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).
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.
Voice actor, director, and advocate Sarah Elmaleh will join us for a conversation on her voiceover and advocacy work in the games industry.
A two-day residency with author, professor and artist Joshua Bennett. Dr. Bennett will engage in discussions about poetry and archive(s), and will be in conversation with Professor Dan Chiasson.
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."
Join us for a reading and conversation with New York Times bestselling YA author Namina Forna, author of The Gilded Ones trilogy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.