Events

The Newhouse Center is honored to present the New Voices Series, lunchtime talks focused on early career scholars who are pioneering new approaches to humanities-centered research and critical Ethnic Studies. 

The Russian Department is hosting the Zingaresca Ensemble for a two-day residency, which will include a performance on October 4 and a screening of their documentary, “Gypsy Vengerka,” on October 5.

Join jazz bass faculty member Mark Henry and his ensemble for a joyful midday concert, featuring an entertaining and unique blend of jazz and pop standards.

Please join the Wellesley French House in welcoming journalist Guillemette Faure for her lecture, Raconter les transformations du quotidien.

Susan M. Collins, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, will share observations from her career with a focus on economic policymaking under uncertainty.

A concert by Norbert Rodenkirchen, an internationally renowned specialist in medieval flute music.

In honor of Black Speculative Fiction Month, Newhouse Creative Writing Professor Yvette Ndlovu moderates a reading and conversation with authors P. Djèlí Clark and Hugh "H.D." Hunter.

The Voynich Manuscript has intrigued, mystified, and frustrated linguists and cryptologists for centuries. Is it a code? A lost language? Or is it a hoax perpetrated on the world by a fifteenth-century prankster or modern forger?

Genevieve Clutario and Jeanne Jalandoni discuss how their research on Filipinx histories of beauty, the body, materiality, and labor shapes their practices in tracing connections and intimacies across the Filipinx diaspora. 

The first event in the Suzy Newhouse Center's yearlong YA literature series. Bestselling author Aiden Thomas (Cemetery Boys, The Sunbearer Trials) comes to Wellesley for a reading and conversation with the community.