Lumi Tan gives the annual Envisioning Curatorial Practice lecture in 2018.Tan is a curator at The Kitchen, an innovative non-profit space in New York City, and her talk explores questions of performance curation, documentation and archiving.
Tag: <span>Education & Schools</span>
Window on Williams – Berkshire Symphony ‘Aaron Copland, Old American Songs’
Window on Williams – Berkshire Symphony ‘Howard Hanson Symphony No. 2’
Window On Williams – Tracey Benson ‘Unconscious Bias in Schools’
Author Tracey Benson talks of critical race theory, racial identity development, unconscious bias in public education that perpetuate racism & institutional injustice as outlined in his new book “Unconscious Bias in Schools: A Developmental Approach to Exploring Race and Racism.”
Window On Williams – Leah Penniman ‘Farming While Black – African Diasporic Wisdom for Farming and Food Justice’
Leah Penniman, co-founder of Soul Fire Farm, (Petersburg, NY) speaks to the global network of farmers working to increase farmland stewardship by people of color, restore Afro-indigenous farming practices, & end food apartheid.
Window On Williams – Adam Foss ‘Swords and Shields, Power, Privilege, and Opportunity’
Adam Foss is the founder of Prosecutor Impact, a not-for-profit organization built around the mission of improving community safety in the United States through a better understanding of the most important actor in the criminal justice system: the criminal prosecutor. Adam is a former Assistant District Attorney in the Juvenile Division of the Suffolk County […]
Window on Williams – Williams Jazz Ensemble, Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington
Window on Williams – Williams Jazz Ensemble – Mary Lou Williams and Benny Carter
Window on Williams – Martha Jones ‘Birthright Citizens, Black Americans and the Making of Democracy’
Martha Jones, legal & cultural historian, shares the 1st chapter of the history of birthright citizenship, through the story of George Hackett, a black man born in Baltimore in 1807. She reminds us that Kamala Harris & Barack Obama’s birthright citizenships were challenged.
Window on Williams – Convocation 2019
President Maud S. Mandel welcomes the Class of 2020, Bicentennial Medals are presented to Dr. Kiat W. Tan ’65, Dr. Martin A. Samuels ’67, Danielle Deane-Ryan ’97, and Carina Vance Mafla ’99. Dr. Samuels presents the Convocation address, “Invaders from Mars, with Commentary from Robbie Burns.”