“In the Archives of the Soviet Institute of Marxism-Leninism”
With Professor Victoria Smolkin-Rothrock, on Thursday, October 27, from 12:00 P.M. to 1:00 P.M., in Allbritton 311. Professor Smolkin-Rothrock will speak about her research on Soviet “Scientific Atheism” in the archives of Moscow’s Institute of Marxism-Leninism, the archive of the central organs of the Soviet Communist party. Come learn about the relationship of archival documents to the lives of their subjects and strategies for filling in the gaps in the official record. Iguanas Ranas lunch will be served, courtesy of the History Department.
Lecture
“In Theory” lecture–MJ Rubenstein on Heideger — 10/5, 4:15 p.m.
Wednesday, October 5, “In Theory” is venturing Off the Beaten Track with Mary-Jane Rubenstein’s lecture on Martin Heidegger. One essential Pathmark to remember: the location is Downey House 113. As usual, we will start promptly at 4:15 p.m.
Sister Helen Prejean speaking about the death penalty — 10/5
Dead Man Walking’s
SISTER HELEN PREJEAN
Wednesday, October 5 6:30 p.m.
Memorial Chapel
Move in Goldsmith Family Cinema Center at 8 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Wesleyan Film Series and Office of the Chaplain
DAC Gallery Talk and Reception — 10/5
Excavations: The Prints of Julie MehretuDavison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Gallery Talk and Reception
Wednesday, October 5, 5:00-7:00 pm
Cole Rogers, Artistic Director and Master Printer, Highpoint Center for
Printmaking, will give a gallery talk at 5:30 pm, discussing his experience working with Julie Mehretu
and the complex technical and aesthetic interweaving of her prints.
Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu is organized by Highpoint Editions, Minneapolis.
Its presentation at the Davison Art Center is made possible by the Hoy Family Afro-American Visual Arts Fund and the
Lemberg Fund.
The gallery talk is supported by the Davison Art Center and the
Department of Art and Art History Charles and Ruth Taylor Fund and Virgil and Juwil Topazio Fund
Gallery hours are Tuesday-Sunday, 12:00 noon – 4:00 P.M.
(closed Mondays; also closed October 21-25 and November 23-27).
The gallery is open to the public free of charge. The Davison Art Center is located at
301 High Street on the campus of Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT.
For further information, phone (860) 685-2500 or visit the DAC website
at www.wesleyan.edu/dac.
Rennie Harris: Rage, Resistance and Reclaimation–9/29 & Hip Hop Dance Performance–9/30 and 10/1
What: Rage, Resistance and Reclaimation: a conversation with Dr. Rennie Harris
Facilitated by Nicole Stanton, Associate Professor of Dance
Lecture is followed by a reception
When: Thursday Sept 29, 7:00p.m.
Where: the Russell House.
In addition, the Department of Dance and the Center for the Arts are sponsoring the following events:
Rennie Harris Puremovement
“Philadelphia’s greatest cultural export.”
-The Philadelphia Inquirer
What: A hip hop dance performance by Rennie Harris Puremovement set to music by the Headhunters, Marvin Gaye, Nina Simone, Parliament Funkadelic, Groove Collective, and others.
When: Friday, September 30 and Saturday, October 1 at 8pm. Pre-performance talk with dance scholar Debra Cash on Friday at 7:15pm in CFA Hall.
Where: CFA Theater, located in the Center for the Arts at 283 Washington Terrace on the Wesleyan University campus in Middletown, Connecticut.
And: Free dance workshop for ticket holders on Saturday October 1 at 11am in the Bessie Schönberg Dance Studio, located at 247 Pine Street.
About: Choreographer and international ambassador of hip hop dance Rennie Harris founded Rennie Harris Puremovement in 1992, after working with Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow. Mr. Harris is a trailblazer who has deconstructed popular perceptions of hip hop dance for nearly twenty years – the first person to take urban street forms to concert stages around the world. Performances at Wesleyan will include repertory works such as “God Made Me Funky”, “Something To Do With Love”, “Continuum”, “P-Funk”, “March of the Antmen”, and “Students of the Asphalt Jungle”. A Breaking Ground Dance Series event presented by the Dance Department and the Center for the Arts. Made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Admission: $23 general public; $19 senior citizens, Wesleyan faculty/staff, non-Wesleyan students; $6 Wesleyan students
“In Theory” Lecture: Prof. Joseph Rouse — 9/28
This week’s “In Theory” lecture will feature
Professor Joe Rouse
who will provide an introduction to the thought of G. W. F. Hegel.
Wednesday, September 28 — 4:15 p.m.
Downey House 113
WIRA: “Deciphering Pakistan and U.S.-Pakistan Relations” — 9/30-10/1 — limited seating, get tickets now!
The Wesleyan International Relations Association invites you to its 2011 Conference,
“Deciphering Pakistan and US-Pakistan Relations”
organized in collaboration with
Wesleyan South Asian Studies Faculty and Wesleyan Pakistan Flood Relief Initiative.
The conference includes panel discussions, a key note talk,
a sufi-rock concert by Junoon and a movie screening of Ramchand Pakistani.
FREE TO ATTEND (Sept 30 – Oct 1).
Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT.
To get more details or to register, visit our website at www.wirac.org.
