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.
The third annual New Voices series brings to the forefront up-and-coming scholars in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Join us at lunchtime on select Tuesdays to hear what these scholars are working on.
Ten-time Grammy-nominated musician, actor and producer Janelle Monáe is known worldwide for her inimitable style and visionary sound, which celebrates the spectrum of identity. Janelle will be in conversation with Dr. Nikki Greene.
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.
Join us for a celebration of Professor Nikki Greene (Art History) and her forthcoming book, Grime, Glitter & Glass: The Body and The Sonic in Contemporary Black Art.
As part of our Fall 2024 Radical Futures subseries on Black Feminist Worldbuilding, we will be joined by artist Harmonia Rosales, whose art focuses on Black female empowerment in Western culture and depicting and honoring the African diaspora.
In honor of Black Speculative Fiction Month, and as part of the Newhouse Center's series on Black Feminist Worldmaking, please join us for a panel with authors N.K. Jemisin, 'Pemi Aguda, and Yvette Ndlovu.
Join us for a celebration of Prof. Petra Rivera-Rideau (AMST) and her new book, Fitness Fiesta!: Selling Latinx Culture Through Zumba.
The Friends of the Library invite you to a panel discussion and reception at the Newhouse Center followed by an open house in the Book Arts Lab.
The final event in the Newhouse Center's yearlong Radical Possibilities in YA Lit Series. Join us for a book launch celebration honoring Ann Zhao '24 and her debut novel Dear Wendy.
Using the film Crazy Rich Asians, we will consider megastructures of feeling as a tonic of modernity, a techno-orientalist utopia, an avant-garde failure, and infrastructural hemeneutic, and a futuristic complex for Asia/America.
The third event in the Suzy Newhouse Center's yearlong series on Radical Possibilities in YA Lit. Gabby Rivera visits us for a reading from Juliet Takes a Breath and for a conversation with the college community.
Jay Rubin speaks with Eve Zimmerman about his choices in the process of translating Haruki Murakami's works from Japanese to English.
Where is the field of Africana Studies now, where is it heading, and what lessons can we learn from the philosopher Charles Mills? Join us for a half-day symposium featuring faculty, student scholarship, and a keynote lecture.
What should we do, think, and feel when artists we love do terrible things? Should work be available for consumption, or should it be “canceled?” Wellesley’s Erich Matthes offers an argument based on his ongoing research.
How does the evolution of humor shift over time? When does controversial humor become socially acceptable, and when does it cease to be acceptable? Newhouse Center fellow Veronika Fuechtner (Dartmouth College) offers an explanation.
A poetry reading by Octavio González, assistant professor of English. Limerence is the psychological term for passionate love. The book is based on a doomed love affair.
In this open class session, Professor Natali Valdez (Women's and Gender Studies) will discuss her current book project, in which she examines the social and political implications of clinical trials on pregnant populations.
In collaboration with the January Project, Pulitzer Prize nominee and National Book Award finalist Laila Lalami joins us for a virtual reading and a conversation with Newhouse Center Director Eve Zimmerman.
Environmental Studies professor and Knapp Faculty Fellow Jay Turner will examine the current debates and future prospects for a clean energy future.
In the inaugural event of 2020-2021's Newhouse at Home lecture series, Professor Larry Rosenwald (English, Peace and Justice Studies) will provide an account of pacifist criticism.
Cornille Professor Ken Botnick explores the material authorship of the artist book, achieved through the combination of concept, design, material, and production.