Professor Nina Tumarkin to deliver Distinguished Faculty Lecture 

President Johnson announced via email on Feb. 22 that Professor Nina Tumarkin, the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Slavic Studies and professor of history at Wellesley, will deliver the 2024 distinguished faculty lecture on April 17. Professor Tumarkin is currently engaged in research on Russian historical memory of its Soviet past, and will deliver this year’s lecture, titled, “Back in the USSR: The Soviet Legacy in Putin’s Russia,” in Collins Cinema. President Johnson explained that the Distinguished Faculty Lecture was established in 1999 to allow for the Wellesley community to hear from outstanding faculty and to “reflect on the meaning of a liberal arts education.”

Professors to give poetry reading at Beacon Hill Books 

Wellesley faculty will give a poetry reading at Beacon Hill Books & Cafe on March 14. The Beacon Hill Books Poetry Salon event will feature Professors Heather Bryant, Tavi Gonzalez and Liseli Fitzpatrick. Gonzalez, the Barbara Morris Caspersen Associate Professor of Humanities in the Department of English and Creative Writing, published his poetry collection The Book of Ours in 2009, and recently published his first full-length collection Limerence in 2023. Fitzpatrick, a professor in the Department of Africana Studies, focuses on Africana sacred cosmologies, ontologies and pedagogies. Bryant, Senior Lecturer in the Writing Program, has written 11 books of poetry, among her other publications. 

Ethos presents culture showcase

Ethos presented the first annual African American Culture Showcase on March 2 in the Jewett Auditorium. The showcase, titled “Celebrating Hip Hop: 50 Years of Regional Revolutions,” included performances, food and vendors. The show was also followed by an afterparty at Harambee House with DJ Rayvino.