Limited seats available
The conference aims to increase understanding and awareness about Pakistan from its culture to its politics, and US-Pak relations. The conference’s speakers are among the top commentators, officials and scholars on Pakistan and US-Pakistan relations, and the event will be open to the students, faculty and the larger public.
Panelists and guest speakers include:
– Shahid Javed Burki (Former Vice President of World Bank and Former Finance Minister of Pakistan)
– Stanley Wolpert (Emeritus professor of History in University of California, LA, focuses on political and intellectual history of modern south asia)
– Najam Sethi (the editor-in-chief of The Friday Times and of Geo News in Pakistan. He is the only Asian journalist to receive three international press freedom awards in a decade).
– Ambassador Howard B. Schaffer (Former Ambassador of Pakistan, India and Bangladesh; spent 36 years of foreign service career focusing on US relations with South Asia)
– Asim Khwaja (the Sumitomo-FASID Professor of International Finance and Development at the Harvard Kennedy School and the faculty chair of the MPA/ID program).
– Humeira Iqtidar (Research fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies and at Cambridge University. She focuses on secularism, feminism and Islamism).
– Najeeb Ghauri (the founder, Chairman and CEO of NetSol Technologies, Inc, and Vice President of US-Pak Business Council)
Social Events:
– Junoon Concert by Salman Ahmed. Junoon is a sufi rock band from Pakistan and is considered one of Pakistan’s most successful band; the Q magazine regarded them as “One of the biggest bands in the world” and The New York Times called Junoon “the U2 of Pakistan.” Ahmed is the pioneer of Sufi rock, author of Rock n Roll Jihad and UN ambassador for peace (Sample Music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQQLeB7efog)
– Ramchand Pakistani Screening and Q&A with director, Mehreen Jabbar. Ramchand Pakistani is a Pakistani film that tells a true story about a boy who inadvertently crosses the border between Pakistan and India and the following ordeal that his family has to go through. The film has won the Audience award at Fribourg International Film Festival, Switzerland. (Trailer: http://www.ramchandpakistani.com/Preview.htm)
Seats are limited. So, please register through the Registration Form.
If you want to buy the tickets for the Concert, Lunch and/or Dinner with the speakers, please go through the Wesleyan Box Office, either in person at the Usdan Univeristy Center or online at http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?orgid=24317. The tickets for the concert, lunch, and dinner are titled respectively, Junoon, Pakistani/Indian Lunch, and Dinner/Discussion With the Speakers. Tickets are limited, so please make your purchase soon.
For the schedule, visit: http://wirac.org/schedule.php. Proceeds from the conference will go to Wesleyan Pakistan Flood Relief Initiative. For more details, please contact our team at wira.conf@gmail.com.
Regards, Wesleyan International Relations Association
Molecular Biophysics & Biological Chemistry Retreat — Thurs., 9/22
We invite you to the 12th Annual Molecular Biophysics and Biological Chemistry Retreat to be held on Thursday, September 22, 2011 at the Wadsworth Mansion. The retreat will feature four speakers from Wesleyan University, including two new faculty colleagues: Christina Othon (Physics) and Ruth Johnson (Biology). In addition, students in the Molecular Biophysics program will present posters on their research.
The keynote speaker for the retreat is Professor Vern L. 
Schramm from Albert Einstein College of Medicine; http://www.einstein.yu.edu/biochemistry/profile.asp?id=7856<http://rutchem.rutgers.edu/?q=node/54> Professor Schramm investigates enzymatic transition state structures to enable development of powerful drugs against cancer and other diseases.
Molecular Biophysics is an interdisciplinary program that has been supported by an NIH training grant for over 25 years. The retreat is made possible by support from the training grant, Chemistry and MB&B departments.
Contact Professors David Beveridge, Ishita Mukerji, Manju Hingorani, or Erika Taylor with any questions.
Center for African American Studies First Book Series — 9/22
On Thursday 9/22, from 4:15-6:00 p.m. at the Center for African American Studies in the Vanguard Lounge is the first of five speakers in the center’s new First Book series.
Historian Danielle Mcguire (Wayne State University) will discuss her 
award-winning first book, At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance–A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power (Knopf, 2010).
At the Dark End of the Street won the 2011 Frederick Jackson Turner Award From the Organization of American Historians and the 2011 Lillian Smith Book Award.
The talk will be followed by a book signing.
The event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Joan Chiari in AFAM at ext: 3569.
What are the Humanities Worth? Stanley Fish speaks out on Wed., 9/21
Wesleyan welcomes Stanley Fish this coming Wednesday, September 21.
His talk will take place at the Chapel at 4:15. There will be a reception immediately afterward in the Daniel Family Commons in the Usdan Center.
Following up on some of his recent NYT Op-eds, Professor Fish will address the status of the humanities in the Academy and in today’s world. Please join us for what should be a provocative talk.
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“WHAT ARE THE HUMANITIES WORTH?”
One of the country’s leading public intellectuals, Stanley Fish is an extraordinarily prolific author whose works include more than 200 scholarly publications and books. While his research covers a variety of fields, he has written for many of the country’s leading law journals, including Stanford Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Yale Law Journal, and others. Professor Fish is the author of numerous books including Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies (1989); There’s No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It’s a Good Thing, Too (1994); Professional Correctness: Literary Studies and Political Change (1995); The Trouble with Principle (1999); and How Milton Works (2001).