Embodied Labor: Care and Control
2023-02-11 13:00 - 17:00, 2023-02-14 13:00 - 17:00, 2023-02-18 13:00 - 17:00, 2023-02-21 13:00 - 17:00, 2023-02-25 13:00 - 17:00, 2023-02-28 13:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Curated by students enrolled in ARTH 335: Exhibition Design, Embodied Labor: Care and Control uses archival, collection, and loan objects to explore myriad forms of human labor.
Please note: the galleries will be closed December 11, 2022–January 30, 2023 for winter break; and March 11–20, 2023 for spring break.

French Table
2023-02-15 12:40 - 13:40, 2023-02-17 12:40 - 13:40, 2023-02-22 12:40 - 13:40, 2023-02-24 12:40 - 13:40, 2023-03-01 12:40 - 13:40 | 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

The Importance of DEI in the Workplace & Creating an Enriching Experience
2023-02-15 18:00 - 19:00 | Online
AlphaSights gives investment and business leaders dynamic access to industry professionals and their unique perspectives in real time, so they can make decisions that redefine industries and create a better tomorrow. We’re a global team with accelerated career progression, extensive professional development, and a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Join our webinar to learn from employees and recruiters about the importance of DEI in the Workplace. We will discuss DEI initiatives at our firm, our people & culture including opportunities to get involved with our employee resource groups and more!

Register Here

Embodied Labor: Care and Control
2023-02-16 13:00 - 20:00, 2023-02-23 13:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-02 13:00 - 20:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Curated by students enrolled in ARTH 335: Exhibition Design, Embodied Labor: Care and Control uses archival, collection, and loan objects to explore myriad forms of human labor.
Please note: the galleries will be closed December 11, 2022–January 31, 2023 for winter break; and March 11–20 for spring break.

Dance Fest 2023: Beyond All Limits
2023-02-17 19:30, 2023-02-18 19:30, 2023-02-19 15:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Wheaton’s Dance Collaborative presents Dance Fest 2023, featuring hip hop, salsa, tap, k-pop, step, and multi-cultural dance traditions, performed by TRYBE, Paraíso Latino, Tap Out Loud, KAOS and special guests, S.O.L.E. This annual performance showcases the talent of our student-run dance group.
Please note: This performance includes strobe effects
Tickets: $5 general, $3 students, can be purchased via the Watson Box Office.

Eileen de Rosas—Into the Woods
2023-02-20 15:30 | Diana Davis Spencer Cafe
Artist Eileen de Rosas (MassArt MFA ’22) presents an artist talk discussing her recent Public Art at Wheaton (PAAW) project Into the Woods, sited in the Beard Courtyard of the Mars Science Center. De Rosas will also share work from her artistic practice more broadly.

Compassionate Flexibility: An Open Conversation About Syllabi Design
2023-02-20 17:00 - 18:00 | Mary Lyon Hall – May Room, Norton, MA, 02766
Mental and physical health, for both students and faculty, are connected to the workload and intellectual labors we carry as a learning community. Syllabi are ideally designed to provide faculty and students with a roadmap and a clear set of guidelines to foster a productive, transparent working relationship. As we begin a new semester, student leaders and WIIH Fellows invite you to an open conversation reflecting on what is fair and equitable when it comes to expectations surrounding coursework. Are there ways we can think past the “either-or” fallacy of compassionate flexibility vs. intellectual rigor? Or of respect for difference vs. respect for the time and labor of others? Can we find more space in our demanding lives to calmly articulate the individual priorities and values that inform all faculty-student conversations throughout the semester?
All are welcome.
Presented by the Evelyn Danzig Haas ’39 Visiting Artists Program.

Faculty Speaker Series
2023-02-22 12:30 - 13:30 | Online
Join Miranda Yaver, Assistant Professor of Political Science for her upcoming lunch talk, Rationing By Inconvenience: The Scope and Impact of Health Coverage Denials in the U.S.
Presenters will start by discussing their topic then will end with question and answer. All presentations are virtual and free. The Zoom link will be sent the day before this discussion.
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STEP AFRiKA!
2023-02-22 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
This professional dance company based in DC, focuses on the polyrhythmic art of stepping. Steeped in African and African American tradition, step has deep roots in the emergence of HBCUs in the south. Complex percussive sequences demand energy, precision, and teamwork; the intricacies of the movements can be heard as well as seen. Step Afrika! is committed to performance and outreach, their visit to Wheaton will surely expand our understanding of collective movement—and have everyone on the edge of their seats.
Free tickets may be reserved online via the Watson Box Office.

New Plays Festival
2023-02-25 14:00, 2023-02-25 17:00, 2023-02-26 14:00, 2023-02-26 17:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Experimental Theatre, Norton, 02766, United States
Longer form plays—written, directed and performed by Wheaton students—will be showcased in our annual festival. This festival includes four performances over 2 days, different works will be featured at each seating. 2:00 and 5:00 p.m. daily.

Putting English to Work
2023-02-28 17:00 - 18:00 | Meneely – 307, Norton, MA, 02766
Hosted by the English Department and Career Services, this workshop is designed to help English majors with planning and preparing for their future careers.

Faculty Speaker Series
2023-03-02 12:30 - 13:30 | Online
Join Geoff Collins, Professor of Geology and Emily Martin ’06, Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum for their upcoming lunch talk, The Sands of Iceland Meet the Snow of Enceladus: The (literal) pit falls of planetary science.
Presenters will start by discussing their topic then will end with question and answer. All presentations are virtual and free. The Zoom link will be sent the day before this discussion.
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Cyborg Arms and Robot Caregivers: Design For an Interdependent Future
2023-03-02 17:30 - 18:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Ellison Lecture Hall, Norton, MA, 02766
Join us as we kick off the WIIIH’s Designing for Difference series, by welcoming our keynote speaker Sara Hendren. Sara is a humanist in tech—an artist, design researcher, writer, and professor at Olin College of Engineering.
Most people think about prosthetics in a posthuman future: novel tools and materials to augment the body and overcome its limitations. Or we think of inclusive or barrier-free design, efforts to make the built world accessible to people whose bodies fall outside the range of normal. But what if there’s a deeper invitation hidden in the built environment, clues that lie in all its shapes and sizes? Sara Hendren walks us through products, furniture, buildings, and city streets to locate the desirable forms of assistance that beckon all of us.
Sara’s book, What Can A Body Do? How We Meet the Built World explores the places where disability shows up in design at all scales: assistive technology, furniture, architecture, urban planning, and more. It was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by NPR and won the 2021 Science in Society Journalism book prize. Her art and design works have been exhibited in museums worldwide and are held in the permanent collections at MoMA and the Cooper Hewitt. In 2021-22, she was Lecturer in Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a fellow in Education Policy at the New America think tank, where she was researching the future of work for adults with cognitive and developmental disabilities.

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.

Employer Visit: Gosnold
2023-03-03 11:00 - 15:00 | Balfour-Hood – Atrium, Norton, 02766, United States
Seniors, are you looking for postgraduate opportunities? Gosnold will be visiting Wheaton to share some of their full-time offerings.
When: Friday, March 3rd
Where: Balfour Hood Cafe (Atrium)
Time: 11:00AM -3:00PM
