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2024-2025 Mary L. Cornille Visiting Scholar Jon Adler presents a curated series of conversations with experts from across the social sciences, humanities, and arts, about the role of stories in shaping our lives.
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A four-part series of lunchtime talks featuring Wellesley faculty from different departments. This year's theme centers around "isms"—the concepts and theories that define many of our fields.
How do we decide what to save? How do we make these choices? Professor Erich Matthes explores these questions and more in his new book, What to Save and Why: Identity, Authenticity, and the Ethics of Conservation.
An innocent woman, a botched execution, the making of a legend: this talk explores the sensational and urgent case of Edinburgh's "Half-Hangit Maggie."
The "environment" is not just what's "out there": it often comes indoors. In this talk, Newhouse Center fellow Allison Puglisi shows how housing activists led a Black environmental movement.
Identity has become a precious commodity, to be protected and defended. And that's not working for us. Come hear why, and what we might do instead.
The 2024-2025 Betsy Turner Jordan '59 Lecture will be given by Dr. Safiya Noble, 2021 MacArthur Fellow and author of the highly acclaimed Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism.
