Wheaton College Massachusetts

French Table
2023-03-31 12:40 - 13:40, 2023-04-05 12:40 - 13:40, 2023-04-07 12:40 - 13:40, 2023-04-12 12:40 - 13:40, 2023-04-14 12:40 - 13:40, 2023-04-19 12:40 - 13:40, 2023-04-21 12:40 - 13:40, 2023-04-26 12:40 - 13:40 (America/New_York) and 5 more dates | Emerson Dining Room
Come one Come All !
WHEN: Wednesdays/ Fridays
TIME: 12:40-1:40 p.m.
WHO: Anyone wanting to practice their French skills are welcome
WHERE: Emerson dining hall, look for the French flag!
CONTACT US: Email with questions or comments:

place_alexandra@wheatoncollege.edu

Free prep sessions for the Communication & Literacy MTEL
2023-04-05 17:00 - 19:00, 2023-04-11 17:00 - 19:00 | Meneely 205
Hello future teachers:
Academic Advising is providing free prep sessions for the Communication & Literacy MTEL from 5-7 PM on Wednesday, April 5 & Tuesday, April 11. This exam (along with completion of an education program) is required to earn your teaching license.
Location: Meneely 205
The Wednesday session will be on the Reading subtest and the Tuesday session will be on the Writing subtest.
The instructor, Janice Standring (janicestanding@gmail.com), will focus on reviewing your questions about the practice tests (click links below). In order to be prepared and benefit from the sessions, it is important to complete and bring a copy (or have electronic access) of the Reading practice test (4/5) or the Writing test (4/11).
Reading Subtest
https://www.mtel.nesinc.com/Content/Docs/MA_FLD101_Reading_PRACTICE_TEST_V2.pdf
Writing Subtest
https://www.mtel.nesinc.com/Content/Docs/MA_FLD201_Writing_PRACTICE_TEST_V2.pdf

True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality
2023-04-05 17:30 - 19:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Ellison Lecture Hall, Norton, MA, 02766
This event involves a screening of the documentary True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality that focuses on Stevenson’s life and career – particularly his indictment of the U.S. criminal justice system for its role in codifying modern systemic racism. The film was produced and directed by Wheaton alum George Kunhardt.
A Q&A session with George will follow the screening.
Sponsored by the Criminal Justice, Restorative Justice, and Criminology program.

Radical Visibility: A Queercrip Dress Reform Movement
2023-04-12 17:30 - 18:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Ellison Lecture Hall, Norton, MA, 02766
Join multidisciplinary artist Sky Cubacub, who created Rebirth Garments in 2014. Rebirth Garment’s mission is to create gender non-conforming wearables and accessories for people on the full spectrum of gender, size and ability. The line creates a community where all people can confidently express their individuality and identity. Trans and disabled communities have clothing needs not adequately served by mainstream clothing designers. Instead of being centered on cisgender, heterosexual, white, thin people, Rebirth Garments focuses on the needs of disabled queer lives, with an emphasis on radical visibility and joy.
Sky is a non-binary xenogender and disabled Filipinx queer from Chicago. They were named 2018 Chicagoan of the Year by the Chicago Tribune, a 2019-2020 Kennedy Center Citizen Artist, and Disability Futures Fellow. Sky has recently shared their work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Rhode Island School of Design, the University of Utah, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Northwestern University. Rebirth Garments has been featured in Teen Vogue, Nylon, Playboy, Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Vice, Wussy Mag, and the New York Times.

Designing for Difference brings innovative design leaders, thinkers and humanists to campus, to celebrate the inauguration of Wheaton’s new Design program. Anchored in the History and Theory of Design course, this spring the WIIH asks students, staff, and faculty to challenge the concept of “normal” and reconsider what makes design inclusive. All events are open to the public.
Presented by the Evelyn Danzig Haas ’39 Visiting Artists Program.

