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Preserve or destroy? Korea’s last venereal disease detention center sparks debate. Katharine Moon, a professor emerita of Asian studies and political science at Wellesley College, noted that the debate represents a shift in public attitudes toward such sites, which some communities previously sought to dismantle to avoid perceived stigma. According to Moon, activists’ preservation campaign is more about “national history writing [and] keeping alive more permanently the ugly parts of history that people shunned for decades.”

Katharine H.S. Moon, an emerita professor at Wellesley College, says that billions in government incentives haven’t reversed an alarming drop in birth rates in Asia. Women in South Korea, Japan and China tell us what could reverse the course.

Philosophy professor Julie Walsh was featured on Connecticut Public Radio discussing the seventeenth-century witch hunts in Connecticut and the question: are witch hunts truly a thing of the past?

Professor Petra Rivera-Rideau explores Zumba’s vision of Latinness in new book.

Well-off families have also drawn more on savings and earnings to keep up with rising college costs, found Wellesley College economics professor and Brookings Nonresident Senior Fellow Phil Levine.

“When we limit access to the power of math to a select few, we limit our progress as a society,” said Vicki Abeles, director of the new documentary “Counted Out.” One of many mathematicians who share their perspectives in the film is Ismar Volic, a professor at Wellesley College and a founder, in 2019, of the Institute for Mathematics and Democracy.

Mfoniso Udofia ’06, author of the play “Sojourners” which opened October 31 at the Huntington, never intended to become a playwright. After struggling to gain traction as an actor, she “started writing in order to understand the world I was in.”

Josh Lambert, professor of Jewish studies, on how three generations after the Holocaust, filmmakers, writers and artists are making new meaning from ancestral trauma.

A Rottweiler was rescued from Lake Waban in Wellesley on Saturday morning after it got away from its owner, chased a group of geese into the water, and began having trouble swimming, police said. Two Wellesley College boats went into the water to rescue the dog, and eventually the dog was reunited with its family and was not injured, police said. “The geese managed to elude the Rottweiler without incident,” police said.