Class of 2011

Nov. 20 – Professor Douglas Foyle – Butterfield C Lounge
October Surprises and Wagging the Dog: Do Upcoming Elections Affect Foreign Policy Decision Making?
While it is often asserted that leaders use foreign policy to domestic advantage as elections approach, the scholarly findings on this subject defy simple characterization.  My project examines the extent to which U.S. [...]

Asian/Asian American (AAA) House presents an evening with forensic expert Dr Henry Lee, who has worked on numerous high-profile crime cases including the JonBenet Ramsey murder, the O.J. Simpson case and the reinvestigation of John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
Dr Lee was born in China and grew up in Taiwan, where he served in the police force. [...]

The Government Majors Committee and the Government Department are sponsoring a series of lunch talks beginning today!  Professors will be presenting recent research,  a great opportunity for students interested in majoring in government or for students interested in the topics.
All of the talks run from noon to 1:00 p.m.
Nov. 13 – Prof. Wiliarty – Cafe [...]

Wednesday, Oct. 29: Nagarote-Wesleyan Partnership – Usdan 108
Guest Speaker: Gloria Alba Andino Lopez: “DR-CAFTA & the Roots of Migration: How Free Trade Agreements hurt the Environment, Workers, and You”
Ms. Lopez is a community leader and activist from El Regadío, Estelí, Nicaragua. She has represented organized resistance against the detrimental impacts of neoliberal economic policy which [...]

Wesleyan University Ajùa Campos Presents Latino Awareness Month 2008

Wednesday, Oct. 29: Nagarote-Wesleyan Partnership – Usdan 108
Guest Speaker: Gloria Alba Andino Lopez: “DR-CAFTA & the Roots of Migration: How Free Trade Agreements hurt the Environment, Workers, and You”

Ms. Lopez is a community leader and activist from El Regadío, Estelí, Nicaragua. She has represented organized resistance [...]

Featuring Laurence Tribe
The Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard University
Life Unedited: Wednesday, October 22, 8:00 p.m., Memorial Chapel
The visible text of the First Amendment protects such specific freedoms as “speech,” “press,” “assembly,” and “religion.” Its invisible but no less fundamental subtext and structure, however, protect much more. In this lecture, Laurence Tribe will [...]

Wesleyan World Wednesdays and the Student Affairs Speaker Series present a screening of Sick Around the World followed by a panel discussion on Tuesday, October 21 at 6:30 p.m. at Daniel Family Commons.
In Sick Around the World, FRONTLINE teams up with veteran Washington Post foreign correspondent T.R. Reid to find out how five other capitalist [...]

Wednesday, October 15, 8:00 p.m., Russell House
Internationally renowned poet and translator MICHAEL PALMER is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry, including Sun, At Passages, and most recently Company of Moths. Palmer has worked with the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company for over thirty years and has collaborated with many visual artists and [...]

The 2008 election has been historic for many reasons. Both a female and an African American ran for the nomination of a major political party for the first time in history, there is an opportunity to elect the oldest president ever, and the Internet and blogs play a key role in the kinds of information [...]