MMUF & ADRF Senior Presentations

Interested in leading a 2019 Break Out Trip (BOT) during spring break? Learn more about the possibilities and steps for submitting a proposal. The form is now open online! Join us Thurs 9/20 at 8pm or Sun 9/23 at 5pm in Schapiro 141.

Seth Neumuller, Assistant Professor of Economics at Wellesley College, will present an Economics department seminar: “Can Income Differences Explain the Racial Wealth Gap? A Quantitative Analysis”.

Lecture "The Politics of Orphans: A View from Uganda" by Ruth Ndyabahika on Monday, October 15, at 4:15 p.m. in Schapiro 141. Ruth Ndyabahika is the founder and director of Grace Villa, a home for orphans, abandoned and abused girls in Kabale, Western Uganda.

In today´s geo-political climate, what are some of the challenges and delights of studying Arabic?

RISE, a group seeking to increase diversity and foster inclusion in ECON and POEC, is a having our first meeting this Sunday, October 21st at 1:00pm in Schapiro 129. Come learn more about RISE and help us plan our goals and activities!

Hideko Abe, professor of East Asian Studies at Colby College and a leading researcher on Japanese lesbian and gay speech will present her latest research on Japanese transgender speakers.

Join students and faculty of the Economics department in Schapiro on Thurs. 11/1 at 6:30pm for pizza and conversation about exciting courses to be launched next semester. Don't miss out on an opportunity to get to know your future professors, learn about classes, and snag some free dinner!

President of North American Dostoevsky Society Carol Apollonio (Duke University) will present on "Is Raskolnikov Real? Point of View in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment"

Boris Gershman, Associate Professor of Economics at American University, will present an Economics department seminar.

The practice of taxidermy traditionally served as a means of remembering.  Taxidermied animals were displayed as trophies to memorialize human-animal encounters and, in particular, the successful slaying of the beast.  More recently, the art of taxidermy has been used to investigate the matter of memory itself, and the different ways that traumatic wounds are written upon or stored within flesh…

Kari Weil, Professor of Letters at Wesleyan University, will give a talk entitled "Flesh, Fur, Forgetting: Creaturely Remains in de Bruyckere and Coetzee." She will speak on the intersection of practices of memory, animal ethics, and taxidermy in the work of the Belgian artist Berlinde de Bruyckere and Nobel Prize laureate J.M. Coetzee. The event is open to the public.

Muffy Davis (a white queer feminist writer, wellness coach, and weightlifter) will speak on the concept of radical health. Author of the graphic novel, Ink in Water, about her recovery from an eating disorder, Davis is an advocate for health at every size and total body liberation. 

Tim Vogelsang, Professor and Frederick S. Addy Distinguished Chair of Economics at Michigan State University, will present a joint Economics and Statistics department seminar.

Learn about the work of the Pioneer Valley Workers Center, an organization that builds power with low wage and immigrant communities in Western MA. They are based in Northampton and advocate for and protect the rights of low-wage and immigrant workers throughout western MA.

Alum Amelia (Molly) Hawkins ('08), current graduate student at the University of Michigan, will present an Economics department seminar.

Please join our Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program Honors Thesis Student, Olivia Goodheart on Wednesday, December 12 at noon in Schapiro 129. 

Come listen to a panel present various reasons to believe in a Creator and what that Creator might be like, featuring students from Muslim, Christian, and Jewish perspectives.

The Theatre Department welcomes all students, faculty, and staff to attend the Research/Artist Talk, Tricks to Inherit: Re-Centering a Transnational Translation on Stage, by Olga Sanchez Saltveit who will be visiting campus to interview for the open, tenure-track position in Theatre.

The Theatre Department welcomes all students, faculty, and staff to attend the Research/Artist Talk, Intracultural Performance Labor in East LA, North Hollywood, and Irvine, California, by Ricardo E. Rocha who will be visiting campus to interview for the open, tenure-track position in Theatre.

Come join the WGSS community and learn from Julia Blike's honors thesis, "'The Forest is Ours':  Toward a New Visual Politics of Sovereignty within Indigenous Photographic Projects"! Pizza and drinks provided.

Please join the WGSS Program on Wednesday, February 6 at 5:30 p.m. Schapiro 129 for Julia Blike's thesis presentation.  All welcome to attend.

RISE will have its first meeting of the semester this Saturday, Feb. 9th at 12:00 PM in Schapiro 137! Come mingle and discuss ways to create awareness, inclusion, and solidarity within the Econ/Poli Ec depts. Refreshments will be served!

The Theatre Department welcomes all students, faculty, and staff to attend the Research/Artist Talk, "Time Is for White People"; Or, Reclaiming Time in Black Expressive Culture, by Isaiah Wooden who will be visiting campus to interview for the open, tenure-track position in Theatre.

The Theatre Department welcomes all students, faculty, and staff to attend the Research/Artist Talk, Embodied Politics: Improvisation and Artistic Process in the Work of Maya Krishna Rao, by Shanti Pillai who will be visiting campus to interview for the open, tenure-track position in Theatre.

Martina Jasova, Assistant Professor of Economics at Barnard College, will present "Rollover Risk and Bank Lending Behavior: Evidence From Unconventional Central Bank Liquidity."

Please join Ken Oloo of Filamu Juani for a public lecture on Thursday, February 28, at 4:15 p.m. Schapiro 129.  He will present, 'Flipping the Script on Youth Unemployment in Africa.' sponsored by WGSS, Global Studies, etc.

Lecture by Wen Liu, Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany, "Mourning in Diaspora and Narrating Queer Asian Melancholia." Event sponsored by AMST, WGSS, Asian Studies, and Dively Committee.