Critical Access Studies
2023-04-18 17:30 - 18:30 | Online
Much of the literature about accessibility seeks to convince architects of the significance of inclusion. However, the field of Critical Access Studies has emerged in the last 10-15 years to raise additional questions of what counts as access, who benefits, and how designers can know. Aimi Hamraie will discuss some of the insights of Critical Access Studies that can better inform the theory and practice of accessible design.
Aimi Hamraie is Associate Professor of Medicine, Health, & Society and American Studies at Vanderbilt University, and director of the Critical Design Lab, a collaborative of disabled designers, artists, and researchers working within a disability culture framework. Hamraie is also the author of Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability. They are a recent appointee to the United States Access Board.
Join Zoom Event here.

Designing for Difference brings innovative design leaders, thinkers and humanists to campus, to celebrate the inauguration of Wheaton’s new Design program. Anchored in the History and Theory of Design course, this spring the WIIH asks students, staff, and faculty to challenge the concept of “normal” and reconsider what makes design inclusive. All events are open to the public.
Presented by the Evelyn Danzig Haas ’39 Visiting Artists Program.

2023 Senior Creative Writing Majors’ Reading
2023-04-19 17:00 | Mary Lyon Hall – Woolley Room, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Seniors graduating with a degree in creative writing and literature showcase original works of poetry, fiction and dramatic writing.

Wheaton Social Impact Conference
2023-04-21 09:00 - 17:00 | Diana Davis Spencer Discovery Center – Lobby
A student-run conference at Wheaton College, MA that brings together students from various colleges, professionals from all over the world, and members of the community to think about the role of organizations in creating social impact.
What will you get out of attending?
This year’s conference opens with a keynote address, then breaks into parallel impact-oriented development sessions, and concludes with an Impact Award Ceremony over dinner and networking. Participants will learn from distinguished practitioners and scholars working on the issue of social impact, as well as from students and community members who are working to make the world a better place. There will be food (breakfast, lunch and dinner), refreshments, swag, and several networking opportunities throughout the day!
Reserve your free tickets today!
Check us out on instagram @wheatonsocialimpactconference and join our Linkedin page for updates!

Academic Festival 2023
2023-04-28 11:30 - 15:00 | Filene Center, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
On Friday, April 28 we will highlight our students’ work in the 2023 Academic Festival. This one-day festival will include a 3-minute elevator pitch competition, a poster session and tables that could highlight other types of work, and a reception that will bring students, faculty and staff together to play with ideas and celebrate their intellectual and creative pursuits.

Honors Convocation 2023
2023-05-04 17:00 - 18:00 | Cole Memorial Chapel, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Please join President Michaele Whelan, Provost Touba Ghadessi and Dean of Students Darnell Parker for the college’s annual celebration of academic accomplishment.
Professor Francisco Fernández de Alba
Departmental and College awards will be presented to students who have distinguished themselves as scholars and academic citizens of Wheaton College. Senior Class President Caylynn Watson-Fields ’23 will present the Faculty Appreciation Award and Provost Touba Ghadessi will announce the recipient of this year’s endowed honorary chair, Jane E. Ruby Chair in Humanities and Social Sciences.
Professor of Hispanic Studies Francisco Fernández de Alba will deliver the keynote address titled “On the Lasting Value of a Good Book”.
The lineup for the procession begins promptly at 4:45 p.m. College Marshals Stephanie Daniels and Russell Williams will line up the faculty in front of Knapton Hall and students in front of the Chapel. (Inclement weather: Faculty will line up in the lower level of the Chapel and students will line up in Balfour-Hood).
Join us for a campus BBQ on the Dimple immediately following the ceremony. The event is open to the public but seating is limited and on a first-come, first-served basis. The recording of the ceremony and the official program will be available online shortly after the event. We hope you can join us for this special academic tradition.
Learn more about Honors Convocation

