Monday 10/18: Faculty and student lunch with QAC Professor Val Nazzaro at 12:00pm at the Exley Patio. RSVP adane@wesleyan.edu or just show up with your lunch.
Tuesday 10/19: Annual stargazing and hot chocolate event at the observatory from 9pm to 10pm.
Stop by the Latin American Studies Open House on Thursday 10/21 at 4:30pm in the Romance Languages building (Highwaymen Common Room) on 300 High Street.
Visit the English Department Open House on October 20 from 4:30pm – 6:00pm at Downey House (294 High Street) – Room 200 (Downey Lounge).
The great feminist poet, critic, and theorist Adrienne Rich warned: “We must be acutely, disturbingly aware of the language [and, I’d add: forms, narratives, tropes, genres, conventions, ideologies] we are using and that is using us.” True, English, among other things, can rescue you from being bamboozled by the givens, the taken for granted, the “way it is” (but doesn’t have to be). We make language and language makes us. Literature helps us learn and unlearn. At the same time, reading and writing literature is so much fun, an affirmation of creativity and possibility, a steamy and sometimes jarring love affair with beauty, and much else. Imagine that! Discover what English has to offer (see below) . . . .
The Department of African American Studies will host a major open house on Wednesday 10/13 at 12:15pm at the Center for African American Studies (343 High Street). Lunch will be provided.
The Department of Romance Languages & Literatures will host a major open house on Monday 10/11 from 12pm – 1pm under the Labyrinth Tent (287 High Street). Pizza will be provided.