events

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.

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. 

A one-day, multi-event celebration of the way libraries and museums use emerging technologies—XRF, 3D scanning and printing, etc.—to better understand the past as a way to shape our futures. 

Join us for a reading and conversation with New York Times bestselling YA author Namina Forna, author of The Gilded Ones trilogy.

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. 

Discover how Black women use sewing as liberation—an apparatus for creativity, history, self-expression, joy, and more in every stitch. 

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. 

Porsha Olayiwola is the poet laurate for the city of Boston. She is a writer, performer, educator, and curator who uses Afro-futurism and surrealism to examine historical and current issues in the Black, woman, and queer diasporas.

A reading and conversation with Ecuadorian-American writer Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, author of Catalina (2024) and The Undocumented Americans (2021).