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Schedule of upcoming WEScasts:
 

• Friday, May 9th, 9:00 PM: The Wesleyan Spirits perform live at Memorial Chapel
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Recent WEScasts  

• THE INAUGURATION OF WESLEYAN'S 16TH PRESIDENT, MICHAEL S. ROTH '78 CLICK HERE TO VIEW

Click here to open the program of the Inauguration Ceremony. This will open in a new window to be viewable while you are watching the webcast.

Click here to download a PDF version of the full Inauguration Program.

• WESeminar 3: Building Bridges between University and Community CLICK HERE TO VIEW

  "Social justice, equity and diversity." It's like a mantra at the Center for Art & Public Life at California College of the Arts in the progressive environment of the San Francisco Bay Area. MORE... Those values are buried deep in all the lessons CCA students are learning about art’s place in the public arena. Wesleyan students are also learning important lessons about public service and the value of community-based arts programs through a variety of service-learning projects. They have been working with many community organizations, including the Green Street Arts Center, whose mission holds “transforming lives through the arts” at its core. But just exactly how do we teach students, faculty, administration, donors, and the community to value the role of art in society? Join our presenters for a frank discussion about the successes and challenges of fusing art education with civic engagement.

  Presenters: Dr. Sonia BasSheva Mañjon is the Executive Director of the Center for Art & Public Life at the California College of the Arts (CCA) in Oakland and San Francisco. She developed the country’s first Bachelor of Fine Arts Program in community arts, which stresses student civic engagement and diversity issues. Janis Astor del Valle is Director of the Green Street Arts Center, a Wesleyan project in collaboration with the city of Middletown and the North End Action Team (NEAT). She serves as the chair of the Arts and Creative Industry Council for the Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce.

• WESeminar 4. PORK CHOP HILL: HOW MOVIES PREPARE US TO CHOOSE WAR CLICK HERE TO VIEW

  Since the end of World War II, the United States has fought several "wars of choice," including the present war in Iraq. MORE... Join preeminent cultural critic and historian Richard Slotkin for a look at the ways in which movies create and use a national "war myth" to prepare us to accept certain kinds of war as necessary and good. He will focus on Pork Chop Hill, a film made in 1959, which uses a Korean War incident (1950-53) to develop an argument for fighting Asian Communism. Two years later, these same arguments would persuade Americans to support a war in Vietnam.

  Introduction: Jeanine D. Basinger, Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies, curator of the Cinema Archives, chair of the Film Studies Department, and 1996 recipient of the Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching

  Presenter: Richard Slotkin, Olin Professor of English and American Studies, is a 1997 and 2007 recipient of the Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching, and an award-winning author whose work includes Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth Century America (1992) and Lost Battalions: The Great War and the Crisis of American Nationality (2005).

   

• WESeminar 7. LESSONS FROM GUANTANAMO BAY CLICK HERE TO VIEW

  Beginning in January 2002, following the events of 9/11, the United States government began to send men it had seized all over the World to a new high security prison at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, on the southwest coast of Cuba.  MORE... Almost six years later, the words "Guantanamo Bay" conjure up for some a place where iguanas are protected by federal law but prisoners (called "detainees") have few rights.  For others, it is still a place where "the worst of the worst" seized in the "War on Terror" should be held indefinitely, without the customary rights extended to prisoners of war. The confinement of these men and circumstances of their seizure have spawned a national and even international debate about torture, the habeas corpus rights of noncitizens held on a military base outside the United States in "war time,” and what measures may be politically and legally justified to assure our national security. Join two attorneys who are representing men imprisoned at Guantanamo since 2002 without charges or trial. Find out what drew them to the defense of these men held in this remote location, and what implications they see for our country from this far-from-resolved Guantanamo experience.

  Presenters: Stephen Oleskey ’64, senior partner in the litigation, environmental law, and real estate departments of the Boston-based law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, who is leading one of the firm’s most important pro bono cases involving detainees at Guantanamo Bay; Anna Cayton-Holland ’00, lawyer at the law offices of John R. Holland, a family civil rights and elder law firm in Denver
   

• WESeminar 19. ON SACHA BARON COHEN AND SARAH SILVERMAN: THIRD-WAVE JEWISH SATIRISTS CLICK HERE TO VIEW

  Sacha Baron Cohen, Larry David, Jon Stewart, Adam Sandler, and Sarah Silverman are five of the “new” Jewish comics who have taken Jewish humor into mainstream popular culture with a fresh spin.  MORE... They follow a first generation of Jewish humorists who were immersed in “Yiddishkeit” (Jackie Mason) and a second generation that moved away from Jewish traditions and themes while maintaining a strong Jewish sensibility (Woody Allen). Sacha Baron Cohen and Sarah Silverman come from families that gave them good Jewish backgrounds (Sarah Silverman’s sister is a Rabbi).  Both approach the borders of good taste—and then crash through them.  What else do these “third-wave” Jewish satirists have in common?  Come to a showing of clips from their work and a lively discussion by film and television scholar Bernard Timberg.

  Introduction: Jeremy Zwelling, associate professor of religion and director of the Jewish and Israel Studies Certificate Program

  Presenter: Bernard Timberg P ’08, media studies scholar and author of Television Talk: A History of the TV Talk Show, University of Texas Press 2003; winner of the American Library Association’s Choice Award in 2004; presently working on a book about “the comedy of provocation”
   

• WESeminar 21: STORIES AND LESSONS FROM THE CLIMATE WARS CLICK HERE TO VIEW

  In mid-November, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC) will deliver its Synthesis Report on its fourth assessment of the scientific literature to the more than 130 national governments who have signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.  MORE... Gary Yohe has served as a lead author of this assessment over the past three years and will be in Valencia, Spain, for the final approval plenary meeting.  In this talk, he will intersperse stories of his experiences as a lead author with lessons derived from the latest science.  The stories will illuminate turf wars across scientific disciplines and idiosyncratic behaviors of certain countries during the governmental approval process.  The lessons will relate observed and anticipated global impacts of climate change, including impacts likely to be experienced in New England, to ongoing policy discussions on global, national, and regional levels.

  Presenter: Gary Yohe, Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics

• More WESeminars videotaped over Homecoming/Family Weekend will be available here soon!