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Join Wellesley’s French House in welcoming Jennifer McWeeny for her lecture Why Beauvoir’s “The Second Sex” Is Not about Gender: Phenomenology, Sexual Difference, and the (Mis)translation of Se faire femme.
Panelists discuss how the Biden-Harris administration can help support women in the workplace in order to overcome the challenges of the pandemic and move the needle forward on gender equity.
Join author Beverly Daniel Tatum and Michael Jeffries, dean of academic affairs, for a candid conversation about racial relations in this country, and ways to facilitate necessary conversations about race and inclusion among young people.
The Albright Institute welcomes filmmaker Waad al-Kateab to discuss her academy award-nominated film For Sama with Wellesley’s Rachid Aadnani. For Sama documents the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Syria.
A poetry reading by Octavio González, assistant professor of Enlgish. Limerence is the psychological term for passionate love. The book is based on a doomed love affair.
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.
Sandra Jackson-Dumont is the director and chief executive officer of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.
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.
