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 [...]
Posted in Events, Lectures on Oct. 20, 2008 by ngarrett
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 [...]
Posted in Events, Lectures on Sep. 30, 2008 by ngarrett
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 [...]
Posted in Community, Events, Lectures on Sep. 15, 2008 by ngarrett
In celebration of Constitution Day, Professor Richard Adelstein of the Economics Department and Professor John Finn of the Government Department will debate the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution on Wednesday, September 17, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in the Olin Library Smith Reading Room.
“Congress shall have power to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, [...]
