Renee Johnson-Thornton, Ph.D.

ATTN INTNL Students – Wesleyan Word of Wisdom Party – March 6

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Wesleyan Word of Wisdom Party

March 6, 6-7 pm @ Fries Center for Global Studies

Is there information you wish you had known when you were a first-year international student? Do you have any advice for incoming international students or your peers? The Office of International Student Affairs (OISA) is launching Wesleyan Words of Wisdom for current international students to give a 1-2 pieces of advice to new international students. Come share your advice, enjoy free food, and have your profile photo taken. Your photo, country flag(s), and advice will be featured on the digital signage at Fries Center for Global Studies and the OISA Facebook page.

The Wesleyan Green Fund is now accepting new committee member applications!

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The Wesleyan Green Fund is now accepting new committee member applications! The Green Fund is an entirely student-run committee with a budget of $90,000 annually. The budget is used to fund student projects that cover varied and intersectional definitions of environmental sustainability on campus.

If you would like to apply to serve on the Green Fund board, please follow this link: http://www.wesleyangreenfund.org/apply-to-be-on-the-committee/. Applications are due February 20th by midnight. Feel free to explore our website to find out more about the Green Fund’s mission and past projects we have funded. We look forward to receiving your application! The fund is particularly seeking underclassman members as well as members with interest and experience in website design and editing.

Please contact Oriana Tannenbaum (otannenbaum@wesleyan.edu) with any questions.

Best,

The Wesleyan Green Fund

Summer Program in Mexico Led by Professor Anu Sharma: Other Worlds Are Possible

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Other Worlds Are Possible: Life Against and Beyond Neoliberal Logics
Middletown, CT, United States; Oaxaca, Mexico

A Wesleyan faculty-led program with Professor Anu Sharma (https://www.wesleyan.edu/academics/faculty/asharma/profile.html) and Gustavo Esteva, Universidad de la Tierra (http://unitierraoax.org/en/english/)

This four-week intensive course examines radical challenges, in theory and on the ground, to mainstream neoliberal capitalism and development strategies promoted by international organizations such as World Bank and the IMF. After the 1980s, considered by many as “the lost decade” of development, some scholars and practitioners declared the development enterprise as fundamentally wrong: It was a misguided and violent neocolonial project that could never provide the answer to inequality and poverty. These radical critics argued for building a “post-development” era. In this course, we look at the conceptual history of the term “post-development” and also examine what post-development life looks like on the ground, among dispossessed communities. We will focus on lived and imagined challenges to neoliberal capitalism. We spend the first week at Wesleyan, brushing up on the critical ideas and movements that have emerged out of Mexico (and Latin America, broadly) over the past four decades in reaction to mainstream development discourse. We will then explore these ideas and lived alternatives in Oaxaca, Mexico. We will spend three weeks learning about and working with marginalized communities that are rejecting capitalist development and building and experimenting with living a “good life” (buen vivir) on their own terms.

https://wesleyan-study-abroad.via-trm.com/traveler/programs/6548

Application and deposit due by March 8. Current sophomores and juniors may apply. Limited financial aid is available for this program.

 

http://classof2020.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2019/02/15/other-worlds-are-possible-a-summer-program-in-mexico-led-by-professor-anu-sharma/