Come Frunch with Us
2023-09-22 11:00 - 12:00, 2023-09-29 11:00 - 12:00, 2023-10-06 11:00 - 12:00, 2023-10-13 11:00 - 12:00 | Emerson Dining Hall – President’s Dining Room, Norton, 02766, United States
Come on Come All!
When: Fridays
Time: 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Who: Anyone wanting to practice their French is welcome
Where: Emerson Dining Hall (look for the French flag!)
Please contact Alexandra Place at place_alexandra@wheatoncolleg.edu with questions or comments

World Interaction Design Day
2023-09-26 17:30 - 18:45 | Watson Fine Arts – Ellison Lecture Hall, Norton, MA, 02766
Wheaton alumni designers Michele L’Heureux and Boon Sheridan will be on campus September 26 for World Interaction Design Day, an annual global event by the Interaction Design Association to celebrate interaction design’s ability to improve the human condition.
Michele and Boon will share how interaction design shows up in their current professional work and discuss this year’s theme, Ethics, Equity and Responsibility, with professor of design practice Tania Schlatter.

Hispanic & Latine Heritage Month Keynote Speaker - Yvette Modestin
2023-09-29 14:30 - 15:30 | Mary Lyon Hall – Holman Room, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Please join us for our Hispanic and Latine Heritage Month Keynote Speaker – Yvette Modestin. Yvette is a local award-winning writer, poet, and activist from Colon, Panama, who focuses on shedding light on the Afro-descendant experience in Latin America.

Faculty Research Talk
2023-10-02 12:30 - 13:30 | Online
Join Miranda Yaver, Assistant Professor of Political Science n for an upcoming Faculty Research Talk, Damages Denied: The Impact of ERISA’s Statutory Design on Patients’ Access to Health Care.
Presenters will begin by discussing their topic, and each session will close with a question and answer segment. All presentations are virtual and free and the Zoom link will be sent the day before this discussion.
Despite being written primarily as a pension law, the Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) of 1974 has come to apply to the majority of employer-sponsored health plans in the United States. However, despite its health care salience, it has a key statutory design feature that limits patients’ ability to access their prescribed care: it precludes damages recovery for those who have been denied health coverage, an insurance practice that is pervasive and increasing. The absence of litigation incentives creates perverse incentives for insurers because it makes it all the more unlikely that patients will be able to obtain legal representation, such that insurers may deny with impunity. Drawing on extant literature on path dependence and on ERISA’s history and implementation, legislative history, and interviews with key congressional staffers, this paper evaluates this statutory design’s persistence across moments of health care reform including the Patients’ Bill of Rights and the Affordable Care Act, and the ways in which this can not only limit patients’ rights upon a coverage denial but exacerbates inequities in the American health care system and reduces health insurer accountability in a manner that can perpetuate the denials themselves.
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Many Voices, Many American Poetries Festival
2023-10-13 17:00 - 2023-10-14 17:00 | Watson Fine Arts, Wheaton College, Norton, MA, United States
Join us for this two-day festival celebrating the many different representations in American poetry.
The event includes:

Round table discussions attended by poets who are traveling to Wheaton from across the country
A showcase including Wheaton alum and undergraduate students from the Boston area
A reading by a local arts organization

On this page:

Day 1 Schedule – October 13, 2023
Day 2 Schedule – October 14, 2023

Day 1 Schedule
Keynote Address
October 13, 2023 | 5:00 p.m.
Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre
Oliver de la Paz opens the festival with a keynote address, “Apologia for the Tumbleweed: Some Thoughts on Poetry, Deserts, and Diaspora.”

