Events at Wellesley

The Suzy Newhouse Center for the Humanities is proud to present its fourth annual New Voices Series, a set of four presentations featuring up-and-coming scholars in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Our first session for Fall 2025, ”Sylvia Wynter’s Humanism: Black Women and the Human…

Paola Ramos is an author and Emmy award-winning journalist. Her book, Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What it Means for America, casts aside the misguided notion that Latinos are a monolith and looks at the small but expanding part of the population moving steadily right. Through…

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…

Join Professor Yvette Ndlovu in conversation with writer and editor Shingai Njeri Kagunda as she reads from her short story collection Drinking from Graveyard Wells and reflects on how Afrosurrealism and Afrofuturism shape her work. Ndlovu will also discuss her most recent comic book collaboration…