It's Constitution Day! Come chat about constitutional issues in the presence of an annotated 1787 draft printing of the Constitution, September 17th at 4:00 in the Chapin Gallery (Sawyer 406).

A public conversation with artists Junior Pakapym and Daniel Minter about their work and its inspiration, September 19, 4 p.m. Antonio dos Santos Cerqueira Junior (aka Junior Pakapym) is a digital artist and painter whose work draws on the rich iconography of Afro-Brazilian religious and cultural imagery. Daniel Minter is a Maine-based painter, sculptor, illustrator and assemblage artist whose work…

Philosophy Department is hosting a pre-registration event on Tuesday, October 23 at 5:00 p.m. in Sawyer 307, Mabie Room.   Come share a meal, catch up with faculty, students, and staff in the department, and hear about spring courses and events.

Ocean Vuong is the author of a forthcoming novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, and of the critically acclaimed poetry collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, which was awarded the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Whiting Award, the Thom Gunn Award, and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection.

Join us for an hour of listening!  Students in a Winter Study course that have been exploring campus sustainability & audio storytelling will showcase their piece from our How-It-Works series - stories that seek to shed light on various sustainability related campus issues.  You'll hear stories about rain gardens,  lighting, carbon offsets, the decision-making that goes into building new buildings,…

CANCELED - A reception to open the new exhibition "Abraham Lincoln: American Icon" will be held in the Chapin Gallery (Sawyer Library 406) from 5:00 to 7:00 pm on Tuesday, February 12, 2019. All are welcome to attend.

In what ways can video games build capacity, contribute to reciprocity, and reify Indigenous sovereignty? Elizabeth LaPensée, Ph.D. will talk on the development process and design of Indigenous video games. Event sponsored by AMST

On Thursday, February 21st, Inez Tan '12 will give a reading from her work. To read more about her and what she has been doing since her time at Williams, please see her website at

https://ineztan.com/

Dr. Teddy Pozo develops new terms for queer videogame studies drawn from haptic game design aesthetics including consent, cuteness, and radical softness through close readings of several contemporary queer indie games.

Caroline O’Donnell is an architect, writer and educator. As the founder of her firm CODA, she has been the recipient of the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Award and is the current director of the M.Arch. program at Cornell University.

Kyla Schuller (Rutgers, author, The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century), will be speaking on the 1950s invention of gender, as well as a new way of conceptualizing sex/gender that differentiates on the basis of scale, rather than substance. Mel Y. Chen (UC Berkeley; currently Robert Sterling Clark Visiting Professor of Art History at Williams…

Documentary Photo/Video Show TODAY. Take a study break and stop by the show of photo/video/audio documentary projects from the students of SOC 236 "Adventures in Documentary Work"!!! Tattoo parlors, activism, foster care, oxy addiction, thrift shops and other topics in the Berkshires and beyond are investigated through video, photography and interviews. Sawyer Library, May 16, 6-8 PM, Rm 328. Refreshments…

Join us for a talk by SA Smythe entitled "An Otherwise Orientation: The Politics of Belonging in/to the Black Mediterranean"

The Geosciences Department and Class of 1960 Scholars Program presents Dr. Robert Gaines, Pomona College, speaking on "Exceptional Fossil Preservation in the Early Phanerozoic: Implications for Seawater Chemistry During the Flowering of Complex Life on Earth." In what has been hailed as the world’s most important fossil discovery in decades, Robert Gaines was a member of the team that discovered…

In a presentation informed by decolonial theory, Tiffany Creegan Miller of Colby College will bring to bear Maya concepts of tz’ib’ (recorded knowledge) and tzij, choloj, and ch’owen (orality) on expressive work across media and languages.

On view in Sawyer Library through May 17. An exhibit featuring work by C.B. Falls aims to recontextualize the artist’s popular style to demonstrate the graphic arts’ power in normalizing constructed narratives and harmful imagery.

You are invited to a book talk by Grace Cho, author of Tastes Like War, in conversation with Jan Padios (AMST/AAS) on Tuesday, April 11th at 12:00-1:15 p.m. in Sawyer Reading Room 304. Tastes Like War was a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the 2022 Asian/Pacific American Award for Adult Non-Fiction. The first 30 staff or students to RSVP at https://forms.gle/YF4XE3xuBmKS3Rpq7 will receive a…

Hannah Noel '08, Associate Professor, MCLA, will discuss her research as it relates to her book Deflective Whiteness: Co-opting Black & Latinx Identity Politics. A reception follows the talk, and a book raffle for students in attendance. 

Join us for our upcoming informal informational meeting on April 13th from 7-8 PM @Sawyer 430! We will be discussing our current vision for the club and look forward to meeting those interested in the nuclear disarmament cause!

On view in Sawyer Library through May 17. An exhibit featuring work by C.B. Falls aims to recontextualize the artist’s popular style to demonstrate the graphic arts’ power in normalizing constructed narratives and harmful imagery.

On view in Sawyer Library through May 17. An exhibit featuring work by C.B. Falls aims to recontextualize the artist’s popular style to demonstrate the graphic arts’ power in normalizing constructed narratives and harmful imagery.

On view in Sawyer Library through May 17. An exhibit featuring work by C.B. Falls aims to recontextualize the artist’s popular style to demonstrate the graphic arts’ power in normalizing constructed narratives and harmful imagery.

On view in Sawyer Library through May 17. An exhibit featuring work by C.B. Falls aims to recontextualize the artist’s popular style to demonstrate the graphic arts’ power in normalizing constructed narratives and harmful imagery.

On view in Sawyer Library through May 17. An exhibit featuring work by C.B. Falls aims to recontextualize the artist’s popular style to demonstrate the graphic arts’ power in normalizing constructed narratives and harmful imagery.

On view in Sawyer Library through May 17. An exhibit featuring work by C.B. Falls aims to recontextualize the artist’s popular style to demonstrate the graphic arts’ power in normalizing constructed narratives and harmful imagery.

On view in Sawyer Library through May 17. An exhibit featuring work by C.B. Falls aims to recontextualize the artist’s popular style to demonstrate the graphic arts’ power in normalizing constructed narratives and harmful imagery.