Light By Which to Dream
[Photo by Audrey Hall]
Growing up living hand-to-mouth in a Nairobi slum, Kennedy Odede ’12 experienced true hardship and despair firsthand. But after a serendipitous encounter with Jessica Posner ’0…
Long Form
(Not So) Lost in Translation: Study Abroad Sets Students Up for Immersive Cultural Experiences
Photo of Cap Est, Madagascar, by Katie Toner ’20
It’s a common image on movie screens, in vacation videos, and in soc…
Wesleyan and the World in Pictures
Each year, the Fries Center for Global Studies asks Wesleyan students who have had any global experience over the previo…
Technology as a Tool for Transcendence: William Tyner ’13
In creating a new documentary film on technology in Romania, Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellow W…
Engaged Locally and Globally: The Wesleyan Refugee Project Aims to Improve Life for Displaced Peoples
Humans around the globe are experiencing unprecedented levels of displacement. Earlier this year, the UNHCR (the United …
War’s Aftermath in Artsakh: Filmmaker Documents Women Who Clear Landmines
Jesse Soursourian ’03 is back in his grandfather’s country, filming the new generation of women who leave behind cultura…
Narratio: Art Through/Beyond Displacement
Having found his way from Baghdad, to South Dakota, to Wesleyan, and having found his own voice in the process, Ahmed Ba…
Who Could Ask for Anything More?
Jeanine Basinger had never taught a film class in her life when she first arrived at Wesleyan on May 31, 1960. As the ne…
“You Will Know Them By Their Films”: Scott Higgins and Jeanine Basinger in Conversation
Jeanine Basinger is the Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies and the founder of both the Film Studies Department and …
Alumni in Action: Kira Orange-Jones ’00
Because Wesleyan film studies focuses on the history and analysis of the discipline—teaching how rather than what to thi…