Events at Wellesley

In this talk, I begin with the motivation for a philosophical study of the abolition of slavery in the Atlantic world. I briefly outline figures in the abolitionist movements in Britain, Haiti, and the United States, but the talk focuses on the Igbo writer Olaudah Equiano and how he develops a…

Join us for a book launch party celebrating Sara Kippur’s new publication, New York Nouveau: How Postwar French Literature Became American (Stanford, 2025). In this exciting new work, Kippur proposes a new French literary history that traces the deep connections between postwar literary…

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…

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…

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