The Newhouse Center for the Humanities

12/16/2021

✨Spring 2022 Preview!✨

We are excited to announce that two members of Khameleon Productions—a British theater company committed to supporting, expressing, and interrogating diversity through the arts—will visit Wellesley in February 2022. They will be on campus to showcase their Medea film, a multidisciplinary adaptation of the Euripidean play with an all-BIPOC cast. They will also explore their mission to prompt important discussions about race and resistance within the humanities and the power to make change through diverse creative work, and will host workshops with humanities students.

In conjunction to their film, Khameleon has produced a podcast with academics and artists from the UK and the US, discussing diversity and decolonization in academics with a particular focus on classical studies. Find out more at https://www.khameleonproductions.org/khameleon-classics.

For two thousand years, study of the Greek and Roman worlds has been at the centre of Western education. Khameleon Classics is the podcast that asks why. What is our fixation with Classics, and why does the classical world only encompass Greece and Rome? How can ancient history shed light on the fig...

04/20/2021

Professor Mingwei Song will be co-hosting an event this Thursday (4-22) from 8-10pm EST titled Sci-fi China: Avatars, Aliens, Anthropos. The event will be held in both English and Chinese. More details and the link to RVSP are available below!

Sci-fi China: Avatars, Aliens, Anthropos
科幻中國：异形，异次元，异托邦
A Bilingual Workshop with four famous Chinese sci-fi authors:
HAN Song, Egoyan ZHENG, Regina Kanyu WANG, CHEN Qiufan
韓松，伊格言，王侃瑜，陈楸帆

Panelists: Dingru Huang (Harvard)
Jannis Chen (Harvard)
Dihao Zhou (Yale)
Michael O’Krent (Harvard)
Emily Xueni Jin (Yale)
Co-hosts: David Der-wei Wang (Harvard)
Mingwei Song (Wellesley)
Co-sponsors:
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard
CCK Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
East Asian Studies Program, Wellesley
Preregistration:
https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_baKySmDQREyw7M1K9Ne77Q?fbclid=IwAR3Euik4sP7aWjwOOE1RKpZy5Q82xuLNKMW-nwfi58Tae6XDoVi_p-RiYwQ

04/12/2021

This Thursday, the Albright Institute and the Suzy Newhouse Center are partnering to host a discussion on the 2020 Academy Award-nominated documentary, For Sama. The talk will be held with filmmaker Waad al-Kateab and senior lecturer, Rachid Aadnani.

For Sama documents the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Syria. Their conversation will cover the background and context of the film, highlighting the tenth anniversary of the ongoing conflict in Syria and the associated refugee crisis, with emphasis on the particular impacts on women/children.

This event is entirely virtual and open to the public. Registration is available here: https://wellesley.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Qnch4b14ThKINBJeVBxKOQ
For more details, please check the official event post at: https://www.wellesley.edu/events/node/187661

The Albright Institute welcomes filmmaker Waad al-Kateab to discuss her academy award-nominated film For Sama with Wellesley’s Rachid Aadnani. For Sama documents the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Syria.

01/27/2021

This film screening is hosted and co-produced by former Newhouse Center fellow Nikki A. Greene! The livestream begins at 7pm tonight.

A multifaceted art project, created by women. Launched on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20th, 2021.

01/11/2021

Oscar-nominated Mexican thesp Yalitza Aparicio (“Roma”) and Chile’s Daniela Vega, who starred in the Academy Award-winning 2017 drama “A Fantastic Woman,” have signed on to host a four-part documen…

01/05/2021

Happening this afternoon! This Heyman Center for the Humanities event is moderated by Wellesley's own Heather Corbally Bryant (Writing Program). Free and open to the public.

Event Date: Tuesday, January 5, 2021 3:00pm | Event Description: This conversation brings together two novelists who thread the needle between fiction and biography. Nuala O’Connor’s Nora: A Love Story of Nora and James Joyce (HarperCollins) and Eibhear Walshe’s The Last Day at Bowen’s Court...

06/10/2020

In solidarity with and , we are postponing today's anticipated Raining Poetry reading and meetup. We intend to reschedule in the fall, pending student interest.

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06/03/2020

A crucial and timely piece by our faculty fellow Kellie Carter Jackson, Knafel Assistant Professor of the Humanities.

The nationwide protests against police killings have been called un-American by critics, but rebellion has always been used to defend liberty.

03/05/2020

Join us this afternoon at 4:30 PM at the Newhouse Center in Green Hall for a Lecture with Emma Teng. Teng is the 😭. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilization at MIT.

She teaches courses in Chinese culture, Chinese migration history, Asian American history, East Asian culture, and women's and gender studies. In this lecture, Emma J. Teng examines the King incident of 1905, in which four Chinese students were detained and denied landing at the port of Boston. She will discuss the role of this incident in contestations over immigration law to elucidate the conflicted position of Chinese elites – disempowered by race yet empowered by class status – under Exclusion. An international controversy involving the detention of four wealthy students seeking to enter the US at Boston, the King case touched off public protest from Euro-American elites and business contingents and also pushed forward the American Boycott movement in Shanghai. The case served as a key triggering incident in the pivot away from the movement for a wholesale “Chinese ban” toward the institutionalization of class discernment in US immigration policy. An examination of this case helps restore our understanding of the agency of individual Chinese elites in the political negotiations that shaped Chinese Exclusion as both obstruction and flow, and contributes to the analysis of the dynamic intersectionality of race and class under this border regime.

02/11/2020

Join us to welcome this afternoon Professor Kellie Carter Jackson in Green Hall at 4:30 PM. Professor Carter Jackson is a 19th-century historian in the Department of Africana Studies. Her upcoming book, Force & Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence (University of Pennsylvania Press), examines the conditions that led some black abolitionists to believe slavery might only be abolished by violent force.

Carter Jackson is co-editor of Reconsidering Roots: Race, Politics, & Memory (Athens: University of Georgia Press). With a forward written by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Reconsidering Roots is the first scholarly collection of essays devoted entirely to understanding the remarkable tenacity of the film’s visual, cultural, and political influence on American history. Carter Jackson and Erica Ball have also edited a Special Issue on the 40th Anniversary of Roots for Transition Magazine (Issue 122}. Carter Jackson was also featured in the History Channel's documentary, “Roots: A History Revealed” which was nominated for a NAACP Image Award in 2016.

Carter Jackson's essays have been featured in The Atlantic, Transition Magazine, The Conversation, Boston’s NPR Blog Cognoscenti, AAIHS’s Black Perspectives blog, and Quartz, where her article was named one of the top 13 essays of 2014. She has also been interviewed for the New York Times, Al Jazeera International, Slate, The Telegraph, CBC, and Radio One. Carter Jackson also sits on the board for Transition Magazine where other essays of hers have been published.