Wednesday 7 April 2021
4pm: Come to the open house for the Muslim studies minor;
4:30pm: Stay on for this year’s Muslim Studies talk by Prof. Evren Savci on:
“QUEER IN TRANSLATION: SEXUAL POLITICS UNDER NEOLIBERAL ISLAM.”
Join us here: https://wesleyan.zoom.us/j/95228139620
Contact Typhaine Leservot tleservot@wesleyan.edu for any questions.
Now through Thursday April 1, 2021
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Main Gallery
Now through Thursday March 25, 2021
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, South Gallery
https://www.wesleyan.edu/cfa/galleries/zilkha-exhibition/
Hello Everyone,
The Resource Center is now closed and will reopen after the Wesleyan quarantine period ends on February 22nd. Our operational hours at that time will be Sunday-Friday from 12pm-8pm. Although students are not able to physically check out books from the RC during quarantine, they can virtually reserve and check out books by filling out this form. You can see what books are available in the library by checking out our catalogue. You can also check out books from the RC or request a book to be purchased through the FGLI Textbook Fund even if you are studying remotely- we will ship the book to you. Visit our website (https://www.wesleyan.edu/resourcecenter/programs.html) for more details.
Beyond providing academic supplies, The RC staff is eager to continue engaging with the Wesleyan student body on creating meaningful virtual community spaces for underrepresented and marginalized students. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook to stay in the loop about our programs, initiatives, and opportunities that can benefit you and our community. Also check out the Black History Month 2021 calendar on Ujamaa’s Instagram for other great programs to attend this month. If you have an idea for a program or initiative that would help support underrepresented and marginalized student populations on campus, please reach out to us therc@wesleyan.edu with your suggestions. I hope you and your families are doing okay and safe travels to everyone returning to campus!
Sincerely,
-Demetrius
DEMETRIUS COLVIN
Director, The Resource Center
Wesleyan University
167 High Street | Middletown, CT 06459
P. (860) 685-3979 | E. dcolvin@wesleyan.edu
Website: https://www.wesleyan.edu/resourcecenter/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wesresourcecenter/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wesresourcecenter/
The Office for Equity & Inclusion is hosting the 1st Annual Diversity Summit on Monday, February 8, 2021. Click on this Zoom link all day for an exciting lineup of short presentations, interactive workshops, sharing & community brainstorming.
Schedule:
9:30 am – 11:15 am Community Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Updates
Hear your friends, coworkers and members from all over Wesleyan share what they have done in their departments to further their understanding of how to promote social justice, equity and antiracism. This will be an opportunity to share ideas and actions and take some to share with others.
11:15am – 12:15 pm What is Diversity, Equity & Inclusion? Video and reflection:
A pre-recorded conversation of the Office for Equity & Inclusion team reflecting on equity & inclusion and what it means globally, at Wesleyan, and personally
12:15 pm – 1:50 pm Keynote: Decision Making from an Anti-Oppressive Lens: a conversation and interactive workshop with Dr. Liza A. Talusan
Commitment to diversity, inclusion and action are a community wide effort, and the work of the administrators, faculty, staff, students, advisors, counselors, and leaders can serve as both a springboard and a barrier to this work. In this interactive session, we will be engaging with definitions of diversity, inclusion, equity, and justice as a way to root our actions and utilize an anti-oppression decision making framework for you to implement in your practice.
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm All-Campus Dialogue and Plenary Session
What are we taking away from today, how do we as a community move forward, what steps do you want to take? This is Wesleyan’s time to talk while we listen!
Join us on Monday for an exciting day of presentations and workshops by accessing the Zoom conference and using the password inclusion. The schedule is also available on the Equity and Inclusion website. We look forward to your participation!
At the start of every Spring semester we come together as a community to honor the civil rights legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This year’s MLK Commemoration will be held on Friday, February 12th from 12:15 pm -1:15pm on Zoom. This year our keynote speaker will be Civil Rights activist, organizer, author, and educator, Ruby Sales.
