Events at Wellesley

Please join the Art Department in welcoming lisa banta to deliver an artist talk as the 2025-2026 Alice C. Cole ’42 Fellow.

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…

Julian Jackson is emeritus professor of French History at Queen Mary University of London. He has written widely on the history of twentieth century France ranging from the period of the 1930s to the 1960s. His books have been widely translated and won many literary prizes. His most recent…

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.

In this hybrid, bilingual symposium hosted by the Davis Museum at Wellesley College in English and French, students, scholars, and alumni around the world will extend Wellesley’s legacy of learning directly from works of art. Held in Tishman Commons and live-streamed, the symposium will propose new…