Katie Holt

Lecture Tuesday: Border Lines & Global Flows

This is a reminder that Great Decisions of Wayne County will be sponsoring a public lecture tomorrow evening (Tuesday, March 3) by Alan Bersin, titled “Border Lines and Global Flows: The Future of Border Management and Security Is Not What It Used to Be.” Mr. Bersin is a former Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs and Chief Diplomatic Office in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (2012-17), and is currently a Senior Fellow of the Belfer Center at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. His lecture is the second of a five-event series on Democracy, Trade, and Migration.

This lecture is free and open to the public, and will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Gault Recital Hall. A dessert reception will follow in the lobby area of Scheide Music Center.

Lecture: The Ancient Roots of Modern Scientific Racism” THURSDAY @7:30

“The Ancient Roots of Modern Scientific Racism”

Rebecca Futo Kennedy, Associate Professor, Department of Classics, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Environmental Studies at Denison University and Director of Denison Museum, will present a lecture entitled “The Ancient Roots of Modern Scientific Racism” on Thursday, February 27, at The College of Wooster. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held in Wishart Hall, Lean Lecture Room (303 E. University) at 7:30 p.m. Professor Kennedy says that the lecture will explore “the myriad ways in which ancient approaches to race and ethnicity, studied in the 19th and 20th century as part of standard classically focused educations, were recreated and manipulated as a science of man to justify slavery, eugenics, and white supremacism in the United States.”

Professor Kennedy is the author most recently of Immigrant Women in Athens: Gender, Ethnicity, and Citizenship in the Classical City (Routledge, 2014) and editor of the Handbook to Identity and the Environment in the Classical and Medieval Worlds (Routledge, 2015). She is a translator and editor of Race and Ethnicity in the Classical World: An Anthology of Primary Sources (Hackett, 2013) and editor of the The Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus (Brill 2017). She is currently writing a book on race and ethnicity in antiquity and its entanglements in modern white supremacy and is co-translating a sourcebook of ancient texts on women in ancient Greece and Rome.

Professor Kennedy’s visit is sponsored by Eta Sigma Phi (the Classical Studies honorary organization), the Department of Classical Studies, the Center for Diversity and Inclusion, and the Cultural Events Committee. Additional information is available by phone (330-263-2575) or email (jshaya@wooster.edu).

Phi Alpha Theta History Declaration Party

This Thursday, February 27th at 7:00pm, Phi Alpha Theta will be hosting a History Declaration Party, in honor of the students who formally declared their history major.

Everyone in the history major, as well as faculty, are invited. There will be light refreshments and a trivia game in Kauke 200.

GLIS Majors: Join us for the celebration Wednesday at 4!

Global & International Studies Majors: Please join us for our celebration on Wednesday, February 19 from 4pm to 5:30 in Old Main Café. We will have snacks provided by Spoon, and trivia led by our resident trivia master Dr. Welsch! 🎉🎊 We hope to see all of our G&IS majors-old and new-at the party!

Multicultural Mardi Gras!

Join us for a night of games, trivia, mask contests, music & dance, party favors, raffle, and international food and drinks!

Monday, February 24 @7pm in Luce’s Global Café (Luce Basement 001)

WOO Write-Ins: Writing Center Support

Looking for support as you work on your timeline entries? Woo Write-Ins are a place where students who don’t have I.S. can come and focus on their paper and essay assignments. They will be held every other Thursday, starting February 6th from 7-9pm in Williams 140. Hope to see you there!

Alumni Spotlight: Sarah Coffin ’10 Tuesday @6:30 in APEX

Learn how Wooster alumna Sarah Coffin’s career took a different path than planned, how she’s overcome being a young female in a male dominate industry, and how she’s moving her career forward.

Tuesday, February 4, 2020

6:30 p.m. in APEX, Gault Library

Please RSVP here!

Sarah Coffin graduated from The College of Wooster in 2010 and attended the Steele Internship Program at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, obtained a master’s degree in Museum Studies from Harvard University, and is the Curator at the Boston Red Sox.

Sarah’s primary job is preserving the history of the Boston Red Sox and Fenway Park. This includes caring for over 200,000 artifacts and images, creating exhibits, and supporting historical research. As a member of the team’s community relations team, Sarah also leads all of the team’s senior programing focusing on those who can no longer come to Fenway Park but whose memories and love of the Red Sox remain. Her latest partnership has included creating programing with the Alzheimer Association for those with various levels of memory impairment.

World Languages & Cultures Major & Minor Information Session THURSDAY

How could learning a world language help you?

Come to the World Languages and Cultures Major & Minor Information Session on Thursday, January 30 from 11:30am to 1pm in the Andrews Library CoRE! This is a drop-in event: come by whenever you can.

Information from each department on the structure of the major and the minor. Come learn about recent success stories in each area, Study Abroad, Fulbright, and other career studies!

Sponsored by the Chinese, Classical Languages (Greek & Latin), French, German, Russian, and Spanish Departments.