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Journalist Amy Yee '96, published her debut book, "Far From the Rooftop of the World: Travels Among Tibetan Refugees." For 14 years, Yee, followed Tibetan exiles to provide, as she describes, “a close-up look at the lives of ordinary Tibetans in exile who make their way in the world far from their homeland.”

Selwyn Cudjoe, professor of Africana studies, spoke about art and culture in West Africa and the Caribbean at a lecture delivered at the Pa Gya! A Literary Festival in Accra, Ghana.

When war broke out in Ukraine last year, Federal Reserve officials were quick to speak about it. “Many of the impacts of the horrific events and what we’re seeing at the moment are beyond the economic ones,” Susan Collins, the current president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, said during an event hosted at Wellesley College earlier this month. Nevertheless, the conflict is something the Fed will take into account in its models that help officials make policy decisions, she said.

This year marks two decades since the Boston Women's Memorial was installed. Visitors are now able to scan a QR code on each of the statues and hear the words written by the three women read aloud by three local women leaders. It's called the Talking Statues project and Nancy Hall, senior lecturer emerita in Spanish, did a translation for the project. 

During an interview on the Jimmy Fallon, Fallon and Bad Bunny mentioned American studies professor Petra Rivera-Rideau's seminar on Bad Bunny (which he would like to take!). Wellesley mention begins at approximately 4:00.

Is Taylor Swift about to be in her ‘overexposed’ era? Tracy Gleason, the chair and professor of psychology at Wellesley College and an author of a paper on parasocial relationships thinks the fans at the Giants game who booed her ad, for instance, might have done so because she’s dating a player on a rival team. “Who knows, though,” she added. “Maybe they are Swifties but just want to keep each of the things they enjoy in their own lane: Taylor belongs on the stage and football belongs in the arena.” 

Kate Gilhuly, professor of classical studies, contributed to a translated and illustrated collection of queer Greco-Roman literature that "revived a parade’s worth of ancient queer lovers, mourners, seducers and icons."

"Se le han dedicado seminarios en Wellesley College, en la Universidad de la Ciudad de Nueva York y en la Universidad de Loyola Marymount de Los Ángeles. Se puede consultar parte de su programa docente muy bien recopilado por las catedráticas del género Vanessa Diaz y Petra Rivera-Rideau." "Seminars have been dedicated to him at Wellesley College, the City University of New York, and Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. You can consult part of its teaching program, compiled by the professors of the genre Vanessa Diaz and Petra Rivera-Rideau."  

Salem stores peddle merchandise more overtly tied to pop culture, selling rows upon rows of “authentic” black felt witch hats, Frankenstein masks, broomsticks and “Hocus Pocus” ephemera. “There’s no denying that the media, TV [and] movies have had a huge hand in crystallizing the American vision of what a witch is,” said Julie Walsh, a history of philosophy professor who studies the Salem witch hunts.