mandrake
Michelangelo, Poems
L. Ariosto, Mad Orlando
B. Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier
F. Petrarch, My Secret Book

FIST 224 – COL 224 – ITAL 224 – MDST 223
Prof. F.M. Aresu – faresu@wesleyan.edu | Monday and Friday, 10:50 AM – 12:10 PM | FISK210
Office Hour: Monday and Wednesday 1:00-2:00, and by appointment

Foundations of Modernity
The Cultures of the Italian Renaissance

In this course we will critically explore the intellectual achievements of the Italian Renaissance through a detailed analysis of some of its literary masterpieces. We will inquire into the rediscovery and emulation of classical literatures and civilizations. We will examine the revalidated notions of beauty, symmetry, proportion, and order. We will analyze the ways in which this rebirth fundamentally changed the languages, literatures, arts, philosophies, and politics of Italy at the dawn of the modern era. We will also approach often-neglected aspects of Renaissance counter-culture, such as the aesthetics of ugliness and obscenity, and practices of marginalization (misogyny, homophobia). In a pioneering quest for the fulfillment of body and soul, self-determination, glory, and pleasure, Italian scholars, philologists, poets, playwrights, and prose writers contributed to the development of new and increasingly secular values. Through a close reading of texts by authors such as Francesco Petrarca, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Michelangelo Buonarroti, we will investigate continuities and ruptures between their quest for human identity and ours.

* Fear not! Course conducted in English. All primary and secondary sources in English.
For more information, please go to: https://iasext.wesleyan.edu/regprod/!wesmaps_page.html?crse=014560&term=1171
and do not hesitate to contact Professor F. Marco Aresu .