Category: Lectures, Films, Readings, Panels
February 2021
The Pandemic Series
Join us for this year-long series of Oakley discussions applies an interdisciplinary medical-humanities lens to the pandemic.
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STEM students! Churchill Scholarship Info Session
Williams is partnering with Amherst, Middlebury, and Bowdoin to bring you a virtual info session on the Churchill Scholarship. The session will feature Executive Director of The Winston Churchill Foundation Michael Morse and three current/former Churchill Scholars: Zoe Dietrich Bowdoin Class of 2021 Earth Sciences Jesse Freeman Williams Class of 2015 Mathematics Jamie Tucker-Foltz Amherst Class of 2019 Computer Science … Continue reading "STEM students! Churchill Scholarship Info Session"
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Under the Skin: Racism as a Public Health Threat
Linda Villarosa is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, covering race and public health and a former executive editor at Essence Magazine. In 2017, her cover story "America's Hidden HIV Epidemic" was honored with an Excellence in Journalism Award by the NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists; that organization inducted her into its Hall of Fame in … Continue reading "Under the Skin: Racism as a Public Health Threat"
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Linda Villarosa Lecture and Follow-Up Dialogue- Under the Skin: Racism as Public Health Threat
Under the Skin: Racism as a Public Health Threat. Linda Villarosa is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine (including the Pulitzer-winning 1619 Project), and the former executive editor at Essence Magazine.
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Economics Class of 1960 Scholar Seminar
Damon Jones, Associate Professor at University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy, will be presenting "How Do Distributions from Retirement Accounts Respond to Early Withdrawal Penalties? Evidence from Administrative Tax Returns” (by Gopi Shah Goda, Damon Jones, and Shanthi Ramnath). For the Zoom information, please register using the link.
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Crip Time in Pandemic Time: A Conversation about Race, Gender, and Disability
An evening event about wellness and life at college in the time of Covid with Jina B. Kim and Mimi Khúc in conversation with María Elena Cepeda. Zoom link Mimi Khúc, PhD, is a writer, scholar, and Disability Studies educator. Khúc is Managing Editor of The Asian American Literary Review, and she also oversees the Open in Emergency Initiative, a multi-year … Continue reading "Crip Time in Pandemic Time: A Conversation about Race, Gender, and Disability"
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Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey in the Age of Empire featuring Prashant Kidambi
Prashant Kidambi is Associate Professor in Colonial Urban History at the University of Leicester. (Sponsored by Department of History, Asian Studies Program and the Oakley Center for Humanities and Social Sciences.)
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Mapping Our Unwellness: A Workshop on Mental Health for Latinx Students led by Mimi Khúc
Mimi Khúc is a writer, scholar, and teacher of things unwell and Scholar/Artist/Activist in Residence in Disability Studies at Georgetown University. She is the managing editor of The Asian American Literary Review and guest editor of Open in Emergency: A Special Issue on Asian American Mental Health. She is very slowly working on several book projects, including a manifesto on … Continue reading "Mapping Our Unwellness: A Workshop on Mental Health for Latinx Students led by Mimi Khúc"
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Prof. Brian Kane – Class of 1960 Music Lecture
In his talk titled, In Search of Audile Technique, Prof. Brian Kane of Yale University lays out some of the ways that he has been thinking about the relationship between technological devices, listening techniques, and histories of auditory cultural practices. This lecture is a Zoom meeting open to the general public. Zoomlink TBA
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“Every Single Job in Television, Explained” a talk by Michael Sardo
Please join us for a public lecture by Williams alum (and former English major!) Michael Sardo.
https://williams.zoom.us/j/95511993271?pwd=clVEMUw3YjgvSm9sbFgvY0RRVGM3UT09#success
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