Ruby Nell Sales looks at her work as a calling rather than a career. She answered the call to social justice as a teenager at Tuskegee Institute where she joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and worked on voter registration in Lowndes County, Alabama. Sales received a B.A. degree from Manhattanville College and attended graduate school at Princeton University. Sales received a Masters of Divinity degree from the Episcopal Divinity School where she was an Absalom Jones Scholar. While there, she developed a reputation as a preacher and has preached at churches and cathedrals around the nation. After divinity school, she founded and still directs a national nonprofit organization, the SpiritHouse Project (link).
This is event is sponsored by The Resource Center, Office for Equity and Inclusion, Department of African-American Studies and the Center for African-American Studies, Fries Center for Global Studies, and the Wesleyan Library. If you have any questions about the event, please don’t hesitate to contact Demetrius Colvin at dcolvin@wesleyan.edu.
Hello Everyone,
You are invited to participate in the Spring 2021 Anti-Racist Reading Group for faculty, staff, and students sponsored by the Office for Equity and Inclusion. My name is Demetrius Colvin and I am the Director of The Resource Center and will facilitate this Spring’s reading of the 3rd edition of Allan G. Johnson’s Power, Privilege, and Difference (link) for the reading group. The reading group will meet once a week starting the week of Feb. 15th. If you are interested in participating, please fill out this form by Friday, February 5th so I can get a sense from you all what will be the best time to meet each week for our discussions and if you need any assistance in getting a copy of the reading. Let me know if you have any follow-up questions or concerns and I look forward to learning and collaborating with you all this semester!
Sincerely,
-Demetrius
DEMETRIUS COLVIN
Director, The Resource Center
Wesleyan University
167 High Street | Middletown, CT 06459
P. (860) 685-3979 | E. dcolvin@wesleyan.edu
Website: https://www.wesleyan.edu/resourcecenter/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wesresourcecenter/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wesresourcecenter/
“Part of the mythology that they’ve been teaching you is that you have no power. Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth; it is in your relationship to the earth.” – Winona LaDuke
Repatriation, Indigenous Rights, and Museum Collections: A Conversation for NAGPRA’s 30th Anniversary
Thursday, November 12th at 4:30-6:00PM (EST)
Link to register for this Zoom event:
https://wesleyan.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iKJCCicrSKipdwGQ7WSnGg
Meeting ID: 966 5472 3894
Panelists:
Shannon Martin (Enrolled citizen of the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians – Gun Lake Tribe & descendant of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa)
Lucy Bell, Sdahl K’aawas
Wendi Field Murray, Wesleyan University
From 7:00-7:30, we invite the audience to continue discussions and interactions with the panel speakers and moderator in breakout rooms
Room 1: Professor Nii Addy
Room 2: Dr. Angie Makomenaw
Room 3: Rabbi David Teva – Meditation Session*
Room 4: Demetrius Colvin
Thank you in advance for your interest and participation.
Salud,
Fitzroy ‘Pablo’ Wickham
Head Resident Foss Hill
Senior Class President
Wesleyan c/o ’21
Join us on Thursday, October 8, at 6:30 pm for the next installment of Don’t Hate…Communicate! led by Dr. David Campt (as seen on Trevor Noah).
This is an interactive experience designed to help people better understand how to navigate many of the challenges of modern day political polarization. With the election approaching and polarization increasing, many people do not know how to have a civil conversation with others who might disagree with them (as demonstrated in Tuesday’s candidate ‘debate’). Participants will learn about what they can personally do within conversations to turn moments of difficulty into moments of dialogue.
This event is cosponsored by Wesleyan University’s Office for Equity & Inclusion, E2020, The Jewett Center for Community Partnerships, Department of Government and the Department of American Studies.
The event is open to all, but preregistration is required as space is limited. To reserve your space, Preregister Here.
Monday – Friday, 3pm – 6pm
