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Are Stereotypical Refugee Narratives ‘Solvable’?
Category Online ExclusivesPosted on October 23, 2020

Are Stereotypical Refugee Narratives ‘Solvable’?

Wesleyan alumni Ahmed Badr ’20 and Mia Lobel ’97 use the prominent podcast’s platform to discuss the importance of storytelling in helping displaced refugees reclaim their narratives. Ahmed Badr ’2…
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Category 2020 Issue 2Posted on October 21, 2020October 21, 2020

Letter to the Editor: Civic Engagement Across the Generations

The Spring 2020 issue of Wesleyan University Magazine correctly conveys with breathless immediacy the urgency of political and cultural issues now facing the United States of America. I only hope that the sense of immedi…
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Category 2020 Issue 2Posted on October 19, 2020October 19, 2020

Letter to the Editor: Justice, Hiding in Plain Sight

I write with encouraging news and a call to action. At a moment when the abject failings of the criminal legal system stand in such clear and crushing relief, the Wesleyan alumni community has an opportunity to deepen it…
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The Method Gun: Producing Live Theater Online (Video)
Category 2020 Issue 2Posted on September 24, 2020September 25, 2020

The Method Gun: Producing Live Theater Online (Video)

In the Spring of 2020, Assistant Professor of Theater Katie Pearl directed a groundbreaking performance of The Method Gu…
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Category 2020 Issue 2Posted on September 24, 2020September 25, 2020

Letter to the Editor: Teaching Moments in a Time of Diaspora

  I met with my New School students for the last time on Wednesday, March 11. I’d instructed them to bring their laptops; we were going to have a trial “webinar.” This was right before our extended two-week break, …
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Category 2020 Issue 2Posted on September 18, 2020September 25, 2020

Letter to the Editor: A Richmond Reckoning

A day after my classmates and I graduated remotely from Wes, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd on camera. This horrific act caused the country and the world to take to the streets to fight fo…
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Category 2020 Issue 2Posted on September 18, 2020September 25, 2020

Letter to the Editor: Virtual Commencement a Chance to Reflect

In the days preceding Commencement in 2018, I kept a strict schedule—hosting my parents on campus tours, engaging with my professors and mentors, celebrating with friends and classmates. In the midst of all that activity…
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A Rare Find in the Military Archives: A Little-Known Poem by Dudley Randall
Category 2020 Issue 1Posted on August 26, 2020September 6, 2020

A Rare Find in the Military Archives: A Little-Known Poem by Dudley Randall

Photo of Dudley Randall circa 1972 courtesy Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library. Visiting Assistant Pr…
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Behind the Scenes: Wesleyan Videographer Hohne Takes Film to Sundance
Category 2020 Issue 1Posted on May 28, 2020July 23, 2020

Behind the Scenes: Wesleyan Videographer Hohne Takes Film to Sundance

  Dennis Hohne (above, right), one of the three videographers in Wesleyan’s Office of Communications, took time aw…
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Art is Not Convenient (video)
Category 2020 Issue 1Posted on May 3, 2020

Art is Not Convenient (video)

Associate Professor of Dance Hari Krishnan describes art's role in expressing and driving social change, and how his rec…
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