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Adam Gopnik: To Fix Democracy, Figure Out What’s Broken at Wesleyan
Frank Center for Public Affairs 238 Church Street, MiddletownJoin celebrated writer Adam Gopnik, best known for his essays in The New Yorker, for an impassioned talk on the need to protect democracy at such a fractious time in American political history. “When democratic practices are in power, they look boringly normal; it’s startling to realize how fragile they really are, and how hard they […]
Revolutionary: A Conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones at Wesleyan
Frank Center for Public Affairs 238 Church Street, MiddletownIn these turbulent times, journalism, like democracy itself, feels more revolutionary than ever as the boundary between journalism and activism blurs. Please join us for a conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project and a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine, about journalism, social justice, and the praise and […]
Long Wharf Theatre Artistic Congress Keynote Conversation: Anna Deavere Smith with Dr. Khalilah Brown-Dean at Yale
Yale University Art Gallery 1111 Chapel Street, New HavenPay what you can The Long Wharf Theatre's Artistic Congress will feature an extraordinary Keynote Conversation with the acclaimed Anna Deavere Smith, the 2024-2025 Artist in Residence at Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts, and Dr. Khalilah Brown-Dean, Wesleyan's Rob Rosenthal Distinguished Professor of Civic Engagement and Executive Director of the Allbritton Center for the Study […]
Anna Deavere Smith in conversation with Joshua Lubin-Levy: “If the theater is not the place, where?” in Middletown
Yale University Art Gallery 1111 Chapel Street, New Haven +1 moreAnna Deavere Smith, the 2024-2025 Artist in Residence at Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts (CFA), will be in conversation with Joshua Lubin-Levy '06, Director of the CFA. Their conversation "If the theater is not the place, where?" will be followed by a Q&A with the audience. Presented as part of the Wesleyan Center for the Humanities […]