Ian Balfour, Professor of English and of Social and Political Thought at York University, will present a lecture entitled "Epic Fail in the Romantic Era and Beyond: On the Vanishing of a Genre – Wordsworth, Hegel, Walcott, Godard" on Monday, September 24, at 4:00 p.m. in Griffin 5.  

Assistant Professor Greg Phelan will present an Economics department seminar based on joint work with Thomas Eisenbach of the NY Fed:  "Cournot Fire Sales".

Professor Nyasha Junior, Religion Department, Temple University, will give a lecture entitled "The Appropriation of Hagar," Wednesday, September 25, 4:30pm in Griffin 7.

David McKenzie, Lead Economist in the Development Research Group at The World Bank, will present a joint Economics Class of 1960 Scholars and CDE seminar: "Improving Management with Individual and Group-Based Consulting: Results from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia".

Professor Maya Jasanoff, Professor of History and Harvard College Professor at Harvard University, will be giving a talk on "The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World" on Thursday, September 27, at 4:15 pm in Griffin 7.

Elizabeth Cascio, Associate Professor of Economics at Dartmouth, will present an Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar: Who Needs a Fracking Education? The Educational Response to Low-Skill Biased Technological Change.

Professors Lara Shore-Sheppard and Tara Watson will present an Economics department seminar - The Impact of Expanding Public Health Insurance on Safety Net Program Participation: Evidence from the ACA Medicaid Expansion.

A lecture by Prof. Paul Gondreau from Providence College about the Catholic interpretation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s elic fantasy The Lord of the Rings. The lecture will be held in Griffin 3 from 7pm-8:30pm and is free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by Williams Catholic and the Thomistic Institute.

SIPD is a group of students seeking to foster dialogue about complicated issues involving Israel/Palestine. We are hoping to host a handful of events throughout the semester and kick off with an organizational meeting TONIGHT, Wednesday, October 3rd, at 8pm in Griffin 6.

Oct. 4, 4 p.m., Griffin Hall, room 7. Willoughby Britton, Department of Psychiatry, Brown Univeristy and Jared Lindahl, Department of Religious Studies, Brown University will give a joint lecture of meditation-related challenges.

Williams has organized a year-long series of events in 2018 to honor the centenary of the First World War. For full info on all these events (films, lectures, exhibition, courses), click on the link. This week: Join us for a lecture on France & WWI, on Wed, Oct 10, 6PM, Griffin 3!

To honor the centenary of the First World War (1918-2018), join us for a fascinating lecture on “Remembering & Forgetting: The Great War in France”: TODAY, at 6PM, in Griffin 3! For more info on this and all our WWI centenary events, click on the link!

Curious to learn more about Williams-Mystic Ocean & Coastal Studies Semester? All majors & class years are encouraged to join W-M alumni, admissions, and Executive Director for an information session with Hot Tomatoes pizza & local apple cider this Wednesday, Oct. 10th from 6:30-7:30pm in Griffin 5.

Please join the first event for Women of Faith, co-sponsored by WCJA and the Chaplains' Office, to learn from Rabbi Sally J. Priesand about her journey to become the first female rabbi.

Ebonya Washington, Professor of Economics at Yale, will present an Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar - The Mommy Effect: Do Women Anticipate the Employment Effects of Motherhood?

Abrego's talk will describe some of the ways that legal violence plays out in immigrant lives while highlighting immigrants’ various forms of healing and resistance.

When you get past ambition, publication, professionalism, and culture wars, why are we writing and what is it we are given to write? Explore these questions with Norman Fischer, Soto Zen priest and author of more than twenty-five books of poetry and nonfiction, at Writing at Degree Zero.

Assistant Professor Greg Casey will present an Economics department seminar:  Growth, Unemployment, and Labor-Saving Technical Change.

In this talk Professor Chen will discuss some recent accounts of gossip as constitutive of society and social networks, and then turn to a reading of a selection of anecdotes that illustrate how gossip is framed and thematized in the medieval collection "New Accounts of Tales of the World."

Samantha Arsenault Livingstone is back by popular demand.  Speaking last year to a crowd with standing room only, Samantha is back to explore how to perform in a society that is constantly asking for more.  The event is free and open to all.

Referred to as “the Father of Environmental Justice,” Dr. Bullard has been the leading voice against environmental racism for decades, including the Flint water crisis and hurricane recovery in Houston and Puerto Rico.

Join the Science and Technology Studies program for refreshments and a screening of Miyazaki's 1984 post-apocalyptic classic Nausicaä and the Valley of the Wind!

Walker Hanlon, Assistant Professor of Economics at New York University Stern School of Business, will present an Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar.

A talk by Victoria Smolkin, Associate Professor of History at Wesleyan University.

