HAVE A GOOD THANKSGIVING BREAK!
COME BACK REFRESHED AND READY TO GO
FOR THE LAST TWO WEEKS OF CLASS!
Month: November 2012
CHUM Lecture: Prof. Lisa Cohen–Only Minerals Escape It: Mourning Time 11/2, 6 p.m.
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Senior Thesis Writers: Apply to Work with a Thesis Mentor!
Starting to feel a bit overwhelmed by your senior thesis? You’ve been researching for months, collecting data and structuring your thoughts, but soon you actually have to start writing the thesis. And when I say soon, I mean really soon. As in this weekend. (Seriously.)
But don’t panic! You still have plenty of time to write an honors-worthy manuscript, as long as you get started soon and stay organized. The other big favor you can do for yourself? Sign up for a thesis mentor!
Your thesis mentor will work with you throughout the spring semester, meeting as regularly as you’d like to discuss any and all aspects of your thesis. Your mentor can discuss ideas with you to help structure your argument, look over that one chapter that isn’t clicking, and even read through your whole thesis before you turn it in (something your advisor might not do!). It’s incredibly beneficial to partner with someone who can keep you on task and track the development of your thesis over time.
To apply for a thesis mentor, fill out this form by Friday, November 16 at 5 PM. Please note that this is a very popular program and while we do our best to help everyone, we will likely not have the resources available to pair every applicant with a mentor. Therefore, we suggest that you both apply early and make a good case in your application for why you would like to work with a mentor!
If you have any questions about the thesis mentor program, please direct them to Ford Fellow Emma Mohney at (860) 265-2440 or writingworks@wesleyan.edu.
Keynote Speaker for Latin@ Affirmation Month: Cherrie Moraga Nov. 7, 8 p.m.
Cherríe Moraga
November 7, 8pm
Woodhead Lounge (Exley Science Center)
Come listen to Cherríe Moraga, one of the most influential figures in Chicana/o, feminist, queer, and indigenous activism and scholarship, talk about her new book A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness!
Co-Sponsored by Ajúa Campos, Office of Diversity and Institutional Partnerships,American Studies Department, Caribbean Student Association, Center for the Americas, English Department, Feminist Gender and Sexualities Program
La Casa, Latin American Studies Program, WesQuisqueya,
Women of Color Collective,
Romance Language and Literatures Department
Theory Lecture: Amy Hollywood, “Apophasis and Ecstasy, at the Limits of Gender” 11/8, 4:15 p.m.
Amy Hollywood, “Apophasis and Ecstasy, at the Limits of Gender”
Thursday, November 8, 4:15 p.m. Downey House 113
Light refreshments will be served. Sponsored by the certificate in Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory
Christian women write, and they write about religion. This might seem unexceptional, yet the fact that women have written over the course of the history of Christianity is surprising given the restrictions on women’s education and religious authority that emerge as early as the 1st century and continue to play a role in Christianity today. As if to harness the possibilities engendered by women’s writing, modern scholarship repeatedly describes women’s theological production as differing in significant ways from men’s. Why? What’s at stake in insisting on these differences? And how do texts by medieval women, particularly those of the thirteenth century Dutch-speaking beguine, Hadewijch, both exemplify and resist such categorizations?
“From Science to Writing” Lecture — 11/6, 4:15 p.m.
Evelyn Lamb: “From Science to Writing”
Tuesday, Nov 6, 2012 4:15pm 311 Allbritton
Evelyn Lamb is a freelance science writer with a Ph.D. in math. Or maybe she’s a mathematician who does freelance writing on the side. She talks about her start in writing and how to incorporate writing into your career as a scientist or mathematician.
Evelyn received her Ph.D. in Math from Rice University in 2012. In 2012 she was awarded the American Math Society’s Mass Media Fellowship. She spent her fellowship at Scientific American, where she continues to write, blog and podcast.
VOTE ON TUESDAY!!!
MAKE SURE TO VOTE ON TUESDAY!!
ATTENTION STUDENTS REGISTERED IN MIDDLETOWN
POLLING HOURS: 6am-8pm
POLLING PLACES: Senior Center, 150 William Street (walkable from campus) and Macdonough School, 66 Spring Street
VAN TRANSPORTATION: 9am-8pm (departures every ten minutes from Usdan)
VOTER ID REQUIREMENTS: Drivers’ license, WesID, utility bill, paycheck or other ID needed (Identification Requirements)
CHUM Lecture: Prof. Amy Tang 11/5 — 6 p.m.
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