WCMA – Plonsker Family Lecture in Contemporary Art with Sky Hopinka
Sky Hopkina discusses how his video, photo, and text works center individual experience of Indigenous homeland, landscape, and approaches to language.
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Window on Williams – The War Over TikTok with Emily Baker-White
Journalist, researcher, and author of 'Every Screen On The Planet: The War Over TikTok' Emily Baker-White joins John W. Chandler Professor of Chinese Christopher Nugent in converstaion as a part of the On the Log initiative.
Williams Faculty Lecture Series 2026 – Brian Michael Murphy, The Data Complex
In the 21st century, tech companies are working to build data centers in outer space, while others have figured out how to store backups of digital files in synthetic DNA. Brian Michael Murphy, Associate Professor of American Studies, examines how Americans became so obsessed with preserving data, and how the data complex is expanding and changing today.
Williams Faculty Lecture Series 2026 – Anthony Carrasquillo, The Life Cycle of Volatile Organic Compounds
Every time you inhale, you are sampling a complex mixture of gas and particulate matter, the most abundant of which are volatile organic compounds, which play an important role in shaping atmospheric chemistry and global climate. Anthony Carrasquillo, Associate Professor of Chemistry discuss the lifecycle of VOCs, from their initial emission to their transformation into secondary organic aerosol (SOA).
Williams Faculty Lecture Series 2026 – Mari Rodriguez Binnie, Puerto Rico in Myrna Baez’s 1970s Prints
Painter and printmaker Myrna Báez (1931–2018) is best known for her atmospheric vistas Puerto Rico's countryside and its rapid urbanization. Mari Rodriguez Binnie, Associate Professor of Art, examines how her work negotiated the geopolitical and cultural relationship between Latin America and the United States during the Cold War.