Branko Milanovic, Visiting Presidential Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center, will discuss "Recent Trends in Global Income Distribution and Their Political Consequences" at 4 PM on Thursday, November 1 in Griffin 6.

Converging Worlds will be hosting a non-violent direct action training on Sunday, 11/4 from 12PM to 3:30PM in Griffin 3. You can leave early. Connect with change-makers from RI (the FANG Collective) doing awesome actions around environmental, immigrant, indigenous, and prison justice. Register!

In response to the recent attacks on trans rights, QSU, in collaboration with QTI+PoC, will host a teach-in with featured speakers on topics related to the trans experience and ways to fight back (followed by a Q&A session). Everyone is invited to attend and learn! Refreshments will be served.

In his new book, The Once and Future Worker, Manhattan Institute scholar (and Eph) Oren Cass '05 challenges our basic assumptions about what prosperity means and where it comes from.

Professor Carlson and the Manhattan Institute's Oren Cass '05 will discuss Cass' new book, The Once and Future Worker, with a focus on how globalization and consumerism have hurt America and its workers.

Visiting Assistant Professor Melinda Petre will present an Economics department seminar.

Catherine Howe, lecturer in the Art Department, presents “Bodies Made of Numbers, Numbers Made of Bodies,”

Join us to meet Williams grad Aseel Abulhab. Aseel received a Watson Fellowship and a Fulbright research grant (Jordan). Rescheduled from November 1.

"The Conundrum of the Arena: Violent Spectacles and the Roman System of Values", a lecture by Kathleen Coleman, Harvard University

Professors José Constantine and James Manigault-Bryant will consider the numerous insights and wisdoms gained from the fall lecture series on "Afro-diasporic Environmentalism: Explorations of environmental racism and justice." The series has included talks by Drs. Robert Bullard, Beverly Wright, and Walter Johnson, as well as a symposium on the Role of Religion, Creativity and Environmental Ethics in the Afro-Atlantic Diaspora.…

Join BSU for a town hall Sunday Nov. 11th at 2pm in Griffin 3! We will primarily be discussing housing and the Davis Center Renovations. We invite you to share your thoughts on affinity housing, the new online housing system, the entry/JA system, and plans to reimagine all 4 Davis Center buildings.

Allison Freedman Weisberg founded Recess, an artists’ workspace that is open to the public. Their program goes beyond the traditional museum or residency structure to facilitate interactions between artists and audiences throughout the creative process.

Debbie Goldstein '97, who teaches negotiation at Harvard Law School and Graduate School of Education, will lead a workshop on negotiation, mediation, and difficult conversations. It will be in the context of dialogue surrounding both the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and challenging topics at large.

Math/Stat After Williams, a panel of Williams professors talk about their paths to graduate school, their first jobs, and more, Tuesday, November 13, 7 - 9:00 pm. All are welcome.

Journalist and scholar, Leta Hong Fincher will discuss her new book, Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China. Based on first hand reporting and research in China, Betraying Big Brother is a landmark study of rising feminist consciousness and politics in the People's Republic of China

A lecture by Omar Gueye, Professor of History at the Université Chiekh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal and Françoise Blum is a researcher at the Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) in the Center for Twentieth Century Social History.

Liberal pundit and political analyst Bill Scher is coming to Williams to discuss the recent midterms and what they mean for the next congressional session and 2020. Scher argues that we are in a fluid moment of political history and that what it means to be a conservative or a democrat is evolving.

Canadian scholar Ted Rutland, Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment at Concordia University, will discuss his new book: Displacing Blackness: Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax.

Why do we give? Join Professor Chao, Professor Savitsky and Professor Cone from the Psychology Department in a roundtable discussion on Thursday, December 6th in Griffin 7, about what insights the fields of behavioral economics and social psychology can give us into these matters.

Griffin 3 @ 8:30. Take a chance on love.

YOU are invited to experience the practice of a liberated classroom with Dr. G, WGSS 283 (Black Queer Looks) and WGSS 380 (Freedom Dreams, Afro-Futures, and Visionary Fictions)!

Experience the practice of a liberated classroom with Dr. G, WGSS 283, & WGSS 380!

Please join us for a lecture by Zen Master Jok Um (Ken Kessel, Williams '74) on Zen practice, entitled "Karma, Responsibility and the Life Before You: What To Do with Two Empty Hands." The talk will take place in Griffin 6 at 3pm on Sunday, January 13. After the lecture is over, anyone who is interested is welcome to join…

Please note new location! Griffin 6. "Introduction to Zen Meditation" series description: Starting Tuesday January 8 (and going through March 12, the last Tuesday before Spring Break), Bernie Rhie (English Department) will offer a weekly series of evening events on Zen meditation, during which he will provide meditation instruction and speak about various aspects of Zen practice. All are welcome: students, staff,…

Join NLG, Fri 6-8pm at Griffin 4, to learn about and discuss local and national immigration and the global refugee crisis, and to make sense of the situation at our southern border and so many other current events. Lebanese food provided!

