Events for Sat, March 6th, 2021 - Thu, March 11th, 2021
March 2021
The Green Room with Keith David Williams, Emmy-winning Actor, Voice Actor and Producer.
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- Arts at Williams
Zoom Link! The series has been established by Omar Sangare, Chair and Professor of Theatre. Keith David is a classically trained actor, Emmy Award winner and Tony Award nominee. Born and raised in New York City, Keith is a graduate of the New York High School of the Performing Arts and the Juilliard School. His expansive film credits include 21 … Continue reading "The Green Room with Keith David Williams, Emmy-winning Actor, Voice Actor and Producer."
Find out more »Theatre Honors Presentation: Fiona Selmi
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Theatre Honors candidate Fiona Selmi '21 presents a reading of “Dance Nation” by Clare Barron. At its core, Dance Nation is a play that explores desire, ambition, girlhood, adolescence and that imagines a futurity where young femme coded bodies are allowed to unequivocally be the best. The cast and team behind this production would like to acknowledge the difficult nature … Continue reading "Theatre Honors Presentation: Fiona Selmi"
Find out more »Online Event | Art-Inspired Yoga with Emily Kamen
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Looking at Thomas Sills’s oil painting titled "Summer," this online yoga class brings a splash of sunshine to the long Berkshire winter. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RV1GxgZPTAGPg4y1nntb1Q
Find out more »How Parks Can Undo Systemic Racism, Lindi Von Mutius '03, The Trust for Public Land
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"How Parks Can Undo Systemic Racism," Lindi Von Mutius, Director of Board Operations & Strategy, The Trust for Public Land.
Sponsored by the Class of 1960 Scholars Program in Environmental Studies & The Center for Environmental Studies.
Haiti, Beauty, and Justice in 2021: A Conversation with Edwidge Danticat and Évelyne Trouillot
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- Lectures, Films, Readings, Panels
Here is a link to the recording of this event. In a recent essay, the award-winning Haitian author Évelyne Trouillot writes, "...my writings, stemming from my lived experience and my aesthetic and social vision for a more beautiful and just world, are presented to readers who are not always acquainted with my reality..." The same can be said of the internationally … Continue reading "Haiti, Beauty, and Justice in 2021: A Conversation with Edwidge Danticat and Évelyne Trouillot"
Find out more »Artist talk with Erin Shirreff
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Artist Erin Shirreff discusses her work and her current exhibition at the Clark Art Institute, Remainders. Shirreff works between photography, sculpture, and video to explore the relationship between objects and their representation.
Find out more »Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
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Here is a link to the video recording of this talk. From the Tea Party to Occupy Wall Street, and from cryptocurrency advocates to the #MeToo movement, Americans and citizens of democracies worldwide are losing confidence in what we once called the system. This loss of faith has spread beyond government to infect a broad swath of institutions—the press, corporations, … Continue reading "Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them"
Find out more »Peter Murphy, Professor of English, Emeritus, to give talk
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The Class of 1960 Scholars and the English Department invite you to “In Conversation with Peter Murphy: The Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem: Reading and Remembering Thomas Wyatt”
Find out more »The Faraway Brought Close: Poetry and the Work of Feeling
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Jessica Fisher, Associate Professor of English, will present the third in a series of six talks in the Faculty Lecture Series this spring. Open to the public. All are welcome!
Find out more »Touching the Wounds: Fanon and a critical phenomenology of racialized affect
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The Philosophy Department announces a seminar with Professor Alia Al-Saji (McGill University, Philosophy) on a pre-circulated paper "Touching the Wounds: Fanon and a critical phenomenology of racialized affect." The event will take place on Thursday, March 11, at 4:45 PM (EST). Please click here for the zoom link. This event is funded with the support of the John William Miller Fund. For issues with the … Continue reading "Touching the Wounds: Fanon and a critical phenomenology of racialized affect"
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