Friday, November 1

Students must arrange in advance with their professors for parents to visit classes. Please plan to arrive on time and to stay for the duration of the class. 

Stop by the Gordon Career Center and visit with staff to learn about the resources available to students to explore career paths and find meaningful work. All are welcome!

Come hear tones drift in and out of Olin Library throughout Homecoming Weekend. Over the course of twenty-four hours, the stacks will ring vibrantly with reverberated tones, shimmer in small noises, and become perforated with musical exclamations. This ambitious installation/performance/large-scale happening is part of DRIFT / LOOP, an expansive multi-tiered space for sonic engagement and reflection, involving distributed performance, sound installation, audio streaming and radio transmission, community participation, and group contributed performances and scores.

The project began in 2020 and was initiated and commissioned by Metropolis Ensemble and Andrew Cyr, conductor/producer, in collaboration with composer and Weslyean Professor of Music Paula Matthusen, visual artist Olivia Valentine, poet and media scholar Tung-Hui Hu, with original audio interpretations by Singularity Saxophone Quartet, Metropolis Ensemble, and Matthusen. This realization marks the first time that the entire project has been presented for the length of a full day. Audience and participants are encouraged to wander in and out throughout the day.

Sharon Belden Castonguay, Executive Director of the Gordon Career Center, will discuss why a liberal arts education is critical preparation for navigating careers in the 21st century. Hear about the Center’s innovative approach to career education, which encourages students to design their own careers by exploring the intersection of their interests, the skills they have and wish to acquire, and market demand. Learn about the career services and resources available to Wesleyan students throughout their undergraduate years and beyond. 

Over the past two decades, Public Health, Population Health, and Global Health have increased in popularity. The COVID-19 pandemic increased everyone’s knowledge and awareness of the importance of public health and community health in keeping communities and people healthy and safe. As a result, more students have expressed interest in these areas. Join two public health practitioners, Joyce Y. Hall, DrPH, MPH ’78, and Brian Gilchrist, PhD, MPH, who have experience and expertise in the areas of adolescent health, maternal and child health, academia, community health, social and behavioral health, local government, and organization capacity building, as they speak about their pathways in public health. These panelists will discuss their educational paths, decisions to pursue public health careers, and past/current public health practice and specialization, shedding light on the scope and importance of public and community health programs and opportunities within these two integral practice fields. Please register here for this event.  

Presented by the Gordon Career Center—Health Professions Program  

Co-Sponsored by the American Medical Student Association, Wesleyan Chapter  

Co-Sponsored by the Minority Association of Pre-Medical Students, Wesleyan, Chapter  

Co-Sponsored by the Black Undergraduate Medical Association  

Co-Sponsored by the EMT Club 

Reading Signs: Jasper Johns and Glenn Ligon in Print
Throughout their printed works, Glenn Ligon '82, Hon. '12 and Jasper Johns demand and disrupt the act of reading. Both artists frequently discompose the visual elements of language and communication: targets drip and letters smudge. Johns and Ligon exploit the processes of printing—which entail contact and separation, mirroring and reversals—to parse the distances between signs and their meanings, and also to address the mechanics of looking on the part of the spectator. This exhibition will feature etchings and lithographs by both artists as well as screenprints by Johns in the Davison Art Collection. A conversation with Glenn Ligon '82, Hon. '12 will take place on Friday, November 1 at 4:30 p.m. in the Frank Center for Public Affairs.

Curated by the Donald T. Fallati and Ruth E. Pachman Curator of the Davison Art Collection Miya Tokumitsu.

Join the Wesleyan Athletics community to honor and recognize members of the 2000s All-Decade Football Team. Cocktail Reception & Dinner Ticket: $125, 10 guests per table. 

Registration deadline is Wednesday, October 30, 2024. Registration is limited, please register early. This event requires a separate registration, register here.