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Wellesley’s Book Arts Lab celebrates 80 years.

FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks with professor emerita Katherine Moon about how South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol created the rhetoric of a national security crisis and has likely signalled his own downfall.

Even if a withdrawal from relationships isn’t initially meant to be political, it can still become so, says Rosanna Hertz, sociologist and author of Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice. Many “single by chance” mothers as “reluctant revolutionaries.”

Political science and Asian studies professor emerita Katharine Moon weighs in on the South Korea’s parliament voting to overturn President Yoon Suk Yeol declaration of martial law.

While studying the Gullah community, Catherine Sneed ’25 saved a life.

“She was known as a very charming, witty, mischievous woman,” says Lisa Graham, music professor and director of the choral program, of Katherine Kennicott Davis, "The Little Drummer Boy" composer.

American studies professor Michael Jeffries on 100 years of James Baldwin: “He was unapologetic in talking about not only love, but also about violence. He refused to sanitize the violence in this country.”

The multifaceted performer spoke at Wellesley about art, world-making, and community.

For young queer pop fans, this summer was a dream come true. As Kaleb Goldschmitt, ethnomusicologist and popular-music scholar, says: “Boy, I wish I had something like that when I was young.”