by Julia Gardner When Diana Kimojino graduated from high school in Kenya in 2019, she was excited to continue her education at college the next year. However, she began to notice a very different trend among her peers: right after graduating high school, all of the girls that she had grown up with were getting…
by Nataly Huyhua The FRIES Center of Global Studies (FCGS) has recently joined TikTok, adding a dynamic and engaging touch to its outreach efforts. Inspired by the entertaining TikTok content of Pi Café, theFCGS TikTok account radiates a similar atmosphere of fun and inclusivity. Thais García Bagué,who joined the team in August as the Global…
by Anita Deeg-Carlin This past Monday, the Office for Intercultural Learning hosted an info session about Iracambi Research Center in the Minas Gerais region of Brazil. Returned students Tamira Le ’26, Cecilia Foldessy-Stiegemeier ’26, and Josie Dickman ’26, shared their inspiring and entertaining experiences from last summer. Volunteer and Research Coordinator Patanjaly Barbosa de Andrade…
The Offices of Intercultural Learning and Study Abroad are excited to host an Intercultural Pre-Departure Workshop over lunch for this spring semester’s outgoing study abroad students. On Sunday, December 3rd at 11:30 a.m. in the Daniel Family Commons, Director for Intercultural Learning, Anita Deeg-Carlin, along with her colleagues in the Office of Study Abroad, will…
Registration for the Language Buddies program is open for the winter break! Coordinated through the Fries Center for Global Studies, Language Buddies is a program that matches Wesleyan students, faculty, or staff members with one another to practice their language skills over academic breaks through a series of self-paced, online conversational activities. This initiative was…
by Oleksandra Volakova Cyn Le- the current Multilingual Writing Fellow, who graduated from Wesleyan with a Government major and Global Engagement minor – talks about GEM, how it helped them throughout undergrad studies and after, and why freshmen will benefit from minoring in this. Q: How would you explain Global Engagement Minor to people who…
Imogen Frazier Pé na areia, literally translating to “foot in the sand”, is how Brazilians describe the pleasure of being at the beach. As I type this, I am currently sitting at a restaurant pé na areia and sipping a cool glass of passion fruit juice, or suco maracujá, for which I will certainly have…
Julia Gardner This Thursday marks the start of a very exciting week at Wes- International Education Week! (Even though International Education week officially begins on Monday, November 13, we’re too excited to wait!) Schools around the U.S. participate in this national initiative every year to promote intercultural learning, exchange, and celebration, and here at Wesleyan…
Language, beyond being a means of communication, serves as the embodiment of culture and history, acting as the vessel through which stories are conveyed, knowledge is transmitted, and identities are forged. Within this fusion of language, culture, and history, emerges the book“Pre-Modern History of Korea” written by Wesleyan Professor and Co-Curricular Coordinator of the Korean…
The James C. Gaither Junior Fellow Program is a program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a unique global network of policy research centers with the mission to advance the cause of peace through analysis and development of fresh policy ideas and direct engagement with decisionmakers in government, business, and civil society. It offers ~18 one-year…
