Window on Williams: Williams Commencement 2017
See the 2017 Williams Commencement from June 4th in its entirety!
Category: Lectures & Forums
Window on Williams: Breaking the Glass Grid: Gender and Transgender Bias Across the Performing Arts Industry
March 2, 2017. Panel with Helga Davis, Alexis Soloski, Basil Kreimendahl, Mandy Greenfield, Kristen van Ginhoven and Natalie Robin. Moderated by Chair and Associate Professor of Theatre Amy Holzapfel. Despite women being a majority of Broadway audiences, only one in five new plays opening on Broadway this season were written by women, and even fewer were directed by women. None were written or directed by transgender identified artists. Join us for a lively and timely panel with outstanding contemporary artists and critics to discuss questions surrounding why and how the "gender bias" exists in the performing arts industries of theatre, film, and television, and what might be done about it. The panel, moderated by Chair of the Williams Theatre Department Amy Holzapfel, included: artist and performer Helga Davis, artistic director of Williamstown Theatre Festival Mandy Greenfield, designer Natalie Robin, artistic director of WAM Theatre Kristen van Ginhoven, New York Times Theatre Critic Alexis Soloski, and playwright Basil Kreimendahl.
Williamstown Historical Museum Presents: An Overview of Kalarama Orchards
The Kalarama Orchards, in the White Oaks/Sand Springs end of Williamstown, play a significant role in local history and hold tales of "secrets and scandal" as we hear in this lecture by Ronadh Cox, Hank Art, and Patrick Quinn.
Window on Williams – Communicating Climate Science in a Post Fact World
Andrew Revkin and Jacquelyn Gill participated in a roundtable discussion with Nicolas Howe, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Faculty Affiliate in Anthropology and Sociology and Phoebe Cohen, Assistant Professor of Geosciences.
Window on Williams: Founding Fathers in the Age of Trump
Williams hosted a conversation between Joseph J. Ellis, an award-winning author and scholar of American history, and Richard Brookhiser, an American journalist, biographer, and historian on April 18, 2017.