Considering a move to NYC after graduation?Attend to learn everything you need to know about the NYC Apartment Hunting Process! Lunch Will Be Served.

Pinar Keskin, Assistant Professor of Economics at Wellesley, will present Female Employment and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Syrian Refugee Inflows to Turkey.

Owen Zidar, Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton, will present two papers during this seminar:  "Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century" and a new project, "Top Wealth in the United States: New Methods and Implications for Wealth Taxation."

NLG is having a screening of the film Day One, which follows a group of teenagers from war zones as they are resettled and enrolled in a unique refugees-only public school in St. Louis, Missouri. Wild Oats COOKIES and cider will be served!

Professor Leslie Harris, Professor of History and African American Studies at Northwestern University, will be giving a talk on "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" on Friday, February 22, at 4:15 pm in Griffin 7.

Wednesday, February 27th at 4:00 PM in Griffin Hall, Room 6.  Associate Professor Sarah Jacobson will present.

Professor Joanna Kempner, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University will present a lecture entitled "Citizen Science in the Psychedelic Renaissance: Surviving Pain during Prohibition" today at 7:00pm in Griffin 5.  Please join us.

Assistant Professor Gregory Casey will present.

Why is a new nuclear arms race emerging? Who is starting it? Is it affordable? What are the options?
A talk by Professor Jane Cramer, University of Oregon
Sponsored by the Stanley Kaplan Program in American Foreign Policy and PSCI Dept.

Jennifer Hunt, Professor of Economics at Rutgers University, will present "Is Employment Polarization Informative About Wage Inequality and Is Employment Really Polarizing?".

Dr. Ragab will shed light on the ethical, theological, and empirical frameworks that have historically guided Muslim scholars in conferring bioethical decisions in the medieval and contemporary day.

The Fishery of the Hoosic River - Status and Conservation.  Panelists:  Chris VanMaaren, Regional Fisheries Manager, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation,  Andrew Madden, Western District Supervisor, Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, Shawn Good, Fisheries Biologist, Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife.  The conference is free and open to the public.  Bring a friend.  Program is co-sponsored by the Center for…

Edxie Betts, a Black Filipinx Siksika Indigenous/Trans liberation artist/poet and autonomous organizer, will deliver a workshop titled, "Reclaiming Our Consent," which contextualizes consent within larger structures and systems of power.

15 Years of Partnering with Patients, Community, and Health System Partners to Improve Depression in Under-Resourced Communities Join us to hear Dr. Bowen Chung '93 and Felica Jones, CEO of Healthy African American Families II, speak on their community-based health interventions for underserved populations in Los Angeles. Dr. Chung, Associate Professor-in-Residence in Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at Geffen SOM's Semel…

This spring break, a group of 7 students went to Mississippi to learn from/with community-based grassroots social & environmental justice orgs and land-based movements. Come hear about what we learned about and ask us questions!

Francesca Romana Berno, of Sapienza Universita di Roma, will present on Seneca and his view of the end of the world.

S. Anukriti is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Boston College. She is a speaker in the CDE Gender and Development Conference, presenting on "Fertility and Sex-Selective Abortion in India."

Yana Rodgers is a Professor of Women's & Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She is a speaker in the CDE Gender and Development Conference, presenting on “Impact of Funding Cuts and Legal Restrictions on Global Abortion Rates."

Nidhiya Menon is a Professor of Economics at Brandeis University. She is a speaker at the CDE Conference on Gender and Development, presenting on "Influences on the Health of Young Girls in Developing Countries."

Rebecca Thornton is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a speaker at the CDE Gender and Development Conference, presenting on Inequalities in Education: What Do the Data Say?"

Rachel Heath is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Washington. She is a speaker at the CDE Conference on Gender and Development, presenting on "Garment Jobs Can Be Good for Women. Can Policy Make Them Even Better?"

Mayra Buvinic is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development and U.N. Foundation. She is a speaker at the CDE Gender and Development Conference, presenting on “Women’s Economic Empowerment: What Works and What Should We Measure?"

Pierre-Richard Agénor is the Hallsworth Professor of Development Economics at the University of Manchester. He is a speaker at the CDE Gender and Development Conference, presenting on “Gender Equality and Economic Growth."

Michael Anthony Mendez, PhD, MCP, James and Mary Pinchot Faculty Fellow;  Associate Research Scientist, Yale School of Forestry.  Sponsored by the Center for Environmental Studies.