Events at Wellesley

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…

Global superstar Bad Bunny, born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, like many other Puerto Ricans, has lived a life marked by public crises—blackouts, hurricanes, political corruption and oppression, among others—that have exposed the ongoing impacts of colonialism in Puerto Rico. Offering a portrait…

We are celebrating the launch of the Status of Women and Girls in Massachusetts report, a collaborative research project of the Women’s Foundation of Massachusetts (WFMA) and the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW).

We will welcome award-winning author, scientist, and educator Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer for her talk, ”All Flourishing is Mutual.” Dr. Kimmerer will explore the serviceberry as a living metaphor for abundance, generosity, and reciprocity, offering a compelling alternative to extractive,…

Lecture: Prof. Benjamin Braude (Department of History, Boston College), "Simone Weil's Gnostic Inversion of the Nakedness of Noah and His Three Sons." In this talk, Prof. Braude will address the self-fashioning of French philosopher-saint Simone Weil and her cult of presentation in the context of…

Michael Twitty, culinary historian, author, and founder of the Southern Discomfort Tour, in conversation with Kellie Carter Jackson, Michael and Denise Kellen '68 Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Wellesley College.

Right from its foundation in 1961, the National Institute of Design (NID) in Ahmedabad, India, attempted to reorient art and design theory and practice away from the legacy of colonial-era arts pedagogies, and towards internationally resonant ideas borrowed from academies such as the German Bauhaus…