Lectures and Panels

Join us for a conversation with award-winning Prison Nation curator, renowned art historian, and 2021 MacArthur Fellow Nicole R. Fleetwood on mass incarceration, photography, and activism.

Join the Newhouse Center for a celebration of Prof. Natali Valdez's new book,Weighing the Future: Race, Science, and Pregnancy Trials in the Postgenomic Era.

Co-sponsored by the Slater International Center and the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW), we celebrate International Women’s Day at Wellesley College.

BL (“Boys’ Love”), a genre consisting of male-male romance fictions by and for women, has transformed into an unprecedented one with queer activist potential in Japan. How?

Join the KSSC for a conversation about Bryan Stevenson's book, “Just Mercy,” moderated by Professor Kellie Carter Jackson.

In this LatinX month keynote address, Lorgia Garcia Peña (Tufts University) engages the intersection of politics, violence, class, race, and migration as they impact Dominicanas' everyday lives.

Join us for new perspectives on gender and violence in artistic representations of classical antiquity in Renaissance and Baroque art.

Newhouse Center fellow Elora Chowdhury shows how contemporaryMuktijuddhocinema imagines, disrupts, and at times reinscribes a gendered nationalist landscape of trauma, freedom, and justice.

Wellesley is thrilled to welcome Bryan Stevenson—acclaimed lawyer, activist, and author—for the 2022 Betsy Wood Knapp ’64 Lecture in the Social Sciences and the 2022 Wilson Lecture.

Join us for the 2022 Distinguished Faculty Lecture, “What the Calderwood Seminars Teach Us About Our Students and Ourselves,” delivered by David Lindauer, Stanford Calderwood Professor of Economics.