“By the time I finished reading Babel this past winter break,” said Stephen Angle, Professor of Philosophy and East Asian Studies and Director of the Fries Center for Global Studies, “I realized that it is was a perfect entry point for this year’s Power of Language Week.” Babel is a critically acclaimed best-seller that has…
Hello! I am Amira Ounis from Constantine, Algeria. Constantine is one of the ancient cities in the world. It is known with its seven hanged bridges that date back to ancient epochs. I graduated from a Teachers’ College in 2017. Since then, I occupied a position of a primary teacher of English in high school.…
Can education be both empowering and oppressive? Can human rights approaches best meet the educational needs of our incredibly diverse global population? Join the College of Education Studies Global Education Lecture Series to learn with six educational researchers, activists, and practitioners from four continents as they share their work. Connect with folks from around the…
Power of Language is back for 2023! This year, in lieu of having Power of Language be a sole conference, we will be launching a week of events in honor of the Bengali Language Movement, and this year’s themes for POL are: self determination to preserve one’s mother tongue and the protection of critical languages.…
The Global Correspondent Program is an initiative from within the Study Abroad Office that allows students and other members of the Wesleyan community to see what the day-to-day looks like for students studying abroad! This semester, six students were selected as Global Correspondents. While abroad, Global Correspondents will document their study abroad experience through various…
“Living a Good Life” is a large, team-taught philosophy course in which students read, debate, and put into practice the ideas of ancient philosophers about how to live well. All the readings for the class are in English, but most of them were originally written in Ancient Greek or Classical Chinese. In order to give…
Ziye Zhu is a Dance Major in the Columbia University Shape of Two Cities exchange program. Ziye was sorting through her new identity as a student learning architecture. She talks about embracing a studio mentality by introducing a specific experiencing of designing new installations for the site of Paley Park in NYC. Learning architecture…
written by Megan Bauerle ’24 The Fries Center for Global Studies is thrilled to introduce Associate Professor of the Practice in French, affiliated faculty at the Fries Center for Global Studies, and one of our newest members of the Global Engagement Minor Advisory Committee, Professor Liana Pshevorska. Background Professor Pshevorska grew up in Ukraine in…
written by Olivia Andrews ’24 Though Mali gained independence in 1960, Malian women were still restrained by the oppressive holds of colonial and patriarchal barriers, excluding them from reaping the benefits of the recent political progress. Looking into the histories of Malians during this time, one may find references to the spectacle of the women’s…
Konnichiwa! Hello everyone, I am Kotoha Mori, the Japanese language FLTA for the academic year 2022-2023. My name is written as 琴華 in Japanese Kanji script. I was born and raised in Kyoto, a beautiful city in the Kansai region of Japan. Kyoto was the capital city until 1869 and is still regarded as the…
article by Julissa Mota, ’26, Fellowships Assistant at the Fries Center for Global Studies, Fall 2022 The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program is an immersive summer program that provides US citizens 8-10 weeks of language learning at various study abroad institutes around the world. These institutes promote rapid language gains in 14 different languages essential…
Hello everyone! My name is Priyanka and I am the Fulbright FLTA for Hindi Language at Wesleyan for the academic session 2022-2023. I am from the beautiful, ancient and diverse country India. I was born in Kolkata, also called the city of joy which is located in the eastern part of India. I studied in…
Kennedy Odede is an internationally recognized human rights activist. Kennedy was born and raised in the Kibera Slum, the largest slum in Africa. As the oldest of eight children, he assumed responsibility for his family at the age of ten. In Kibera he became a certified HIV/AIDS counselor, was a community health worker, and ran…
Chris Noh (he/him) Class of 2024, Film and East Asian Studies November 13, 2022 Chris Noh felt intrigued and ambivalent prior to going to the spa (or “jimjilbang”) but left feeling refreshed and hungry for a delicious dinner, which there is no lack of in Seoul, South Korea. I woke up at 10:43am –…
by Nicholas Summerson, Class of 2023 and VWPP Spring ’22 Before going abroad to France, many students are nervous about their language abilities and if their years of taking language classes will translate into using their skills in the real world. As a student who studied abroad the spring semester of 2022, I can attest…
International Education Week (IEW), November 11-18, 2022, is an opportunity to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. This joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education aims to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange…
