Professor Basak Kus organized a conference in cooperation with scholars from Freie University in Berlin on the topic of green political economy. Throughout the three-day conference, panelists from various universities worldwide engaged in discussions on theories of degrowth and post-growth, green new deals, the politics of decarbonization, and the involvement of governments, labor, and business…
Research
Wesleyan/DIS Alumni Co-Author Research on HIV and Access to Fertility Treatment Across Europe
Dr. Rachel Irwin, a professor at Lund University in Sweden and DIS research mentor in Copenhagen, recently published her research “HIV and access to fertility treatment in the European and Swedish Contexts”. The article was co-authored by two Wesleyan students, Julia Thaler and Karli Gigstad, who studied abroad with DIS in the Spring of 2022.…
“Café y Leche”: The Dilution and Erasure of Blackness in the Dominican Republic
by Ayer Richmond ’24 and Edmund Josef Jurado ’24 The Africana Research Collective (ARC) is a new initiative led by First-Generation, Low Income/Black, Indigenous, Students of Color and Allies (FGLI/BIPOC+) at Wesleyan. ARC is composed of 7 second-year students from across the three academic divisions. Our sense of the African diaspora is global in reach,…
Fulbright Spotlight: Interview with David Vizgan (’21), Astronomy Researcher in Denmark
Exploring Denmark… and the Earliest Origins of the UniverseBlog post prepared by Shiven Sankalia (’24), Fellowships Assistant, Spring 2022, with additions and edits by Dr. Erica Kowsz, Assistant Director for Fellowships at the Fries Center for Global Studies David Vizgan is a Wesleyan alum currently on a Fulbright Scholarship in Denmark. David graduated in 2021…
New Webpage Collecting Global, Regional and Intercultural Publication Opportunities
Fries Center for Global Studies has recently added a new webpage that collects and shares global, regional, and intercultural publication opportunities for undergraduates. We invite students who are interested in getting their work published to check out this page. Visit the webpage here: https://www.wesleyan.edu/cgs/blogs/publicationoppos.html We look forward to expanding the list of opportunities as we…
Launching peer fellowship advising: Genesis Garcia ‘22 holds drop-in sessions for students and alumni
Written by Magdalena Zapędowska The spring semester is the perfect time to start thinking about applying for a national fellowship. This spring, we are excited to launch peer fellowship advising sessions. Fellowships assistant Genesis Garcia ‘22 will hold drop-in hours via Zoom at the following link: https://wesleyan.zoom.us/s/92250822173. If you are a Wesleyan student or recent alumni and would like to have an informal conversation with a fellow student about navigating the fellowship application process at Wesleyan, stop by to talk…
The Kennesaw Tower Call for Papers
The Kennesaw Tower Undergraduate Foreign Language Research Journal, hosted in the Department of Foreign Languages at Kennesaw State University, invites submissions from advanced undergraduate students. Who can submit: Any undergraduate university student who has taken at least 1 senior-level course in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, or FLED (Foreign Language Education Department) may submit…
Stranded Scholar Library Access Initiative
Thanks to support from Academic Affairs and the Library, Wesleyan is now participating in the New University in Exile Consortium’s Stranded Scholar Library Access Initiative. In brief, this means that we can provide digital library access to scholars at risk who are unable to carry on their research because they have been cut off from…
Wesleyan to Support Threatened Scholars
Wesleyan’s Interim Provost, Rob Rosenthal, and the Director of the Fries Center, Steve Angle, recently announced that Wesleyan has joined the New University in Exile Consortium (NUEC), re-joined Scholars At Risk (SAR), and is working actively with both SAR and with the Scholar Rescue Fund (SRF) to identify and bring to campus a scholar who…