The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College creates a dynamic and cosmopolitan intellectual community that extends from Wellesley College to the wider Boston-area community and beyond. The Center hosts research fellows and visiting professors and generates an exciting and diverse array of programming and performances, including the Mary J. Cornille Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities, the Newhouse Distinguished Writers Series, the Elizabeth Jordan Lecture and Colloquium, and more.

    

Spring 2013

Distinguished Writers Series


2/12  Junot Díaz
2/26  Don Lee | Stephanie Reents
3/26  Walter Mosley | China Miéville
4/9    Marilyn Nelson| Anis Mojgani



 

Karen Beckman Talk

"Is that Cinema? Animation, Comic Strips, and the Films of Alain Resnais"

April 22, 2013 | 12:30 pm



 

March 8 - 9, 2013

Global Science Fiction


Lecture | 3/8/13 at 4 pm
Film  | 3/8/13 at 7 pm
Symposium 3/9/13, 9am-5pm 



David Olsen's Mural, "Explosions in the Sky," Enlivens the Walls of the Newhouse Center> MORE