Category: Lectures, Films, Readings, Panels
October 2019
The Musical Migrations of MFA Kera and Black Heritage - 10/16
Singer/songwriter MFA Kera and cofounder of Black Heritage Mike Russell discuss and share live examples of the multiple ways her life and music perform blackness.
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The Musical Migrations of MFA Kera and Black Heritage - 10/17
You are invited to attend a lecture/performance by singer/songwriter MFA Kera and cofounder of Black Heritage Mike Russell
Find out more »Chair of English from Stanford University to give lecture
Blakey Vermeule, Albert Guerard Professor in Literature and Chair of the Department of English at Stanford University, will give a talk entitled _Clever: Literary Travels in the Post-Freudian Unconscious_.
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Alison Kolesar at The Williams Bookstore
Local Illustrator Alison Kolesar will discuss her latest book collaboration at The Williams Bookstore
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Chemistry Senior Thesis Presentations
Chemistry seniors will be presenting their thesis projects. Projects to be discussed on two Fridays in October depending on Mountain Day (10/4, 10/11, 10/18).
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Solar Coronal Jets - Miniature Versions of Large-Scale Solar Eruptions
Please join Dr. Alphonse C. Sterling from NASA Marshall Space Flight Center during his joint physics and astronomy colloquium on Friday, October 18, 2019 at 2:35PM in TPL 205. Light refreshments will immediately follow: Public Common Room
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Computer Science Colloquium – “What I Did Last Summer: Research Edition”
Friday, October 18
2:35pm in ***TPL 203***
“What I Did Last Summer: Research Edition”
Short presentations by your fellow CS students, about Summer Research at Williams.
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Haben Girma: Disabilities Advocate
The first Deafblind person to graduate from Harvard Law School, Haben Girma advocates for equal opportunities for people with disabilities. President Obama named her a White House Champion of Change. She received the Helen Keller Achievement Award, and a spot on Forbes 30 Under 30. Haben travels the world teaching organizations the benefits of fully accessible products and services. She’s … Continue reading "Haben Girma: Disabilities Advocate"
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Writing History, Writing Biography: Capturing H.G. Adler’s Many Worlds
H.G. Adler (1910 - 1988) lived at the center of his times and on their margin. A survivor of Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and two other concentration camps, he chronicled his experience and the loss of others in two dozen books of seminal history, modernist fiction, formally intricate poems, and insightful essays. Yet, despite close friendship with Leo Baeck, Elias Canetti, and … Continue reading "Writing History, Writing Biography: Capturing H.G. Adler’s Many Worlds"
Find out more »DC Brown Bag Lecturette with Hannah Lipstein, Violence Prevention Coordinator
For the past year and a half, the Davis Center has invited members of different constituencies across campus to discuss a project they are working on in an informal setting, over lunch. This year, we are thematizing the lunches to focus on how campus operates. This decision is a result of requests from students, staff, and faculty for more transparency, and … Continue reading "DC Brown Bag Lecturette with Hannah Lipstein, Violence Prevention Coordinator"
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