2020 – Wesleyan University Magazine

Online ExclusivesOctober 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 ’20 and his family left Iraq after their house was bombed by militia troops in 2006, resettling in the…

2020 Issue 2October 21, 2020February 6, 2021

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…

2020 Issue 2October 19, 2020February 6, 2021

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…

2020 Issue 2September 24, 2020

Editor’s Note: Cultivating Equity

After her appointment in December, Nicole Stanton was slated to begin her official duties as Wesleyan’s 12th Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs on May 15, 2020. In honoring interim Provost and SVPAA R…

2020 Issue 2September 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…

2020 Issue 2September 24, 2020

President’s Letter: ‘This Changes Everything’

Each year, incoming students are asked to read a common text as an intellectual introduction to Wesleyan. This year’s selection, a documentary entitled "This Changes Everything," offers an unflinching look at the impact …

2020 Issue 2September 24, 2020February 6, 2021

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, …