Oliver de la Paz is the Poet Laureate of Worcester, MA for 2023-2025. He is the author and editor of seven books: Names Above Houses, Furious Lullaby, Requiem for the Orchard, Post Subject: A Fable, and The Diaspora Sonnets, The Boy in the Labyrinth, a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry. Oliver serves as the co-chair of the Kundiman advisory board. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), the Artist’s Trust of Washington, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and has been awarded multiple Pushcart Prizes. He teaches at the College of the Holy Cross and in the Low-Residency MFA Program at PLU.
Boston-area Student Showcase
October 13, 2023 | 6:30 p.m.
Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre

Students from the Boston area paired with Wheaton alumni read from their original work.
Cheyenne Bates is an alumna of Wheaton College of Norton MA who graduated with the class of 2020. Cheyenne double majored in Creative Writing and Theatre. During her time at Wheaton, her playwriting was highlighted in the Every 28 Hours play Festival. Cheyenne also participated in The Martin Luther King Jr. Showcase where she won an award. She also was a participant in the 10-minute play festival hosted by Wheaton’s own playwright-in-residence Charlotte Meehan. Lastly, Cheyenne spent a semester studying Advanced Playwriting at The National Theater Institute located at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center where she received her certificate in Advanced Playwriting.
Isabella Cho (Harvard University) is a rising senior studying English at Harvard College. On campus, she is an editor for her undergraduate newspaper and conducts researc h on how technological and cultural forces are shaping employment opportunities in the United States. Her creative and critical writing have been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the Asian American Journalists Association, Harvard Magazine, and YoungArts, among others. She is currently writing her undergraduate thesis, a collection of poems.
Olivia Lee Rui is a Chinese American poet from Reading, MA whose work primarily deals with adolescence, race, generational trauma, adoption, and other life experiences. She writes in a variety of prose, poetry, and playwriting—often all at once. Olivia is a ’23 Wheaton graduate still getting her bearings in the world, and wonderfully excited about everything in it.
Isaiah Lopez (Boston College) is a senior English major from the small costal town of Bay City, Texas. He is a first generation college student, as well as a first generation high school graduate. In his free time, he enjoys exploring the many parks of Boston and getting lost in the MFA’s many collections. His favorite authors include D.H. Lawrence and Raymond Carver.
Elizabeth Martinez (University of Massachusetts-Boston) is a Latinx poet who specializes in memoir-like poetry. She implements her experiences with mental health to showcase how important it is we take care of ourselves.
Viviana Infante (Brandeis University) is a Junior attending Brandeis University, though she calls her family back in New Jersey home. As a writer, she is often inspired by mythology, folklore and fables, and poems that involve clementines. She often loves to use poetry as a means to work through personal experiences, as well as expand on her understanding of the world and the many ways in which she can view it.
Sara Omar (University of Massachusetts-Lowell) is an English major at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She enjoys incorporating the beauty from travels into her writing as inspiration.

Day 2 Schedule
Conflicted Voices Roundtable
October 14, 2023 | 10:00 a.m.
Watson Fine Arts – Ellison Lecture (Watson 102)
What does it mean to embody several voices or perspectives, which may be in conflict with each other? Poets on this roundtable openly consider the challenge of finding coherence in a voice, and whether doing so is a worthwhile goal. Poets Afua Ansong and Latasha N. Nevada Diggs field questions from the audience about their work.

Afua Ansong is an Assistant Professor in Africana Studies at the University of Rhode Island. She recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Mt. Holyoke College and received her Ph.D. in English Literature and Creative Writing and MBA from the University of Rhode Island. She has three chapbooks, Black Ballad (Bull City Press, 2022), Try Kissing God (Akashic, 2020), and American Mercy (Finishing Line Press, 2019), and has published work in Prairie Schooner, Four Way Review, Maine Review, and other journals. More of her work is at afuansong.com.

