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Lecture: “Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time — Prof. Andre Dombrowski, 11/28

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The Art History Program, in conjunction with the Center for Humanities, the College of Letters, and Romance Studies, is pleased to announce a the following guest lecture and seminar:

“Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time”  

By André Dombrowski, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Pennsylvania

Wednesday, November 28, 2012 at 6:30p.m.

41 Wyllys Avenue, Room 112 

Dombrowski specializes in the art and material culture of France, Germany and Britain in the mid to late nineteenth century. His work focuses on cross-national developments in the histories of science, politics, psychology, and sexuality. He has published articles and essays on the art of Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, and Hans von Marées. His book Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life was published by the University of California Press in 2012.

For this lecture, Mr. Dombrowski considers the relationship between Post-Impressionism and the history of modern, industrial time-keeping, focusing in particular on the advent of universal time in 1884 and the serried order of Georges Seurat’s pointillist technique developed around the same time. This lecture further proposes new interpretative means for assessing some of the chronometric devices in impressionist criticism written by Jules Laforgue and Felix Feneon. 

A follow-up seminar will be held at the Center for Humanities on Thursday, November 29, 2012 at 4:30pm

Faculty and students are warmly invited to attend.  We hope to see you there!   Katherine Kuenzli and Ethan Kleinberg

Bookstore Relocation Forum 11/27 at 4:30 p.m.

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Dear students, 

Just a reminder that there is a bookstore relocation open forum tomorrow, Tuesday, November 27 at 4:30 pm.  We moved the forum’s location to PAC 001; Centerplan, the developers, will make a presentation.  Additional information regarding the possible bookstore relocation was posted last Tuesday on the blog at http://bookstorerelocation.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2012/11/09/book-store-relocation/.

Thanks, Andrew Wexler, Chair, Finance and Facilities Committee

CHUM Lecture Tonight at 6 p.m.

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 MONDAY NIGHT LECTURE SERIES

Monday, November 26
6 p.m.
Russell House

  

Tom Boellstorff

Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine

In this talk, I conduct a meta-analysis of my research in Indonesia and in virtual worlds, as well as the research of a number of other scholars, to address questions of temporality, repetition, and transformation. Drawing from a range of theoretical resources in queer studies, technology studies, linguistics, and other disciplines, I explore how the gap between the virtual and the actual provides a point of entry for considering how digital being—predicated on both constitutive discreteness and teleologies of locality, specificity, and difference—is powerfully shaping forms of everyday experience, community, and politics.

Last Minute Research Assistance!

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Omigod the semester’s almost over and I haven’t even started on any of my papers!!! 
 
Okay, take a deep breath, don’t panic. I think I remember something about librarians being available to help me find resources for writing my papers and preparing my presentations. Now, what was it I heard about that? Oh yes, they offer something they call Personal Research Sessions. All I have to do is go to http://www.wesleyan.edu/library/services/personalresearch.html (or just look for it on the library’s home page at http://www.wesleyan.edu/library/ in the Help box). Then I fill out the form to tell them who I am, what I’m working on, and when I’m available to meet with a librarian. Then a subject specialist will contact me to set up a meeting, and show me lots of great resources for getting everything I need to write my papers, and even how to use interlibrary loan to get things the library doesn’t own. And if I have waited until too late in the semester to rely on interlibrary loan, they can help me find things already in the library that I might have overlooked. Ah, I can breathe again! 
 

– Kendall Hobbs, Library Instruction Coordinator (khobbs, x3962)

It’s Break Time….

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HAVE A GOOD THANKSGIVING BREAK!

 

 

 

COME BACK REFRESHED AND READY TO GO

 

FOR THE LAST TWO WEEKS OF CLASS!

 

CHUM Lecture: Prof. Lisa Cohen–Only Minerals Escape It: Mourning Time 11/2, 6 p.m.

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 MONDAY NIGHT
LECTURE SERIES

Monday, November 12
6 p.m.
Russell House

  

LISA COHEN

Assistant Professor of English, Wesleyan University

Lisa Cohen reads from work in progress, a multi-genre project about the temporalities of friendship, illness, grief, and activism in the context of the AIDS crisis. A book in three parts and three genres, it also dramatizes three different historical moments, their echoes and discontinuities.

  

Center for the Humanities · 95 Pearl Street , Middletown, CT 06459
www.wesleyan.edu/humanities

Senior Thesis Writers: Apply to Work with a Thesis Mentor!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.