Destinee Filmore (MA'23), Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and former WCMA Mellon Curatorial Fellow, leads a guided tour exploring themes and topics in "Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation." The exhibit closes Sun, July 14, 2024.
Rhiana Gunn-Wright engages in conversation with Brahim El-Guabli about the climate crisis, climate policy, environmental racism, and her own fight against climate change.
Siddhartha Mukherjee, oncologist & Pulitzer Prize-winning author, illuminates a "universality" of 4 final "offerings" of those near death in his talk to Williams seniors.
The Williams College Jazz Orchestra performs their Spring 2024 Concert under the direction of Kris Allen. Nostalgia in Times Square – Charles Mingus, arr. Ronnie Cuber Let’s Get Down – Ronnie Mathews, arr. Melba Liston I Like the Sunrise – Duke Ellington, arr. Jimmy Jones In the Land of Oo Bla Dee – Milt Orent and Mary Lou Williams Mambo Inn – Grace Sampson, George Woodlen and Mario Bauza Mount Harissa – Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn The Sanctified Blues from Congo Square – Wynton Marsalis Sunny – Bobby Hebb, arr. Billy May Cold Duck Time – Eddie Harris, arr. Jason Anderson
Magnus Bernhardsson outlines the goals & practices of the year-old Global Scholars program. Scholars are encouraged to tackle urgent issues & rethink conventional paradigms, as well as develop multi-faceted global awareness skill-sets & "intelligent humility."