Interdisciplinary poet and sound artist LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs is the author of Village (Coffee House Press 2023) and TwERK (Belladonna, 2013). She is also the author of three chapbooks, which include Ichi- Ban and Ni-Ban (MOH Press), Manuel is destroying my bathroom (Belladonna*), and the album Televisíon.
Pop-up Poetry
October 14, 2023 | 12:00 p.m.
Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries
Lunch is included for attendees

Denise Washington is so excited to be using the power of poetry to positively bring people together! She is the Founder, CEO and Curator of her #Pop-Up Poetry Series, A Denise Plays Hard Event Featuring Akili Jamal Haynes, Becoming Chibuzo, #Pop-Up Poetry’s Multi-disciplinary Artist!
For 6 years, poetry has been popping up around, adding voices and more beauty to gardens, parks, playgrounds and beaches in the City of Boston & beyond, on-line, virtually, and globally, (sailing up the Hapi River in Kemet and in Kingston, Jamaica!) healing and empowering communities one poem at a time! Most recently, in front of more than 600 principals and new teachers, #Pop-Up Poetry, with Akili Jamal Haynes-Becoming Chibuzo was an example of Equitable Literacy in Practice at Boston Public Schools’ Leadership Institute in August 2022 at Boston University. Also, in June 2022, she opened up for KRS-One at the Black Market, Buy Back Your Block in Nubian Square and her poem, “ A Quilt of Greatness” which was made into a short film, a collaboration with Akili Jamal Haynes, #Pop-Up Poetry Series’ Multi-Instrumentalist, was selected to have a screening in The 2022 Roxbury International Film Festival on June 25 2022 at Hibernian Hall.
Location, Origin and Diasporas Roundtable
October 14, 2023 | 1:00 p.m.
Watson Fine Arts – Ellison Lecture (Watson 102)
A lot of writers and people in general have a complex relationship to “home” as a location of geographic/cultural origin. Poets on this roundtable have used poetry to further complicate the concept by home by exploring diasporic identities. Poets Anna Maria Hong and Basie Allen field questions from the audience about their work.

Anna Maria Hong is the author of the poetry collections Age of Glass, winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s First Book Poetry Competition, and Fablesque, winner of Tupelo Press’s Berkshire Prize, and the novella H & G, winner of the A Room of Her Own Foundation’s Clarissa Dalloway Prize. Her writings appear recently in Guernica, Conduit, Notre Dame Review, FENCE, Poetry, The Hopkins Review, and The American Sonnet: An Anthology of Poems and Essays. A recipient of fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation, she is an Associate Professor at Mount Holyoke College.

Basie Allen is a poet and visual artist from New York City. His work carves parentheses in-between dirt and feeling. In 2020 he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In 2022 he was nominated for the National Book Award. He is currently working on a new series of paintings for an upcoming exhibition.
America is More Than the English Language Rountable
October 14, 2023 | 2:15 p.m.
Watson Fine Arts – Ellison Lecture (Watson 102)

America is a home to many, and, likewise, its languages are many. Poets on this roundtable consider the poetic effects of juxtaposing English to another language. Poets Gabriel Dozal and Abigail Chabitnoy field questions from the audience about their work.

Gabriel Dozal is from El Paso, Texas. He received his MFA in poetry from the University of Arizona. His work appears in Poetry magazine, Guernica, Bomb Magazine, The Iowa Review, The Brooklyn Rail,and more. His first book of poetry The Border Simulator/El Simulador de Fronteras is available from One World/Random House.

Abigail Chabitnoy is the author of In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful (Wesleyan 2022); How to Dress a Fish (Wesleyan 2019), shortlisted for the 2020 International Griffin Prize for Poetry and winner of the 2020 Colorado Book Award; and the linocut illustrated chapbook Converging Lines of Light (Flower Press 2021). Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Boston Review, Tin House, Gulf Coast, LitHub, and Red Ink, among others. She currently teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts low-residency MFA program and is an assistant professor at UMass Amherst. Abigail is a member of the Tangirnaq Native Village in Kodiak. Find her at salmonfisherpoet.com.
Poets Q&A
October 14, 2023 | 3:30 p.m
Watson Fine Arts – Ellison Lecture (Watson 102)
All participants in the festival will be available to field questions from the audience.

Sponsored by the Celeste Gottesman Bartos ’35 Fund for the Visual Arts within the Evelyn Danzig Haas ’39 Visiting Artists Program
