Upcoming Lectures & Talks
10 upcoming lectures and talks from Wellesley College, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All lectures in Greater Boston →
Tue Oct 6 · 12:45pm
An installment of New Voices, the emerging-scholars lecture series at Wellesley's Newhouse Center for the Humanities, featuring Julia Gutiérrez. The college's event page lists the room and date but no abstract yet; topic detail is to be posted closer to the talk.
Thu Oct 15 · 5:00pm
Andrew Ho, the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, lectures on quantitative reasoning and education. A psychometrician, Ho works on how test scores are designed, used and interpreted in educational policy and practice, and is known for methods of measuring educational progress and educational inequality. The Celebrating QR Connections series pairs quantitative reasoning with a different discipline.
Fri Oct 16 – Sun Oct 18
A three-day conference marking fifty years since Toward a New Psychology of Women (1976), the book by psychiatrist Jean Baker Miller from which relational-cultural theory grew. Miller became the first director of Wellesley's Stone Center, where she, Judith Jordan, Irene Stiver and Janet Surrey developed the theory's account of psychological growth through connection. The college lists the sessions as lectures, panels and a symposium.
Tue Oct 20 · 12:45pm
An installment of New Voices, the emerging-scholars lecture series at Wellesley's Newhouse Center for the Humanities, featuring Aanchal Saraf. The college's event page lists the room and date but no abstract yet; topic detail is to be posted closer to the talk.
Thu Oct 29 · 4:30pm
Darius Bost and C. Riley Snorton discuss a Black queer history of the United States. Bost is the author of Evidence of Being, on the Black gay cultural renaissance in Washington and New York in the 1980s; Snorton wrote Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity, which won a Lambda Literary Award.
Thu Oct 29 · 5:00pm
Michael Bastedo — the Marvin W. Peterson Collegiate Professor at Michigan's Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, and senior associate dean for research in the Marsal Family School of Education — gives the second of Wellesley's Celebrating QR Connections talks this term, a series pairing quantitative reasoning with one discipline at a time. In the Knapp Atrium.
Fri Nov 6 – Sat Nov 7
Wellesley hosts the annual conference of the New England Council of Latin American Studies, two days of scholarly panels and papers across the region's Latin Americanist community. The college's calendar lists it across three rooms; recorded here as the one conference it is.
Mon Nov 9 · 4:00pm
Musicologist Andrea Moore, a specialist in new classical music and concert culture whose work examines identity and representation in post-Cold War composition, gives the Music Department's semi-annual Herrmann Lecture at Wellesley. Endowed by the Frederick and Minnie Herrmann Memorial Fund.
Tue Nov 10 · 4:30pm
Dana Leibsohn, the Alice Pratt Brown Professor of Art at Smith College, follows wax collected in the Philippines and shipped across the Pacific to the Americas, asking how bees, forests and wax became colonial subjects in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Leibsohn co-directed the Terra Foundation project “Pacific America” and edits the Colonial Latin American Review. Hosted by Religious Studies, with a reception beforehand; RSVP requested.
Tue Nov 17 · 12:45pm
An installment of New Voices, the emerging-scholars lecture series at Wellesley's Newhouse Center for the Humanities, featuring Justin Brown. The college's event page lists the room and date but no abstract yet; topic detail is to be posted closer to the talk.
