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Three generations after the Holocaust, filmmakers, writers and artists are making new meaning from ancestral trauma. A related characteristic that distinguishes many third-generation works, said Josh Lambert, a professor of Jewish studies at Wellesley College, is their contrast between Holocaust survivors’ victimhood and their descendants’ contemporary understanding of privilege.

Professor Kathryn Lynch explained how single-sex colleges can provide women students extraordinary opportunities to spread their intellectual wings and fly in ways they just can’t in co-ed environments. Lynch made the case that, given the hardships faced by young men, we ought to have more men’s colleges to allow men the freedoms that may come with a single-sex undergraduate education.

Childcare is the “backbone” of the economy, Wellesley Centers for Women senior research scientist Wendy Wagner Robeson said. “If we want our economy to grow and thrive, then you have to have childcare, because if you want men and women and people to work in your economy, you cannot leave those babies home alone.”