Events at Wellesley

Before the Philippines became a global producer of overseas health workers, Filipina women sought training in a range of medical and scientific knowledge across the globe. While these methods were either facilitated or curtailed by shifting colonial regimes, I foreground native women who developed…

The 2025 Distinguished Faculty Lecture will be delivered by Peggy Levitt, professor of sociology and the Mildred Lane Kemper Chair of Sociology.

Lady Shug is a proud Indigenous drag artist, born for the Diné (Navajo) Nation, raised in the Four Corners area of New Mexico. Lady Shug has been entertaining audiences for over 10+ years, beginning her career with nightly performances on the Las Vegas Strip. Recently, Lady Shug felt called to…

Rachel Mesch is Professor of French and Chair of the Department of Romance Studies at Boston University. She is the author of three interdisciplinary works on gender in nineteenth-century France, The Hysteric’s Revenge: French Women Writers at the Fin de Siècle (2006); Having it All in the Belle…

Making Livable Worlds in a Time of Loss takes its title from Prof. Lloréns' recent book, and invites reflection about possible ways to navigate and survive the multiple ongoing crises in our current era. In Making Livable Worlds, Afro-Puerto Rican women's lifeways exemplify how they draw from their…

Olufemi Taiwo, Professor of Philosophy and Africana Studies, Cornell University, in conversation with Chipo Dendere, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, Wellesley College.

For decades, the dominant assumption has been that people of color in the United States would find their natural political home within the Democratic Party, with its commitment to racial liberalism. The rightward drift of minority voters is not a story of just one election. It is a phenomenon years…