From Wesleyan Women in Science:

Curious about engineering? Join WesWIS for an event that is half info session, half engineering challenge. There will be pizza for everyone, and prizes for the winner of the challenge! Information about engineering at Wes will be presented by Profs. Huwel (3-2 program) and Moller (IDEAS minor), and 3-2 student Rami Hamati will be there to talk about his personal experience as an engineering student at Wes. As always, people of all majors and genders are welcome at WesWIS events. If you want there to be enough pizza, please please RSVP to Maureen Snow (msnow[at]wesleyan[dot]edu)

Date: Thursday, March 1
Time: 12-1PM
Place: Allbritton 311

Michael Roth ’78 is going to talk about freedom of speech:

What: The Veritas Forum

Title: The Trouble with Freedom: A Dialogue on Balancing Religious Freedom and Freedom of Speech from a Christian and a Secular Perspective

Time: Thursday 7PM, March 1st, 2018

Location: Daniel Family Commons (Usdan 3rd floor)

Speakers:
Michael Wear (Faith Outreach Director during Obama Administration)
Michael Roth (President of Wesleyan University)

Moderator:
Prof. Mary Alice Haddad (Professor of Government and Chair of the CEAS)

Description:
How can American society cohere and freedom be preserved? The current political climate and recent social incidents have led many to question and examine what freedom of speech, religious liberty, and freedom in general, mean in the 21st century of the United States. At this year’s Veritas Forum, we will discuss the political, social, and cultural implications of religious liberty.

Light refreshments included.

Date: Thursday, March 1
Time: 7-8:30PM
Place: Daniel Family Commons

From the Career Center:

Join us for an information session with President & Founder, Andrew Bleeker ‘07 and Founding Partner, Ben Clark ’99 of Bully Pulpit Interactive, a digitally-based marketing and communications agency that specializes in public affairs, corporate reputation and social impact.

Since their founding in 2009, BPI has applied the lessons of politics to brands and supported over 400 clients across multiple continents. These include 8% of FORTUNE 100 companies, Presidents, Senators and Prime Ministers, as well as several of the top non-profits around the world.

Andrew & Ben will discuss working at Bully Pulpit Interactive and their current positions. They will also conduct a Q&A session on the state of political marketing and share how to get into the field. BPI is also hiring for full-time and summer internship positions.

Date: Thursday, March 1
Time: 12-1PM
Place: Career Center

A cool event happening at the bookstore:

Fascinating patient stories and dynamic exercises that help you connect to healing emotions, ease anxiety and depression, and discover your authentic self.

In It’s Not Always Depression, psychotherapist Hilary Jacobs Hendel presents readers with a unique and pragmatic tool she calls The Change Triangle. The Change Triangle is a map—a guide to carry you from a place of disconnection back to your true self. Working the Change Triangle is the step-by-step process at the heart of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), a therapeutic method that teaches patients to identify the defenses and inhibitory emotions (shame, anxiety, and guilt) that prevent them from being in touch with their core emotions (joy, anger, sadness, fear, and excitement). In allowing ourselves to fully experience core emotions, we move toward an openhearted state where we are calm, curious, connected, compassionate, confident, courageous, and clear. Through moving, persuasive stories of working the Change Triangle with her own patients, Hendel teaches us how to apply these principles to our everyday lives.

Hilary Jacobs Hendel ’85, P’18 is a psychoanalyst and certified AEDP psychotherapist and supervisor practicing in New York City. She has written articles for the New York Times and professional journals. She was also the Mental Health Consultant on the television show MadMen. Hilary’s blog, the Change Triangle, is read worldwide. Hilary is a Wesleyan alumna who graduated with the Class of 1985, and she is also a proud Wesleyan parent with a child currently enrolled in the Class of 2018.

Date: Thursday, March 1
Time: 7-9PM
Place: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore

Ian Foster writes in:

Mary Gordon is the author of eight novels, including There Your Heart Lies (2017), Final Payments, and The Love of My Youth; six works of nonfiction, including the memoirs The Shadow Man and Circling My Mother; and four collections of short fiction, including The Stories of Mary Gordon, which won the Story Prize in 2006. Gordon has received many honors, including a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is the Millicent C. McIntosh Professor in English and Writing at Barnard College.

Date: Wednesday, February 28
Time: 6PM
Place: Russell House

Oren Maximov ’18 writes in:

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If you fit any of the descriptions above, you should come to audition for Desperate Measures, Wesleyan’s only short-form improv comedy group!

Auditions will be Monday (2/5) and Tuesday (2/6) in the East Room (CFA Theater Studios building) at 5-6.
Callbacks will be Thursday (2/8) from 5-6.
We don’t need you to prepare anything ahead of time. Just come for the full hour, and most importantly, have fun!
Questions? Contact omaximov[at]wesleyan[dot]edu

Date: Monday, February 5 and Tuesday, February 6
Time: 5-6PM
Place: East Room of the CFA Theater Studios Building

Zenzele Price ’18 writes in:

Our monthly FREE movie + brunch event is happening on SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3RD! Come one, come all for free carbolicious delicacies, coffee, and cinematic delight!

Date: Saturday, February 3
Time: 11:30AM-2:30PM
Place: Shapiro Center (116 Mt. Vernon)