Written by Emily McDougal ’23 Welcome to this semester’s issue of WeScrive, the only Italian magazine at Wesleyan University and one of its few publications not in English! As we all know, this has been the year of COVID and, as such, it’s been a very strange time: at times depressing, at times stressful, and…
Open to all faculty members, Wesleyan’s second Internationalizing the Curriculum Seminar has begun accepting applications. In order to collaborate with faculty to fulfill the Fries Center for Global Studies’ mission to “advance the knowledge, language and intercultural skills, self-awareness, and empathy needed for responsible participation in an increasingly interdependent world,” we offer this four-session seminar.…
The Keasbey Scholarship is an opportunity for students in the Class of 2022 with an outstanding leadership record and high academic achievement. This fully funded program supports two years of postgraduate study in the UK, either for a second undergraduate degree or for a graduate degree at the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, or University of Edinburgh. This scholarship…
Dear members, This is to introduce a (relatively) new YouTube channel called Translators Aloud, co-founded by myself (under my professional name as a literary translator, Tina Kover), and my colleague Charlotte Coombe last May, on which we feature literary translators reading from their own work. To date, we have shared over 150 videos by 130+…
Written by Jackie García ’22 As the pandemic has completely transformed the way in which we carry out our lives, many students have had to tackle remote learning from different places all over the world. Although some Wes students have been lucky enough to learn remotely from their dorm rooms or their homes in the…
This article was written collectively by faculty and staff from the Power of Language Steering Committee. On Saturday April 10th, Wesleyan hosted its fourth annual The Power of Language (POL) conference. Originally, this conference was spearheaded by Dr. Sole Anatrone (Vassar College), a Visiting Assistant Professor in Italian. The success of the first conference in…
Written by Kennie Etienne ’21, African-American Studies Major and Anthropology Concentration, and she/her/her “Canboulay” is a live reenactment that takes place every year during Trinidad & Tobago’s carnival season. The play is widely popular and is meant to display and pay homage to Trinidadian enslaved people’s struggle for emancipation from England’s plantation system. The play…
The Institute of Modern Languages Research School of Advanced Study • University of London The Institute of Modern Languages Research has convened two events as part of the School of Advanced Study’s “Open for Discussion” series. Both events draw on the policy recommendations developed as part of the past four years’ research in the context…
Language Acts and Worldmaking is pleased to announce that registration for its conference Languages Future, which is taking place via Zoom on Thursday 15-Friday 16 April, and Wednesday 21–Friday 23 April 2021, is now open. The guiding principle of Language Acts is that language holds the key to how we understand and construct the world…
Written by Natalia Román Alicea, Assistant Director, Intercultural and Language Learning If you are one of the many students excited to learn all about what Wesleyan has to offer before arriving to campus, look no further! From residential life to the writing workshop, below you’ll find video interviews with various staff members on campus about…