Come listen to Wen Liu's talk on racial melancholia, in the intersections of psychology, Asian American and diaspora studies, and queer theory.

Francis Warnock, Professor of Business Administration at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, will present.

Matthew Ellis '03 (Sarah Lawrence College) and Magnús Bernhardsson (Williams College) will speak in conversation about the politics of national borders in the modern Middle East.

Curious about the American Studies major and our course offerings for Spring 2020? Drop by Schapiro 141 on Monday, October 28th from 7 pm to 8 pm to meet professors, hear about new courses, and have questions answered.

Come share a meal, catch up with students, professors in the department and hear about spring courses and events.

Profs. Robert Boatright and Valerie Sperling (Clark University) explore how Donald Trump’s misogyny in the 2016 presidential race changed how later Congressional campaigns were waged, and how the Trump factor may affect the 2020 election.

Professor Jan Padios, candidate for the tenured position in Asian American Studies, will present a talk, “Definite Objects: Colonial Economy, Infrastructure, and the Philippine Carnival (1908-1939).”

Professor Kale Fajardo, candidate for the tenured position in Asian American Studies, will present a talk, “Original Goonies:” Kweering and Transing Filipino Migrant Cannery Workers and Photography in Astoria, Oregon.”

Professor Shalini Shankar, candidate for the tenured position in Asian American Studies, will present a talk, “Generations of Americans: Inside the Competitive Lives of Generation Z” on Monday, November 18 at 4:30 p.m. in Schapiro 129. 

Join us Thursday at 4pm to hear from Catherine Tan '18 who received a Chandler Fellowship and travelled to Scotland, England, Singapore, Japan, Vietnam, New Zealand, Australia, Norway and France studying performance and art in the deaf world.   Joining Catherine will be Aseel Abulhab '15.  Aseel received a Watson Fellowship the year she graduated.  Aseel also studied deaf culture during her…

Please join the Philosophy Department on Monday, April 25 at 4:15 p.m. in Schapiro 129 for a talk by Professor Christian de Leon, UCLA, Philosophy Department, Faces, Emotions, and Values: Prospects for a Formal Semantics of Emoji.  Event sponsored by the Philosophy Department and the Class of '60's Scholars.  

Please join WGSS for a lecture by Associate Professor of American Studies, Greta LeFleur, Yale University. Her research and teaching focus on early North American literary and cultural studies, the history of science, the history of race, the history and historiography of sexuality, and queer & trans studies. Event Sponsored by WGSS, Lecture Committee, and the Thomas Healy '50 Fund.

Join Students for Israeli Palestinian Dialogue for a screening of Tantura, Sundance 2022’s opening night film, that documents the war of 1948: to Israelis, the War of Independence and to Palestinians, “Al Nakba” (the Catastrophe). Interviews with former Israeli soldiers as well as Palestinian residents expose how power, silencing, and protected narratives sculpt history. Snacks provided!

"Rez Theory: Revealing the Critical Significance of Everyday Native Life," a talk by Dr. Mallory Whiteduck, Assistant Professor of Indigenous Political Thought in the Department of Political Science at Vassar College

Join Students for Israeli Palestinian Dialogue (SIPD) to hear from Noor Almaslamani, who will be speaking about her experience growing up in Palestine and working with Palestinians and Israelis as well as American politicians on Capitol Hill to push policy vis à vis Palestinian human rights, as part of New Story Leadership's summer program. New Story Leadership is an organization…

Please join the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program for a talk by Dr.Elliott Powell on Tuesday, March 7th at 4:30 p.m. in Schapiro 129.  He will present "Miles from the Other Side:  Miles Davis and the Queer Afro-South Asian Politics on 'On the Corner'."   Dr. Powell specializes in how Asian and Asian-American (especially South Asian) music has influenced…

Please join the WGSS Program for a Public talk by Beyonce Karungi of Transgender Equality Uganda on Tues., April 11th at 4:30 p.m. in Schapiro 141. Beyonce Karungi is the founder and director of Transgender Equality Uganda, and a long-time activist for trans and sexworker rights.  She will talk about the Anti Homosexuality Bill just passed by Ugandan Parliament, and…

Please join Dr. James Fitzsimmons, professor of anthropology at Middlebury College, for his talk, “The Blood Pooled & the Heads Piled Up: Sorcery and Warfare in Classic Maya Civilization,” on Thursday, May 4th at 4pm in Schapiro 129. All are welcome! (Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology & Sociology)

A decade after the publication of his foundational book, Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies, Chadwick Allen revisits the transformation of literary studies and the horizons of Global Indigenous Studies.

Please join Professor Virginia Burrus, Croghan Visiting Professor in Biblical and Early Christian Studies, for her public lecture, "The Gardens of Hermits," on Thursday, September 28 at 7 p.m. in Schapiro 129. A reception with light refreshments will follow in the atrium. RSVPs to kf8@williams.edu are helpful, but not required. Abstract: The Gardens of Hermits Jerome's Life of Hilarion (c.…

Please join Professor Virginia Burrus, Croghan Visiting Professor in Biblical and Early Christian Studies, for her public lecture, "Wayward Life: Reading Mary of Egypt with Saidiya Hartman," on Thursday, October 19 at 7 p.m. in Schapiro 129. A reception with light refreshments will follow in the atrium. RSVPs to kf8@williams.edu are helpful, but not required. Abstract: Wayward Life: Reading Mary…

The Philosophy Department invites you to attend the following lecture on Tuesday, November 14 at 4:30 p.m. in Schapiro Hall, Room 141:  Shivani Radhakrishnan, Gaius Charles Bolin Fellow in the Department, will present "Critical Theory’s Colonialism Problem." Shivani’s research explores how individuals and social subjects come into being, focusing on the conditions under which they flourish or on the other…