General
My students had better not cheat!
Apparently, “Academic Crimes” are a real thing in Connecticut. A student who commits them can be charged with a Class B Misdemeanor which includes up to 6 months imprisonment or up to $1000 in fines. [Clicking on the image will take you to the legal specifics.]
Of course, our Wesleyan Honor Code should prevent this from ever happening, right?
Paige West on conservation and int’l development
This Thursday!
Want to be a political scientist?
APCG Newsletter, 10 (1) Ready for Download
My final newsletter as Editor!
Boduszynski and Fabbe on democratic decline in Egypt and Turkey
Democracy’s dangerous decline in Egypt and Turkey – CSMonitor.com.
The US can no longer afford to remain mute on the erosion of freedom in these two key Mideast powers. While certain interests may tempt Washington to emphasize stability over democracy, this is a mistake. A look to Russia shows the fallacies of engaging with autocratic regimes.
Boduszyński: The Arab Spring, Libya, and U.S. Policy. Feb. 10.
I’m on Coursera! President Roth’s interview with me for this week’s lecture
Wesleyan President Roth interviewed me (and World Bank President Jim Kim) for this week’s Coursera lecture. The course is entitled “How to change the world” and this week’s lecture is on “Poverty and Development”.
You can find it here: https://class.coursera.org/changetheworld-001
There are clips of our interview in the first segments of his lecture.
Richard A. Elphick (History) Nominated for the Herskovits Award
Our very own Professor of History, Richard A. Elphick, has been nominated for the African Studies Association’s Melville J. Herskovits Award for his book, The Equality of Believers: Protestant Missionaries and the Racial Politics of South Africa (Charlottesville, and London: University of Virginia Press, 2012). The Award honors the most outstanding book published in African Studies in the previous year. The winner will be announced at the annual conference this weekend.
For more information: http://www.africanstudies.org/publications/asa-news/november-2013-56th-annual-meeting/276-2013-melville-j-herskovits-award-finalists
Campus Event: Africa in China
Colloquium – Su Zheng, Li Yinbei, Ma Chengcheng, Sun Yan
Exploring Music in China’s New African Diaspora—An Innovative U.S.-China Team Research Project
This Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Location: Freeman Center for East Asian Studies
Time: 4:15 p.m.
Since the 1990s, African traders and investors have made their way to China as a result of the rapid surge of China-Africa trade. There are now somewhere between 30,000 and 200,000 African migrants living in Guangzhou. Su Zheng led a research team of threegraduate students from Shanghai Conservatory to explore music in Guangzhou’s African communities. They will present their research on various African diasporic music scenes in Guangzhou and discuss the theoretical and methodological issues that arose in this innovative cross-cultural, cross-national team research process.
Su Zheng is associate professor of Music at Wesleyan University. LI Yinbei, MA Chengcheng, SUN Yan are graduate students in ethnomusicology from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, China.
Michael Nelson 